Michael Jackson’s Death Bed with a genuine COA

Several items from Michael Jackson‘s estate are up for auction, among them and most controversally, the bed he died in.

Just like most anything you can purchase at an auction, Michael Jackson’s bed comes with a Certificate of Authenticity!

Herman Cain; Not Aware China Has Nuclear Bomb

After just hearing Herman Cain was not aware China had nuclear weapons I am unliking him today on facebook (not due to the recent scandal but only over his incredible lack of knowledge about world events). Most of the public knows China is a long time member of the nuclear club so how is it possible someone of his stature did not?

Where has Herman Cain been for the last 50-yrs? Now liking Jon Huntsman as a good alternative to Mr. Cain. Mr Cain’s surprisingly poor world knowledge seems similar to what Sarah Palin displayed to the public 5-yrs ago during the 2008 presidential election debates.

Diverse Portfolio of Health & Wellness Domains

Just wanted to let anyone who may be interested in acquring health domain names and websites that our health, wellness & disease portfolio of domains and websites is for sale.

It’s said to be the best large and diverse portfolio of targeted traffic health domains available. More information can be found at HealthWebsites.org, or listed for-sale at: Flippa.com…

Death Threats via a DDOS Attack

Hi all, Some of you may or may not be aware that for the last 10 days my blog, Whizzbangsblog.com, has been down due to a consistent DDOS attack. The reason for the attack was directly due to my articles on people that are committing fraud in the domain industry by pumping bad traffic through domains, purchasing parking accounts and stealing good domain owner’s identities. This behaviour is rampant and is costing us all millions of dollars.

Initially the fraudsters struck at my blog and then moved the DDOS to my company (which is OK BTW), to michaelgilmour.com and now finally back to whizzbangsblog.com. They have been communicating to me via the referral URL which in the last instance was the following:

173.245.53.77 – - [06/Sep/2011:00:13:51 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 316 “http://lastwarning-shutdown-yourblog-or-die-withyourparklogic.com/” “Mozilla/5.0(compatible;MSIE 8.0;Windows NT 6.0;InfoPath.1;.NET CLR 3.0.04506.648;.NET CLR 2.0.50727)”

It’s the first time in my life I received such a threat and upon speaking with the police they indicated that I should take it seriously. I have now contacted CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) in both the USA and Australia, Victorian Police, Federal Police, FBI (still trying to find the right person) and I have now been told by the police to contact the Secret Service Cyber-crime area in Washington.

In one of my blogs I posted an email that had been circulating that related to purchasing parking accounts and the response was incredible. Many domainers didn’t know about this activity and why it was bad for their reputation and the industry they operate in. My guess is that many of them stopped selling accounts and this has caused the fraudsters some problems…..hence the DDOS.

Our industry is under threat from unscrupulous scumbags and I have no intention in bowing down to threats like this. I do not negotiate with terrorists that hijack an industry that I love and steal from friends that I greatly respect. I would ask this of my fellow domainers. Please support me in exposing these people and feel free to publish this article – get it off my server ASAP. It will mean a brave stand and I will not feel any ill will for those of you who do not feel you are able to fight this fight.

I will keep posting here as long as possible in the meantime you can see me updating facebook.

Warmest Regards,

Michael Gilmour

Guest Article, written Seot 8, 2011

Major Dilution to Existing .tld extensions i.e. .net

We have been writing for some time about the massive dilution to the current major domain name extensions which will be caused by the anticipated vast number of new gtld’s expected to be introduced starting in 2012.

As an example of dilution, we will discuss the long-time well known dot-net extension. It’s always played 2nd fiddle to the vastly superior dot-com however .net will soon have lots of competitors competing with it and causing general overall dilution to all extensions and to dot-net in particular.

The initial high Icann cost of $185k to buy your own extension will no doubt result in mostly the top brands or keywords being purchased at this time. However, we are sure the cost will drop a lot and more and more mid-size or non-famous brands and keywords will eventually have their own extension.

Using dot-net direct competition as an example it’s likely extentions such as .met (dating?), .let (EU rentals?), .pet (pets?), .wet (water/pools?), .bet (gambling?), .get (search?), .jet (jet sales?), .vet (veterans?), plus longer ones like .mynet .enet .inet .netgear and the real obvious .network will be taken in the future.

With so many similar potential domain name extensions all competing for Internet traffic and marketing themselves it would seem after a few years the direct dilution just to the old dot-net extension will result in many people saying ‘dot-who’ about dot-net. Therefore, we can predict the already low value .net domains will decline even more in general value.

Major Bear Market Expected for Geo Domains

Starting next year unlimited numbers of new domain extensions are scheduled to be sold and some will be up and running. We always assumed major brands such as .sears .apple .microsoft .hp .godaddy .ibm and many others would want to own their own extension, not necessarily to sell domains but for their own product, use and branding.

Now I am hearing many reports about large U.S. and international cities including the cities of .tokyo .sydney .london .newyork .sandiego .la .vegas and others planning to also buy their very domain extension. At an initial cost of $185k it may seem high to you or me but to a large corporation or big city it is not too significant a cost.

Having heard about many major cities with plans to buy their own extensions it would seem logical the end-effect will be to greatly devalue the domainer or investor owned geo dot com’s, including mid-size city dot-coms. The smaller or mid-size cities may not want to invest now or be able to budget $185k but they will likely do so as the ICANN price drops (and I am sure the fee will decline rather quickly and dramatically within a few years).

At that time I believe you will also see many mid-size cities such as Palm Springs, Bethesda, Burbank and Scottsdale for example, getting their own extensions. It’s also possible they may not wait for lower costs and instead apply soon, agreeing to pay the 185k ICANN fee.

Think about this scenario; A visitor (or resident) in Scottsdale Arizona knows many cities now own their own domain so would he be more inclined to typein to a search box or the browser window “Scottsdale.com” or the word “Scottsdale” without an extension? In our opinion there is little doubt as time goes by the word Scottsdale will prevail as the most popular choice, relegating Scottsdale.com to 2nd tier status, which dot-com decline would be ongoing and the scottsdale.com down-trend be more pronounced as time goes by.

In our opinion, this news marks the beginning of a very significant and long term bear market (a likely permanent major drop in geo domain values), impacting mid to large city Geo domains in particular. I would expect a number of them to go on the auction block soon before they decline more in value.

Google Antitrust Hearing Invitations

Senate wants top Google executives CEO Larry Page and/or Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to testify and are invited to participate in the upcoming antitrust hearings.

Good News! FTC Launches Investigation of Google

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to serve Google with legal subpoenas, starting a major antitrust investigation of Google.

The U.S. FTC will be investigating if Google has abused its dominating market position to suppress competition. The new FTC investigation of Google is likely setting off serious alarm bells at Google due to its wide-ranging potential and scope.

This new investigation of Google involves their two key revenue areas of search and advertising. Other internet players have been complaining for years how Google’s search algorithm appears to be designed to drive web-surfers more to Google’s own services than their websites.

A major new concern for Google is that it’s widely alleged Google’s dominating position in online-advertising gives them far too much control over a businesses success or its failure. We wish the FTC the best of luck and succcess in its well deserved Google investigation which is so extremely negative to consumers and other online businesses.

Mo doubt about it, Google has become far too big and powerful. Would not be too surprised to see Google’s brand in your local supermarket soon on food products like Tomato Ketchup!

You can file a consumer complaint against Google by clicking-on the picture below:

The Summer Solstice is Today, June 21st

THE SUMMER SOLSTICE WILL OCCUR TUESDAY JUNE 21ST AT 1016 AM MST. THE SUMMER SOLSTICE IS WHEN THE SUN REACHES ITS NORTHERN MOST LATITUDE OF THE YEAR, TUESDAY, THE 21ST OF JUNE AT 1016 AM MST. THIS IS WHEN THE SUN WILL BE DIRECTLY OVER THE TROPIC OF CANCER IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AT 23 1/2 DEGREES LATITUDE NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. IT WILL BE PRECISELY 1016 AM MST TUESDAY WHEN THE SUN ENDS ITS 6 MONTH JOURNEY NORTH AND BEGINS ITS 6 MONTH JOURNEY SOUTH.

THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR WITH THE MOST HOURS OF DAYLIGHT NORTH OF THE TROPICS. THIS IS ALSO THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN THE SHORTEST SHADOWS ARE CAST BY OBJECTS IN THE SUNSHINE IN ALL OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE NORTH OF THE TROPICS. THIS WILL OCCUR TODAY WHEN THE SUN WILL BE AS CLOSE TO DIRECTLY OVERHEAD AS IT GETS THIS YEAR. THIS IS WHEN THE SUN WILL BE AT AN ANGLE OF ONLY 10 DEGREES FROM A POINT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.

Suspended RSS Feeds are Welcome to Reapply

The Afternic.com blog and popular blog DomainGang.com were suspended for ongoing spamming of our non-commercial and advertising-free DomainingRoulette.com RSS News Feed.

They are welcome to contact us if they would like to be unsuspended.

World’s Oldest Light Bulb On for 110 Years

The World’s Oldest Functioning Light Bulb Has Been On for 110 Years!

Is it possible the Internet and World Wide Web will last this long? Will domain names last as long? Domains have about 85-years to go if you start counting from the mid 80′s.

Will dot-com last that long or give way to the unlimted new extensions which will be launched in the near future, so 85 years from now people will say “dot who”