If you make $200K or more there is a huge tax hike coming for next year if you are in the United States. In the domain business it can only tax one domain name sale to put you over the top into the "rich people" tax bracket. Its pretty hard to keep politics out of any discussion about taxes but we are going to try to stick to the facts If your pondering a big sale there are some tax … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
Grandparents.com Last Sold In 2010, Becomes A Public Company & Raises $3 Million
Grandparents.com, Inc., has become a public company. The domain was acquired by the owners in 2010. According to a Press Release today, "the company formerly known as NorWesTech, Inc. (OTCBB: NWTH), a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), announced today that it completed a reverse acquisition transaction with Grandparents.com, LLC ("GP") in which GP contributed substantially all of its … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.4 Million In Domain Names Led by ApartmentListings.com & Tech.Pro
Afternic.com just published its weekly sales of domain names and sold a total of $ 1,374,675. Its reportable sales were led by ApartmentListings.com for $87,500 Interestingly a .Pro took 2nd place with Tech.pro selling for $25,500 This is the 2nd big .pro sale of the year with Go.pro selling for $40K on Godaddy in February. With Sedo.com reported sales for the week that is almost $5 … [Read more...]
Sedo Has Its Best Week Of The Year Selling Over 1,200 Domains for Over $3.5 Million Led By kboing.com For $150K
Sedo.com just had a Apple like week, selling over 1,200 domain names for over $3.5 Million dollars in sales In all 1207 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $3.5 million. 31.4% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: kboing.com at 150,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tev.de at 15,000 EUR · … [Read more...]
Feds Not Only Seize The Domain Name Bodog.com But Indict The 4 Owners/Operators Including Calvin Ayre
Last night Calvin Ayre broke the news that the domain name Bodog.com had been seized by the federal government. Today the Feds broke the news to Mr. Ayre that he has been indicted along with three others described by the Feds as the "owners or operators of the site, Calvin Ayre, James Philip, David Ferguson and Derrick Maloney." Ayre is accused of operating an illegal gambling business … [Read more...]
The Founder Of Flickr Maybe On The Other Side, As PinWeel.com Threatens Over PinWheel.com
TechCrunch.com covered the story today over the what seems to be an upcoming battle between PinWheel.com and Pinweel.com What makes this story really interesting is that the co-founder of the correctly spelled PinWheel.com, Caterina Fake was the co-founder of the incorrectly spelled Web 2.0 type of domain, Flickr.com (missing the "e"). According to reports Flickr.com tried to buy … [Read more...]
Google Blogs About Out 40 Changes It Made In February
Google just published on its blog, 40 changes to search quality "This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out earlier this month, and a handful are actually rolling out today and tomorrow. We continue to improve many of our systems, including related searches, … [Read more...]