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CYBRANDS: A Billion Dollar Domain Name?

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Saturday, July 27, 2013. A Billion Dollar Domain Name? By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. Post updated 08/09/2013 with recent Yahoo news release). Yahoo recently spent about a billion dollars for Tumblr.com. CEO Marissa Mayer suggesting that 75% of that cost was for the social blogging site's "cachet" with the young trendy set. In Yahoo's quarterly report filed this week Yahoo revealed that $752 million of Tumblr's value is "goodwill.". What does this "goodwill" have to do with? And its not what you think. Howeve...

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CYBRANDS: Will "Low End Smartphones" (and "PAYG") save .MOBI?

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Thursday, June 6, 2013. Will "Low End Smartphones" (and "PAYG") save .MOBI? By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. I recently purchased the domain name PAYG.MOBI. And that got me to thinking about the .MOBI domain extension and the real world potential of that top-level domain. "PAYG" of course refers to the "Pay-As-You-Go" mobile services model-which is a very big industry and projected to get much, much bigger. According to the Afilias website- Over 1 million individuals and businesses use . Gamesmobi for $401,500.

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CYBRANDS: Tagline Ads: Will Native Ads Take the Day?

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Tagline Ads: Will Native Ads Take the Day? By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. It is very possible that the advent of adblocker apps will drive a shift towards more native advertising or sponsored posts (i.e. tagline ads). Whereas websites place advertorial style content in editorial posts with disclosure regarding what is paid for. Yes, the ad blocker apps are a direct attack on Googles revenue platform. However, tagline ads could be the beneficiary of the ad block apps. Encompasses the va...

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CYBRANDS: Mobile Phone Numbers, Email Addresses and ...Domain Names.

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Sunday, October 27, 2013. Mobile Phone Numbers, Email Addresses and .Domain Names. By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. Believe it or not there may be a time. In the coming years where the question of "what's your domain name? Will be as common as the oft repeated questions of yesteryear such as "what's your email address? Or "what's your mobile phone number? How long before we all have our own domain name? Or two or three or dozens? And "what domains do you own" or "what's your domain portfolio valued at? The plac...

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CYBRANDS: A Billion Dollar Domain Name (Part II)

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Friday, August 26, 2016. A Billion Dollar Domain Name (Part II). By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. On July 27, 2013 I published here in this blog an article titled "A Billion Dollar Domain Name? You can read the article if you like. However, my basic argument had to do with a company establishing a very memorable, recognizable and valued brand and service. And that ultimately we could see a domain name valued at that level. Little did I know at the time that I was both half right. That's quite a jump. To the ide...

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CYBRANDS: The Internet of Domains (IoD).

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Friday, May 9, 2014. The Internet of Domains (IoD). By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. Many of us have at least heard mention of the "Internet of Things" or (IoT) of which there is apparently no agreed upon definition. According to an interesting article at ComputerWorld.com titled Explained: The ABCs of the Internet of Things:. There is a test for determining whether something is part of the IoT: Does one vendor's product work with another's? Second is that this whole process of the evolution of the IoT is going...

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CYBRANDS: The Chinese and URL Trademarks.

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Monday, May 6, 2013. The Chinese and URL Trademarks. By Duane J. Higgins, CEO. Whats the deal with the Chinese and URL trademarks? Back to the URL Trademarks- and how they might fit in. What I'm referring to is a reference to "URL trademarks" in an April 10, 2013 article in the Wall St. Journal. The name of the Article is: Coming Soon: A Truly Chinese Internet. This has to be a misprint.or is it? Speaking in an interview Wednesday (From this same WSJ article), Fady Chehadé, president of the Internet Corp...

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CYBRANDS: Mainstreaming Domain Names

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016. By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. Has recently released their latest quarterly. Domain Name Industry Brief. Covering the 4th quarter of 2015. The operator of the .com. Registries reported that the year ended with approximately 314 million. Domain name registrations across all. Top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 15 million. Domains over the previous quarter. So, how many email addresses are there in the world? And only 314 million registered domain names and counting?

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CYBRANDS: The Chinese and "URL Trademarks" (Part II)

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016. The Chinese and "URL Trademarks" (Part II). By Duane J. Higgins, ceo. In May 2013 I wrote an article in this blog titled "The Chinese and URL Trademarks". That was met with almost universal disinterest. Maybe my poorest read and received article to date. Following is an excerpt from my article:. Whats the deal with the Chinese and URL trademarks? Back to the URL Trademarks- and how they might fit in. So why did I find the idea of "URL Trademarks" so intriquing at the time?