A few days ago I posted a blog on my number one rule to avoid failure in the domain industry is not to piss your money away. Today on Godaddy.com, there are 4 typos for the site, ToonTown.com on the expired auction block with a total high bid price of almost $4K with almost 3 days to go. The domains are: TooTown.com tooontown.com tontown.com toontowm.com The total estimated … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
Kentucky Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments On Domain Seizures
Yesterday the Kentucky's Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the seizure of 141 domain names by the Commonwealth of Kentucky last year. According to reports the oral arguments lasted for about for 90 minutes from each side. The ruling from the court is expected in sometime within the next 4 months. During the hearing one of the justices Lisabeth Abramson questioned whether … [Read more...]
WhyPark.com Charity Domain Auction Set For December; Submit Your Domains Now
WhyPark.com is organizing a 5-day charity domain auction to begin December 7th and end December 11th. Approximately 50 domains will be chosen for the charity auction, and all domains will start with no reserve. At the close of the auction, the single highest bid from all auctions will be able to choose the charity to receive all net proceeds. However WhyPark will ensure the charity is a … [Read more...]
MCU.com Sells For $24K On SnapNames.com
Last week we told you that there were 3, three letter .com's, all dropping on the same day. Snapnames.com wound up getting all three, beating out NameJet.com, Pool.com and other registrars. Today the auction for one of those domain ended with MCU.com selling for a whooping $24,500. MCU is a common acronym for a Microcontroller Unit, also a Multipoint Control Unit, and sthe Municipal … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Much Money Will The TRAFFIC Auctions Generate?
We asked which Live auction you though would sell more at the TRAFFIC show next week and 63% of you voted for RickLatona.com over Moniker.com auction. So the big question is what will the two live auctions generate in combined sales? We are opening the polls until Tuesday morning. Just to be clear your pick is for the total amount you think will be sold at the two Live TRAFFIC auctions … [Read more...]
Real Time Tweets & FaceBook Updates Coming To Search & Its Not Google (yet)
Microsoft announced today that its search engine, Bing.com has signed deals with both Twitter and Facebook to bring real-time status updates and tweets into search results. Although this has been rumored for a while to Google as well, Microsoft is the only one with a deal. The deal however it not exclusive and its expected that Google will join the party. According to allthingsd.com, … [Read more...]
Breaking News: British Court Refuses To Enforce Kentucky Domain Seizure Order
In a court ruling out of the UK, a British court has ruled against the Commonwealth of Kentucky's attempt to seize gambling domains. As you will just over a year ago, before the TRAFFIC NY 2008 show, the the Commonwealth of Kentucky sent a seizure order to the registrars of 141 gambling domain names, demanding that those domains be forfeited to Kentucky. The 141 domains ranged from parked … [Read more...]