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What does a ‘Cute Puppies Pictures’ app have to do with Registry Cleaner Reviews?

Nothing, besides a link from Apple.com:

http://www.apple.com/webapps/entertainment/cutepuppiespictures.html

With all the iPhone apps getting removed because of sexy content and a cookie cutter approach – one would think they’d start paying attention to issues like this. For the time being, it looks like you can just build an iPhone app and submit it to the app store to get a non nofollowed link with the anchor text of your choosing.

Corporation Service Company research identified and announced via press release the most popular infringed terms within domain names.

CSC analyzed more than 445,000 domain names to determine the most popular prefixes (words that appear before a brand name, like “my” in “mycsc.com”) and suffixes (words that appear after a brand name, like “store” in “cscstore.com”). The data looked at more than 100 randomly selected brands and all domains filed through the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The top terms found were:

Prefix:
www
my
buy
e
the

Suffix:
online
usa
store
shop
com

Notice how a lot of these terms are related to ecommerce?

Being a huge fan deals myself, I find myself visiting Slickdeals.net several times a day. I often wondered why they never owned the .com version of their domain name but the other day I saw an updated on the whois of Slickdeals.com and is now in control of the owner of Slickdeals.net. According to Compete the .com got around 50,000 – 70,000 unique visits per month. The .com was formerly a parked page seen here, now the domain is 301 redirected to the .net domain.

Still think any extension besides .com is worthwhile?

*I do not have any details about how the domain was acquired, nor when it exactly happened.

GoDaddy Auctions has updated a few features over the past couple of days including:

Bid History – Now a cleaner, easier to read window on main pages and individual listings.
Bidding List – A new tabbed view for Watching, Bidding, Won and Didn’t Win domain auctions.

GoDaddy seems to be concentrating more and more on their domain aftermarket product these days which is good for both domain buyers and sellers.

Use coupon code NCSPRING at Namecheap to get .com, .net, .org, etc. domains for only $8.81. Good through the month of March 2010. Also remember when you register domains at Namecheap you get free domain privacy.

Sedo continues to produce impressive 6 figure deals this year. The latest announced on their Market Activity page  is Metal.com for $165,000 – congrats to both the buyer and seller.

Check out what the owner of Purple.com has put together.

GoDaddy is offering 1 year, new domain name registrations or transfers for $0.99 plus $0.18 ICANN fee for a total of $1.17 with coupon code BUY2010. The code appears to work with .com, .net, .org extensions and possibly others. Payment via credit card or by check and to be used only once per GoDaddy account.

Here are some recent product domain name sales reported by Afternic and Sedo. It’s always good to see domain names that are exact match product names being actively sold for very good prices.

CandiedApple.com – $10,000
CandiedApples.com – $10,000
MetalBaskets.com – $5,000
ElectricFences.com – $4,500
AmmunitionBox.com – $3,288
MeshBaskets.com – $3,000
CustomBalls.com – $2,500

View more recent domain sales from Afternic and Sedo (.xml)

Verisign has released a new report outlining The Domain Name Industry for the year end of 2009. I picked out some interesting data points below:

- Increase of 15 million domain name registrations when compared to 2008 year end.

- Fourth quarter 2009 new registrations were around 3.7 million per month totaling 11 million across all TLDs, an 8% increase from 3rd quarter 2009.

- Throughout all quarters of 2009 .com/.net new registrations were the majority by a large factor.

- Renewal rates for the forth quarter of 2009 was 71%.

- March 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain registration which was symbolics.com (now owned by a domainer) on March 15th, 1985.

- Visit 25yearsof.com to view the history of the internet and domain names.

There is a lot of data points and information in this report, you can view the full Verisign report in its entirety here (.pdf)