1st off, What is a Blog Carnival?
A Blog carnival is more or less a blog article or an entire blog that is dedicated to multiple things of the same topic. For example, this blog carnival ( which is this article beginning the next paragraph) will highlight some recent news and insights into the domain name world. Instead of writing long blogs on all these topics, or writing an article for each of them, I will simply highlight the most important information and give you a link to where most of the content lies. Most people reading my blog would know what a carnival is, but I can’t assume since I was unaware of this until a few months earlier. Here is the Wiki Definition of a Blog Carnival. Ok, let’s begin shall we…
Domain News:
* Network Solutions got themselves in a bind with this whole “front running” tactic ( I have heard it is called differently ). They held this guy’s website domain name while it was unregistered and he had to pay more. He wasn’t knowledgeable of Network Solution’s holding rule, but this has lead to a class action lawsuit. Read more here.
* Pizza.com just got sold for 2.6 million slices. Thank god there is no way that name could ever get trademarked, because he was squatting on this site for 14 years. And Cyber-Squatters are getting their rears pushed off sites with trademarked names. This news will probably be good to deter amateurs locking up these names, but I am unsure with an increase of 33 million domain registrations last year that anyone is going to keep up.
* Craigslist is going against a random blog for using its name. The passive Craigslist company I am accustomed to seems to be getting a little bite in its personality. Doesn’t seem like a battle worth waging, in my eyes.
* Skirt.com Loses out to retrieve sk*rt.com. Hmmm, I wonder why…
* A really good site with decent domain content, Domainnamewire.com, has a great article on domain news for the week.
* I feel like this is free advertising for something I don’t like, but someone made a book on how to make money domain name-tradin’! I get turned off when I see this site. If someone can tell me if this book is insightful in anyway, let me know. Otherwise, add a grain of salt to your common sense for this one.
* Do you sell domains on Sedo? Well, check out this doosy of a mistake that could’ve done some serious damage. The Boobtube scare.
ARTICLES
* Great Article on the upcoming ( wholesale so yes this affects YOU ), price increase of .com & .net domain names in the Fall. Great perspective, but it could’ve added the value of the dollar into the mix…
* Having trouble managing all of your domains at once? Is your portfolio getting bigger, are you losing track of your domains’ status, parking traffic etc. Well, these guys did too, and now they have a company to help everyone manage their domain names.
Craigslist has a competitor? HAHAHAHAAHA! Don’t think so, KiJiji
2006 article on choosing the right domain for your blog.
Ok that is it for our first time. We will post up again tomorrow or Tuesday. My eyes feel sleepy, and these old bones need to rejuvenate for work tomorrow. Goodnight. If you have any news, insights or comments, please feel free to contact me.
