The New York Times published an article today covering the domain industry and the DomainFest show and auction last week. Overall a very positive article, highlighting the maturing of the industry, the…
Author: Michael Berkens
Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.
SnapNames Silent Auction Does $940,000
SnapNames Silent Auction of DomainFest closed on Thursday and the final total from the silent auction was $940,000. The top name, AR.Com sold for the minimum bid of $225,000. …
What’s Up with Communicate.com??
While Yahoo and Google have suffered double digit percentage losses this week, one of the companies in our Domain Parking Stock Index has rocked up over 30% in three days. On Monday…
Google Misses: Stock Sinks
Google released its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2007, that missed Wall Street estimates, sending the stock tumbling after hours. Google which went up $16 a share today, sank $46 points…
SnapNames Silent Auction: Our pickups
Well as promissed now that the snapnames.com silent auction is completed we can now tell you what domains we bidded on. These are the domains we acquired: testtubes.com organicchocolate.com autographcollectors.com shocktherapy.com endurancetests.com…
SnapNames.com silent, Under an Hour to GO
The silent auction part of the snapnames.com, DomainFest show, auction is underway and closes within the hour. There is bidding going on. We told you that we had interest in 12 names,…
Will Microsoft Finally Buy Yahoo.com???
Back In January 2006, the big rumor spreading around was that Microsoft was on the verge of buying Yahoo. The rumor was the Microsoft bid 80 billion dollars for Yahoo, and that…