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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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Money
Back Guarantee Offered on "Dirty"
Domains, Free Chinese Domaining Masterclass Goes
Online & New Domain Extension to be
Auctioned Off
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Senior
Strategist Bill Hartzer
Globerunner.com
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We've
had a busy week
making preparations for our trip
to India to cover next
week's DomainX
conference in Bangalore. As a
result I didn't get a chance to
share a few interesting items
that came across my desk, so I
wanted to do that this weekend
before heading overseas
Monday.
For
starters, Globe
Runner, a digital
marketing and SEO agency based in
Dallas, unveiled a new product
called Verified
Domains. Globe Runner
Senior Strategist Bill Hartzer
told us, "It's the first
service that provides background
checks and due diligence for domain
names. Kind of like a CarFax
report for your car, but for domain
names. Verified Domains checks out a
domain's past and offer a Buy
Back guarantee that
the domain name is clean and ready
for commerce."
The
dollar amount of the Buy Back
guarantee depends on the level of
service you choose to use. Hartzer
said, "The
Verified level gets you over
15 manual reviews of various data
points, and includes a $5,000
Buy Back Guarantee. Manual reviews
include data points like a Whois
History Review, Review of Former
Site Topic, Email Blacklist
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Check,
Limited Search Engine Reputation
Review and DNS Health Check. The Verified
Plus level gets you all of the
checks included in the Verified
level, but includes more data points
and a $25,000 Buy Back
Guarantee. The Verified Premium level
includes the Verified and Verified
Plus checks, but also includes more
extensive checks of whois data and
search engine reputation issues.
There are over 45 different manual
reviews of various data points done,
and it includes a $50,000 Buy
Back Guarantee."
You
can review pricing for each level
and more details on the level of
service each provides here.
The Buy Back Guarantee essentially
says that if Verified Domains
verified the domain as being
"clean" and ready for
commerce, and a problem is found within
30 days of the verification,
Verified Domains will buy the
domain. "Hartzer said, "For
domainers, a report from Verified
Domains could be used to "close
the deal", giving some
assurance to buyers that there
aren't any problems with the domain.
Adding a report could allow you to
ask more for the domain, as it's a
Verified Domain. Discounts are
available for multiple domains and
entire domain portfolios. For resellers,
Verified Domains will work with you
to integrate into your platform
and provide a referral fee."
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On
another front, if you were
at this
year's NamesCon conference
in Las Vegas in
January you may well have
sat in on some or all of the
popular Chinese Domain
Masterclass sessions
presented by TLD
Registry during
the show. If you didn't get
to go to NamesCon, we have
some good news for
you. TLD Registry is making
key portions of that
information on the Chinese
domain market available to everyone
in a series of blog posts at
ChineseLandrush.com.
The first
post in the
series, covering numeric
domains, went up this
week.
Mitch
Watkins, the Partners
Program Manager at TLD
Registry told us, "This
blog series is an extended
effort to educate western
domainers and also to
lead them to our
ChineseLandrush.com site,
which offers hundreds of
free, premium-sounding
Chinese domain suggestions,
and to help them
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invest
in these domains with the
knowledge they will have
received from the blog
series." If you
are interested in selling
domains to the Chinese
market the information is
very helpful and you can't
beat the price!
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Last
but not least, new
TLDs are being
released almost
every week and while
registering names in
new extensions has
become commonplace,
seeing an entire
new extension being
put up for public
sale doesn't
happen every day.
So, it will be
interesting to see
what the TLD .Versicherung
(the German word for
insurance)
will go for
when RightoftheDot, LLC in cooperation with
Heritage Auctions
(HA.com) conducts an
ascending clock
auction sale of the
extension on Wednesday, August
26, 2015 at 10am
(U.S. Eastern
time).
Those
interested in
bidding on the TLD must register to bid by filling out the form on
http://rotd.com.
At that site you can
also download a PDF
file containing the
auction details (in English or
German), as well as the list of reserved and premium domain names
(which exceeds 10,000
names). An ROTD
press release noted,
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premium lists where insurance agents, companies, affiliates, etc. could have the very best GEO and keyword names
in a top industry string."
As of this writing
there are also over 3,000 domain names registered
in the .versicherung at
a cost of 99 euros a year.
Each bidder will be required to deposit
$100,000 USD in escrow prior to the auction. Once you register, you will be contacted by email with more details and instructions regarding escrow deposit and Terms of Service. |
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(Posted
August 1, 2015)
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