The Domains

Published by MostWantedDomains.com


The Domains header image 1

Entries from December 2007

Assista.com: Brilliant Thinking Goes Live

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

My Good Friend Sahar Sarid, announced on his blog that the project he and his team have been working on for three years has gone live

The Assista search engine is question based and is a very exciting to the internet and the domain community. It’s proof positive that domainers are developers as well.

Please […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Domain Industry

CFO Of Baidu Killed in Accident

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

According to a report in cnn.com, the chief financial officer of China’s dominant Internet search engine Baidu.com, Shawn Wang, died in an accident On December 27, while on vacation in China.

Mr. Wang helped get Baidu listed on the NASDAQ.

Baidu.com is down 5 points in early trading today

[Read more →]

Tags: Domain Parking Stock Index

Keep an eye on your domains.

December 30th, 2007 · 11 Comments

This post was received by Anthony De Rose who requested it be published:
I actually owned this domain not long ago. I simply forgot to re-register it and allowed it to slip. Best of luck to you with it, looks like an interesting blog.
Lesson learned, stay on top of your domain expirations!
Anthony
Thanks for the post. […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Domains · Guest Posts

ITunes Movie Rentals Coming to an IPOD Near You?

December 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 
Reports over the last few days say that Apple will ink a deal with FOX to rent movies on its IPOD in a deal expected to be announced at The Macworld Conference on January 14, 2008.

The FOX movies would be allowed to play on itunes or your ipod only for a limited amount of time.

As […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

Backing out of a Deal–Should you call Your Lawyer??

December 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

My Buddy Elliot yesterday posted a great article on his blog about the ethical and moral implications of Seller’s backing out of deals on domain sales. I thought I would follow up on the post and look at the legal side of the situation.
Normal contract law talks about two parties having a meeting […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Domain Industry

NaturalBeauty.com Nets $64,900 at Name Jet.com

December 27th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Anyone have an opinion on the domain NaturalBeauty.com selling for $64,900 at NameJet.com
Personally think its very high
Some other big money domains in the last few days at NameJet.com include:
autotags.com for $17,900
newproperties.com for $9,200

[Read more →]

Tags: Domain Auctions

Google Increases Its Search Share

December 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments

According to a new study released today by Nielsen Online, Google share of Internet searches increased in November to 57.7% of all US searches, compare to 55% in October 2007.
Yahoo came in second with 17.9% of the US search market, down from 18.9% in October.
MSN.com came in third with 12%, also down from 13.8% in […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Internet News

Old Media vs New Media, is the race over??

December 27th, 2007 · No Comments

According to a Harris Poll released last week , 65% of U.S. adults watched a video on YouTube.com within the last year up from 42% in the previous year (50% increase).
In the same Harris Poll 43% of U.S. Adults said they watched a TV show or a video on a TV Network site, […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Internet News

Stocks: Despite Slow Day Big Gains in Tech

December 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today we a pretty light day in the market, volume was down and the dow pretty much unchanged.
However 3 notable  stock developments today
Google, part of our Domain Stock Parking Index was up over 10 points to over $700  share
Baidu, also part of our Domain Stock Parking Index was up almost 20 points just short of […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Domain Parking Stock Index

Your Next Tech Toy: 150″ Flat Screen??

December 26th, 2007 · No Comments

It was reported today by the Japanese paper Yomiuri, that Panasonic will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January a 150″ Plasma Television, of course it would be the world’s largest.
No Price was announced.

[Read more →]

Tags: Tech Toys