Archive for May, 2009
May 27th, 2009 | 
Author: There has been a new patent awarded to DemandMedia for “Method for domain name registration and a corresponding apparatus”. The patent goes on to explain how the whole system will work. Its pretty solid and i can see this whole system working to an advantage to everyone from the taster to the casual domainer or even web developer.
Demand Media
Tier 1 - a standard domain registration as it exists today. You have full control of the domain and full rights until expiration. This would be charged full price by the registry, say $7.00.
Tier 2 - you’d have rights to the domain name unless someone comes along and offers to register it under tier 1. You may have full rights to control the domain, or you may be limited to making certain changes such as DNS. You would pay a lower amount to the registry, such as $4.00.
Tier 3 - similar to tier 2, but with fewer rights. For example, someone may come along and register the domain at tier 2 or tier 1 and you would no longer have rights to the domain. This tier would cost less, perhaps $2.00 per year.
This is just a typical scenario of how the system can work. How this is explained is something that i could potentially get excited about. Register some domains for say $4 and then is i like them or have future plans for them step it up to the full registration or simply register domain names you are on the fence for.
Earlier today Yahoo’s CEO had told everyone that they would still be open to deal with Microsoft for a search deal. Although not said in such simple terms as saying “a boat load of money” and that “the right technology was involved.” This is pretty shocking but a calm play on Yahoo’s side. Considering they turned down talks of billions of dollars in the past from Microsoft. Although it does go the old saying, “Money can buy anything for the right amount.”
Yahoo and Microsoft
Yahoo CEO, Ms.Bartz, also went on to say that they are ready and actively looking to buy social networking and online video start-ups. Although they made lots of layoffs this year they have also announced that they have no plans to layoff anyone past that point. Taking this all in to consideration it looks like yahoo might make a come back with something other than just search or an everything portal.
For a while now Pool.com has been backordering possible new TLDs for registrants. The company behind the new TLD backordering is called Quintaris. They are the front running company on the whole backordering going on and have been since Pool.com released the process to the public. As we all know that new TLDs will not be available at all until 2010. The company is also a consultant for people or companies that want to launch new TLDs when that time comes around.
To backorder the new domains cost nothing and there is no contract when doing so. The thing is that they are claiming that they are getting 10,000 new orders a day. This is pretty amazing since there is nothing to be bought or had at the current time. Nor does the backorder even gurantee that person will get that name when the new TLDs do come around.
New TLD Register Steps
The fishy thing about the whole thing is how many people are actually doing the backordering. As DomainNameWire.com has stated this figure is way more important than simply pointing out volumes of backorders. DomainNameWire.com had contacted Quintaris about this and they said they did not want to disclose this at the time but may do so in the future.
