According to a press release from today, a Dubai based company, "Unicapital Middle East", has $300,000 allocated for domain name purchases. The company is allocating another $700K for project development and promotion. It has just launched a portal for the region at 99.ae. It is not clear from the press release if the $300K is going to be spent on .Ae domains or on top level TLD's but … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Registration for MeetDomainers 2009 in Poland is now open! Partial Auction List Announced
The Second annual "MeetDomainers" show, a "Truly European Meeting of Domain Investors", will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel, September 25-27. MeetDomainers is an international meeting of people who love to do business and love domain names. It is dedicated to entrepreneurs and domain investors who want to share their knowledge and experience with each other. English-Polish & … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC Show Coming To Vegas In January, The Weekend Before DomainFest: You Like?
The TRAFFIC show organizers just announced that TRAFFIC Las Vegas will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel on January 21 through 23. According to the organizers: "The show will feature as many as seven full meals, three cocktail parties, great seminars, big name speakers, and the best night-time parties." What this means is that TRAFFIC Vegas will be held in Vegas, the weekend before … [Read more...]
Yahoo Buys Arab Online Community Site Maktoob.com For $75-$85 Million
According to various reports this morning, Yahoo has agreed to purchase, the arab community site Maktoob.com, which has 16.5 million users in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Yahoo said, while there are more than 320 million Arabic speakers worldwide, less than 1% of online content is in Arabic. Online advertising is growing sharply in the … [Read more...]
DomainFest Early Bird Registration Opens; Schedule Announced
DomainSponsor, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net and organizer of DOMAINfest, opened early bird registration today and published a preliminary agenda for DOMAINfest Global 2010 which will be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. from January 26-28, 2010. The entire property has been reserved exclusively for this conference. Registration, which includes all … [Read more...]
Yahoo Is Revamping Its Search Pages
Yahoo announced today that it was working to develop a new search page design that "will deliver contextual results that are more relevant to users' queries." Larry Cornett, Vice President for Yahoo of Search Products and Design, said the redesigned page, which is still being tested, "will help people find things they most want by providing them with a "Web of objects" instead a list of Web … [Read more...]
ThePirateBay.Org ISP Ordered To “Shut It Down”
In the latest twist of a story we have been following for a while, the ISP which serves as the main backbone for the filing sharing site, (Black Internet) ThePirateBay.org was ordered today to stop servicing the site today or face penalties. According to various news sources as of 9:30 a.m. PT, ThePirateBay.org appeared to be mostly inaccessible. Although other ISP's carry the site, Black … [Read more...]