Divyank Turakhia, Founder of Directi, has just been named along with the founders of Twitter, YouTube, the Skype and Bebo as the "Lords Of Cyberspace" According to A story 1st published by The Irish News and now picked by the Irish Independent, Divyank one of the biggest players in the domain industry, attended a conference in Ireland called "the Founders" which ran along side a long running … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
OnlineRealty.com Sells For $12K: GreenTags.com $10K on NameJet.com
The domain name OnlineRealty.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $12,200. Some other notable sales over the last few days: GreenTags.com $10,010 Sampling.com $5,097 Openhealth.com $4,600 NetCase.com $3,100 JustAskMe.com $2,800 3h.Org $1,600 Scholarship.info $1,531 Vindicate.com $1,312 … [Read more...]
Comedy.tv, Pets.Tv. Recipe.tv: Great Domains With Matching Shows On The Air: All Owned By Byron Allen
Byron Allen has done something most domainers can only dream of. Marry great .TV domain names with actual on air broadcast television shows. Some of the domains Mr. Allen's company owns are Comedy.tv, Pets.TV, Recipe.Tv, Cars.TV and ES.tv. All but Cars.tv are actual television shows running in syndication on on broadcast television around the country. Bryon Allen's company is called … [Read more...]
Feds Return To National A1 For 2nd Day
According to the Philadelphia ABC affiliate's site, law enforcement returned to National A! headquarters on Thursday "as part of an ongoing investigation by authorities "that began with a state police probe of an escort service there and alledged prostitution". "A raid that started yesterday morning went into the night. Federal agents from the FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office loaded … [Read more...]
.XXX Pushed Off Until Colombia ICANN Meeting In December
The ICANN board had a meeting yesterday and the question of the day was would ICANN grant final approval and sign the contract with .XXX. The answer is no. In a resolution that should be posted on its site today, ICANN resolved to send the matter back to the Governmental Advisory Committee for its opinion on the contract based ona few points that will be detailed in the … [Read more...]
VeriSign Profits Up 10%, Registrations Up 10%: 103.5 Million .Com/.Net domains
Verisign reported earnings after the market closed today. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $173 million from continuing operations for the 3rd quarter of 2010, up 2% from the prior quarter and up 10% from the same quarter in 2009. VeriSign reported net income of $785 million or $4.48 per share for the 3rdquarter of 2010, reflecting a net gain of $737 million, net of tax of $244 million, on … [Read more...]
Comment Wars
A few days ago I wrote a post about a Congressman who visited the TRAFFIC show as well as a candidate for Congress which spoke to TRAFFIC attendees. Along the way the comments on the post got away from the subject of the post and got into personal issues between people in the domain industry. I have now moved all of the comments from that post which were off topic to this post as they … [Read more...]