Google launced today a shopping site today called Boutiques.com which seems to be the first project from Google's acquisition of Like.com Here is how Google describes the service on their blog: "The way we shop for fashion is different from how we buy cameras—especially online. With fashion, reviews and specs are less important; fashion shopping is about discovering something that fits your … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
BMW Rolls Out BMW.tv & Starts Running Television Commercials For It
BMW just gave the .TV extension another big boost by rolling out BMW.tv. in a last few months It looks like the car manufacturer has owned the domain for a while but its was directed to BMW.com. However now the site which is chocked full of videos of its cars and is being featured in as the go to URL in television commercials plus viral videos submitted by enthusiasts. Take a look at … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Racks Up Another $430K In Sales Highlighted by Dnb.net for $18K and MDS.Net For 11k
Afternic reported sales for the week ending November 14th. The list includes all .com reportable sales over $2K and all reportable non.com sales over $1K. Off hand I like totaleducation.com for $2K, and its interesting to note that there were 3 .net sales that were higher priced than the highest priced .com that sold for the week. … [Read more...]
Google Gets Patent On Instant Search
According to Fortune, the United States Patent Office awarded Google a Patent today for the technology behind Google Instant Search. The granting of the patent means that other search engines won't be able to provide the exact same type of search functionality as Google without licensing the technology from Google. Fortune points out that the "the inclusion of prior queries submitted by a … [Read more...]
Huge .co.uk Sale For $7.5M-$14M: Mortgages.co.uk, Investments.co.uk, CreditCards.co.uk, LifeInsurance.co.uk, HealthInsurance.co.uk, Savings.co.uk
We usually don't hear about too many huge deals involving .co.uk domains but this one is certainly a blockbuster. A public company in the United Kingdom purchased some of the best possible insurance and financial .co.uk domain names for a total of £4.6m, rising to up to £9m depending on performance. Based on exchange rates, this equated to a sale of around $7, 355,500 with possibly as much … [Read more...]
Diapers.Eu and Soap.TW Sell For Over $5k Each In the Wake Of Amazon’s $540M .Com Purchase
Domainers seem to be chasing diapers and soap domains, in the wake of Amazon purchasing the company that owns the developed sites, diapers.com and soap.com for $540 Million. In the last few days the domain name Diapers.eu sold for 4,200 euros (approx $6K) and today the domain Soap.tw sold for 5,000 euros (approx $7K). Soap.tw for $7k? That's seems like an a lot of money for an extension … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Much Will i.Co Sell For?
With today's announcement that i.CO is hitting that auction block, I started a poll as to how much you think the domain will fetch at auction. You can see some history on single letter .co domains on my previous post from today. Some of the possible buyers of i.Co off hand would include; Apple, king of all things "i" (iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTouch) ibm and any company in the internet … [Read more...]