In my endless quest to find you, my readers, the most relevant information on domain names and the media industry, we hopped a flight from LA after the DomainFest show, and went to Hawaii for a few days. Did you know that the largest newspaper in terms of circulation in the state of Hawaii is called the The Honolulu Advertiser? I thought what a great name for a newspaper. … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2008
Google Recession Proof??
Interesting article publish today about how the recession will effect the pay per click advertising industry. Put it on your must read list http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-22541402.htm … [Read more...]
Google Kills Domain Tasting?
In a report on Jay Westerdal's blog, Google may stop serving ads on all domains, less than five days old. Therefore someone who registers a domain will not get any revenue information and would not know which names to keep and which to throw back within the 5 day grace period Readers to our blog know our position on domain tasting. We are against it. We do not do it We … [Read more...]
DomainFest: How did we do???
Ok, so everyone make predictions, but not too many go back and see how it worked out. We will give it a shot So before the domainfest auction we listed 46 names we thought were overpriced and unlightly to sell. Out of the 46, only one did sell, food.la for $11,250. The other 45 did not sell. Not bad. Of the 110 we picked most lightly to sell 47 did not. Also not … [Read more...]
Domainers Choice Awards: Ammar, Elliot and Frank take home the Gold
The first Domainer's Choice Awards were announced last night at the closing dinner for DomainFest. Ammar Kubba's company TrafficZ, won the award for best Parking Company. Ammar is a great guy, a good friend and one of our long term parking partners for our own portfolio. We congratulate Ammar and his team. In maybe the night's biggest upset, my friend Elliot Silver and his blog, ElliotsBlog, … [Read more...]
DomainFest Second Day Closes at $2.3 Million
The second day of the live SnapNames.com auction, at DomainFest closed today with 2.3 Million in sales. The two day total was being around 3.1 million. Here are the domains that sold today: $400,000 porn.net $300,000 bookmarks.com $195,000 photograph.com $100,000 yemen.com $90,000 females.com $80,000 intimate.com $67,500 joysticks.com $65,000 kathy.com $52,500 … [Read more...]
DomainFest Auction Nets $800K
The first day of the two day SnapNames.com auction at DomainFest, netted 800K. Today, all of the domains had "lower" reserves of the two day auction. Tomorrow the higher priced names will be auctioned. Here are the … [Read more...]