Sanford C. Bernstein a wall street brokage, cut its price target on Yahoo, saying that the company's future prospects look bleak, especially if the proposed search advertising deal with Google is not completed before the end of 2008. It is increasingly likely that the deal will be delayed by regulators, given that the U.S. Justice Department has recently hired Sandy Litvack, its former … [Read more...]

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , the Department of Justice "has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.'s growing power in advertising."" The Journal states that the hiring of Mr. Litvack's "is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court … [Read more...]

Moniker.com has just released a tentative list for the live and silent auction to be held at TRAFFIC New York. """""This is a tentative list of all domains to be included in the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NYC Live and Online Extended Auctions. The catalog is subject to change!""" You can see the entire list of almost 2,200 domains here: auction_inventory_tnyc08_v1 (excel file) Some of the … [Read more...]

The Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, Chirs Liddel told a Citibank conference in New York today that the chances of Microsoft buying Yahoo are "negligible.'' "You never say never, I can never say that, but it's so close to negligible,'' he said. Liddell made similar comments in July, when he described Yahoo as a  "declining asset.'' Mr. Liddell looks correct. Shares of Yahoo which … [Read more...]

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), a trade group representing big spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices. The ANA said on its Web site that the letter to Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice … [Read more...]

We have discussed on numerous occasions, TDNAM (Godaddy) is allowing the sale of trademarked domains on its site. However today they have gone further. They have hit a new low. Not only are they allowing the auction of cnnnews.tv though the TDNAM platform but they have actually issued a "Certified Domain Appraisal" for the domain. They can no longer claim ignorance or simply state that they … [Read more...]

Due to a split between the Amelia Island Tourism Development Council and the  Amelia Island-Fernandina Beach-Yulee Chamber of Commerce,the domain name AmeliaIsland.com is going to be sold for $50,000 The Amelia Island Tourism Development Council, will pay the chamber $50,000 to purchase the domain name www.ameliaisland.com The council already owns, but doesn't use, the domain name … [Read more...]