According to the lextext blog the ICANN board passed a resolution that will impose ICANN per name fee on all domain registration whether or not they are  deleted within the first five days.
Although no clear date was set for the imposition of the fees it is generally believed that it will take place on July 1, […]

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Baidu.com Inc. shares are down around 20 points today, after an Canaccord Adams analyst Colin Gillis, initiated his coverage of the stock, setting a $265 price target and a “Sell” rating, saying investments the Chinese search engine operator is making in 2008 are expected to increase expenses without leading to substantial near-term revenue.In the past […]

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Not surprisingly Moniker.com announced today that they were migrating all of the customers of TrafficClub.com to DomainSponsor.com
Oversee.net which owns DomainSponsor acquired moniker.com a couple of weeks ago, Moniker.com, which owns trafficclub.com, parking program was using a skenzo feed and a domainsponsor feed prior to the acquisition.
Immediately after the acquisition skenzo.com announced that they were […]

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So much for the recession.
Interesting to note that helponline.com went for just $5,70 last week at NameJet.
Seems like quite a bargain now.
A typo of xxxvideos,
xxvideos.com sold for $12,500
Seems like a ton for a name such as this.
Here are some other notable sales the last few days:
movie-trailers.com $8,200 (re-auction)
erotictalk.com $6,000
dreamcenter.com $5,600
dangeroustoys.com $4,500
yourdomains.com $4,000
litigationservices.com $3,010
fantastictickets.com $1,500
I […]

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In my endless quest to find you, my readers, the most relevant information on domain names and the media industry, we hopped a flight from LA after the DomainFest show, and went to Hawaii for a few days.

 
Did you know that the largest newspaper in terms of circulation in the state of Hawaii is called […]

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Interesting article publish today about how the recession will effect the pay per click advertising industry.
Put it on your must read list
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-22541402.htm

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In a report on Jay Westerdal’s blog, Google may stop serving ads on all domains, less than five days old.

Therefore someone who registers a domain will not get any revenue information and would not know which names to keep and which to throw back within the 5 day grace period

Readers to our blog know our […]

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Ok, so everyone make predictions, but not too many go back and see how it worked out.
We will give it a shot
So before the domainfest auction we listed 46 names we thought were overpriced and unlightly to sell.
Out of the 46, only  one did sell, food.la for $11,250.   The other 45 did not sell.
Not […]

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The first Domainer’s Choice Awards were announced last night at the closing dinner for DomainFest.
Ammar Kubba’s company TrafficZ, won the award for best Parking Company.
Ammar is a great guy, a good friend and one of our long term parking partners for our own portfolio.
We congratulate Ammar and his team.
In maybe the night’s biggest upset, my […]

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The second day of the live SnapNames.com auction, at DomainFest closed today with 2.3 Million in sales.
The two day total was  being around 3.1 million.
Here are the domains that sold today:
$400,000 porn.net
$300,000 bookmarks.com
$195,000 photograph.com
$100,000 yemen.com
$90,000     females.com
$80,000     intimate.com
$67,500     joysticks.com
$65,000     kathy.com
$52,500     fishing.net
$50,000     beijing.net
$45,000     crocodile.com
$45,000     learners.com
$40,000     loseweightfast.com
$37,500     no.org
$37,500     knee.com
$37,500     lowinterestloans.com
$35,000     politics.net
$32,500     eyesurgeon.com
$32,500     fraudprotection.com
$32,500     onlinetranslator.com
$32,500     wineguide.com
$30,000     aux.com
$27,500     flightinstruction.com
$27,500     holland.net
$27,500    […]

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