Francois Carrillo the man behind Domaining.com and other sites in the domain industry just launched a new domain name registrar, DONA.com which is offering what its calling "UDRP Insurance" with every registration, plus is contributing 30% of all profits to the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). Here is what Francois had to say about the new registrar: "As you know each day, we are hit by … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC To Return To Vegas
According to an email just sent out by the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference, after a several year absence, the TRAFFIC conference is returning to Las Vegas. The conference will be held right after the Memorial Day Weekend 2013. This time the conference is being held at one of our favorite hotels the Bellagio Hotel. Sounds like a great choice of dates and venue and we are already … [Read more...]
Sedo Market Report For 1Q: 19.6 Million In Sales; & For The 1st Time BIN Sales Led The Way
Sedo announced the results of its Q1 2012 Domain Market Study. During the first quarter, Sedo powered more than 10,000 domain transactions accounting for $19.6 Million in sales. The number of Buy Now sales surpassed offer-counter offer sales for the first time, becoming the most popular type of transaction. IDNX, the first standardized pricing index for the domain market, reached record … [Read more...]
Demand Media Turns Down $1.2 Billion To Go Private
Allthingsd.com is reporting that Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) turned down $1.2 Billion dollars in a deal that would have taken the company private this past week. The current market cap of Demand Media is $620 Million at the closing share price on Friday of around $7.25 a share. Demand is off 65% of its market cap when it went public at $17 a share. "According to the report, "Demand Media was … [Read more...]
Bloomberg & Reuters Adds Sedo’s IDNX To Their Covered Financial Markets
According to a press release today, Sedo, announced that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. ""IDNX provides critical insight into the current market value of domains, domain industry trends, and the risk-return ratio of domains as a financial asset. Using real estate economic … [Read more...]
Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. The story entitled "Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours" recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyDomains and now seems to have done it all over again with DomainMarket.com. Some of the more interesting parts from the story for me were: Mike Mann still owns 15% of … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Registered 11,000 New Domain Names Yesterday
I've been following Mike Mann's Facebook page where yesterday he said he wound up registering almost 11,000 domain names. The Facebook post started off by saying that Mike registered 4,793 domain names, at the next update the number of registrations hit 6,640 and by the end of yesterday Mike had registered "almost 11,000 domains" The 11,000 domain names were compiled from an ongoing list of … [Read more...]