Bucking the economic down-turn, domain marketplace Sedo reported record quarterly results from their auction-house GreatDomains. Sales for their November and December auctions totalled over $600,000, with 91 domains sold. Top sales included Crab.com, Hole.com, ZP.com and Hottube.com. Whilst these are quite good quality, they aren't A-grade indu...

Thanks primarily to the work of George Kirikos, many domain owners should now be aware that ICANN are proposing the removal of price controls on the new gTLDs. On the surface, this may seem harmless enough; what do you care about the renewal costs of domains that don't even exist yet? You need

For many domainers, the results from the?Overture Keyword Tool were a key metric in estimating how many visitors a domain would receive, before taking the plunge to buy it.? Unfortunately, after an increasingly intermittent service, Yahoo shut the tool down late last year, leaving domain buyers with one less way of predicting traffic. As several of...

The Phoenix Business Journal?is reporting that Canal Partners LLC of Scottsdale has acquired a stake in Limos.com for $2.5 million.? Of interest for domain owners, the article also mentions that the site produced $5 million in sales during 2007 from 5 million visitors - that's a healthy $1 per visitor.? They're predicting that revenue will grow...

Microsoft have filed another cybersquatting lawsuit, this time?against Domain Investments LLC?of Florida, and 23 other unnamed parties.? Microsoft is seeking damages of $100,000 per domain, plus any revenue made from the domains, as well as charges of false advertising. According to their website, Domain Investments LLC is a "domain development and...

Cyber Monday is nearly upon us again!? For those of you not familiar with the term, Cyber Monday refers to the Monday after Thanksgiving that signals the beginning of the online Holiday shopping rush.? For domainers and website owners, this can be a very profitable time, especially?if you have your landing pages and sites optimized

Kara Swisher of Boomtown?is reporting that negotiations by Facebook to buy?the micro-blogging?service?Twitter have failed.? Twitter were apparently offered $500 million in Facebook stock, but the actual value of that stock appears to have been?a sticking point.? Founded by?Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in October 2006, Twitter has seen 6...

There are rumors today that Microsoft will be rebranding its Live Search as Kumo next year.? According to Microsoft-watcher LiveSide.net, Microsoft recently took control of the domain Kumo.com and?it is now pointed at?their servers.? Frankly, I'm not convinced that Kumo is the new brand for Microsoft's search.? Apparently, "kumo" translates from Ja...

Google have launched SearchWiki, allowing users to customize the results they see for their searches. Users who are signed in to Google will be able to remove, re-rank, and add search results, and these changes will be shown every time they do the same search. Although the changes will only affect the user's own results, this