The much hyped no reserve auction just ended at NameJet.com for the domain name OrangeJuice.com with a winning bid of $44,800. Although there were 517 people in the auction only 7 were willing to bid $20K or more for the domain. The domain was advertised on the front page of NameJet.com with a banner ad for a few weeks and I even received an email from Network Solutions (a NameJet.com … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Google’s Matt Cutts On Why Porn Sites Have Such A Low Page Rank
Recently an adult webmaster asked Matt Cutt's of Google why porn site do not enjoy high Page Ranks. "What are the technical reasons porn sites have such low PageRank? "None go over PR6. "A lack of links from trusted sites? Rampant link exchanges with low quality sites? Penalties for affiliate links? Or is there a general penalty on the industry?" "Cutts, who says the Google doesn't … [Read more...]
Cupid.com Buys The Domain Name Cupidon.com For $280,000
According to an article in business7.co.uk, Cupid.com a company located in Scotland just acquired the domain name Cupidon.com for £175,000 which coverts into $280,000 Dollars. Cupidon is the French equivalent word for cupid. In Feburary of this year Cupid acquired the operating site IndianDating.com for $200,000. IndianDating.com, had around 600,000 members at the time of … [Read more...]
PbNation.com Sold For “Up To $3.2 Million”
According to a press release today, a publicly traded company, CrowdGather.com, (OTCBB:CRWG) "acquired the domain name, website, and assets related to PbNation.com one of the world’s largest online paintball communities according to Forbes and the Chicago Tribune." "The total purchase consideration for the PbNation.com site and assets is up to $3.2 million, consisting of … [Read more...]
CafeMom Launches Mom.com As A Daily Deals Site
According to a press release, CafeMom has launched Mom.com, as a daily deals website. "The free shopping service, launched nationally and in an initial test market, offers families deals of 50% off or more on nearby restaurants, salons, stores, activities and services." " The first local market in Northern New Jersey has registered more than five thousand users and generated thousands of … [Read more...]
YNOT To Start Site For Sale Of Adult Websites: YNOTMarket.com
According to AVN.com, YNOT Group LLC announced today it plans to launch YNOTMarket.com, in June which "will be a full featured adult website virtual marketplace designed to help both buyers and sellers of adult websites." "YNOT Market continues our trend of providing valuable business services designed specifically for the companies in the adult Internet industry," says Connor Young, … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $650k In Domains Led By FunChat.com For $40k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday May 22th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $646,892. The top seller of the week was FunChat.com at $40,000 followed by iVideos.com for $16,800. A notable mention also goes out to EmailServer.net as being one of the non .coms breaking into the five figure range, having a sale price of $10,000. Here is the full … [Read more...]