The domain Camilla.com sold for $16,100 on NameJet.com another great name for Mrs Jello.

There are over 18 million reference to this name on Google.

The second highest bidder went by the bidder id of camillacorp, which could have been the clothing company from Australia whose site is at camilla.com.au.  If so they stopped bidding at $16K.

Other notable sales from NameJet.com over the last few days include:

nutritionsupplements.com     $5,050
youcai.com                                 $5,015
markme.com                             $5,011
primestar.com                          $4,000
fanstop.com                              $3,433
bibleclub.com                           $1,550
filelink.com                               $1,401
nicebox.com                              $1,185
promosearch.com                   $1,007

Primestar has an interesting history as a company.  There is of course trademarks on the term but it appears the company was bought by Directv and shut down.

nutritionsupplements.com is a good name but nutritional supplements is the more accurate term

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According to TechCrunch,  Facebook will announce later this week that they will allow users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page.

At a date and time, to be announced, the landrush will begin and users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice.

The Landrush rules will prohibit trademark infringement and a lots of words will be blacklisted, such as generic terms.

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We all talk about it.

For years and years now.

Getting big business to understand the value of domains.

Getting the Fortune 500 to “get” domains.

Problem is the Fortune 500 isn’t coming to our trade shows.

God knows Rick & Howard have moved heaven and earth trying to get them to come to the show, even bringing the show to them, in New York and Silicon Valley.

So maybe instead of banging our heads on the wall to get them to come to our shows, we need to go to there shows, and if so, we just missed the grandfather of them all.

Just concluded this week was the Wall Street Journal’s “All This Digital Show” held in San Diego at the Four Seasons Hotel.

How important is the show that was held this week?

Well it was sold out in January.

Right five months before the show every ticket was gone.

Want to stay at the Four Seasons, sorry sold out as well.

Who did they come to see?

Look at the lineup of Speakers for this show:

Irving Azoff | CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment

Mitchell Baker | Chairman of Mozilla

Steve Ballmer | CEO of Microsoft

Carol Bartz | CEO of Yahoo

Mark Cuban | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures

Eve Ensler | Playwright and Founder of V-Day

Arianna Huffington | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | CEO of Nokia

Mike Lazaridis | Co-CEO of Research In Motion

John Lilly | CEO of Mozilla

John Malone | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation

Roger McNamee | Partner, Elevation Partners

Jon Miller | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp.

Jon Rubinstein | Executive Chairman, Palm

Randall Stephenson | CEO of AT&T

Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter

Owen Van Natta | CEO of MySpace

Katharine Weymouth | Publisher of the Washington Post

Evan Williams | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter

Jeff Zucker | CEO of NBC Universal

Some heavy hitters to say the least, and a who-who of the online world.

Not only are the movers and shakers represented but their CEO’s came to speak.

You want to get the big boys to learn about domains?

You want the online giants to find you?

Maybe you should calendar this show for next year and get your tickets and room reservations early.

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On 26 May 2009, the GAC submitted a final letter responding to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board’s concerns about the ability to implement the provisions of article 2 of the GAC Principles regarding new gTLDs, particularly paragraph 2.71.

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The ultimate goal of any website business owner or blog author is to earn authority in their niche.This authority is a very important goal of any website or blog. In my experience, domain authority is one of the important ranking factors in Google, and it is often overlooked.

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Reckitt Benckiser filled a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for the domain name rb.net.

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CNET.com has just released a video presentation called “Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names”.

I will leave the surprise top 5 list for you to watch.

Watch the video.

Here’s the question that the video ends with, How valuable are domains, because how many of the top 5 have you visited this week?

No wonder CNET is parking radio.com, they are clueless when it comes to domains, which is just said for an online media company.

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National Journal, Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, is holding  a hearing on June 4th to examine the future of the U.S. government’s relationship with ICANN.

“Boucher has previously expressed interest in holding an ICANN hearing, particularly since a joint project agreement that has allowed Commerce Department oversight of ICANN is slated to sunset on Sept. 30 amid accountability and transparency concerns.”

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Google has been hit with another AdWords-related lawsuit, this time by a Connecticut law firm.The personal injury firm Stratton, Faxon filed a suit in the New Haven Superior Court alleging that its name was being used to trigger ads for the rival law firm Silver, Golub and Teitell. Stratton, Faxon causing confusion and endangers its reputation.

The firm has asked for an injunction and for a prejudgment lien against Google for $50,000.

Attorney Michael Stratton (not the ex-football player), a partner in Stratton, Faxon, said he discovered the ads after learning of the recent class-action lawsuit filed against Google by Firepond.

News about that case prompted him to search for his law firm’s name.

He learned that links to Stratton Faxon appeared high in the organic results, but that the firm Silver, Golub and Teitell appeared as the top sponsored listing.

Richard Silver of Silver, Golub and Teitell said he only recently learned of the details of his firm’s AdWords campaign. “A communications firm was recently hired to assist our firm with Internet search response. I was unaware that search words would include other firms’ names,” he said in a statement. “If anyone at Stratton Faxon had called me, I would have immediately stopped the practice, as I did as soon as I learned of it.”

Stratton Faxon alleges that Google interfered with the firm’s business relations with clients, engaged in an unfair business practice under Connecticut law, and was unjustly enriched.

Stratton added that he wanted to get into court as soon as possible to prevent the further use of his firm’s name to trigger ads. “We’re interested in stopping what was going on,” he said. “We’ve chilled anybody who might want to do this.”

The lawyer also said he is considering representing other potential plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Google.

It’s clear that the Firepond case has opened the door.

This is now the the third case filed against Google since Firepond’s,  less than 2 weeks ago.

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The majority (81%) of domain names used for phishing are legitimate domains that have been hacked, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

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