An short story appeared on the Deseret News, on how Ryan DeLuca started BodyBuilding.com and turned it into "the Internet most-visited body building and fitness site" My favorite quote from the article: "He took a huge risk by getting a $20,000 loan to buy the domain name BodyBuilding.com" Bodybuilding.com is ranked by Compete.com as having just under 1.5 Million visitors a month. Not … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
Maybe Crime DOES Pay: ThePirateBay.Org Sells For $7.8 Million
We grew up being told by our parents that crime doesn't pay, yet after today's report, sometimes it does. ThePiratebay.org, a huge file sharing site, reportedly sold today to a Internet gaming software company for $7.8 Million dollars. Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) has signed a deal to acquire The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish Kronor ($7.8 million), including … [Read more...]
eBay.com Is Allowing & Profiting From The Sale Of Trademark Infringing Domains
eBay.com has been active in defending its trademark filing and winning at least 3 UDRP in just the past year including on the domains: ebaycatwalk.com; ebayip.com and ebayofip.com; watch-ebay.com; While spending fees and costs to go after trademark infringing domains, its allowing domains that infringe on its own trademark to be sold on its own site. eBay.Hu.com is proudly listed for … [Read more...]
TaiwanMobile.com Sells For $26K At NameJet.com Or Did It?
TaiwanMobile.com topped the NameJet auctions for the past days at $25,599. However, how the domain was even at auction is quite confusing, as TaiwanMobile.com appears to be the site of that phone company and continues to resolve to them. Normally an expired domain ceases to work upon expiration. Moreover, the domain does not even appear expired, as the whois is showing and expiration … [Read more...]
Our First & Maybe Last NameJet.com Picks
A lot of readers have been asking for us to release some picks for NameJet.com, like we do on a regular basis for SnapNames.com. I don't know how often I will do this, or if I will ever do it again, but here are some great domains available for back order on NameJet.com. As we told you on the other day, under the new Namejet policy all auctions are restricted to only those who entered the … [Read more...]
NamePros Releases Live Auction Schedule.
NamePros.com announced a whole bunch of Live Auctions. This is a dedicated effort at providing domainers with a consistent live platform to increase domain sales. The published schedule is as follows: NamePros Live Auction Schedule No Reserve Live Auction Bidding Starts at Reserve Price Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 3pm EST Regular Live Auction – Short domains 5 letters or less Thu, Jul … [Read more...]
Beckstrom is ICANN New CEO
ICANN made is official today named former U.S. National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) director Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO, replace the retiring Paul Twomey. In March Beckstrom resigned as US cybersecurity chief in what appears to be a turf war with the National Security Agency (NSA). ICANN's Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, said in a statement: "Rod Beckstrom has exactly the sort of … [Read more...]