Monthly Archives: November 2006

Tue 7th November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
SnapNames to auction off non-expiring domains - SnapNames, the most popular expiring domain marketplace, will begin auctioning off domains that aren’t expiring. Expiring domains sell for a premium at SnapNames, thanks to auction frenzy. Domains that receive little attention while they are registered suddenly sell for $10,000, $20,000, or more. SnapNames is efficient and it’s much easier to buy domains at SnapNames than to individually contact domain owners before domains expire, even though you will likely ... read more ...
Mon 6th November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo’s general dominance - Sedo’s new auction format shows the number of domains the company sells to the international community. Everyone knows that Sedo is the major player for domains sold outside the United States. Afterall, the company is based in Europe. Just this year it has made headlines with sales like Hotels.eu for €257,000, Shopping.eu for €153,500, Cancha.com (a Spanish-language domain) for €54,075, and Städtereisen.de for €50,000. But the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Sat 4th November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Mannequins.com sells for $103,000 - Afternic has had a number of notable sales in the past week, including Mannequins.com for $103,000. In addition to the Mannequins.com sale, check out these other notable sales completed at Afternic: -TikiTorches.com $25,000 – not bad for a niche product -Leads.mobi $7,000 – .mobi continues to sizzle, especially for domains that make sense for accessing via the mobile web -Honey.net $20,000 – yes, that’s .net -You.net $23,000 – another .net -Bloc.com $35,000 I ... read more ...
Fri 3rd November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Ocean Tomo auction nabs one sale - The Fall 2006 Ocean Tomo Intellectual Property Auction resulted in only one domain sale. A collection of domains and associated intellectual property (including a phone number and trademark) including 1800YellowPages.com sold for $1.32M. Among the domains that did not sell: InternetCoach.com PaperlessApp.com (owned by IBM) Ecademie.org (owned by IBM) CoachSoftware.com Alerts.com (owned by IBM) Avantrust.com (owned by AIG) Collation.com (owned by IBM) Of these domains, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy logon blunder summary and user interface - GoDaddy’s poor user interface and error messages are frustrating. Managing GoDaddy’s web site must be a major undertaking. With dozens of products and new ones added seemingly every week, fitting everything onto a web page and making it easy to navigate is a big task. Last month GoDaddy made a major improvement to its domain management interface. But other areas of the site are still lacking. GoDaddy’s parking service has an interface similar to its new domain ... read more ...
Thu 2nd November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
TrafficClub blocks trade from Turkey and Iran - Service cracks down on fraudulant traffic from “Paid to Read” programs. Moniker’s TrafficClub service has taken the unusual step of blocking all traffic from two countries, Turkey and Iran. According to the company there is an increasing amount of fraudulant clicks coming from these countries. This may be spurred by organized groups promoting so-called “paid to read” schemes: One of the growing problems within the parking industry are “Paid to Read” ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
News from a Parking Services - October saw a number of changes at the PPC parking services, not all for the better. TrafficZ upgraded its service from version 4.0 to 4.1 on October 22 – just before the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Hollywood, Florida. They added the ability to control keywords and menus separately. The “Keywords” item will control the search suggestion seedings, and the “Menu” item will control the menu section of your template (if it exists on that template). TrafficZ ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
TrafficClub tops $100 RPM - My RPM at TrafficClub topped $100 for October. Setting a personal best, my earnings from Moniker’s TrafficClub exceeded $100 RPM (revenue per thousand views) last month. $100.05 to be exact. This is better than 35% more than any of my previous months’ earnings! The makeup of my domain portfolio at TrafficClub changed a little as I moved out a couple underperforming domains, but most of the increase was from better performance by DomainSponsor. Here’s the ... read more ...
Wed 1st November 2006
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Silent auction pushes sum over $5M - The silent auction portion of the TRAFFIC/Moniker auction netted over $600k. If the $4.5M+ in sales at the live auction in Florida last week wasn’t enough, the silent auction sold another $600,000 worth of domains. Domains that didn’t sell in the live auction went to the silent auction, as did a number of domains that weren’t selected for the live auction. You can see a complete list of the domains sold in the silent auction here. I sold one domain at the live ... read more ...