Thought Convergence announced that Aftermarket.com has been designated as the premier auction house for the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference in Queensland, Australia. This simultaneous in-person and online auction will commence on November 20, 2008, beginning at 8:30 AM AEST UTC/GMT +10 hours (Nov 19, 2008, 2:30 PM PST). AfterMarket.com is planning on auctioning off 25 .AU domain … [Read more...]
Lets.com Sells for $31,500 on NameJet.com
The domain name, Lets.com sold today for $31,500 on NameJet after 209 bids from 152 different bidders. Nice domain. Congrats to the buyer … [Read more...]
Yahoo Reports 51% Drop in Profit; Plans to Cut “At Least 10% Of Work Force”
Yahoo reported earnings after the close of the Stock Market today. Yahoo reported revenue of $1.79 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, an increase of 1% from the $1.77 billion in the same quarter one year ago Yahoo reported net income of $54 million, or 4 cents per share, a decline of 51% from a year ago. Yahoo also announced a restructuring effort that seeks to cut annual expenses by … [Read more...]
American Air Sues Yahoo for Trademark Infringement
American Airlines is suing Yahoo for trademark infringement, a case similar to one that the nation's largest airline settled this summer against Google Inc. The airline complains that when computer users enter American's trademark terms such as AAdvantage, the name of its frequent-flier program, in a search they can be directed to competitors who pay Yahoo for the traffic. American filed its … [Read more...]
ICANN: “Registrar Wharehousing Should Be Addressed”
As you will recall back in July ICANN called for comments on the revision of its contracts with ICANN accredited registrars. We lobbied on this board, that it was an opportunity for domainers to protest the practice whereby registrars hold on to the expired domains of their own customers and keep whatever they want without allowing them to drop to the general public. At the time many said … [Read more...]
New Free Cool Tool: How Famous is Your Domain?
We found this new cool free domain ranking tool at DNfame.com With one click you can find out a domains: Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Complete Rank, Quantcast Rank, the number of backlinks in the search engines, and social bookmarking links. So I ran it for this site, thedomains.com and it came back instantly with the following info: Google Pagerank: 6 Alexa Rank: … [Read more...]
S&P: Domain Growth To Decline
In a report by Standard & Poor's Internet Software and Service analyst, Scott Kessler cut his rating on VeriSign to Sell from Hold. “VeriSign faces some challenges, in our view, despite strong market positions and pricing stability in its core businesses,” Kessler said “We see notable growth deceleration in domain-name additions and certificate transactions. He reduced his price … [Read more...]