 | Bido Auctions No More (For Now)
We gave it another shot today but still had major tech issues. We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues and come back when we are ready. It may be few days, weeks, months, none of us really knows.
All who submitted domains to Bido we will work with you to get it back to your accounts.
Other Bido s...
 | Conceptualist - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 13:59 |
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 | New DNJournal Weekly Sales Report: One Buyer Doles Out Over a Million Dollars For 11 Domains
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it is a jaw-dropper. We saw a half-dozen six-figure sales this week and all of those domains were purchased by the same person. In fact the Aspen, Colorado based buyer wound up spending over $1.1 million on a total of 11 domains for a cryptic new project his company is wo...
| DNJournal - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 3:36 |
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 | Domain Investment Fund
I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal about a former UBS banker who recently started a wine fund. According to the article about former Wall St. banker Jorge Mora,
Mora joined with several former friends and clients to buy Italian Wine Merchants, an upscale New York wine retailer. He also is part
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 11:51 |
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 | iREPORT.COM IS ROCKING
Nice story today about a little domain name called ireport.com and the success the site is having for CNN
According to the story the site now has 175,000 videos and photos, 176% rise in submissions since the same time last year. Of course last year CNN did not own the domain ireport.com
Quoted from the story:
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| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 18:37 |
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 | Bido.com Crashes Again
Bido crashes during second auction for FixedLoans.com.
Sahar Sarid’s blog posts tell it all. Yesterday his post was titled “Bido is Down, But Not For Long!”. Today’s post: “Bido Auctions No More (For Now)“.
For the second straight day, Bido crashed during the auction for FixedLoans.com. I had reaso...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 14:49 |
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| LastWillAndTestament.com & PrenuptialAgreement.com
I decided to sell my two legal domain names so I don’t lose focus on my main projects. I blogged about them to get opinions about which to develop, although I am going to sell rather than spend the time/resources developing.
PrenuptialAgreement.com
1,200,000 Google results for "prenuptial agreement"
Many top and side advertise...
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 14:24 |
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| Moniker Live Auction From SES Nets $19K
The live domain auction conducted by moniker.com from the SES show in San Jose just completed and the total was a paltry $19,050.00
Some interesting notes:
The highest sale was a .US.
Only 25 domains sold
Only 5 domains sold for $1,000 or more.
Moniker.com commission totaled a whopping $2,850.
Here is the full list of the domains th...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 23:24 |
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 | Bido.com Closed For Business
This just posted on Conceptualist.com which is the blog of Shara Sarid, owner of Bido.com.
“We gave it another shot today but still had major tech issues. We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues and come back when we are ready. It may be few days, weeks,
| | ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 14:14 |
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 | Things change so fast!
In the domain industry it seems things change by the hour and heck even by the minute. One style of domain is hot, then the following week it’s not. I have been seeing this with the 4L .com market. Jumping up, then heading down. Now this week, their have been several nice 4 figure reported
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 9:54 |
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 | Afternic Auctions Top Picks
Periodically we’ll feature some of the top expiring domains available for preorder on Afternic Auctions. Here are some good domainsthat haven’t been preordered yet.
Domain
Auction Begins
5StarGuides.com
27-Aug
MediWraps.com
27-Aug
DolceTanning.com
27-Aug
PaperFilters.com
31-Aug
SpecialRates.net
31-Aug
SKO...
| Afternic DLS - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 16:37 |
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| Yahoo and Intel to Bring Widgets to Television
Here are two excerpts from a hot off the press news bulletin in the Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday announced plans for the Widget Channel, a television application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics devices.
and furthermore…
Yahoo-branded TV widgets “will enabl...
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 15:12 |
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| Trying Again: FixedLoans.com Auction Starts Today At 1PM, Edt.
Above: Trackbacks on Bido. Write about a specific auction, get a link back from us to your blog/publication within auction description. See example here.
As you know, we had a tough day yesterday here at Bido. We’ve been working on tech issues for the last 24 hours, got the whole team to stay around and on top of everything, ...
| | Conceptualist - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:29 |
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| September Modern Domainer Ships Next Week
Latest issue tips scales at over 125 pages.
The September issue of Modern Domainer magazine will start shipping Monday, and this issue is a monster at over 125 pages.
The main feature is the second in the two-part series “Domainer’s Blog Bible”, which includes selected posts from Domain Name Wire. I’m happy w...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 13:54 |
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| Domainer Comic Strip #3
There is no doubt in my mind this comic holds true, dot COM is KING!!!
I want to thank DebacleX for the idea, he posted a comment on last weeks comic with a similar idea. I changed the scenery but the same concept. For this DebacleX was given a GoDaddy gift card for a domain
| | ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:16 |
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| Sedo.com keeps ringing up 5 figure sales
I did not see these reported in DnJournal.com’s list of reported sales.
Sedo.com keeps the ball rolling and the sales happening! CreditScoreTracker.com is a nice domain with great potential and sold for $6K. The next sale is a Huge Risk, since iPhone is TM. Spending $10,050 on iPhoneGames.com was not a wise decision IMO and th...
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 11:50 |
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| 'We Get It' Award: Zoo.org
Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle leverages Zoo.org.
It’s hot down here in Texas. 100 degrees and humid. So last week my family packed up the bags and flew to Seattle for a 5 day vacation. The average high temperature in Seattle in August is 75 degrees, so it was a perfect location.
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:56 |
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 | Baby Boomers Will Trigger Many Trends
Boomer companions/caregivers where chosen as one of the top jobs of the near future, as chosen by MSNBC. They’re absolutely right. In fact, the Boomers will trigger several huge trends that have already begun to reveal themselves and will be in full swing just 2 years from now.
There are 78 million Boomers, and in the
| | Trend Domaining - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 22:46 |
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| YouTube.mobi...
…doesn’t have videos because Google doesn’t own it. If you want to visit YouTube on your mobile browser, you need to visit m.YouTube.com. I don’t understand why a major registry like .mobi (or any other new registry) would sell a clear trademark domain name to a private domain investor. In my opinion, a regist...
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:24 |
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| Next Must See Documentary I.O.U.S.A Opens Tommorow
A critically acclaimed new documentary about the US economy, how the budget deficits are effecting the country, the ability to fund social security and medicare in coming years, are all discussed in I.O.U.S.A opening tomorrow around the country.
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:58 |
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| Name.com teams up with NameMedia for expired domains
Name.com has just agreed to send it’s expiring domain names throught the Afternic DLS. I sure hope this one goes better then the Tucows one did. I am not currently aware that Name.com warehouses it’s expiring domain names.
Beginning this month, Name.com customers have full access to more than 800,000 business targeted dom...
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:10 |
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 | A Question of Preference
Hello everyone,
As summer is normally a very quiet time, we just thought we’d sneak out a couple of fun tools to bide you over till Big Things happen in the coming weeks at NDHQ. Our team are busy like never before on making your ND experience better than ever, but, till then, some new User
| NameDrive - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:32 |
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| Fox News Joins A Social Networking Site, But Not The One Fox Owns
Fox News has decided to join a Social Network and its not the one Fox owns, myspace, but Facebook.
Fox will roll out a redesigned Facebook page using seemingly every feature that the site offers: discussion boards, a wall for users’ comments, reviews, polls and photo submissions.
Most important, the network has designed a video playe...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 11:20 |
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 | Your Favourite Domaining Forum?
There are very few candidates for my favourite domaining forum, but I think it comes down to two:
DNForum.com and NamePros.com. DNForum is a must because all the hot shots visit it - joint venture wise and big sale wise they are #1, while NamePros is #1 community wise and in terms of general sales.
DomainState.com is as popular and o...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 9:6 |
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 | More .ca sales over last week
The DNjournal.com weekly sales report came out last night, and there are some .ca sales on the list. holidaycheck.ca is on the list, and I already noted this sale in a post below. The other sales were: FairTrade.ca - $4,488 SexPhoto.ca - $2,500 HouseAndHomes.ca - $1,800
| | Dot CA Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 11:37 |
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| The UK is Going After File Sharers
Thousands of people in the UK, suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on Wednesday.
London-based law firm Davenport Lyons said it will apply to the High Court to force Internet service providers to release the names and add...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:28 |
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| China Bans Issuing Domain Names (.cn) of Olympic Winners
China’s sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country’s Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
The General Administration of Sport (GAS) had demanded a veto over the registration...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:15 |
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| American Airlines First US Airline to Have WiFi
American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband.
Passengers flying on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 11:12 |
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 | ICANN: IDN TLD Allocation Implementation Processes
Following the progress on the IDN TLD allocation processes during the ICANN meeting in Paris a new area has been made available to describe IDN policy development and IDN ccTLD allocation developments under ICANN’s IDN Area: the Paris meeting, the Board approved both of the processes described below for implementation.
In relation...
| | IDN News - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 14:54 |
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 | Bido.com vor dem aus?
Der Conceptualist Sahar Sarid berichtet heute auf seinem Blog, dass Bido.com erst mal seine Pforten wieder schliesst. Ok. Wir rekapitulieren. Anfang diesen Jahres riessig angekündigt mit riessen Party auf der Traffic in Las Vegas das Projekt Bido.com. Dann steigt Ron Jackson aus. Ok. Immer wieder kann man auf Sahars Blog lesen, dass ...
| NameWise - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:41 |
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