Only the Gaming industry gets it! The economy might be bad but there is one piece of the industry that remains solid and healthy in its revenue: the gaming industry. I won’t bore you with the usual news about gaming domains acquired by domain investors to build gaming portals – we all know that Bill Karamouzis is the #1 player in
Acro - Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 19:6
Happy 5th Anniversary MillionDollarHomepage.com ! It was in late September, 2005 that I heard of MillionDollarHomepage.com – an odd project of a financially-strapped college freshman from England, Alex Tew. The Million Dollar Homepage project started on this day five years ago – August 26, 2005 – with the intent of collecting one million dollars from an ingenious m...
Acro - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 16:21
Happy 5th Anniversary MillionDollarHomepage.com ! It was in late September, 2005 that I heard of MillionDollarHomepage.com – an odd project of a financially-strapped college freshman from England, Alex Tew. The Million Dollar Homepage project started on this day five years ago – August 26, 2005 – with the intent of collecting one million dollars from an ingenious m...
Acro - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 16:21
Where’s the money Lebowski? That quote from the 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski always cracks me up. Perhaps, because it’s one of the funniest movies of the late 20th century. Also, because the quote is perfectly usable when one expects a large amount of money and it doesn’t arrive regardless of any inquiries and attempts to locate it. I’ve
Acro - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 15:2
Go easy on the TRAFFIC guys Apparently, domain sales at TRAFFIC Dublin weren’t that great. Objectively speaking, compared to DomainFest’s recent record sales, the TRAFFIC Dublin auction results were pitiful. But really, who cares? While it’s important for the conference organizers to make money from auctioning domains, TRAFFIC – or any o...
Acro - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 17:36
Social Media are infiltrating your computer Since the introduction of the so-called “social media” Internet users are spending increasingly higher amounts of time being “social” online. Which translates, of course, to less real-life socializing. Regardless of whether your friends, buddies, followers or readers share that same feeling of connection to yo...
Acro - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 16:38
Is the economy bad? $125,000 says ‘No’ The overall state of the economy might be bad but only to those that have not been careful with their investments. Another thing to consider is the management of credit. If you’ve been negligent in the past, you probably noticed a series of changes in your line of credit. Most credit card issuers in the
Acro - Monday, August 23, 2010 - 16:43
The day Beyonce Knowles and Nicole Kidman died I’ll be darned, I am in total shock. It seems that both Beyonce Knowles and Nicole Kidman died today. That’s what the emails said. What emails? The ones I got earlier. Wait a second, what do you mean by “spam”? You don’t believe everything that’s being discussed on the Internet? The headlines and t...
Acro - Friday, August 20, 2010 - 20:39
Why I’m glad Frager Factor won’t be leaving any time soon Some rumor about Owen Frager leaving blogging and domaining behind made me worry for a while. After all, Owen is an “old timer” that precedes the digital era that many current entrepreneurs and developers were born into. In fact, Owen isn’t going anywhere and the whole thing was an apparent misunderstanding and a mi...
Acro - Friday, August 20, 2010 - 0:43
Sedo: Sold, pushed and credited in 23 minutes Yesterday I witnessed an example of Sedo’s efficiency in completing domain transactions on their marketplace, at Sedo.com With $23 million in domain sales during the first quarter of 2010, Sedo remains the #1 place to buy and sell domains in the secondary market. But back to the sale of a two-word compound .com The $x,xxx
Acro - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 0:8
Stolen domains returned to rightful owner Those of you that had the patience to read through my exceptionally long post about the stolen domain names jis.com, leading.net, southeast.net and jaxnet.com – should be delighted with the news. The domains have been returned to their rightful owner, Karl Renaut and are now in his possession and control, as Karl confirmed this...
Acro - Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 20:34
The Expendables: It’s the 80′s – All over again Many discounted Sylvester Stallone when he produced ‘Rocky’ – the 3 Oscars it received in 1976 was perhaps a lucky strike, as the release of blockbuster ‘Star Wars’ had been delayed by 6 months. And yet, that was four years before the 70′s ended – which included the release of Rocky II. In th...
Acro - Monday, August 16, 2010 - 15:59
Get out from behind the keyboard! After last week’s revelation about the stolen domain names, jis.com, leading.net, southeast.net and jaxnet.com, I had a phone conversation with domain investor and developer, Elliot Silver. My call breakdown shows that our conversation lasted for one hour and forty minutes and it was the first time that Elliot and I talked, as ...
Acro - Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 0:42
NASA wants to use my picture Living so close to the Space Coast has its benefits; every time there is a shuttle launch I can view it, whether it is day or night. NASA is a space agency with its main facilities in Florida and California and in other locations such as Texas, but here at the Kennedy Space Center is
Acro - Friday, August 13, 2010 - 18:16
.TEL does not compute Data is far from insufficient, but still, the equation does not compute. As I’ve written many times before, numbers cannot be disputed. And the numbers about .tel are saying that there is zero growth in that TLD. While 200k .tel domains were registered between launch to mid-summer of last year, the remainder of the year
Acro - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 21:48
Was Sedo used to launder hijacked domain OXI.com ? If you thought that the incident I reported about the stolen domains jis.com, Leading.net, Southeast.net and Jaxnet.com is isolated, you’d better guess again. While that case involved the acquisition of FloridaDigital.net on Namejet in order to gain unlawful access to jis.com and eventually the other – bonus - domains, in...
Acro - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 18:1
Was Sedo used to launder hijacked domain OXI.com ? If you thought that the incident I reported about the stolen domains jis.com, Leading.net, Southeast.net and Jaxnet.com is isolated, you’d better guess again. While that case involved the acquisition of FloridaDigital.net on Namejet in order to gain unlawful access to jis.com and eventually the other – bonus - domains, in...
Acro - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 18:1
Namejet as a Trojan Horse: The sacking of Four Valuable domains while paying for only one Here’s the summary for the impatient: The domains jis.com, Leading.net, Southeast.net and Jaxnet.com are currently in the hands of a person who took control of a managing domain’s account and impersonated its owner. I’m sure you want the juicy details, so please bear with me for a while, as I take a trip down memory...
Acro - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 0:1
You are a Domain Redneck if … Perhaps I have high expectations from people; I engage in communications with a polite, friendly tone. When someone makes several attempts to get in touch, I assume they are looking for dialogue, not mud-wrestling. Alas, this is often quite far from the truth. Yesterday, I received a call from the owner of a .us domain
Acro - Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 15:59
Domainer ethics: Can you trust your own shadow? The incidents are too many to list; I experienced and often pointed out – in my blog and on forums – several circumstances of stolen domains throughout the years. Some of them were reclaimed by their legitimate owners. Others, well – they are still being offered for sale on auction sites or lists, having been
