Domain name inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th. Marc a domain-name investor best known for selling the name Business.com for $7.5 million. Marc's current holdings include; eTickets.com, CuffLinks.com, SummerCamps.com MutualFunds.com, Photographer.com, Consulting.com, … [Read more...]
Lisa Box Formerly Of Moniker Becomes Senior Director of Domains For Endurance (Domain.com)
Endurance International Group announced today that Lisa Box formerly of Moniker, SnapNames, a member of the KeyDrive Group, has become the Senior Director of Domains. Endurance owns a bunch of domain name registrars including Domain.com and Dotster.com and a bunch of hosting companies including; Bluehost, HostGator, FatCow, iPower, Homestead and iPage. "Lisa will help us incorporate generic … [Read more...]
Marchex Details Spin Off Archeo Business: Buying & Selling & Developing Domains; 200,000 Of Them
The Marchex earnings call yesterday reveal some interesting facts about Archeo the business that Marchex is looking to spin off to a separate public company later this year. It appears Archeo is set to become the first publicly traded company whose only business is one of being a domainer: "I'd like to highlight that we're narrowing Archeo's focus on the buying and selling of domains, along … [Read more...]
2013 TRAFFIC Award Nominees Announced
In an email tonight from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference annouunced the nominees for the 2013 TRAFFIC Awards. Congrats to all Nominees!!! "Below are YOUR nominees for the 10th Annual 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards." "Official voting ballots will be mailed to you later this month and awards will be presented on Tuesday October 22nd at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale, … [Read more...]
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARD Nominations for 2013 Are Open & Close On Friday
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference announced this morning that nominations for the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS are now open. Nominations will remain open until Friday. August 2nd at 6 P.M. EDT. All those that are eligible to vote should have received an email this morning containing the ballot and some new rules: "We have added a few new guidelines this year to maintain the integrity of … [Read more...]
Sedo Launches In Portuguese For Brazilian Market: Sedo.com.br
Sedo, today launched a new website in Portuguese to introduce a site for the Brazilian market, with over 80 million internet users. The e-commerce market in Brazil has been growing steadily, especially in recent years, when the economic strength of the country has increased the purchasing power of the middle class, who increasingly uses the Internet to do business. I t is also worth to … [Read more...]
You Hate Obama?: Check Out The Links Network Solutions Is Serving Up On JoeBiden’s Expired Domain
Elliotsblog.com reported today that the domain name matching of the Vice President of the United States JoeBiden.com expired and could be heading for auction. I checked out the parked page that NetworkSolutions.com is serving up now that they as the registrar are in control of the expired domain name. I couldn't help but notice some links on the parked page that will probably not exactly … [Read more...]