The .ORG registry operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR) sent a letter to ICANN announcing their intention to increase their registration fees by 10% as of November 9th, 2008. The price increase brings the price for registrars up to $6.75 from $6.15 after last year’s price increase by 2.5%.
Verisign already announced a price increase for .com […]

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According to a press release on domaintools.com  today,  the long rumored acquistion by Thought Convergence, which owns and operates Trafficz, of Name Intelligence, which operates DomainTools.com and the Domain Roundtable conference was confirmed.
“We are proud to welcome Jay, Ray and the entire Name Intelligence team into the Thought Convergence family”, said Kevin Vo, Thought Convergence […]

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While the chess game between Microsoft and Yahoo continues, domainers seem to be a pawn.
After announcing that they were dropping there bid for Yahoo, the question becomes what will happen to Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and most importantly how will this all effect domainers.
Yahoo stock price closed north of $28.50 Friday. Prior to Microsoft’s offer […]

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According to a report published today by the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google’s advertisements on its search pages.
The WSJ said that a deal between Yahoo and Google is increasingly likely given the status of the testing. The report also notes […]

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According to report today by SearchIgnite, a paid search management technology solutions firm, Yahoo  posted a 57.6% growth in search ad spending in the first quarter compared to a year ago.
Yahoo’s share of search ad spending in the first quater increased to 24.2% from 19.6% in the first quarter a year ago.
Google’s share of the […]

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Traffic Down under, to be held in Australia in November, hosted by Fabulous, just posted it preliminary agenda at its website http://trafficdownunder.com/agenda.htm
Here are some of the highlights:
17 Nov 2008 (Monday): Pre-Conference Activities – Paintball Wars!, Paradise Country (Outback & Wildlife theme park), Zorbing (Human Rolling Ball), and Buggy Mania! (Dune buggy racing)
18 Nov 2008 (Tuesday): […]

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According to a report tonight in the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo and AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move that could thwart Microsoft Corp.’s effort to acquire Yahoo.
The possible Yahoo-AOL partnership, is according to the Journal, part of a plan by Yahoo to present shareholders with alternatives […]

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The president of ICANN today, reveled what he thought of your domainers: your a problem and he doesn’t like you.
In a story written in the gulfnews.com today the publication in writing about the possibility of ICANN granting of new domain extensions said:

“”””Domaining, which is technically legal, is still somewhat controversial. Domainers purchase non-trademarked domain names […]

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A nice story about Michael Mann and his new, Washington VC group, appeared in the Washington Post today.
Some of the projects the group has invested in are happybirthday.com, SEO.com and Phone.com
You can check out the whole story here

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Ok so as we all know pizza.com sold for $2.6 million dollars at sedo.com today.
Nice sale, except it pales in comparision to porn.com which sold for $9.5 Million several months ago.
Seems strange doesn’t it??
You can advertise pizza on television.
Porn you can’t.
You can advertise pizza on the super bowl, porn you can’t,
According to the New York […]

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