Tag Archives: services

Fri 1st February 2008
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Microsoft Makes Offer for Yahoo! - Microsoft offers to buy search giant. Microsoft Corporation (NADSAQ: MSFT) has made an offer to by search company Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for $31 per share, a premium of about 60% over yesterday’s closing price. If this $44B offer is accepted and approved by regulators, it could have a big impact on the domain name industry. Yahoo provides advertising feeds to a number of domain parking companies, including Parked.com and ParkingDots. Frank Schilling parks his ... read more ...
 
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What Would Microsoft-Yahoo Mean for Domainers? - The acquisition could mean a lot. Or maybe not. I had a conversation with myself this morning about Microsoft’s (MSFT) proposed buyout of Yahoo (YHOO). It went something like this: Me: So, Andrew, what do you think this deal will mean for domainers? Myself: Tough call. From a search perspective, this is #3 taking over #2. It will be interesting to see how they merge the two company’s pay-per-click platforms. Me: Yeah, both platforms lag Google Adwords. ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2008
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Domain Roundtable Heads to San Francisco - Name Intelligence show leaves the Seattle area for fourth show. For its fourth Domain Roundtable (DRT) conference, Name Intelligence (parent company of Domain Tools) is moving the conference to San Franciso. The event will take place at The Palace Hotel April 18-21. I caught up with Name Intelligence’s Jay Westerdal and Susan Prosser to get a preview of the upcoming event. Prosser is organizing the conference. What will be the overriding theme of the next Domain ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2008
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Auto-Generated Web Sites, Part 2 - New services show the trend continues, but are automated site generators the future of domain parking? In September 2007 I wrote about DomainEmbarking.com, a service that generates a parking page that looks more like a real web site than a parked page. For a brief history of automated site generation, here’s a snippet from that article: A few years ago savvy entrepreneurs figured out they could mass-develop web sites based on niche keywords and penetrate search ... read more ...
 
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TrafficClub Closing Its Doors - Parking aggregater to shut down service at end of month. Moniker’s TrafficClub will shut its doors at the end of the month. TrafficClub allowed customers to maximize revenue from parked domains without moving domains between different parking companies. Traffic to domains was split tested across various parking services and eventually shown more on the feeds that had higher RPMs. The service was not without controversy. Last year DomainSponsor, citing a policy ... read more ...
Mon 28th January 2008
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Parked Adds .Mobi Compliance, Yahoo Quality Score - Domain parking platform adds new features. Domain name parking company Parked.com has added two new features in recent weeks. First, the company now supports .mobi parking. .Mobi domain owners can earn revenue with scaled down parking pages that work on mobile phones. Second, the company now shows publishers their Yahoo Quality Score. This score is a measure of the quality of traffic they are delivering to advertisers according to Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), and is measured ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2008
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Salient, Domain Strategies Team Up on Wifi.com - Companies ink deal to enhance wifi.com web site. Salient Properties, which bought Wifi.com for $225,000 in 2006, has found a partner to help further develop the site. In an e-mail sent this evening, Salient Properties owner Stuart Wood (see Domain Name Wire profile) wrote: Although I am not at liberty to go into extensive details, yet, I can tell you Salient Properties, LLC. (our parent company) has inked an agreement with Domain Strategies, Inc. to take the business ... read more ...
 
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Is Sedo Worth $350M? - Annual domain study sheds light on company’s prominence in domain market. We know Sedo is a behemoth in the domain industry. But just how big is it and what is the company worth? Sedo’s latest domain market study, along with majority owner AdLINK’s financial reports, sheds some light. AdLINK currently owns 75.94% of Sedo. It purchased 52.14% of the company in 2005 for EUR 14.031M, giving the company a pre-money valuation of approximately EUR 28M at the time. ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2008
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Domain Name Stocks Not Immune to Selloff - Stocks of domain name related companies down sharply since beginning of Q4 2007. Domain values may be on the rise, but domain name related stocks are feeling the heat of stock selloffs. As of just minutes ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and SP 500 are down 15% and 16% respectively since the close of trading on October 1, 2007. Shares of many domain stocks are down more sharply, although some are withstanding the selloff. The chart below shows intraday prices ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2008
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Oversee.net Receives $150M Investment from Oak Hill Capital Partners - Domain company continues aggressive growth; receives $150M investment. Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, SnapNames, and Moniker, expects to close a $150M investment round with Oak Hill Capital Partners by the end of the month. Oversee.net has been on an aggressive growth trajectory over the past year. In January 2007, the company scored a $60M line of credit from Bank of America. This was partially used to purchase SnapNames this past summer. Earlier ... read more ...
Wed 19th December 2007
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NameMedia Auctions Expiring Melbourne IT Domains - New expiring domain auction launches at Afternic. NameMedia, Inc. has started auctioning expiring domains via its Afternic platform. The auction service went live today. Based on a preliminary check of 6 domains on the list, the company appears to have struck a deal with domain registrar Melbourne IT. According to RegistrarStats, Melbourne IT is the 5th largest domain registrar with 4.9 million domains under management. Auction prices start at $60 and domains go ... read more ...
 
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How to Read Domain Forums - Reading beyond the headline of a domain sales thread can be challenging. Here’s a helpful guide. Earlier this week I lamented about how 99% of the domains at domain forums aren’t worth anything. If you’re going to sort through the many names at forums in hopes of finding a winner, perhaps I can help you find your way. Below are common sales thread titles at popular domain forums, and what they really mean. Domain Inventory Liquidation Sale Translation: I ... read more ...
Fri 14th December 2007
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Sedo Continues International Expansion with UK Office - Company adds another international office. Domain name aftermarket and parking company Sedo announced it is opening an office in the United Kingdom. The office will originally be located in Reading, Berks. It will relocate to London in mid-2008. Sedo is based in Germany and opened its United States office in Boston in 2005. The company has increased efforts in the UK market over the past few years. In 2004 it acquired the domain name Domain.co.uk, which forwards ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2007
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Parked Adds “Related Keywords” Editing Functionality - Service allows publishers to delete related keywords. Domain name parking company Parked.com has added new functionality that lets publishes delete “related keywords” from their parked pages. Using an AJAX-style widget, publishers can drag-and-drop related keywords on and off the page. The graphic below shows my related keywords for SanFrancisco.us. If I don’t want Alcatraz (that would be a bad move) and San Francisco Hotels (another bad move) to show up on ... read more ...
Mon 12th November 2007
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Qtags Pitch Shows How to Use .Mobi - An elevator pitch for qtags shows a good use of .mobi. I’ve already ranted about bad web 2.0 naming from the Rice Alliance Information Technology and Web 2.0 Venture Forum at Rice University last week. But I also saw a good use of the .mobi domain name during the conference. qtags is a service that lets you text a phrase to a text number and get information back. For example, you might see a sign at a store that’s hiring and text ‘jobs’ to a 5 digit number. ... read more ...
Fri 9th November 2007
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Google Slap hits Developed Domains - An updated from Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick. Search engine ranking gets more important as more domainers develop their domains. SEO experts may debate whether Google’s PageRank number is really important for search engine ranking; but it is important for bragging rights and for selling ads. While Google usually avoids listing parked domains, some parked domains do end up with pagerank. I’ve also seen some of my WhyPark domains beginning to rank. Google recently ... read more ...
Wed 7th November 2007
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Domain Parking Services Range in Complexity - Simple or complex? Which is better for customers? You have lots of options when it comes to parking your domain names. With over a dozen parking services on the market, all promising you the “highest payouts”, how do you decide which one is best? Ultimately, you want to go where the money is. But another consideration is which service is easiest to use. There are two sides of the spectrum on complexity. On one hand is Parked.com, which takes about three minutes ... read more ...
Tue 6th November 2007
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DomainSponsor Improves Statistics, Account Management - Domain parking company to release upgrades this weekend. Domain name parking service DomainSponsor is bolstering its statistics and account management functions. The release will be activated between 11PM PST November 9 and 11AM PST November 10. DomainSponsor account access will be limited during the upgrade window. The new statistics features include: Traffic by Country – View a geographical breakdown of visitors Traffic by Language – View an effective visitor ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2007
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DomainScour Quick Domain Lookup Launches in Alpha - Ulta-fast domain lookup tool shows promise. An ultra-fast domain lookup tool covering everything from .com to .mobi has launched. DomainScour.com was developed by Ninjamuk, a web development company based in Michigan. Currently in alpha, DomainScour has a ways to go before it rivals other domain search tools. But it shows lots of promise, particularly for its lightning fast domain lookup (including .mobi) and fast whois checks. As soon as you start typing in the ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2007
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Domain Name Parking Companies Are Very Profitable - Domain name parking companies are willing to pay $100s per acquired customer. Ever wonder why so many domain name parking companies are popping up? It’s because this is a very profitable business. In fact, domain parking companies are willing to pay $100s to acquire customers, if these companies’ bid prices on Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) are any indication. I recently added a campaign for domain name parking in Yahoo! Search Marketing. I added the keywords “domain ... read more ...
Wed 24th October 2007
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Mobile Ads are Worth(less) - What is a click-through on a mobile phone worth? In November 2006, Sedo announced that it would serve parked pages on .mobi domains. The parked pages are simple, text-based lists of ad links. One of the .mobi parked pages I reviewed showed ads for a credit card. If you clicked the link from your mobile phone, it took you to a credit card application that could not be viewed on most mobile phones and wouldn’t work without SSL security. In other words, the clicks ... read more ...
Mon 22nd October 2007
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Parked Adds Custom Content - Domain parking services allows publishers to add custom content. Domain name parking service Parked.com is giving publishers the ability to add custom contents to their parked pages. Customers can add text, additional photos, and even videos. Custom content is key to attracting search engines to parked pages. I’ve often registered available domain names and found them in Google within a couple weeks — sometimes in the number one position. Although the search ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2007
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Afternic Has Glitch in Internet Explorer, DNForum Hits Parked Page - Afternic problem doesn’t affect Firefox, should be fixed soon. After a few days of not being able to access Afternic.com, I went straight to the source for an explanation. Adam Gross, Director of Product Management, Domain Marketplace for NameMedia, Inc., says there’s a cookie problem on the Afternic.com site. This only affects users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. They’re working on the problem and should have it fixed soon. In the meantime, use Firefox ... read more ...
Mon 8th October 2007
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Top Domain Name News Stories of Sep 2007 - Here are the top 5 Domain Name Wire news stories of September, ranked by page views. #1: Auto-Generated Web Sites: The Future of Domain Parking? – In the context of a new domain service called Domain Embarking, Domain Name Wire discusses the history of automated web site generation. #2: Televisions.com Sells for Six Figures – Domain Name Wire breaks the story about the Televisions.com sale brokered by NameDrive. This is one of the biggest sales brokered by ... read more ...
Sat 6th October 2007
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How to Improve Your Parking Income, Video - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick creates domain parking video. by Leonard Holmes – If your domains have been parked with a service for at least a month, you now have an opportunity to increase your income. Take some time to examine your statistics in detail. Sort the domains by “uniques” or “landings” and look for those domains that get a lot of traffic but lower income. These are the domains that you want to try at another service. If your domains are currently ... read more ...