Monthly Archives: August 2008

Sun 3rd August 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
Baseball Card Sells for 1.62 Million (and we suspicion domains were expensive) - A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card sold for $1.62 million at a memorabilia auction in Chicago. The record price for a baseball card is $2.8 million, which was paid in 2007 for a near-mint condition Wagner card. Bidders at the Friday night auction also spent $42,000 on Ken Griffey, Jr.’s 600th home run ball and $240,000 for a 1938 Lou Gehrig Yankees road jersey. TRAFFIC New York less than 2 months away. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 2nd August 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
How Much Would You Take to Not Work?? - It is being widely reported that the Green Bay Packers have offered former quaterback Brett Favre $20-$25 Million Dollars not to work again. I am now accepting offers to not to do any domaining again. Please forward your generous offers over. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Be prepared for a limit hunt with these tips - This guest post was written by Richard Douglas. His blog is called Too Many Secrets. If you travel a lot, you should prepare yourself to be searched and asked a few questions. Mike wrote about laptop and cell phone search and seizure before the Paris meet-up. The US Customs and Border Service has posted their official policy here. It happens all the time and it is nothing to be alarmed about. Many countries have broad search authority, not just the US Border Service – try entering and departing ... read more ...
 
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Bush Won’t Give adult US Oversight of Internet though Would Obama? - As you are aware it was reported Thursday by the Intellectual Property Watch the Bush Administration has no intention of giving up control of the central root servers that control the internet. This was not new news.  The Bush Administration has turned down requests to give up the control in the past few years. However as we all know they Bush term ends in just about 5 months. So the real question is what happens then? More specifically would Obama give up control of the root servers to say switzerland? I ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2008
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Google-Yahoo Spending Some Serious Lobbying Dollars - It is reported that Google and Yahoo have spent almost $1.4 million dollars just for the second quarter of 2008 in Lobbying congress over various issues including approval of its advertising deal. Microsoft reportedly spend $2.3 million dollars lobbying in the second quarter Money makes the world go round Especially in Washington. By the way are you a member of the ICA yet? Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google To Start Venture Capital Arm - According to reports Google is working on plans to start a venture capital arm. According to the report the group will be led by David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer How the group will be structured and what sort of investments it is likely to target remain unclear. The Mountain View, Calif., Web giant has long preferred to buy companies rather than invest in them, and has plenty of cash to keep doing so. But it has invested millions of ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Why we Love a Internet - As some of you may know I have been traveling for the last month. During the month my Dell’s hard drive crashed twice, causing me to have to do a clean reinstall of Windows Vista twice, losing all my data and e-mails. So now I’m back in the US, waiting for Dell to send me a new hard drive and then I get to do the clean install all over again. Now as to why I love the Internet.  While I was away i discovered Skype. Yes I knew about Skype, but being a US guy, having phones, cell phones, cell cards ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Del.icio.us Rebrands as Delicious.com: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs - Awkward domain name slowed growth of site. Social bookmarking site Delicious has flipped the switch on its brand, encouraging users to visit the easy-to-remember Delicious.com instead of the often typod del.icio.us. On its blog, the site wrote: So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), ... read more ...
 
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5 Ways to Make More Money with Domain Parking - As domain parking revenue drops, sitting around and complaining won’t do you any good. Ask just about any domain owner and they’ll tell you domain parking revenue is down this year. There are a number of factors contributing to this, including changes by ad providers Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). There are more changes on the way, too. So what can you do about it? Here are five ways you can reinvigorate your domain name parking earnings. 1. ... read more ...