According to MediaPost.com citing stats from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Internet ad revenue rose 24.1% to $7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2011. Combined with the results of the 1st Q 2011, Internet ad revenue totaled $14.9 billion in the first half of the year. "For the first six months, display-related advertising revenue totaled $5.5 billion or 37% … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com On CNN
About 10 days ago we wrote a post about the domain name TeaParty.com which was owned by a band up in Canada, which went public saying they would consider selling the domain for an amount in the 7 figures. The story was picked up by CNN yesterday and TheDomains.com appeared on TV screens around the country as the background for the story. A good domainer friend was nice enough to take a … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Resigns As Editor To Run $20M CrunchFund Without The .Com
The founder of TechCrunch.com Michael Arrington is resigning as editor of the popular technology blog, and will run a $20 million venture-capital fund backed by AOL Inc. and several venture-capital firms according to the WSJ.com which is called CrunchFund. "Mr. Arrington "will run the fund and will continue to write for TechCrunch, but will have no editorial oversight," said an AOL … [Read more...]
While Murdoch Tries to Figure out What To Do With The Sunday Sun Someone Has The Domain Registered Since 2002
As you maybe aware there are big problems in the Mr. Murdoch empire with the News of the World Publication which was suddenly shut down after like over 100 years of publishing. While Mr. Murdoch is trying to decide whether to publish the "Sunday Sun" someone grabbed that domain name way back in 2002. Check out this article entitled: Murdoch: No decision made on launching Sunday Sun Well … [Read more...]
So What Should The Etiquette Be On Repeating Stories That Already Appeared On Domaining?
So over the last week I have written a couple of stories on subjects which were apparently written or covered by other domain blogs days or even weeks before. I have gotten messages like "hey I wrote about that yesterday or two weeks ago." On the other hand I see stories written by other's in the domaining chain I wrote about days or weeks ago published like its big news breaking … [Read more...]
Will The Coupon Craze End When The Economy Recovers?
Over the past few years there hasn't been a much hotter sector than coupon sites. Last week we told you the Coupons.com just raised $200 Million giving it a billion dollar valuation and we all know Groupon.com turned down billions from Google to go public later this year, and those are only 2 of many sites dedicated to coupon type offers. However we are in the worse recession since the great … [Read more...]
Marc Ostrofsky To Appear On The View On June 9th (Tomorrow)
Just announced that Marc Ostrofsky, will appear tomorrow (June 9th) episode of ABC’s “The View” at 11A.M. EST to "discuss how everyday people, sometimes working from home, are making a good living often using popular social media tools". "Ostrofsky’s new book, Get Rich Click! The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet, is a comprehensive how-to guide … [Read more...]