February 17, 2009 Posts

We put many months of hard work in bringing the Bido "social auction" platform back. While most has been done on the back-end infrastructure and isn't noticeable by users, some small changes such as live chat and trackbacks are. As I wrote before, there are many more upgrades scheduled in the coming months. As always, we rely on your feedback to ma...

Let me start off by saying thank you to Joel Comm for giving me a copy of his new book Twitter Power before today's release. For those of you not familiar with Joel he is a New York Times bestselling author for the book The AdSense Code and is also known for the very popular

Aftermarket.com has delayed releasing the auction list for their upcoming Domainer Mardi Gras auction that was to start bidding Monday. The company issued a statement on their Twitter page that said that getting approval from all sellers for their new 0% financing option was the cause of the delays. The auction list appears to

Arbitrator decides Viacom shouldn't get Jackass.com. "We look like Jackasses." This is a follow up to a story Domain Name Wire first published in December. Viacom (NYSE: VIA.B), parent company of MTV, filed a UDRP complaint to get the domain name Jackass.com. As I pointed out then, Viacom had an uphill battle. Not only

NameMedia improves stats and landers for its three domain parking programs. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic , has released several improvements to its three domain name parking platforms: GoldKey, ActiveAudience, and SmartName. The improvements span three areas: 1. Reporting - improvements to reduce timeout issues and site ...

Bankruptcy judge approves sale of domain names to DONE! Ventures. Earlier today, U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Brendan L. Shannon handed down an order affirming the sale of a number of eToys' domain names to DONE! Ventures. The domains included in the $200,000 deal are: birthdays.com birthdays.net birthdays.org birthday.net ebirthdays.com e-birthda...

NETTUTS, VECTORTUTS, & PSDTUTS have all been merged into one awesome tutorial hub called TUTS+. Within TUTS+ you receive access to hundreds of web development and graphic design tutorials with all source files included. High quality tutorials from industry professionals guide you every step of the way towards creating beautiful graphics and ri...

I was reading the story about the little Alaska thrift store that end up having to change it's business name after Gov. Sarah Palin mentioned about the "Out Of The Closet" thrift store in her Alaska town. Little did the store owner in Alaska know that Out of the closet is trademarked for a thrift store

The Castello Brothers Top 10 Suggestions For Successful Site Development My brother Michael and I have done well financially (is there any other way?) developing our sites. Nevertheless, we're both on a lifelong learning curve and after 10+ years in this wonderful business we still feel like we've just begun. Here are ten suggestions we'd Relat...

I wanted to give a specific example of a mini-website and to show you how I put it together. BoneThinning.com is a work in progress but it is a good example of how to put a mini-website together quickly and easily. I will go through the steps needed to create it and the resources I

Morning folks!!Timing is everything. If you are selling mens ties in Manhattan and your store is inside the subway station do you really think you can open at 10am like other retail stores? I say you would be a fool to do that. Why? Because the most likely time of day to sell that tie is early in the morning on their way to work. So if your busines...

ThePiratebay.org, with an estimated 22 million users, is one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet. Torrent sites basically list content that is available for download from other sites. As you might guess, much of the listed content involves copyrighted material, like Hollywood movies, music videos, songs, software, video games ...

Meet One of The Smartest Domainers Alive.Join us for a Webinar on February 18 featuring Madison ave and Domain legend Rob Grant .About Rob GrantRob Grant walked away from a dream job on Madison Avenue so he could move to New York’s Adirondack Mountains, even though there was no job waiting for him there. “We happened to get lucky because we hit tha...

CONCORD, N.H. - A cybersquatting case recently transferred to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire was dismissed in its entirety on Jan. 22 after a federal judge found that the plaintiffs' mark has not acquired secondary meaning (Daniel J. Philbrick and Dover Sports Inc. v. eNom Inc., No. 07-215-JL, D. N.H.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEX...

"I determined that Meetup would have nothing to do with eyeballs for dollars. So I built Meetup not as an ad platform but as a fee-based service, charging $12 to $19 a month to the more than 100,000 group organizers in 3,600 cities around the globe. But along the way, Meetup organizers started finding sponsors of their own, and brands started knock...

Via ChiefHomeOfficer:IttyBiz Wonders: How To Deal When You Want to Have Sex With a Client“No idea. But let me know if you come up with anything.???How’s that for a catchy headline? Freakin’ eh!Not much for pay-off, but Naomi Dunford’s blog, IttyBiz, drips with attitude — and stark, in-your-face honesty about how business and marketing work.Like wri...

Aftermarket.com Domainer Mardi Gras Auction Offers Value, Price & 0% Financing In the ongoing discussion regarding auctions, a continuing theme is the lack of quality inventory - a certainty given the finite state of the domain product. Yet, like all industries, it is the ‘curve' that dictates the state of the marketplace, the availabilit...

After a few more months of hard work, Bido back in the auction business. Sahar announced that the Bido re-launch is taking place on FEB 19th with the domain