Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform. What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability. With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap. So many horrible … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
Google To Pay U.S. $500 Million To Settle “illegal” Pharmacy Ads
According to the Wall Streeet Journal, Google has agreed to pay $500 Million dollars to the US government to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in ads from rogue online pharmacies. "The pharmacies appearing in Google ads were operating outside the law, leading to a Department of Justice investigation into Google’s advertising practices … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $525K In Domains Led By YouPrint.com For $12k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday August 21st. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $524,472. The top seller of the week was YouPrint.com at $12,000 followed by Addressable.com at $10,800. Here is the complete list: .com Names … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells $730K In Domains Led By ZY.com For $106K
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday August 22nd. All reportable domain sales totalled $729,561 USD. The top seller of the week was ZY.com at $105,999 followed by Marketport.com for $19,000. The complete sale list in US dollars is below: … [Read more...]
Looks Like Bankrate.com Is A Huge Domainer Spending Over $90 Million In Domains
According to some SEC filings it appears Bankrate.com apparently is becoming a major domainer having spent over $90 million dollars in domain names. Actually the total amount spent was Over $170 million but $90 million is what they allocated to the cost of the domain names in acquisitions Here are some of the domain names they have acquired; carinsurancequotes.com -- "Approximately $7.5 … [Read more...]
.APP gTLD Project Launches & Is Pre-Selling Domains To Fund The Application Fee
A new group of App developers have stepped up and announced plans to apply for the .APP new gTLD and is going about raising the money for the application in a very unusual manner. According to the site to promote the application: ".app Project” is a community funded and executed project to obtain rights to the .app gTLD when ICANN makes them available in 2012." "We’re looking to gain … [Read more...]
Guy Who Registered AmywinehouseFoundation.com: “I’m Not A Dick Head”
Yesterday we wrote about Mitch Winehouse who announced plans for the Amy Winehouse Foundation before securing domain name. Mitch called those who registered the domain a "dick head" for doing so Today Martin McCann, the man who allegedly registered the domain name, Amywinehousefoundation.com told a newspaper that: “I’m not exploiting anything yet. I’ve just bought some domain names. … [Read more...]