Monthly Archives: September 2008

Thu 18th September 2008
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NameBio 4.0 Includes Powerful Enhancements - Domain sales database now easier to use and more valuable for finding domain name sales data. NameBio, a web site offering historical domain sales data, launched version 4 last week. I’ve been playing around with it and am very impressed. It’s now easier to use and allows you to quickly adjust search criteria. There’s also a new premium service. The neatest feature is that you don’t have to click a search button after entering a query. NameBio 4 starts ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2008
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Has a Economy Fundamentally Changed , Part 3 - In June we first published a post entitled “Has the Economy  Fundamentally Changed?” In July we published part 2. While some agreed, many thought the economy have not fundamentally changed. I wonder what your thoughts are now. Beside the Dow Jones down almost 900 points this week, the NASAQ hitting a 2 year low, there are low term consequences for the attempts to solve the problem that will be unknown for quite a while. Many of the investment banks are now shopping for money and investors in ... read more ...
 
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BBC Reports on Bank Merger Cybersquatters - The BBC is reporting on cybersqatters grabbing Domain names corresponding to recent bank mergers are that are already “being hoarded and sold online.” Domain names for the merged Bank of America/Merrill Lynch as well as for Lloyds TSB/HBOS have been snapped up. In one case, the domain name has already been listed on eBay, with the site directing visitors to the auction. As reports of Lehman Brothers’ intent to sell itself first surfaced last Friday, cybersquatters had already spotted Barclay’s, ... read more ...
 
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Rick Latona Auction Bidding Starts during 3pm - The auction list for Rick Latona TRAFFIC auction will start at 3pm today. Here is the list: Wines.net BroadwayShows.com GolfClubs.com CR.com 423.com PublicAuctions.com Drugs.net Chew.com ND.net GD.net Sugarless.com SecurityAlarms.com Microbrewers.com Monopolies.com LotteryNumbers.com PreOwnedJets.com HighFidelity.com GolfClubRepair.com GayLawyers.com FrenchPerfumes.com CustomBoots.com ComputerBatteries.com BlackEntrepreneur.com BlackEntrepreneurs.com BreastExamination.com ModelSchools.com PrinceEdward.com BabyAnnouncements.com CountryClubs.com TruckRims.com OneHourPhoto.com Coeds.net Rhodes.com EFS.com Cyberspace.com Audit.com ... read more ...
 
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Moniker TRAFFIC Auction: How Much Will It Gross? - We ran our poll question for several weeks and your votes have been counted. With just under 100 voters, 25 of you think the auction will do less than $1M, 41 think it will do between $1,000,00-$5,000,000 and 13 think it will do over $10 Million, with the rest between $5M-$10M. For the next seveal days we are asking which of the three major auctions to be held at traffic will gross the most. Moniker.com, Aftermarket.com or RickLatona.com Vote now we will be closing it up a week from today. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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New Study: May be Tens of Thousand of New Extensions - According to this latest study by ABC Namebank, entitled “The New-Name-Economy 2010 Cyber Branding Strategies” there are already some 18,700 companies in the world today that will apply for their own gTLD. Based on their huge budgets the suggested fee of 100K to 500K is easily affordable. Already, most big companies are either spending millions pushing poorly crafted names or spending millions on defending hit and run squatters. According to the report they expect the new gTLD;s to create $33 ... read more ...
 
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Recession, What Recession: Art Auction Nets a Record $198 Million - A two day  art auction of British artist Damien Hirst grossed $198 million Sotheby’s said the sale smashed the former record for an auction by a single artist, the $20 million record set in 1993 for 88 works by Pablo Picasso. Over 600 prospective buyers packed the showroom for each of the three auction sessions. Others around the world bid by phone. “Banks fall over, art triumphs,” former Royal Academy chief Norman Rosenthal told the Guardian newspaper. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Register.com Poll: McCain Better for a Economy - Register.com announced the results of an Opinion Poll of small business customers The results were: 54% of small businesses believe that Senator John McCain is better prepared to manage the overall economy vs. 36% of respondents that believe the same about Senator Barack Obama. 53% of respondents think Senator Obama has made better use of the Internet in his campaign vs. 34% for Senator McCain. 49% believe Senator Obama has a better understanding of how the ... read more ...
 
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Will This Domain Downturn be Different from a Last? - Hard economic times may suppress domain prices, but how good is the buying opportunity? I’m generally bullish on the domain name market. And I’m excited about the possibility of buying domains cheaper tomorrow than they were a year ago due to the dismal economy. But there’s a flipside to this story that domain name investors need to think about before jumping in. The last time domains were a great bargain was after the tech bubble burst earlier this decade. ... read more ...
 
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Instant Democracy, Internet Style - From idea to domain to publishing. The race for the White House is in the home stretch. So far the media and campaigns have focused mainly on petty things like “lipstick on a pig” and who’s wearing a flag pin. Perhaps they’re just trying to avoid answering the truly difficult questions. In a fit of frustration, I decided to go through each candidates’ plans and ask the really tough questions. I found that most of these plans are filled with pandering ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Comes to New York in Perilous Times - TRAFFIC hits New York next week during a rough time for the city. New York City is the center of the financial universe, and life isn’t grand right now. This September has been very rough for the financial markets and firms headquartered just across the Brooklyn Bridge from the Marriott where TRAFFIC will take place. What will the mood be at the show? The domain market isn’t as hot as last time the show rolled into New York, but will the stock market crash and ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2008
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Social Networking Bigger Than Porn? - Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise says has analyzed information for more than 10 million Web users and  concludes that social networking sites are now the king of the Internet, dethroning pornography. Tancer, in his new book, Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters, said young users spend so much time on social networks that they don’t have time to look at adult sites.” One of the major shifts in Internet use in the past decade had been the ... read more ...
 
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EU Looking during Google-Yahoo Deal - The European Union is looking into a planned deal between Google and Yahoo. “In mid-July, we decided to open a preliminary investigation on our own initiative into potential effects of the Google-Yahoo agreement on competition in the European Economic Area (EEA) market,” said Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. Under terms of the deal, first announced in June, Google will supply Yahoo with advertising services to run alongside Yahoo’s own Web search ... read more ...
 
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Dubai Company Buying Domains - According to a press release a Dubai based online media company has expansion plans, including expanding its portfolio of domain names by domain portfolio acquisitions. AhuraOnline say the release, is an online media company that operates thousands of generic domain names that generate millions of hits per month. Sohail Roshni, director of the company says “We are in the business of buying and monetizing Internet domain names. Ahura’s core business is developing verticals such as miamitravel.com ... read more ...
 
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SantaRosa.com Sells for $75k, Sedo Sells .de Domain for $118k - Chad Wright’s GeoDomain auction, along with another strong week at Sedo, keep sales momentum going. Domain investor Chad Wright has a bit more money in his pocket to invest in real estate. As explained in Domain Name Wire’s story a couple weeks ago, Wright listed a handful of his good city and state domain names on eBay to raise money to buy distressed property. 4 of the domains hit their reserves on eBay, resulting in $34,000 in sales: Oregon.net $11,300 Massachusetts.net ... read more ...
 
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Deadbeat Bidder during NameJet? Just Pay Ten Bucks. - Are expired domain auction services doing enough to deal with deadbeat bidders? Expired domain auctions can get very competitive. But often times the winning bidder never makes the payment, sending the domain back to auction and wasting everyone’s time, not to mention increasing the total prices winners pay. That’s the case with one NameJet bidder that a reader tipped Domain Name Wire off to. This bidder — “jerry” — defaulted on over $13,000 of domain ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2008
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New Domain Extensions: “Intellectual Property Watch” Says Not So Fast - A interesting article, from the trademark holders perspective, regarding ICANN proposal for issuing an unlimited number of new domain extensions appeared in the Intellectual Property Watch blog. Trademark holders are none to happy about protecting their brands over possibly hundreds of new extensions. J. Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal advisor for Yahoo said If…you’re a trademark owner, all you see is a greater investment you have to ... read more ...
 
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Google Quality Score Changes Hitting All Adwords Advertisers Accounts - According to Google’s Adwords Blog the changes to Google’s Quality Score improvements will take effect in all advertisers’ accounts over the next few days. According to the blog there are three main improvements to Quality Score: Quality Score is now more accurate they are calculated at the time of each search query. Keywords are no longer marked ‘inactive for search‘ — all keywords are active because they are evaluated for every relevant query ‘First page bid estimates’ replace ‘minimum ... read more ...
 
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Esitbot Starts Publishing Daily Appraisal list for NameJet.com and Drop lists - Estibot announced today that it started publishing Namejet.com and expired domain lists, pre-analyzed with a proprietary rapid bulk appraisal tool. The lists will contain all the domain names that have an appraisal above zero and will be avaliable for all Pro and Exclusive members. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Another Intangible Asset Auction Next Month - As all eye’s in the domain world are looking toward the TRAFFIC show in New York next week and the many domain auctions scheduled around it, another type of intangible asset auction is scheduled for next month in Chicago. Ocean Tomo LLC, a specialist intellectual property auctions will broker the sale of patents, trademarks, copyrights to individual inventors, multinational corporations and investors. Three lots at auction are of special interest: For the first time, on Oct. 30, a government agency, ... read more ...
 
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Newspaper Group Opposes Google-Yahoo Deal - The World Association of Newspapers (WAE) says it opposes a pending deal on advertising between Yahoo and Google. The Paris-based group wants EU and U.S. regulators to block the deal on antitrust grounds. WAN says the agreement would reduce the cost of paid search advertising and lower revenue for newspapers’ and others’ Web sites, which receive payment from the online giants. WAN says it fears the deal would give Google “unwarranted” market power in parts of the online ad business. Yahoo ... read more ...
 
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Stock Market Set To Tank Today - At 7:43 a.m. ET, SP futures were down more than 3%, and Nasdaq futures were more than 2% lower. Dow futures were 3% lower. World markets are sharply lower The UK’s FTSE 100 index fell 5.18% in afternoon trade, France’s Cac 40 index shed 5.3% and Germany’s Dax lost 4.1%. In Asia, the key Australian share index ended down 1.8%, and in Singapore the STI dropped 3.3% to hit a two-year low. In Taiwan, the benchmark share index closed down 4%, and in India share prices fell by more than 3.35%. Art ... read more ...
 
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NewsDay.com Talks Domains - ANytime we see a mainstream pubication discuss domains, its worth a mention. Today the Newsday, the New York/Long Island newspaper discusses finding a domain for your business. They suggest businesses look for Geo targetted domains since generics are gone. They also mention buydomains.com, afternic, Godaddy.com, DomainTools.com, Dotster.com. Finally the article discusses trademarks and the need to stear clear of these types of domains, and suggests that people only .com’s and domain without hyphens. You ... read more ...
 
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Greenspan: Economy in ‘Once-in-a-Century’ Crisis - Alan Greenspan said today that The credit squeeze and mortgage meltdown has brought on a “once-in-a-century” financial crisis that is likely to claim more big firms. Greenspan told ABC’s “This Week” that the situation “is in the process of outstripping anything I’ve seen, and it still is not resolved and it still has a way to go.” “Indeed, it will continue to be a corrosive force until the price of homes in the United States stabilizes.” He predicted that would not happen until ... read more ...
 
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Next Hot Domain Auction: LightSpeed.com - Currently at auction over at TDNAM is LightSpeed.com currently at $10,000 with over 3 days to go. The site currently is owned by lightspeed logic a  “”pioneer of mask reconfigurable intellectual property to the semiconductor market””, according to their site. The site has a compete ranking of 70,000 with over 23,000 visitors a month. It has an alexa ranking of 899,000. There are many trademarks on this generic term by several registrants. What do you think the auction will close at?? Google+Michael ... read more ...