MAGID ON TECH: Cisco''s Big Online Video Announcement - San Jose Mercury News MAGID ON TECH: Cisco''s big announcement with router - San Jose Mercury News Amazing breakthrough for Internet TV & Online Video. Cisco made a big deal out of this announcement, claiming in advance that it would "forever change the Internet." ... The router is mostly about delivering video; Cisco claims the routers could make it ... Inside Domaining - 36 min ago

Bido’s Vote For Profits (Video Testimonial) This is from Cole Mason, one of our highly valued customers here at Bido. (Thanks Cole!) Conceptualist - 2 hr 9 min ago

Congratulations Guns! So Guns.com sold for $800k.  That’s awesome. ‘Guns’ happens to be my middle name. By the way, don’t miss out on the steamy sale of Risque.org! DomainGang.com - 2 hr 18 min ago

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Using Smartshops to Create Free Minisites 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 .co... DomainTweeter.com - 4 hr 11 min ago

Sex.com auction getting mainstream press coverage DomainReport.ca In 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... Dot CA Domains - 4 hr 18 min ago

Are “Rating” Sites That Accept Ads Destined To Be Sued, Welcome to the World of Ye... What happens when a site which is suppose to be giving out unbiased reviews of products is accused of changing it reviews based on ad dollars? Welcome to the world of Yelp.com, which was hit with a second class-action suit this week, alleging that they “extorted” companies by offering to hide bad reviews and promote ... The Domains - 4 hr 48 min ago

Go Daddy Set to Hit 40 Million Domains Milestone on Wednesday 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 Domain Name Wire - 5 hr 0 min ago

World''s first compact 3D videocam costs US$21,000 - Home AV - Crave - CNET Asia World''s first compact 3D videocam costs US$21,000 - Home AV - Crave - CNET Asia Panasonic''s new 3D Camera Recorder was introduced at the recent CES. The world''s first 3D Camera Recorder''s will retail for $21,000 and will be selling this fall (available for pre-order). Domain Name ''3DCameraRecorder.com'' is available for purchase!Conta... Inside Domaining - 5 hr 8 min ago

Win $50 and a $95 Vector Logo by Finding the Sale of the Day Find the highest sale of the day (Sedo, NameJet, SnapNames and so on), post it, win $50 and a vector logo worth $95: that’s really all there is to it. For more details about the third DomainDiscussions.com contest, click on the link below: http://www.domaindiscussions.com/find-sale-day-win-50-t186.html Domaining Tips - 6 hr 10 min ago

Nominet To Release Two Letter, One Character and Other Reserved .uk Domain Names 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 » DnExpert - 6 hr 21 min ago

Seller Can Cover PayPal Fee (Not Mass Pay) Earlier today an attendee for my upcoming conference, DNCruise.com, paid for their pass through PayPal. When I received the payment I noticed no fees were taken out of my account. I asked the payee if they used mass pay and to my surprise they said no. Instead, they were given the option to pay the ChefPatrick.com - 6 hr 25 min ago

XHeaderPro header design software (pre-release review) I just purchased an advance copy of XHeaderPro (being released tomorrow) and thought I would take a few minutes to highlight some of its features.  The program is made by the same company which makes XSitePro, a turn key web site building program which sells for $297. XheaderPro ($47) is a much simpler program which does DomainTweeter.com - 7 hr 3 min ago

Who Bought Retweet.com for $250k – Are they ready to face the Trademark Squad? A solid domain & underlying technology sale has been reported on Mashable and announced by DNN; the sale occurred on Flippa – a selling platform that mainly caters to developed web sites. The apparent sale – which still needs to be confirmed – was for a staggering $250,000 dollars. A bidder took advantage of the... DomainGang.com - 8 hr 7 min ago

CNN.com Covers Pending Sex.com Domain Auction I always find it interesting when a large news source like CNN covers domain names. It’s never a bad thing for the domain name industry when this happens, because it sheds some more light on to domain names and the values many carry. The bad thing, the reporters mainly have little to no clue what DotWeekly - 8 hr 21 min ago

SEX.COM --- Cool domain? yes.. Worth $14,000,000? no!! The domain sold for something like $12 to $14 million as was reported in January of 2006 by DNJournal… It was funny to see SEX.NET sell only a couple of month’s later for a fraction of what SEX.COM sold for… It went for only $454,000 during a live auction. Gary Kremen of Grant Media sold both SEX.COM and SEX.NET in 2006 and moved ont... DomainStryker.com - 9 hr 8 min ago

I Sold a Domain…at a Rest Stop If you skip through the articles archived here on the site, you’ll find we have tried to be open and straightforward about auctions and the auction process. We’ve attempted, on several occasions, to add some insight to bidding and buyers, results, selections and submissions. In terms of submission, the subject here, there... DomainConsultant.com - 9 hr 25 min ago

Sedo Weekly Sales Chart topped by Guagua.com for $100,000 USD Sedo sold Guagua.com (several meanings possible) for $100,000. Other notable sales include risultati.it (Results in Italian) for 32,000 Euro (appx. $43,000) Gastronomie.com (gastronomy in German) for 35,000 Euro (appx. 47,500 USD) and Pepe.com for $45,000. According to Domain Name Wire, the domain name had been bought by Francois of ... Domain Name News - 9 hr 28 min ago

How xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Sold for $2.7 million dollars It doesn’t happen every day that a domain sells for a whopping $2.7 million dollars, in a market that is hit by a hefty dip in the global economy. Against all odds, ************.*** made it. The niche market of ******* has been doing rather well in the past fourteen months, giving the domain’s owner, *** *********, DomainGang.com - 9 hr 37 min ago

ICANN Decides Kenya is Safe Enough I’ve been pretty hard on ICANN over the last few years only because I just don’t feel they look out for anyone but themselves.  To prove they don’t look out for anyone, they’ve decided that Nairobi Kenya would make a nice venue for their latest meeting.  According to Rod Beckstrom “Security is a concern ... DomainShane.com - 10 hr 1 min ago

Retweet.com Sells for $250,000 As reported by Mashable Retweet.com Sold for $250,000 on the Flippa.com market place. After receiving bids by 34 bidders up to $202,000, a new bidder joined the auction and bought the site domain for its listed BIN (buy it now) price of $250,000. The identity of the buyer has yet to be revealed. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisem... Domain Name News - 10 hr 7 min ago