Sedo.com just announced it’s weekly sales data for the week ending December 12th. In all $1.53MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Makassar.com at $40,000 USD which we had previously…
Month: December 2011
Microsoft’s New Study Showing That Domain Names Are VERY Important
Microsoft has just released a paper (.pdf) on the value of good domains calling it “Domain Bias” which looks like one of the best papers ever written on the subject of domains…
New Study Says PPC Ads Generate Up To 26% More In Offline Sales
According to a story on MediaPost.com today, paid search and display ads also drive activity into brick-and-mortar stores, but the online ad campaigns are not getting credit for the offline sales. The…
Head Of House Committee Proposes To Change SOPA To Only Apply To Sites Operating Outside Of The US
According to Variety.com, (I do think its the 1st time we cited this source) the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is going to propose changes to the Stop…
Morality in Media Wants Congress To Make It A Crime To Register A .XXX Domain Matching Any Domain In Any Extension
Morality in Media (MIM) has called for Congress to make it a crime for anyone to register a domain name on the .xxx site that is registered on another domain without the…
The Washington Post Says After 6 Years ICANN Is Still Moving Too Fast On New gTLD’s
In an editorial published by The Washington Post entitled “What’s The .Rush”, the Post says that ICANN is moving too fast on the new gTLD program despite acknowledged that the program has…
Sedo Sells Makassar.com For $40K & HeartOfLove.com For 30,000 Euro’s
A couple of sales hitting the Sedo.com wire this morning. Makassar.com sold for $40,000 Makassar is Geo domain. According to Wikipedia, Makassar, is “the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the…