Inc.com just published the story of Jesse Stein who bought the domain SportsMemorabilia.com for just $12,500 and turned it into a $19.5 million retail business. Its a domainers dream story. SportsMemorabilia.com was purchased by Mr. Stein in 2006, for $12,500 from Moniker.com in March 2006 At the time it was a parked domain and in "just six years Stein turned it into a recognized retail … [Read more...]
SnapNames Become Exclusive Drop House For DomainMonster.com & Host Europe
Host Europe, a one of the top three hosting company in Europe and owner of the largest registrar in the UK, is as of now sending all of their expiring domains to SnapNames.com on an exclusive basis. That means all domain names dropping from the registrars that are a part of the Host Europe Group; DomainMonster.com, 123-Reg.co.uk, and Heart Internet will now be dropping all of their domain on … [Read more...]
Chicago.com To Auction Off 100-300 Subdomains & 1 Is Outranking Established Site
We have been following the selling of dotChicago(sm) domain names, since Josh Metnick the owner of Chicago.com first started chatting about selling subdomains off of Chicago.com Today Josh let us know that he plans on auctioning off 100-300 Chicago.com subdomains this spring. What is the value of hotels.chicago.com? sushi.chicago.com? lawyer.chicago.com? cars.chicago.com? … [Read more...]
Fairwinds Chat About What Brands Are Going To Do With Their gTLD’s
There has been a lot of speculation in the domain channel on what exactly big brands are going to do with their new gTLD's. While many think that brands just applied for their TLD's as defensive registrations or to point to their .com, according to Phil Lodico, managing partner for FairWinds Partners which handled more than 100 .Brand new gTLD'scompanies such as Calvin Klein, Nike, Staples, … [Read more...]
DomainTools.com Releases Domain Report
According to a Press Release we received tonight DomainTools, launched it newest product Domain Report, which promised to change "how individuals and businesses access domain information". "A Domain Report creates a thorough, customized report that utilizes the world’s most comprehensive database on domains to generate an accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive snapshot of domain data". "In … [Read more...]
WaterSchool’s Water Night Is A Can’t Miss Event At Webfest
WaterNight, A great fundraising event to benefit the WaterSchool.com, is being held in Santa Monica during Webfest Already on the guest list are new Registries like Frank Schilling's Uniregistry, Donuts, to some of the top companies in the domaining crowd; NameJet, Thought Convergence, NameDrive, Parking Crew, InternetX, the girls from DomainAdvisors, and DomainTools, even the new CEO of … [Read more...]
Moniker.com & SnapNames.com Are Down
Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are down and have been down for a while. I tried accessing SnapNames.com at different times throughout the day. I did get to the front page of Snapnames.com once, earlier today and the front of the site said that some users were reporting having trouble accessing the site and that all auctions that were closing today would be extended to tomorrow. I do … [Read more...]