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“As far back as I can remember,” Henry Hill said in the opening of the hit movie Goodfellas, “I always wanted to be a gangster.” And with only three days left in the Gangsters.com auction, you have the opportunity to win this domain name that has already received 18 bids and 1477 page views on eBay.

Gangsters.com is a premium domain name with a wide range of development options. It could be used for a music label, a TV series, a book series, an eCommerce site for mafia and gangster related products, or even as a hub for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) similar to Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft.

“People just really like the crime genre,” said Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga which publishes Mafia Wars, in a CNET article titled How the Mafia Conquered Social Networks. “I think that people like fantasies that are closer to reality.”

The eBay auction is set to expire on September 21 at 10:00am PDT. Click here to visit the auction page and bid today!

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“As far back as I can remember,” Henry Hill said in the opening of the hit movie Goodfellas, “I always wanted to be a gangster.” And with only three days left in the Gangsters.com auction, you have the opportunity to win this domain name that has already received 18 bids and 1477 page views on eBay.

Gangsters.com is a premium domain name with a wide range of development options. It could be used for a music label, a TV series, a book series, an eCommerce site for mafia and gangster related products, or even as a hub for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) similar to Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft.

“People just really like the crime genre,” said Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga which publishes Mafia Wars, in a CNET article titled How the Mafia Conquered Social Networks. “I think that people like fantasies that are closer to reality.”

The eBay auction is set to expire on September 21 at 10:00am PDT. Click here to visit the auction page and bid today!

Disclaimer: This post has been paid for by the owner of Gangsters.com

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Vacation rental company files domain arbitration cases.

HomeAway.com in Domain Dispute

When I go on vacation with my family, I usually try to rent a vacation home. Not only is it affordable for a family, but it lets you live with the locals. To find vacation homes I usually turn to HomeAway, Inc., an Austin-based company that has raised over $400 million of capital to do a roll up of vacation rental web sites.

So I was disappointed this week to see that the company filed a domain arbitration case for the generic domain name HomeAwayFromHome.com. HomeAway has several registered trademarks for “Home Away from Home”. Two of them were filed recently with first used in commerce dates of 2008. However, the company also acquired or licensed a trademark that was registered in 1999. But HomeAway, Inc. wasn’t founded until 2005.

A HomeAway representative said the company filed the complaint after trying to contact the owner of HomeAwayfromHome.com numerous times without success.

HomeAwayFromHome.com is registered to Frank Schilling’s Name Administration, which receives perhaps hundreds or thousands of unsolicited queries every month.

On the same day HomeAway filed the dispute for HomeAwayFromHome.com, it also filed one for VRBOcleaner.com. HomeAway owns VRBO.com (Vacation Rental By Owner). The registered owner of the domain runs a small home cleaning business that does a work for vacation home owners that list their homes on VRBO.com. She said that Home Away contacted her about the domain, and she decided to give it up. She thought she was supposed to cancel the domain with the registrar, but of course that means it can’t be transferred to Home Away. Therefore, Home Away filed the UDRP.

Although that case will simply require a rubber stamp from NAF, I wouldn’t be surprised if a panel found HomeAway guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for HomeAwayfromHome.com. That might be better than the alternative for HomeAway; if it somehow convinces an arbitration panel that it should hand over this generic domain, it will surely end up in a court fight.

In that case, it might need to use its service to find a nice vacation rental in Cayman Islands.

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Using a domain name to drive a message home.

Wednesday evening I was relaxing at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, sipping a Mexican Martini and reading The Onion. (That’s as close to perfect enjoyment as you can get.) An ad in The Onion caught my eye.

The ad was for DWI lawyer Charlie Roadman. Roadman is also a musician and defends a lot of other musicians on marijuana charges. His ad (pictured below) reads “What a DWI Defense Attorney Wishes You Knew”.

One of Roadman’s points is that “a DWI can cost more than 300 taxi rides”. Since the alternative to getting a DWI is usually forking over $25 for a taxi ride, this seems like a strong point to remind people of when they’re making the decision on driving home after drinking.

So what does this have to do with domain names? In addition to his domain name RoadmanLaw.com, Roadman also advertises 300TaxiRides.com.

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As reported by The Domains and Domain Name Wire earlier today, the former owner of the domain name mint.com stands to reap the rewards of the sale of the site to Intuit. But this was more than a simple domain name against stock deal and the previous domain owner was actually an investment firm.

According to TechCrunch the former owner of the domain name mint.com (Hite Capital), which was just sold with a developed site to Intuit for 170 million USD, received a significant amount in series A stock for the domain name, which should be “worth a ‘couple of million dollars,’ says one source [to TechCrunch], after the acquisition”. Hite Capital also invested money into mint.com in the series A and series B investment rounds - according to CrunchBase, so maybe they did not only give them the company the domain name. However they are not listed as an investor on mint.com’s website.

DomainTools whois history shows that the domain was owned by “Mint Investment Management Co.” in New York until April 19th, 2007. Aside from the floor (12th vs. 15th) this address also matches the current whois of HiteCapital.com, where the owner, admin and tech contact, Erik Jacobsen, also is using a @mint.com email address. Mint Investment Management Co. was founded by Larry Hite who also is an active investor and managing director at Hite Capital Management LLC

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While many seem to bet on the potential traffic they may be able to get from .CM domains and the official .CM launch should be well underway today after being moved for several times, Kevin Ham and his company Reinvent have quietly retreated from the ccTLD and the wildcard causing all of the .CM domains to resolve has since been removed from the zonefiles.

Reinvent provided this official statement to DNN:

We are no longer involved in .CM wildcarding. There has been some suggestions that we could take advantage of the .CM wildcarding and register high traffic .CM domains. While we are in a position to take advantage of this, we have not registered one .CM domain. We no longer have any ties to Republic of Cameroon and .CM wildcarding. We wish both Cameroon and NETCOM the very best and much success.

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Another crazy domain name dispute.

A company has filed for arbitration on the domain name Project.me at World Intellectual Property Organization.

Confused? So was I. Claiming rights to the term “Project” seems like a stretch.

I did a little research and here’s what I’ve come up with. All searches for the complainant, project.me GmbH, lead to a software company at Projectme.eu. I emailed the current domain registrant to see what’s going on. As he explained it, Project.me contacted him to try to buy the domain. They couldn’t agree on the price, so Project.me (the company) filed the UDRP.

It’s a very long shot that they’d prevail in this case. It would take some luck getting an arbitrator who’s asleep at the wheel. The bad will may be harder to swallow; Project.me is active in the social networking scene.

Project.me did not respond to a request for comment.

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Mint.com domain name sale worth about $2 million.

Mint.com Domain Name sale about $2.M

Hite Capital sold the Mint.com domain name to the recently sold finance web site for equity a few years ago. It has paid off, according to an article by Michael Arrington on Tech Crunch.

…Mint gave a “substantial” amount of Series A stock to Hite Capital in exchange for the Mint.com domain name. That stock was worth a “couple of million dollars,” says one source, after the acquisition.

Not bad. For Hite Capital, selling a domain name for equity paid off. (It’s not clear if there was cash involved in the transaction as well.) But selling a domain for equity doesn’t always work out as planned. One high profile case is Business.com, which Marc Ostrofsky sold for $7.5M in 1999. But that wasn’t cash; it was equity. And according to the buyer, it ended up redeeming that equity for only $2.0M in 2004.

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In May Ann did a post “Track Keyword Positions with BLVD Status” showing how you can enhance your keyword tracking with the analytics tool BLVDStatus.com. Well earlier this week they launched two new products, both of which greatly enhance your ability to track and understand both your keyword traffic and rankings.

Keyword Vitals: Basically a marriage between keyword traffic reports and ranking reports on steroids. It lets you set a date range and see all the words bringing traffic to your site, their visits, unique visitors, conversions, plus “Start Rank,” “Avg Rank,” and “Current Rank.” Start rank is the ranking of each word for the start of your date range, avg rank is the rank throughout the date range and current rank is the live rank, it is green if it is better than the start rank and red if worse.

Advanced Filtering Options: Keyword Vitals lets you filter the results based off of the criteria you present.

- Filter by traffic amount – which lets you bring back only words with a certain amount of visits

- Filter by conversion count – bringing back only words that lead to conversions

-Filter by rank – Brings back only the words that rank within a range you set, ie Top 10.

You can also filter by clicking on the keywords themselves or using the search box.

- Filter by keyword – Will Show every word your site gets traffic from that includes the phrase you specify.

- Filter by URL – Will show every word an individual URL gets traffic for plus rankings. This is very helpful in tracking ROI
of a social media campaign. As it proves that links from viral success lead to rankings.

Alerts: You can also set up keyword alerts by clicking on the keyword, which allows you to be notified via Twitter or Email if your rankings move up or down.

Alerts also allows you to set up notifications for traffic jumps, specific traffic jumps from referring domains, and conversion alerts.

All in all we liked it when it showed you the rankings before and now with a detailed keyword reporting suite and alerts to help you keep tabs on your site it has become a very powerful tool in the SEO space.

Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.

New Features & Alert System in BLVD Status

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