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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Domain buyers were very active again this week. Moniker.com closed a seven-figure package sale as well as a separate 6-figure transaction and Sedo.com scored big with the year's second largest non .com gTLD sale.?
According to a spokesperson of Oversee.net their subsidiary Moniker.com has successfully brokered TShirt.com, t-shirt.com, t-shirts.com, tee-shirts.com and tees.com for $1.265 million.? The buyer is Costumes Galore, Inc.
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We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Power Networking Day in New York City. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction. You can see the results after the jump. Please note that we are
As noted during our unofficial live blogging of the SnapNames/Moniker Live auction results, the SnapNames live system marked a number of names as sold that weren't sold. Thus we're following up with a separate post with the official results, which show 17 domains sold for a total of $1,801,900. Names not sold in the live
Oversee.net CEO dispels five myths in the domain name industry. Today at DOMAINfest in New York, Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky tried to dispel 5 myths about the domain name industry. 1. The PPC Market is Dead -Oversee.net now has 1 million domain names. -28% rise in visitors year-to-date on their portfolio -15% increase in revenue
DOMAINfest draws a large crowd. DOMAINfest's Power Networking day in New York City attracted more than 200 people for the all-day event. The morning started with Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky delivering a strong talk on five myths of the domain name industry, which you can read here. Next, Naresh Rekhi of comScore gave an overview
A few hours ago Facebook announced "Places". This enables you to learn about where your friends are. For example, if you are having a coffee at your local cafe, you can let your friends know where you are and they can join you. Take note GEO domain developers! If you own a geo .com or
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I haven't done this in a while, but I thought I'd review the list of .ca domains that dropped in today's TBR and pick out some of the better ones. By 'better ones', I mean domains that have good keywords or are catchy terms that I could see being used for a website. Some are also just three letter domains, which make good acronym...
Things have been a little slow for me between developing on a couple of my new domain purchases so this has taken some time away from my normal "digging" to come up with stories to write but here are some things that grabbed my eye and thought you may find interesting.
MSN.com called Zappos Tony Hsieh
The popular project management software provider Huddle.net has dropped down $131,400 USD in an expired domain name auction at NameJet.com to purchase the matching .com domain name to their current .net domain name, Huddle.com .
According to whois records, Dave Huddle was the past owner from at least 2001 and like from the time the domain
Pool.com sent out an email with the intent to hype up (in my words) an up coming auction for 2 character .biz domain names that did not meet previous reserves or were defaulted on by past bidders… the problem is, the hype failed IMO!
The email for those who didn't see it:
2-character .biz domains are back
Latona's has just added ui.com, bs.com, er.com, jg.com and wv.com to the auction inventory at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin this August 24th – 25th. Each of these names will be available for sale to the highest bidder on the 25th of August. For more information about the domain, the auction, the trade show or funding options, please contact us.
In a WIPO decision, today a domain was take based off a comon law trademark Although the domain was parked none of the results on the landing page went to the complainant or any competitors of the complaint, rather the links on the landking page were completely unrelated to the business of the complaintant. The
According to comScore, Yahoo picked up search share in July all at the expense of Google. While one month isn't going to tell the story,? tts the 1st time I can remember Yahoo actually gaining a share of the market vs Google. According to the ranking service Yahoo gained .4% share in July while Google
According to MediaPost, by as early as this week, Yahoo searchers will begin to see "Powered by Bing" at the bottom of results pages. "The organic search transition should take several weeks, estimates Betty Stooksberry, senior director of the search alliance at Yahoo." "Yahoo also will begin testing with a small set of advertiser accounts...
A new article from PCWorld.com talks about domain names in general and the Live DomainFest domain Auction today in particular. "Forget real estate, the stock market or Internet startups, the new way to make fast money is to invest in domain names, argues a domain name brokerage that will auction off a passel of domain
Pay.Tel Sold today on Sedo.com for $5K which is the most I ever seen a .Tel domain name sell for. The link to the auction is here. Is anyone aware of a .Tel sale for a higher amount?
Moniker?s live auction at DOMAINfest New York concluded today with an official tally of $537K There was a lot of confusion concerning the domain names sold at the auction,? due to multiple domain sales being reported on the Live SnapNames.com feed which they erroneous showed as sold. Apparently many of those domain did not sell.
American Express has a found a winning social media formula with OpenForum.com. Featuring celebrity stories that they and others pass along on social media, backed by print ads that look more like informative than sales, and now with a massive TV campaign with the call-to-action domain Open.com, here's a way for the brand to attach its name to some...
The case is Doctor's Assocs. v. Subway.SY LLC, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 83223 (D. Minn. July 30, 2010). In this motion before the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Plaintiff Doctor?s Associates, Inc. (Subway) sought a permanent injunction,...
I had the chance to interview Andrew Alleman at TRAFFIC in Vancouver. I'm sure every one of my readers knows Andrew, he is the publisher of the very popular DNW.com and creator of an incredible new service called DNWStats.com. DNWStats makes it easy for people to share parking stats with each other without having to
Domain Masters will be starting in just under twenty minutes at the time of writing this post. I'll be hosting all alone this time as Patrick is in New York City enjoying DOMAINfest! Tonight I'll be interviewing the former CMO of Insurance.com along with the founder of an exciting new venture, VisitorDay.com. You can even
In the domaining world we get caught up in the strength of the domain, the look and feel of the website, and the number of visitors.? In the business world we are concerned with only two things, revenue and costs. If you keep it simple there are only two things to worry about in your
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Don't believe what your read.? I read that so not sure what to think. There are a lot of people that still tout how much they make on their sites but the numbers are declining.? Due to the collapse of the parking, we've resolved to basing the value of domains on how many people are
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Like many other Europeans, Helga von Shubert combined her US vacation with business. The 45 year old Dutch domain entrepreneur from Utrecht visited New York – along with her two girlfriends, and is attending DomainFest. "We thought this good opportunity, meet with businessmen from America, have drinks yes? And do business, and have a nice...
Blaming the "Internet portal operator" for publishing a list of domains as "SOLD" during the auction, a visibly dejected Monte Cahn announced the final list of domains sold during DomainFest New York. Apparently, the list contains only one domain, HakunaMatata2010.tel "It's true, we tried hard to sell our inventory of jewels that had been estimated...
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