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Demonoid was a decent site.

The Sedo link returns a 404, so much for that submission.

http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=demonoid.com&trackingRequestId=30649076&tracked=&fromExactMatch=1&partnerid=57405&language=us

A better link to the portfolio:
http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=demonoid.com

I've made the point before, but it's worth pointing out again that this is just typosquatting on a massive scale.

Many people don't realize that there's TONS of traffic going to typo domains (whether registered or not). For instance, youtuve.com (notice the v instead of the b) got 347,852 visitors over the last 31 days. It redirects to another domain for cloaking purposes, but here is the traffic report. This level of traffic provides the financial incentive to implement these DNS schemes.

By the way, there's a new, free typosquatting scan tool at aliasencore.com. It shows you all the registered .COM domain names that are one character misspellings of any Alexa top 100,000 site you enter. It also displays screenshots of those typosquatting sites. It's a nifty way to get a quick idea of the rampant growth of typosquatting. Here's an example that shows the 425 registered .COM domain names that are one character away from google.com.

Full disclosure: I am Graham MacRobie, the CEO of Alias Encore, Inc. We help companies recover cybersquatting domain names, but we focus solely on "slam-dunk" typosquatting cases (obviously only registered domain names). I can speak from personal experience in this field that the very last thing we need is wholesale typosquatting at the DNS level. Bell Canada should turn this "feature" off immediately.

I thought the same after stumbling onto it in 2007. Now it seems surprising that that there is surprise, especially after the mainstream coverage of ireport.com, toys.com and property.com sales.

So if you're interested, check out http://www.dnjournal.com/ and look at the "Domain Sales" and "YTD Sales Charts".

http://www.dnforum.com/ is the largest forum for domaining.

http://www.domainnamewire.com/ is an insightful news source.

http://www.namebio.com/ is fun to peruse for past sales.

Auctions for drops and end-user sales are at http://www.snapnames.com/ http://www.namejet.com/ and Godaddy's TDNAM service. http://www.sedo.com/ and http://afternic.com/ are mostly end user sales/auctions.

Then continue onto http://www.ricksblog.com/ and finally http://www.domaining.com./

There's plenty of other sites to surf and and never ceases to be interesting. There's even a book ("The Domain Game") that's a good read from a historical perspective.

It's a tough, relatively unknown and tight-knit business. But a burgeoning business nonetheless.

Totally agreed - it is absolutely typosquatting on a massive scale.

Many people don't realize that there's TONS of traffic going to typo domains (whether registered or not). For instance, youtuve.com (notice the v instead of the b) got 358,751 visitors over the last 31 days. It redirects to another domain for cloaking purposes, but here is the traffic report. This level of traffic provides the financial incentive to implement these DNS schemes.

By the way, there's a new, free typosquatting scan tool at aliasencore.com. It shows you all the registered .COM domain names that are one character misspellings of any Alexa top 100,000 site you enter. It also displays screenshots of those typosquatting sites. It's a nifty way to get a quick idea of the rampant growth of typosquatting. Here's an example that shows the 431 registered .COM domain names that are one character away from google.com.

Full disclosure: I am Graham MacRobie, the CEO of Alias Encore, Inc. We help companies recover cybersquatting domain names, but we focus solely on "slam-dunk" typosquatting cases (obviously only registered domain names). I can speak from personal experience in this field that the very last thing we need is wholesale typosquatting at the DNS level.

An acquaintance of mine told me three or four days ago that he was approach by someone through the broker sedo.com about selling his domain name...anonymous.net. The initial offer was in the tens of thousands. Turns out other anonymous domains are up for sale as well. http://www.sedo.com/search/searchresult.php4?start_search=1&linkurl=&language=us&keyword=anonymous&cc=net&kws=2&cat=%25&price=%25&listing_type=all&age=%25&len=%25&no_idn=1&checkeddomains=1&checkedprojects=1&visitors=%25&rel=1&pagesize=25&search_language=e&search_type=advanced I wonder who might have offered that much money for a domain like that?

http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_history.php?language=us&auction_id=23763&tracked=&partnerid=

"Didn't you guys get the memo political correctness is dead, fat people are fat, short people are short, and bald guys are still bald"

1. saying "political correctness is dead" is dead;
2. fat people are called "stupid fat lazy slobs";
3. you call a short person by shouting "Hey, Stretch";
4. bald buys have always been called "Curly";

Now, back on-topic: as of this morning, suprnova.org is still a doorway page, with a title that says "This web site is for sale!"

There's a link to sedo.com's listing of the site for sale info

DETAILS:
Domain Name suprnova.org without content.

DOMAIN STATISTICS:
Unique Visitors per month*: 168,113
Visitors to this Sedo Listing*: 600
Previous Offers for this Domain: 21
* Data from the previous 32 days

What gives?

Right.... perhaps you missed this? http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2006/03/29.html

Or do you think recent dot coms have devolved to misspelling names (digg, Flickr, Syndic8) because they're cute?

Or perhaps you've never visited a site like Sedo? http://www.sedo.com/main.php3?language=us&partneri d=14030

Go there and type in a word like energy (2374 matching domains) or success (1364 matching domains). Hey! You can get energyaustralia.com for just $10,000.

.COM has been-- and will be for a long time -- the most recognized and most valuable namespace.

(Personally, I almost never care where a domain is hosted, because I use Google to search for my "bookmarks" and rarely type-in domain URLs manually. The new TLDs are just a limited opportunity for registrars to print new money, IMO.)

According to the google cache he was putting the site up for sale.

LokiTorrent listed itself for sale on the domain auction site Sedo back in January, so there's no shock that the site has had a "transition." They were down for eight hours yesterday, which was a sign that something was afoot. Curiously, the Sedo listing is still online. Is it still for sale? If it sells, who gets the money - the MPAA? Hmmmmm ....

I agree. In the perfect world, the domain name would expire, so that someone who had an idea could register and make it useful out of it.

But, unfortunately, domain names are big business. See sedo and similar. Attractive domain names (2-3 characters and single words with .com) still go for $1000+ each.

People buy expired domain names that are listed in search engines, so they can attract traffic.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses. It does this by overseeing the distribution of unique IP addresses and domain names. It also ensures that each domain name maps to the correct IP address.

ICANN is also responsible for accrediting the domain name registrars. "Accredit" means to identify and set minimum standards for the performance of registration functions, to recognize persons or entities meeting those standards, and to enter into an accreditation agreement that sets forth the rules and procedures applicable to the provision of Registrar Services.

According to this link, Verisign has control of .com until 2007, and must put up .net up for bid in late 2006. I believe they don't currently control .org, but I might be wrong.

I assume if Verisign violated their contract with ICANN in some way, their control over .com and .net could be revoked.