What is the biggest threat to the Domain Industry? That government action or over reaction to attempt to deal with trademark infringement issues is the biggest issue we face as an industry. Looking toward 2008 I believe that the trademark issues still are the biggest threat. Here are some domains that are dropping today which already have multiple backorders at … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2007
PPC Companies Agree to Pay Fine for Gambling Ads
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo agreed to pay a civil fine totaling 31.5 million dollars for carrying PPC ads for gambling, going back to 2000. Microsoft paid 21 million, Yahoo share was 7.5 million and Google paid 3 million, less than half of its average daily profit of 11 million dollars. All three companies stopped accepting and serving ads for gambling last year. Full … [Read more...]
FTC OK’S Google DoubleClick Deal
The FTC said today that they will NOT block the proposed acquisition of Double Click by Google for 3.1 Billion Dollars saying that the deal is "unlikely to substantially lessen competition" Full Story … [Read more...]
Auction Calendar for 2008
After our post yesterday on pricing your domains for auction, we received a lot of feedback and most was regarding the lack of knowledge of when and where major domain auctions going to be held. So here is the Domain Auction Schedule for 2008: 1. DomainTools.com Auction. The second auction by domaintools.com will be held on January 3, 2008 at 11am PST. This auction … [Read more...]
Pricing Your Domains For Auction
We are coming upon a series of important domain auctions. Snapnames.com will be holding their first live auction in January at Domain Fest and Moniker.com will be holding its next auction at TRAFFIC Vegas in February. To prepare as a seller for these auctions I looked backed and analyzed the results for the last live TRAFFIC auction which was held in Miami in October and have come to the … [Read more...]
Domain Ticker, Add it to your Browser
Just came across a pretty cool tool. A ticker that constantly scrolls on your the top of your browser showing domain names for sale or at auction at sites including: Sedo Afternic DNForum Pool NamePros SitePoint If you are interested on a domain you see scrolling, you can just click on it and it will take you the site, so you can place a bid. The ticker is free, works … [Read more...]
Is it an Honor Not to be Nominated???
The final nomination were released today for the Domainers Choice Awards to be handed out at DomainFest, in Hollywood, January 21-23. Most interesting to me was not who was nominated, but who was not. The final nominee's for the Parking Company Award are: Fabulous.com Sedo.com NameDrive.com TrafficZ.com Parked.com Domainsponsor.com is the not only the founder of DomainFest … [Read more...]