Just a little over a week ago RickLatona.com announced he was canceling the TRAFFIC Hong Kong show due in large part to the number of domain shows this year: "The simple fact of the matter is that we are in a cottage industry." "The domain world is small and it can’t sustain so many companies fighting over attendees. So, I’ll bow out." So its interesting that 2011 is already setting up … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Wins The 1st Pioneer Award At Epik: Watch The Video Tribute & Acceptance Speech Here
Rick Schwartz was just awarded with the 1st Pioneer award at the Epik Conference in Seattle today. In a tribute video, 15 domainers around the world congratulated Rick on the well deserved award. Although Rick was not at the show to accept the award in person after the tribute video was put together it was my honor to take it to Rick and show it to him just a couple of days ago. I can … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The Moniker.com Domain Name Auction From The Epik Development Conference
Moniker.com will be holding a live domain name auction from the Epik Development Conference tomorrow September 16, Thursday at 4:30pm ET / 1:30pm PT. Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com and actually pre-bidding on the auction is still opened. The conference starts today and tuns through the 17th. First of all, here are some of the more interesting, higher priced … [Read more...]
DomainFest Prague Catalog Released, Auction Opens For Prebids & Mx.Com Gets A $250K Bid
Pre-bidding has just opened for the Live auction which will be held at DomainFest Prague on October 6th at 10am EST. There is already a pre-bid placed for $250,000 on MX.com. MX is of course among other things, the country code for Mexico. The domain has a reserve range of $250K-$500K and appearently has a reserve higher than the $250K bid. Only 40 domain are currently listed for … [Read more...]
CO2.Com: Hits The Auction Block At Epik Domain Conference
The domain name CO2.com is going to hit the auction block at the Epik.com Domain Developers Conference. From a press release from Epik today: "CO2.com, is the chemical formula for Carbon Dioxide, a gas emitted by gas-combustion engines, refrigerants, welding, pharmaceutical and chemical processing, oil recovery and commercial agricultural and biological applications. CO2 emissions are at … [Read more...]
Can You Guess Who Will Receive Epik.com’s 1st Pioneer Award?
Rob Monster, Chairman and CEO of Epik, a domain development firm in Seattle, confirmed today that the 2010 Pioneer Award will be given away at the 1st Annual Epik.com Domain Developer Conference. The official Press relase appears below, but I can tell you that I was excite to be part of the selection process and therefore know who the winner of the award is. Not only is the winner of this … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Quotes.com Sells For $1,150,000; Total DomainFest Extended Sales: $1,262,000
Quotes.com just sold at the DomainFest extended auction on SnapNames.com for $1,150,000 Its a great domain and can be used for insurance, stocks and other financial markets. Compete.com shows the domain having over 20K visitors a month and Alexa ranks the domain as 450,000 most visited site. In all 19 domain names sold totally $1,261,905. With the Live DomainFest auction, and the sale … [Read more...]