Baidu.com - For all those still not aware of Baidu (part of our domain parking stock index), in an article published today by Investors Business Daily they reviewed the company: “China’s search leader has relegated Google to a distant No. 2 in the world’s most populous nation. In the U.S., Baidu translates into “hot stock” — or at least it should. The company’s U.S. stock has been No. 1 on IBD’s weekly IBD 100 list of top stocks every week since Aug. 27. From April to November, the stock quadrupled. ... read more ...

CFO Of Baidu Killed in Accident - According to a report in cnn.com, the chief financial officer of China’s dominant Internet search engine Baidu.com, Shawn Wang, died in an accident On December 27, while on vacation in China. Mr. Wang helped get Baidu listed on the NASDAQ. Baidu.com is down 5 points in early trading today Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Stocks: Despite Slow Day Big Gains in Tech - Today we a pretty light day in the market, volume was down and the dow pretty much unchanged. However 3 notable  stock developments today Google, part of our Domain Stock Parking Index was up over 10 points to over $700  share Baidu, also part of our Domain Stock Parking Index was up almost 20 points just short of $400 a share. The index itself is also up over 600 when it was as low as 575 last week. Apple Computer also reached a milestone today trading over $200 a share for the first time. Google+Michael ... read more ...

PPC Companies Agree to Pay Fine for Gambling Ads - Microsoft, Google and Yahoo agreed to pay a civil fine totaling 31.5 million dollars for carrying PPC ads for gambling, going back to 2000.     Microsoft paid 21 million, Yahoo share was 7.5 million and Google paid 3 million, less than half of its average daily profit of 11 million dollars. All three companies stopped accepting and serving ads for gambling last year. Full Story Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

FTC OK’S Google DoubleClick Deal - The FTC said today that they will NOT block the proposed acquisition of Double Click by Google for 3.1 Billion Dollars saying that the deal is “unlikely to substantially lessen competition”Full Story Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Communicate.com Added to Domain Parking Stock Index - Communicate.com (CMNN) located in Vancouver Canada, and traded on the NASD, OTCBB. Communicate.com owns many impressive domains including: Airfare.cn Body.com Boxing.com Brazil.com Call.com Canadian.com Cologne.com Communicate.com Cricket.com Electronic.com GreatBritain.com Importers.com Indonesia.com Jointventure.cn Karate.com Keyboard.com Leisure.com Malaysia.com Minerals.cn Mouse.com Number.com Overseas.com Perfume.com Rodeo.com Rooms.cn Seafood.cn Soybeans.cn Stereos.com Veg.com Vietnam.com Yen.com You ... read more ...

Tucows Added to Domain Parking Stock Index - We have added Tucows (TCX) to the Domain Parking Stock Index. Tucows is one of the top five domain registrars in terms of numbers of domain registrations. Tucows also offers parking programs for domains.  The Parked Pages Program which Tucows share’s revenue with domain owners and the Expired Domains Program which it parks expired domains. According to Tucows announcement of November 19, 2007, it says it will share over $1 million in revenues with Tucows resellers over the next 12 months through ... read more ...

Baidu breaks $400 a share - Baidu.com broke through the $400 a share level today.  After hitting its high of $429 in late October it fell as low as $300 a share just a few weeks ago. For those unfamiliar with Baidu, it is the leading search engine in China. According to reports Baidu had 61.5% of the search market in China in the third quarter up from 58.1% in the previous quarter. Google is the second largest search engine in China with approximately 22% of the market. Yahoo China, has a little over 10% of the market. Google+Michael ... read more ...

Domain Parking Stock Index - We have created what we are calling the Domain Parking Stock Index.  The index which is a weighted based on market cap, includes publicly traded companies which either have large domain portfolio’s or which make a substantial part of their income from “parked” domains.  The initial index includes Google, Inc. (goog), Yahoo, Inc. (yhoo), Baidu.com, Inc. (bidu), Dark Blue Sea (dbs.ax), Marchex, Inc. (mchx) and banks.com (bnx). The  index will update every trading day at 6PM EST.  Prices of ... read more ...