Monthly Archives: May 2008

Tue 13th May 2008
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What Should Microsoft Do With That $46 Billion?: How About Buy Domains - So now that Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo has failed (at least for now) what can Microsoft do to take traffic away from Yahoo and Google and move it to MSN? How about buy domains. More specifically buy large domain portfolios and redirect the traffic to MSN. Microsoft was willing to spend $46 Billion for Yahoo. By all accounts it would take well over a year to get regulatory approval for a deal with Yahoo, which will cost tens of millions more and then most lightly 2-3 years to truly integrate ... read more ...
 
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Acura Chooses .Com for Mobile Web Site - Car company isn’t using its .mobi domain name. Luxury car manufacturer Acura owns Acura.mobi, but it isn’t using it for its new mobile web site. Instead, an announcement in the company’s most recent email newsletter directs mobile phone users to go to Acura.com. Unfortunately, typing acura.com on my Treo didn’t bring me to the mobile site, which actually resides at acura.com/mobile/. Once you get past the point that Acura, just like American Airlines*, has ... read more ...
 
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Website Magazine Ranks “Domain Registrars” - Website Magazine knows web sites. Not domains. Website Magazine is a great free resource for domainers looking to develop their domains. But don’t turn to the publication for good advice on domain names. In the May edition, the magazine profiles “Website Magazine’s Ranking of Domain Registrars” based on traffic to the registrars’ web sites. The problem is how the magazine defines “domain registrar”. For example, Sedo is ranked #3. Sedo is a great ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2008
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Selling & Buying Domain Interests on FUSU.com: Is it Legal???? - Fusu.com billed as the world’s first and only domain stock exchange seems to be getting a lot of buzz in the industry. However is it legal???? I started looking at this a couple of weeks ago, as I was considering listing one of my domains for sale. It looks like a great idea, sell part of a domain, raise some cash, and allow other to participate in the current income and upside potential of the domain. But the more I looked at the exchange, the more I found asking myself if the sale of a partial ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com/SnapNames.com Auction Update - loan.biz $11,350 filedivorce.com $8,200 chilling.com $7,900 usnationalparks.com $7,770 beardtrimmer.com $6,500 collegerental.com $6,300 poptop.com $4,900 missourilawyer.com $3,403 egal.com $3,400 logicbox.com $3,300 screenplay.net $3,200 negotiated.com $2,800 visits.org $2,600 bouncyboobs.com $2,600 mdb.net $2,100 mdb.net $1,800 flirting.org $1,600 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Does Disney - Domain name conference lands at Disney World next week. The domain industry descends on Disney World next week as the popular T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference arrives May 20. This should be an exciting show, in part because many of the industry’s top companies (Moniker, Parked.com, etc) have offices in Florida. It doesn’t hurt that the show is at Disney and is hosted at the top resort in the park. I will be at the show and on a couple panels. Additionally, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Announces 2008 SedoPro Partner Forum - Domain parking and sales company announces location of next SedoPro event. Sedo has announced the location of its next SedoPro Partner Forum. This year’s event will take place in Côte d’Azur in the South of France October 26-28. Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on Cap Ferrat only a few miles away from Nice, Cannes, and Monaco, the event will be staged at the five star Hotel Royal Riviera. Sedo plans a variety of events including sailing on 44′ luxury ... read more ...
Sun 11th May 2008
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Using Estibot.com, what are a best and misfortune buys of a Live TRAFFIC auction - I have seen a lot of people in the domain community discussing, Estibot.com lately. Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool. Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain. I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names. Here the top ten domains in the live TRAFFIC auction with a reserve price of $5,000 or less, with the highest estibot appraisal estimate: DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE graphicssoftware.com ... read more ...
Sat 10th May 2008
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.Org registry rasing prices too - The .ORG registry operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR) sent a letter to ICANN announcing their intention to increase their registration fees by 10% as of November 9th, 2008. The price increase brings the price for registrars up to $6.75 from $6.15 after last year’s price increase by 2.5%. Verisign already announced a price increase for .com and .net effective October 1 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2008
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Moniker.com Publishes Live TRAFFIC Auction List - Moniker.com has released the list for the domains to be auctioned off at live auction at the TRAFFIC Orlando show on Friday May 24. Remote live bidding will be available through snapnames.com. There are some great names on the list. As usual moniker.com lists a range of reserve for each domain rather than an actual reserve price 20.net $25,001 – $50,000 360.ORG $5,001 – $10,000 action.com $250,001 – $500,000 Affect.com $10,001 – $25,000 affiliateprogram.com $1MM – $5MM Afghanistan.net $10,001 ... read more ...
 
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Update: Selling Domain Names on eBay - Is it worth trying to sell domain names on eBay? An experiment with Headcase.com. Everyone knows that eBay’s domain name auctions are full of junk. I personally don’t spend any time looking for domains there. But recently there have been some high profile domain auctions on the site. There are also new tools to sift through the junky domains and find winners. I’ve decided to give eBay another shot, but this time as a seller. And with a good domain, not ... read more ...
 
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dotMobi Buys Mowser From Guy Who Doesn’t Believe in Mobile Web - Registry for .mobi buys big-screen-to-mobile technology. .mobi registry dotMobi has purchased the intellectual property of Mowser, a defunct startup. Mowser essentially converts regular web pages into mobile friendly web pages. James Pearce, dotMobi Vice President of Technology, said, “When Mowser’s founders decided to make the assets available, dotMobi was first in line to acquire them. The work Russell and Mike put into making Mowser a ‘best of breed’ product ... read more ...
 
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.Org Domain Name Prices to Jump 10% - Public Interest Registry to raise wholesale prices of .org domain names. Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, has notified ICANN that it is increasing wholesale prices 10%. The annual wholesale price for .org domain name registrations will be $6.75, slightly below the $6.86 rate that .com domains will jump to later this year. The rational for the price increase? None. At least none that was disclosed to ICANN. The rational is purely for ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2008
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Did Google Play Microsoft?? - According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, Google may be getting cold feet. In a last-ditch effort to avoid a merger with Microsoft, Yahoo said it was considering teaming with Google in a search advertising deal. But some Google executives are now questioning whether that’s a good idea Google knows any deal with Yahoo will face tough scrutiny from regulators in Washington and the European Union. Last month Yahoo ran a two-week test displaying some of Google’s search ads on about ... read more ...
 
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Maybe $2.6 Million for Pizza.com Isn’t that Outrageous Afterall - Papa John’s has sold over $1 billion in pizza online. Perhaps the recent $2.6 million deal for Pizza.com isn’t as outlandish as I thought. Papa John’s pizza has sold over $1 billion in pizza online, the company just announced. $400 million of that came last year alone. It has spend $15 million developing its online ordering technology. What’s another $2.6 million? Just about every pizza chain with more than a half dozen restaurants allows online ordering, ... read more ...
 
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Qwest Snags QwestVerizon.com…Just in Time - Telecom company gets domain name related to mobile phone partnership. Qwest, the smaller of the big telcos in the United States, was a little lax in picking up domains related to its new deal with Verizon. Since February, rumors have been swirling that Qwest would dump Sprint in favor of Verizon as its partner for providing mobile phone service to customers. The news became “official” earlier this week. But it wasn’t until Tuesday that Qwest picked up two ... read more ...
 
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Media Confusion Over a Parked Domain Name - Frank Schilling benefits from television screw up (again). Peter Askew over at Domainer’s Gazette made an astute discovery earlier this week: ABC News featured one of Frank Schilling’s parked domain names in a news segment, thinking it was an actual web site. The news segment is about parents getting alerts about what their kids are doing (e.g. in school), and discusses the web site “Parent Connect”. The film crew recorded the site ParentConnect.com. There’s ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2008
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Moniker.com No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction - Moniker.com published its list for the Live No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction to be held on Tuesday May 20 at 8:00 pm EST at the TRAFFIC domain confernece in Orlando. At TRAFFIC west in Vegas Moniker.com premiered this No Reserve/Low Reserve auction and it did $200K. You will have to be present for this auction, there will be no remote access bidding as there will be in the Live TRAFFIC auction on that Friday. There are definitely some good buys here with the vast majority of domains priced 5K or under, ... read more ...
 
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Survey: SnapNames Still King of Expired Domain Names - Despite a turbulent year, SnapNames is still #1 for expired domains. 37% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual domain survey use SnapNames more often than other expired domain catching services. This is the third year in a row that SnapNames had led the charts, despite a very challenging year for the service. After being acquired by Oversee.net, SnapNames lost key registrars Network Solutions and eNom. The two registrars formed a competing drop catcher ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2008
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Marchex Reports Earnings - Marchex.com reported 1st Quarter 2008 Financial Results today. The following is what they reported Revenue was $37.0 million for the first quarter of 2008, compared to $34.2 million for the same period of 2007. GAAP net loss applicable to common stockholders was $1.2 million for the first quarter of 2008 or $0.03 loss per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net income applicable to common stockholders of $548,000 or $0.01 per diluted share for the same period ... read more ...
 
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Its Offical, Thought Convergence buys Name Intelligence - According to a press release on domaintools.com  today,  the long rumored acquistion by Thought Convergence, which owns and operates Trafficz, of Name Intelligence, which operates DomainTools.com and the Domain Roundtable conference was confirmed. “We are proud to welcome Jay, Ray and the entire Name Intelligence team into the Thought Convergence family”, said Kevin Vo, Thought Convergence Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “The addition of Name Intelligence further strengthens our industry ... read more ...
 
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DBS: Domain Parking Revenue Plummeting - Domain company reports sharp drop in domain parking revenue. Domain name portfolio holder, registrar, and parking company Dark Blue Sea today reported a massive drop in parking revenue compared to last quarter. The company generated $1,370,000 from parking its own portfolio, down from $1,661,000 last quarter. That’s an 18% drop in just one quarter. A year ago in the same quarter the company pulled in $1,949,000 from parking its own portfolio of domain names. Customers ... read more ...
 
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Analysis: Thought Convergence Acquires Name Intelligence - It’s official: domain monetization and management company acquires Name Intelligence. If “Thought Convergence” and “Name Intelligence” don’t mean anything to you, perhaps these two names will: TrafficZ and DomainTools. Thought Convergence, the parent company of TrafficZ, has purchased Name Intelligence, which is perhaps best known for its DomainTools services. Domain Name News first broke this story last month, but neither party would confirm the pending ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2008
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AP Launches Mobile News Service: .Mobi left out again? - According to a report today The Associated Press and 107 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other mobile devices. AP had announced the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting April 14 in Washington. AP’s president and chief executive, Tom Curley, said then that six newspaper companies were working to help develop the new service. The service will deliver local news from participating member newspapers and ... read more ...
 
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Yureekah.com Launches as “the worlds initial hunt engine for a online media industry” - Yureekah.com launced its site today calling itself “the worlds first search engine for the online media industry”. According to the press release millions of ads run on millions of portals hourly. Yureekah.com promisese t allow you to identify where all your competitors are advertising, and use that information to decide how to advertise in the portals that best fit your brand, irrespective of geography, language, and time zone. Yureekah’s mission is to to organize the world’s online advertising ... read more ...