tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248564212011-12-14T18:48:55.124-08:00numeric domains that mean something: now that's something.selfnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-68234406362712317592009-09-05T19:16:00.000-07:002009-09-06T17:48:50.041-07:00

What a HUGE HUGE embarrassment for a company that processes something on the order of one billion search inquiries per year and prides itself on having the ability to turn just about any simple question into a simple answer. Yet, KGB hasn't the foggiest idea of what a trademark is. For had they any idea of what a trademark is, they wouldn't have failed two times at trying to prove to the U.S.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-22332115370845140552009-07-24T18:26:00.000-07:002009-07-24T18:36:25.911-07:00

The dotcom wordnumber for Twitter, 8948837.com, has recently changed hands. The coveted web property was sold by numeric domainer Scott Smith to a fellow Canadian domainer only known in the transaction (and domain whois) as the entity 'MAGA.COM INC.' MAGA was the high bidder on a Sedo auction in November 2008 for 4632339.com, which spells GoDaddy. The final bid, paid by MAGA, for the Godaddy

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-286813239606356002009-05-09T08:07:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:24:06.827-07:00

79463358.com, which spells 'Swine Flu,' was registered by a Texas domainer on May 1, but it's unlikely that it will be the only numeric domain registered concerning the influenza epidemic. The name - 'h1n1' or 'swine flu' - attributed to this unique 'chimera' flu may change in the near future - the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website recently added a disclaimer on its swine flu/

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-41207233178553572942009-04-24T14:46:00.000-07:002009-04-25T07:30:04.486-07:00

Ok, I'm far from a legal expert, and please chime in if I'm wrong, but from what I gather, information on the USPTO database indicates that last week the Office received a 'letter of protest' from ChaCha's lawyers regarding KGB's application for the servicemark '542 542,' which incidentally was initially refused by the Office in February. ChaCha brought attention to its own mark and objected to

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-21308416642735415992009-03-07T20:00:00.000-08:002009-03-07T20:19:14.629-08:00

Last month we blogged about two available (at the time) domains, 542242.com and 242542.com, both hybrids and mistypes of the dotcom wordnumbers for both ChaCha and kgbkgb. On February 18, they both got snagged up by the same person; the time stamps for both domain registrations are identical. So by whom? They're hiding behind an anonymous whois (Moniker Privacy) and the owner's apparently not

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-67415099613396813002009-03-07T06:37:00.000-08:002009-03-07T07:17:10.821-08:00

It's simple. Here's two numerics, good investments, available for hand-registration:2522523779.com (BLACKBERRY)3687778273.com (FOUR SQUARE)

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-23504927428249775382009-03-03T05:42:00.000-08:002009-03-03T12:24:09.308-08:00

What's the carbon footprint of kgb's Burning [feeling when you find out you just spent $0.50 on a text that could have been free had you used ChaCha] Questions Tour? Surely there's a huge poof of Co2 tonnage that'll result from driving a 'squard' of Smart Cars through a dozen cities from Dallas to Boston. Instead of issuing a press release on the eve of every single holiday and big sports

selfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-44485595143393506292009-02-26T05:10:00.000-08:002009-02-26T05:53:01.663-08:00

I don't know about you, but I think ChaCha is going to lose this one. Both ChaCha and its new competitor, kgbkgb, have recently launched sweepstakes promotions that will grant a single grand prize to the lucky winner.What are the prizes? Well, kgbkgb is offering a Smart Car. Not too shabby.And ChaCha? The winner will have their voice recorded to be 'part' of the 'welcome message for users on

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-22841694250736802712009-02-24T05:34:00.001-08:002009-02-24T06:57:27.910-08:00

Yesterday, the briefly anticipated 'kgbkgb tour' - officially dubbed the "Burning Questions Tour" - quietly launched on the eve of Mardi Gras and on location in New Orleans! We kind of thought that a 'kgbkgb tour' would be of the 'Prilosec OTC' bus tour variety in which they'd give away something of value. But what would they give away? Free kbg_text credits? Naaaa.It turns out the 'kgbkgb

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-15065223331076471722009-02-23T19:12:00.000-08:002009-02-23T20:02:15.901-08:00

Kgb just put up a survey on their site, which appears in a pop-up window titled 'KGB Survey.' The introduction reads 'Answering questions is very rewarding. We should know. Please take this quick survey to help us better help you.' We've decided to publish the answers to their survey; the numeric/alpha ordering is of our own creation. Have fun:1. kgbkgb: Have you ever texted a question to

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-55130409006468853272009-02-22T18:11:00.001-08:002009-02-22T18:22:15.418-08:00

Something called the kgbkgb tour is brewing at the Knowledge Generation Bureau. That's all we know....

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-87863878651957421812009-02-20T14:20:00.000-08:002009-02-20T14:29:15.349-08:00

A CEO texted kgb asking 'How do I successfully register a trademark?' kgb answered: 'Do not know, text ChaCha.'

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-82579222751724594742009-02-18T13:37:00.000-08:002009-02-19T06:10:49.078-08:00

On January 13, 2009, the examining attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent a non-final notice to KGB initially refusing their application for the service mark of '542 542.' The text of the notice mailed to KGB in mid-January is below, copied in part. What does this all mean? Well, it appears that KGB hasn't adequately established in the marketplace the

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-54377669372643966222009-02-12T06:04:00.000-08:002009-02-13T13:33:49.976-08:00

We've noticed that WordDial is dropping domains from its vast numeric portfolio and many of these drops will be available for hand-registration in a week or two. Just type in a common generic wordnumber into any whois (domain) search engine and you'll likely see one or two domains flagged for 'redemption period.' These are WordDial's. The number of drops appears to be over 1,000, and if you

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-17213904131119349512009-02-08T06:20:00.000-08:002009-02-08T07:13:54.141-08:00

Whoever said that zeros don't spell anything? It was us! But we were wrong. The domain 600673.com (apparently not owned by Google) is 1337 for Google.com. Cool! It looks like someone (non-Google) bought the domain to forward to the 'hacker' interface that Google had already designed and implemented at the URL http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/, which translates the Google set of menus

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-25823937264227760832009-02-06T05:18:00.000-08:002009-02-06T05:54:14.047-08:00

I'm not making this up. Here's a selection of keyword activity over the past 24 hours for Jamptap visitors:'What are those commercials about that say text 542 or kgb?''Why is KGB trying to rip off ChaCha?'Maybe it is best that ChaCha's executive board just sit back and watch KGB confuse and anger their own demographic. Then wait some more, at least until KGB's customers open their March 2009

selfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-48853714335396181262009-02-01T14:07:00.000-08:002009-02-01T15:13:21.269-08:00

If I were the CEO of ChaCha and saw that my only competitor, KGB, just 'happened' to have chosen a SMS code that is 80-90% similar to mine, I'd be miffed. It's obvious that KGB acted opportunistically when its top-brass realized the wordnumber for 'kgb kgb' was strikingly close to that of 'ChaCha.' The rest is history: apply for the trademark, get the shortcode, buy the dotcom domain, ad spots

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-49205684988542306242009-01-29T18:44:00.000-08:002009-01-30T15:35:01.987-08:00

In July 2008, ChaCha, the first human-powered search engine, began attaching a trademark designation in its web communications to the numeric string '242242,' which spells ChaCha and is the company's official SMS code. The Indiana-based company filed for a trademark for 242 242 in February 2008 that was successfully registered in September 2008. It seemed that by late 2008 ChaCha was fully

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-83757548711485549762009-01-28T18:30:00.000-08:002009-01-29T05:42:37.728-08:00

In January 2009, a company called 'KGB' launched a premium text answer service that is so similar to ChaCha's that I doubt you'll be able to tell the two apart by the time you finish reading this post. The only difference between KGB and ChaCha's text services is that instead of inserting ads in text responses (as ChaCha does), KGB charges a $.50 fee per search. So, what are the similarities? 1

selfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-53327176763642245482009-01-22T13:32:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:44:01.550-08:00

As it relates to numeric domainers, dotMobi is making all N.mobi and NN.mobi domains available. In order to get one of these prized domains, you have to submit a business plan and explain how you'd use the domain property to "create awareness," which is a silly and fancy way of saying you'll help grow the mobile web. It probably helps if you have some .mobi achievements already under your belt.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-47101331091138123572009-01-15T14:19:00.002-08:002009-01-15T14:38:43.893-08:00

It looks like WordDial won't be needing 363432255.com anymore. Dodgeball, which that numeric domain spells, is one of six services that Google is closing down. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005. You may remember that its founders left their positions with Google in disgust in 2007 over Google's apathy towards the ingenious find-your-friends social networking mobile service.Rumor has it

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-28205714946403837752009-01-14T16:22:00.000-08:002009-01-14T16:27:51.478-08:00

Anyone care to speculate why WordDial decided to forward 9256278.com (WALMART) to its SEARCH (search engine list) portal? I'm guessing Google Product Search will soak up most of that traffic.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-62685395319352005252009-01-07T08:03:00.000-08:002009-01-07T15:10:21.764-08:00

You've tried parking your numeric domains, setting up portals with mobile ads, listing them for bargain prices, and still nothing seems to work. Why not try an automated bid directory!?Huh? That's what Absord, a company that specializes in domains, monetization, web development and SEO, did with one their domains in their collection. Absord notes on its website that the company manages a

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-86095542226008414742009-01-06T06:16:00.001-08:002009-01-06T06:23:16.653-08:00

Quick news: WordDial-owned domain, 92466.com, which spells Yahoo, is not resolving to its SEARCH portal 732724.com. The SEARCH portal list, however, still includes a link to Yahoo. Interestingly, 663732724.com (ONESEARCH) is still being forwarded there. Yahoo stopped paying?? Related post about 92466.com

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-64202221738395846512008-12-27T07:15:00.000-08:002008-12-27T09:30:44.324-08:00

DNF24, a new domain forum founded in November 2008, launched a first-claim first-served contest during the first 25 days of December that gave away LLLL.com's and 'numeric domain names to brandable keyword domains.' That was according to a press release by DNF24 on December 1. Surely that must have been an amazing opportunity for newby NuDoms to get some aftermarket numeric domains that spell

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-28746470982753467082008-12-22T18:24:00.000-08:002008-12-22T18:26:11.250-08:00

The winners at Sedo's first numeric domain auction here

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-29637990017193104762008-12-19T18:22:00.000-08:002008-12-20T05:40:55.725-08:00

A company named 'web-publishers' has released a new mobile phone application called 'WordDial,' which is not to be confused with the name of the New Zealand company (WordDial) that operates a vast internet directory comprised of dotcom wordnumber portals. Web-publishers, according to its website, specializes in 'interactive data driven web applications.' But its app for the iPhone does exactly

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-72066071570331072112008-12-14T07:44:00.000-08:002008-12-14T08:04:40.031-08:00

There's a poll and short discussion at Namepros about the gaining significance of numeric domains. The domainer who started the thread, 'evirtual1,' interestingly, owns 4636.info, which he/she writes is associated with its wordnumber - '4636.info = info.info on a phonepad'. Certainly 'evirtual1' knows there's more to the rise in the news, auctions and blogging of numeric domains than just short

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-22548561761430297182008-12-05T12:25:00.000-08:002008-12-05T12:47:40.669-08:00

It's officially now hip: numeric domaining. That is thanks to the Wall Street Journal, which came out today with its piece 'What's in a Name? More and More, a Number', all about short numeric domain names. The piece touches on the benefits of numerics compared to their alpha counterparts, the growing popularity of 2 or 3 digit numeric domain websites, prices they command in the aftermarket, and

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-58710161389918075592008-11-25T13:44:00.000-08:002008-11-25T14:06:05.567-08:00

On Monday, Sedo released a media advisory titled 'Sedo Reports Continued Momentum of Numeric Domain Sales in 2008' in advance of its upcoming first-ever Numeric (Domain) Auction that begins Thursday (Nov. 27, 2008). Sedo is certain to make a splash in the numeric domain aftermarket-place with its upcoming auction, which features mostly shorter-length numerics and a few attractive zip codes.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-47679372801317417912008-11-08T19:28:00.000-08:002008-11-08T19:58:22.741-08:00

Target, the popular retailer known for its red and white bullseye logo, has registered various TLDs - including the .net and .org versions - of its wordnumber 827438. WordDial, the New Zealand-based pioneer of wordnumber domaining, owns the dotcom version. Interestingly, that domain, 827438.com, does not resolve at all, unlike most of WordDial's domains which forward to the company's vast

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-92071688305009369642008-11-08T18:29:00.000-08:002008-11-09T07:31:25.458-08:00

So it turns out that Sedo plans its first numeric domain auction beginning on November 27. It'll include all sorts of numeric types including zip codes but won't be a great place to buy dotcom wordnumbers. Sedo has imposed several restrictions for the auction that appear to exclude domains that are longer than 5 digits. When will they learn? The auction will close on December 4. Uniquely

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-6920840110355310092008-10-22T09:56:00.000-07:002008-10-22T10:20:30.652-07:00

As a gesture of goodwill towards the excellent mobile company Jumptap, which has been an occasional visitor to our blog, please take Jumptap's mobile search technology for a spin. We found a link for Jumptap mobile search here courtesy of the DigitURL founder, Andrew Gray, who since we last blogged about his efforts has moved on to launch Firxt.com, a customizable mobile web search portal that

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-36057362395864020212008-10-20T12:02:00.000-07:002008-10-20T13:34:36.362-07:00

When we think of mobile portals and numeric domains, the New Zealand company named WordDial first comes to mind. Since the 1990s, WordDial has been building a portfolio of thousands and thousands of generic dotcom wordnumber domains, or numeric domains that spell generic terms on a mobile keypad such as 6397.com (News) or 3462623.com (Finance). Many domains in WordDial's immense portfolio are

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-44404164279923486372008-10-20T07:47:00.000-07:002008-10-20T07:55:45.954-07:00

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-90006950931648295312008-10-15T13:47:00.000-07:002008-10-15T14:44:51.821-07:00

If you've lost money in the stock market, you did so because you didn't want to do the work of researching stocks and you gave that job to a company that screwed it up for you. And, worse, they even made a commission off your nest egg by losing you money! What are you going to do now? Put your smaller nest egg in the hands of another complete idiot? No! You need to do the investment research

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-15712862072098633262008-10-13T15:05:00.001-07:002008-10-13T15:16:53.548-07:00

The analysis completed by Law9.com shows that numeric domains in 'the .com has surged from a [sic] 2500 $ to 7500 $ in 2 years.' I'm not sure where the data is really coming from, but if it's right, then that's 200% per every 2 YEARS! Although the analysis has a small sample size and unclear source data, it's great to see more analyses on number domains of the sort we usually see at

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-33302805103803611902008-10-10T13:07:00.000-07:002008-10-10T13:17:14.158-07:00

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-32115401441684347672008-10-09T09:28:00.000-07:002008-10-09T10:44:45.810-07:00

Markets are crumbling, investors are fleeing. A bunch of individual investors begin investigating other asset classes. And a few read about numeric domaining (yeah!). So how do we convert them? How do we convince Joe Investor who just closed out his mutual fund portfolio on Wednesday and has $350,000 in cash coming to him soon that numeric domains are a safe investment that can bring a good

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-12904609371528650832008-10-06T11:40:00.000-07:002008-10-06T12:07:36.647-07:00

Jim "Mad Money" Cramer come out today with a heck of a surprise statement: “Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. I do not believe that you should risk those assets in the stock market right now.”Jim cares about you, and so do we. So when you ask 'What to do with the money?,' we advise you to do just one thing: Buy

selfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-34063938724986105942008-10-05T13:42:00.000-07:002008-10-05T13:45:57.960-07:00

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-4515465730457666372008-09-26T08:45:00.000-07:002008-09-26T14:41:43.903-07:00

Over the past 24 hours, the American people saw the largest bank collapse in U.S. history, worse than any experienced during the Great Depression. The failed bank, Washington Mutual, is the latest in a string of large financial entities that went belly-up. Americans are witnessing severe 'adjustments' in the markets with disbelief and incomprehension as to what really is going on. That is

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-45417050552383178622008-09-22T15:37:00.000-07:002008-09-22T16:11:44.034-07:00

It's no surprise that WordDial owns the dotcom wordnumbers for 'Product' (7763828.com) and 'Froogle' (3766453.com), but it has taken until this month for Google to ask WordDial to include listings for Google Product Search (formerly Froogle). The link to 'Google Product Search' appears at actually NOT the page at 3766453.com (since Froogle is no longer being marketed), but rather at the portals

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-14502829836805151342008-09-20T07:50:00.000-07:002008-09-21T12:15:25.905-07:00

Congress may approve the American President's proposal to allocate $700 BILLION to the biggest bailout of financial institutions since the Great Depression. How much is $700 BILLION?It's about equivalent to giving a $100,000 Hummer to each man, woman and child living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Or giving a hundred pairs of $40 blue jeans to every college student in the United States!Or

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-12855880751780417272008-09-10T19:04:00.000-07:002008-09-10T19:25:55.159-07:00

Scott Smith, who probably should be considered a veteran NuDom, recently launched his new company, Skias Management Corp. Smith is past founder of AcrNum, which partnered with a large media company to launch a successful mobile gaming portal for Sudoku fans that utilized one of Smith's prized numeric domains. Unlike his first company, Smith's new firm, Skias, is publicly traded. Jamptap found

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-85231963540296696892008-08-31T07:51:00.000-07:002008-08-31T09:30:41.649-07:00

Imagine getting an email from your domain registrar of choice that your numeric domain 936367.com is up for renewal. You ask yourself, 'What was that one?' and after a few moments kick yourself for never writing it down anywhere. (Maybe just maybe NuDoms aren't the best organized lot of domainers). And, so, you proceed to use your own set of numeric domainer tools of the trade to figure out

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-6903072035562721742008-08-23T07:08:00.000-07:002008-08-23T09:22:43.363-07:00

If you're a domainer, you probably have imagined by now that the Obama-Biden ticket can bring with it some possibly funny mistypes and goofs/spoofs on the Obama-Biden 'brand'. Starting with some easy mistypes:BamaBiden.comObamaBaiden.comObamaBidin.com Funnier and goofy/spoofy ones:

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-42488641056407117742008-07-30T14:55:00.000-07:002008-07-30T15:39:52.027-07:00

If selling numeric domains was prohibited do you think people would put in the effort to find rare facts about what numbers may mean in other languages? One domainer on DNForum named 'http', who is selling the number domain 8888889.com, has done some interesting research on the meaning of numbers in China. 8888889.com is one of those long numeric domains that you rarely see being sold.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-6429119426526818432008-07-14T09:19:00.000-07:002008-07-14T19:54:07.436-07:00

Jamptap recently noticed that ChaCha has been attaching the 'TM' (trademark) designation to the phrase '242242' on its website and press communications. Similarly, trademark protection for '242242' and '24224' is mentioned on ChaCha.com's 'Term of Use' page:CHACHA, the CHACHA logo, SEARCH + BRAINPOWER, YOUR PARTNER IN SEARCH, WANNA CHACHA?, CHACHA CHING, ARE YOU READY TO CHACHA?, CHACHA RESEARCH

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-79336984064642411742008-07-02T19:16:00.000-07:002008-07-02T19:22:28.542-07:00

'Priscilla Gone Missing,' an escape-adventure-flash game like the famous 'Crimson Room' brain teaser mystery, utilizes a wordnumber for one of the steps. Translate a string of four letters that appears on the ground into the corresponding numbers on an on-screen keypad and 'you're in' [the elevator, that is].Play the game at http://www.a123.com/games/969/Pricilla_Gone_Missing

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-7029151843560517282008-06-19T05:19:00.000-07:002008-06-19T13:03:29.465-07:00

Update: ymail accounts will be 'freed' up starting at noon on the West Coast in the U.S. That's 3pm on the East Coast and who the heck knows elsewhere. Update2: Find the NEWLY designed page for Rocketmail and YMail addresses at http://new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses. Ymail.com, a domain that Yahoo Inc. purchased in late 2007, will go live today and is for those who have found out sometime between

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-27678067284726645252008-03-08T17:21:00.000-08:002008-03-10T06:27:17.964-07:00

Jacpar, a member of the domain discussion forum Namepros.com, has recently posted a sale listing for the domain 466453.mobi. 466453.mobi - which contains the wordnumber (aka spells on a phone keypad) for Google - is considered somewhat valuable (at least by us at Jamptap) for two reasons: Google, Inc., owns its dotcom wordnumber, 466453.com (that redirects to Google.com), and Yahoo, Inc., owns

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-88044942981154239012008-03-07T18:04:00.000-08:002008-03-08T04:09:06.813-08:00

A URL redirection utility startup, Shortify, stands out in the very crowded field of TinyURL clones and look-alikes. Shortify attempts to make it easier to shorten URLs both on a PC and a mobile device for use by those two types of computing devices. The folks at Shortify registered their dotcom wordnumber, 74678439.com, which resolves to shortify.com, which is dual-optimized for PCs and mobile

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-7820295562565498462008-03-07T16:21:00.000-08:002008-03-07T16:28:24.186-08:00

9292.nl, the first domain registered during the .nl pure numeric domain sunrise period in December 2007, is now live. 9292.nl is owned by REISinformatiegroep, the Dutch travel information provider, which until very recently has been using the URL www.9292ov.nl. Presently, 9292.nl redirects users to that URL (www.9292ov.nl). Read more in our February post titled Going Dutch with numeric domains.

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We found the following never-before-seen details about WordDial on Dean Kilworth's profile at The GoBigNetwork:WordDial:* Over 1 million unique global users per month * 15+ million page views * Revenues now $32,000 per month; gross annual revenues: $250k+* 16x growth multiple in 2007 from mainly 20 portals only * Launched beta 2004 with private ~$US1.84M * Founded in 1999* Exclusive licensing of

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-58869866635051045252008-03-05T15:55:00.001-08:002008-03-05T17:25:18.390-08:00

Late last year, we reported on the discovery that Dean Kilworth, a co-founder, investor and partner of WordDial, had registered a block of domains that included monikers that one would associate with a numeric domain professional association AND a dedicated forum. Those domains, including Numericdomainersforum.com and Numericdomainersassociation.com, have given hope - at least to me - that there

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Hands down, WordDial won the first round against Mobile Ventures' FindbyNumbers.com/8e8.mobi wordnumber directory service that - at blogging time - still hadn't added any content to any of its portals. So when it seemed that at the onset of Round 2 we would see more of the same (WordDial signing on more content partnerships and 8e8 collecting dust), a new contender emerges: Numbers That

selfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-40220893830105927602008-03-02T05:47:00.000-08:002008-03-02T06:13:37.358-08:00

You can take on other challengers in and out of your Star Trek costume Mr. Shatner, but you can't negotiate your way out of a full thirty-two taps on your cell phone to get to Priceline's new mobile website at the more-taps-than-bricks-in-the-Great-Wall-of-China URL, Priceline.mobi. You lose this one, Bill. You can try to bring down the price of inefficiency, however what you'll end up with is

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-44095753770944968182008-03-01T17:55:00.000-08:002008-03-01T18:59:22.338-08:00

So you're standing in line at your favorite fast-food chain and there are 3 people in front of you. You have a mental list of your order and then, suddenly, you are overcome with guilt. 'How many calories are really in chicken nuggets, a chocolate frosty and large fries?' You are blinded by a yellow flash of light and a guardian angel appears with a tiny badge that reads 'nutritionist'. She

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-7068531266561180552008-03-01T06:16:00.000-08:002008-03-01T06:38:45.303-08:00

As I was reading early this morning the 'Celebrity Giveaway' post on NumericDomains.com, a butterfly landed on me and whispered softly the words, "dr. dyer." It was then that I knew. I knew that Dr. Dyer would win this exceptionally unique contest to acquire - for no cost at all - a dotcom wordnumber.The more I thought about it, the more it made sense that Dr. Dyer MUST be the winner of this

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-35575858148163615382008-02-29T16:57:00.001-08:002008-02-29T17:14:08.846-08:00

Here's an interesting domain-related twist on the age-old connection between the calendric anomaly of the leap day and marriage. It seems that couples nowadays are not only naming the event of their wedding as a 'leap day marriage,' but also registering domains to that effect. Check out these leap day marriage websites. Congrats to:Heather and Timhttp://leapdaywedding2008.com/Erin and Stevehttp

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-91505438069243241192008-02-25T14:59:00.000-08:002008-02-25T15:20:13.524-08:00

LinkedIn, the business-themed social networking site, has gone mobile. The site's mobile address m.linkedin.com is pretty laughable considering only one of the letters in 'LinkedIn' can be typed out with a single tap; the rest are multiple-tap letters for non-QWERTY cell phone users. LinkedIn takes 18 taps to execute w/o the 'm', the dots and the 'com'. The grand tally: 28 taps in total - phew

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-64661146888478571322008-02-22T07:33:00.000-08:002008-02-22T07:49:22.019-08:00

Cell phone-cancer link found by Tel Aviv University scientistFebruary 21, 2008Newsmax.comAn Israeli scientist, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, has found a link between cell phone usage and the development of tumors.Dr. Sadetzki, a physician, epidemiologist and lecturer at Tel Aviv University, published the results of a study recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology, in which she and her colleagues

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-11961254049117866162008-02-20T16:08:00.000-08:002008-02-25T09:21:24.764-08:00

While we are watching our previous list get whittled down daily, we thought to help build the momentum for NNNNNN.com's, 6 digit numeric domains, with the mac-daddy of all NNNNNN.com lists. Here's a list of the most common 6 letter words that we found as compiled by Princeton University. That list yields 2,891 words and of that amount 2,156 words are not registered in their dotcom wordnumber.

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I'm not waiting around for NNNNN.com - I'm getting ahead of the game and regging loads of NNNNNN.com's - it's rich pickings my friends! - Sunja on DNForum.comNNNNN.com's are gone and while folks are counting their pennies, literally, on the heels of a few very recent sales rendering miniscule profits in the 5N aftermarket, the smart domainers are not wasting time - they're quietly registering the

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-33901930675460536272008-02-16T05:01:00.000-08:002008-02-16T06:25:19.989-08:00

Late last night the full buyout of NNNNN.com was completed. Credit must be given to those who played significant roles in this unprecedented and major accomplishment in numeric domaining history: The grand prize goes to rkbdomain, who officially started the buyout 'campaign' and, through long days of hard work on his blog and domaining forums, carried just about everyone over the river of doubt

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Masterlist of dotTLD (com/net/mobi/co.uk) brand wordnumbers owned by internet companies; only hyperlinked TLDs are set to resolve:ChaCha - 242242.com/net/mobi/co.uk3663 First For Foodservice - 3663.co.ukExpedia - 3973342.net 4Info - 44636.com/net/mobi Gmail - 46245.com - doesn't resolveGoogle - 466453.comGoogleMail- 4664536245.com/net - doesn't resolveSony - 47669.com/mobi Reuters - 7388377.mobi

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6pm:Noon:

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By the time you read this all NNNNN.com's will be gone. On the afternoon of February 12, 2008, we put up a list of 3,034 potential wordnumbers, each with a link to Google Number Search like this 74894.comBelow is what we also wrote for people scanning the list:Dotcom wordnumbers are pure numeric URLs that spell generic words or brands on a phone keypad. Popular .com wordnumbers include 466453.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-15081126274005525532008-02-13T21:22:00.000-08:002008-02-13T22:03:55.317-08:00

On this Valentine's Day, we thought to invent a new designation - The Numeric Domain of the Month - and we have a very special domain in mind, indeed. In honor of this love and romance themed holiday, and also on the heels of the rapid evaporation - nearly 2,000 disappearing per day - of NNNNN.com's that dedicated domainers are devoting discussion to around the clock at NamePros.com, we would

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-32715237918056909712008-02-12T07:16:00.000-08:002008-02-12T09:51:28.165-08:00

Want to get in on the action? How many NNNNN.com's ought you purchase?Domain Magnate put together a basic buyer's guide for NNNNN.com's in his post today titled 'NNNNN.com Countdown Approaching 10k,' which Domaining.com has linked to: 20-50 NNNNN.com's - not sure about your perspective; don’t have enough funds 100-400 NNNNN.com’s - will be a small shareholder in the NNNNN.com market 1,000+

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-19621544065286582022008-02-11T19:17:00.000-08:002008-02-15T16:11:34.638-08:00

This post moved

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If there was a retail store for only NNNNN.com's, that store would now look like the 3pm state of BestBuy on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving sale) with its unstocked shelves and depletion of on-sale items. Shoppers will find that it is too late to get in on that SanDisk 4 Gigabyte Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive for $5.00. And those 2 for $2 DVDs are gone too. If you are just learning

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-23628684173811058602008-02-08T20:37:00.000-08:002008-02-10T16:40:07.087-08:00

We can't resist tipping off domainers to this one: of the more than 450 U.S. common shortcodes that are five-digits in length, several dozen aren't yet registered in the dotcom. In the history of US CSCs, almost a dozen NNNNN shortcodes were registered by the companies themselves in the .com, .mobi, .net or .info TLDs. (One example is WHERE 411 Mobile's 94373.net.) That's not a bad statistic

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-74158015463993883162008-02-08T08:10:00.000-08:002008-02-08T09:51:31.585-08:00

Over the past few days, a buzz has been going around about NNNNN.com's, dotcom domain names consisting of five numbers. (A website, listed in our NuDom Roll, which we just created on the (right) sidebar, has even been launched to devote discussion just to the topic of the 'countdown' to the day when there are no NNNNN.com's left.) There are all sorts of reasons why domainers are registering

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-70309136900874485832008-02-07T08:26:00.000-08:002008-02-07T15:43:13.946-08:00

Warning: you may be occasionally tongue-tied when reading the below blogpost ChaCha's mobile answer service, textChaCha, is currently provided on a free trial basis to consumers in the U.S. only. Although plans for launching textChaCha in other markets haven't been announced, that isn't stopping some bloggers from speculating. The folks at WatBlog.com - an India-centered Web 2.0 blog - are

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-4138098648529768052008-02-06T15:23:00.000-08:002008-02-06T16:35:22.053-08:00

Over the next few days, a percentage of ChaCha's mobile users will be given the opportunity to take a customer survey over the phone in exchange for a $20 Amazon gift card. This is according to Chacha's Guide Blog, which is open for the public to peruse.ChaCha's survey of a 'statistically significant' number of users this week (and possibly next) could help the company's statisticians figure out

selfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-40703755928443411982008-02-03T15:07:00.000-08:002008-02-03T15:53:40.600-08:00

Companies concerned with their website's popularity know that success, as far as radar charts are concerned, can be measured by how close they get to the nexus of the 'web'. Google's numeric domain 466453.com is getter there mighty quick.466453.com, which redirects to Google.com, has jumped in Alexa's ranking system from 7,941,626 on January 23, 2008, to 2,362,583 on February 3, 2008.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-70779056559893989482008-02-03T06:31:00.000-08:002008-02-03T17:15:19.356-08:00

ChaCha was selected as the Search Engine of the Month by AltSearchEngines.com, a top-ranked blog that aspires to be 'the definitive destination for everything related to alternative search engines.' AltSearchEngines.com selects the monthly winner after compiling its ranking of the top 100 Alternative Search Engines at the beginning of each month. And that's no easy task. AltSearchEngines'

selfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-79818059570883994602008-02-02T06:28:00.000-08:002008-02-02T07:16:25.342-08:00

The International Herald Tribune's February 2nd article 'In Web domain name game, players gain some respect' discusses the domain industry's transformation from the highly secretive - and oft illegal - 'game' dominated by offshore players to a booming field that is increasingly characterized by respect and professionalism. New developments in the domain industry's transition:More money is at

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-10949803671044724822008-02-01T17:05:00.000-08:002008-02-02T05:31:17.791-08:00

Mobile-Ventures, a northern California mobile entertainment distribution company, has launched two websites that appear to be the dotMobi equivalent of WordDial. WordDial NZ Ltd is a New Zealand-internet concern that pioneered the concept of a directory of mobile websites organized by dotTLD generic wordnumber portals. Mobile-Ventures's websites, FindByNumbers.com and its mobile 'sister website

selfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-21995380032700166052008-02-01T15:11:00.001-08:002008-02-01T15:57:02.042-08:00

SIDN, the domain registry for .nl (the Netherlands), announced in late January that the first domain registered during the sunrise period for pure numeric .nl domains, which transpired during early December 2007, was 9292.nl. That domain was registered by REISinformatiegroep, a Dutch travel information provider.REISinformatiegroep was formed in 1992 in collaboration with Dutch government public

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-12408317710917848302008-01-31T19:01:00.000-08:002008-01-31T19:56:18.402-08:00

If registration of a plurality of TLDs - for a brand, word, name, phrase, etc... - is any indicator of the perceived value of a domain, then numeric domains that spell common brands and words have been growing in value over the past decade and skyrocketing over the past 2 years. A few years ago, only a fraction of the dotcom wordnumbers for the top ranked websites in the U.S. were registered.

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-68700277107996806092008-01-30T17:36:00.000-08:002008-01-31T17:08:03.797-08:00

Read DigitURL's blogpost about 2d barcodesThe many uses of 2D barcodes: http://www.scanlife.com/whatAreEZcodes.html

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-2348499436686856752008-01-30T14:30:00.000-08:002008-01-31T09:11:58.165-08:00

3663 First for Foodservice, the largest foodservice distributor in Britain, doesn't use the domain 3663.co.uk just because it's easy to type and it spells the company's core product, 'food.' The main service hotlines of 3663 actually include the numeric string '3663.' Enquiries to 3663's corporate headquarters for a multitude of services are made to 0870 3663 XXX. For instance, independent

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-82797023924032400882008-01-27T07:47:00.000-08:002008-01-27T09:06:15.705-08:00

This past week on Jamptap, we have been discussing the fact that ChaCha Search, Inc., has been defensively registering a multitude of typographical mistakes of its numeric domain, 242242.com, to benefit from future type-in mobile traffic. We wondered if there was a way to develop a tool to help with such a task. A numeric domain typo generator hasn't yet been developed but good, ordinary domain

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-88114851932878167042008-01-26T17:23:00.000-08:002008-01-26T18:22:44.873-08:00

Jamptap discovered a new 'round' of typo-variants of the domain 242242.com that ChaCha Search, Inc., registered during this past week. They include the following: ask242242.com, ask242242.net, ask242242.org, text242242.com, text242242.net, text242242.org, www242242.com, www242242.net, 242242com.com, 242242net.net, 244442.net, and 424424.net.While we were searching domains relating to 242242.com,

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-47258977241325451182008-01-26T14:36:00.000-08:002008-01-26T15:18:47.059-08:00

When dotcom wordnumbers become all the rage in the future, search engine companies Google and Yahoo will have an individual in Washington state to thank for sending them additional traffic.If you mistype the dotcom wordnumbers for Google (466453.com) and Yahoo (92466.com) by mistakenly thinking the 'o's were zeros (i.e., g00gle, yah00) and therefore typing zeros instead of sixes, you'll end up at

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-8720707697968729362008-01-26T07:25:00.000-08:002008-01-26T17:22:51.329-08:00

Our blog post from Thursday - ChaCha's 242242.com goes live - is already outdated on Saturday. Although ChaCha's typo-variants of 242242.com all seem to still be forwarded to ChaCha.com, we have noticed that the main attraction, 242242.com, is no longer resolving. Oh well. Here's one theory: one of ChaCha's execs or technicians set the domain to resolve earlier this week, added the URL to

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-51951071768932347612008-01-25T08:36:00.000-08:002008-01-25T10:03:32.456-08:00

As part of our long-term goal to establish Jamptap as the premiere newsblog for accurate, insightful, and timely reports on the applications of the wordnumber concept to the mobile arena, we will be initiating several changes during 2008 to our blogging preferences and blog format, which we hope will benefit the industry and our readership. Since our inaugural post nearly two years ago in March

selfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-27941933891965917922008-01-25T03:27:00.000-08:002008-01-25T04:36:22.451-08:00

Pursuant to our posts over the past 48 hours about ChaCha Search, Inc., titled 'A first: ChaCha invests in its dotcom wordnumber variants' and 'ChaCha's 242242.com goes live', Jamptap has learned that over the past 2 days, in addition to resolving 242242.com to ChaCha.com, ChaCha Search, Inc., is also resolving - with two exceptions - 242242 in all other TLDs and ccTLDs as well as its entire

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-66181770520968747442008-01-24T14:13:00.000-08:002008-02-04T08:01:03.266-08:00

When we checked yesterday, 242242.com didn't resolve. We checked today and that changed. 242242.com now resolves to a webpage at ChaCha.com at the following URL, http://www.chacha.com/textchacha, which discusses the basics of ChaCha's 'mobile answer service' and its shortcode, 242242. Although ChaCha has not yet launched its mobile website and so no pages on the ChaCha website are optimized

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-27272572476506359322008-01-23T18:57:00.000-08:002008-01-25T11:31:11.804-08:00

ChaCha Search, Inc., the internet corporation known for its human-powered search engine at ChaCha.com, which recently launched a 'mobile answer service,' appears to be the first company to apply the traditional corporate domain acquisition strategy of registering trademark-domain variants to dotcom wordnumbers.The dotcom wordnumber for ChaCha is 242242.com (242242 spells ChaCha on a phone keypad)

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-3469932131667706502008-01-23T08:21:00.000-08:002008-01-23T08:22:58.251-08:00

466453.com, the URL shortcut to Google Mobile that spells the letters G-O-O-G-L-E on your phone keypad, is once again ranked by Alexa. In October 2006 the domain was listed with a rank of 4,181,472 and then abruptly fell off the Alexa traffic ranking radar screen and didn't re-appear until about a month ago.On December 30, 2007, 466453.com was the 8,145,411th most popular website on the internet

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-11356604882436044662008-01-22T07:36:00.000-08:002008-01-23T06:40:27.106-08:00

This is a test post - I'm experimenting with blogger templates - don't botherAll data is public records data obtained via Secretary of State websites.Connecticut:CHILD SAFETY INNOVATIONS INC.bus. add.: 175 CLEARBROOK RD, SUITE 126, ELMSFORD, NY, 10523Inc. date: Nov 13, 2006Officers: LARRY ZEISS, Pres., res. add. 54 WILDEY RD. APT 2, TARRYTOWN, NY, 10591, agent bus. add. 1227 BURNSIDE AVE #1, E

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-27994629169382239112008-01-20T07:32:00.000-08:002008-01-20T15:11:15.090-08:00

We wish we could take credit for this (we didn't plan it this way), but it just so happens that the word 'Jamptap' actually uses the same alphabet of letters as Pa.am. If you look at your phone keypad, each letter in 'Jamptap' only requires one-tap on each button. What this means is that you can get to our blog by going to any mobile search engine and typing (Jamptap) just as you would on a

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-71936780822795465612008-01-17T18:26:00.000-08:002008-01-20T07:32:46.688-08:00

DigitURL, the URL redirection utility for mobile phone users, has met its match. And it's match is a whole lot prettier. Introducing Pa.am, which uses a very simple approach to alleviating keypad pressing woes on your mobile. Pa.am uses the 'alphabet' of mobile-optimized letters on a phone keypad to create short URLs that are exceedingly easy to type. This alphabet comprises the first letter

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-39286624552855652932008-01-05T19:22:00.001-08:002008-01-07T03:33:05.786-08:00

IAC Search & Media, the parent company of ASK.com, announced on Thursday (Jan. 3, 2008) that it has incorporated the voice-activated technology developed by Dial Directions (Dialdirections.com) into ASK.com's mobile directions service. The press release asserts that "voice input is a natural complement to the Ask.com Mobile Directions" portal and is an improvement (over typing on a mobile device

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-85178213844265149662008-01-03T16:55:00.000-08:002008-01-03T19:03:20.971-08:00

Alexa rank for Google.com: 1Alexa rank for 466453.com: 8,907,013Number of keytaps saved by visiting 466453.com instead of mobile.google.com on your mobile phone: 22

selfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24856421.post-21848753178445973822008-01-03T08:27:00.000-08:002008-01-04T12:15:31.333-08:00

ChaCha, the 'human-powered search engine', has launched a SMS search utility, an unique twist on mobile search that SearchEngineLand calls a 'mobile answer engine.' The difference between ChaCha's SMS search tool and Yahoo's, Google's, 4Info's, etc... is that users can send full search phrase (natural language) text messages using ChaCha. ChaCha's competitors still require their texters to

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