I don't think its a surprise to a lot of our readers but Wired magazine did a story on the Internet being more popular than cable tv by subscriber count. This does not seem to be distressing to the major cable companies as they are all deeply ingrained with the Internet. The margins for broadband are also greater than they are for cable tv so this is another bonus. Of course as more people want … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Client of Mark Monitor’s Buys iPick.com From Vertical Axis
A client of Brand protection company Mark Monitor has purchased the highly brandable domain name iPick.com from Vertical Axis. The domain name was transferred over to brand protection company MarkMoniktor.com today. The domain name was owned by Vertical Axis who seems to have owned the domain name since at least 2005 Of course we do not have any idea how much the domain name sold for but … [Read more...]
IRP Panel’s Declaration of the IRP Procedure in the case of DotConnect Africa Trust vs ICANN
IRP Panel’s Declaration of the IRP Procedure was released on August 14, dealing with the matter between DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA) and ICANN. In June of 2013 ICANN decided not to accept the application from DCA with regards to the .Africa extension. Over the last year the two sides have been battling it out back and forth. According to DCA Trust, “ICANN’s administration of the New gTLD … [Read more...]
Google’s Response to Negative SEO Extortion “No Bueno”
Barry Schwartz wrote an article on Search Engine Land yesterday on Negative SEO extortion, and the Google response to these letters. First off here is the letter: Subject: I Want To Buy. Please Guide Me. Hello, Read this email very carefully. This is an extortion email. We will do NEGATIVE SEO to your website by giving it 20,000 XRumer forum profile backlinks (permanent & … [Read more...]
Ha.com Last Auction Now Over $800K in Sales & Post Auction Ends August 25th
We just got an email from Heritage Auction and to date their last domain auction has produced around $800,000 in sales so far. The post-auction offers end in 9 days on August 25th. The entire list is here: http://domains.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?Ns=Price%7c1&N=3369+794+4294950887 There are some amazing names here are just a few: TYI.com SEM.com (incredible name: Search Engine … [Read more...]
Another Previously Unreported Sale; Peep.com
It appears the domain name Peep.com changed hand this year. The domain name that has been owned under privacy for many years, moved to Godaddy.com in May. The domain has been a parked page for many years as well but as you can see from the screenshot, its now the home of the Peep App. We don;t know what the domain sold for but a couple of similar domain names, PeepingTom.com sold for … [Read more...]
Big Changes To TRAFFIC & Awards: Escrow.com To Count Votes & Rick Schwartz Last Show Produced?
Some big changes are coming to the TRAFFIC domain name conference and the TRAFFIC awards. The TRAFFIC awards for 2014 will be handed out during TRAFFIC's 10th anniversary conference that will be held October 30th- November 2nd in Miami Beach. Over the years I have been fortunate enough to win 4 TRAFFIC awards and have to tell you I proudly display all of them in my office. I had a chance … [Read more...]