Comments on: Report: Microsoft & Yahoo Nearing A Deal

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:13:26 +0000

Owen very interesting … what better way for the Oligopoly to take more search

market share than to crucify their competitors and take domain portfolios for their

deflated values ?
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:26:29 +0000

Owen very interesting … what better way for the Oligopoly to take more search

market share than to crucify their competitors and take domain portfolios for their

deflated values ?

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:26:20 +0000

I have to say this is a big yawn for me. MS might buy some Yahoo but I am counting on MS to screw it up and/or jam it down our throats with Windows 7 or whatever they want to call it.

DOESN’T MATTER.

Yahoo talent will quit. They won’t fit in with the Ballmer culture and they would much rather work at Google or facebook or twitter.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:51:30 +0000

. . . an’ that phone you hear ringing is Google trying to get through to the DOJ to beg them to stop it . . .

By: owen frager

owen frager — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:57:22 +0000

Microsoft is already making a play in the domain space with Bing. For example type-in PLAZA.COM or any of the thousands of others they have been buying up. Partial list here:
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/search?q=MICROSOFT+DOMAINS

Question is whether they will park yours or wait until you are burnt to the stake with PPC and then they take them on the drop. Microsoft buyers are very active on Snap and Name Jet using shell companies. Just go back and test some of the recent sales and see the Bing page you get.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:33:38 +0000

robb – any examples of generic pages you have done this with? Thanks.

By: robb

robb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:18:01 +0000

Build your own webpages and put links for relevant affiliate programs (via CJ, Amazon ebay, whatever) and also some PPC through an Adsense type program. You don’t have to do just one or the other. A big project if you have a lot of domains, but start with your highest traffic or best converting ones first, and move down the line. You might also be able to forward a bunch of similar domains to one page you build, if it’s relevant to do so. I had a bit of a drop from Adsense earlier this year, but it’s back up now. With the amount of ad dollars moving online, and more sites competing for traffic, PPC and ad rates will have to go back up.

By: MHB

MHB — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:58:03 +0000

Well the way things are going and with Yahoo losing market share, I’m just trying to avoid a situation where we only have a choice between Google and Google

By: jp

jp — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:56:22 +0000

I certainly don’t look forward to having to choose between Google & Microsoft. I still think Yahoo shouldn’t sell out. They’ve got a gold-mine there, the just need to figure out how to get the gold out of it.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:25:38 +0000

MHB … Google/Yahoo/MSN is simply proceeding like any good oligopoly …
For many domains, use it or lose may be what the future holds.