 | Domain Name Wire: $6M Offer for Cricket.com, Rejected
Domain name company Communicate.com (OTCBB: CMNN.ob) rejected a $6M offer for the domain name Cricket.com, according to an article in Kiplinger magazine.
The article by columnist Andrew Feinberg picks Communicate.com as a
“smart speculation” but also uncovers more details about the growing
company. The article is likely the reason C...
 | Conceptualist - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 23:31 |
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 | Domaining 101 - Outsourcing domain management
When I first started domaining I used to pour over spreadsheet after spreadsheet to extract as much value out of my domains as possible. After discovering that Excel had a 64,000 row limit (thank goodness that this was addressed in 2003) I moved on to develop my own database driven...
| | Michael Gilmour - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 9:45 |
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| DOMAINfest Global 2008 Delivers Dazzling Conference Encore in Hollywood, California
Above: My good friends Michael And Judy Berkens. I’m on the left chatting with Snapnames CEO Sudhir Bhagwan.
The organizers of the DOMAINfest Global Conference 2008 in Hollywood, California, Oversee.net, did just about everything right during their three-day run at the Renaissance Hotel January 21-23. Well, everything except k...
| | Conceptualist - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 12:14 |
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 | Ron Jackson a.k.a Duke
I can remember when Ron had a poll some years back on dnf deciding what to name dnjournal, it's come a loooong way. If you haven't see posts by Duke around , well then you haven't been involved in domains, Ron's latest write up of domainfest is just another example of Ron's dnjournal which has put a credible face on the domain indust...
| | Mister US - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 8:23 |
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 | Rejected: $6M Offer for Cricket.com
Communicate.com rejects $6M for premium domain name.
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Domain name company Communicate.com (OTCBB: CMNN.ob) rejected a $6M offer for the domain name Cricket.com, according to an article in Kiplinger magazine.
The article by columnist Andrew Feinberg picks Communicate.com as a “smart speculation” but also u...
| | Domain Name Wire - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 22:39 |
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 | All 4L.com’s getting back ordered
In mid January I did 4 tests on Pending Delete 4 Letter .com domain names. I wanted to see who got what, and what domains went where. On January 18th I had predicted that by the end of January, all 4L.com’s would be backordered.
| | DotWeekly - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 11:55 |
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| Domaining 101 - Outsourcing domain management
I’m a part owner of ParkLogic and we provide an outsourcing service for many domainers but please explore the other options available. While ParkLogic specialize in optimization and increasing the revenue of a domain companies such as dnZoom solve the problem of managing registrars and aggregating information.
Source: Michael ...
| | Conceptualist - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 17:34 |
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| How to Lose $7.2 Billion: A Trader’s Tale
In the early afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 19, Jérôme Kerviel was on a weekend break by the sea when he got a call on his mobile phone from his boss at Société Générale.
“We need some explanations,” said a manager of Delta One, a lowly trading unit that handled humdrum, low-risk trades, according to people familiar with t...
| | Conceptualist - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 10:38 |
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 | Update: Truth in Engineering (.com)
Within minutes of making the post about Audi's Super Bowl commercial we scored the #1 position on Google for Truth in engineering.com searches and are already seeing misdirected search/url bar confusion traffic.... and Audi is nowhere to be seen in the results.
| | The Frager factor - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 23:55 |
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 | NameJet Auction Updates
Some updates from auctions closing in the past few days over at NameJet.com:
rockcity.com $12,000
getcertified.com $7,700
bingcherries.com $5,300
Highenergy.com $5,200
smsshortcodes.com $5,100
Gina.org $1,709
xratedpics.com $1,300
gastricbypass.org $1,010
Interesting to note that rockcity.com has already been subject to at least one...
| | The Domains - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 17:29 |
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 | First Godaddy.Com Commercial Of The Superbowl, Sucks!
The first Godaddy.com commercial of the Superbowl just came on, and it was not very impressive. It started with everyone watching the tv waiting for commericials to come on, while a guy was in the background on the computer. They say, commercials aren’t what they used to be, and all migrate to the computer to watch a
SHAR...
| | Simply Geo - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 19:11 |
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| DNJournal.com Publishes DomainFest Coverage
Ron Jackson has released DNJournal’s coverage of DomainFest, titled “Domainfest Global 2008 delivers dazzling conference encore in Hollywood, California”. If you have not already read the article, I recommend you do. It is always a pleasure to read Ron’s well written articles. We are definitely blessed fo...
| | Simply Geo - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 19:33 |
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| More fun domain name stats
Here are some fun domain name stats from yesterday 2-2-2008.
This first stat is a little more important, because Godaddy runs ads for the Super Bowl and always see a large gain after the ads. So.. Here are the numbers the day before the ads.
Godaddy.com currently controls 23,096,483 domain names. Wild West (godaddy’s reseller...
| | DotWeekly - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 12:57 |
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 | The Only Good News…
The only good news about the 2008 Super Bowl is that my fraternity brother (Ruben Ortiz) starred in the Taco Bell commercial. Oh… and the Red Sox are still World Series Champions.
| | Elliot Silver - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 22:31 |
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| The Art of Shaving (.com)
Cape Cod's Churbuck Seeks a Shave"I’ve never had a real, hot-towel, straight-edge razor barber shave and after two weeks of giving my face a break from the daily scraping, I want one. But after a few phone calls I guess the concept is dead, done in by disposable razors and unisex salons and the passing of a generation that went into ...
| | The Frager factor - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 23:34 |
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| Google Using Auto-Fill
Today I noticed that Google appears to be using an auto-fill application in at least one of their foreign landing pages. When you perform a search on Google’s Korean portal, Google offers to help you fill in the remainder of your search for you. This also allows the user to see how many
| | Elliot Silver - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 12:31 |
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| Microsoft + Yahoo = failure (.com)
"Google's success is it turns the entire Web into billboard space for lease or rent," Sullivan said. "If I want to put contextual ads on my site from Microsoft, I can't do that."
Someone emailed me this.. if anyone knows the source please advise so I can attribute.
Some good points:
They just won't buy into the requisite "Bill is...
| | The Frager factor - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 23:22 |
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| Google Answers Back To Microsoft’s Offer For Yahoo!
Google finally commented on the possible acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft on their blog today. It took them all week long before making a statement. And of course what they have to say is Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo! poses a number of potential threats to competition that need to be examined by policymakers around the w...
| | Simply Geo - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 18:19 |
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| Google: “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions”
Google has fired the first shot in what will certainly become a major debate as the proposed purchase of Yahoo.com by Microsoft goes foward.
In a post on its offical blog, a post by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google wrote:
“”"”Microsoft’s hostile bid...
| | The Domains - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 17:44 |
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| Truth in Engineering (.com)-- Audi's Godfather Ad Powerful, Stellar, Captivating
Adrants:
Created by Venables Bell & Partners, Audi's much talked about Godfather-themed R8 Super Bowl commercial (preview) is worthy of the discussion it has created. The ad, which marks the automaker's return to the Super Bowl for the first time in 20 years, features Alex Rocco's Godfather character Moe Green in the famous scene du...
| | The Frager factor - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 22:16 |
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| Understanding IDN Traffic
Yesterday, Dominik Mueller discussed this topic and released some traffic stats from one of his readers. I have been wanting to discuss this subject for sometime now. I do not not know much about IDNs and was hoping for readers to share some insight on these. I have no doubt in my mind that IDNs receive type-in traffic
SHARETH...
| | Simply Geo - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 18:55 |
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 | Win a Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference ticket ($1,995)
Ron Jackson ( DNJournal.com ) and Sahar Sarid (Conceptualist.com ) are the two domainers behind Bido.com - a mystery domaining website the purpose of which is to be revealed February 20th 2008 during the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C West 2008 conference.
The Bido project is starting to generate a lot of interest from the general domaining ...
| | DnExpert - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 18:48 |
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 | Fox Uses Myspace To Promote Super Bowl Ads !
I’ll talk about the “domain commercials” on the super bowl a little later, but I was amazed to see Fox pushing Myspace to promote Super Bowl Ads! They created a URL just for the ads… so if you missed any/want to re-watch, check out Danica Patrick Exposure Video aired on Super Bowl:
I love when
| | fka200 - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 21:51 |
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| Blog Post Important To My E-Mailers
Hey guys. Got some e-mails the last 24 hours that I haven’t responded to. Just wanted to apologize. I decided to post this in case someone else needed something, and I didn’t answer quickly!
Super busy day… and tomorrow is the superbowl. Let me just see what’s going on and I’ll respond ASAP. I know the
| | fka200 - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 4:46 |
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 | Super Bowl
No great posts today. It’s Super Bowl time!
I’ve watched almost every Super Bowl that I can remember and I think it gets better each year. While excessive Super Bowl commercials have been a tradition of the Super Bowl for that past 20 years, the inclusion of the Internet into the Super Bowl and commercials have
| | Green Taxi - Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 18:53 |
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