Having had a good nights sleep, after much drinking and partying at the Mansion, enjoying a wonderful lunch at the Ivy restaurant on an absolutely beautiful day here in LA, after reading your comments to my post on the Live auction results, and many other blogs, I'm ready to share my thoughts on yesterday auction. I was pretty active in the auctions, selling 1 name in the live, 1 in the … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2009
DomainFest Live Auction Nets Only $665K
The Moniker.com live auction from the DomainFest show just concluded, with just 62 domains out of 200 domains selling for a total of $665,000. We will have further thoughts and analysis tomorrow, however first impressions was a surprising lack of interest in .me domains compared to just the New York Traffic show just a few months ago. .travel domains as expected garnered little … [Read more...]
DomainFest Low/No Reserve Auction Nets $128K
The no/low reserve auction at Domainfest grossed $128,650 in sales. Here are the offical results from Moniker.com: eat.net $15,000 spearguns.com $14,000 sanfranciscorestaurant. $7,500 bikes.net $7,000 consultations.com … [Read more...]
Yahoo Loses $300 Million In 4th Quarter
Yahoo reported a 4th quarter loss of $303 million compared to a profit of $202 Million in the 4th quarter of 2007. However without one time charges and write off's in the 4th quarter related to restructuring and layoff's, Yahoo would have made $238 million, or 17 cents per share, from $205.7 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue dipped 1% to $1.81 billion, though Yahoo … [Read more...]
TDNAM.com Doing the TradeMark Deal Again: Up Today MyFaceBook.com
Just checking out the most active auctions over at TDNAM and I see as the second most active domain MyFaceBook.com. With over 8 days to go the domain is already at $1,605. Not surprisingly, the domain has monster traffic. According to TDNAM the domain has over 84,000 monthly visitors and compete.com has it doing over 20,000 visitors. A clear trademark violation that can only bring more … [Read more...]
Off To DomainFest
Well like many of you i'm at DomainFest for the week. If your coming to the show, safe travels. One word of warning, as I got here yesterday, baby its cold outside, at night. You can catch me speaking at 9:45 Wednesday morning, at a session called: Domaining 2.0™ - What Does The Next Evolutionary Phase of Our Industry Look Like? Location: Grand Ballroom Moderator: Peter Celeste … [Read more...]
Is it a Buyers Market For Domains?
An article in econsultancy.com, today claims that its a buyers market for domains. Citing what it calls "the economic downturn and a growing overall trend of declining revenue for parked' domains" the article concludes that its a great time t buy a domain from even major players like BuyDomains.com The article cites a report in In December, DomainNameWire that BuyDomains was offering … [Read more...]