Monthly Archives: October 2010

Thu 21st October 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sex.com Will Be The Most Expensive Domain Name Ever Sold - In my book, $13 million is the top sale of all time. When the Central California Bankruptcy Court approves the sale of Sex.com for $13 million cash later this month, it will be the most expensive all-cash domain name ever sold and publicly disclosed. Some may debate this. Some may say Insure.com at $16 million was higher. Or Insurance.com at $35.6 million. But I disagree. These purchases had to do with the existing organic traffic and search rankings of the properties. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Live Current Management Thrown Out in Shareholder Revolt - CEO and Board of Directors sent packing. The Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors of Live Current Media has been tossed to the curb following a coup organized by the company’s former president. CEO Geoffrey Hampson formerly resigned his employment with Live Current Media following the vote. While at the helm of Live Current Hampson entered into a disastrous agreement with Indian Premier League cricket and an equally disastrous acquisition of Auctomatic. ... read more ...
Wed 20th October 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sex.com Sells For $13 Million Pending Court Approval - According to court documents filed yesterday, the domain name Sex.com has a pending sale, subject to court approval for $13 Million Dollars. The case is in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of California. The proposed buyer is Clover Holding Limited. The parties are asking for a court hearing to be held no later than October 27th, 2010. The domain was brokered through Sedo.com. The broker handling the sale on behalf of Sedo, Jeffrey Gabriel had no comment. The domain of course had a storied ... read more ...
 
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Sex.com Domain Name to Sell for $13 Million - Court filing shows proposed $13 million domain name sale. Over the past few weeks I’ve been checking the Escom bankruptcy court docket twice daily for an update to the Sex.com case. Earlier today the court posted a proposed order (pdf) for the sale of Sex.com for $13 million. The buyer is Clover Holdings Limited. The sale was handled by Sedo, which worked to broker a sale of the domain name on behalf of Sex.com owner Escom, which had been pushed into bankruptcy. ... read more ...
 
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BizFilings Loses Domain Dispute When Dates Don’t Add Up - Online business formation company loses arbitration case. Business Filings Incorporated, which offers business filing services at BizFilings.com, has lost a domain name dispute over BizFiling.com (singular version). The company registered BizFilings.com back in 1996, but for many years used the brand “Business Filings Incorporated” on its web site. It filed an intent-to-use trademark in 2000 for BizFilings, which was refused a couple years later. Then in 2008 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Afternic Report Domain Name Sales - A sales update from the top two domain name marketplaces. I’m a bit behind since I’ve been a TRAFFIC Miami all week, but I do have some sales to report courtesy of Sedo and Afternic. Sedo’s top sale was Cursos.com for $150,000. Cursos means “courses” in Spanish. The company also had some good ccTLD and other sales. The top five .com sales for the week are: cursos.com 150000 USD liveup.com 11500 USD prova.com 10000 USD zelte.com 9900 EUR treatacne.com 8000 USD Top ... read more ...
 
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DNW’s Takeaways from TRAFFIC Miami - Biggest TRAFFIC conference in years concludes in South Beach. TRAFFIC Miami drew to a close this morning with a presentation and domain trading session organized by Epik. Here are my takeaways and random tidbits from the conference: -Attendance came in below expectations. Although I was unable to get a full tally, attendance was somewhere south of 300. Still, this is one of the biggest TRAFFIC conferences in years, and credit is due to Rick and Howard for making ... read more ...
Tue 19th October 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Yahoo Revenue Up 2%, Outlook Is down - After the stock market closed today, Yahoo reported its earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Revenue was $1,601 million for the third quarter of 2010, a 2% increase from the third quarter of 2009. Income from operations for the third quarter of 2010 was $189 million, an increase of 107%. Excluding restructuring charges of $17 million in the third quarter of 2009 and $6 million in the third quarter of 2010, income from operations increased 80% year ... read more ...
 
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Don King Addresses TRAFFIC Conference - Promoter Don King addresses TRAFFIC Conference in Miami. Don King addressed the audience at the TRAFFIC conference in Miami. King said he came to promote what he’s calling the “People’s Internet”. It was difficult to understand exactly what it is, but he said it’s a way for people to broadcast instantly on the internet. He has two “First Amendment” trucks to capture video and man on the street interviews. King acknowledged the audience has the the ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Awards Results Live from Miami - TRAFFIC awards ceremony concludes in Miami. Just moments ago TRAFFIC announced the winners of its annual awards at the TRAFFIC conference in Miami. The show organizers said they received a record number of votes. Best new monetization solution – Whypark Best overall domain solution – Sedo (second year in a row) Developer of the year – Rob Monster (with Epik) We get it award – National A-1 (owners of some of the best premium generic domain names) Best domain ... read more ...
 
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Video from Opening Day of TRAFFIC Miami - Highlights from first full day of conference in Miami. The second full day of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami is about to kick off. But before getting to that, here’s a quick video of a few scenes from the first full day in Miami. The day started off with a 10 am brunch and opening remarks by Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu. Next, congressman Cliff Stearns chatted with Howard Neu about some of the legislative issues facing the domain name industry. The afternoon included ... read more ...
Mon 18th October 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Our Picks From The Rick Latona TRAFFIC Auction - RickLatona.com will be holding a live domain name auction on Tuesday October 19th from the TRAFFIC show in Miami. The Auction will start at 4pm EST and remote bidding, which is already open for pre-bidding, will be available on Proxibid. We have gone through the 200+ domains in the live auction and found these to be the most interesting domains: Shock.com  $100K+  (really nice one word .com.  Nice Web 2.0 domain) DUL.com     7,001 – 20,000  (Nice 3 letter .com) TalentAgencies.com 7,001 – ... read more ...
 
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Cliff Stearns (R-FL) Addresses TRAFFIC Conference - Congressman addresses domain conference in Miami, Florida. Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) addressed the TRAFFIC domain conference this afternoon. About 75 people were in attendance during Stearns’ fireside chat with show organizer Howard Neu. Stearns was joined by retired Congressman Mike Ferguson. Stearns is a member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, and Ferguson was on this subcommittee while he served. Stearns said there ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Sponsors Its Own College Bowl Game - Domain name registrar sponsors a college football bowl game. After years of advertising in the Super Bowl, GoDaddy is upping its football ante by sponsoring its own college football bowl game. The company will be taking over what was the GMAC Bowl, and it will now be known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl. The game takes place January 6, 2011 in Mobile, Alabama, and features teams from the Mid-American and Sun Belt Conferences. It’s a smaller bowl game (last year Troy ... read more ...
Sun 17th October 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
A Domainer Hits The Top 10 Highest Grossing Apple App List, As Adam Matuzich Hits Gold With “The Situation” - Someone who has been involved in the domain industry has made it on to the top ten top grossing Apps in the Apple Store. You probably know Adam Matuzich who has consulted with my company for almost 10 years as he has been to many shows and is attendance at TRAFFIC South Beach this week Adam has done everything from developing our sites, to handling all technical aspects of TheDomains.com, to maintaining all of our 73,00o domains. Recently Adam Matuzich created and published the App for the MTV reality ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in HU and tagged
2012-ben vége a .com, .hu és társaik monopóliumának - Jelenleg ez nagyon szigorú szabályozás alatt áll: minden országnak van egy saját doménneve (Magyarországé a közismert .hu), illetve van néhány általános, nem országhoz kötött címvégződés, mint a .com a kereskedelmi célú weboldalaknak, a .edu az oktatásiaknak, a .gov a kormányzatiaknak, vagy a .org a nonprofit szervezeteknek. Ez a gyakorlatban úgy néz ki, hogy a weboldalak túlnyomó többsége a .com domén alatt zsúfolódik ... read more ...
 
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Scoop: Afternic Will Change Game This Week with eNom and Moniker Partnerships - Big announcements coming this week that will change the domain aftermarket. The business of selling domain names to end users will forever be changed before the end of this year. Domain Name Wire has learned that this week Afternic will announce it has inked agreements with both eNom and Moniker to be Premium distribution partners. They will join Network Solutions and Register, giving Afternic deals with 4 of the top 10 registrars for premium distribution. Afternic ... read more ...
Sat 16th October 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Why Google’s Great Earnings Is Bad News For Domainers - While Google had yet another great quarter as it reported earnings last night, domainers all know that PPC payout have continued to decline. While most business and industries have suffered through the great recession of 2008, 2009,  2010 still with no end in sight, some asset classes and industries have done quite well. Gold, silver and those companies that mine such minerals have done exceptionally well. Those holding such commodities have seen them continue to rise in value although the overall ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Drops Basic Listings, Offers Commission Discount for Parked Domains - Listing level and commission changes at domain marketplace. Afternic has revamped its web site and made changes to listing options and commissions. Afternic previously had three listing options, one of which merely listed domains on Afternic. Now there will be two options: Afternic DLS Network and Afternic DSL Premium. DLS Network gets your domains listed on 20 domain reseller sites, reaching 25 million prospective buyers monthly. DLS Premium gets you two more ... read more ...
 
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TheHill.com Covers Stearns’ Visit to TRAFFIC Plus Domain Lobbying - Influential political web site discusses domain name industry involvement in politics. The popular political site TheHill.com — which gets well over a million unique visitors a month — has published a post about Rep. Cliff Stearns’ (R-Fla.) visit to the TRAFFIC conference in Florida next week. The story mentions the types of people that will attend next week’s conference (including an optimistic 500+ attendee figure), as well as Stearns’ political ambitions. The ... read more ...
Fri 15th October 2010
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TheHill.com Covers Congressman’s Stearns Visit To TRAFFIC - The popular political site TheHill.com just published a story, about Congressman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) appearance at the TRAFFIC show where he will speak on Monday. “I look forward to welcoming representatives of the Internet Domain industry to Florida and thanking them for recognizing our state’s position on the cutting edge of the Internet economy,” Stearns said in a statement. “Stearns is the ranking member on the House Communications Subcommittee and is reportedly eyeing the chairmanship ... read more ...
 
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And So It Begins: Slots.Co Returns To Auction - I just got the notice today that the domain name Slots.co is returning to auction due to what appears to be a non-paying bidder. “”Good news!  The auction for the CO domain slots.co has been rescheduled.” “The original auction was either canceled or completed with no successful winner.” “As a valid auction participant, you are eligible to participate in this re-auction.  If you have previously activated your CoAuctions account then you simply need to login to see your upcoming auction. ... read more ...
 
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Google Has Blowout Quarter: Income Up 23%; Earnings Up 18%; Clicks Up 16% - After the stock market closed today Google reported that it profits for the 3rd Q 2010 blowing away the projections and causing the stock to rise almost 10% in after hours trading. Revenues jumped 23% to $7.3 billion, from $5.94 billion last year. Net income was up 18% to $2.2 billion Google said it earned $7.64 per share, while Analysts forecasted earnings of $6.69 per share. Net revenue, which excludes commissions paid to advertising partners, was $5.48 billion, up from $4.38 billion a year ago. Google ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Launches Blog Distribution Network - Blog network enables bloggers to syndicate their content across Demand Media web sites. Demand Media, which owns domain name registrar eNom, has launched a blog distribution network. Bloggers are able to syndicate their content across Demand Media’s properties including eHow.com and LiveStrong.com. Each syndicated article will include a backlink to the author’s blog. Bloggers will also share in the revenue Demand Media generates from ads alongside the syndicated ... read more ...
 
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Rick and Howard Pulling Out All a Stops for TRAFFIC Miami - Everything’s lined up for TRAFFIC Miami. It seems that it will deliver. I’ve been a vocal critic of some of the TRAFFIC shows in recent years. They seemed to have gone a bit stale and attendance had dwindled. That will not be the case with TRAFFIC Miami, which starts Sunday evening at the South Beach Loews. Perhaps Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu had something to prove. It doesn’t hurt that this is the only event they’re planning for this year (Rick Latona ... read more ...