Afternic.com reported $1,131,352 in domain sales for the week ending January 29th. The publicly reportable sales included in the total above came to $692,343 led by moneyandme.com at $20,000 followed by performancegraphics.com at $12,500. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Sedo.com Sells $1.68 Million In Domains Led By Sofi.com At 45K
Sedo.com just released its weekly sales list. In all Sedo.com sold 939 domain names totaling over $1.68 million with 34% of them being "buy it now" sales. Sofi.com led all sales at $45K followed by Naturkraft.de selling for around $30K Here are the reportable sales: Domain … [Read more...]
Lana Del Rey Album Born To Die Hits Number 1 On iTunes In US & 10 Other Countries
Big shout out and congrats to Lana Del Rey, Rob Grant, and the entire Grant family as "Born To Die", Lana Del Rey album was released today and is currently number 1 and 2 on the iTunes US album chart. The Deluxe version with bonus material is number 1 on iTunes and the regular album is #2. According to Lana's Facebook page the album is "#1 in 11 countries". Lana has over 500,000 fans on … [Read more...]
GAYS.DE buys GAY.DE & Gay.At For $218,000
GAYS.DE has just bought two domain names Gay.de and Gay.at for "a staggering €165,000 (approx. $218,000)" According to a press release, "Prior to purchase GAYS.DE was already one of the largest dating communities in the market with around 250,000 members." “In the next step we want to transmit the community’s editorial content into mobile internet so we can meet our members’ increasing needs … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Beckstrom Update On New gTLD Program
I just listened in to a call with the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom, on an update on the new gTLD program he gave to some bloggers. "For us, No news is good news, things are running smoothly we have not encountered any major technical or service issues." Beyond that Mr. Beckstrom was unwilling to give any updated numbers in terms of the number of applications submitted or the number of … [Read more...]
3 Founders Of Demand Media Are Out
According to paidcontent.org, three founders of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), Larry Fitzgibbon, Joe Perez, and Steven Kydd are leaving the company. All three had been with the company for seven years. Kristen Moore, VP of corporate communications for Demand confirmed the report of paidContent, who said most of their duties will be passing on to Michael Blend, EVP of Media & Marketplace … [Read more...]
WealthInvestors.com Seeking To Bring Domaining To The Masses, Makes Its Pitch At Pitchfest
Wealth Investors, LLC, headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., is trying to bring domain monetization to the general public. Its a concept I have had discsussion with other domainers through the years. What if you can teach John Q. Public about how they can make income from domain names. Those inside the domain world will quickly point out that revenue from domain parking has decreased … [Read more...]