Here I am sitting once again at my desk reflecting on the domain name industry. I gave the team at Fabulous a call yesterday to find out how TRAFFIC Downunder is progressing; after all it is only two weeks away.
Dan Warner happened to be away (I thought that I…
Bloomberg.com: News (Bloomberg) — Christie’s International sold $16.9 million of paintings and jewels in a two-day sale in Dubai, below estimates, as falling oil and equity prices dented the boom in Middle East art.- Read Full article: Click Headline… “There is no doubt we are in the middle of a financial crisis,” Jeha said. “It is still a very liquid market.” - Bloomberg
Extremely rare 2 letter (only 1,352 2L combos) domain name SS.PL Just Sold $31,816 USD (Polands’s Internet domain country code top-level-domain) GreatDomains.com
Domain Brokers- URLBrokers.co.uk Offering Very Rare Domain Asset: VR.net (Virtual Reality) For Sale Buy it Now $30k Fantastic value… Click Here!
Sedo’s GreatDomains.com auction site also recently reported a recent 5-figure domain name sale All-In.com Just Sold for $40,000 GreatDomains.com
Domain Jazz.ME Just Sold for $5,700 via Sedo’s domain auction site GreatDomains.com.
(Premium dotME names available: dotMeBrokers.com)
Check out the .ME domain blog: dotMeBrokers.com
ICANN, the entity responsible for overseeing the Internet’s domain name system, has revoked EstDomains.com’s right to process new domain names because of the CEO’s recent cyber crime convictions in Estonia.
Two months ago, Brian Krebs of WashingtonPost.com published a translated report showing that Vladimir Tsastsin, the CEO of EstDomains, was convicted of credit card fraud, document […]
KillerStartups.com, a premier Internet startup blog which receives over 1.5M visitors per month, has purchased Startups.com and plans to use the site as a hub for startup-related websites offering quality content and services.
In 1998 Startups.com, founded by Donna Jensen-Madier, was a venture-backed accelerator which would partner with other startup companies to help them get started. […]
Emails from NetworkSolutions to their client base reveal that Network Solutions is taking measures to alert and keep customers informed on the recent NSI phishing scam. It appears as well that NSI is taking necessary defensive measures to combat any unauthorized access to customer domain names resulting from the phishing attempts.
The first email sent out […]
Poker website DoylesRoom.com released a statement to customers today (PDF) informing them that the site would begin blocking access from several States starting October 30th. Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington and of course Kentucky were listed as the States that whose IP addresses would be […]
Craigslist, as you know, is one of the top online destination Web sites online globally. Craigslist is a central network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with jobs, internships, housing, personals, (real estate for sale, cars & boats for sale) /barter/wanted, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories – and forums on various topics. - Craigslist on Wikipedia
The domain industry needs a Domain Names for sale category!
How do you add a new category on Craigslist.org?
“New categories are added when demand is demonstrated by posting patterns in existing categories, e.g. when we saw a lot of furniture ads in the general for sale category, we added a dedicated furniture category.”- Craigslist (Click link for more details)
Craigslist would be a great way to sell domain names and especially local geo-domain names.
Any other ideas for an aggressive domaign campaign?
This is the first part of a three part series that I will release over the next few days on the domain parking survey that concluded a few weeks ago. This was exactly the same questionnaire that I used in 2007 and compared to 2008 the results proved to be…
NameJet.com announced in an email to customers tonight that several auctions that occured on October 26th will be re-done with an ending date of October 30th. The company issued the statement and blames technological problems relating to daylight savings time rules and server settings for auctions closing AFTER the closing times.
Typically, when auctions are re-ran, […]