DomainSponsor announced today the agenda for DOMAINfest Europe which will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, October 6 and 7, 2010, at the Hotel InterContinental in Prague, Czech Republic. "Our Prague agenda facilitates important discussions around highly relevant topics for European domain investors," said Oversee.net Senior Vice President Peter Celeste. "At the same time, it is designed … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
BiBi.com Hits $12,500 In First Hours of 3 Day SnapNames.com Auction
The domain BiBi.com dropped today and SnapNames.com successful registered it, starting the 3 day auction at $59. Just hours into the three day auction and the domain already has a high bid of $12,500. There are over 250 people in this auction. BiBi is certainly a nice LLLL domain. BiBi.Org is a pretty popular site with a compete estimate of 9K visitors a month. There is a BiBi … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Raises Minimum Prices On Domain Auctions 20%
Very quietly, it looks like Godaddy.com increased the starting bid on its expired domain auctions from $10 to $12, an increase of 20%. Although I didn't get a notice about the change, (even though I buy domains on their platform all the time), I confirmed with my Godaddy rep who told me he didn't ever get a notice about the price increase. "This is the first I heard of it as well", he told … [Read more...]
Gold Vs. Google: 9 Month Update: Gold Up 20%, Google Down 6%
Back in late September 2009 Google hit $500 a share and gold hit $1,000 on the same day prompting us to post whether Gold or Google was a better investment. We told you at the time we would keep you updated and its time for the 9 month update. Since our orginal post, Gold has continued its climb and currently sits at just about $1,200 a ounce, or 20% higher Google on the other hand as we … [Read more...]
WIPO: New Rule: “Domainers Who Use Computer Programs To Register Domains Are Guilty Of Bad Faith”
According to an article in Managing Intellectual Property , Erik Wilbers, the Director of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, said: "The Center is close to releasing a new version of its bible for panelists. The new "2.0" version will include topics that have emerged in recent years, such as whether domainers who design computer programs to register domains automatically are guilty of … [Read more...]
After 7 Hours of Bidding, GovermentGrants.com Sells For $53K On NameJet (Yes It’s a Typo)
After 7 hours of extended bidding on NameJet.com, the auction for the domain name GovermentGrants.com finally ended with a sales price of $53,022. Yes its a typo. The correctly spelled domain, governmentgrants.com has some nice traffic, with compete.com showing over 30K monthly visitors and Alexa gives it a rank of 555K. The ownership of GovernmentGrants.com is under Moniker … [Read more...]
Google If You Want Give Us Transparency How About Telling Us Our Quality Score
As you have no doubt read today, Google "in the spirit of greater transparency", disclosed the revenue share it was paying its adsense publishers. However as anyone in the domain business can tell you the revenue share is irrelevant because of smart pricing. Google has refused to give anyone their quality score or any information as to how smart pricing affects their account. Yahoo … [Read more...]