Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service. In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on NamePros about GoDaddy employees, including Adam Dicker, who runs Godaddy aftermarket service, bidding on and winning auctions from their own system. Troubling for … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Yahoo Exec’s Vote on the Google Deal with their Feet and Run for the Door
It's been a interesting week at Yahoo. According to reports many key executive are rushing to the exits at Yahoo. Qi Lu, an executive vice-president in charge of Yahoo's search and advertising technology; Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice-president who oversees communications tools like mail; and Vish Makhijani, a senior vice-president involved in search, are all reported to be … [Read more...]
Domainer Meeting Paris Live Auction nets $361k
The live auction just completed in Paris and the auction netted $361,375 Here are the … [Read more...]
Paris Domainers Auction Friday Morning at 8 AM EST
As a reminder moniker.com is holding a live auction from the Domainers show in Paris on Friday starting at 8am EST, 5am PST. Online remote bidding is avaliable through snapnames.com, as long as you have an account their and dowload the auction software from their site. There are some good names at reasonable reserves including the following all of which I expect to sell: OUX.com … [Read more...]
Yahoo Launches New E-Mail Service
Yahoo announced today two new e-mail domains that will give users the chance to register for an e-mail address using the new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Yahoo! Mail is the number one Web mail service in the world with more than 260 million users worldwide E-mail addresses at the new domains will have the same Yahoo! Mail features as addresses … [Read more...]
SEDO Parking Changes Looks Like Bad News
Sedo has on their site an announcement about changes to their parking system: """"""""" New Domain Parking Requirements Sedo is implementing a few new changes to our parked domains network that will be rolled out starting this week. One of these industry-wide changes is the implementation of organic search results on parked domains. Organic searches will appear at the end of a search results … [Read more...]
Want to own a piece of Swingers.com?
According to AVN.com the company that owns the domain Swingers.com is looking for investors who has a minimum of $100,000 to invest. The managing partner of Swingers.com is quoted by AVN saying that the company is "offering excellent terms to investors, who have working knowledge of dating traffic, in an effort to raise about $1 million dollars to build and brand Swingers.com as a legitimate … [Read more...]