Google has just launched its "offical Search blog" entitled Inside Search. Here is Google's 1st post: """The thirst for knowledge is as old as humanity. It's only in the past decade that the Internet has made knowledge ubiquitous, and we want to help you find the answers you’re looking for, whether it’s the best price on a new microwave, where to find a great bike ride—or even … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
California Bill Seeks To Regulate Social Networking Sites With Fines Up to $10K Per Violation
California state senator Ellen Corbett proposed an amended version of the Social Networking Privacy Act (SB 242). The Bill would require social networking websites to design by default, privacy settings that prevent any information about a user (other than name and city) from being displayed to the public or other users without affirmative consent from the user. Social networking … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells Undergraduate.com & Sava.com For $22K; market.de Sells For $30K & The gameofthrones.com Sells But Not to HBO
A few nice sales at Sedo.com yesterday and today The domain Undergraduate.com sold for $22K, a nice education domain but also a possible social networking site. Sava.com was purhcase for $21,250 by SAVA Transmedia Inc o Montreal. There are quite a few companies using Sava in their name so this was a nice end user acquisition. Market.de sold for $30K, which considering that … [Read more...]
Shares Of Linked In More than Double In 1st Hour of Trading
Shares of Linked in, more than doubled from its IPO price of $40 and started trading at $83 a share. Currently shares are trading at $92 a share. Linked in is one of first of the new social networking companies to go public. Update: Linkedin just hit $100 a share Update2: Make that $110 a share … [Read more...]
Sedo Sells Bills.Org For $70K and Humidifiers.com For $50,000
Sedo.com has just sold two nice domains. Bills.org just sold for $70,000. The domain is still pending transfer in Sedo escrow but it looks like the seller is Lonnie Borck The domain name Humidifiers.com sold for $50,000. Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications, Inc. seems to be the buyer of Humidifiers.com and Blue Ridge Net Publishing, Inc. appears to be the Seller. Both are nice … [Read more...]
Trademark Holder On Milf Hunters Loses UDRP Bid For The Domain MilfHunters.com & Gives Domain Holders A Good Opinion To Use
RK Netmedia, Inc. represented by Randazza Legal Group, brought an UDRP for the domain name MilfHunters.com The domain holder beat back the challenge despite a trademark and use of the domain in a competitive manner to the trademark holder. More importantly there is some very good langage in the opinion for domain holders in general. Here are the facts: The Complainant has a United … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $625k In Domains Led By CeramicTiles.com For $40k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday May 15th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $624,561. The top seller of the week was CeramicTiles.com at $40,000 followed by BollywoodLife.com at $34,000. Here is the full list: .Com Sales … [Read more...]