Archive for November, 2008

Domain name registrar NameCheap.com has decided to add some social media to their marketing mix and also spread some holiday cheer by giving away domains and hosting. From December 1st through December 25th, NameCheap will be giving away $17,000 worth of domain names and hosting packages. The giveaway involves an hourly trivia contest that the […]

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Day 4 – Tues 18th Nov
The sessions kicked off first up and each of them outstanding. I had the privilege of being a part of the first one with Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ), Rick Latona and Dan Warner (Fabulous). I attended a lot of the sessions and it was with some…

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We are currently experiencing problems at our offices, due to a power outage in Oxford. All services are running normally at present on backup power sources. We will need to switch to our backup data centre if the problem continues for too long. If we do this there will be some period of downtime for all Nominet services. We will publish another announcement if we decide to do this. Our telephone lines are not working. We will keep you updated with developments.

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As previously announced, Sedo’s premium numeric domain auction has just opened for bidding. The auction ends on December 4th and features the following domain names:

024.org
10029.com
13.net
1500000.com
20032.com
25.com
40.com
44.ca
500.net
6801.com
70.com
79.net
88.com
94.com

(c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com
Saws.com , Medicinas.com , Coed.com - All For Sale at Aftermarket.com Online Domain Auction November 20th . Click here to register for the auction.

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The word is out: The domaining bubble has finally burst. Many domainers are short on cash and prices are falling across the board. What created the bubble, how did it end, and is there a way to profit from the slowing economy and financial crisis?
The Components of a Seductive Bubble
A significant percentage of the domaining […]

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DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
Kredit.de (German for "credit" or "loan") leads the list with an amazing $1,169,175 sale. The domain was bought by Unister GmbH of Leipzig, Germany, a company which also owns Geld.de ("money") and Auto.de.
Other noteworthy sales include:

LOTO.com for $91,331 (LOTO is both a typo of, […]

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At 08:00am on Friday 28th November 2008 we will have a systems outage lasting for 30 minutes. During this time Online Services, and epp will be unavailable. The automaton will not process email requests, but will queue all received email for processing after it is restarted. All other Nominet systems will continue to work as normal during this period.

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Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (Queens), New York- The record for the highest amount paid for naming rights belongs to the future Citi Field and Barclays Center, both located in New York City. Each garnered deals of $20 million per year for at least 20 years, totaling $400 million. Citi Field is the new New York Mets baseball stadium built adjacent to where the old Shea Stadium was recently torn down earlier this year.- Wikipedia
Naming Rights for NY Mets Citi Field: $400 Million (20 Year Term)

The new $850 million Citi Field stadium will be ready for the upcoming Mets MLB season.

The Barclays Center is a proposed sports arena to be built by 2010 partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is part of a proposed $3.5 billion sports arena, business and residential complex.- Wikipedia

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Last week there was only one Sedo sale beyond 15,000 EUR - this week there were seven with EverestBets.com, Internet.eu, Glow.co.uk, haarverlaengerung.de, mijn.nl, ggg.fr, and FlashPlayer.de all reaching the mark. Check out the full list after the jump.

Domain name
Price
Currency
Type
Translation

.COMs

everestbets.com
18,500
EUR

cortexa.com
7,000
USD

allbodysurgery.com
5,700
USD
website

turbobet.com
5,500
USD

girlsgonestyled.com
5,000
USD

qbz.com
4,625
USD

proc.com
4,400
USD

onlineprofits.com
3,500
USD

buypro.com
3,100
USD

luxurytimes.com
3,000
USD

marketstation.com
3,000
USD

kodacgallery.com
2,500
USD

mimip2p.com
2,400
USD
[…]

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Device Management Forum - dotMobi Announces 2.1 Release of Award-Winning DeviceAtlas Mobile Device Database
Dublin, Ireland- DeviceAtlas 2.1 offers mobile developers innovative features and enhanced search.

Speculative Mobile Device Domain Names For Sale:

“For portable devices to communicate with each other”…

OTGdevice.com

OnTheGoDevice.com Make Offer: Email Click Here

OTG Device Webopedia Definition

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