I just received an email from the owner of Dragon.com who has put it up for sale. The domain name is currently home to a USA and UK based web hosting company, Dragon Networks and has been owned by the current holders since 1991. Dragon.com has a page rank of 4 and a Alexa ranking of 1.1M. According to Compete.com the site gets around 7,500 visitors a month. The owner has not set a … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2011
Aerospace.com Bidding Tops $75K With 1 Day To Go At NameJet.com, But Still Hasn’t Hit Its “Low Reserve”
The domain name Aerospace.com is at auction at NameJet.com ends tomorrow and the bids have just topped $75K. The current high bid as time of publication is $75,100 but the high bidder is NameJet.com reserve meaning that the sellers reserve is set higher. There are 312 bidders in the auction but only 2 that have placed bids $10K or higher. I just went back to read the announcement from … [Read more...]
Technorati.com Publishes Interview With FMA Head Elequa: “We Own 120K Domains Valued At Over $3 Billion”
Technorati.com has just published an interview with Thunayan Khalid al-Ghanim (also known online as Elequa) who owns Future Media Architects (FMA) a company that should be well known by all domainers for having a killer portfolio of domain names and a reputation for never selling a domain. So here is the most interesting part of the short interview for me: ""Future Media Architects (FMA) has … [Read more...]
FastCompany: “Does Paying Top Dollar For Domains Still Make Sense In The Age Of Apps?”
An interesting article just popped up in FastCompany.com entitled "Does Paying Top Dollar For Domains Still Make Sense In The Age Of Apps?" "Given the increasing popularity of apps, there's a question of whether owning the right domain name is as important as it was when the world was driven by dot-coms and browsers rather than iPhones and Android devices. In other words, if you launch an app … [Read more...]
Houses.com & Condo.com Are the Buyer Of Schwartz’ Property.com & Properties.com
According to a Press Release just issued, the company that owns Condo.com and Houses.com is the buyer of the domain names owned by Rick Schwartz, Property.com and Properties.com which Rick tweeted as being sold for $4M + equity in the new venture Here is the press release: Condo.com and Houses.com, two leading online residential real estate portals, today announced the acquisition of the … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Answers Hustler & Trademark Holders: You Can’t Sue Us
The ICM Registry published a white paper today entitled .XXX Domains and Trademark Issues. The paper seems to answer threats like the one that came from Hustler last week that seemed to indicate that trademark holders are somehow going to try to hold the ICM Registry liable for trademark infringement. Last week Hustler President Michael Klein said: The ICM registry is “prohibited from … [Read more...]
.Me Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and .Co Celebrates its 1st
Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today. The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries. 52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States; 7.68% are from the United Kingdom. 3.82% were registered in Germany 3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan. "During the Registry’s … [Read more...]