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This is one weird scam. Someone registered the domain Faebook.com (Facebook without a C) and redirected it, using an iframe, to Amazon - of course, with his/her own Amazon referrals. It’s the good old tactics of using misspelled domain names for profit, but it’s uncommon to see such an obvious misspelling of a site as big as Faebook used like this.

Some have suggested this may be Amazon’s doing, but you can clearly see the difference in registration details here:

Domain Name: FAEBOOK.COM
Registrant [1003228]:
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US

Amazon’s own records look different:

Registrant:
Amazon.com, Inc
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
US
Domain Name: AMAZON.COM

It will be interesting to see how this one pans out over the coming months.

PS: I wonder if anyone has registered Midacode.co.uk yet?

Lego vs Louise Lego

Lego, the iconic Danish maker of plastic toy bricks, lost a brand infringement case today when Denmark’s Supreme Court ruled an art gallery owner could use the Lego name since it was her surname.

The high court decided that Louise Lego could continue using the name for her Copenhagen gallery, Gallery Lego, where she displays her own paintings, and her website, http://www.galleri-lego.dk.

The toymaker, founded in 1932, had argued it had the exclusive rights to the Lego name.

Its use of Lego stems from the contraction of the Danish phrase “Leg godt” which means “play well,” and has nothing to do with the Lego family.

The company also wanted Louise Lego to stop promoting her gallery online under the Lego name.

But the court found that there was little risk that people would confuse Louise Lego’s paintings and artworks with Lego toys.

The toymaker was ordered to pay Louise Lego 150,000 kroner ($A31,500) to cover her court costs.

I have to say that I agree with this decision, you can’t really tell people to not use their own names. So I am off to change my name to Mr Google

What are the cheapest domain name registrars? This is a common question… but bear in mind that cheapest initially doesn’t always mean the cheapest long term.

That said, domain name registrations can be done via any of the following for a low price:

NameCheap.com - Namecheap have domains for $2.95

Netfirms.com - We have been told that Netfirms is very cheap, but we have had no references of quality yet.

Ipower.com - $2.95 for a year. Lovely!

Enom.com - Enom may cost a little more than most on this list, but we have had many positive reviews of this domain registrar

1and1.com - $5.99 per year, but that includes free whois protection. A great deal!

If you know of any other sites that offer cheaper domain name registration, please let us know.

Google has purchased the shortest possible domain name to make it easier for Chinese users to find Google: g.cn.

This is the first time I have seen a single-letter domain sold. So let’s have a quick look at some other one letter domains:

Z.com is owned by Nissan.

Q.com is owned by Qwest.

X.com is owned by Paypal

ZUHO - Swop Domains at Zuho.com

Or as our American Cousins would say: Swap Domains at Zuho.com

Rudy Hernandez of Logistik Labs reviews the brand new Zuho.com website. Zuho is the world’s 1st domain name trading marketplace

Swap Your Domain Names, Fast & Easy!

Step 1: Create Your FREE Zuho Account.

Step 3: Start Searching, Offering & Swapping Instantly!

http://zuho.com

SWOP - Chiefly British. Variant of swap.

Zuho.com — World’s 1st Domain Swapping Marketplace

Spikedhumor.com is one of the largest video based entertainment sites. It can be a great way of wasting time, has hundreds of thousands of users, and is no doubt worth tens of millions of dollars.

However, as of this morning, the site shows an expired domain error message.

Could it be possible that a company clearly worth millions of dollars, would forget to renew their domain name? Could the Spikedhumor.com domain be on auction soon? What happens if they lose the domain?, as clearly there is millions of dollars in branding that will be lost.

Personally I expect it to be a technical error of some sort, but there is no doubt that this is a bad day for Spiked Humor, and a great day for PacNames, who are getting buckets of publicity from this.

Finding a good domain name can be hard enough, but now we have to worry about accidental double meanings.

Check out this amusing list of actual domain names:

ExpertsExchange.com –> ExpertSexchange.com
WhoRepresents.com –> WhorePresents.com
TherapistFinder.com –> TheRapistFinder.com
PenIsland.net –> PenisLand.net
ChooseSpain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
GoTahoe.com –> GotAHoe.com
PenIsMightier.com –> PenisMightier.com
PowergenItalia.com –> PowerGenitalia.com
MoleStationNursery.com –> MolestationNursery.com
KeywordsExtractor.com –> KeywordSexTractor.com
BigAlsOnline.com –> BiGalsOnline.com
PotsOfArt.com –> PotsoFart.com
AlterScrap.com –> AltersCrap.com
ViaGrafix.com –> ViagraFix.com

What were the most expensive domain names sold in the past week? What were the big money sellers? and does the mighty .com have some new challengers to the throne?

Well, I can reveal that this weeks most expensive domain sale was for the domain name: OTV.com for the tune of a whopping $110,000

Not bad!

Is .com Still King?

Many people will tell you to avoid anything other than a .com extension, but it may appear that this advice is getting a little dated. Let’s look at the other 4 domains in the top 5 top sellers for the past week:

OTV.com $110,000
Insurance.mobi $42,005
Hotel.pk $35,644
Hawaii.de $31,367
Pussy.mobi $24,158

Amazingly only one of the top 5 domains was a .com, so it may appear that the tides are turning.

Wishful thinking alert: Pussy.com is perhaps from someone who loves cats….

Elsewhere in the domain markets it was of personal interest to me to hear that Spain had the most country based sales in the top 20 biggest country based sales last week. The pick of which was JuegosJuegos.es (Juegos means Games), and this sold for $6,416

Perhaps finally Spain is catching up on the net.

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Trying to find a good domain name is the virtual equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Long gone are the golden days where you didn’t have to have 50 attempts before finding the domain you want.

But it IS still possible to find some great domain names, and the process can be made easier by using some domain finding tools.

I have compiled some of the very best domain research tools below.

Good luck finding your needle.

Dislexicon

Dislexicon takes small words and adds suffixes and prefixes. Also, it gives you the meaning of the words, and with some practice can be a very powerful tool.

Link: Dislexicon

Just Dropped

This site is great for finding domains that have expired recently. You will get a few freebie searches, which is often sufficient.

Link: Just dropped

Word Mixer

You simply enter up to 5 words which are then mixed into new words. Simple, but effective.

Link: Unique Name Mixer

Wordfinder

This is a tool for crossword puzzles, but if you are smart, you will be able to use it for finding domains.

Link: Word Finder

Domainsbot

This is a search engine for finding domains. Works best with specific names.

Link: Domainsbot

I was recently reading Succeed with this.com, and I stumbled across a list of 30 of the most wasted domain names on the net.

They are all highly valuable and have huge potential, yet very little has been done with them.

Here is the entire list:

1) Cool.com
PageRank: Unranked
Alexa: Over 350,000
This domain is simply parked.

2) Hot.com
A single page with nothing on it except a lame colored logo. The sky is the limit for a domain like this.

3) Porn.com
PageRank: Unranked
Alexa: Unranked
This one is parked too but has a cool design. I’m guessing it’s making decent money, but no where near what a domain of this weight can bring in. Any regular developed porn site attached to this domain could make the profits hit the roof.

4) Sexy.com
After being presented with a warning page of enter or exit, the only thing you see next is a parked page.

5) Alien.com / 6) Ufo.com
These two can be put in the same category. With all the talk about aliens and ufo’s, these domains can be instant success.
Instead, Alien.com is a 404 page!!
And Ufo.com just a parked page.

7) Toy.com
PageRank: 0
Alexa: Over 3 million
An amazing 3 letter domain! Yet just another parked page.

8 ) Pal.com
Some sort of weird and unpopular search engine. Another great 3 letter domain put to waste.

9) Queen.com
Parked

10) Oral.com
Parked

11) Crazy.com
Parked. Could easily be used to feature all sorts of crazy videos or stories.

12) Pro.com
Wow! What can I say. A 403 forbidden! Some people would do anything just to have the word pro in front of another word in their domains, like proplayer or propoker…This person has the 3 letter by itself, and doing nothing!

13) Cash.com
PageRank: Unranked
Alexa: Over 2 million
Just parked.

14) Card.com
Parked for some credit cards. Could be used for a gambling site or a developed credit card site.

15) Super.com
Parked

16) Store.com
This thing could be something similar to eBay or Amazon, but it is just parked.

17) Cloth.com / 18) Clothing.com
Each of them could be the central location for anything related to clothing, but just parked.

19) Personal.com
A great domain for a dating site or personal resource information site, but parked.

20) Join.com
Parked

21) Fight.com
PageRank:1
Alexa: Over 1 million
Anything about boxing and UFC and mixed martial arts can be discussed here and it would easily be the #1 reference on the subject.

22) Gamble.com
PageRank: 3
Alexa: Over 8 million
Parked

23) Home.com / 24) House.com
One of them parked, the other one slightly developed. In the mortgage world, these domains can make more profit than anything else.

25) Dance.com
Parked.

26) Pay.com
Parked

27) Host.com
Parked. Can you find a better domain name for a hosting company?

28) Men.com
PageRank:3
Alexa: Over 250,000
Acquired for 1.3 million dollar and seems fully developed. However, a domain like this carries so much power that it is ridiculous it is not more popular.

29) Plan.com
PageRank:0
Alexa: Over 5 million
Parked

30) My.com
A 2 letter domain! Seems like an unsuccessful hosting company. This is the only 2 letter domain in this list, and man this is wasted.