WSJ Report: Bitcoins.com + Trademark for Sale

Elliot Silver
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Earlier this year, I wrote about the Bitcoins.com domain name and its interesting history as told by the former owner. Bitcoins.com is now owned by Mt. Gox, the troubled bitcoin exchange, and according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning, the domain name is reportedly going up for sale.

According to the WJS article published this morning by WSJ writer Takashi Mochizuki:

“The holding company of collapsed virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox is looking to sell the trademarked word bitcoin, a company executive said.

The company hopes to raise at least ¥100 million, or about $1 million, for a package including the bitcoin trademarks in Japan and the European Union as well as the bitcoins.com domain name, the executive said.”

In the last year, bitcoin and other

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Whoisology Running Survey

Elliot Silver
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As you probably know by now, I appreciate it when companies reach out to clients and prospective clients to get their feedback in order to improve and build products that are of interest. Asking users and potential users for feedback is a great way to learn what needs to be improved and what can be useful.

Whoisology is a neat tool that offers some good information about domain registrants and domain registrations. Whoisology is operated by the same people who operate NameBio and DomainAgents. One way I like to use Whoisology is to search for the Whois email address on a domain name I want to buy to see if the owner has additional domain names that might be of interest. Sometimes you can get a better deal if you buy more than one domain name from someone.

Whoisology is currently

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The Future is About Leverage

Michael Castello
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Time and time again I see where we as individuals are losing leverage – and with it the ability to make change.

As we have grown into a more technological world, everything has become much more complicated. Even to understand current politics or local law is like a college degree of its own. I’ve seen this same pattern with my internet businesses: When I could create domain websites easily years ago, they would get lots of search and direct traffic. Now, the competition has become oversaturated, so I need to pay more people and spend more time to try to stay ahead of the competition. I have to prioritize sites and businesses to put my time and money into, or sell others to which I can’t. It would almost be wiser for me to sell all of my names and focus on one business exclusively, but currently I have more leverage in controlling more verticals – like Bullion.com for finance, Daycare.com for moms, Manicure.com for beauty, and Nashville.com for music. There is so much to think about, and it gets very complicated. We all just want to make things a little simpler and easier – kind of “user-friendly”.

I still use the Apple iPhone 4, since I am waiting for the

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Archeo Shares Info About Its Domain Portfolio

Elliot Silver
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Archeo (a division of publicly traded Marchex) is a large domain name portfolio owner with just under 300,000 domain names in its inventory. You can visit Archeo’s website to search through the company’s portfolio of domain names and see exactly what types of domain names the company owns.

I want to share an infographic with you that was published by the company in its first Quarterly Newsletter pdf and shared with me this morning via email. The infographic illustrates the types of domain names Archeo owns at a high level, and I think you’ll also find this information noteworthy.

Some of the facts I found most interesting are these:

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101Domain Evacuated Due to Wild Fire

Elliot Silver
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If you are trying to reach someone from 101Domain today or in the near future, you should be advised that employees have been evacuated from the company’s office due to aggressive wild fires that are in the area.

The company issued the following statement on Facebook to advise customers of the situation the company is currently facing:

“Due to extreme wild fires in the Carlsbad area we have evacuated our main office. Dependent on the winds in the area our office location should be safe. We apologize to our customers that today we are unable to answer telephone support calls and inquiry tickets. The online ordering system and DNS servers are working normally. Please keep our company and the surrounding homes in your prayers.”

The Governor of California

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Voting for Domainers Choice Awards Begins Today

Elliot Silver
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If you submitted nominations for the 2014 Domainers Choice Awards, you should have received an email this morning from Donna Mahony inviting you to vote for the award winners. Voting begins today, and ballots may be submitted from now until May 30, 2014.

The voting is being conducted by a third party voting company called VoteNet, and it is only open to people who submitted nominations. The email that was sent contains a user name and password to ensure that people vote only once.

There are 16 categories of nominations, and there are three nominees per category. The winners will be announced at a dinner celebration at the Dana Point Yacht Club in Dana Point, California on June 28, in conjunction with the annual  DBR  FunFest. Tickets for the event are currently for sale and cost $97. The awards dinner is open to the public.

I appreciate those of you who nominated me / my blog for two categories, and I wish all of the nominees good luck.

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