I heard some news about this several weeks ago and today someone pointed me to a link I thought I’d share with you.

SaveNetRadio.org

“The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for webcasters and left unchanged they will kill Internet radio. These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). Without Congressional action the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. We need your help. Please take a moment to send a letter to your member of Congress to keep Net radio from being silenced.”

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There are two upcoming domain auctions that will be put on by Moniker that I thought will be interesting to watch. I’ve submitted one of my old gaming domains for possibly entry into the one in Amsterdam but I’m not holding my breath. After having spoke to my account rep, apparently there is a very very very small % of domains that are submitted for entry that make the final cut. The domain I submitted, although imo a great domain for the market, may not make the cut. If it does I’ll be sure to post about it again…hell if it doesn’t make the cut I’m sure I’ll post about it as well.

Here are the 2 upcoming domain auctions:

Casino Affiliate Convention
Theme: Casino & Gaming
Venue: Silent Auction Only
May 3-5 * Amsterdam

Note: Submissions for this auction have closed.

Register * Sign up for Absentee Bidding

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So it’s Friday and I felt like posting something interesting on the Domain biz, so while wandering around the internets I found a pretty good read over at Rick’s Blog on big companies that are ‘getting it.’ His rant was generally how significant it is for companies to own their relevant web properties. Here’s a short list of who’s he mentions is getting it:

“Bank of America owns Loans.com. THEY GET IT!
Barnes and Noble own Books.com. THEY GET IT!
Kraft owns CreamCheese.com. THEY GET IT!
JC Penny owns Gift.com. THEY GET IT!
Calvin Klein owns Underwear.com. THEY GET IT!”

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“How much of a painful, tedious process am I in the mood for?”

This is what you need to ask yourself when thinking of doing this!

I am managing a portfolio of roughly 2000 domains for a client (sales & some assistance in development), that is also wanting them all moved into their godaddy account as they are come up for renewal.  During the process of setting up the instructions for another guy on the team to process, the following are the ‘must know’ issues I had to jot down.

In order to transfer your domain from one registrar:

1) You must ‘unlock’ the domain at it’s current registrar.

2) You must ensure that any whois privacy is turned off.

and

3) It must have been possessed within the current registrar for 60 days or more.

Now, for moving them to godaddy you’ll simply move through the transfer actions that are easily found on the front page.  After that, an email will come to the “Admin contact” of your domain.  In this email you’ll receive two pieces of information that you’ll need to take with you inside of the manage domains panel in godaddy.

Another thing you must do, is make sure your Admin Contact email is reachable.  We have some issues as most of this portfolio was picked up in auctions on the after market and thus the Admin Contact email is admin@snapnames.com.  This is problematic and has to be changed.

>>>> NOTE:  It’s vital to understand that if you change ANYTHING OTHER than the “Admin Contact” email, your current registrar will have to hold the domain for another 60 days before being able to release it.  Make sure that you ONLY change the Admin Contact email and none of the others.

One last thing — Don’t even bother trying to transfer domains to a new registrar if they are due to expire with in 2 week range, as the current registrar has 5-7 days to complete your request of release.  Give yourself time to track and followup on all the required actions to make this happen.

Hope you found this post useful.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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Here’s a video by some SEO guy at wolf-howl.com — I think he loves a lot of people randomly blogging about SEO stuff so I figured I’d make sure to share this with the class.

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Interesting thought eh?

I ran across this article - Zell Wants End to Web’s Free Ride. Apparently Sam Zell (real estate mogul that recently bought the Tribune) posed the question(s):

“If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?” Zell said during the question period after his speech. “Not very.”

This could definitely put a damper on some of Google’s draw as one of the most popular useages of the Internet is to get news, check email, etc… It’s right up there.

And as far as how much it’s a player in the stack of Google services, well it’s right up there too.

Having major news outlets block Google’s ability to syndicate their data is a bit tricky though. Granted they have their own userbase but Google’s marketshare is nothing to sneeze at. One addage “givers gain” seems to apply here. Much like a bar that gives out free nuts to bring in customers, giving out pieces of data so that Google sends patrons their way seems mutually beneficial.Now ‘how’ beneficial can only truly be discovered through a study by cost analysis gurus — not just speculation buy some wealthy dude, no matter how mUch smarts him has.

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Apparently Verisign has decided it’s time to juice more profits out of the domain industry by scheduling a price increase on .com  and .net domains.

You can read more about it at Frank Schilling’s blog.

type-atcha-later,
Sean

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Funny video I found on youtube…  Kinda strange too, but thought I’d share with the class anyways.

Enjoy!

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Ok, first off, I’m sure myself and a load of other bloggers have said “oh it’s been so long, I promise to be good and start blogging more often…”

Whatever.

I was thinking of starting it off like that but I’ll refrain.

How about, I’m going to try to post more useful information here….more often. Ok

Now, what did I stumble on today that I thought might be useful and interesting to anyone that finds this blog?

Well hopefully if you’ve found this blog you’re also interested in domains and other interweb stuff like myself.

Today’s discovery was that THE granddaddy of Domainers — Rick Schwartz started a blog. I’ll definitely check in there from time to time as the man is a visionary in my books (As an added bonus I hear he’s quite a character. That’s perfect, I like people with chA-rASMA).

Shameless plug re: domaining

I’ll be putting out a narrative on how my old man and I sold a domain about a year ago (and a few in between) in the not to distant future.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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