TechCrunch.com is reporting that HallPass Media was bought today by MindJolt. HallPass Media is a gaming company that has purchased millions of dollars of names over the years including cookinggames.com last year for $350,000 HallPass Media and its founder Bill Karamouzis (Bill Kara for short) was featured in DnJournal.com cover story just last year. In the DnJournal.com story, which … [Read more...]
Story Of The Year? Court Orders Google To Disclose Parked Domain Metrics
Media Post May have just found the story of the year for domainers. A judge presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google, has ordered the company to divulge financial metrics associated with its parked domains program." "The data that Google must disclose concerns its assessment of the quality of sites within its AdSense network, including its parked … [Read more...]
Ucuzbilet.com Draws a Bid Of $172,000 On SnapNames.com
Ucuzbilet.com has just gotten a bid of $172,000 at Snapnames.com The bid has already meet reserve and therefore will sell. Another domain, Ucakbileti.com has a $157,000 bid but has not met reserve. Both domains are part of the SnapNames.com its "Turkish Travel Domains" auction, which ends on April 12th at 3:15PM. … [Read more...]
Downside Of Pricing Your Domains: Owner Of MediaLocker.com Gets It Snagged Overnight For $18,500 After Amazon Announcement
Last night I wrote about Amazon's announcement that it was launching a service they referred to as a Media Locker. Less than a few hours later a reader noticed the domain name MediaLocker.com, which was listed on Afternic.com for $18,500 was purchased. This illustrates the danger of pricing your domains and having them sitting out there when there is breaking news or new products announced … [Read more...]
Disco.com, Bought At DomainFest For $255K Is Owned By Google & Launched As A “Group Texting ” Site
The domain name Disco.com sold at Domainfest, New York in September of last year for $255,000. Disco.com was ranked by DnJournal.com as the 31st highest domain sale of 2010. The domain name is now owned by Google and has been launched as a Group Texting site. ""Group Texting on Any Phone Now that's groovy!"" says the sign up form. And yes there is an App for that. And its free and … [Read more...]
Is This A Good Way To Sell Domains? “This Domain Is Not For Sale (unless you know us)
I came across an quite different domain for sale banner on top of the parked page for MoneyBrokers.com the other day. As you can see below the top of the page has a banner that says, THIS DOMAIN IS NOT FOR SALE (unless you know us). If you click the link on "unless you know us" it takes you to domainbuyingservices.com, which is a domain under privacy at Moniker.com. So do you think this … [Read more...]
Two Great Florida Domainer Events Coming Up: John Ferber Secret Millionaire Viewing Party & Domainer’s Spring Fling
There are two great networking opportunities coming up for all Florida Domainers are coming up. On This Sunday March 27th there is going to be a viewing party as John Ferber starts in ABC's Hit TV show "Secret Millionaire". The even will be held at Atlantique Cafe in Delray Beach, Florida (777 East Atlantic Avenue) from 7-10pm. The Show airs at 8pm EST. John will be in attendance, as … [Read more...]