Scroogle.org closed today on Go Daddy Auctions at $17,100. The site and its owner Daniel Brandt had not seen eye to eye with the search engine giant. He closed the site in 2012 due to Google throttling the site and ddos attacks. The site had a lot of press back in the day. It will be interesting to see who bought the domain. Tech Republic covered the site back in 2011 with the headline, … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2014
The Internet Commerce Association’s Website Gets A Big Makeover
The Internet Commerce Association's (ICA) Website has undergone a massive redesign. The ICA has a new, sharp-looking website at InternetCommerce.org. The ICA wants to thank Michael Castello for leading the initiative to update the ICA site and for providing the mock-up, and Michael Sumner for creating the new site. The site just relaunched and now contains … [Read more...]
Uniregisty Wins Private Auctions For .Help and .Diet; Famous Four Participates In Its 1st Private Auction
At the TRAFFIC show today, Sevan Derderian, Director of Sales of Uniregistry announced at the TRAFFIC conference being held in Las Vegas, that Uniregistry won the private auction for the new gTLD's .Help and .Diet this week. There were two other applicants for .Help; Dot Tech LLC of Kansas, and Donuts. There were two other applicants for .Diet; … [Read more...]
How one Google Algorithm Change Can Damage A Business
There was an article over at Motley Fool yesterday by Adam Levy that took a look at how one Google algorithm changed can ruin a business. The article discussed the recent Panda change and the effect on RetailMeNot. From the article: Last week, shares of RetailMeNot (NASDAQ: SALE ) slid over 20% over the course of two days after a report from SearchMetrics found that the website's visibility … [Read more...]
Two Letter .Com; QM.com Hits The Market For 1st Time & Already Has a High Bid of $260K
RightoftheDot.com is exclusively brokering the two letter .com domain QM.com which is on the market for the first time. The domain is corporate owned not domainer owned. The owner is looking for offers of $500,000 or more. ROTD has a current high offer of $260,000 and just started brokering the domain less than two weeks ago. There are only 676 two letter .com domains For some well … [Read more...]
.Ninja Wins The Week With 5,200 Registrations; .Rentals 5K+; .immobilien 4.5K; .Vacations 1,600
Yesterday marked the first day of General Availability for several new domain extensions (new gTLD's) and .Ninja led the way ending with 5,200 registrations. Closely behind .Ninja was .Rentals which is sitting at 5,044 domains. .immobilien which translates into "real estate" closed it first day with 4,500 registrations. After those three new extensions it was a large drop off to … [Read more...]
Mt.Gox looking to sell Bitcoin Trademark, Can anyone actually use it ?
The parent company of bankrupt Mt.Gox is looking to sell the trademark and bitcoins.com to raise some funds to repay creditors of Mt. Gox. Several publications covered the story, we looked at three. The interesting part that Coin Desk covered was whether or not a trademark could actually hold up. The Telegraph reported on the story The company overseeing bankruptcy proceedings for the … [Read more...]