Monthly Archives: December 2008

Wed 3rd December 2008
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Standard Tactics, LLC: How GoDaddy Profits from Expired Domains - GoDaddy goes to great lengths to hide its expired domain warehousing operations. UPDATE 12/17/08: GoDaddy is shutting down Standard Tactics. Scottsdale, Arizona based The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and profiting from them. The company has taken a number of steps to hide this practice from public view. This article covers the results of a Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
Global Equities: Google Revenue To Decline for Next Two Years - According to Barron’s, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says Google revenue will decline for a total of three years, $15.71 billion in 2008, $15.23 billion in 2009 and $14.57 billion in 2010. The 2008 number is consistent with the rest of Wall Street, but Chowdhry’s 2009 and 2010 projections are far lower. ‘Our research indicates that the challenging macro-economic conditions continue to worsen Google’s advertising driven consumer Internet business. Chowdhry says contacts tell ... read more ...
 
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Next Big Money Domain At Auction: EUPHORIA.Com At Over $10K - The domain Euphoria.com is current on auction at TDNAM. With over 5 days to go the domain is already at $10,100. The domain shows a creation date of November 4, 1993, making it one of the oldest domains I have seen in a long time hit the drop auction. My prediction is a selling price of around $15K. T Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Maybe Someone Other Than Microsoft Wants Yahoo - The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the former Chief Executive at AOL,  Jonathan Miller is trying to raise $30 Billion to purchase Yahoo for $20-$22 a share. The Journal reports that he has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds for months in hopes of raising money for a deal. Yahoo shares are up $.55 today on the news Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Numeric Domain Auction Picking Up Steam - With less than 48 hours to go, several names bid to $100,000. Sedo’s first ever numeric domain name auction ends on Thursday. Several domains have been bid to $100,000 or more, but none of them have hit their reserve. So far the biggest sale looks to be 94.com, which has met its reserve at $49,999. According to the domain sales listing, 94.com receives over 6,000 unique visitors per month. The top domain is 88.com at $325,000 with 4 bidders. However, the stated ... read more ...
Mon 1st December 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
Next Credit Crisis: $2 Trillion in Credit Card Spending Limits To Disappear - According to Oppenheimer Co banking analyst Meredith Whitney, the U.S. credit card industry may pull back well over $2 trillion of lines over the next 18 months leading to sharp declines in consumer spending, prominent  said. The credit card is the second key source of consumer liquidity, the first being jobs.  “In other words, we expect available consumer liquidity in the form or credit-card lines to decline by 45 percent.” Mortgages and credit cards are now dominated by five players who ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft & Yahoo In Talks, Again? - According to the Times of London, Microsoft is again in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to a new management team which would then raise an additional $5 billion from external investors. This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30% of Yahoo. The external investors would also have the right to appoint ... read more ...
 
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AmLawDaily.com Asks “Will The UN Take Over The Internet” - The AmLawDaily, poses the above question to Stephen Ryan, a partner in the law firm of McDermott, Will Emery who according to the post is “the longtime outside counsel for the American Registry of Internet Numbers. According to the article the “Internet Governance Forum” is being held in India this week and “”The main topic of conversation this year: Should the United Nations or some other international organization govern the Internet, or should basic policy decisions about who gets IP ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Changes Registrar Name - Registrar for Frank Schilling’s Name Administration empire changes name. I was always a bit confused about the name of Frank Schilling’s domain registrar, Domain Name Sales Corp. Schilling would lament on his blog about how many purchase inquiries he received, when he generally did not sell domains. Well, if I saw a domain name registered at “Domain Name Sales Corp”, I would think it was for sale. An astute reader noticed that the name of the registrar ... read more ...
 
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Identity Crisis: Emma or MyEmma? - The company using MyEmma.com brands as just “Emma”. That’s a mistake. Over the holiday I was reading an article on the local newspaper’s web site when I saw an ad for an e-mail marketing service. The service was called “Emma”, and it caught my attention. I know about many e-mail marketing companies and hadn’t heard of this one: Advertisement on Statesman.com I clicked the ad and landed on the web site for Emma, which is apparently a popular service ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Leaps Network Solutions in Domain Name Registrations - Tucows overtakes “original” registrar Network Solutions. Registrar rankings from RegistrarStats.com I’ve been doing a lot or ranking watching over the past 48 hours. I’m a Texas Longhorns fan, and axiously awaited results from the Coaches Poll, Harris Poll, and BCS over the weekend. The Longhorns ended in a three way tie with Texas Tech and Oklahoma University in the Big 12 South. The three way tie was broken by BCS rankings — and OU narrowly edged out ... read more ...
 
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Domaining Manifesto Book is Now Free - Domain name eBook is now free. When John Motson, who writes the DNXpert.com blog, released his eBook “Domaining Manifesto” a while back I didn’t pay much attention. I was actually kind of miffed because I had planned an eBook about the domain name industry and had already registered the domain names DNManifesto.com and DomainNameManifesto.com in preparation. (Talk about being on the same wavelength.) But he beat me to it. The eBook was a good buy for beginners ... read more ...