Live Current, the company formerly known as Communicate.com, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. 
Total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2007 increased 17% to $9.1 million compared to $7.8 million for the same period in 2006.
Moreover in 2006 revenue was boosted by the sale of […]

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A couple of weeks ago I chatted with Tess Diaz, Domain Asset Advisor with Godaddy.
She called asking if we had any suggestions for improving the TDNAM auction platform for expired domains.
We suggested that TDNAM should not show any expired auction domains in the “most active” category if they only had one bid.
Our argument was that […]

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Here are some notable sales from NameJet.com for this past week:
hedges.com                                 $11,900
smithers.com                               $11.600
prisa.com                                     $8,600
bionanotechnology.com             $5,600
travelcuba.com                            $4,211
leadgenie.com            […]

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First for the good news. This is our last ICA post for a while.
We started several weeks ago appealing for funds. A week ago Friday we announced a fund matching program. A few days later we took a look to see who was on the ICA membership list, and then on Friday we posted the […]

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Last Friday after finding that only 10K in contribution were received by the ICA in the month since the Snow Bill was introduced, we challenged the domain industry to step up to the plate and join the ICA.
We put our money where our mouth is and offered to match up to 10K in new member […]

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VeriSign announced today that is raising .com registration fees to $6.86 for effective October 1, 2008.
As you may remember in 2006, VeriSign was granted a new contract that allowed them to increase the registration fees in four of the next six years.
In October 2007, VeriSign raised the .com registration fee from $6.00 to $6.42 […]

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A premium online auction is starting today at GreatDomains.com and the auction closes on April 3.
Here is the list with reserve ranges:
absense.net              no reserve
aerobicfitness.com       1 - 4,999 $US
applicant.com            5,000 - 19,999 $US
assistants.com           20,000 - 49,999 EUR
astounds.com             1 - 4,999 $US
autos.net                50,000 - 199,999 $US
babysittingjobs.com      20,000 - 49,999 $US
bedsupply.com            1 - 4,999 $US
bfo.com                  5,000 - 19,999 […]

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According to a report by the research firm comScore, Inc., Google had its second straight month of disappointing growth in paid clicks. Data from comScore indicate that Google’s paid clicks in February rose only 3% compared with the same month a year earlier.
Paid clicks are the number of times Google search users […]

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We received this release from Skenzo.com today.
 
Skenzo Announces Private Equity Investment from Ashmore Group
 
Skenzo, a leading provider of technology, in the traffic monetization business, today announced the completion of a significant minority investment from the Ashmore Group. The Ashmore Group is one of the world’s leading Investment Firms managing funds over US$36.5 billion.
 
By revenue, Skenzo […]

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The domain TravelCuba.com is currently at auction at NameJet.com.
There are over 2 days left the high bid is at $750 and there are 86 people who backordered the name.
Now here’s the problem.
NameJet.com is owned in part by Enom.com. Actually NameJet.com platform is based on enom’s own auction platform.
It was just earlier this month […]

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