Interesting article publish today about how the recession will effect the pay per click advertising industry. Put it on your must read list http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-22541402.htm … [Read more...]
Google Kills Domain Tasting?
In a report on Jay Westerdal's blog, Google may stop serving ads on all domains, less than five days old. Therefore someone who registers a domain will not get any revenue information and would not know which names to keep and which to throw back within the 5 day grace period Readers to our blog know our position on domain tasting. We are against it. We do not do it We … [Read more...]
Domainers Choice Awards: Ammar, Elliot and Frank take home the Gold
The first Domainer's Choice Awards were announced last night at the closing dinner for DomainFest. Ammar Kubba's company TrafficZ, won the award for best Parking Company. Ammar is a great guy, a good friend and one of our long term parking partners for our own portfolio. We congratulate Ammar and his team. In maybe the night's biggest upset, my friend Elliot Silver and his blog, ElliotsBlog, … [Read more...]
Yahoo.com Rumored to Cutting Staff
According to a report published by CNN.com, Yahoo.com is getting ready to annouce the lay off of hundreds of workers in a cost cutting measure as soon as the end of the month. You can view the full story here: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/885a7463d6d44a1dddeadfc542b8444f.htm … [Read more...]
DomainFest: Ready to GO
We travelled all day to the left coast for the DomainFest show. We will be reporting on the activities and the 2 days of auctions. If you want to participate in the auction, you should immediately checkout SnapNames.com site. They are using software you will have to download to participate in the live auction and/or watch it. Now we are going to collapse for a couple of hours. Talk … [Read more...]
ireport.com Sells for $750,000
Reported by Mr. Rick Schwartz today on his blog, Rick sold the domains ireport.com and i-report.com to Cable News Network (CNN) for $750,000. CNN has been using the term "ireport" for many months now as a platform for viewers to send in their own video clips of "new" stories. We congratulate Rick and CNN on the transaction. This sale, combined with Oak Hills annouced investment in … [Read more...]
Oversee.net Receives $150 Million Investment
Oversee.net announced today that Oak Hill Capital Partners will invest $150 Million dollars in their company. Oversee announced on January 3, 2008, that they acquired Moniker.com. Moniker.com is a top ten domain registrar and the host of many live domain auctions including those at the TRAFFIC shows. Moniker.com is holding a live adult domain auction today in Las Vegas. Last year … [Read more...]