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As I'm battling a rather nasty case of flu, I can't but think of the great time I had at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. The change of guard, from Rick Schwartz to Rick Latona, came with several challenges that in my opinion were handled efficiently and with utmost class.
For starters, Rick Latona's energy and "go get
If you can build a web site, or know anything at all about computers, the Internet, search engines etc., then you must have already experienced the friends, family and associates of friends who always seem to want a favour, but don't seem to place any value on the knowledge you have.
It happens a lot in
ProductDomains.com already covered this story, but I'd like to spread the word because every website has a different audience. GoDaddy has a special going on right now for domain names priced at $1.17. There's absolutely no catch. They do these types of promotions from time to time. The coupon code is BOWL2010. The $1.17 charge
Gaming enthusiasts already know that Microsoft came out with plans for a mind blowing innovation for the Xbox last year when they announced Project Natal – a "full-body motion-sensitive technology that should allow gamers to do what they want without holding on to any hardware."
Project Natal (to be released this year) will offer much of the ...
Moniker is holding low reserve and live auctions at the DomainFEST Conference that's being held in Santa Monica, California from 26-28 January 2010.
A huge number of low reserve and premium names are being auctioned off with the low reserve auction starting today (26th January) and the live auction going off on the last day of the conference (28th ...
A .ME domain name is being used for the official website of a new Universal Pictures 3D-CGI Movie – Despicable Me.
Fans of the movie starring Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Miranda Cosgrove and Julie Andrews can view videos and play games on the movie's official website – Despicable.Me.
?Dot-ME is the ideal partner to help promote Despicabl...
Up until yesterday, BuddyPress was a plugin for Wordpress MU (Multiuser) that allowed you to easily and quickly turn your Wordpress MU installation into a social network of the facebook/myspace/hi5 type, enabling easy use of social network staple features like Friend Lists, Groups, Chat, Private Messaging, Activity Streams etc.
With the release of ...
Sedo has just reported their domain sales for this week. The chart is lead by the sale of website.de for 101,150 Euro, which is about $143.000 USD. The top .COM sale was BookKeepers.com for $34,000, followed by Juegos-Gratis.com, meaning Free Games in Spanish, for 18,500 Euros ($26,000 USD) and ddm.com for $12,501. Other notable sales
We will be blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker's Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results.
Our apologies for starting the report on this late, but I actually managed to forget that I
Five questions to be answered this week in L.A.
Last week I posed 5 questions in advance of the TRAFFIC conference, and answered them yesterday. Today I'm off to Los Angeles for DOMAINfest, so here are five questions that will be answered during this conference:
1. Will DOMAINfest attendance hit a record? I think so,
SAA plays the blame game.
South African Airways (SAA) is blaming service providers for letting its domain name expire, causing a web site outtage. When the domain name expired, Network Solutions followed its standard practice of changing the DNS and sending visitors to a landing page.
In a note from SAA acting CEO Chris Smyth on
German ccTLD leads charts.
Domain broker Sedo has finalized a transaction selling German country code domain name Website.de for 101,500 EUR (about $143,000 USD at today's exchange rates). The domain was sold be an individual in Germany. The whois record has not been updated to reflect the new owner.
The top .com domain name sale
Search engine advertising report shows travel sector down, but hot season approaching.
If you can buy direct navigation travel domain names based on a multiple of recent parking performance, now might be a good time to take the plunge.
That's one bit of insight I picked up from reading Efficient Frontier's Q4 U.S. Search Engine Report.
There are...
Live report from DOMAINfest in Los Angeles.
DOMAINfest 2010 kicked off this morning in Los Angeles with the first of two PITCHfest contests.
The judges were Eric Liaw (Technology Crossover Ventures), Adam Rioux (OCTANE360), Frank Schilling (Name Administration, Inc), and Ron Sheridan.
Here are the presentations:
Samantha Frida from VeriSign ̵...
Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky gives opening remarks about how we're still in the early days of domain names.
Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky gave opening remarks to a record crowd at DOMAINfest Global 2010 this afternoon. His message was that we're still in the early days of the domain business.
Looking at Oversee's three businesses:
1....
Harmon Bajwa woke up one morning to find?a message from Facebook stating that his URL had been revoked on allegations of an alleged policy violation.
The revocation came after a message from Bajwa International stating that the company had filed a complaint with Facebook and that they were willing to buy the URL from him. Apparently,
Sony?appears to have?registered the domain playstationarc.com for its new motion controller – the Arc. However its another site, ps3arc.com?which is attracting attention. Many gamers are debating whether or not the site is legitimate, or just a marketing ploy by Sony. The domain was created on 1/20/2010 and is registered to "UnderHost Network...
Not bad, not bad at all, especially given the fact that they will be organizing another auction on Thursday. The grand total: $175,950. A total of 54 domains have been sold, the percentage of domains which have had their reserves met is impressive (54 out of 73, about 74%). The complete list of domains which
I get offers on my domain names all the time and I see a very wide range of offer amounts, styles of contacts and the information provided when being contacted.
When you have interest in a specific domain name, you first have to find data to contact the owner. This can be done several way:
Visit the
Hot Domain Auction Alert: DotWeekly.com to the rescue and lending a helping hand to my fellow readers!
ProfessionalPhotographer.com is currently on auction! 1 day left in public expired auction. View ProfessionalPhotographer.com auction here.
This is a Make Sense domain name that people naturally search for on the internet. That is what makes this ...
Oreo® cookies is the latest to jump on the Facebook.com category domain used in a recent TV ad campaign asking viewers to visit Facebook.com/Oreo .
With some 350 Million+ registered users on Facebook, I can see why these large and even small companies are marketing towards fan pages on the popular social networking site. Becoming a
I was thinking the other day that Apple® should own AppleTablet.com with all the "Apple Tablet" rumors floating around before launching tomorrow but no they do not. Some squatter owns it.
According to whois records:
The same owners of AppleTablet.com happen to own the domain name AppleIncorporated.com to boot!
Now just owning a generi...
In July, I blogged about the City in a Box platform offered by Fred Mercaldo and his team at Scottsdale.com. A few people asked me if I would be willing to use the platform on one of my websites. I can finally answer that question today.
One of the reasons I flew out to California for
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On March 10, 2010 at New York City's Marriott Marquis, the Learning Annex will be hosting its Internet Expo, billed as the "Shortcut To Internet Riches!" As part of the full day session, you will have a chance to learn from one of the most well known domain investors, Marc Ostrofsky,.
As you may know, Ostrofsky
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The inaugural Adspace Conference was held on April 22, 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California in conjunction with ad:tech San Francisco. Adspace's lead sponsor was Google, and it was billed as a "One-day event, sponsored by Google, to highlight billion-dollar ‘hidden economy' and best practices leveraging AdSense and other ne...
I must say that I agree with much of what Amity Shlaes suggests and predicts for President Obama's State of the Union speech on Wednesday (9pm EST).
She explains how Obama will announce his plans to turn us into Japan of the last 20 years.? This is not a compliment folks.? Japan has "lost" two straight Read more articles on this topic at Green Taxi...
We're excited to be in Santa Monica this week for DOMAINfest! DOMAINfest has been around since 2006 and is now the biggest industry trade show out there. After just walking around for a couple of hours it has been a veritable who's who of industry professionals. We've already met some great new people as well
The first day of DOMAINfest was exhausting, but super fun. We kicked off the day by visiting the exhibition tent and checking out all of the booths. Our favorite booth was probably The Water School, an organization that is working to provide clean drinking water to communities in need. If you haven't heard of them,
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The extended auction is now live and open for bidding.
To view and bid on the names, please visit proxibid.com/ricklatona.
Due to DomainFest and other events, we have decided to run this extended auction longer than normal to ensure that everyone can have time to view the inventory and get their bids in. The auction will end
As we discussed the other day,? ICANN is considering the recommendation of one of its groups to "create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure to protect trademarks"
The public comment period ends today , 26 January 2010.
You can read the proposal here. (pdf)
To see all the comments submitted so far, click here.
To make a...
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is holding an event in Washington DC Friday to bring the proposed Utah trademark law that we wrote about a month ago to a federal level, or Snow Bill 2.
If you look at the inviation and agenda of this meeting you will see that CADNA is going to
The No/Reserve live auction from Domainfest just concluded with a total of $152,750 in sales.
Love.info lead the way tied with FamilyCounselor.com at $12K each.
Here is the full list of domains that sold:
$12,000
Love.info
$12,000
FamilyCounselor.com
$11,000
Pucks.com
$10,000
Taskmaster.com
$8,500
Smart.org
$7,500
Snack.net
$7,000...
While I am not ordinarily a huge fan of .org's (the only .org that we have is a home loan calculator website) I did recently stumble across what I think is a very smart use of a number of category killer .org domains by the Consumer Media Network.
Ordinarily, .org domains can seem a little off
Domainers have been pouring-into Southern California over the last few days and today is the day -?DOMAINfest Global begins in just over an hour! My house has become the Domainer-pad as both Bruce Marler and Chef Patrick are staying with me for the week.
I will be filming for Domainvestors Television at DOMAINfest so get ready
At TRAFFIC I found out that people actually do use this daily list to find names and actually have picked up a few of the names and flipped them for profit.? If you've actually picked up one of the names send me an email I'd love to hear about the flip.? You can do it
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I always scan the PR wire for new information regarding tech or domains and stumbled across a quite unusual press release for the name Klimt.com. A nice name that certainly gets lots of searches for painter Gustaf Klimt. But a press release? I agree that this certainly may attract extra attention
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There are plenty of good names but I thought I would share with you a quick look at the names I think have value at their auction reserve
ExtraIncome.com Millions of people on the Internet are looking for exactly that.? An incredible affiliate site and I could see this reaching 6 digits.
CreditCheck.info Not a big fan
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Hello from sunny Southern California!? Hah, I am bending the truth just a bit.? The weather out here is reflective of that in Seattle.? Yes folks, I am hear to give you your local weather.? As some of you know I am native to Los Angeles, California.? I have had the pleasure of living here
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