Monthly Archives: July 2007

Tue 3rd July 2007
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Domain Roundtable Sets Ground Rules for Domain Name Auction - Live auction this August will feature 450 domains. Jay Westerdal, President and CEO of Name Intelligence and promoter of the Domain Roundtable conference, announced plans for a live auction at next month’s Domain Roundtable conference. Last year’s conference had only a small silent auction. This year the silent auction will be nixed in favor of a 450 domain live auction. Domains submitted to the auction will be ranked using an algorithm and the top 450 will ... read more ...
Mon 2nd July 2007
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Chinese.com To Sell for Over $275,000 - Chinese.com has hit its reserve in a Sedo auction and will sell for over $200,000. The generic domain name Chinese.com has met its reserve at a Sedo auction and will close the morning of July 3. The current high bid is 217,500 EUR, or $293,000 USD at today’s exchange rate. 23 bids have been placed and the auction has been viewed over 7,000 times. Although Chinese.com is the biggest auction at Sedo right now, the aftermarket has a number of other noteworthy auctions. ... read more ...
 
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Tips for Domain Landing Pages – from NameMedia Research - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick provides an update on domain name parking. NameMedia, the parent company of Active Audience and GoldKey, announced the results of some of their extensive landing page split-testing at the June TRAFFIC New York. These tests were performed on their own domains – presumably domains for sale at BuyDomains.com. Some of their findings: Changing 6,000 domains from a generic “shopping” theme to themes that are relevant to the category of ... read more ...