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Been working allot lately, on Bido mostly, we have a roadmap and a timeline and it isn't easy to put it all together, especially at the pace we're developing. So.. when Michelle brought up the idea to go swimming with the dogs (Lala & a guest dog) I just couldn't say no. Here are some pics..
Enjoy,
Sahar
This was not a good week for one of the world's richest men - Hong Kong based billionaire Li Ka Shing. A WIPO panel ruled that two of his companies were guilty of reverse domain name hijacking when they tried to wrest an IDN domain away from its rightful owner, Canada's Netego DotCom.
SEDO DOES IT AGAIN!!!
Brazil.com sells for $500,000 through Sedo.com. At $500,000 this sale ties for the seventh largest year to date. It was just last week we reported the sale of Server.com for $770,000 by Sedo.
Brazil.com is an amazing Geo domain name and home of Victoria Secret super model Adriana Lima (pictured left).
Breakdown of
For The First Time in Ten Years GamingDomains.com is Offering Some of Their Premium Gambling Domain Names for Sale
(Las Vegas, NV) August 7, 2009 - In general, the domain name industry has been feeling a surge in business over the last decade or so.? Those who are looking to invest in a premium
August 1st, the original launch date for the domain extension .CM, never happened due to some technical difficulties with Cameroon internet connections. As promised in my last update I'd keep everyone posted on the progress of .CM launch.
This morning I received an email from the CEO of Netcom.cm Moustapha Saya Kaigama. Here is what
This weeks video is sponsored by GamingDomains.com. For the first time in ten years GamingDomains.com is offering some of their premium gambling domain names for sale. We also did a press release earlier today for GamingDomains.com which you can read here.
If you did not catch last week?s video episode you can check it out here.
When Amazon purchased online shoe retailer Zappos for $928 million in July, it got the Clothes.com domain in the package. Zappos had earlier bought the domain from Idealab for $4.9 million probably with the aim to branch out into online clothes sales.
George Kirikos pointed this out to TechCrunch – Amazon's SEC filing mentions the Clothes.com...
Assetize, the website that caused a stir for "assetizing" Facebook vanity urls, will let you park your unused Twitter accounts and earn money on them.
In order to be eligible for an Assetize account you need at least 200 Twitter followers – if you meet the requirements you can register for an invite on the Assetize
TechCrunch and DNW.com both covered this story today. Turns out that Zappos.com paid $4.9 million to acquire Clothes.com from IdeaLab in 2008.? The new revealed domain price puts Clothes.com at the second largest sale of 2008 behind the sale of Fund.com according to DNJournal's sale chart for 2008.
Big sales like this seldom get reported...
Another look at cost-per-action and how it can be used with domain names.
With Rick Latona Auction's CPA (cost-per-action) domain name auction on the horizon, I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit CPA and how it can make money for domainers.
Most domainers use pay-per-click to monetize their domain names. This is a great monetization...
Paid-inclusion's future is questionable.
Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) saw its revenue plunge 44% this quarter compared to the same one last year, and the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal could make a further dent when it goes into effect.
On its earnings conference call this week, Marchex CFO Michael Arends said:
Furthermore, during the second quarter, Yahoo...
DNA art company profits from DNAArt.com domain name.
[Editor's note: Over the past few days we've been collecting stories of "end user" companies that bought domain names in the aftermarket. They realized it was a smart move and are reaping the benefits. This is the first in a series of posts about companies who
Lead Networks files for arbitration.
Domain name registrar Lead Networks Domains Pvt. Ltd. has filed for arbitration to challenge ICANN's decision to not renew its accreditation.
ICANN had sent a breach notice to the registrar for failing to comply with UDRP decisions. Instead of de-accrediting the registrar for the continued breach, ICANN decid...
Ancestry.com files four domain disputes.
In its SEC filing to go public, Ancestry.com warned that it may have difficulty protecting its brand in domain names.
The company just took its first step to protecting its name by filing four separate arbitration requests for domain names with World Intellectual Property Organization. It seems that the...
Zappos ponied up serious money for Clothes.com domain name last year. Now it's Amazon.com's toy.
Online shoe retailer Zappos paid $4.9 million to acquire the domain name Clothes.com from IdeaLab last year, SEC records show:
In May 2008, we acquired the Clothes.com internet domain name from Idealab. The domain name was recognized as a purchased int...
Texas lawyer threatens others but forgets to register her own domain name.
Yesterday we wrote about Mina Brees, a Texas lawyer who registered assumed names of Texas restaurants that had let their D.B.A.s lapse. She then sent letters (acting as a lawyer on behalf of a client) to the restaurants offering to sell them back
Domain names are unique, every single one of them! I personally think that domain names hold some of the most value due to there marketing power that each one of them hold.
They take up little space, but yet speak so loudly!
Anybody with an internet connection can access a domain name / website site around the
First I would like to apologize for the down time today at DotWeekly. We had some server issues but things should be good to go now, but could be a little slow from time to time! With the down time, it also holds me back from writing anything.
So now my brain is fried and I
Our logo contest for Aeroplanes.com has ended over at 99Designs. We have?painstakingly chosen 16 entries as finalists and will now undergo a consultation process with various experts to select a winner.
Click here to view our 16 finalists.
Aeroplanes.com is now on Twitter. You can follow Aeroplanes on Twitter for regular updates, as we build the br...
I want to examine whether American professional sports teams seem to value generic domain names for their websites. Surprisingly, there are a whole host of sports teams that do not own the exact keyword .com domain name of their brand, even though they are losing a considerable amount of traffic as a result. I searched
Related posts:Relevant Exp...
If you run an ecommerce site and would like to get your products on Order.com now is the time.
We are currently accepting qualified merchants into our database during our alpha-testing phase.?
Order.com?will be?bringing flat rate pricing to our customers?
no more click fraud
no more bid management
no more limited catalog loads due to overpriced CP...
Yesterday, according to Reuters, former toy retailer, KBToys, which filed for bankruptcy in December, sold its trademark, logos and domain names at a bankruptcy auction for $2.1 million.
The company's assets, including 15 registered trademarks including? KB Toys and Toy Works, and more then 65 URLs, including kbtoys.com.
CE Stores, a retail operato...
The seeminly never ending sage of the .CM landrush and live registration mode, has gotten yet another push back.
The .CM registry announced today that the Landrush (the pre-order process) for .CM domains, which closed back on July 31st, will now be re-opened for two more weeks on Monday.? The registry will not accept Live registrations
Rupert Murdock, whose News Corp, owns everything from Fox Television, to the Wall Street Journal, to the New York Post and media outlets all around the world, took a look at his financial statements for his fiscal year ending in June and came to a business decision:
You're going to start paying for his content.
Realizing that
TechCruch.com is reporting that Amazocomn. as part of its acquisition of Zappos.com,? is getting the domain Clothes.com thrown in.
According to TechCrunch, the domain name, clothes.com was purchased by Zappos.com, from IdealLab.com for $4.9 Million in 2008.
The article points out had that domain sale been reported, it would have been the second lar...
Why? Because GM is gunning for the domain to launch it's biggest revolution ever. According to AdAge: "Perhaps you've seen the mysterious (and maddening) advertising blitz popping up on cable TV, elevator-TV screens and the internet this week. It features a smiling and winking electrical outlet that end up being the zero in the number 230, which it...
Go over to GMX.com and reserve your user name. They have a business plan to return millions from a three-letter domain.According to the site:GMX (Global Mail Exchange) is a major branch of United Internet, a listed company, and one of the world's most successful e-mail providers. With its innovative webmail system, GMX provides solutions for home u...
I'd say a lot since for now they are running a big ad campaign with the call-to-action MSVirtualization.mobi.What is virtualization, you ask... Virtualization is consolidating physical servers and cutting data center costs. It is more valuable then a server alone and therefore should be more valuable then Server.com. IBM, HP and Microsoft are curre...
Self employment in India is HUGE in and growing by leaps and bounds. India is destined to be a world financial superpower with one of the world's largest populations. The government in India along with banks and other institutions are active in promoting folks to become self employed.
Don't miss this opportunity to get a top
Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com has provided me a number of links to mainstream media stories that profile the exciting industry of domain name investing. The stories are from the likes of the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek, CNN Money, Bizjournals, Boston.com, etc.
The links (view them below)?were added to the current discussion page at Wik...
As the battle continues at Wikipedia to have an informative Domaining page,?biased commenters keep trying every trick in the book to undermine this goal. The latest trick is to request that Wikipedia eliminate the domaining page, and just?merge it?with a page entitled "Domain Name Speculation". There is no logic or persuasive points articulated by ...
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