As you are aware it was reported Thursday by the Intellectual Property Watch the Bush Administration has no intention of giving up control of the central root servers that control the internet. This was not new news. The Bush Administration has turned down requests to give up the control in the past few years. However as we all know they Bush term ends in just about 5 months. So the real … [Read more...]
Screw.Me
So we applied for 150 .me domains with Godaddy which should have been awarded before the landrush today (or put into auction) and out of those we got the grand total of: zero that would be none, nothing, zipo. We did get a notice that we would be in an auction for 31 domains 2 days ago, but some of domains seemed to have gotten registered today by someone. Some of the auctions are … [Read more...]
DnJournal.com: Domain Values holding its own in Bad Economy
You should all check out today's lowdown from Ron Jackson on DNJournal.com. He basically compares domain sales figures from last year to this year to date and concludes: """""That the domain aftermarket has been holding its own while the real estate and credit markets are collapsing around us."""" Good work as always Ron and great news for the … [Read more...]
.me Open registration Start Tommorow at 11am EST
The open registration period for .me domains opens tomorrow at 11am EST, 8am PST. About 30K names have been preregistered and Thousands more have been reserved and will be auctioned off at a later period, no sooner than September 2008. All other domains will be avalible on a first come first serve basis. You will have to do a 2 year registration and the cost is $19.99 per year. … [Read more...]
LA Times Covers Demand Media
An article published by the LA Times Today, tells the story of how Richard Rosenblatt took a $355 million dollar investment from private investors and turned Demand Media into a "media titan" with revenues in excess of $200 million dollars this year. According to the story current investors include; Oak Investment Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors. Goldman, Sachs & Co. "Their stakes … [Read more...]
New Domainer Making Money on Short Domains
According to Reece Berg CEO of BQB.com, Inc. making money on short domain names is easy. BQB.com, a no commission next generation domainer to domainer (D2D) domain name auction platform dedicated to short domain names, announced sales exceeding $25,000 for June 2008. "Absolutely fantastic, it's exceeded all our expectations. That said, we have very high hopes for the future," says Reece … [Read more...]
You Have to be Kidding.me
I just got this message from the .me folks: """Thank you for your interest in .ME domains. You recently received multiple emails for the .ME domains you are bidding on, each displaying a separate Shopper ID. Please disregard those messages. We've come up with a new solution for creating just one Shopper ID for ALL your .ME auctions – giving you the opportunity to work with your various auctions … [Read more...]