Sedo.com just put out a press release announcing the completion of the sale the domain name Sex.com for $13 Million Dollars cash. We pretty much knew that, but the press release did contain some real news. The previous purchase of Sex.com in 2006, which was always rumored to be in the price range of $10 Million to $14 Million, but never had a definitive price, was confirmed by the press … [Read more...]
VentureBeat.com DemandMedia IS Worth $1.4-$1.7 Billion
In a blog post today on VentureBeat.com, Stephen Walker The CEO of Perfectmarket.com chats about DemandMedia's IPO and concluded: "I can now envision a scenario wherein Demand Media, whose properties include eHow, LiveStrong.com, and Cracked.com, is worth $1.4 – $1.7 billion. Not bad when you consider that the equity of the New York Times Company is currently valued at $1.2 billion. … [Read more...]
Blekko Calls Out Google & Bing For Indexing “Spam”: Demand, Parked Domains & Mini Sites “Spam”
In a post appearing in Technologyreview.com, the CEO of Blekko.com a new search engine that just launched this week, Rich Skrenta, called out Google and Bing for indexing: "Spam results from the likes of Demand Media and other "content farms, and made-for-adsense landing pages." I assume Skrenta would classify all "mini-sites" as spam as well. Skrenta is quoted as saying … [Read more...]
Name.com Becomes Newest Registrar To Join Afternic’s Domain Listing Service
Afternic.com announced today that Name.com, a top ICANN- accredited registrar, will join Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS), its premium reseller network. Name.com becomes is the 5th DLS Premium partner. NetworkSolutions.com and Register.Com are already live and two others to be launched sometime year; Enom.com and Moniker.com. I'm told Name.com Domain Listing Service should be … [Read more...]
How Aftermarket.com Can Stand Out From The Crowd
Thought Convergence will be launching Aftermarket.com this week joining a very crowed space of domain name sales/broker platforms. Currently the major players in the Domain name broker/Auction space include Sedo.com, Afternic.com, Moniker/SnapNames.com. NameJet.com, and some smaller players including Latonas.com, BoxCar.com, Francois Carrillo from Domaining.com set of sites including Cax.com, … [Read more...]
DomainSponsor: Over 10 BILLION Visitors So Far In 2010
DomainSponsor.com has been running a "year to date "Unique" Visitor" counter on its site and the clock just hit 10,000,000,000. Ten Billion visitors to Domain Sponsors landing page from January 1- November 7, 2010. That is a TON of traffic. So next time someone questions whether people really type domain names into the address bar of their browser, send them to the Domain Sponsor counter … [Read more...]
Lesson From National A-1: If Your Operating Sites You Should Consider Separating Them
Although it still does not appear that any charges have been filed out of the Feds raid on National A-1 offices a couple of weeks ago, that event does take me back to the basics, back to the time I practiced law. When I used to practice law and a client with an existing business came into my office with a new idea for a new business, one of the first things I would tell them is to seriously … [Read more...]