According to the Wall Street Journal, Senior executives from Microsoft and Yahoo met for the first time Monday to discuss Microsoft’s takeover offer for the internet company,  a breakthrough that could be the first step toward a friendly deal between the two rivals.
However, no bankers attended and no further talks have been scheduled, according to […]

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The next big domain even is set for The Domain Roundtable from April 18th-21, in San Francisco California at the Shertaton Place Hotel.
Among the actives and speakers planed are: (from Domainroundtable.com site)
Matt Cutts who is known in the SEC community as the most visible enforcer behind the Google Webmaster Guidelines.
Matt is a great source of […]

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Since most parking companies are U.S. Based and pay publishers in dollars, and since most domain sales, are quoted in U.S. dollars, its important to keep our eye on the sinking dollar. So we are going to add this feature to our radar and keep you updated.
The dollar hit a low against Japanese Yen […]

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AOL Annouced today that it will pay $850 million in cash to acquire social media network Bebo, which has total global membership of more than 40 million.
Bebo is one of the largest social networks in Britain, and is ranked number one in Ireland and New Zealand and number three in the U.S, according to AOL.
News […]

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The CEO of Disney, Robert Iger,  speaking to a media conference in New York, said today that Disney would had no interest in acquiring AOL from Time Warner, which is expected to be on the market shortly.
According to other reports Yahoo has been talking to Time Warner about entering into some relationship to fend off […]

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According to a report by the AP, in a note to investors, a Susquehanna Financial Group analyst, C. Ming Zhao, said the Baidu, the chinese online search engine operator’s traffic surged in late February, due to a return to normal Web usage in the wake of the Chinese New Year holiday and searches for […]

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When I read the press release yesterday, stating that fund.com was sold and now being used by a public company fund.com (otcbb: FNDM) for 10 million dollars cash I was suspicious.

I reviewed some press releases from the company and saw that back on January 22, 2008, fund.com announced that they:

“””changed its name to Fund.com Inc […]

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit orgainization which according to it’s site, defends the internet from laws that would harm “free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights”.
On its site today, in an article written by Corynne McSherry , the group voices it opposition to the Snowe bill saying in part:
“”””Sure, phishing is a problem. But […]

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This was a question posed to me by Jeff Schneider, a fellow domainer and a member of Rick’s Board, the other day in response to a post I wrote.
At the time I told him that was a great question deserving of a post to answer.
There are of course many reasons why a domainer would […]

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The president and CEO of Marchex, John Keistersold, sold 22,000 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan for $9.05 apiece.The stock sale was conducted under a prearranged 10b5-1 trading plan which allows a company insider to set up a program in advance for such transactions and proceed with them even if he or […]

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