Google announced "Google Instant" feature on its search engine today but interestingly like Apple which only own iPad.co and not iPad.com, Google owns GoogleInstant.co but not the .com. The .Com is owned by a Doctor in Brooklyn since 1999 but the domain is going to a Godaddy type lander so is in jeopardy of a UDRP. In addition to the .Co, Google does own GoogleInstant.net and … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Gets X.Co & Its Already Up & Running
The .Co registry just announced today that Godaddy.com has been awarded X.Co. This is the 4th single letter .co to be released E.co sold for $81,000 in a charity auction sponsored by the .Co registry. Twitter was granted T.Co to use as a shortener. OverStock paid $350,000 for O.Co X.Co is already up and running at Godaddy.com Here is the the official announcement: ""URL … [Read more...]
MySpace Spends $25K on MySpace.Co, A Domain They Could Have Bought For $300
Corporate America. They still have a lot to learn when it comes to domain names. A reader informed me that they were in the auction for MySpace.co and that the domain sold for $25,000. The whois record now confirms that Twentieth Century Fox, which is owned by NewsCorp, which also owns MySpace.com, is the new owner of the domain. Of course as the trademark holder, Fox could have just … [Read more...]
BuyDomains Stops Reporting Sales Of Owned & Operated Domains
BuyDomains.com hasn't announced it anywhere yet, but I have confirmed that they will no longer report sales of their owned and operated domains. BuyDomains.com has reporting its domain name sales for quite a while and Ron Jackson has included these sales on DNJournal.com Also in a change of policy I'm told that brokered domain sales will be kept private upon request of either the Seller OR … [Read more...]
BargainDomains.com Is 1st Marketplace That Is Allows Sellers To Include DNWStats.com In Their Domain Sale Listings
BargainDomains.com just added a feature that allows Sellers to add a link to a DNWStats.com report to the BargainDomains.com sale pages. For example checkout this domain for sale on BargainDomains.com, HandymanServices.com. As you can see sellers can show the monthly traffic and revenue certified by DNWStats.com when submitting their domains for sale. Already up in BargainDomains.com and … [Read more...]
Flippa.com Sets A New Record: $1 Million In Sales This WEEK
According to Flippa.com's official blog, the site has set a new personal record selling $1 Million dollars of domains and websites this week. Including the $1 Million dollars of sales this week, Flippa has sold over $40 Million dollars in web properties over its short life. The most impressive stat well maybe that they say they sold 54% of the listing for the last 3 months. That's … [Read more...]
PCWorld Covers DomainFest Live Domain Auction: “The New Way To Make Fast Money Is To Invest In Domain Names”
A new article from PCWorld.com talks about domain names in general and the Live DomainFest domain Auction today in particular. "Forget real estate, the stock market or Internet startups, the new way to make fast money is to invest in domain names, argues a domain name brokerage that will auction off a passel of domain names on Wednesday in New York." "Domains, really, are almost like … [Read more...]