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2009-07-04T18:52:48+01:00text/html2008-04-24T13:58:56+01:00http://www.namebrief.comGreedy Domainer Slime
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Over on the Nanog mailing list (http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist.html) , IETF regular Randy Bush, known as much for his extreme language and hot temper as his technical acumen and support for the Internet in the developing world, asks voting members of Nominet (http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg07725.html) to help keep the greedy domainer slime off the Nominet Board of Directors. Greedy domainer slime...text/html2007-10-16T10:51:19+01:00http://www.namebrief.comThe Poop on Poop Names
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If you understand this story, I need you to post some comments because what I'm about to write describes a phenomenon that I find utterly mystifying. Here's some background. Once upon a very long time ago, I wrote a small article on my icann.blog about Z domain names, describing how strings of Zs were registered as domain names...text/html2007-09-06T01:00:00+01:00http://www.namebrief.comProceed with Extreme Caution
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Of all the domainer blogs in the blogosphere, the one at the top of the heap is Frank Schilling's Seven Mile. (http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/) It's always timely, well-written, with some of the best insights in the industry into what is happening with domain names and the service companies that surround them. Frank Schilling is back from vacation (http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/that-was-a-heck.html), and...text/html2007-08-06T11:23:03+01:00http://www.namebrief.com10th Worst Domainer Practice
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Let's be honest: in polite company you never introduce yourself as a domainer. It's like introducing yourself as a slumlord or pimp ...and it's just one half-step above lawyer for goodness sakes. No, I'm sure your business cards say that you're in some kind of Internet real estate business, and your...text/html2007-07-30T22:05:42+01:00http://www.namebrief.comRate of Link Decay
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Pardon me while I drill down a minute. The value of a domain name is primarily driven by two factors: its resale value and the value of its traffic. Those aren't necessarily separate. For most domain names, resale value is a function of a name's traffic. So at point of sale, a buyer is very interested in current and historic...text/html2007-07-27T01:00:00+01:00http://www.namebrief.comDefending the Typosquatter
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When I was in college (http://www.usc.edu), I took a 'Philosophy of the Law' class, taught by famous libertarian John Hospers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hospers), which included as an assigned text Defending the Undefendable. (Amazon: Defending the Undefendable: The pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0930073053?ie=UTF8 tag=lextext linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=9325 creativeASIN=0930073053).)...text/html2007-07-26T01:00:00+01:00http://www.namebrief.comTyposquatting the Defenseless
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The auction/resale value of domain names based on typographical errors of Bigco web sites isn't based on normal metrics. You may have a name with a lot of traffic, but you always live in the shadow of the law. If you typosquat a trademark, your name could be taken away at any time by a court or a UDRP provider,...text/html2007-07-25T01:00:00+01:00http://www.namebrief.comHow Big Is Your Cloud?
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On Monday, I talked about name clouds (content/view/14/2/). A name cloud consists of all the names registered around your principal name. For example, once upon a time, if you were starting a new online business, you'd register a name in .COM as your principal name (the dark blue square) and depending on the location of your...text/html2007-07-24T01:00:00+01:00http://www.namebrief.comHot Epxiring Domains!
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With 70,964,907 .COM domain names registered (see Name Intelligence's Daily Changes (http://www.dailychanges.com/)), the name you want is already taken. Even names you wouldn't want in a million years are taken. Names so silly that you'd be embarrassed to use them as the address for your site are taken, and this has been true for many, many years. It's why tech...