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Ron has posted a preview of Domain Roundtable 2007 on his site DNJournal.com. The Domain Roundtable conference will take place August 12-15 at the Seattle Sheraton. The conference has been organized by Jay Westerdal from Name Intelligence again. This year’s Domain Roundtable conference will also have a live domain auction with lots of premium domains and a very special keynote speaker. Namely, Frank Schilling from Name Administration. Click here for Ron’s article.
Small piece I found over at DM News. The article explains direct navigation and mentions a survey by Opinion Research Corporation that asked Internet users how they are using direct navigation and search engines:
A survey by Opinion Research Corporation for LeaseThis.com showed that Internet users are utilizing direct navigation much more than has been previously reported, with 64 percent of Internet users stating they bypass search engines and type keywords into their browsers with the hope of being directed to the right URL.
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Further, 53 percent of those surveyed say that they would always or sometimes bypass search engines if they could access what they are looking for on the Internet by typing the category name into their browser.
The survey shows that generic .com domains are more important for companies conducting business online than ever before, because type-in traffic is going up and it is converting better than search engine traffic.
The domain TheSimpsonsMovie.com, which had been registered by Keith Malley, must be given to Twentieth Century Fox, the owner of the Simpsons trademark. Malley had offered the domain to Twentieth Century Fox for $50,000, but the company declined and filed a WIPO complain instead, and they won.
The favorable ruling was primarily based on the fact that registering the Simpsons Movie Web site amounted to “bad faith registration and use” of the address - a practice known as “cybersquatting”.
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Initially the site in question was linking to another “off-colour and in some cases sexually-explicit” web site involving characters from the Simpsons television series.
(via DomainNews.com)
Telephone-directory company R.H. Connelley Corp. will pay a reported $340-360 million for the online business directory Business.com Inc.
The deal represents the increasing influence of the Internet in the yellow-pages and white-pages business of Donnelley, which publishes paper and online directories in 28 states under the AT&T, Dex and Embarq names, among others.
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The Santa Monica, Calif., company has cash flow — of about $15 million — that will be but a minuscule portion of Donnelley’s 2006 operating income of $442 million. Traditional publishers are nonetheless willing to pay top dollar for Web-based businesses, given their overall growth rate and the wider consumer shift to Internet habits.
For that reason, the company was pursued by companies including Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and New York Times Co., which lost out in the auction conducted by Credit Suisse Group.
The domain name Business.com had been bought and turned into a full online business by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton in 1999. They had paid $7.5 million for the domain name only - the highest domain sale price at that time.
More details on WSJ.com.
The premium lodging domain name CorporateLodging.com is for sale!
CorporateLodging.com has been registered since April 25, 1996.
Archive.org age: 1998.
CorporateLodging.com is a quality two-word generic domain. It is descriptive, memorable and brandable.
Generic domains help attain top search engine rankings and they drive targeted traffic and new clients to their owners’ websites. Annual domain renewal fees are less than $10 USD. Generic .com domains are also a lucrative investment vehicle, and .COM is the most popular domain extension in the world. The value of domains is going up faster than the value of any other commodity on earth.
CorporateLodging.com is the very best domain name for any business in the corporate lodging industry! Once it has been acquired, it will never be available for sale again and one will only be able to get this high-value domain name by acquiring the entire corporation that bought it.
CorporateLodging.com is a travel services-related domain name which is suitable for:
* Corporate Lodging Services
* Hotels
* Travel agencies
* Rental agencies
* Airlines
* etc.
Large corporations using generic domains to support their brands:
* Hilton Hotels: BeHospitable.com
* Orbitz: Lodging.com
* Expedia: Hotel.com, Hotels.com
* Dominion Enterprises: CorporateHousing.com, ForRent.com
* Classified Ventures: Apartment.com, Apartments.com, RentalHomesPlus.com
* and many more…
Contact broker Dominik Mueller at dm (at) dmueller (dot) com if you’re interested.
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