NameMedia Auctions Expiring Melbourne IT Domains -
New expiring domain auction launches at Afternic.
NameMedia, Inc. has started auctioning expiring domains via its Afternic platform. The auction service went live today.
Based on a preliminary check of 6 domains on the list, the company appears to have struck a deal with domain registrar Melbourne IT. According to RegistrarStats, Melbourne IT is the 5th largest domain registrar with 4.9 million domains under management.
Auction prices start at $60 and domains go ... read more ...
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Wed 19th December 2007
Most .mobi Domains Won during Sedo Auctions are Out of Compliance -
A review of auctions won at first .mobi domain auction shows most are out of compliance.
When mTLD, the registry for .mobi domains, hooked up with Sedo to auction off premium domains, they probably had no idea how successful it would be. Successful, that is, in terms of sales prices. But there’s another side of the coin, and that is compliance with mTLD’s auction rules.
Participants in the auctions are bound by several rules, including:
The Website may initially ... read more ...
Tue 18th December 2007
Pricing Your Domains For Auction - We are coming upon a series of important domain auctions.
Snapnames.com will be holding their first live auction in January at Domain Fest and Moniker.com will be holding its next auction at TRAFFIC Vegas in February.
To prepare as a seller for these auctions I looked backed and analyzed the results for the last live TRAFFIC auction which was held in Miami in October and have come to the following conclusion:
The most important factor in determining whether a domain will sell at the live auction ... read more ...
Domain Ticker, Add it to your Browser - Just came across a pretty cool tool.
A ticker that constantly scrolls on your the top of your browser showing domain names for sale or at auction at sites including:
Sedo
Afternic
DNForum
Pool
NamePros
SitePoint
If you are interested on a domain you see scrolling, you can just click on it and it will take you the site, so you can place a bid.
The ticker is free, works with Internet Explorer and Firefox, and you can download yours at:
http://www.dnticker.com
Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Is it an Honor Not to be Nominated??? - The final nomination were released today for the Domainers Choice Awards to be handed out at DomainFest, in Hollywood, January 21-23.
Most interesting to me was not who was nominated, but who was not.
The final nominee’s for the Parking Company Award are:
Fabulous.com
Sedo.com
NameDrive.com
TrafficZ.com
Parked.com
Domainsponsor.com is the not only the founder of DomainFest but is the main sponsor of the show.
How would you like to throw a party and not be invited??
At least SnapNames.com (owned ... read more ...
Hold a Records: .Mobi Auctions Voided -
.Mobi registry voids latest Sedo auction, will re-run in January.
First, there was the euphoria from .mobi fans. The December .mobi auction at Sedo closed with major records: Music.mobi sold for $616,000 and Games.mobi sold for $401,500.
But then the griping began. Constantine Giorgio Roussos said he was the rightful winner of Music.mobi at $66,000. Sedo’s servers had slowed to a halt in the last few minutes of the auction, which kept many bidders at bay. Sedo ... read more ...
Mon 17th December 2007
Communicate.com Added to Domain Parking Stock Index - Communicate.com (CMNN) located in Vancouver Canada, and traded on the NASD, OTCBB.
Communicate.com owns many impressive domains including:
Airfare.cn
Body.com
Boxing.com
Brazil.com
Call.com
Canadian.com
Cologne.com
Communicate.com
Cricket.com
Electronic.com
GreatBritain.com
Importers.com
Indonesia.com
Jointventure.cn
Karate.com
Keyboard.com
Leisure.com
Malaysia.com
Minerals.cn
Mouse.com
Number.com
Overseas.com
Perfume.com
Rodeo.com
Rooms.cn
Seafood.cn
Soybeans.cn
Stereos.com
Veg.com
Vietnam.com
Yen.com
You ... read more ...
Tucows Added to Domain Parking Stock Index - We have added Tucows (TCX) to the Domain Parking Stock Index.
Tucows is one of the top five domain registrars in terms of numbers of domain registrations.
Tucows also offers parking programs for domains. The Parked Pages Program which Tucows share’s revenue with domain owners and the Expired Domains Program which it parks expired domains.
According to Tucows announcement of November 19, 2007, it says it will share over $1 million in revenues with Tucows resellers over the next 12 months through ... read more ...
Things we Don’t Want for Christmas -
There are a few domain gifts that I’d rather not get for the holidays.
Last month I wrote about great gifts for domainers. With Christmas just a week away, I thought I’d point out a few gifts not to get your fravorite domain name friend.
1. A $100 gift certificate to RegisterFly. By the way, have your been to their web site lately? They seem to be in denial. They have a required notice on their home page about losing ICANN accreditation, and then a disclaimer ... read more ...
Sat 15th December 2007
Madison Avenue Still Doesn’t Get it - In an article published by “Thomson Financial” today, Ad Executives speak about online advertising. The article points out that Online Advertising revenue rose by 25% this year, up to 20 billion, but advertising companies state that they would spend much more online if they felt they had a reliable way to measure online audiences. Ad execs want a measurement tool like the Nielsen Co for Television or Arbitron, Inc for radio.
If never ceases to amaze me that Madison Avenue doesn’t get the fact ... read more ...
Fri 14th December 2007
DOMAINS: WHY IS NOT TOO LATE TO FIND GOOD DOMAINS - The number one reason its not to late to find good domains is simple
There’s a lot of domains out there.
Here’s the math:
Today according to pool.com there are 56,250 domains dropping.
Over at Namejet.com there are over 7,000 names in pre-release for Networksolutions.com, Enom.com and its registrar partners. Backorder a name, if your the only one who does, you get it for $70.
At Snapnames.com there are 8,697 domains exclusive to Snapnames going, starting at $59 and up to $99 if your the ... read more ...
Auction Updates - Sold today at namejet.com:
newyorktheater.com $8,600
gnet.org $4,400
imageperfect.com $3,700
columbusohiorealestate.com $3,400
columbushouses.com $3,300
stuntdriver.com $1,800
shoppingpass.com $1,100
firstclassvacations.com $1,000
Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sedo Continues International Expansion with UK Office -
Company adds another international office.
Domain name aftermarket and parking company Sedo announced it is opening an office in the United Kingdom. The office will originally be located in Reading, Berks. It will relocate to London in mid-2008.
Sedo is based in Germany and opened its United States office in Boston in 2005.
The company has increased efforts in the UK market over the past few years. In 2004 it acquired the domain name Domain.co.uk, which forwards ... read more ...
Thu 13th December 2007
WEBMASTER WORLD SILENT AUCTION NETS $100k - This appears to be the result of the silent Webmaster World auction run by Moniker.com today.
pokerguide.com $23,600.00
Aftershaves.com $17,700.00
hospitalbed.com $9,900.00
SolarWatches.com ... read more ...
Adultfriendfinder.com Sold - Penthouse Media Group, bought a Palo Alto company, Various, which owns and operates more than 25, mostly social networking sites, including adultfriendfinder.com (adult social networking site), amigos.com, (Latin Dating Site) indianfriendfinder.com, guanXi.com (social networking site in china), bigchurch.com (a christian focused social networking site), and Dine.com (restaurant review site), for a total of 500 million dollars in cash and securities.
The sites of Various, have a combined membership ... read more ...
Auction Watch: Poker Domain Hits $87,500, Moniker Auction Ends Today -
Spanish language domain has one bidder; auction ends Saturday.
An auction for Poquer.com, which means Poker in Spanish and Portuguese, ends on Saturday at Sedo. The domain has attracted one bidder for EUR 60,000, which translates to roughly $87,500 USD. I did some fact checking with a friend from Brazil who speaks Portuguese. Although poquer literally translates to poker, he said it’s not used that way much in practice. People prefer to call it poker with a ... read more ...
Wed 12th December 2007
IPOD VENDING MACHINE SPOTTED AND TESTED -
Check it out.
A vending machine selling ipods, ear phones, headphones and other ipod accessories.
Very cool.
You know I had to try it. So i swiped my credit card and selected, a Christmas gift, a black classic 160G, ipod.
Nice
Ok, I know your all thinking of all those times you put the dollar bill into the soda machine and nothing came out, or the wheel started churning on your Mr. Goodbar only to stop right before the last turn that would release the delicious treat down the chute, leaving ... read more ...
Tue 11th December 2007
Baidu breaks $400 a share - Baidu.com broke through the $400 a share level today. After hitting its high of $429 in late October it fell as low as $300 a share just a few weeks ago.
For those unfamiliar with Baidu, it is the leading search engine in China.
According to reports Baidu had 61.5% of the search market in China in the third quarter up from 58.1% in the previous quarter.
Google is the second largest search engine in China with approximately 22% of the market.
Yahoo China, has a little over 10% of the market.
Google+Michael ... read more ...
Striking Writers Use Domain Name to Lampoon Studios -
Writers acquire .com version of studios’ domain name.
The writers strike in American continues. Man, do I miss my nightly dose of The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
But crack one up to the writers for ingenuity.
A group of striking writers has acquired the domains amptp.com and amptp.net, reports the L.A. times. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios in this battle, uses the domain amptp.org. The writers have created ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2007
Auction Alert - These look like hot auctions
All are at all at name jet with over 2 days to go:
Imageperfect.com $3,600.
gnet.org $1,200.
newyorktheater.com $1,100
Will keep you updated
Sold Today
liberia.net $6,000
gazebo.net $4,100
hennesy.com $2,300
Sold Sunday
cart.net $7,700
equineworld.com $5,300
fishmart.com $3,300
Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Domains Are Cheaper than Booze - On Saturday we reported from the Art Basel show in Miami and compared the prices of art work to domains.
Now comes the report from the Christie’s auction held this past Saturday in New York that a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch sold for $54,000, or $2,100 an ounce. It set a record for a bottle of scotch. It also beat expectations.
The total generated at the distilled spirits auction was just over $300,000. Also exceeding expectations.
As we keep saying there is a tremendous market for anything ... read more ...
Article: Domain Parking “Parasitic” -
Article calls parked domains parasitic, but doesn’t explore the alternative.
In a recent article at Times Online, Jonathan Weber says that parked pages, by their definition, are parasitic:
If you type in “debts.com” for example, you get a site filled with nothing but paid links to other sites. Presumably, this is not what someone going to that page is looking for, but it’s a nice business for the domain owner.
It seems peculiar and unjust that so much money ... read more ...
Random Thoughts About Domain Names -
Here are things I’ve been thinking about lately.
I think about domain names every day. Here are things I’ve been thinking about lately…
There are a lot of live auctions going on. It’s hard to keep tabs on all of them. Moniker has one at least every other month, SnapNames/Oversee.net are getting in on the action, DomainTools just announced one (with the rules changing everyday), and Sedo is launching at least one each month. If you submit domains to one ... read more ...
Sun 9th December 2007
SUPERMAN WINS THE HEISMAN -
There is more to life than domains. High up on my list is football.
Saturday Night Tim Tebow become the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy.
For those who aren’t big sports fans, here’s what you need to know; Tim’s not just a superman on the field but a great person off the field.
On the field, Tebow became the first player in NCAA history to run for at least 20 touchdowns and pass for at least 20 touchdown in the same season.
Tebow was second in the nation in passing efficiency (177.9) ... read more ...
Sat 8th December 2007
Domains Are Cheap!!!!!!!!!!! -
I spent seven hours at the huge Art Basel Show in Miami yesterday. I saw the obligatory canvases painted completely white (25k+), Black (65K+) and a very pretty green color priced, at a no doubt what is a steal, at $335,000.
Also on display were the white canvas with simply words like “die collector scum”, and “meat is death”. I also got to see the back doors of what appeared to be a 60′s volkswagen bus placed on the wall, a bunch of clothes on the floor and more hanging from the ... read more ...