August 04, 2009 Posts

As I reported in my previous blog post, Sedo.com responded to my reaction towards their pornographic banner invasion, by removing the text referencing certain adult domain names for their upcoming adult auction. In a nutshell, their amendment of the original ad retained the main image, which displays a semi-nude blonde seen from behind. This versio...

I'd like to start off by saying this is not a paid article. Instead a thank you to a long time advertiser and an asset to the Indian domain name community. inForum.in was started in January of 2007 by Jeffrey Behrendt. Jeff, an Indian domain investor himself, owns about 1,000 domains with either the .in or

A little R&R, now a fresh start to the week. Austin gets hot in the summer, and this year has been particularly brutal. So around this time of year my family usually takes off for a week to a cooler climate. Last year we went to Seattle, which has an average high temperature in the 70s

Company cites global domain name protection as risk in S-1. Ancestry.com has filed to go public. It's another example of a great business built on a generic, category-killer domain name. But in its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company cites challenges acquiring country code domain names as a risk: If we

Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB), have announced that they have been selected to manage Twitter?s domain name portfolio. "Melbourne IT could not disclose the contract value but has conceded the Twitter account is reasonably small. Compared to some other clients that hold in excess of 10,000 domains, the social networking company is relatively new and is sta...

FreshDrop.net originally launched in 2007 as a unique tool for browsing GoDaddy's popular TDNAM domain marketplace. Over the years, founder Tan Tran and his team have worked on many enhancements and new features that have transformed FreshDrop.net into an all-around powerful…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Sponsored by FreshDrop - Pow...

Here is a little Godaddy.com news! Godaddy Girls has been a big hit for Godaddy.com. Some come and go and others like Danica Patrick and Candice Michelle have been around for a pretty long time. Well, Godaddy has added a new Godaddy Girl™ to it's line up and this time it's a website owner! Marina Orlova,

Most of my domain purchases have come from either direct inquiries to domain owners after Whois searches or by finding domain names for sale listed by companies such as BuyDomains and Sedo. I have also purchased domain names via drop auction, new registration and a variety of other places commonly known by domain investors. I have Related posts:...

This is fantastic. You ever wonder what Social Media is? Ever wonder how you or businesses are supposed to use it? Here is a great intro. What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Marta Kagan. Read more articles on this topic at Green TaxiF**King Social Media Related posts:GreenTaxi Social Media Read more articl...

Morning Folks!! I will be announcing another domain sale later this week. This is a geo domain. Of course when I bought it and even before I sold it I did not categorize it as a geo domain even though it is. This was an early purchase back in 1996. Not a 7 figure domain. But a pretty good return if you have patience. More and more I look at domains...

Out of the news yesterday,? of the first ever arrest of a person for domain theft, came this gem from the LATimes.com: ""In a strange series of events befitting the shady world of domain name speculation, New Jersey state police arrested a man on suspicion of stealing the rights to p2p.com and selling them to Los

According to Internet data firm StatCounter, Microsoft's Bing search engine had a 9.41% share of the U.S. search market in July, up from 8.23 percent in June. Google's share of the US search market slipped to 77.54%? from 78.48 % StatCounter said Google's share of the global search market slipped in July to 89.23 percent from 89.80...

Michael Jackson’s estate looks to Apple to promote, distribute, and sell Jermaine Jackson’s ‘Smile’."Michael Jackson's special administrators want the estate to cash in on a song one of his brothers performed at the memorial, but time is of the essence," TMZ reports."In docs filed with the court, lawyers for the estate say they've negotiated a very...

It really was love at first site. Notice my spelling here – not a typo! I bought my first domain back in April of 2004 – HappySticks.com, really not the best domain name and I would soon-after buy a number of other names that really weren't very good. Domains like IWantASegway.com and DropShippingSuccess.com. Like many

On July 22nd of this year I wrote an entry about how the impact of a press release could directly effect the final outcome of a Bido auction.? In part two of this series I conducted an interview with Andrew Douglas, who created the press release for shoot.us, for his Bido auction which occurred on