There has been an update in the Kentucky domain name seizure case and its not a good one. This week the original judge in the matter issued another forfeiture order on 132 domain names, this time not directed just to the registrars but to the registry, Verisign. You might remember in the original case, the Judge ordered the registrars, not the registry, to turn the domain names over to the … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2012
Social.Org Sells For $228K
Social.org just sold on NameJet.com for $228,600 Social.com sold last year for $2.6 Million Dollars making it the highest priced domain sale of 2011. This sale on NameJet.com represents a little under 10% of the .com sales price which seems just about right. There were 21 bidders willing to pay $10K or more for the domain, 13 willing to pay $20K or more, 5 willing to pay $50K or more - … [Read more...]
DomainHoldings.com Releases Study On Almost 10k Domain Names & Shows a 46% Increase In Revenue in 7 Days & 91% in 30 Days Over Pure PPC
A couple of weeks ago we published a press release from DomainHoldings.com about their Monitization Decision Engine (MDE). At the time DH promised they would be releasing a case study to back up their claims. Today DomainHoldings.com released details a the results of a 30 day test on its "DomainPower Montization Decision Engine (MDE)" comparing it to a pure PPC provider on almost 10,000 domain … [Read more...]
Minds+Machines Gets .Miami & Applies For .Music
According to a press release issued today, Minds + Machines which is owned by Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), has been chosen by the City of Miami to apply for the .MIAMI top-level domain. "On 7 March 2012, the Commissioners of the City of Miami voted 4-0 to accept the proposal from Minds + Machines and requested Minds + Machines to begin work on the application for .MIAMI … [Read more...]
NameMedia Promotes Jason Miner To COO
In its second promotion in two weeks, NameMedia, today announced the promotion of Jason Miner to Chief Operating Officer. Two weeks ago it promoted Bob Mountain to Vice President of Business Development. ""Miner has been a key executive throughout the company’s continuing growth and development. He joined the company in 2005 as the Director of Sales for the company’s domain marketplace, and … [Read more...]
OMGPOP Purchased Yesterday By Zynga For $210 Million Was The Buyer Of DrawSomething.com
A week ago we wrote about the domain name DrawSomething.com selling on Afternic for $3,000 As we noted the domain was under privacy at Godaddy and actually still is but the domain is now forwarding to the developer of the App omgpop.com. Meaning that the developer of the App, which has been downloaded more than 35 Million times, bought the exact match .com from BuyDomains.com for … [Read more...]
Eye Tracking Study Says A Visitors 1st Impression Of A Site Is Made In Fraction Of A Second & The Site’s Logo’s Is The Most Important
According to a new report by the Missouri University of Science and Technology, it takes a website visitor less than two-tenths of a second to form a first impression. Using eye-tracking software and an infrared camera the research found that the sections of a website that drew the most interest were: Logo - users spent 6.48 seconds focused on this area. Main navigation - users spent 6.44 … [Read more...]