According to a new report by Group M entitled the Financial Implications of The Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance", says that prices of PPC advertising are going to go up. Way up, thanks to the Bing-Yahoo deal. Who is Group M? GroupM, is the search marketing specialist division of WPP "which is responsible for more than 1/3 of the world’s media buying". In the short term, GroupM thinks … [Read more...]
Is A Domain Hack Worth 10x More Than The Correct Domain? Banco.co Vs. Ban.co
One of the results that caught my eye coming out of the .co Land Rush auctions was the result for Banco.co a natural domain compared to Ban.co a hack. Both domain names were the subject of Land Rush auctions but the results were quite different. Banco.co sold for just $2,300 a couple of weeks ago, at a land rush auction but the auction for Ban.co just concluded with a sales price of $24,500 … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Wins The 1st Pioneer Award At Epik: Watch The Video Tribute & Acceptance Speech Here
Rick Schwartz was just awarded with the 1st Pioneer award at the Epik Conference in Seattle today. In a tribute video, 15 domainers around the world congratulated Rick on the well deserved award. Although Rick was not at the show to accept the award in person after the tribute video was put together it was my honor to take it to Rick and show it to him just a couple of days ago. I can … [Read more...]
SearchEngineWatch.com: 15% Of All Searches Include The Domain Extension & Not Just .Com’s
A VERY interesting post tonight by Search Engine Watch on people's search patterns and how often people include the domain extension while searching and which extension they include. The author calls it "Navigational Search" when someone goes to a search engine like Google and searches for say Amazon.com rather than just Amazon. "A navigational search is defined as any search phrase that … [Read more...]
Wired.com Blasts Demand Media: Whats Hiding In Demand Media’s Finances?
A post by Wired.com, pretty much blasts Demand Media over their S-1 they filed to go public, and previous statements made by co-founder Richard Rosenblatt regarding the profitability of the company: ""Several commentators noted the absence of profits, (in the S-1) which sat oddly with co-founder Richard Rosenblatt’s public pronouncements over the years" "Rosenblatt has been describing … [Read more...]
What A Goddady Sale Could Mean For The Domain Industry
Love him or hate him you have to admit that Bob Parsons has bought attention to domain names to mainstream America like no one before him. That's why the story by the Wall Street Journal yesterday saying that Godaddy was going to place itself in an auction to sell the company, is one all domainers should follow. Godaddy is not just a company in the domain space it is a company responsible … [Read more...]
WSJ says Godaddy is up for Sale for $1 Billion Dollars; Seems like they left off a zero
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that GoDaddy.com, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion according to the journal Qatalyst Partners has been hired to shop The Go Daddy Group. Private-equity firms are expected to bid for the company, which currently has more than 43 million domains under management. If anything $1 Billion seems a low figure for a … [Read more...]