Ok so here is a very unique chance, that you may only get once in your life. Do some good. Help raise money for the Autism Foundation. And as an extra added benefit (as if you needed one) you get to hang out with some Playboy Bunnies. Yes its one of those rare win-win situations. The Moniker Premium Live Auction at DOMAINfest Global 2010 will include two donated domain which will be … [Read more...]
TechCrunch.com Covers Demand Media & Sales Rumors
According to TechCrunch in a post published today, Demand Media, denies that is being shopped around for $1 billion or more." However TechCrunch acknowledges "Revenue rumors in the $200 million/year range aren’t far off " Of course Demand owns Enom.com, part of Namejet.com and a huge portfolio of domain names Go check out the article and the comments that are sure to come. … [Read more...]
“An Interesting View From Outside The Industry”: Hey New Times, Maybe You Should Have Talked To More People Before Writing
Yesterday I read the post about the reporter from the New Times, Craig Agranoff who reported on the South Domainers meeting, concluding: """Mingling in the crowd, I found that most domainers are either amateurs like me, who sell the occasional $200 or $300 name or are posers who haven't sold much and have little idea how to really go about it"" Wow All I can say is Mr. Agranoff maybe you … [Read more...]
American Express Does It Again; Launches The “Zinc Card” Without Securing The Domains
Back earlier this year, we told the story how American Express failed to secure the rights to BlackCard.com allowing its main competitor Visa International to grab the domain of one of its best known products. Today AMEX announced the launch of a new branded credit card geared to twenty somethings, the Zync Card, an obvious typo of the proper spelling which would be Zinc Card. On October … [Read more...]
HitWise: Google’s US Search Share Now Up To Almost 72%
According to the data provider HitWise Google's share of U.S. Internet searches rose 1.4% in November to 71.6%, Yahoo's U.S. search share fell 4.6% to 15.4%. Bing's search share also slipped 2.4% to 9.3%, Ask.com edged up to 2.7%. Hitwise, said Google's percentage of traffic grew for the automotive, shopping and travel categories. Bing, saw double-digit growth among those three … [Read more...]
Guest Post: 2nd level domains Registration For .DO is approved.
Our Latin America Domain Expert, Juan Enrique Sánchez S., President of Domains Latin America NameAction, has written another guest post, this time on .DO domains which is the ccTLD for the Dominican Republic. NIC DO will allow the registration of 2nd level domains starting on December 10th 2009. (second level means domains like "xxxx.com.do" rather than just xxxx.do) General … [Read more...]
Dev Hub Case Study, Results In A 120% Increase In Revenues In Just 3 Months
Dev Hub just shared with me the results of a three month test of 50 domains chosen by the client a domain name portfolio holder. As you can see from the chart's below, over the three month test the domains that were previously just parked, went from making $63 a month to over $140 a month. The 50 domains went from having no search traffic when they were parked to getting almost 3,000 visitors … [Read more...]