Tag Archives: The Domain Game

Tue 18th November 2008
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Bank Buys 3 Character Domain Name for $50,000 - Sale of ABL.com headlines sales week at Sedo. Fresh off a million dollar sales week, domain broker Sedo is keeping the momentum alive despite not completing any six figure transactions over the past week. The top sale for the week was ABL.com for $50,000. The seller was ABL Research, Inc. of Duluth, Georgia. The buyer appears to be Allied Bank of Pakistan, which has used the domain name ABL.com.pk for its web presence. The latest balance sheet for the bank show ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2008
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Bido: FixedLoans.com Auction and New Chat Feature - Domain sold at previous TRAFFIC auction on the block at Bido, Bido Chat in the works. Bido’s auction on Wednesday will be for FixedLoans.com. This will be an interesting auction to watch because the domain was sold at a TRAFFIC conference in 2006 for $10,000. Some may view this auction as a test of Bido’s clout in the domain auction business, but it could really go either way. If it sells for more than $10,000 it could be because fixed loans are getting a ... read more ...
Wed 16th July 2008
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Interview: David Kesmodel, Author of “The Domain Game” - Author of “The Domain Game” discusses challenges, rewards of writing book. One of the added perks of attending last week’s GeoDomain Expo in Chicago was seeing David Kesmodel. Kesmodel is a Wall Street Journal writer who took time off last year to write “The Domain Game”, a book about the domain industry and many of its participants. I talked to Kesmodel many times while he did research for the book and met him face-to-face in Austin last year. But ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2008
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“The Domain Game” Now On Amazon - David Kesmodel’s “The Domain Game” book, which chronicles some of the big names in domain names and how they struck it rich, is now available for order on Amazon.com for $29.99. The book ships free with Super Saver shipping. Previously it was only available through Xlibris. So far the book has received nothing but glowing reviews. You can read Domain Name Wire’s review here. The Domain Game starts with the story of Frank Schilling, the legendary domainer ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2008
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Review: “The Domain Game” Book Released - Long-awaited book about the domain name industry released today. What do you get when you take current reporting about the domain name industry, put it into the hands of an accomplished journalist, and give him a year to research and write about it? You get The Domain Game, the most thoroughly researched and interesting coverage of the domain name industry ever printed. Author David Kesmodel was introduced to the domain name industry while writing a few articles ... read more ...
Sun 18th May 2008
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The Domain Game Books Releases Soon - David Kesmodel’s book to be released soon, more information released. Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel’s book about the domain industry, “The Domain Game”, will be released soon. He just launched a web site about the book at theDomainGame.org. The start of the book reads: In the fall of 2002, a thirty-three-year-old man living in the Cayman Islands made a rather unorthodox financial decision. He took all of his family’s savings, which totaled ... read more ...