Long time domainer Page Howe just got covered by Businessinsider.com with a big assist from DnJournal.com and DomainSherpa.com Page was covered by BusinessInsider.com in an article entitled: "Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names" If you don't know the two domains they are talking about are: Seniors.com, which he purchased for … [Read more...]
Richard Lau Becomes Director of the Water School
Uber Domainer Richard Lau has just announced he has taken on the position of the Executive Director at Water School. In his year end newsletter he wrote, "2012 is almost at an end. It’s Christmas Eve and while my shopping is all done, wrapped and tucked under the tree, alas the Lau Christmas Newsletter is yet to be done. It’s my (Richard here) turn to write so I’m sure it’s no surprise to … [Read more...]
Alert!! Some Of The Domains You Got At SnapNames.com May Not Be Owned By You
If you use SnapNames.com you need to check the domain names you acquired since October, especially November and December. You may not be the owner of the domain. There are a few issues going on with SnapNames.com which I was first informed about by another large domainer yesterday who asked to remain anonymous. He reported that 10 domains that he got through SnapNames.com in November and … [Read more...]
Sedo Lands DomainInvest’s 70,000 Domain Names For Monetization & Sales
Sedo, announced today that DomainInvest which was co-founded by industry veterans Frederick Schiwek and Markus Schnermann, who are both managing directors of DomainInvest Group. and its Subsidiary Keyword Domains GmbH has chosen to monetize its portfolio of close to 70,000 domains with Sedo’s end-to-end services. "As part of the partnership, DomainInvest will park its entire portfolio with … [Read more...]
Did Another Domain Parking Company Just Buy Internet-Traffic.com For $1K? Fair or Foul?
I just noticed an interesting domain name cross the Sedo.com sales wire today. The domain name is Internet-Traffic.com which is identical to Frank Schilling's monetization company, InternetTraffic.com with the addition of a hyphen. The domain name Internet-Traffic.com, which is just a landing page at this moment, was under privacy, but the whois has been update to show the information of the … [Read more...]
Which Would You Rather Have, A Left of The Dot .Christmas Sub Domains Or A Right Of The Dot gTLD .Christmas Domain?
Yesterday Left of the Dot, the company that took over management of Christmas.com in October, rolled out free sub-domains called Christmas Family Pages. Christmas Family Pages "are free for families and allow for real-time sharing of photos, recipes, Christmas traditions, wish lists, and memories. "Every family who creates an account gets their own part of Christmas.com (e.g., … [Read more...]
ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To Match .Net & Limit Increases To CPI
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the ICA urges the DOC & the DOJ not to approve the renewal of the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry unless Verisign rolls back wholesale prices of .com domain names to the same price it charges for .net domain registrations … [Read more...]