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Apple wants ipods.com

June 3, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

TechCrunch has reported that Apple has woke up after a nine year nap and wants ipods.com Yesterday, Apple lodged a complaint, positing that the domain name should be transfered over to them. Apple of course owns the ‘iPod’ trademark, so my guess it the dispute will be resolved rather rapidly. The company currently owns iPod.com, […]

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Filed Under: Intellectual Property Tagged With: apple, Domain Names, ipods, Mp3, music

Find out what the Twitterverse thinks about on any topic

May 16, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

I was reading Twitterrati tonight and author Mark Evans mentioned a cool tool for gauging sentiment. Twitter Sentiment allows you to see the negative and positive sentiments by entering a keyword. The broader the search the better.  A search for domainers and domain names both came back with no result. Check it out at www.twittersentiment.appspot.com

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Filed Under: Twitter Tagged With: Apps, Domain Names, sentiment, Social Media, Twitter

Celebrity Domains – Russell Brand

April 11, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Russell Brand seems to be everywhere these days. The British actor/comedian has the two top spots at the North American box office. In Hop, a live action animated comedy, Brand plays the lead character of the Easter bunny in waiting. Brand also plays the lead in the remake of the 1981 film Arthur about a partying […]

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Filed Under: Celebrity Domains Tagged With: Celebrity, Domain Names, Hollywood, Hop, Russel Brand

Elephant vs The King

April 4, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Over the last week many have expressed they would be moving out of Go Daddy because of Bob Parsons hunting excursion in Zimbabwe where he took down an elephant. Now Rick Schwartz has posted that he is moving his 4500 domains out of Moniker. http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2011/04/bye-bye-birdie-i-mean-bye-bye-moniker.html From the comments on Rick's blog many seem to have been feeling […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy, Moniker Tagged With: Domain Names, Go Daddy, Moniker, Oversee.net, Transfer

Fanville.com sells for $25,000 to a company much larger than Zynga

March 21, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Another Ville.com sells but this time its not Zynga buying. No the company is much larger than Zynga, its Cablevision.  American Movie Classics the network owned by Cablevision is the new registrant for Fanville.com. The name was sold by my friend Lance from Swells.com an ecommerce company that runs LicensePlateFrames.com among others. He took a couple minutes to tell how the sale […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales Tagged With: AMC, Cablevision, Domain Names, Domain Sales, Fanville

March 17 is St.Patrick’s day, March 16 was Chef Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

With all the coverage on all the blogs and forums it certainly seems that March 16, was Chef Patrick’s Day. You got plenty of coverage and a lot of opinions. They range from blaming Patrick,to blaming Rick Schwartz for making it a bigger deal then some think. DomainShane.com did a well thought out, balanced piece IMO The […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chef patrick, Domain Names, domain shane, Domaining, ricks blog

Property.tv sold for $100,000 in 2007

March 4, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

In an exclusive interview conducted by Ammar from allthings.tv, Ben Van Dyk of Farm.tv stated that he sold Property.tv for $100,000 in 2007.  Ben mentions he has all the documentation on the sale, it was not reported to DN Journal. I will not post the interview here as the interview is an Allthings.tv exclusive. Here […]

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Filed Under: Allthings.tv, Property.tv Tagged With: allthings.tv, Domain Names, property.tv

Episode 2 of The Domainers

March 3, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Jon now has to tell his girlfriend he quit his job to be a full time domainer.      

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Filed Under: The Domainers Tagged With: Domain Names, domainfest, Domaining

The history of the Dot Tv extension

February 7, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

A history lesson When it comes to country code extensions, the .tv extension is one of the most talked about. A repurposed country code extension that represents Tuvalu and all things media. The .tv extension is the country code for the tiny island nation of TUVALU the world’s smallest country. Tuvalu is a Polynesian island […]

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Filed Under: .tv Tagged With: .tv, Domain Names, Verisign

Will the new year bring marketplace responsibility ?

December 30, 2010 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

No matter what is done in the industry it seems its tough to shake perception.  Groups like CADNA, The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, has been effectively working government to get what they want. Marketplaces like SEDO, Namejet and Snapnames need to stop allowing TM names to be bought and sold on their platform.  Besides […]

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Filed Under: Intellectual Property Tagged With: Cadna, Domain Names, Internet, Sedo, trademarks

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