Monthly Archives: January 2011

Thu 13th January 2011
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Sedo To Hold Premium .Co Auction In Feb Including Many Of Mike Mann’s Gems - Sedo.com is holding a premium auction of .Co domain names including many gems owned by Mike Mann’s Codom Holdings, LLC. These represent some of the best possible .Co domains. The auction will start right after the Superbowl on February 10th and end on February 17th. Sedo is still accepting additional domains of like quality for the auction. If you have any domains you would like to submit you will “have to submit a request via Sedo broker for acceptance or denial”. Here are some of the domain ... read more ...
 
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TheStreet.com: Tech Trends to Emerge by 2014 - TheStreet.com just published a post entitled 15 Tech Trends To Emerge By 2014.  While you will have to check out the entire article to see the full list but here are the highlights: “Within two to three years, 25% to 35% of business users will employ a smartphone exclusively and abandon fixed-line phones.” “Google Android will become a significant portion of the smartphone installed base, but won’t become dominant. It will capture a larger overall share than  iPhone and BlackBerry.” “Internet ... read more ...
 
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Links.com For Sale At Flippa.com - The domain name Links.com is at a private sale (auction) at Flippa. The private sale which just got underway doesn’t close for almost 6 months. According to the owner here is the Website Vital Statistics for Links.com: Registration Date: 04/01/1993 (Transferred to current registrant in 1996) Google Page Rank: 4 Avg. Unique Visitors: 14,000/month Avg. Page Views: 23,000/month Avg. Direct  Traffic: 8,100/month The metrics presented here represent a six month average extending from July 1, 2010 to ... read more ...
 
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DomainFest Auction Pre-bidding is Live: MedicalBilling.com; Smoking.com; Designers.com; Insurancequote.com & More - The DomainFest Global Preliminary Live Auction Catalogs for Premium and Low No Reserve auctions are now available for pre-bidding. Here are some of the domain included in the Premium auction which is already opened for pre-bidding: Footwear.com Girl.com HomeRefinancing.com HouseInsurance.com Kiss.me Love.me MedicalBilling.com HomePrices.com LoanQuotes.com Chili.com Seasons.com Smoking.com Designers.com InsuranceQuote.com TennisCourts.com Here are some of the domains in the low/no reserve auction ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post: Ron Sheridan Heads Up Portland Domainer Meetup - This is a guest post is by Ron Sheridan, who as most of you know was a long time employee of Oversee and now is working on developing and launching  RSS.com: “Back in October I had the good fortune of attending the domain cruise put on myChefPatrick.com (Patrick Rudell).  Patrick did something at the event that for me made the event incredibly valuable:  he asked each person in attendance to come to the front of the room and talk about themselves.  What resulted was an amazing and insightful ... read more ...
 
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Bill Clinton to Address ICANN San Francisco Meeting - Former President Clinton set to keynote next ICANN meeting. [Update: ICANN confirms that Clinton has accepted an offer to speak at the meeting but the contract is still being finalized. It also says that his speaking fee will be covered by a targeted sponsorship.] You might still call it a rumor, but Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines says he has confirmed with “A personal source close to Bill Clinton” that President Clinton will keynote March’s ICANN ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down 3 Domain Name Registrars - Three domain registrars face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois information immediately. ICANN has warned three domain name registrars that they face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois data within 15 days. The three registrars — iWelt AG, Zog Media dba Zog Names, and Centrohost — have not been escrowing their data with Iron Mountain. Escrowing data is important for .com and .net domain names because the registrar is the only entity ... read more ...
 
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Will You Buy Shares in Demand Media? - Company sets flotation price range. A large domain name company is getting ready to go public. Will you get in on the action? Demand Media, which owns eNom, has set an expected price per share of $14-$16. It plans to sell 4.5 million shares while existing shareholders hope to offload 3 million shares. The company also released preliminary, unaudited numbers for Q4 2010. In the last quarter of the year it grossed between $71.5 million and $73.5 million, a 31% increase ... read more ...
 
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Which Domain Name Registrar is Best? - Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the greatest registrar of them all? When it comes to top domain name registrars, Go Daddy has been a clear winner in all five years of the Domain Name Wire survey. Last year it grabbed 41% of the vote, compared to just 16% for the runner up. Now the sixth annual survey is upon us. Will Go Daddy retain its crown? This year I’ve expanded the list of domain name registrars to include more of the mainstream top 25 domain name registrars. ... read more ...
Wed 12th January 2011
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QuinStreet Hits $1 Billion Dollars In Market Cap - Just 10 months after starting trading at $15 a share, QuinStreet, the company that bought, Insurance.com, CarInsurance.com and Insure.com has hit an all time high of $23.40 a share today (current sitting right at $23) giving it a market cap of $1 Billion Dollars. The stock is now up some 50% since it acquired CarInsurance.com in November for $49.5 million dollars. We own shares in Quinstreet. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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DemandMedia Files Amended Prospectus, Now Looking To Raise $138 Million & Prices Its IPO - According to the New York Times, Demand Media in an amended prospectus with the SEC yesterday. In the document, Demand Media says it hopes to raise $138 Million dollars and price its shares between $14-$16 a share. At the mid point of $15 a share the company would have a market value of about $1.25 billion. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Facebooks Acquisition of FB.com Isn’t Just For “Internal Use” Anymore It Redirects To The Site - I’m sure you read the various news accounts yesterday that Facebook.com paid Upwards of $8.5 Million dollars for the domain FB.com, making it not only one of the most highest priced domain transactions of all time but setting a new standard of what is possible to get for a great domain with the right end user. Interestingly Facebook.com has always maintained that it acquired the domain name FB.com for “Internal Use Only”  mostly for use as for the company’s internal email system. If you ... read more ...
 
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Hunting Moon Adult Domain Auction Ends Today (Wednesday) On SnapNames - The Hunting Moon Adult domain name auction ends today, Wednesday January 12th at 3:15PM EST on SnapNames.com. As of time of publication there are 13 domain names with bids. Just FYI, not every domain in the auction is adult. Here are the domain with bids and the current high bid: barebacksex.com      $5,250 adultdates.com          $2,350 xxxdates.com                   $605 allnude.com                      $425 teenpass.com                    ... read more ...
 
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WowWhatSavings.com Goes After AOL’s Wow.com in Lawsuit - Site owner says AOL’s wow.com is confusing his users. Late last year AOL converted its WOW.com domain name from a World of Warcraft site to a daily deals site similar to Groupon. Now the owner of daily deals site WowWhatSavings.com is crying foul in a lawsuit (pdf). WowWhatSavings.com owner Todd Rideman says his deals site has been known as “WoW” to its users. Once AOL launched Wow.com, confusion ensued. He provides an affidavit from a Boston restaurant that ... read more ...
 
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Talkbook Files to Cancel Facebook Trademarks - Company challenges Facebook on its trademark for “Facebook”. Facebook has been aggressively going after businesses with “book” in their name, including challenging a trademark by phone app company Talkbook. But Talkbook is fighting back. The company responded by filing its own challenge against the social network for what it calls “fraudulent” claims to get the Facebook trademark. Facebook originally filed for “The Facebook” before filing an amendment ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Still in Dispute With Organization that Sold it FB.com for $8M+ - Now that we know how much FB.com sold for, you may be surprised that Facebook is still embroiled in a dispute with the seller. We now have a better idea how much Facebook paid for FB.com — likely $8 million or more. Given this high number it’s shocking that the social network hasn’t yet settled its trademark dispute with seller American Farm Bureau. American Farm Bureau challenged Facebook after the latter filed a trademark for “FB”. While the dispute was ... read more ...
Tue 11th January 2011
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Afternic Sells $550K In Domains - Afternic.com published its weekly list of reportable domain name sales for the period ending January 9 2011. The domain Soulmate.com lead the way selling for $100K but the more interesting sale was Adss.com for $61,600. Its another mid five figure LLLL.com sale in the last few weeks at Afternic.com without any obvious meaning along with 2 other LLLL.com sales  in the mid four figures; gnom.com and tmon.com, kwny.com and ercc.com. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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So Who Is The New Godaddy .Co Girl? Our Pick: ABC’s Modern Family Star Sofia Vergara - Now that Godaddy has announced there will be a .Co Godaddy girl, who will appear in its SuperBowl Commercial, the question becomes who is the girl? The easy guess would be Shakira since not only is she one of the biggest stars in the world but she is Colombia’s most famous export. I asked Lori Ann Ward of the .Co registry to give me a hint as to whom the .Co Godaddy girl is and she declined saying “I cannot tell under threat of torture” So I reviewed the press release for any clues and focused ... read more ...
 
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Google: Don’t Put AdSense on Sites with Unoriginal Content - AdSense can’t be placed on auto-generated sites with copied content. The latest “AdSense Facts Fiction” from the Google AdSense Blog addresses an issue that may affect domainers-turned-mass web site developers: Fiction: Publishers can put ads on auto-generated pages or other copied content that was not created by them. Fact: We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy to Unveil First GoDaddy.CO Girl - Go Daddy says it will unveil GoDaddy.co girl in conjunction with Super Bowl commercial. .Co already scored a major coup by partnering with Go Daddy on its 2011 Super Bowl commercial. But the publicity train rolls on. The latest announcement from Go Daddy: it will showcase its first every GoDaddy.co girl in the commercial. Well, maybe. The company hasn’t decided it if will formally unveil the .co girl during the broadcast commerical or make viewers go to the the ... read more ...
 
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123Inkjets.com Typo Cases Show More UDRP Inconsistency - Two different UDRP panelists reach the exact same conclusions, yet they differ from most previous decisions. A pair of cases by one of National Arbitration Forum’s most prolific arbitrators, John Upchurch, show continued inconsistencies in UDRP disputes and some other very odd coincidences. Upchurch ruled against 123Inkjets.com owner LD Products, Inc for the domain names 123inkjsts.com and 1238nkjets.com. In both cases Upchurch decided that LD Products did not ... read more ...
Mon 10th January 2011
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Sex.com Broker, Jeff Gabriel Is Leaving Sedo.com - Star broker Jeff Gabriel, who brokered the record setting sale of Sex.com  for $13 Million has resigned from Sedo.com. Jeff told me that he is “really gratefully for the opportunity that Sedo gave me and I want to thank the whole team.” and that he is  looking for new opportunities in 2011. We wish Jeff the best of luck in his future endeavors. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Discoveries.com Sells For $10K On NameJet.com - The domain name discoveries.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $10,000. With over 16,000,000 references in Google,  its a nice one word domain but is always going to lose IMHO a lot of traffic to the singular discovery.com. A few other notable sales: StockRatings.com sold for $3,535 NewUsed.com sold for $3,100 BlueGarden.com sold for $2,400 Suitcases.org sold for $1,611 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Spent $50 Million Dollars On Jellyfish.com In 2007 & Doesn’t Have It Set To Work Without The WWW. In Front - Years before Groupon was even in existence, back In October 2007 Microsfot shelled out a reported $50 Million Dollars for the Shopping site Jellyfish.com Today the domain name doesn’t even resolve, unless as Mike below points out you type in the address as www.jellyfish.com. If you type in just Jellyfish.com into your browser the domain does not resolve. While this is an pretty programming basic, to allow resolution of a domain with the www. and without Microsoft seems to have forgotten it despite ... read more ...
 
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Playboy Going Private At $6.15 a Share - Since the DomainFest party is once again for the 3rd year going to be held at the Playboy Mansion, I keep an eye on the stock and today Playboy announced that it would be going private. Here is the press release: Playboy Enterprises, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Icon Acquisition Holdings, L.P., a limited partnership controlled by Hugh M. Hefner, to take the company private for $6.15 per share. The $6.15 price represents a 18.3% premium over the closing ... read more ...