Tag Archives: NameMedia

Tue 1st July 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
BuyDomains Does Dirty Work of Targeting End Users - NameMedia division uses marketing muscle promoting domain names to small and medium businesses. It seems like everywhere I look these days I see an ad for BuyDomains. I’m not talking about ads targeted to domain owners, but ads targeted to end users. There were the skyscraper banner ad on GigaOm and CitySearch. And the e-mail blast to the WebProNews list (see below). And the countless other web sites showing BuyDomains banners. BuyDomains has mastered the ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Dark Blue Sea: Domain Portfolio Worth $600 Million Retail - Company values retail value of portfolio at approximately $1,000 USD per domain. A Dark Blue Sea investor presentation (pdf) suggests that the retail value of its 570,000 domain portfolio is about $600 million. The presentation also provides a wealth of other statistics and details on its deal with domain registrar GoDaddy. Dark Blue Sea, an Australian company, is well known to domain name investors for its Fabulous domain registrar and domain parking services. As ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Afternic to Open Auctions to Individual Domainers - Domain sales site to open up auction platform to individual domain owners. Afternic plans to open up its auction feature this year to allow individual domain owners to submit domains for auction, the company disclosed in an online web conference. Currently, Afternic’s auctions only include domains that have met their reserve. I imagine this will work somewhat like Sedo’s auctions, where you can list qualified domains with a specific closing time but retain a ... read more ...
Tue 12th February 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Yahoo Kills Domain Arbitrage: Fallout for Google, Others - Yahoo will stop allowing arbitrage as of this Friday, will affect other major companies as well. In a major move sure to have ramifications across the online advertising industry, Yahoo (YHOO) has told its advertising partners that it will no longer accept “arbitraged” traffic as of this Friday. Here’s a look at what this means for domainers and even the revenue of big online advertising companies. Arbitrage Explained Click arbitrage involves buying an ad click ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How to Buy Expired Domains during Afternic - Afternic’s new expired domain service provides opportunity to get expired domains without much competition. Expired domain catchers that are tired of bidding wars at SnapNames and NameJet may want to check out Afternic’s expired domain auctions. I first wrote about the new service in December, but domains finally started going to auction in late January. Much like other services, Afternic expired auctions require you to preorder domain names. I preordered a ... read more ...