Businessweek.com just published a story on how a small company with a big idea and a great domain beat Amazon.com at its own game. The Article entitled "What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers" is a very interesting case study in what a category killer domain can do for a business. The article concentrates on the five year old company Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com. The company by … [Read more...]
So What Happened To Sex.com?
According to Sedo.com last press release on Sex.com the deadline for selling it privately expired on last week on September 28th. " Sedo the leading online domain marketplace and broker of premium domain names today announced that the private sale period for Sex.com will end on September 28, 2010." That notice was sent out on September 9th. Today is October 4th and to date Sedo.com has … [Read more...]
Is FaceBook A Domain Killer? AdAge Says Yes
A new article by Adage.com asks the question that we have asked in the past, which is whether Facebook is a domain killer. According to Adage, several big brands' Facebook Pages are seeing more activity than their websites. "For example, Kraft Foods' Oreo is the number 3 brand page on Facebook, with a fan base of over 10.1 million growing at a rate of 71,000 new fans each a … [Read more...]
Moniker & SnapNames.com Redesigned Sites To Launch Monday: Here is Your Sneak Preview
Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are going to launch redesigned sites on Monday afternoon and we got a sneak peak. Generally the sites both look a lot cleaner and more user friendly. Gone from the front pages of both sites are the banner ads for other products including domain auctions, domain shows which I thought garbaged up the sites quite a bit. Replacing those ads both sites … [Read more...]
Cisco: 25 Billion Internet Users by 2025
According to a study Conducted by Cisco Systems , the internet will grow to 25 BILLION users by 2025 and will produce $3 TRILLION in commerce. The report says that in 1995 there were 16 million Internet users worldwide and today there are about 2 billion. So the internet has grown 100x from 1995 to 2010. So no one should we be surprised that values of domains rose drastically since … [Read more...]
Autos.com, Loan.com, Gardens.com, DoItYourself.com, Vasectomy.com Among 100+ Sites Sold For $640 Million
TechCrunch is reporting that Internet Brands is being sold for $640 Million dollars. Internet Brands is publicly traded and the price comes to $13.35 a share a premium of 46% off of Friday's closing price. The company owns some great generic domains like those listed above but owns over plenty of domains which have "trademarked" terms in the domain, but they have all been built into … [Read more...]
The Internet Goes Hollywood As Facebook Stars In “The Social Network” & Circle K Goes Regional
A couple of Ad campaigns caught my eye over the weekend. The first is for something you will be hearing a lot about over the next few weeks, a new movie about the founders of Facebook entitled "The Social Network" which opens October 1. This movie is going to increase exposure for Facebook and for the net. Yes "everyone" seems to be on Facebook and the net but they are not, yet. For … [Read more...]