The president of ICANN today, reveled what he thought of your domainers: your a problem and he doesn't like you. In a story written in the gulfnews.com today the publication in writing about the possibility of ICANN granting of new domain extensions said: """"Domaining, which is technically legal, is still somewhat controversial. Domainers purchase non-trademarked domain names in the hopes … [Read more...]
Michael Mann in Washington Post
A nice story about Michael Mann and his new, Washington VC group, appeared in the Washington Post today. Some of the projects the group has invested in are happybirthday.com, SEO.com and Phone.com You can check out the whole story here … [Read more...]
Pizza Vs. Porn; why did one sell for 4 times more than the other?
Ok so as we all know pizza.com sold for $2.6 million dollars at sedo.com today. Nice sale, except it pales in comparision to porn.com which sold for $9.5 Million several months ago. Seems strange doesn't it?? You can advertise pizza on television. Porn you can't. You can advertise pizza on the super bowl, porn you can't, According to the New York Times, Pizza Hut's annual ad … [Read more...]
DNJournal.com: 1st Quarter best ever for domain sales
Ron Jackson, who tracks all reported domain sales and publishes the results weekly in the DNJournal, published his anaylsis of domain sales in the 1st quarter and has some great news for the industry: """""The first quarter of 2008 wound up being the best domain sales quarter reported since we started tracking the market back in the fall of 2003. A total of $38,029,543 in domain sales were … [Read more...]
Yahoo Unveils OneSearch 2.0 for Mobile Phones with Voice Search; Are .mobi in trouble??
Yahoo announced the release of oneSearch 2.0, a new version of its award-winning mobile search service. Key enhancements will allow users to initiate searches faster using text or voice. Yahoo also plans to provide greater relevance through richer, more detailed search results by opening up Yahoo oneSearch to publishers to integrate content, simplify search … [Read more...]
ICA: WHO IS NOT ON THE LIST, It’s Shocking
First for the good news. This is our last ICA post for a while. We started several weeks ago appealing for funds. A week ago Friday we announced a fund matching program. A few days later we took a look to see who was on the ICA membership list, and then on Friday we posted the great results from our matching Fund program. Now to complete the cycle, we look at the companies and indivudals, that … [Read more...]
Our ICA Match Program Ends as “the most successful fundraising effort ever for ICA”
Last Friday after finding that only 10K in contribution were received by the ICA in the month since the Snow Bill was introduced, we challenged the domain industry to step up to the plate and join the ICA. We put our money where our mouth is and offered to match up to 10K in new member contributions. We are happy to report that as Michael Collins stated today “The matching program has been the … [Read more...]