A couple a interesting auctions concluded today and another couple just started on Sedo. Marathon.net sold for $15K and a there was a rare .asia sale with Credit.Asia Selling for $7,500. The…
Month: November 2010
From A $2K Domain Purchase in May 2009 To $8 Million In Funding: SmartDate.com
The domain name SmartDate.com sold according to DNjournal.com in May 2009 for $2,000 on Sedo.com. Today comes the news via TechCrunch that the now Paris-based online dating site, raised $5 million in…
SmartName Starts Rolling Out New Landing Pages & Revenue Goes Up
Pretty much every domainer is familiar with Smartname.com landing pages, which often feature a picture of a women on the page with a lot of links and topics on the page. Here…
NameJet .Pro Auction Fails To Impress
The NameJet.com registry owned .Pro domain name auction came to a close yesterday with most domains not even hitting reserve. Domains that I have on my report as selling include SSL.pro which…
Sedo Blacklists Generic’s While Holding Auctions For Trademark Infringing Terms
Sedo has a blacklist of domains. Sedo even uses the email address of Blacklist at Sedo.de to send these notices out: Here is what one of these messages look like: Dear Mr….
Overstock Sued By 7 California DA’s “For At Least $15 Million” For Misleading Consumers
Overstock.com has been in the domain news quite a bit recently for its acquisition of o.Co as well as considering changing all of its non-US sites to o.Co. Overstock was back in…
AllThingsD: Is Google Going To Buy Groupon.com For $3-$4 BILLION Dollars?
According to AllThingsD.com, Google is in negotiations to buy Groupon.com and is offering “well above what Yahoo offered earlier this year for the company”. Yahoo according to AllThingsD, Groupon “turned down a…