It looks like Chicago.com may have be bought by the Chicago Sun-Times. The site was updated recently and now the Chicago Sun-Times is all over it, including on the front page where it says "brought to you by the Chicago Sun- Times.com" Chicago.com which has been an operating site for many years is now showing being in Beta as a newly re-launched site would be. The servers on the domain … [Read more...]
Marchex’s Archeo Sells 70 Domains For $1.3 Million & Spinoff Is Set For 4th Q
Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), a leader in mobile performance advertising, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013 Financial Highlights: Revenue was $39.0 million for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $34.0 million for the same period in 2012. to $4.6 million for the same period in 2012. Marchex Q2 and … [Read more...]
Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516
Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for over $1,500. The domain name not surprisingly has has a traffic ranking from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast. The current parked page has some 40 links and all 40 links go to a Facebook related term (screenshot above) Facebook has … [Read more...]
Walmart, Sony, CBS, Microsoft, Google, Disney Still Allowing TM Drop Domains To Be Grabbed By Others
As we have chatted about before, some of the biggest companies in the world which are quick to file a UDRP with filing fees at $1,500 a pop are allowing dropping domains to be registered by third parties rather than spending $10 to register the domains themselves. Most of the domains wind up parked or going to a registrar placeholder. These are not typo domain names. They are pretty bang … [Read more...]
UPDATE 2: Its Time To Name Names: We Call Out Dead Beat Buyers, Game Players, Mind Changers
Dead Beat Buyers, I hate them. From those agreeing in an email to buy a domain for a set price then to just refuse to follow through, to those that actually set up a Escrow.com transaction to buy a domain name even agree to the transaction, but never fund it, to those that agree to buy a domain for a price only to come back sometime later with an offer to still buy the domain but at a lower … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million To Owner of Red Sox
Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in … [Read more...]
The Huffington Post: Direct Navigation Traffic Almost As Important as Google In Reaching Your Destination Of Choice
The Huffington Post just seems have discovered people really do type in domain names into the navigation bar and it seems there is even money to be made in owning domain names. Wow Who would have thought? In an article entitled "Why Your URL Bar Matters, and Why Silicon Valley Should Take Note" goes on to say: "If you use the Internet, you've likely used something in the last month, … [Read more...]