March 09, 2010 Posts

This is from Cole Mason, one of our highly valued customers here at Bido. (Thanks Cole!)

Press Release .CO Founders Program Launches to Engage Early Adopters, Proactively Develop Domain Extension MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– .CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co), a new company formed by Arcelandia S.A., a wholly-owned Colombian company, and U.S. company Neustar, Inc., today announced the launch plan for the .CO domain name ext...

Hot on the heels of other ccTld and gTld registries that recently announced/released their previously reserved short domain names (.de and .pro registries for examile), Nominet, the .uk registry has Read more »

SocialDomainers.com, a new social network for Social Domainers has just been launched by Tony Kanakaris, a New York based domainer. The network was set up in order to help local domainers meet and connect. For today's launch, the site is giving away an Apple iPad for the 1,000th member to sign up for the site,

Debtors behind on bills for the past year. With Sex.com heading to the auction block, there's a been a lot of talk about what went wrong with the current owner, Escom LLC. According to a Reuters article, Escom has been in default on its loan for over a year to lender DOM Partners. "The

Domain Name Wire started publishing five years ago today. On March 9, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire, reporting on the sale of Local.com for $700,000. 3,141 posts later, Domain Name Wire is running as strong as ever. If you're reading this, I'd like to thank you for making Domain Name Wire

Go Daddy set to hit another milestone. About six months after crossing the 30 million domain name mark, The Go Daddy Group is set to surpass 40 million domains under management, most likely on Wednesday. So if you register a domain name tomorrow, you might get some extra notoriety if you time it just right. Ten

DomainReport.caIn the last few weeks it has been well known in domaining circles that the domain name Sex.com is coming up for auction.Today I saw an article on the front page of Yahoo on this upcoming auction. It's always interesting to see how the mainstream press covers domain name news. As the auction gets closer we'll probably see more and m...

Back on December 28, 2009 the domain name Pepe.com sold on Bido.com for $15,000 USD and was stated by Bido owner Sahar that the sale was a "Milestone" sale for the Bido domain name auction site. A short three months later, the domain name PePe.com sold at Sedo.com domain name aftermarket service for $45,000 EUR!

This is a guest post written by Simonetta Batteiger, Director of Sales Operations North America. The article discusses Sedo's 2009 Market Study (that's a link to the pdf file), which was recently released. The information in the study is valuable to domain investors and can be helpful in seeing market conditions and trends. ———...

Hello everyone, Today's template is Tori. What is Tori? How about ?? It looks like this and it's one of my favourites. Internally, we've always referred to it as the "Japanese Template" or the "Bird Template", so we decided on the name Tori. Which is, yes, "Bird" in Japanese. After 14 great new templates over 3...

The .Co registry announced today what it is calling the .CO Founders Program Starting today, the registry is starting to accept applications, for "the .CO Founders Program, an initiative designed to help qualified ?first movers? to proactively develop and maintain domains with the .CO extension prior to the public launch in July. The .CO Founders P...

According to the BBC News ,? ICANN is going to reconsider the .XXX extension on Friday March 12 at its meeting in Nairobi. The BBC article quotes a representative of ICANN saying: There is "no indication what action the ICANN board will take". "However, it is unlikely to overturn the decision immediately without consulting other members of Icann...

Friday, March 12 at noon eastern: RESERVE NOWSkip Hoagland. Elliot Silver, The Castello Brothers, Rob Grant – You! Are you ready to become the next major geodomainer? Colin Pape thinks you are, and he’s the next special guest on Domain Success. As the creator of ShopCity.com, and owner of the 20,000 city-specific domains it can serve, Pape has crea...

The South Florida Domainers group has announced our next meeting. We will be meeting on the night of March 16 at a local sushi thai restaurant.?At the last meeting we had over 50 peoplein attendance and we hope to have everyone back this time plus more!? We welcome all domainers big or small young or Related posts:South Florida Domainers Meeting...

Just opened an account with SmartName last week and have been experimenting with their SmartShops offering.?? It's too soon to see revenue or search engine rankings, but so far I'm impressed with the quality of the storefronts it creates. SmartShops looks to be particularly suited for exact match product domains (both .com and alternative extension...

Lately a few friends and I have been discussing mathematical models for predicting domain values. More for fun than profit but during the discussion a friend sent me a post written by "Lisa" on WebmasterWorld.com wayyyy back in 2002. Although I'm not sold on this as an estimator or agree with her No related posts.

On a yacht sipping margaritas with scantily clad belly dancers circling around me.? No really!? Where do you picture yourself as a domainer five years from now?? I really want you to ask yourself that question.? Do you have a five year plan?? Are you setting goals for yourself each day, week, month, quarter….Eh you