Someone forward to me this statement that was made on a board alleging that Google engaged in a practice that methodically underpaid publishers. We do not know who wrote the post, nor do we know if any of its is true. However over the years a lot of "whistler blower" allegations have started just this way and as domainers we know our revenue from Google has gone well down, so I thought it … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Autos.de Sells For $166,000
The domain name Autos.de just crossed the Sedo sales wiring selling for for 120,000 Euro's or around $166,000 based on today's exchange rates. The buyer of the domain appears to be DAY Investments GmbH out of Austria whose website is at Day.eu The previous owner of the domain was one4vision GmbH which acquired the domain in 2007. Congrats to the buyer and seller. … [Read more...]
ThreatConnect Partners With DomainTools & Farsight Security
According to a press release just out, Cyber Squared Inc. which owns ThreatConnect™, a leading threat intelligence platform, entered into a partnership with DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc. to provide ThreatConnect users with the industry’s most powerful domain and passive DNS intelligence. “We know that the most sophisticated and mature organizations are using our data to assess … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Wins Auctions For .Garden & .Yoga Loses .Deals & .Property & Pays $5.97M
The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights for .garden and .yoga. The net cost to the Company for securing the sole application status for .garden and .yoga was approximately $5.97 million (circa £3.6 … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By FlashCards.com For $250,000
During the past week 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: flashcards.com at 250,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tel.fr at 22,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ejm.net at 9,800 USD Domain … [Read more...]
Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for the week
GoDaddy and Afternic's reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/21/14 - 4/27/14. The top sale for the week was Modernize.com at $25,000. Prostate.info was the top non .com sale at $15,000 Total Sales $1,778,547 for the week. Buffalo.org was a good buy imo for $2,100 and Mike.co sold for $2,500 with this already up on the site: mike.co Because .com was taken ! … [Read more...]
Twitter Reports Earnings – Stock Down 9 % in after hours trading
Twitter just released their earnings for Q1 2014, earnings were actually better than expected. Monthly average user numbers continue to be a problem and disappoint analysts. 42.62 +1.89 (4.64%) After Hours: 38.85 -3.77 (-8.85%) Apr 29, 4:29PM EDT NYSE real-time data - Disclaimer Currency in USD Tech Crunch wrote: Twitter just released its earnings report for the first … [Read more...]