Domain Name Wire for Ardhi - Registering Domains About Current Events

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Domain Name Wire for Ardhi
May 9, 2011
Registering Domains About Current Events
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Welcome to the DomainNameWire.com newsletter.

Whenever there's a big news story, catastrophe, or event, people
head to domain name registrars to register domains related to
the event.

Last week I wrote about how over 1,500 domain names related to
Osama bin Laden were registered in the 15 hours after his death:

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=YnU5&mc=BF&s=wYcHs&y=k&

NPR picked this up and interviewed me for a story that aired tonight:

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As I state in the story, I believe there's little value in these domain names.
They have little commercial appeal. They're often short lived. And
when they're related to a catastrophe, trying to capitalize strikes me as
a bit immoral.

But that doesn't stop people from paying $10 to try their luck in the
domain name game.

There are a number of resources that tell you what keywords are "hot"
in recent domain name registrations. If you're a trend follower you
might check out VeriSign's Domain Tag Cloud:

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The Domain Tag Cloud shows you the most popular keywords in recent
domain registrations.

To be fair, some domains related to news events may have staying value.
Rick Schwartz recently bought Deathers.com, a domain for the new
conspiracy theory to replace the birther movement:

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Be sure to stop by DNW.com to read these other
domain industry stories:

-Monte Cahn sues Oversee.net over incentive plan
-A new (less controversial) Bob Parsons video
-EuroDNS and ICANN trade jabs
-New Paul Stahura venture "Donuts" is for domain names

These stories are just a sample of what you can read at DomainNameWire.com.
Domain Name Wire is read by domainers, domain registrars, attorneys,
public officials, and Fortune 500 company domain managers.

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