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Google Sending Wrong Domain Message
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.25, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: If you were to do a search on Google.com for google keyword tool, which is a pretty popular search term… I was pretty surprised to see two domain names that contain the trademarked word "google" and they rank in the top 5 for the search term! GoogleKeywordTool.com ranks in the natural #3 position. IMO, the
DotWeekly Discoveries: Domains Acquired By Larger Companies
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.22, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I haven’t been posting much lately as I have been under the weather. I am having some kind of heart issues, but hopefully with all the tests they have run last week, they (doctors) can discover something. Speaking of discovering, I haven’t done a DotWeekly Discoveries for sometime now, so on a day when the
Netflix Buys Netflix.tv Domain Name For $1K
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.19, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Exclusive~ Netflix Inc. has purchased the domain name Netflix.tv for $1,000 USD from its past owner. .TV is the international country code domain for the country of Tuvalu. Many may think .TV would stand for "Television" but it is really a country code TLD. Netflix used domain name buyer BrandCertified Inc., which is a sister
WinTheWienermobile.com Your Chance May Be Coming!
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.19, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: According to a new domain name registration by Kraft Foods, the makers of Oscar Mayer Wieners and the famous Wienermobile that was created in 1936 to help promote the hot dogs, may be sitting in your driveway! Kraft hand registered the domain name WinTheWienermobile.com on January 18, 2012 and has registered the domain name until
New Domain Trend Alert! HD With iPad 3 Rumors
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.16, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I see a lot of newly registered domain names by big and small companies and one thing I have been noticing over the past week or so are domain names ending in HD! At first this threw me off a little bit, because HD TV’s have been around for awhile… then I got reading a
Novartis Registers 198 Domains With Latest Pill Recall
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.15, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Novartis has announced a voluntary recall of several of its popular brands like Excedren®, Gas-X®, NoDoz® and Bufferen®. The recall was announced on January 9, 2012 but 3 days after the recall, Novartis went on a big domain name shopping spree and purchased 198 domain names related to the recalls. All the domain n…
Domaining.com Offering Second Round Of Domains For Sale
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.15, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Domaining.com is offering a second round of the newsletter of for sale domain names to help support Domaining.com’s content providers like DotWeekly. This round of domain names for sale are ones that didn’t make it onto the 100 that were first published. The domain names are listed for sale on Cax.com for easy purchasing….
GoDaddy Goodies To Take A Break
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.13, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I try new things all the time, some work and some do not! GoDaddy Goodies is a series I have been doing on DotWeekly for sometime now (I think well over 100 lists to date) and I have always enjoyed doing them. Many of you enjoy them as well. The bad thing, they take a
Parked.com Goes Black
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.12, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I was onto something the other day when I posted this article about Parked.com but I was just "off" a little bit about what was likely going on. Actually, I’m still not 100% sure what is going on, but Parked.com is only showing this on it’s home page today! "For questions regarding Parked.com, please contact
Brand Certified Grabs OneToday.org For Google Inc
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.11, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: According to whois records, Google Inc. used domain name buying service Brand Certified Inc. to purchase the domain name OneToday.org in Mid December 2011. Brand Certified also acquired OneToday.com for Google but they did that around June 2011. Neither the .com or .org domain names currently resolve to anything, but Google always se…