I have been out of town last week and I will be very busy next week also. Please bear with me. I will be back to regular blogging soon.
Archive for July, 2007
Hamburg entrepreneur Daniel Giersch has won a legal dispute with Google concerning the ”gmail.de” domain name and brand. Giersch has owned the domain since 2000, which predates Google’s Gmail brand. Google’s freemail service has been called Googlemail in Germany for a long time, because they have not been allowed to use the “Gmail” name. Giersch operates an email and postal mail service under gmail.de and he also owns the trademark for “Gmail” in Germany.
Google wants to use this domain for their own German email service, but I guess Google will now have to make a very high offer for this domain name if they want to become its new owner, because Daniel Giersch does not really want to sell it:
“I have made it clear since the beginning that I will never sell the name. It is my sole intention to realise my idea for a hybrid mail system. I am absolutely convinced of its success. Neither “G-mail” nor myself are for sale.”
NameMedia and dnZoom Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership
dnZoom to Integrate Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Domains Into Domain Resale and Portfolio Management Platform
WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NameMedia today announced a strategic marketing partnership with dnZoom, a newly-launched domain management and monetization platform. dnZoom’s domain name management platform allows users to purchase, monetize and manage domain portfolios through a single, secure interface incorporating features which encompass a variety of domain industry solutions.
The partnership further expands NameMedia’s global domain resale distribution network by allowing Afternic members to list domains for sale via dnZoom’s website. NameMedia was recently recognized as the world’s largest secondary domain marketplace by The Domain Name Journal. In addition to the company’s domain sales platforms Afternic, BuyDomains and 56 global resale distribution partners, NameMedia offers industry leading parking through ActiveAudience and extensive domain management support services.”We are pleased to partner with dnZoom and believe that our Afternic membership will benefit with greater domain sales success through access to dnZoom’s targeted customer base,” said Peter Lamson, senior vice president and general manager of NameMedia’s domain marketplace. “Our partnership will provide dnZoom customers with the ability to purchase domains from the industry’s leading marketplace via the dnZoom portfolio management platform.”
“As the domain industry’s leading reseller and portfolio holder, it was critical to partner with NameMedia,” said Jeremy Christ, CEO of dnZoom. “NameMedia offers a greater breadth of quality than any other company in the domain secondary market. This is a great win for dnZoom’s customers.”
Jay Westerdal reports that iPhone.com has been sold to Apple by Michael Kovatch for a price in the seven-figure range. Mr. Kovatch had registered the domain back in 1995, well before Apple registered the iPhone trademark.
Details can be found on Jay’s blog at DomainTools.com.
Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld interviewed Rick Schwartz about domain parking, live domain auctions, the .cm ccTLD, web traffic and other domain-related subjects.
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