Do Not Try to Sell Me Your .Mobi Names I have no interest in these names. I think the entire extension is ridiculous. They are worthless. I don’t care what other .mobi names have sold for either. I have zero faith in the extension and will not buy any .mobi names.
I do wish everyone luck that has one.
Rick Latona - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 17:52
Today’s sales Sold so far today:
creditcrunch.com
individuality.org
mankato.com
Rick Latona - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 15:26
Hecta Media Acquires Large Domain Portfolio Congratulations to Clark Landry and his team at Hecta Media on their recent portfolio acquisition. According to a news release on Forbes this morning, publicly traded Hecta Media (AIM Exchange) purchased a portfolio consisting of approximately 60,000 domain names for $1,450,000. They also retain the option to purchase two additional ...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 14:40
Chess.com - How a Premium Domain Should Be Used
Nothing says online chess better than Chess.com!
This is a perfect example of a truly premium domain and how it should be used.
I remember seeing chess.com for years having a one page site with some affiliate links to chess software and sets. As a true chess fan I’ve inquired on the price a couple years ago
Domain Magnate - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 1:39
GeoExpo.com Change Of Plans, But Premium Geo Site Still A “GO” Today was a very productive day behind the scenes. There is alot going on with big planning and projects for the geo network, and sometimes bad decisions are made with good intentions. I recently made a poor decision. The power of a great generic name can blur the lines when you are truely motivated on a project. A powerful name ...
Simply Geo - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 21:59
Daily Domains March 13th, 2008 Food for Thought
I’m working hard to keep variety in the list, quality high and prices low. Please reply and let me know if you can think of a way I can improve one or more of those three important elements to this.
New Domains
· Rest.com (One Time Listing) $65,000
· Mankato.com - (City in Minnesota with 30k
Rick Latona - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:41
Google Lets Advertisers Opt Out of Domain Parking Sites Advertisers can exclude ads from showing up on parked domains; lower revenue ahead?
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Google Adwords has added a new feature that allows advertisers to exclude ads from showing up on domain parking sites. This will affect parked domains on any of Google’s ad feeds, regardless of whether it is the “search&...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 16:13
Thomson Financial: Hecta Media buys domain names portfolio, Tutorialblog for total 1.9 mln usd
Web consolidator Hecta Media Inc said it has acquired a portfolio of
about 60,000 domain names for 1.45 mln usd cash, and three other
smaller domain portfolios from separate vendors, and web design blog,
TutorialBlog.org for 445,000 usd in cash and shares.
The company
said based on current monthly visitor traffic, it estimates the
...
Conceptualist - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 13:40
Crude.org ends in 8 hours, GenuineGold.com … After reading a couple news stories today, I wanted to highlight two domain names that I own, that I am offering for sale.
The first is Crude.org which is on public auction at Sedo.com and the auction ends tonight. So if you are interested in placing a bid, I would suggest doing so very soon. The
DotWeekly - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 16:35
Free Available Domains List #40 John Hall has written an interesting article on DomainNews.com describing a different alternative to resolving domain names disputes. His suggestion involves trademark owners granting renewable licenses to domain owners allowing them to continue to use a disputed domain as long as it’s within the guidelines of the license. He m...
Bill Eisenmann - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 8:59
Off the wall domain name stats Here are my weekly off the wall domain name stats. As always, the stats are from 24 hours ago, meaning yesterday 3-12-2008.
I always seem to start off by talking about Godaddy.com but they have such impressive numbers, it’s hard for me not to talk about them first! Maybe it’s because they are about to cross
DotWeekly - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:47
Internet Media - Slowdown but not a Collapse Here is an interesting interview posted on Yahoo regarding the downtown in the economy and it's effect on online media.Henry Blodget of Tech Ticker interviews John Battelle, the CEO of Federated Media. Batelle makes an interesting point that the downturn of 2001-2002 was driven by technology, and this time the downturn is driven by ...
Dot CA Domains - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 16:41
Jessica Bookstaff Elected Chairman of Associated Cities Congratulations to my friend Jessica Bookstaff, who was recently elected Chairman of Associated Cities, the premier organization that represents over 100 city .com domain names. Jess spent time on the Associated Cities Board of Directors, and she follows in the footsteps of former chairman Dan Pulcrano, founder of Boulevards, whose c...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 11:18
March Madness has Arrived Throughout March, Afternic & BuyDomains customers will have the opportunity to participate in a unique promotion, featuring one-word domain names never before offered.
For the month of March only, premium one word names will be offered at prices that will not be available as of April 1.
March Madness Specials launching today are:...
Afternic DLS - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:26
KSL: Democrats don’t find Web redirect funny
Utah Democrats are wondering if a Web site blunder is a funny joke or
dirty trick. A Web site similar to their own redirects people to John
McCain’s site.
The Utah Democratic Party Web site is utdemocrats.org. But type in
“utahdemocrats.org” and it automatically redirects you to
johnmccain.com.
“Oh yeah...
Conceptualist - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 14:5
Dollar Sinks to New Lows: Keep Track at CurrencyRates.com Since most parking companies are U.S. Based and pay publishers in dollars, and since most domain sales, are quoted in U.S. dollars, its important to keep our eye on the sinking dollar. So we are going to add this feature to our radar and keep you updated. We have also launched currencyrates.com where you can
The Domains - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:53
Firefox addon for domain searching Unbeknown to me I seem to have become a bit of an authority figure when it comes to domain name news - I get a lot of email from people letting me know about the latest news in the domain name industry, in fact a lot of the news you see here come from
DnExpert - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 16:36
Stomping Out Click Fraud Critical to Industry Survival Domain ad networks must stop fraud to survive in the long run.
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Austin, Texas based click fraud prevention company Click Forensics just picked up a $10 million venture funding round, bringing its total raised to $15 million. Click fraud is a big problem, and I like Click Forensics’ two prong approach: help adv...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 10:14
HUMOR - Internet Party: When Google’s Parents Leave Town…
It’s an Internet Party, and all your favorite websites are there!Darn I had this whole comedic post all written out about Google Parties and how this Google Comedy Video was great and what not, but stupid Wordpress ruined it. As you can see posting a video does not help for SEO, so surrounding the video
fka200 - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 19:1
Was Pagewaxing the Reason for this Website Being Shut Down? Pagewaxing is a type of censoring that leads to a website being shut down by suspending a particular domain name. The most recent matter raising pagewaxing concerns involves Go Daddy shutting down a website that lets people criticize individual police officers. Go Daddy’s explanation is that the website was using too much...
Domain Dispute - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 13:16
Trinity Mirror Plans Local Web Network Earlier, I reported that the historic media giant, Trinity Mirror, was adandoning national print newspapers. They have recently announced plans to roll out a national network of hyperlocal community websites, (Geo domains).
These local sites will carry a mixture of news from Trinity Mirror’s papers, citizen journalism and othe...
Simply Geo - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 10:21
BODIS - New Servers (Yay) … Make Sure You Switch IP Addresses! Dear Member, This email message is for members who are resolving their domain names to the Bodis.com parking program via the Bodis.com server ip addresses. Please disregard this message if you are using nameservers to park your domain names on the Bodis.com network.Recently, Bodis.com has migrated to new servers. If you are resolving...
fka200 - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 21:34
DotSauce Upgrades and Updates DotSauce has survived and thrived through our transition to a new web host. This transition is still in progress and over the next few days you will see new things popping up and some old clutter being swept under the rug.
New Advertising Opportunities
The most prominent changes you will notice are the new sponsored advertising posit...
DotSauce Magazine - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 19:0
AOL Buy’s Social Networking Site for 850 Million AOL Annouced today that it will pay $850 million in cash to acquire social media network Bebo, which has total global membership of more than 40 million.
Bebo is one of the largest social networks in Britain, and is ranked number one in Ireland and New Zealand and number three in the U.S, according to AOL.
News
The Domains - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:32
Guest Post: From Voodoo To Real Science, By Allen Gabriel (Recall Media Group) People often ask my advice on how to improve website conversion rates. Unfortunately, there is no short answer to this question. If I try to sum it all up, I would say, that measuring, testing and experimenting are the primary keys to improving online conversion rates. Then I would, probably, have to re-think this answer and add to t...
Conceptualist - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 1:19
AOL (America Online) to Acquire Bebo - Fund.com $10M Sale First off with the newest news:
Logged into my e-mail and checked out some of the latest news and what do I see? AOL decided to have some fun and join in on the social networking scene with the big boys. They want to buy socia networking site Bebo.com. Being in the United States, we only
