Comments on: Marchex Tests Domain-Parking Waters, and They’re Murky http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/ The Latest in Web Logs Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:54:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Domain Drag Queen http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-11125 Domain Drag Queen Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:10:59 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-11125 Who the f cares? Are you jealous or what? Who the f cares? Are you jealous or what?

]]> By: Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-9730 Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:08:52 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-9730 [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...] [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...]

]]> By: VentureBeat » Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-6071 VentureBeat » Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:40:11 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-6071 [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...] [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...]

]]> By: BlogForward : Money » Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-4131 BlogForward : Money » Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:34:36 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-4131 [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...] [...] According to David Kesmodel, a Wall Street Journal reporter writing a book about the domain business, Marchex currently owns about 220,000 domain names. [...]

]]> By: Jon http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-101 Jon Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:16:08 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-101 Poor execution below for shareholders... Sites they developed using Openlist are not even indexed in search engines yet. Not even sites from several months ago in the beta launch. Below are several sites not even in google. There are many more examples. Just go to google and type in the name (www.XXXXXX). Nothing indexed. They may not be in other engines either. Not even myzip.com is in google, their "gateway" site to zip codes. This is poor execution and lost revenue opportunities. This is not rocket science. Being an investor, I may take a few minutes to submit them myself... www.myzip.com www.restaurantonline.com www.newyorkbagels.com www.dimsum.net www.chicagoluxuryhotels.com www.shanghaihotel.com www.bostonmotels.com Poor execution below for shareholders…

Sites they developed using Openlist are not even indexed in search engines yet. Not even sites from several months ago in the beta launch. Below are several sites not even in google. There are many more examples.

Just go to google and type in the name (www.XXXXXX). Nothing indexed. They may not be in other engines either. Not even myzip.com is in google, their “gateway” site to zip codes. This is poor execution and lost revenue opportunities. This is not rocket science. Being an investor, I may take a few minutes to submit them myself…

http://www.myzip.com
http://www.restaurantonline.com
http://www.newyorkbagels.com
http://www.dimsum.net
http://www.chicagoluxuryhotels.com
http://www.shanghaihotel.com
http://www.bostonmotels.com

]]> By: Dolla’ Store » Blog Archive » Marchex, MDNH, domain names, and CyberBandits http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-14 Dolla’ Store » Blog Archive » Marchex, MDNH, domain names, and CyberBandits Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:22:49 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-14 [...] Update: Another online detective recently posted about some Marchex domain juicyness Posted by darren Filed in Search, Businessy, Domain Names, Seattle [...] [...] Update: Another online detective recently posted about some Marchex domain juicyness Posted by darren Filed in Search, Businessy, Domain Names, Seattle [...]

]]> By: John http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-13 John Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:30:18 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-13 Anyone in the domain industry knows that Marchex is and was completely aware of their trademark infringing domains and where the revenue was coming from for these. Anyone in the industry was also fully aware of the "bad apples" in the Yun Ye Ult Search portfolio that was purchased by Marchex. For Marchex to feign ignorance in this matter is humorous. They knew. The big problem that I see in Marchex's case is that they are a public company involved in squatting on obvious trademark names, either via cyber or typo squating. I would think the history and continued participation in this activity that many consider "traffic or customer theft" would open Marchex up to some serious risk if the professional stock shortsellers get ahold of it. All they would have to do would be to sell blocks of Marchex short and then publish information in the financial journals about specific Marchex activity and potential liability. Anyone in the domain industry knows that Marchex is and was completely aware of their trademark infringing domains and where the revenue was coming from for these. Anyone in the industry was also fully aware of the “bad apples” in the Yun Ye Ult Search portfolio that was purchased by Marchex. For Marchex to feign ignorance in this matter is humorous. They knew.

The big problem that I see in Marchex’s case is that they are a public company involved in squatting on obvious trademark names, either via cyber or typo squating. I would think the history and continued participation in this activity that many consider “traffic or customer theft” would open Marchex up to some serious risk if the professional stock shortsellers get ahold of it. All they would have to do would be to sell blocks of Marchex short and then publish information in the financial journals about specific Marchex activity and potential liability.

]]> By: Rob Leathern http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-11 Rob Leathern Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:00:01 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-11 That www.delis.com content is probably coming as a result of their acquisition of OpenList (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060530-084912) which was co-founded by one of my former colleagues, Matt Berk. They've been doing some cool stuff and these domains are a nice playground for this type of localized content -- that for me is a much better domain parking model, where you can actually provide some decent consumer value even if in a very automated, aggregated way (vs. running mortgage ads everywhere ;-). That http://www.delis.com content is probably coming as a result of their acquisition of OpenList (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060530-084912) which was co-founded by one of my former colleagues, Matt Berk. They’ve been doing some cool stuff and these domains are a nice playground for this type of localized content — that for me is a much better domain parking model, where you can actually provide some decent consumer value even if in a very automated, aggregated way (vs. running mortgage ads everywhere ;-) .

]]> By: Bronte Media » Direct Navigation Skeletons http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-10 Bronte Media » Direct Navigation Skeletons Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:55:44 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-10 [...] Interesting article by David Kesmodel on a few of the domain names in Marchex’s 220,000 portfolio. Essentially, who knew there were a few trademark typos and some adult ones? [...] [...] Interesting article by David Kesmodel on a few of the domain names in Marchex’s 220,000 portfolio. Essentially, who knew there were a few trademark typos and some adult ones? [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-9 Andrew Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:25:23 +0000 http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/marchex-tests-domain-parking-waters-and-theyre-murky/#comment-9 Great job and investigation. These domains are still resolving to MDNH parking pages as of this morning. Caldwell is wrong to say that "none" of the parking companies screen for trademarks. Dotzup does. Granted, that's just one of dozens, but "none" is a strong word that should be avoided. Great job and investigation. These domains are still resolving to MDNH parking pages as of this morning.

Caldwell is wrong to say that “none” of the parking companies screen for trademarks. Dotzup does. Granted, that’s just one of dozens, but “none” is a strong word that should be avoided.

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