Bankrate.com (RATE) spent almost $34 Million Dollars on Domain names and trademarks in 2012. One of the 2012 acquisitions appears to be the large lead generation site, CardOffers.com which was purchased sometime in October 2012. Bankrate.com applied for a trademark on Cardoffers.com in October, 2012. The domain is currently showing as LinkOffers.com as the owner of the domain. In … [Read more...]
Google’s Matt Cutts: Not All ccTLD’s Are Created Equally In Generic Search Rankings
There is a very interesting video posted on YouTube.com from Matt Cutts of Google who answered the question about how ccTLD's are viewed by Google especially when they are being used as domain hacks. Here is the question: ""We have a vanity domain (http://ran.ge) that unfortunately isn't one of the generic TLDs, which means we can't set our geographic target in Webmaster Tools. Is there any … [Read more...]
CEO Of Marchex: We Don’t Believe The New TLDs Are A Significant Factor In Value of .Com’s
In the Marchex (MCHX) earnings call today a question was asked about how the new gTLD's will effect .com's values specifically those domains held by Marchex. and how the continued movement of consumers to smart phones will also effect the values. Here is the question which was asked by Andre Sequin of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division: "In terms of the value of the domain … [Read more...]
Who Would Have Thought .Biz Domains Will Cost More Than .Com
In its letter to ICANN today, Neustar the operator of the .Biz registry, notified ICANN that it will be raising the wholesale cost of a .Biz domain name registration or renewal to $8.63 effective September 1, 2013 Once the increase goes into effect the wholesale cost of a .Biz registration will be higher than the wholesale cost of a .Com Currently the wholesale price of .Biz is exactly the … [Read more...]
After 75K In Lost Domains, Igal In Death Teaches Us We Need An After Life Plan
This week the domain industry mourned the death of one of its greats, Igal Lichtman. The tragic loss of Igal, way before his time, is also a cautionary tale for all domainers, as some of Igal's prize domains were lost this week as well. Three domain names owned by Igal's company, Mrs Jello LLC, expired and were auctioned off this week generating almost $75,000 in sales for the auction … [Read more...]
Acting President & CTO Of Mike Mann’s DomainMarket Resigns
According to his Facebook Page the Acting President and CTO of Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com, Chad Bennett has resigned. Chad Bennett wrote on his Facebook page today: After a little more than 10 months as acting President and CTO of DomainMarket, I officially resigned last Friday. In the short time I was there we doubled e-commerce revenues and traffic to the website, increased monthly … [Read more...]
Demand Media Considering A Separate Co. For Registrar, Registry & Aftermarket
Demand Media(DMD) today announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to explore separating its business into two independent, publicly-traded companies: A pure-play media company with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that organically grows its audience, leading web properties that reach over 100 million monthly unique visitors, and an integrated monetization … [Read more...]