In an article today Fortune Magazine looked at the company Slide, in which the magazine noted, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, paid $50 million for a 9.1% stake in January. Slide makes "widgets", and the author say these widgets could be the answer to a problem that everybody in the business of selling ads on the Internet has been experiencing of late. """""Widgets are small, self-contained … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2008
Domainers go Shopping at NameJet
In the last few days the auctions at NameJet.com have been very active with many 1k+ domain sales: jogger.com $25,201 careerplan.com $22,700 healthcaresolutions.com $10,700 dmvrecords.com $ 8,664 japs.com $ 8,200 starnine.com … [Read more...]
Click on a Link, Go to Jail
This is an important story. It effects you as an American, a Domainer and as an internet user. It starts with child porn. I know everyone's knee jerk reaction once they hear child porn, is put the bastard away. I know. I agree. But you need to understand what went on here. What the government did. What happened here can happen to you, there are many things the government says are illegal, … [Read more...]
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE????????
It been just about a month since the The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008″ was introduced in Congress. We immediately informed you about the bill, told you that if passed it, the government would be able to take away your property, the most generic of domain names and fine you up to 6 million dollars per domain. We immediately let you know that if the bill passed it would … [Read more...]
The Street.com: Online Advertising Stays Healthy
In an article published by thestreet.com today, it states that: "Online advertising continues to stand its ground even in a shaky economy" The street quoted Sanford Bernstein analyst, Jeffrey Lindsay, as seeing online advertising growing by 23.9% in the U.S. and 23.3% worldwide in 2008. Although the street noted "that's a drop from last year's growth of 25% in the U.S. and 26.3% … [Read more...]
Dark Blue Sea enters into Agreement with GoDaddy to Sell its Domains
According to a report in tradingmarkets.com, Dark Blue Sea, part of our Domain parking Stock Index, entered into a 5 year agreement with GoDaddy.com to sell domain names from its own portfolio. Dark Blue Sea will issue GoDaddy an option to acquire 6.5 million shares of Dark Blue Sea shares at an exercise price of $.65 AU, expiring on June 7, 2013. To exercise the options, Godaddy.com has to sell … [Read more...]
Is Google of 2008 like Yahoo of 1999???
In a very interesting article published by Dow Jones today, the question is asked is Google of Today like Yahoo of 1999. The article states: """"In 1999, it would have been presumptuous to compare the fledging online search company Google with the world's most popular Internet portal, Yahoo.""" """Google of today finds itself in a position similar to the Yahoo of old: Both are … [Read more...]