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Jobs.com.au sells for well over 500K
Filed under: Aftermarket — Chief Editor at 8:15 am on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
May 22nd, 2007 - Apparently the final bids for the domain name Jobs.com.au are now in and that the winning bid is being reported to be well over $500k. No confirmations on who the successful purchaser is but people are speculating that Monster.com or other huge publishing houses may very well be behind this latest acquisition.
The “sale” of jobs.com.au
Filed under: General, Aftermarket — David Goldstein at 3:29 am on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The earlier reported sale of jobs.com.au will be interesting to follow. In the .au namespace it is not possible to simply buy, sell or transfer domain names. There exceptions such as with the sale of a business one is able to transfer the domain name.
auDA policies state:
“a) the registrant must not, directly or indirectly, through registration or use of its domain name or otherwise, register a domain name for the purpose of selling it; and
b) the registrant must not in any way transfer or purport to transfer a proprietary right in any domain name registration.”
auDA’s policy on the “Prohibition on Sale of Domain Name” is available here.
So we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
Jobs.com.au - something is on the nose
May 26th, 2007
Something stinks over at auDA with the recent purchase and transfer of the Jobs.com.au domain name.
A whois on the domain shows it has been transferred to “Internet Marketing Australia”. Some digging around showed this company is linked to (no doubt part of) the Boomerang.com.au “domain name monetisation” business. i.e. those sites you go to in good faith and find google adwords or affiliate programs all over them. Those bottom dwelling time wasting polluters of the internet.
Yesterday the jobs.com.au domain clicked straight through to boomerang.com.au but after some enquiries from us yesterday (and no doubt others) there is now a message saying this domain name was registered through Enetica - a domain name registrar.
Traffic rings and “domain monetisation” businesses have no place in the .com.au market. The whole point of regulating the registration of .com.au domains was to prevent this kind of misuse of valuable Australian assets.
Now here’s the bit that stinks. Both Boomerang.com.au and Enetica are on the 2007 auDA advisory panel. Click here to see the panel. All the boomerang sites are registered through Enetica and Enetica are sitting there on the panel with them. Co-incidence? Maybe.
The Jobs.com.au domain name purchase by a business that buys domain names for the exclusive purpose of redirecting traffic is wrong. Someone from that company sitting on the auDA advisory panel goes beyond wrong.
It is time auDA grew some balls and dealt with this issue once and for all. Either that or deregulate the entire process and stop wasting everyone’s time. This debate has been raging for years and to date there has been little evidence of any willingness by auDA to deal with this issue.
More to come on this…
Links:
http://www.domainnews.com/aftermarket/0820070522/jobscomau-sells-for-well-over-500k/
http://www.domainnews.com/general/0320070523/the-sale-of-jobscomau/
http://blog.nowhiring.com.au/index.php/2007/05/26/jobscomau-something-is-on-the-nose/
Filed under: Aftermarket — Chief Editor at 8:15 am on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
May 22nd, 2007 - Apparently the final bids for the domain name Jobs.com.au are now in and that the winning bid is being reported to be well over $500k. No confirmations on who the successful purchaser is but people are speculating that Monster.com or other huge publishing houses may very well be behind this latest acquisition.
The “sale” of jobs.com.au
Filed under: General, Aftermarket — David Goldstein at 3:29 am on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The earlier reported sale of jobs.com.au will be interesting to follow. In the .au namespace it is not possible to simply buy, sell or transfer domain names. There exceptions such as with the sale of a business one is able to transfer the domain name.
auDA policies state:
“a) the registrant must not, directly or indirectly, through registration or use of its domain name or otherwise, register a domain name for the purpose of selling it; and
b) the registrant must not in any way transfer or purport to transfer a proprietary right in any domain name registration.”
auDA’s policy on the “Prohibition on Sale of Domain Name” is available here.
So we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
Jobs.com.au - something is on the nose
May 26th, 2007
Something stinks over at auDA with the recent purchase and transfer of the Jobs.com.au domain name.
A whois on the domain shows it has been transferred to “Internet Marketing Australia”. Some digging around showed this company is linked to (no doubt part of) the Boomerang.com.au “domain name monetisation” business. i.e. those sites you go to in good faith and find google adwords or affiliate programs all over them. Those bottom dwelling time wasting polluters of the internet.
Yesterday the jobs.com.au domain clicked straight through to boomerang.com.au but after some enquiries from us yesterday (and no doubt others) there is now a message saying this domain name was registered through Enetica - a domain name registrar.
Traffic rings and “domain monetisation” businesses have no place in the .com.au market. The whole point of regulating the registration of .com.au domains was to prevent this kind of misuse of valuable Australian assets.
Now here’s the bit that stinks. Both Boomerang.com.au and Enetica are on the 2007 auDA advisory panel. Click here to see the panel. All the boomerang sites are registered through Enetica and Enetica are sitting there on the panel with them. Co-incidence? Maybe.
The Jobs.com.au domain name purchase by a business that buys domain names for the exclusive purpose of redirecting traffic is wrong. Someone from that company sitting on the auDA advisory panel goes beyond wrong.
It is time auDA grew some balls and dealt with this issue once and for all. Either that or deregulate the entire process and stop wasting everyone’s time. This debate has been raging for years and to date there has been little evidence of any willingness by auDA to deal with this issue.
More to come on this…
Links:
http://www.domainnews.com/aftermarket/0820070522/jobscomau-sells-for-well-over-500k/
http://www.domainnews.com/general/0320070523/the-sale-of-jobscomau/
http://blog.nowhiring.com.au/index.php/2007/05/26/jobscomau-something-is-on-the-nose/
