THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 22nd, 2014 My entire running team ran Boston yesterday and killed it. The boys all ran under 3:13 and our group is all 46-55 years old. The girls all ran under 3:25. I didn’t run again this year for a few reasons. One, I didn’t run my 3:11 until after the date required, and two, because there was just too much emotion in...
DomainShane.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 7:51
Rook Media acquires DomainSponsor Oversee.net surprised many in the domainer community yesterday when it announced the sale of its flagship parking service, DomainSponsor, to upstart rival Rook Media. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, means Oversee, once the parent to brands such as Moniker and SnapNames, now barely has a presence in the domain name industry at all. ...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 6:58
Registrant complains to ICANN over Uniregistry’s premium names A would-be new gTLD registrant has appealed to ICANN over the domain name moviestar.photo, which she was unable to register because Uniregistry had reserved it as a premium name. Danielle Watson filed a formal Request for Reconsideration (pdf) with ICANN last week, in the mistaken belief that ICANN had placed the domain she wanted on...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 6:16
.nokia — a dot-brand without a brand? Will .nokia be the next withdrawal from the new gTLD program? It seems possible, if reports about the death of the Nokia brand are to be believed. The news blog Nokia Power User reported yesterday that Nokia the company will be renamed Microsoft Mobile following the close of the $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia by […]
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DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 5:22
HowStuffWorks.com To Be Sold for 18 % of its 2007 Purchase Price The Wall Street Journal reported that Discover Communications is selling the popular website, HowStuffWorks.com. They will be taking a loss on the sale as they are only realizing 18% of their 2007 purchase price. From the article: For Discovery Communications Inc., DISCA -0.49% the website HowStuffWorks.com proved to be one investme...
The Domains - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 5:21
Daily Sales Recap 4-21-14 Election.com sells for $65,100 on NameJet Daily Sales Recap 4-21-14 Election.com was the story today, not everyday you have a one word, generic.com that has value. Another thing I have added is going below $100 on Go Daddy Auctions, I have had readers ask me why I don’t publish the lower ones ? I did not think anyone would care but […]
TLDInvestors.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 4:58
Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: ngsn.com $20k, flavour.ca $17,650 (4-6-14 to 4-12-14) Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-6-14 to 4-12-14 were $2.065.279. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy to keep the sale confidential. … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 4:13
HybridDomainer.com is Now TLDInvestors.com It was in an email conversation with Elliot Silver last year that I first expressed my interest to rebrand. I did not know at the time Elliot was planning one of the best rebrands in the online space, with an absolutely perfect name. I was glad for him as he made what I felt was […]
TLDInvestors.com - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 0:48
Monday, April 21, 2014
Domain Picks for Apr 22nd 2014 and After The Goldrush I am listening to Neil Young After The Goldrush, remember that? Great song, “There was a band playin’ in my head, and I felt like getting high, thinkin’ about what a friend had said, I was hopin’ it was a lie…” I can so...
DomainPicks.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 21:17
Domain Availability Notice Or Spam ? Having been on the receiving end of many unsolicited emails over the years, you could say I have a finely tuned BS radar. The same cannot be said for newcomers to the domain name industry (or new Internet users), who fall victim to these scams. Here is one I received this morning: ————- Domain Availability ......
Election.com Sells at NameJet for $65,100 ELECTION·COM sold at auction for $65,100. Congrats to the winning bidder! pic.twitter.com/DNhJ6krC4z — NameJet (@namejet) April 21, 2014 The auction for Election.com on NameJet ended this afternoon, and after quite a long extended auction, the domain name sold for $65,100. There were 448 bids from 323 bidders in this public au...
DomainInvesting.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 18:29
Election.com sells for $65,100 at a Namejet auction The domain name Election.com was sold for $65,100 in a public auction at Namejet. There were 323 bidders in the auction. There was no reserve. Estibot.com valued the domain at $142,000. The domain was registered in 1995 and was auctioned … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 18:4
Should You Leave a Stable Job to Start Your Own Company? PLUS: Square Is Losing Millions Of Dollars And Wants To Sell; 3Q Digital:Their Amazing Billboard;How Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ Is Spawning Amazing Travel Videos; Search Engine Optimization: Why Image Alt Tags are Important and Absolute Versus Relative Linking; The New Definition of Search Engine Optimization; Google just revealed the incred...
The Frager factor - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 16:45
Matt Cutts Answers How To Research A Domain Before Buying Matt Cutts got a question today from someone who purchased a domain name and then found out the domain had been in trouble with Google. The domain is not currently indexed and the new owner has to do a reconsideration request. Matt points out steps to check to see if the domain had problems in […]
The Domains - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 16:8
Game of Domain Thrones: 10 Unlikely domain mergers With RookMedia acquiring DomainSponsor from Oversee on Friday, the game of “domain thrones” is getting warmer. After much deliberation, we came up with a list of 10 unlikely domain mergers, producing hybrid brands for the resulting joint ventures. Enjoy! Sedo Daddy – This mega corporation will converge the strong Ge...
DomainGang.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 16:0
Oh My! Rook Media Buys DomainSponsor in a MAJOR Shakeup of Domain Monetization Consolidation continues to change the domain world as we knew it. In one of the biggest mashups to date, Rook Media acquired Oversee.net's seminal domain monetization business, DomainSponsor, today at an undisclosed price. Here's the back story behind the BIG Deal.
DNJournal - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 15:46
Uniregistry joins Minds+Machines today Only a few hours remain until the Silicon Beach TLD Fest, sponsored jointly by Uniregistry and Minds+Machines. The joint conference, focuses on the new gTLDs and the expansion of the Internet name space, a revolution in the making. The conference takes place in Santa Monica, California, at 6:00pm PDT today and all guests had to [R...
DomainGang.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 15:13
How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase? Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about buying a domain name: Question: How can we check to see if a domain (bought from a registrar) was previously in trouble with Google? I recently bought, and unbeknownst … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Monday, April 21, 2014 - 15:5
Rook Media Acquires DomainSponsor.com Oversee.net, announced today that Rook Media, has acquired its DomainSponsor monetization business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oversee.net which once owned the domain name registrar, Moniker.com, the auction platform snapnames.com and DomainSponsor.com is now left with hundreds of thousands of domain names as well a...
