If you turn on your television and watch any news, financial or stock program, you're bound to hear about the Fiscal Cliff the US is facing. Both the President and the Speaker of the House held separate press conferences today on the Fiscal Cliff and President Obama just announced he will have another press conference next Wednesday on the Fiscal Cliff. Believe it or not the domain … [Read more...]
How’s that Meet.me Sale Looking Now? Revenues $11.6 Million; Active Users Almost 4 Million in September
- MeetMe®, Inc. ( NYSE MKT : MEET ), reported earnings after the market closed today for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Yes this is the same company that bought Meet.me from MostWantedDomains.com for $450,000 last year. Here are the results: Third quarter Revenue totaled $11.6 million, up 1,148% year-over-year. Third quarter Revenue represents a 30% increase over the … [Read more...]
HavingTroubleVoting.com? Newsweek /Daily Beast Hand Registered This Domain Yesterday & Already Ranks in Alexa
The domain name HavingTroubleVoting.com a really nice call to action domain was hand registered yesterday by The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC. Damn that was a nice one. The site is already launched which allows people to report trouble spots for casting votes and other voting related issues. How good of a domain is it, consider that it already has an Alexa rank of 9 Million after just … [Read more...]
The Government of Gabon Says No To Kim Dotcom’s Me.ga Plan
A few days ago Kim Dotcom announced his plan for a new version of his Megaupload site which would use the domain name Me.ga. .Ga is the country code or ccTLD for the country of Gabon. Last night the government of Gabon said it would suspend the internet domain Kim Dotcomhe had planned used for the service. According to Phys.org, Communications Minister Blaise Louembe said yesterday: I … [Read more...]
The Domain King Rick Schwartz Launches JointVentures.com
In a press release issued today Rick Schwartz announced the launch of JointVentures.com which allows "CEOs and marketing executives of small, medium and large companies with growth ambitions to get a to get a million dollar website domain name" without the high price tag or capital layout of category defining domain names frequently reported sold in today's secondary market. " Its actually a … [Read more...]
Sedo 3Q Report: Market Slows To $15.1M In Sales; Less Transactions; 46% All Sales Under $500; 40% $500-$2,500
Sedo.com released its Market Report for the 3rd Quarter ending September 30, 2012 (pdf), this morning and reported its slowest quarter in terms of the number of transaction for domain names in 2012 and including the 4th quarter of 2011. Here are the highlights of the report: The third quarter of the year accounted for a total of 8,181 transactions In the 2nd Q of 2012 there were 9,049 … [Read more...]
Charged By The EPA For Overstating Gas Mileage, Hyundai and Kia Register Over 1,700 Defensive Domains Yesterday
Yesterday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) charged that automakers Hyundai and Kia overstated the fuel economy on nearly a million late model vehicles Well the car makers were very aggressive on the domain name front yesterday registering over 1,700 domain names related to the overstated mileage claims and grabbed up all domains names that could be used to attack the companies, … [Read more...]