 | Google Parking Changes Approaching
I promised you guys some news last week which sounded important at the time, well here it is.
From a reliable source Im told that Google has had enough of domain parking, though not all elements of it it seems. [the recent class action filing by Boston attorney Hal Levitte not being relevant at this point].
 | Julia Mackenzie - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 19:6 |
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 | What Domain Names did I buy this week?
It was kind of a slow week for me, but I did do some buying.
I purchased a 2 character domain, 9U.net . This happens to be the second one that I have owned, but I sold the other 9F.net on SnapNames for around $5,200 ish. I felt like I got a good deal on it and
| | DotWeekly - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 18:18 |
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 | Rumor Watch: Google to Restrict Domain Parking
Here’s an update on Google’s domain parking program.
I usually don’t write about rumors, but Julia Mackenzie of IsItMeOrIsEveryoneElseStupid.com has never floated a rumor without it being true. She’s reporting that a reliable source informed her that Google is going to lay the hammer down on domain parking. Es...
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 21:46 |
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 | End of the Week Tidbits from the Lowdown at DNJournal.com
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York sells a fourth live domain auction seat for their September conference to Bido.com, the domain business heats up in Brazil, .pro gets ready to relaunch and a fish tale from the latest domainer's outing in the Adirondacks.
| DNJournal - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 17:24 |
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| TDNAM.com Domain Name Hot List! Several Gems…
Here is another great list of domain names that I think are worth checking out at TDNAM.com! All the work is done for you by me. All domains are direct linked to it’s exact page for easy viewing/watching/bidding and time savings! All domains are Expired Auctions. Enjoy.
ORRT.com Quad Premium, Ends Today! Current bid $...
| | DotWeekly - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:17 |
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 | Associated Cities a Top 100 US Internet Company?
Dan Pulcrano gave a very interesting speech in Chicago this weekend. My brother, Michael, took it a step further.
Elliot posted on the news that Dan mentioned. Boulevards, Dan’s company, ranks 360 as a networked site among US monthly site visitors according to Quantcast. Boulevards owns many of the top geodomains in the US, ...
| | Green Taxi - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 22:1 |
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 | All five TRAFFIC auction providers revealed
According to some insider sources the two remaining auction providers for the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in New York are Bido.com and Sedo. The full list of the live auction providers is:
Moniker
Aftermarket.com / DomainTools
Rick Latona
Bido.com
Sedo
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| | Domain Name News - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:53 |
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 | Don''t Believe Everything You Read.
I have been involved in enough high end domain transactions to know when something doesn't seem right. According to a Press Release, the domain gamblingforumonline.comť was sold for $ 1,100,000 in stock and cash. Give me a break. The domain is very young as it was created just last year. It gets no traffic and has no bite what...
| Direct Navigation - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:55 |
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| How to Solve Auction Submission Bias with Financial Incentives
Solving Submission Bias with Financial Incentives
Long time users of Craigslist bemoan that there’s so much spam on the site. Google for “craigslist submitter” and you’ll see ads for software that will automatically submit ads to Craigslist every few minutes. But there’s a simple solution to this problem: if Craigsl...
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 17:48 |
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 | ND Weekly
Hi everyone,
All sorts of action this week - where to start? Audio.org and Video.org are both up for grabs, Google are being sued twice (they are used to it though) and despite the usual dire forebodings of a crash just around the corner, Microsoft is investing pretty heavily in its online sector. To
| NameDrive - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 5:54 |
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| .ME landrush registration starts off with chaos
According to numerous reports the landrush registrations for the .ME toplevel domain (operated by a partnership of GoDaddy & Afilias) is encountering problems. While several registrants are notified of their successful registrations of domains like “watch.me” and “hug.me”, it is not clear who will end up o...
| | Domain Name News - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 0:38 |
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 | Moniker.com Silent Geo Auction Fails to Get Decent Prices
thedomains reports these sales, totaling $25k:
eastorange.com $5,890.00
northolmstead.com $2,950.00
norridge.com $2,950.00
southeuclid.com $2,950.00
aaan.com $920.00
carinsurancewashington.co $890.00
St...
| | Domain Magnate - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 3:1 |
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 | Audio.org & Video.org Goes Up For Sale
Active Internet of Lake Worth, Florida is selling off Audio.org and Video.org.
Active Internet registered the domains more than eleven years ago.
Over the years Active Internet says it has received more than five hundred unsolicited offers for the names.
According to the owner, Video.org gets more than 3,500 unique (type-in) visitor...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:11 |
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 | Personalised Number Plates and Domains
On a recent break, I had to do a reasonable amount of travel by road and I couldn’t help noticing how many personalised number plates there were on passing cars.
I’ve noticed this trend for some time happening in our area, which is quite an affluent part of the country, but to see what it’s like
| | Domaining UK - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:23 |
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| NetworkSolutions.com Account Number issue follow up
After making a post about being able to see an account number for any domain registered with NSI, I got a pretty quick reply from David Morse. After I showed (walked him through) how I could see them, It got his attention and he said he would get back to me.
David replied with:
"What my research
| | DotWeekly - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 16:53 |
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 | Using Your Domain Name As Your Actual License Plate Number.
Marcus over at DomainingUK.com published an article today comparing the viral popularity of vanity license plates in the UK with domaining. I agree that there are more on the road today than ever before. What I’ve also seen are domain names AS the license plate number.
I’ve seen a couple instances where someone used a s...
| | Trend Domaining - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:23 |
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 | Will Advertisers EVER Get It?
If you knew users are searching for you, should you make an effort to help them find you?
It just occur to me we’re light years away from mainstream to remotely get internet traffic. I wrote few times in the past about how we think, from generic terms to specifics.
Few minutes ago I visited again Google and typed a number of ge...
| | Conceptualist - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 6:25 |
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| Google Buys Russian ad company ZAO for $140M
Google annouced Friday that it signed an agreement with Rambler Media Ltd. to buy its Russian contextual ad service ZAO Begun for $140 million.
Google said the deal is part of its moves to improve service for users, partners and advertisers in Russia, which has a fast-growing digital advertising market.
The purchase will enable adver...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 13:41 |
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| BIDO @ Targeted Traffic. What To Expect?
As some of you may already know, Bido will participate at the next Targeted Traffic conference in New York City. While our friend Rick Latona says “Go Big or Go Home” in regard to his ideas, to tell the truth, none of us here at BIDO has any idea as of yet what we will do. We will think it over next week or two and come ...
| | Conceptualist - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 7:9 |
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| Lost in Google''s Numbers: Half of its Business Comes From Outside The US
As we reported earlier, Google released its earnings yesterday.
According to the earning report it seems not that International markets now account for more than half Google’s business.
According to Google:
“”"Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $2.80 billion, representing 52% of total revenues in th...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:51 |
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| CADNA Continues to Mobilize and Holds a Conference in NY
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held “its seventh educational forum on Brand Abuses and Internet Governance” yesterday in New York City.
According to their press release:
“”"”With the domain name space often stacked against those that contribute the most to the development of the Internet...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:40 |
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| Only on Wall Street is a $2.5 Billion Loss Good News
Citigroup reported its earnings (or lack thereof) today posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss.
However the loss was smaller than expected and Citi is up over 10% today on the news
The nation’s biggest banking company by assets lost the equivalent of 54 cents per share in the April-June period. In the same timeframe last year, t...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 12:43 |
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| GeoDomain Expo Silent Auction nets $25k
The Domains has got the results of the Silent Auction for the Geodomain Expo. The total sales add up to $25,000.00 USD for 30 domains.
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Domain Convergence, October 6-8, 2008, Niagara Falls
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| | Domain Name News - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 0:5 |
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 | Speed-dating new TLD Registry Providers: VeriSign
Featured new TLD registry operator: VeriSign. A quick overview of each of the registries who came to our Registry Speed Dating event at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris.
| | NamesAtWork - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 16:14 |
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| ComScore.com: Microsoft & Yahoo Gain on Google (Slightly)
Accroding to a report by ComScore today, Microsoft expanded its share of the U.S. search market in June, while Google Inc. had a small decline.
ComScore’s June search report concluded that of a total of 11.5 billion searches conducted in the U.S. during the month, 61.5 percent were conducted on Google sites, compared with 61.8 ...
| | The Domains - Friday, July 18, 2008 - 16:51 |
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