Moniker.com TRAFFIC Live Auction List Moniker.com has released the list for the domains to be auctioned off at live auction at the TRAFFIC Orlando show on Friday May 24.
Remote live bidding will be available through snapnames.com.
There are some great names on the list.
As usual moniker.com lists a range of reserve for each domain rather than an actual reserve price
20.n...
The Domains - 10 hr 34 min ago
Did Google Play Microsoft?? According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, Google may be getting cold feet. In a last-ditch effort to avoid a merger with Microsoft, Yahoo said it was considering teaming with Google in a search advertising deal. But some Google executives are now questioning whether that’s a good idea
Google knows any deal with
The Domains - 22 hr 8 min ago
Moniker.com No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction Moniker.com published its list for the Live No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction to be held on Tuesday May 20 at 8:00 pm EST at the TRAFFIC domain confernece in Orlando.
At TRAFFIC west in Vegas Moniker.com premiered this No Reserve/Low Reserve auction and it did $200K.
You will have to be present for this auction, there will be
The Domains - 5/7/2008 10:48:12 AM
Marchex Reports Earnings Marchex.com reported 1st Quarter 2008 Financial Results today.
The following is what they reported
Revenue was $37.0 million for the first quarter of 2008, compared to $34.2 million for the same period of 2007.
GAAP net loss applicable to common stockholders was $1.2 million for
The Domains - 5/6/2008 6:48:49 PM
Its Offical, Thought Convergence buys Name Intelligence According to a press release on domaintools.com today, the long rumored acquistion by Thought Convergence, which owns and operates Trafficz, of Name Intelligence, which operates DomainTools.com and the Domain Roundtable conference was confirmed.
“We are proud to welcome Jay, Ray and the entire Name Intelligence team into the Though...
The Domains - 5/6/2008 8:00:37 AM
AP Launches Mobile News Service: .Mobi left out again? According to a report today The Associated Press and 107 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other mobile devices.
AP had announced the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting April 14 in Washington. AP’s president and chief executive, ...
The Domains - 5/5/2008 1:49:47 PM
Yureekah.com Launches as “the worlds first search engine for the online media industry” Yureekah.com launced its site today calling itself “the worlds first search engine for the online media industry”.
According to the press release millions of ads run on millions of portals hourly.
Yureekah.com promisese t allow you to identify where all your competitors are advertising, and use that information to decide ...
The Domains - 5/5/2008 11:16:47 AM
Yahoo-Microsoft: Now What???? While the chess game between Microsoft and Yahoo continues, domainers seem to be a pawn.
After announcing that they were dropping there bid for Yahoo, the question becomes what will happen to Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and most importantly how will this all effect domainers.
Yahoo stock price closed north of $28.50 Friday. Prior to Mic...
The Domains - 5/5/2008 2:29:48 AM
NameJet.com/SnapNames.com Auction Updates Some notable sales from NameJet.com and SnapNames.com over the past week
alergia.com $23,000
yemen.org $12,400
cyberstore.com $8,255
shoeexpo.com $5,405
apartmentnews.com $4,100
chartz.com $3,303
popupstopper.com $2,800
missourisexoffenders.com $2,433
bargainmadness.com $2,300
kentuckysexoffenders.com $2,054
missourisexoffenders.c...
The Domains - 5/4/2008 4:14:36 PM
Interesting Ebay Auction names A few Interesting names at auction at ebay.com
RentalHomes.com auction is at $23,100, reserve has not been met.
NewYorkers.org minimum bid is $22,000
Missouriforeclosures.com minimum bid is $15,000
isold.com minimum bid is $15,000
Set of 84 LLLL.com names Bidding is at $2,032, reserve has not been met, but there is a buy it now for $...
The Domains - 5/4/2008 10:50:59 AM
Microsoft Withdraws its Offer for Yahoo
Accroding to a report in cnet.com today Microsoft officially pulled its offer for Yahoo on Saturday
In a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft was willing to offer $33 a share, but that Yahoo wanted at least $37 a share.
Ballmer also says he is ruling out a hostile offer
The Domains - 5/3/2008 11:15:49 PM
UDRP: Are Domainers their own worst enemy We are all familar with the stat; in 85 percent of cases decided by the WIPO the panels transferred the disputed domain names to the complainant.
I took a hard look at some recent cases in light of LH.com and this famous statistic.
Certainly having this 85% figure out there is the pink elephant in the room.
The Domains - 5/3/2008 1:14:34 PM
Business.com may come back on the Market, again According to a report in Fortune Magazine, Business.com may be back on the market once again.
As you may know, last year Business.com was sold to Donnelly, a publically traded yellow pages company for $345 million in cash. At that time, Donnelly was worth more than $3 billion. Today, the whole company’s market cap is worth
The Domains - 5/2/2008 9:18:52 AM
Yahoo-Microsoft: Get Ready To Rumble Accroding to a report by the Wall Strett Jounral Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc. as soon as Friday.
The Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that Microsoft may be preparing to go straight to Yahoo’s shareholders.
An announcement was “likely” to come Friday.
The Domains - 5/2/2008 9:06:16 AM
Microsoft: May Just Walk Away Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated today that he was prepared to walk away from his attempt to buy Yahoo if his other options don’t look good.
Ballmer made his comments during a regularly scheduled town hall meeting with employees, during which workers questioned him about Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo.
Recent ...
The Domains - 5/1/2008 2:57:50 PM
Wall Street Journal: Yahoo-Microsoft in Talks According to a report in WallStreetJournal.com today, Yahoo and Microsoft met Wednesday trying to reach an agreement on price for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo
According to the report, Microsoft, which proposed purchasing Yahoo for for $31 a share in January, is now allegedly poised to offer as much as $32 or $33 a share. Ho...
The Domains - 4/30/2008 9:04:40 PM
Yahoo-Microsoft: 5 days after Deadline, Things are Very Quite Last Saturday marked the deadline that Microsoft imposed on Yahoo several weeks ago to accept its buyout offer or Microsoft would launch a hostile take over.
Microsoft declared it would launch a proxy fight to oust Yahoo’s board or walk away from the deal if the two failed to reach an agreement by April 26.
So far
The Domains - 4/30/2008 9:21:14 AM
Marchex Goes Mobile Marchex announced today that it has extended its local advertising strategy to the mobile market, entering into agreements to provide call based advertising services to three leading mobile advertising providers: AdMob, Ringleader Digital
The Domains - 4/30/2008 9:14:57 AM
Moniker Publishes TRAFFIC Auction List Preview Moniker.com published a list of some of the name that will be auctioned off at the TRAFFIC conference in May in Orlando.
Here are the domains they have announced for the Live auction:
Israel.com, Pay.com, Jackpot.com, Athlete.com and Hoodia.com are among the top names scheduled to be included in the Moniker Live Domain
The Domains - 4/29/2008 10:03:41 PM
Need a Job: Tucows is looking for an “Associate Domainer” In the last several weeks some blogs have dedicated posts questioning whether Tucows was warehousing some of their expired domains instead of letting them drop into their auction system.
Guess the debate is over as Tucows announced today that they were hiring someone for the job.
According to Tucows blog they are looking to fill the ...
The Domains - 4/29/2008 12:29:44 AM
Old Media Invests in New Media Cox Enterprises Inc., an old media company which owns television stations and newspaper bought a New Media company startup today for $300 million, in a all cash deal.
Cox bought Adify Corp.,whose technology platform helps Web sites more successfully sell higher priced ads targeted to specific audiences, such as parents or travel enth...
The Domains - 4/29/2008 12:21:55 AM
LH.com UDRP, Bad Decision, Bad Language As reported by Elliot today, Lufthansa airlines won a UDRP case over the domain LH.com.
Lufthansa relied on a a german common law trademark whcih they said was established in 1945. However the airline did not file for an actual trademark on the term LH until 1999.
The domain was acquired by the current holder in
The Domains - 4/28/2008 4:43:03 PM
The Secret to Your Success
I get several e-mails each month asking for my advice on how to become successful.
The e-mail’s are always the same “Please share the secrets of your success”.
Success rarely happens overnight. It is a series of wins and losses, good and bad decision that play out over years.
We all know what it takes to make ...
The Domains - 4/27/2008 11:33:56 AM
The True Value of Domains: Has Anyone Ever Lost Money on a Domain. A simple question but one I have never heard asked.
Has anyone ever lost money on a domain??
Specifically what I am asking has anyone ever bought a name for a premium at a drop auction, private purchase, or industry auction and then resold the domain for less?
In my experience I have never heard of it.
We have
The Domains - 4/26/2008 10:09:52 AM
Microsoft: “Offer for Yahoo is Generous” Chief Executive Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, stated today that their offer for Yahoo is fair, and it doesn’t intend to raise it.
“Our bid is quite generous, roughly eighty times earnings…the combination would make a great company,” Ballmer said at a conference with business leaders in Madrid.
“If we don&#...
