December 29, 2008 Posts

By Jarred Cohen, VP of Operations, Bido, LLC It's been a few months since we placed Bido domain auctions on hiatus. The response has been loud and clear to bring Bido back as soon as possible! We've missed running the auctions as much as you missed participating in them! DNZoom and PortfolioHelp have been running uninterrupted in the interim whil...

Brothers Michael and David Castello (who were the subject of a popular DN Journal Cover Story two years ago this month) will be the featured guests on a free webinar tonight at 9pm (U.S. Eastern Time). They'll talk about how they have successfully developed some of the web's best .com geo and generic domain names.

Netfleet.com.au - Australia's leading marketplace - have contacted us to announce that they have joined Australia's leading domain name provider Netregistry.com.au in a mutually beneficial joint venture. "We see significant growth in this area", says Larry Bloch, CEO of Netregistry. "Currently our efforts are focused on education as much as anythi...

Verizon likes to play both sides of the fence. For that we give it an award. With just a few days left in 2008, I thought I'd write about a couple of the more egregious stories in domain names this year. Think of it as the dumbest moments in domains. The first winner is telecom

DomainReport.ca - In a quick turn of events, the domain I reported earlier today for sale on eBay, Vacation.ca, is confirmed by the seller to have been sold since that posting. The BIN price on eBay was set at $75,000 US, however it looks to have sold for under that amount. Unfortunately we will never know the final sale price due to buyer/seller...

Some days I curse Kevin Ham and Business 2.0 for the article, ?The Man Who Owns the Internet.? As it was after reading this that I became involved in the domain business. I started off with rose tinted glasses firmly in place and expected my millions were just around the corner

I've been in the Internet business for a while. In my time I've met some shady people. To tell you the truth, I've spent a LOT of time with some of these people. Buying and selling domains and websites in mass puts you in a lot of businesses after all. At one point I actually

To say the least 2008 has been an interesting year, in the domain world, and well beyond. Here are out predictions for 2009, in no particular order: 1.? The Kentucky Domain Seizure Order Will Be Reversed By The Kentucky Court of Appeals. The Governor of Kentucky's action in seizing 141 gambling domain names was unconstitutional from the

According to SEC filing,? a public company Live Deal Inc. (NASDAQ:LIVE),? sold the domain YP.com, on November 5, 2008, to YellowPages.com LLC for $3,850,000. The domain, according to the company, was an active site and was the source of ongoing revenues from the sale of Internet Advertising Packages. The site current is branded as Yellow Pages.com ...

Thanks to the powers of digital resurrection, the late Beatle John Lennon is back in a new Ono-approved ad for OLPC (one laptop per child), a charitable group whose mission is to provide computers to the world's neediest children. Says Lennon in the spot: "Imagine every child, no matter where in the world they were, could access a universe of know...

Aftermarket.com's home base of Seattle may have been cold and frozen over the past week, but, things continued to heat up at the live auction with the market leader in sell-through rate. Thought Convergence, Inc. is pleased to announce that Aftermarket.com has been selected as the premier auction house for Domainer Mardi Gras (DMG). The live...