Monthly Archives: July 2008

Fri 18th July 2008
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Audio.org & Video.org Goes Up For Sale - Active Internet of Lake Worth, Florida is selling off  Audio.org and Video.org. Active Internet registered the domains more than eleven years ago. Over the years Active Internet says it has received more than five hundred unsolicited offers for the names. According to the owner, Video.org gets more than 3,500 unique (type-in) visitors a month. Click Medium is representing Active Internet in the sale of the domain names. Any parties who are interested in the domains should contact Sean Sullivan directly ... read more ...
 
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How to Solve Auction Submission Bias with Financial Incentives - Solving Submission Bias with Financial Incentives Long time users of Craigslist bemoan that there’s so much spam on the site. Google for “craigslist submitter” and you’ll see ads for software that will automatically submit ads to Craigslist every few minutes. But there’s a simple solution to this problem: if Craigslist charged 25 cents per ad submission, the volume of spam would drop overnight but the volume of legitimate submissions would hardly change. When ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2008
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Screw.Me - So we applied for 150 .me domains with Godaddy which should have been awarded before the landrush today (or put into auction) and out of those we got the grand total of: zero that would be none, nothing, zipo. We did get a notice that we would be in an auction for 31 domains 2 days ago, but some of domains seemed to have gotten registered today by someone.  Some of the auctions are suppose to start as early as July 21, four days from now. So we got your basic cluster *uck. Got three e-mails from ... read more ...
 
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Google Misses Earnings: Stock Tanks After Hours - Google Shares fell $40 a share after hours as it reported per-share earnings that missed Wall Street expectations. CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged the economic climate is “challenging.” The Mountain View, Calif., company reported revenue, excluding commissions paid to marketing partners that were in line with Wall Street estimates, as income rose 35%,  as its, but its per- share earnings missed the consensus Wall Street estimate by 11 cents. Google shares fell as low as $470.55 in late trading, ... read more ...
 
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Moniker.com Silent Geo Auction Nets a Whopping $25K - The silent auction held by Moniker as part of the Geo show finished today with a total of $25K in sales: Here is a list of the domains that sold: eastorange.com                         $5,890.00 northolmstead.com                   $2,950.00 norridge.com                             $2,950.00 southeuclid.com                        $2,950.00 aaan.com                                   $920.00 carinsurancewashington.co       ... read more ...
 
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PayHalf.com adult for Auction on Jun 22 - BigBangNames.com is auctioning off what they are calling “a $1 million e-commerce site for only $1,000″ According to the press release, Payhalf.com is an online consumer electronics retailer that invested over $2.5 million before it ran out of cash. The sale includes the high value domain name portfolio, appraised as high as $500,000, and Payhalf.com, technology and key-supplier of information. “We bought all the matching domains in the UK, China, Brazil. Our plans were to grow the brand worldwide,” ... read more ...
 
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Banks.com Stock Sinks; IRS.com in Jeopardy? - Banks.com one of the stocks in our domain parking stock index took a huge hit today down 29% to $.17 a share. The company which was trading over $1 a share in March, disclosed on July 7th that it was in default of a certain “Investment Agreement” in the aggregate principal amount of $7.0 million  which could cause them to lose their prized domain name IRS.com According to the SEC filing: “””Upon the Company’s failure to meet its payment obligations, or the failure to comply with any ... read more ...
 
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Geo Silent Auction Ends Today - Moniker.com silent auction from last weeks Geo show ends today beginning at 11am EST. Available in the auction are the unsold domains from the live auction and several thousand new domains. One interesting domain I spotted was Streetlookup.com for $7,100 and looks like it has mad traffic.  Over 13,000 people a month according to Complete. It is a developed site and it is unclear if the auction included the content or just the domain. I also see there are a lot of country code domains with cities ... read more ...
 
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Rick Latona Enters Live Auction Circus - Latona latest to throw hat into TRAFFIC conference auction hoopla. Rick Latona has announced on his blog that he will be auctioning domains at September’s TRAFFIC conference in New York. Latona joins Moniker and Thought Convergence (TrafficZ) at the conference, and up to two other auctioneers. In his post, titled “Go Big or Go Home”, Latona writes: I’ve become the largest individual reseller and broker of domains in the business because I’m a domainer ... read more ...
 
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F.A.Q.s about .Me Domain Names - Here are answers to your questions about the .me “landrush”. I was checking search logs today and noticed someone found Domain Name Wire by searching for “Will three letter .me domains be valuable.” Regretfully, the web surfer didn’t find what he or she was looking for on Domain Name Wire. So I thought I’d take some time to answer your specific questions about .me, starting with that query. Q: Will three letter .me domains be valuable? A: No Q: Why ... read more ...
 
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The Danger of a Domain Registrar “Run on a Bank” - What happens when a domain registrar is in jeopardy? [Editor’s note: this is a follow up article to “A Run on the (Domain Name) Bank”, originally published on Domain Name Wire on November 13, 2007.] We’ve seen a lot of “runs on the bank” recently. Rumors spread that a bank is about to collapse. Nervous customers start pulling their money out of the bank, thus fulfilling the prophecy that the bank will collapse. What happens when there is a “run ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Stocks Pummeled in 2008 - Stocks of domain name companies take beating with the market — and beyond. It’s been a rough year for stock markets, and domain name companies’ stocks are having a tough run as well. The good news is that two “pure play” domain companies’ stocks are performing much better than the market overall. Here’s a quick run down of domain related stocks and how they are doing year-to-date as of yesterday’s close. For comparison, the SP 500 is down 15% this ... read more ...
Wed 16th July 2008
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DnJournal.com: Domain Values holding the possess in Bad Economy - You should all check out today’s lowdown from Ron Jackson on DNJournal.com. He basically compares domain sales figures from last year to this year to date and concludes: “””””That the domain aftermarket has been holding its own while the real estate and credit markets are collapsing around us.”””” Good work as always Ron and great news for the industry Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Top Names (So Far) for Moniker Adult Auction Announced - Moniker.com released a partial list of the “Top Contenders” so far for the adult domain auction it will conduct as part of the Internext Expo 2008 to be held in Hollywood Florida on August 8. This is just a partial list, subject to change of course,  and again this is adult, so if you are easily offended you have been warned. On the other hand they are just words. AdultAnime.com AdultGalleries.com AdultSexVacations.com AmateurPornClips.com Amateurs.info AnalSex.us Asian.info BareMen.com BestBooty.com BigTits.net BlackGalleries.com BondageGags.com BondageSex.com Brazilians.com Cum.us ExploitedCollegeGirls.com Fetish.ca FreePornGallery.com FuckIt.com Hoes.net Hump.net LasVegasHookers.com Latinos.org Lust.us Matchmaker.mobi MatureErotica.com MatureGalleries.com MatureHardcore.com MaturePersonals.com Mens.org NakedFeet.com NakedPartyGirls.com PinkPatch.com Porn.ca PregnantGalleries.com PromiscuousGirl.com RedLightDistrict.net SexVideoClips.com SexyLatinaGirls.com SexyLatino.com SexyLatinoWomen.com SkinnyTits.com Sucker.com SuckItDry.com SuckThatCock.com Swallow.net Taboos.com Vaginal.net WomenHavingSex.com WorldWideAmateurs.com XXXScreenSavers.com YoungBabe.com YoungShavedPussy.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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.me Open registration Start Tommorow during 11am EST - The open registration period for .me domains opens tomorrow at 11am EST, 8am PST. About 30K names have been preregistered and Thousands more have been reserved and will be auctioned off at a later period, no sooner than September 2008. All other domains will be avalible on a first come first serve basis. You will have to do a 2 year registration and the cost is $19.99 per year. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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LA Times Covers Demand Media - An article published by the LA Times Today, tells the story of how Richard Rosenblatt took a $355 million dollar investment from private investors and turned Demand Media into a “media titan” with revenues in excess of $200 million dollars this year. According to the story current investors include; Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors. Goldman, Sachs Co. “Their stakes value the company at $1 billion, and they hope to sell stock to the public next year” The article is an interesting ... read more ...
 
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Interview: David Kesmodel, Author of “The Domain Game” - Author of “The Domain Game” discusses challenges, rewards of writing book. One of the added perks of attending last week’s GeoDomain Expo in Chicago was seeing David Kesmodel. Kesmodel is a Wall Street Journal writer who took time off last year to write “The Domain Game”, a book about the domain industry and many of its participants. I talked to Kesmodel many times while he did research for the book and met him face-to-face in Austin last year. But ... read more ...
 
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Surprise! Parked Domain Names Convert For Advertisers - Despite what an ill-informed lawyer thinks, parked domains convert well for advertisers. Yesterday, we learned of a lawyer who felt that domain parking can’t convert for advertisers because he didn’t have success spending $136.11 on parked domain advertising. I met an advertising network CEO a few weeks ago who said his blood boils when someone doesn’t get conversions and claims he received “bad” or “fraudulent” traffic. After looking into his advertisers’ ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2008
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News From Today’s Hearings on Yahoo-Microsoft-Google - Congress held 2 separate hearings today on the The Yahoo-Google-proposed partnership. Both the Senate Judiciary subcommittee and the House Judiciary subcommittee held hearings and here are the highlights: Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl, D-Wis., stressed that his panel will look at whether the deal, which will give Yahoo access to certain Google advertising tools, “will reduce Yahoo to nothing more than the latest satellite in the Google orbit.”. House Judiciary Chairman ... read more ...
 
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New Domainer Making Money on Short Domains - According to Reece Berg CEO of BQB.com, Inc. making money on short domain names is easy. BQB.com, a no commission next generation domainer to domainer (D2D) domain name auction platform dedicated to short domain names, announced sales exceeding $25,000 for June 2008. “Absolutely fantastic, it’s exceeded all our expectations. That said, we have very high hopes for the future,” says Reece Berg, CEO of BQB.com Inc. Since opening to the domain name world in early May 2008, BQB has attracted 371 ... read more ...
 
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You Have to be Kidding.me - I just got this message from the .me folks: “””Thank you for your interest in .ME domains. You recently received multiple emails for the .ME domains you are bidding on, each displaying a separate Shopper ID. Please disregard those messages. We’ve come up with a new solution for creating just one Shopper ID for ALL your .ME auctions – giving you the opportunity to work with your various auctions from one convenient starting point. If you have already created one or more accounts, you may ... read more ...
 
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Google Sued Over Parked Domain Names - Lawsuit alleges ads on parked domains are low quality and unlikely to convert. A lawyer has sued Google claiming that none of his ads on parked domain names converted into leads, and that Google didn’t provide an easy way to opt out of domain parking, writes Information Week. The lawyer spent $136.11 on ads on parked domains and error pages. He got 668 clicks and zero conversions, according to the lawsuit. According to the article, the lawsuit alleges that “Google ... read more ...
 
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Luxury.net Luxurious during $40,000 - A look at ongoing auctions including Luxury.net. An auction for Luxury.net is currently 25,000 EUR at Sedo, or approximately $40,000 USD. The auction ends July 19. This is a luxurious price for a .net domain name, so the name is fitting. Other Sedo auctions closing this week include PureCasino.com at $13,000, zfz.com at $7,000, and ljl.com at $6,600. There are a handful of auctions at Sedo right now that currently have good prices and might make good investments: Send.us ... read more ...
 
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4 Ways to Liquidate Domain Names - Hmm, I’m curious about who Frank means about the person “behind Namemedia.” That could be an interesting story in itself. Will he care to elaborate further? (hope hope hope) As someone who sells client domains and my own everyday, I find the following sources for domain sales the best: 1. Snapnames Private Auctions – Get your domains registered at Moniker.com, send your list to Jonathan Stanfill at Snapnames, and if you have halfway decent domains, you’re going to sell through ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2008
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Yahoo-Google-Microsoft Show Hits Capital Hill This Week - This week Google is off to capital hill to try to get congress to OK their deal with Yahoo. In written testimony submitted by Google to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the company’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, said the “ad deal with Yahoo is good for consumers, advertisers and Web publishers”. “The whole system becomes more efficient: People see and click on more ads that are useful to them, publishers get more revenue from ads on their sites and advertisers get more potentially ... read more ...