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…
Month: 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…