According to post on Boston.com, the domain names/sites Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com and Globe.com may soon be available for sale. The domain names are owned by the Boston Globe newspaper which is for sale and has a June 27th deadline for submitting bids. Today Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots dropped out of the bidding. "Even without daily traffic Boston.com gets, the URL alone would … [Read more...]
Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to Almost Nothing
A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. The article cites the growing inventory of domain names from new gTLD;'s saying the parking and type in traffic will be gone and value of any one domain " down to almost nothing". The article was chatting about the new gTLD's and domain investing … [Read more...]
Moniker Does System-Wide Password Reset Effecting Every Account
According to an email sent to all of its clients tonight, the domain name registrar Moniker.com notified its client they did a "system-wide password reset" tonight that will require ALL Clients to reset their passwords. Here is the email Moniker.com send out tonight: ""Moniker’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Moniker network that appears … [Read more...]
DomainIndex.com Tracks Seasonal Fluctuations in Parking Revenues
In a blog post, DomainIndex.com looked at seasonality in parking revenues and concluded what most of us long time domainers already knew. The summer months are the slowest and the Winter months of November- February are the strongest months of the year for parking revenues. In its post DomainIndex.com write: "We have been able to use a database of 137,000 parked domains across many … [Read more...]
STRAAT/.Co Registry Buys 16,000 Sq Ft Building In Miami For HQ
According to Florida Trend a popular business publication in the State of Florida, CO Internet’s parent company, STRAAT Investments, purchased a 16,000-sq.-ft. building in Miami’s Brickell area to house its growing headquarters which is named Building.Co It expects to move in by the end of this year and will devote part of the building to space for entrepreneurs. STRAAT also applied for 13 … [Read more...]
DomainNameSales New Platform Lets Buyers Finance Domains & Pick The Terms
Part of the roll out of the new updated DomainNameSales.com platform we told you about last night is that it now includes the option for buyers to pay for the domain over time with a down payment of the buyers choice. As a buyer you can always elect to pay cash but you can now select to pay for the domain over as many months as you want, up to 60 months, and adjust the amount of the down … [Read more...]
DomainNameSales.com Releases Version 2.5 & Its A Great Sales Tool
In a news release today DomainNameSales.com announced a new 2.5 version of their site. The new site has a lot of information is quite interactive for each of the domain names as a buyer you're inquiring about. As a buyer you get a sales pitch, why you should buy the domain. It's quite ingenious. Take the domain name 4x4pictures.com. This is what DomainNameSales.com says about … [Read more...]