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Watching District 9 is like witnessing the first atomic bomb explode over Hiroshima and living through the nuclear onslaught to talk about it.
The movie is one gigantic message about humanity's past, present and uncertain future. It's delivered through a science-fiction wrapper that slowly but surely peels away to reveal what lurks underneath. The ...
By Jarred Cohen, VP Operations, Bido
We just released two additional whois verification methods to make it easier to get your domains listed on Bido. So in addition to the legacy method of placing a unique account tag in whois like we had, sellers can now add a nameserver record to validate ownership. The third method of ownership validation that ...
The new September Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Despite nearly a dozen false starts, 29-year-old entrepreneur Aron Meystedt refused to throw in the towel. Now the new owner of the first .com domain name ever registered feels he has finally found the business he was meant to be in - domains investing and development.
The remainder of this week will be exceptionally busy ones for most of the major domain auction houses. Starting tomorrow and continuing every day through Monday one or more special auctions will be either opening for bids, taking final bids or reaching deadlines for submitting domains for upcoming auctions.
Just a quick note to all of those that have been waiting patiently for either the Chef Patrick or WhyPark wallpaper, they are ready!
Get your wallpaper now! (Adults Only)
Last week I wrote Intuit Agrees To Buy Mint.com For $170 Million. Updated news has come forth about the domain name itself. A few years ago Hite Capital sold Mint.com in exchange for a substantial amount of Series A stock. A source after the recent acquisition said, "That stock was worth a couple million dollars".
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When I had first heard about Bing, I figured it was Microsoft's helpless attempt to revamp their MSN search in order to beat out Google. As I learnd more about Bing and began using it more often, I learned my original assumption was wrong. Bing has so much more to offer, from booking travel to
Elephant Traffic officially launched today as an online service for direct navigation advertising – a new phenomenon in online advertising.
Elephant Traffic allows advertisers to select direct navigation domain names they want to get traffic from, as opposed to conventional pay per click advertising that lets clients get traffic based on sear...
Gangsters.com sold for US $16,100.00 on Ebay yesterday in an auction involving 30 bidders.
Touted as a great domain name for Mafia Wars type games or mafia genre movies and literature, the domain name got a bit of publicity on various domaining blogs with people debating what amount the name would go for.
I personally thought it
MeetDomainers, the European meeting of domain investors to be held at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Poland, September 25-27 have released their meet agenda and auction domain inventory.
The list shows some names starting at $1 with no reserve and some premium names with reserves.
The top names to be auctioned off include: aukcja.pl (auction ? 25,000 E...
AfternicDLS has sold 371 domains this past week for over $600,000.
Some of the top sales included iRent.com for $20,000, SofaLand.com for $6,000, WirelessStore.com for $6,000, Credits.org for $5,700, and VeterinaryTechnician.com for $5,600.
Check out the full list after the jump - and don't forget to register for Afternic's free webinar outlining t...
In June of last year, Google and Louis Vuitton were engaged in battle before the Cour de Cassation (France). The French court requested the opinion of the European Court o justice (ECJ) on three matters. Today, the European Advocate General issued an opinion advising the ECJ regarding its anticipated ruling. The AG
Domain registrars seek new profit opportunities.
Yesterday's news that new domain name registrations are down sharply and the total base of domains registered is stagnant is bad news for domain name registrars.
For years, registrars have been able to count on new registrations to fuel growth. Although the margin on new registrations is small, regi...
Company to launch new e-commerce store for area rugs.
A group of investors in Iowa have purchased the domain name AreaRugs.com for $405,000 and plan to create an e-commerce store to sell rugs online. It was an all cash transaction.
Lee Weber, head of marketing for AreaRugs.com, said he had to be patient to get the
Concord Private Jets buys Jets.com for $375,000.
When I asked Damian Klinger for the name of his company, he promptly answered "Jets.com".
"OK, I mean what's your old company name," I asked.
Klinger is co-founder and president of Concord Private Jets, which just forked over $375,000 to buy Jets.com. And he's excited about it....
800.com goes for $250,000 because no one knows about the auction.
You might call it Toy Story, part 2. It goes like this: domain sells at bankruptcy auction, few people know about the auction, more buyers emerge after news of auction gets out, potential buyers challenge sale in court, auction is repeated.
That's what happened with
A preview with links to testimony for Wednesday's hearing.
Wednesday morning, the House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on the expansion of top level domain names. Four witnesses will testify: Doug Brent, Chief Operating Officer of ICANN, Richard Heath
President of International Trademark Association, Paul Stahura, Chief Executive O...
On the bright side of the recession for domain name investors, are the numbers keep going up on new businesses launched!
I was reading some pretty interesting data the other day provided by Gannett News Service. Of job seekers who gained employment in the second quarter of 2009, nearly one in ten (8.7%) did so by
Essociate.com Affiliate Network may be a new term you have yet to hear about, but now you have! Essociate has been around since 1998 so they are not the newest affiliate program in town.
Essociate offers a patented affiliate pooling, 100% leak free network. Bi-weekly payouts and real-time traffic stats!
So why am I writing about Essociate's?...
The domain name NEWisconsinBPG.com was the ugliest domain name that I have seen today while watching a little TV. The domain name happens to be for a local auto dealership. That is not the end of the story, so keep on reading!
So what is the "meaning" behind this domain name that is really wasting space
In my last musings, I stated that we would be making some exciting announcements this week. Our email subscribers should have already received the news. Now it?s time to announce to our blog subscribers.
We will be doing a press release in the near future.
Submitting Domains To The eBusinessDomains.com Marketplace
We have now rectified our domain s...
A few months ago, an acquaintance of mine shared a link with me to a private research tool he was offering,? which I was told that very few other people had access. The information this tool provided was valuable, and I thought it was great. That is, until I realized the primary purpose for this
Related posts:What Tools & Products Do You Ne...
I want to remind you that we are getting together on Thursday, September 24th at 6:30pm at the 79th Street Boat Basin. This is a casual restaurant and more of a happy hour than dinner, although there will be appetizers sponsored by WhyPark (thanks!).
Since the Boat Basin is sort of outdoors (fully covered restaurant, but
Related posts:NYC Domain...
The green taxi battle continues in the Big Apple.? The taxi drivers sued the city over the mandate to upgrade their fleets.? The city changed their stance, instead offering financial incentives for the taxis to switch over to hybrids.? Still, the taxi companies sue, claiming it is the equivalent of a mandate.
"The Bloomberg administration first Rea...
Morning Folks!! How many years do you think it would take to just look at your domains and decide to open 1000 full fledged businesses? Not just "Develop" for the sake of it", build businesses. Let me give you a quick answer. You won’t live long enough. Your kids won’t live long enough. So while folks "Develop" and experiment with minisites, PLAY w...
According to a press release today the domain AreaRugs.com was purchase for $405,000.
More great news for the domain industry.
Here is the press release:
AreaRugs.com has new ownership, having been bought by a group of investors for an astounding $405,000 for just the domain. Randy Ward, President and CEO, AreaRugs.com Inc., says, "Our goal is to b...
The European Union highest court, The European Court of Justice, issued an "interim legal opinion" that Google does not infringed on trademark holders rights, by allowing advertisers to buy keywords of registered trademarks.
As we told you back in May,? Google announced it would allow advertisers to buy the
Yahoo announced today it plans to spend more than $100 million on its new marketing campaign over the next 15 months.
The multimedia campaign will be launched in the United States next week, in the United Kingdom and India in October, and other countries next year, around the tag line: "It's You".
However, the domain name itsyou.com...
“Leading the charge, back in 1876, President Rutherford B. Hayes saw the telephone for the first time. In reaction, he said to Alexander Graham Bell, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them???? During the same year, a Western Union Internal Memo predicted similarly that, “The ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to...
This could be the hottest public service announcement ever. A campaign to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness month. Boobyball Save The Boobs video in support of ReThink Breast Cancer. Starring Aliya-Jasmine who is a TV Host in Canada and also wrote & co-directed the commercial. The campaign has everything it needs except SaveTheBoobs.com. This seems ...
And yet here we are almost two years later. I was browsing on
Frank Schilling's blog to
see what I could dig up. You would be surprised at what still applies today. I
came across a particular post titled "A
Content Site for Every Domain Name.. Powered By Yahoo!" which lists a
few sites such as Dress.com, DiamondsDirect.com, etc all in...
So, this was not my planned post today but sometimes a rant just needs to be done real time.
WHERE THE HECK DID PROFESSIONALISM GO?!?!
Over the past few weeks I have been spending quite a bit of time reviewing resumes from various job ads I have out right now for sales people. For the most part
As with many people over the past few years I have managed to acquire a collection of domain names that includes some that I plan on doing business development with, some domain names I plan to sell but many others that at the end of the day may have value but the return on my
Good morning everyone and welcome to the first in my three-part series on selling your domain names to end-users. As a domain broker I am oftentimes asked whether I try to sell domains to end-users or domain investors. The answer to this question is – both – but I do focus on end-users for a
After blogging last week about the sale of Hotel-Reservation.com for six figures, there have been more impressive sales of domains which include hyphens. The biggest (publically known) sale this week was produced by Sedo, the domain was risk-consulting.com and the price tag a cool $9,500. Backing that up was an interesting sale of add-articles.com ...
godrops
Wish there were some good deals with Snapnames private sellers, but the names have been crap lately...
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