MusicVideos.com sells for a stack of cash

MusicVideos.com has sold on sedo for $250,000

You can see a screenshot of the ‘recent market activity’ taken today, below.

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pepe.com sold for 45,000 euros

pepe.com sold for 45,000 euros this week on sedo

The whois details are on privacy , although that may be from previous owner. The site is showing a parked page showing ads for what you may associate ‘pepe’ with. So if the clothing brand ‘pepe’ haven’t bought the domain, then the new owner needs to be careful I think to remove the parking page.

Either way, if this is a new brand or startup that have purchased the domain, they have bought a beautiful LLLL.com, one of the nicest out there. Obviously not as good as okok.com though!

The Sex.com Chronicles - The Book! A MUST read

I’m really excited to tell you about the book ‘The Sex.com Chronicles’ by Legendary Lawyer & Domainer, Charles Carreon.

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Every domainer has heard of Gary Kremen, the guy who owned the licence to print money ……… Sex.com  . Until it was stolen from him.

Well Charles is the Lawyer that fought Gary’s defence…………….. and WON!

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Metal.com sold for $165,000

Metal.com has sold for $165,000 on sedo

This 1995 gem has finally changed hands for a very nice sum. I feel the value is about right although potentially of course anything is possible price-wise with a domain of this quality. To my knowledge the domain has never publicly changed hands before  and is currently a parked page so don’t waste your time going to look at it.

Also the whois shows no recent change and is privacy protected. Hopefully we will find out more details in due course as the domain is probably still in the middle of sedo escrow. Hopefully some details may be released by the buyer, or one would imagine the buyer is an enduser or developer with big plans for the domain.

Watch this space! Of course we will update the post with any new information we find out.

Luck.com - another monster sale this week!

Well, it’s been quite a week, certainly for afternic, and the domain industry too.

First we had news that ‘Ticket.com‘ had sold for $1,525,000. The domain was also sold by afternic. In the first instance, I though Stubhub.com might be tasting traffic as the domain redirects there, but actually, the link in the browser looks like an affiliate or publisher code, so i think the previous owner was using it to get affiliate sales commissions.

Then after this we heard ‘WV.com’ had  sold for $145,000 , on the afternic platform . A solid price for a LL.com on the aftermarket. Many acronyms for this one, West Virginia being just one of them , although it maybe an investor buying this. If we keep an eye on the site and the whois we will know soon enough.

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Now along comes the sale of ‘Luck.com’

I don’t know too much right now apart from the sales price, as reported by afternic and Internetual.com

The sales price is $675,000

A very healthy sale it has to be said, even though this is a dream LLLL.com word, with the best possible application for a casino or poker site. What a brand this could be!

Let’s all keep an eye open to see who the new owners are! Good Luck out there!

Forget to say, and to think it has two ‘non-premium’ letters, LOL!

All about 2 letter.com’s

I found a great resource all about 2 letter .coms

.com domains that fall into the LL.com format. This is the familiar term known by domainers. Once upon a time 2 letter .com’s were free to register, circa 1992.

They were still available to register after that, but for a mere $100 a pop with Network solutions. In fact there was a time when single character .com domains were free to register, and most were dropped as people did not see the point in owning and couldn’t afford when the yearly renewal fees increased!

Icann then introduced new rules so that single and 2 character .coms couldn’t be newly registered. All that were left registered were honoured but as soon as any dropped, that was it. They never returned. This is still the case, and for .org and .net

It was generally the original cyber geeks who registered these domains along with the largest companies on the planet. It’s a very interesting look to see who got it, who still gets it, and who owns what!

Here is a sample screenshot below of the page at vb.com and a link so that you can enjoy the research.

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Incidentally, what do you think vbulletin or anyone else come to that would pay for vb.com?! http://www.vb.com/short.htm

The Queen’s a reverse Hijacker!

I just got reminded of this case through the fact that ‘QueenElizabeth.com’ is about to drop into snapnames hands . Basically the advisors to the Queen of England rather arrogantly suggested that she must have the rights to ‘NewZealand.com’. It was around the time every Tom, Dick and Harry was tring it on for generics, a bit like now, but Geo’s were more the subject for reverse hijacking attempts then.

The beauty of this aesop’s fable is that Liz got branded a reverse hijacker.

To quote the WIPO panelists : “The allegation of reverse domain name hijacking succeeds”

They even went as far to say: “In the circumstances, the Panel has no hesitation in branding this misconceived Complaint as an abuse of the Policy, which has put the Respondent to needless expense.”

Which was particularly amusing. Hey, who said WIPO never get it right and have no sense of humour?? LOL

Here are the panelists:

Tony Willoughby
Presiding Panelist

Gordon Harris
Panelist

Panelist
Milton Mueller

Hmm,Mueller sounds German to me, wonder if he wrote the report?!

Hey, I can say that it’s my blog! The Queen’s more German than English anyway, but that’s another story. I’m a Brit myself so not biased! Not much.

Okay, enough rambling here’s the official WIPO report:

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Erotica.com sells for $850,000

Erotica.com sells for $850,000:

Sexy Internet domain names still big business…………….

Recession or no recession, the market for sexy Internet domain names still means that some enterprising entrepreneurs with the rights to URLs like Erotica.com can cash in: business.avn.com, the new arm of the Adult Video Network, is reporting that the Erotica.com domain name went for $850,000 in a pre-auction deal at the Internext domain name auction in Las Vegas.

Of the nine Internext domain name auctions that went over $10,000, six of them were for adult-sounding domains.

From the AVN report:

Top-selling domain names during or after auction included FootJob.com, which sold for $53,388 in silent auction after the show ended. SexyLadies.com sold in another post-auction bid for $29,420.

Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of actual erotica over at Erotica.com – don’t even bother clicking over, because aside from being NSFW, it’s currently just another porn clip aggregator.Article Source: Erotica.com sells for $850000

Examiner.com

Early web days revisited.

I stumbled across an interesting article on wikipedia.org the other day. I will post the article in its entireity so that you have the actual wikipedia links to click on anything of interest to get more information.

Now bear in mind the first domains started being registered in 1985, basically almost nothing happened in terms of domain registration and website building for best part of 10 years! Then things started to pick up, but even in mid 1994 there were only 2738 websites !

The year previous  there had only been 623 websites. The total of websites in the last quarter of 1994 quadrupled though from the summer total. From then on like any mathematical equation, it grew, and grew exponetially!

It’s very interesting to note the type of sites and people getting involved in those early days, it is also very interesting to see the first main mobile websites becoming mainstream NOW. Whilst there is only one net/web, what people want on a mobile device and on a pc are two very different things. One day the mobile web and its content will be king.

1991

Gopher Search Engine

The Gopher Search Engine; one of the internet’s earliest search engines.

CERN

The link is a snapshot of the CERN site, the first website, as of November 1992. The Web was publicly announced (via a posting to alt.hypertext) on August 6, 1991.

World Wide Web Virtual Library

Originally Tim Berners-Lee’s web catalog at CERN.

Digital Picture Archive on the 17th Floor

First operating from Delft University of Technology as an anonymous FTP site, then a gopher server and finally a WWW server, this collection of miscellaneous digital images was one of the first image repositories. By 1994 it had to be throttled back because the traffic was overwhelming the networks at Delft.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Paul Kunz from SLAC visited Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in September 1991. He was impressed by the WWW project and brought a copy of the software back to Stanford. SLAC launched the first web server in North America on December 12, 1991. 

 1992

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications site was an early home to the NCSA Mosaic web browser, as well as documentation on the web and a “What’s New?” list which many people used as an early web directory.

Fermilab

Second web server in North America, following in the trend of high-energy physics laboratories.

SunSITE

Early, comprehensive archiving project. Project as a whole started in 1992 and was quick to move to the web.

1993

By the end of 1993, there were 623 websites, according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray.

Doctor Fun

First webcomic, noted by the NCSA as “a major breakthrough for the Web”.

The LANL preprint archive

Web access to thousands of papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, and biology; developed out of earlier gopher, ftp, and e-mail archives at Los Alamos. Now housed at lanl.arxiv.org

Global Network Navigator

Example of an early web directory, and one of the Web’s first commercial sites. Created by O’Reilly Media.

The Internet Movie Database

Founded in 1989 by participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies, the IMDB was rolled out on the web in late 1993, hosted by the computer science department of Cardiff University in Wales.

Internet Underground Music Archive

Created by students at the University of California, Santa Cruz to help promote unsigned musical artists. Music was shared using the MP2 format, presaging the later extreme popularity of MP3 sharing and Online music stores.

JaysHouse MOO

Perhaps the first web-based MUD (multi-user dungeon), ancestor of today’s MMORPGs.

SITO

After a start as an anonymous ftp-based art gallery and collaborative collective, the OTIS project (later SITO) moves to the web thanks to SunSITE’s hosting.

The MIT Tech

The MIT campus newspaper, The Tech, claims to be the first newspaper to deliver content over the Web, beginning in May 1993. 

MTV

The music television network’s domain was registered in 1993 by VJ Adam Curry, who personally ran a small unofficial site.

PARC Map Server

Arguably the earliest precursor of MapQuest and Google Maps. PARC Researcher Steve Putz tied an existing map viewing program to the web. Now defunct.

Principia Cybernetica

Probably the first complex, collaborative knowledge system, sporting a hierarchical structure, index, map, annotations, search, plenty of hyperlinks, etc. Designed by Francis Heylighen, Cliff Joslyn and Valentin Turchin to develop a cybernetic philosophy.

Trojan room coffee pot

The first webcam.

 1994

By mid-1994 there were 2738 websites, according to Gray’s statistics; by the end of the year, more than 10,000.

Art.Net

“Art on the Net”, created by Lile Elam in June 1994 to showcase the artwork of San Francisco Bay Area artists as well as other international artists. It offered free linkage and hosts extensive links to other artists’ sites.

The Amazing FishCam 

A webcam pointed at a fishtank located at Netscape headquarters. According to a contemporaneous article by The Economist, “In its audacious uselessness—and that of thousands of ego trips like it—lie the seeds of the Internet revolution.”

Bianca’s Smut Shack

An early web-based chatroom and online community known for raucous free speech and deviant behavior.

Cool Site of the Day

Founded by Glenn Davis at InfiNet in 1994, who selected one ‘cool’ website per day to highlight. InfiNet ceased operating it in 1998. The site is currently a promotion service, which charges $27 for a site to be ‘reviewed’.

Einet Galaxy

Claims to be the first searchable web catalog; originally created at the Einet division of the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin. It passed through several commercial owners and is now run by Logika Corporation.

First Virtual

First “cyber-bank”.

HotWired

Website of Wired magazine with its own unique and innovative online content. Home of the first banner ads, for Zima and AT&T

Internet Shopping Network

First internet shopping mall.

Justin Hall’s Links from the Underground

One of the earliest examples of personal weblogging.

Lycos

Early search engine, originally a university research project by Dr. Michael Mauldin.

Museum of Bad Art

Website of a museum “dedicated to the tongue-in-cheek display of poorly conceived or executed examples of Outsider Art in the form of paintings or sculpture.”

The Nine Planets

“A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System”, created by Bill Arnett. One of the first extensively multimedia sites.

Nando.net

One of the first newspaper sites, the online presence of the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer.

Pizza Hut

The pizza delivery restaurant allows people in Santa Cruz, California to order pizza over the Web. 

Sex.com

Subject of a twelve-year legal battle that established parameters of domain ownership.

The Simpsons Archive

The very first fan site for The Simpsons television show.

SpinnWebe

Early humor site, called “a window on the weird” by The New Yorker.

The WWW Useless Pages

Perhaps the first site which showcased bad or eccentric websites rather than ‘cool’ ones.

World-Wide Web Worm

Another early web crawler, opened in October 1994.

Yahoo!

Originally started as “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”; later Yahoo without the exclamation mark.

 

Full article courtesy of the wonderful wikipedia.org

 

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