Live Current, the company formerly known as Communicate.com, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2007 increased 17% to $9.1 million compared to $7.8 million for the same period in 2006. Moreover in 2006 revenue was boosted by the sale of two domain names, Vancover.com and Wrestling.com for … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2008
We Drop a Note in GoDaddy’s Suggestion Box and TDNAM Changes
A couple of weeks ago I chatted with Tess Diaz, Domain Asset Advisor with Godaddy. She called asking if we had any suggestions for improving the TDNAM auction platform for expired domains. We suggested that TDNAM should not show any expired auction domains in the "most active" category if they only had one bid. Our argument was that a domain having one bidder, does not make it "most … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Sales
Here are some notable sales from NameJet.com for this past week: hedges.com $11,900 smithers.com $11.600 prisa.com $8,600 bionanotechnology.com $5,600 travelcuba.com $4,211 leadgenie.com … [Read more...]
ICA: WHO IS NOT ON THE LIST, It’s Shocking
First for the good news. This is our last ICA post for a while. We started several weeks ago appealing for funds. A week ago Friday we announced a fund matching program. A few days later we took a look to see who was on the ICA membership list, and then on Friday we posted the great results from our matching Fund program. Now to complete the cycle, we look at the companies and indivudals, that … [Read more...]
Our ICA Match Program Ends as “the most successful fundraising effort ever for ICA”
Last Friday after finding that only 10K in contribution were received by the ICA in the month since the Snow Bill was introduced, we challenged the domain industry to step up to the plate and join the ICA. We put our money where our mouth is and offered to match up to 10K in new member contributions. We are happy to report that as Michael Collins stated today “The matching program has been the … [Read more...]
VeriSign to Raise .Com Domain Fees Again
VeriSign announced today that is raising .com registration fees to $6.86 for effective October 1, 2008. As you may remember in 2006, VeriSign was granted a new contract that allowed them to increase the registration fees in four of the next six years. In October 2007, VeriSign raised the .com registration fee from $6.00 to $6.42 . Now VeriSign has elected to raise the fee another 7% or … [Read more...]
GreatDomains.com Auction Starts Today
A premium online auction is starting today at GreatDomains.com and the auction closes on April 3. Here is the list with reserve ranges: absense.net no reserve aerobicfitness.com 1 - 4,999 $US applicant.com 5,000 - 19,999 $US assistants.com 20,000 - 49,999 EUR astounds.com 1 - 4,999 $US autos.net 50,000 - 199,999 … [Read more...]