Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Readings for April 4th, 2008

Published on 2008-04-04 11:25:56 2 Comments Edit
URL: http://www.nypost.com/seven/04042008/news/regionalnews/guys_...

When he bought the Web domain pizza.com for $20 in 1994, Chris Clark never imagined it would be his meal ticket.
But yesterday, the 43-year-old Queens-born entrepreneur sold the name at auction for a saucy $2.605 million.
As he watched himself move up the ranks of the upper crust with each bid in the online auction that concluded yesterday, Clark and his family celebrated the only way that seemed appropriate - with a pizza party.
"This is life-changing kind of money," Clark told The Post between bites at his North Potomac, Md., home. "It's truly incredible."
Clark, who grew up in Floral Park, said that while this was a financial feat that would make even Warren Buffett's mouth water, and his wife thinks he is a "visionary," the truth is it all happened by accident.

Source: NY Post

Fox: Twins Purchase Domain Names For New Ballpark

Published on 2008-04-04 11:23:16 1 Comment Edit
URL: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?conte...

The Minnesota Twins have already purchased a few domain names that could indicate what the name of the new ballpark, set to open in 2010, will be.

In St. Paul, Xcel Energy committed to a $60 million deal for its name. At the University of Minnesota, TCF Bank is spending $35 million to name the new Gopher football stadium. And in downtown Minneapolis, Target first paid $18.75 million for naming rights at the Target Center.

In February, a blogger found that landolakespark.com and landolakesfield.com were owned by the Twins. Could Land O' Lakes be stepping up to the plate?

FOX 9 has also found the Twins registered four versions of Great River Energy -- a north metro energy provider. Including the Land O' Lakes and Great River Energy names, FOX 9 found 48 domain names registered to the Twins.

Some of the possibilities include Allianz, Great Northern, and Northern Lights.

A spokesperson for Land O'Lakes in Arden Hills said they can't comment on negotiations, and that any naming rights deal would be months away.

A spokesperson for Great River Energy in Maple Grove also had no comment.

Source: Fox

SEL: Google To Allow Bidding On Keyword Trademarks In UK

Published on 2008-04-04 08:18:50 0 Comment Edit
URL: http://searchengineland.com/080404-083414.php

The UK PPC Blog tipped me off to Google announcing that the UK AdWords trademark policy has been changed to work like the US AdWords trademark policy.

What this means is that UK advertisers can now bid on trademark terms, when earlier, those trademarked terms were blocked from bidding on within the AdWords network. The US policy allows advertisers to bid on many trademarked terms, but does not allow the advertiser to include that trademark within the ad content, in most cases.

Source: Search Engine Land

ICANN: Registrar Advisory Concerning the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy

Published on 2008-04-04 06:39:14 0 Comment Edit
URL: http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03apr08.htm

The purpose of this advisory is to assist ICANN-accredited registrars in understanding that under the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy:

1. Registrars are prohibited from denying a domain name transfer request based on non-payment of fees for pending or future registration periods during the Auto-Renew Grace Period; and

2. A registrant change to Whois information is not a valid basis for denying a transfer request.

Source: ICANN