Blogging Trends Just watched an interesting video post from ProBlogger on the future of blogging. ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse was asked what he thought would be emerging trends in blogging. He said that there were five important trends he had been observing, namely:
Multiple-author blogs
Multi-topic blogs
Blogs converging with other types of si...
Dominik Mueller - 3 hr 44 min ago
Time Inc. relaunches Health.com Only a few days after BPHG Media launched the project for its one-word generic domain Prices.com, another company is planning to bring its domain to the next level. Time Inc. is going to relaunch its Health.com portal on Monday. The site was not much more than a so-called brochure site before, which means that it
Dominik Mueller - 4 hr 48 min ago
You talking to me? I’d never say that I know much about economics, but I’m very interested in economic issues and I try to read as much about them as possible. I do not know everything about movies, but I can say that I know a lot about movies, the making of movies and, of course, I enjoy watching
Dominik Mueller - 8 hr 8 min ago
Google reaches all-time high Online competitive intelligence service Hitwise yesterday released the latest U.S. search statistics for April 2008. It announced that Google hit an all-time high, accounting for 67.90% of all U.S. searches. This marks a 0.65% increase over March this year and a 2.64% increase over April 2007.
Microsoft and Yahoo, on the other hand, ...
Dominik Mueller - 13 hr 52 min ago
Sell your east coast city .com domain Elliot Silver is looking to buy an east coast city .com domain name, and he is willing to spend up to $100,000. Elliot has successfully developed several geo domains in the past (e.g. Salinas.com, Lowell.com), so you can rest absolutely assured that your city domain will be in good hands. However, make sure your domain meets all
Dominik Mueller - 5/14/2008 6:10:08 AM
Name.com Job Listing
Name.com is growing, which means they’re hiring. They’re looking to fill several positions, including:
Linux Systems Administrator
PHP Developer
Web Designer
Administrative Assistant
All of these positions are in their Denver offices. Kellie Peterson, Director of Marketing & Operations at Name.com, contacted me tod...
Dominik Mueller - 5/8/2008 1:58:28 PM
America.com to be auctioned off The domain name America.com will be auctioned off by Sedo/GreatDomains from May 22 to 29, 2008. This is without question one of the most valuable geographic domains on the Internet. Despite the press release stating it was appraised at 3.5 to 7.3 million US dollars by different appraisal companies, inculding Sedo and Afternic, I thin...
Dominik Mueller - 5/5/2008 9:23:41 AM
Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
Only a few days after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was reportedly raising its bid for Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to $33 per share the company now decided to withdraw the offer, according to news by Reuters. The reason being that Yahoo was looking for $37 per share.
“Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billi...
Dominik Mueller - 5/4/2008 6:46:08 AM
Marchex Extends Local Strategy to Mobile Channel Marchex Extends Local Strategy to Mobile Channel - Company to Provide Call-Based Advertising Services to AdMob and Other Leading Mobile Advertising Providers
SEATTLE, WA - April 30, 2008 - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP), a local online advertising company and leading publisher of local content, today announced that it has extend...
Dominik Mueller - 5/2/2008 4:59:34 PM
Microsoft raising bid for Yahoo? As the Wall Street Journal reports, Microsoft is now willing to raise its bid for Yahoo to as much as $33 per share, up from about $29. Apparently, Microsoft wants to avoid the proxy battle its CEO Steve Ballmer had threatened. The $33 bid would still be lower than what Yahoo is looking for (the
Dominik Mueller - 5/1/2008 6:31:03 AM
Lufthansa AG wins LH.COM Via Sahar’s blog:
As widely reported by now, FMA has lost LH.Com in a NAF ruling.
While many think this is a disgrace (which I tend to agree), this decision, because it involves FMA, is not the worst thing that could have happened.
FMA is operated by Thunayan Al-Ghanim. For those who don’t know, Thunayan is no ordinary
Dominik Mueller - 4/29/2008 3:23:55 PM
Some great domain auctions There are some high-value domains for sale in auctions right now that should result in great sales next week.
For example, Sedo/GreatDomains is currently running an auction for Bond.com. Bidding is currently at $66,666 with more than 4 days left; the reserve has not yet been met. Not only might this domain get type-ins every time a n...
Dominik Mueller - 4/20/2008 6:39:27 AM
Free access to DotSauce premium I received an email from Mark Fulton of DotSauce.com today saying that he lifted the monthly $10 fee for his forum’s premium content. This means you have free access to DotSauce’s exclusive premium content now, including:
Private Domaining Discussions
Insider Domain Industry Tools, Web Apps & Scripts
Literally Hundre...
Dominik Mueller - 4/11/2008 11:22:50 AM
Facilitate innovation Innovation is what drives businesses and, as a result of that, economies and lifestyle. Therefore, it is very important to create environments that facilitate innovation, be it within your business, in school or universities.
Stanford has recently launched an early stage venture fund called SSE Ventures (Stanford Student Enterprises)...
Dominik Mueller - 4/7/2008 5:46:12 PM
Cern works on superfast Internet Via CircleID, TimesOnline.co.uk:
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling ...
Dominik Mueller - 4/7/2008 4:07:25 PM
Court refuses to dismiss claims alleging Google’s participation in “scheme to use deceptive domain names” Via email from David J. Fish:
Vulcan Golf, LLC filed a putative class action lawsuit against Google, Inc. and other defendants, including Oversee.net, Sedo LLC, Dotster, Inc. a/k/a revenuedirect.com. The Defendants sought to have the case thrown out on a motion to dismiss. Instead, the Court allowed much of the case to proceed and or...
Dominik Mueller - 4/6/2008 7:00:04 AM
Microsoft sets ultimatum Microsoft has sent an open letter with a written ultimatum to Yahoo’s Board of Directors. In the letter Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, says Yahoo should either conclude an agreement to be acquired by Microsoft within the next three weeks or they will take their case directly to Yahoo’s shareholders and initiate a proxy ...
Dominik Mueller - 4/6/2008 5:47:53 AM
Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million Today Sedo successfully brokered the sale of Pizza.com for $2.6 million. I do not yet know who the buyer is, but I hope that it is an end user, because that is what our industry needs most: more corporate buyers.
Pizza.com has great value for big companies such as Pizza Hut: It is a generic domain
Dominik Mueller - 4/3/2008 4:53:46 PM
VeriSign to increase .com/.net prices
Via Sahar’s Blog:
Re: Notice of Fee Change
To All Registrars,
VeriSign, Inc. and it’s wholly owned subsidiaries (”VNDS”) is hereby notifying all registrars of a fee change for .com and/or .net domain names effective October 1, 2008. In accordance with our contract, ICANN has already been notified. Details as follows:
1. VNDS’...
Dominik Mueller - 3/28/2008 5:40:05 AM
Buy domains now? I recently wrote an article about buying domain names for DotSauce Magazine. Mark published it earlier today, so I’d like to point you to his great domain news site where you can read it. Its title is “Buy Domain Names Now“, short excerpt follows:
I think we’re having quite an interesting market situation right now ...
Dominik Mueller - 3/26/2008 6:39:49 PM
SearchMe’s visual search approach
SearchMe is a new visual search engine which lets you see the websites in the search results before you visit them. Watch the demonstration video here:
The flipping feature looks pretty cool, but what makes it so useful and what does it mean for website owners? If would say the visual search
Dominik Mueller - 3/17/2008 3:00:37 AM
Content remains king As the Online Publishers Association’s latest Internet Activity Index (IAI) points out, content is still king when it comes to time spent online. The IAI devides Internet usage into five activities: Content, Communications, Commerce, Community and Search.
Despite the impression that web 2.0 sites are actually more popular than ...
Dominik Mueller - 3/17/2008 2:00:26 AM
Google adds $2.6 billion in advertising revenue Henry Blodget has analyzed the change in advertising spending and its shift from traditional media to the Internet throughout the last year. The final results are not surprising, but they’re pretty impressive:
Google could add more than $2.6 billion in advertising revenue in 2007, which constitutes a 44% increase over the compa...
Dominik Mueller - 3/14/2008 4:17:32 PM
EU approves Google’s DoubleClick acquisition
The European Commission has unconditionally approved Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. This marks the biggest purchase in Google’s history. Microsoft was interested in the online advertising provider as well, but the Redmond company backed out of negotiations when offers climbed above $2 billion.
The EU&#...
Dominik Mueller - 3/14/2008 4:00:39 PM
Google lets advertisers opt out of domain parking As reported by Andrew of Domain Name Wire, Google AdWords has added a new option that lets advertisers opt out of domain parking sites:
To opt out of domain parking pages, advertisers use the “Site and Category Exclusion” tool in their account (see picture below). In addition to being able to opt out of parked pages,
