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Twitter domain news: TweetLater.com changing its name to SocialOomph.com

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TweetLater, the popular third-party application Twitter tool which gets over 200,000 visitors per month, has decided to rebrand themselves by changing their domain name. 

Although Twitter encourages the use of the word ‘Tweet’ (as long as their users are protected), TweetLater has decided to go with SocialOomph [a name much harder to type in by far, especially with the letter ‘o’].

Here’s what TweetLater had to say about the name change:

From Monday, August 31st, 2009, TweetLater.com will be no more and will be known as SocialOomph.com.

The transition to the new name takes place over the weekend of August 29th and 30th.

Why The Change?

To date we have been focusing on providing productivity solutions for Twitter users. We decided to change our name to allow for future expansion into other social media solutions, and to ensure that our brand does not conflict with any current or future legal rights of the Twitter organization.

To allay any speculation, we want to make clear that this is an unsolicited, proactive and preemptive action on our side.

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Taking a Look at Domain Name Purchases with the word ‘Domain’ in the Name Over the Past year

Yummy NamesIndeed many domain names that are purchased with the word ‘domain’ in them, end up in the hands of domainers, aftermarket websites or registrars.  During the last year there have been several notable purchases like YummyDomains.com, GamingDomains.com, ByuDomains.com, Domain.pl and many more.  We take a quick look at some of these names, and what they’re up to now.

Domain.pl which was purchased in September 2008 for the cool sum of $45,000 went to European Domain Name Registration website, EuroDNS.  In a smart business move, EuroDNS also acquired Domain.my via Sedo for $16,000 a month later in October.  Both names resolve to EuroDNS. 

Byudomains.com (an obvious typo of BuyDomains.com) was sold at Sedo for $3,260 in Septebmer 2008.  The name doesn’t appear to have been purchased by BuyDomains.com as it sits on a parked page, and according to Domain Tools, the site doesn’t get any significant traffic whatsoever. 

GamingDomains.com has done a great job with their name that was purchased in October 2008.  Gaming Domains offers aged Premium Gambling Domains for Sale and it’s a fully developed website.  They even show up on the first page of Google Search results for the phrase “gaming domains”.

YummyDomains.com was also purchased in October 2008, by Tucow’s YummyNames.  Tucows saw their Second Quarter profit rise in the recent Earnings report.  YummyNames owns premium domain names that generate revenue through advertising or resale, and owning YummyDomains.com makes sense.  They purchased the name from Afternic for $2,800.

Other domains with the keyword ‘domain’ over the past year to note:

MyDomains.net purchased for $1,200 (parked at Sedo)

iDomainName.com purchased for $1,088 (parked at GoDaddy)

An interesting name that was acutally purchased in 2007 for over $17,000 – DomainNameAuctions.com – sits on a parked page.

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Pre-Bidding for HongKongHotel.com Reaches $5,000 on NameJet

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UPDATE: The final closing price was $10,000.

The domain name HongKongHotel.com has reached $5,000 in pre-bidding over at NameJet, with over 100 bidders.  Estibot gives this name an appraisal of $75,000.   The Global Monthly Search volume for this exact phrase last month topped 33,000.   HongKongHotels.com has very few U.S. visitors per month according to DomainTools, but the search term “hong kong hotel” on Google search has nearly 10 pages of Sponsored Links, so with the right development, this could be a moneymaker. 

This name will be fun to watch, and we will make sure to tweet the final sale price and update this post.  If you want to place a pre-bid, backordering for this name ends at 11 PM PST tonight.

A little more background information can be found at Domain Tools.  Apparently, the name was first registered in 1998 but was allowed to expire.  And as many domainers have been pointing out, Bing is alot more domainer-friendly.  If you type the search term in Google versus Bing, the results are very different.  Depending on whether you type it with or without quotes, sites with the keyword phrase in their name, definitely appear higher in the search results.  Below is a screenshot from the first page of Bing search results for the search term “Hong Kong Hotel”:

Bing Hong Kong Hotel

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Domain Name Melodious.com Expires, Up for Auction at NameJet

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The domain name Melodious.com expired, and it’s set for auction over at NameJet.  According to Domain Tools, the name was originally registered in 1997.  Estibot gives the name an appraisal of $15,000, but with a current high pre-bid of $120 and 29 bidders, the appraisal sounds pretty high.

Using Google’s Keyword tool, the term Melodious gets an ‘Exact’ Global Monthly Search Volume of 8,100.

The .net version is owned by Melodious Data Systems. The .org is owned by DotOrgNames.org, and nearly all other extensions of the name have been registered for years.

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Tweet.me Launches T-Shirt Website after Purchase of Domain for $11,505

Tweet.meAfter investing over $11,000 in the domain name tweet.me, the owner has launched a website dedicated to twitter related t-shirts. Congratulations to the owner of this great name.

News of the purchase of the name had sparked some lively discussion over at DNUnderground, but apparently, the owner of Tweet.me had already been in discussions with Twitter and received approval to use the name.