In April of this year we told you that several gambling poker sites were seized by the Feds & the owners charged with a bunch of Federal crimes. Yesterday, the co-founder and the director of payment processing for Absolute Poker, Brent Beckley, pleaded guilty in Manhattan’s federal court to conspiring to violate the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and commit bank fraud. “I … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2011
Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domain Led By StockMarketWatch.com For $35K
Afternic.com reported $1,149,613 in domain sales for the week ending December 18th. The publicly reportable sales included in the total above were $733,857 led by StockMarketWatch.com at $35,000 followed by FirstAvenue.com at $25,000. Succeed.com was also sold, but the sales price and buyer were kept confidential. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales: .COM … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells $2.42MM In Domains Let By 3d.com For $500K
Sedo.com just announced it’s weekly sales data for the week ending December 19th. In all $2.42MM of domains were sold. The top seller was 3D.com at $500,000 USD. We had previously discussed Sedo brokering the domain 3D.com in our post here back in April. Other domains topping the list of public sales were MarketAnalysis.com at $60,000 and News.co for $50,000. In all 883 domains were … [Read more...]
comScore: Record Week In Online US Holiday Shopping History
comScore.com reported today, for the holiday season-to-date, nearly $32 billion has been spent online, a 15% over last year. For the week ending Dec. 18, four days surpassing $1 billion in sales, making for an all-time record of $6.3 billion in online retail spending for a week, up 14% from tthe same week last year. The final shopping weekend before Christmas reached $1.04 billion to rank … [Read more...]
Senators Asks The FTC To Investigate Google For Possible AntiTrust Violations
Two Senators, Herb Kohl, the Chairman of Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights along with Mike Lee, the ranking member of Subcommittee on AntiTrust sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today asking the FTC to investigate Google as to whether they are violating Antitrust Laws and the FTC Act. In their letter to the FTC they write in relevant … [Read more...]
How Much Traffic is Buy.XXX Losing To BuyXXX.com? We Know The Exact Numbers
We have written pretty frequently about ICM's launching of an all out ad campaign for the .XXX extension, with all Advertising leading back to Buy.XXX. You can read some stories on Buy.xxx here, here and here. So for the 1st time we can tell you EXACTLY how much traffic Buy.xxx is bleeding over to BuyXXX.com How do we know? We own the domain name BuyXXX.com. Yesterday we logged in … [Read more...]
PerezHilton.com Says A Godaddy.com Super Bowl Commercial Will Star the New Pussycat Dolls
According to Perezhilton.com the "new" Pussycat Dolls will be featured in one of the upcoming Godaddy.com Super Bowl Commercials. The dolls have gone through a make over since the original group which featured as lead singer, the now X-Factor judge and Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger. According to Perez the New PussyCat Dolls will include Chrystina Sayers formerly of the … [Read more...]