Logo.com Listed For Sale On Sedo For $1,500,000

October 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Just ran across the domain Logo.com for sale on Sedo with an asking price of $1,500,000. The auction states that the domain gets over 1,500 visits potential customers per day. Using these keyword research tools according to Google the keyword logo gets searched for over 45,000,000 times/month broad match and 1,000,000 times/month exact match. The longtail for key phrases with logo in them is absolutely huge, the domain is also PageRank 5 and has been registered since 1995.

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Grooler.com Sells On Sedo For $385, Not Bought By Bud Light

October 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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A few weeks ago Bud Light started to heavily promote their Bud Light Grooler product with infomercial spoofs during football games. I blogged that the domain Grooler.com was up for auction on sedo and would have been a very smart idea for Bud Light to purchase it as I’m sure the domain is getting heavy type-in traffic looking for their actual product. Today the whois changed and reflects the new owner Land Merchandising Corp. who purchased the domain for $385, a drop in the bucket for any  major corporation.

The term, “The Grooler” is trademarked and filed for on July 7. 2009 under goods and services as barbecue grills and portable coolers. Currently the domain is parked at Parked.com and the template is heavily modified with Grooler terms and images.

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Scrubbling Bubble’s AutomaticShowerCleaner.com Owns The Space

October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Much like Arm & Hammer’s Spinbrush, Scrubbing Bubbles is marketing their Automatic Shower Cleaner product with the exact match domain name. Owning the product domain helps them own the space from all other automatic shower cleaners that exist now or the ones that may come out in the future from other manufacturers. This also puts them way ahead in search results too, they are #1 in Google, Yahoo and Bing for the search term.

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Is TechCrunch Cybersquatting And Redirecting A Twitter Typo Domain?

October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Typo domains come in a variety of forms but one of the most common besides misspellings is “www” added to the actual domain such as: wwwtwitter.com notice that it’s all one word, which is the domain that is redirecting to TechCrunch. According to a whois lookup the domain is registered GoDaddy, created 11/04/2007 with an expiration of 11/04/2014. It also has Domains by Proxy privacy protection and is also sitting on GoDaddy’s name servers meaning that the redirect is setup within the owners GoDaddy domain control panel.

The term twitter is trademarked and should be easy for Twitter to get via UDRP, but the question remains. Does TechCrunch, who frequently blogs about the company own this domain or is it someone else that owns the domain and is doing the redirecting?

Either way it doesn’t reflect well on domainers.

Update:
Six days after this was published TechCrunch wrote their own post on the topic.

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Domain Name Life Cycle

October 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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1. Available – Never registered before or expired.
2. Registered – 1-10 years.
3. Expiration Period – Auto renew grace period 0-45 days + 30 day Redemption grace period.
4. Pending Delete – 5 days, then it drops.
5. Available – After the The Drop the domain is available to be registered again.

Pre-release – Backorder companies (Namejet, Snapnames, etc) list domains to be backordered and then auctioned off.

Backorder - Any registered domain can be backordered from registration through The Drop.

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