Did You Know Sedo.com Is A Public Company? Our Domain Parking Stock Index Updated: Sedo.com is In, Dark Blue Sea is Out

2010 July 30
by MHB

We just updated our Domain Parking StockIndex tracking the prices of public companies.

We dropped Dark Blue Sea which was bought out, and went private earlier this year, and added Sedo.com (Sedo Holdings) which is traded on the Xetra, part of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Shares of Sedo.com have a 52 week high of $4.33 a share and a low of $2.52 and are currently trading at $2.72.

The companies we currently have included in the Domain Stock Parking Index are:

Google

Microsoft

Yahoo

QuinStreet

Baidu

Sedo

Marchex

Banks.com

Tucows.com

Live Current.com

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The Trademark Typo Linkdin.com Sells For 22K at SnapNames.com

2010 July 29
by MHB

The trademark typo domain, Linkdin.com just sold on SnapNames.com today for $22,000.

$22K

There were 50 people in the auction but there were 10 active bidders (bidders that put in a bid above the minimum).

Its amazing in this day and age there are so many people willing to pay this kind of money for a domain that would be taken in a UDRP if a complaint is filed.

Yes I know the domain has traffic,  but its a bang on typo trademark domain with no other conceivable meaning.

No Bueno.

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Quick Poll: Which Domain Priced $500K-$1M WIll Sell At DomainFest?

2010 July 29
by MHB

I just ended the week long poll I was running on which domain you thought would sell at the live domain name auction at Domainfest, which will be held in New York on August 18th, of those domain names with a reserve price range of $250K-$500K .

The package of domains including Tshirts.com got the most votes with 32% of the voters predicting a sale with “None will Sell” coming in second with 23%, Lawsuits finished 3rd with 14%  of the votes.

We’ll see how you did in a few weeks.

This weeks poll is for the 9 domain names with a reserve range of $500K-$1 Million Dollars.

As always place your votes on the right (only 1 vote is allowed this time) and place your comments below.


athletics.com $500,001 – $750,000
goatcheese.com $500,001 – $750,000
inspection.com $500,001 – $750,000
qualitycontrol.com $500,001 – $750,000
stockquotes.com $500,001 – $750,000
verification.com $500,001 – $750,000
customs.com $750,001 – $1MM
guaranteed.com $750,001 – $1MM
rate.com $750,001 – $1MM

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Fortune.com: “Google: The Search Party Is Over”

2010 July 29
by MHB

A new post by Fortune.com, entitled Google: The Search Party Is Over” is an  interesting read especially for domainers who do any significant domain parking.

The article which in large part discusses the business operations of Google says about search:

That there is a real shift going on within the internet where search will soon be less used.

“”The shift going on within the Internet, one that is arguably the biggest change to the web and the way we use it since Google came on the scene. Your network simply provides you with answers, stories to read, bargains to buy, and you often don’t even need to ask a question.”

The article quotes a Mike McCue who “recently launched a  tablet software company Flipboard, which takes all your Facebook updates, your Twitter feeds, all the news sites you like and subscribe to, and in a very elegant way publishes a constantly updated magazine of text, photos, and video. “There is no need to do a search,” McCue says. “We almost view it as a bug if we have the user search for something.”

“In this new phase of the web, one of the largest threats to Google and its core search business is the expanding Facebook footprint around the world. Not only because social networks  offer a substitute for search for consumers, but also because they offer a substitute for advertisers as well. In display advertising, for example, Facebook has a 16% share of the roughly $9 billion market, according to comScore (Google sites have 2.4% of the market), and advertisers say they’re looking for more ways to plug into Facebook.”

“Facebook has got Google in its sights,” says Debra Aho Williamson, a senior analyst with eMarketer. “Advertisers get the best of both worlds — a mass audience but also the ability to target more than anyone else. Who are the advertisers? In a lot of cases, they’re Google’s advertisers.”

Its an interesting artcile and you should check it out.

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If We Did This We Would Get Sued: BlackBerry Grabs Blackpad.com

2010 July 28
by MHB

According to MobileCrunch.com, the company that makes  Blackberry  phones Research In Motion or Rimm for short, just purchased the domain Blackpad.com for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet.

The devise of course will complete with Apple’s iPad.

“According to registration records, RIM purchased BlackPad.com just days ago.”

The domain is being administered by one of those trademark protection companies, corporatedomains.com

According to erictric.com:

“”The domain name has existed for several years now. It has been squatted by a couple of individuals since January 2002

“Considering that there are no trademarks for BlackPad, it seems unlikely that RIM paid a huge amount of money for the domain name.”"

I see if a domainer owns the domain its been squatted on even if the product doesn’t even exist.

However if a corporation buys the domain, well the shares of the maker of Blackberry, Research In Motion were up over 4% on the news today.

Moreover the mainstream blog got it wrong.  Since there is no trademark the owner of the domain probably got paid.

Or at least I hope so.

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