In a blog post today the on WSJ.com, they rip into the buyer of color.com and colour.com who spent $500K to obtain both domains: "The founding team, regardless of their previous successes are showing a general lack of creativity and a misunderstanding of the marketplace in which we currently live." "This is evident most clearly in the fact that they paid $350,000 for the domain name … [Read more...]
Would You Pay $100K For 1 Million Visitors? Internships.com Did It On Twitter
According to TechCrunch.com one company just parlayed $100K on Twitter into 1 Million Visitors in one week. "Internships.com who paid at least 100K for the Ad.ly campaign... saw 1,035,021 unique visitors (almost two uniques per link click) as a result of the tweets and the subsequent shares and media attention." "Between the campaign’s run of 1:03pm PST on Monday March 7th and midnight on … [Read more...]
Twitter By The Numbers An Inside Look: 1 Billion Tweets a Week
Twitter in celebration of its 3rd anniversary just released some extremely interesting internal numbers on its blog today. 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago. 140 million. The average number of … [Read more...]
Facebook: We Will Replace Websites as “Likes” Outnumber Visitors By As Much As 100:1
According to Cnet.com, Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook's U.K. operation, says companies using Facebook interact with their customers so much more than their own websites that eventually people will not need websites. Speaking at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising conference in London, "Haines showed statistics comparing how many times Facebook users have clicked a … [Read more...]
DomainSherpa.Com: From A $60 Purchase To A $7,500 Sale: “I Want To Bring More People Into The Industry”
I have noticed over the past few days some consistent traffic coming to TheDomains.com from a new site DomainSherpa.com. DomainSherpa.com which bills its self as "The Domain Name Authority", is the brand child of Michael Cyger. The site launched in January. Mr. Cyger background in publishing. He sold his company CTQMedia.com, in 2008 when it was getting 750,000 unique monthly … [Read more...]
Hundreds Of News Outlets Are Now Covering The “Playboy Plague”
There are now several hundreds of news outlets that are covering what ABC called the Playboy Plague or what domainers have been calling the domainer flu, that struck at Domainfest Newspapers from the LaTimes to the Toronto Sun,to The New York Post to the Village Voice and even the Wall Street Journal have covered the story. TV stations from ABC to KABC To TMZ have also covered the … [Read more...]
“Conflict of Interest? Ads Are The Least Of It
DomainConsultant.com wrote post entitled "Conflicts Of Interest" citing a post published a few days earlier by by DomainerIncome.com, entitled "Isn't It Time Bloggers Declared Conflicts of Interest?" as the "Post of the Week" In its post DomainConsultant.com wrote: ''When it comes to domain blogging and matters of analysis and advice (beyond news coverage), the question then becomes: how do … [Read more...]