Ryan Colby has become the latest broker to leave Sedo.com I was looking to add some people to my Linkedin account and noticed under Ryan's profile that under "employment" he listed Sedo.com as May 2010-July 2011 So I reached out to Ryan for comment and confirmed he was now longer with Sedo.com I asked him why he left Sedo.com to which he answered "personal reasons" Ryan seemed at least … [Read more...]
IBM Goes With Smart Cloud Without SmartCloud.com & SmartCloud.com is Blocked As A “Possible Web Forgery”
IBM launched its cloud service calling SmartCloud however they don't own the domain name SmartCloud.com SmartCloud.com is owned by a company located in El Segundo, California and the domain is parked so you would think would be available for purchase But it gets worse, because in this case not only did IBM fail to secure the domain prior to it release, but it selected a name for its service … [Read more...]
FastCompany: “Does Paying Top Dollar For Domains Still Make Sense In The Age Of Apps?”
An interesting article just popped up in FastCompany.com entitled "Does Paying Top Dollar For Domains Still Make Sense In The Age Of Apps?" "Given the increasing popularity of apps, there's a question of whether owning the right domain name is as important as it was when the world was driven by dot-coms and browsers rather than iPhones and Android devices. In other words, if you launch an app … [Read more...]
.Me Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and .Co Celebrates its 1st
Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today. The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries. 52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States; 7.68% are from the United Kingdom. 3.82% were registered in Germany 3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan. "During the Registry’s … [Read more...]
Domainsville.com Launches Today “As The City For Everything Domains”
A new domain blog and news aggregator launched today called Domainsville.com. The site enters into the same space dominated by Domaining.com and to a much lesser extent Namebee.com. I had an email interview with Abdu Tarabichi one of the co-founders and CEO of Domainsville, Inc. and asked him to tell me the difference between Domainsville.com and other domain feed aggregators like … [Read more...]
DomainTools.com Is The Buyer Of ScreenShots.com & Looks To Be A WayBack Machine Killer
DomainTools.com is the buyer of the domain name Screenshots.com which according to DN Journal sold back in February of this year for $32,500. Screenshots.com is a perfect match for Domaintools.com which is a service which pulls histories of domain names. Screenshots.com is now directing to DomainTools.com and with the database of information DomainTools.com already has, this promises to be a … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Sells FatChance.com For $40K & Microsoft Says Sony Domains Are Just Defensive Registrations “Lets Move On”
According to his posting on Facebook Mike Mann has just sold a nice call to action domain name FatChance.com for $40K. I think its a good price for the domain which I could see selling in that 25K-$50K price range. These call to action domains or famous sayings or phrases are always in demand. We own a ton of them as well and they provide a source of constant sales interest. Congrats … [Read more...]