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Is Verizon secretly registering iPhone related domain names?
The Verizon iPhone rumors seem to be at a point where they gave reached overload. The latest are suggesting that Verizon has begun secretly registering iPhone related domain names, such as iphoneonverizon.com. The details are coming by way of PocketNow, who have discovered the domain names which have been registered by a company calling themselves more »
RIM acquires blackpad.com, prepping an iPad killer?
The iPad is extremely popular today mainly because there aren’t many strong competitors. Many companies plan on creating an Android tablet, but most of them will not be ready for prime time until 2011. However, for those who like BlackBerry’s, it looks like RIM might be preparing its own iPad killer with a device known more »
Google makes nearly $500 million a year because of domain typos
If you ever end up at Panodra.com instead of Pandora.com, you may be putting a few extra pennies into Google’s piggy bank. That’s because of typosquatting, the deliberate registration of a popular domain’s misspelling. Knowing that people often make typos when going to websites – like spelling “Panodra” when they’re looking for “Pandora” – enterprising more »
New .tel domain opens up
New domains are always exciting, and if you can remember the most recent major one (.me) you will remember the vast amounts of money are usually spent as people bid for the best of the selection. However .tel will not involve vast amounts of money or even much media coverage, because it is something different and a new way of looking at domain names.
These domains will not be about websites, but more of a way of sharing the information of the domain owner, and will not involve any building, hosting or managing. They are effectively domains that tell you all about the domain owner, such as their business, their address and their phone number: a bit like an online contact card. Keep reading after the break.
Anybody up for another pizza domain auction? 1-pizza.com is up for grabs
If you envied Chris Clark while reading our previous post on the profit he made from selling his pizza.com for $2.6 million after keeping it alive for 14 years, well here comes another domain name up for bid at eBay, 1-pizza.com. There are many reason why 1-pizza.com would be a viable domain name even if the keyword rich domains pizza.com and pizza.net are already up. And Numbers That Work, has listed several of these reasons.
Based on an appraisal and marketing analysis of 1-pizza.com, the domain can ride hot on the heels of the buzz created by the recent sale of pizza.com and pizza.net which were sold for $2.6 million and $1.1 million respectively. Other reasons cited by the market analysis on why 1-pizza.com is worth more than the two pizza domains, include; 1-pizza bears the TLD “.com”, contains a hyphen, it has the “pizza” keyword and it’s a short domain name having only 7 characters.
Pizza.com owner earns $2.6 million for selling $20 domain
If there was one thing that the 43-year old Chris Clark regretted not doing, it was not buying more domain names when he bought pizza.com in 1994. Clark who used to run a consultancy firm will become $2.6 million richer when the transaction for the purchase of pizza.com is completed in a couple of days from now.
Looking back 14 years ago, Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, did not think that he would be making a big amount of money from the domain name he purchased. He was just trying to attract a pizza company to his consultancy firm when he bought the domain back then. But after receiving no response from the pizza company, Clark still continued paying the annual renewal fee to keep the domain name.
$1.1 million to add an “S” on your domain name
A British travel company has just paid $1.1 million (560,000 pounds) to have an “S” added to their domain name. Well truly the “S” was not added, but instead the $1.1 million was used to purchase cruises.co.uk, they had already owned cruise.co.uk. The domain was purchased from a German travel company because according to the more »















