Domain Name Wire yesterday reported about the latest short .me domain to sell for thousands. Capitalising on the popularity of Twitter, someone managed to sell the domain Tweet.me for $11,505. I actually think that the domain could have went for a lot more, considering how popular that term is.
Some of the other top .me sales include preview.me for $2,605, aweso.me for $2,005 and bookmark.me for $1,755 (which I think could have sold for more).
There’s nothing on the tweet.me domain just now but I have no doubt that a Twitter script or portal will be launched there over the next few months.
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As a known moneymaker, Schoemaker trademarked ShoeMoney to stop people using his name for profit. With regards to Adwords, this meant that no one could target the word ShoeMoney except for Jeremy Schoemaker himself. However, ShoeMoney noticed one person who was getting through the adwords system and was making money through his trademarked name.
To cut a long story short, he tried contacting the owner of the site (myincentivewebsite.com) but was not replied to. His ‘Cease and Desist’ was not answered either. After going through the courts and forcing the host to replace the website owners information it turns out that the guy worked at Google as an AdWords Account Strategist. The guy had been using his position to bypass the adword controls and view all the keywords and phrases that ShoeMoney had been targeting.
.Tel, the new top level domain from Telnic, has apparently had over 100,000 registrations within a few weeks. With 70,000 of those occuring in the first 24 hours.
I was quite intrigued when I first read the announcement of the .tel domain as it works differently from other top level domains. The domain is not used for a website, it is simply used to hold basic information about the person.
Have a look at the video to get a basic understanding of how it works :
In the video the guy gives the girl his number by writing ben.tel on the train window but with 100,000 domains already registered, it’s fair to say that all 3 letter domains and most common first names have been snapped up already. Though for longer tel domain names I’m not sure if I see the point. It’s a handy way of holding ‘business card’ type information about yourself online but I think most people nowadays just swap email addresses or ask the person to ‘find me on facebook’.
About a month ago, Toys R Us purchased the premium domain Toys.com for a whopping 5.1 million dollars. I always thought that super premium domain names were traded between 2 or 3 parties at most and the final price took weeks to agree and involved a lot of haggling back and fourth.
So I was intrigued to see that Toys.com was sold in a phone auction. DirectNavigation covered the telephone auction last month .
There was a lot of breaks during the auction so I assume that behind the scenes were a lot of people discussing whether the bid was going too high. The bidding also seemed strange at times. For example, after toyrsrus bid $4,815,000, National A-1 responded with a bid of $4820,000.
