Baidu, China’s largest Internet search engine, and a part of our Domain Parking Stock Index, reported a 23.5 % increase in first-quarter net profits. However, Baidu also warned that the global downturn was affecting online advertising. The company registered a rare drop in the number of of active online advertisers, and in the revenue per online advertiser, from the fourth quarter. The … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
Microsoft’s Kumo.com To Launch On June 2nd?
According to a report in blorge.com, Microsoft is going to launch Kumo.com on June 2nd. Kumo.com according to many reports will eventually replace the Live.com search engine for Microsoft. The Search Marketing Expo, an industry conference, is also starting in Seattle on June 2. Here is some info about Kumo from the blog: """The concept behind it appears to be that results are listed … [Read more...]
The Fastest Way To Register A Domain? TweetName.com: Lets You Register Your Domain Through Twitter
Tech Crunch just published a post about TweetName, the service that lets you register any .com, .net, org or .biz, by just sending a Tweet. ""Once you log into Tweetname for the first time, the site uses OAuth to connect to your Twitter account. You fill out your credentials, including name, address, credit card info, billing info and then Tweetname automatically follows you and arranges for … [Read more...]
Our Picks, Pans and Predictions For The Rick Latona TRAFFIC Auction & Why SmartPhones.com Is NOT “The Deal Of The Century”
Tomorrow Tuesday April 28, Rick Latona will be holding his live domain auction, from the TRAFFIC show in California at 3:30 PST, 6:30 EST. Remote bidding will be allowed for those not in attendance. So it's time for our picks, pans, and predictions for the auction. So with all our stats and figures we find that these are the best buys from the auction: Shows.com at no reserve. A great … [Read more...]
Pro AdBuyers Look At PPC & You Should Listen
An interesting post in Media Post's Search Insider a publication written for those professionals that help their clients by PPC advertising. It's important to see what companies that get paid to place PPC for advertisers are thinking because they direct a lot of the major PPC ad buys. First the post notes that many of their clients have reduced their PPC ad buys back to 2003-2004 … [Read more...]
Latham.com Sells For $30K At NameJet.com
Latham.com sold for $30,300 at Namejet.com Latham is a popular last name which pulls over 7 million results on Google If you do a Google search for "Latham" the first result is for Latham & Watkins, which seems to be a very large international law firm, second is a link to Congressman Tom Latham of Iowa and then to the Latham Hotel, a small hotel in NY. Seems like a lot of money for a … [Read more...]
A Ton Of 3 Letter .Org’s Dropping Today
Its not often that you see a three letter domain drop naturally, and today by my count there are at least 35 of them. These are actual drop domains, so they can be caught by any drop service or even with you own script (if you have one). If you want to go after any of these, you need to backorder them, with your favorite, or all your favorite drop services, like Snapnames.com, NameJet.com, … [Read more...]