According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, as we discussed yesterday, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo's board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo's board before a deadline Thursday, including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi, who has worked with Icahn on other proxy fights. According to … [Read more...]
Moniker.com No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction
Moniker.com published its list for the Live No Reserve/Low Reserve Auction to be held on Tuesday May 20 at 8:00 pm EST at the TRAFFIC domain confernece in Orlando. At TRAFFIC west in Vegas Moniker.com premiered this No Reserve/Low Reserve auction and it did $200K. You will have to be present for this auction, there will be no remote access bidding as there will be in the Live TRAFFIC auction … [Read more...]
AP Launches Mobile News Service: .Mobi left out again?
According to a report today The Associated Press and 107 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other mobile devices. AP had announced the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting April 14 in Washington. AP's president and chief executive, Tom Curley, said then that six newspaper companies were working to help … [Read more...]
Yureekah.com Launches as “the worlds first search engine for the online media industry”
Yureekah.com launced its site today calling itself "the worlds first search engine for the online media industry". According to the press release millions of ads run on millions of portals hourly. Yureekah.com promisese t allow you to identify where all your competitors are advertising, and use that information to decide how to advertise in the portals that best fit your brand, irrespective of … [Read more...]
Interesting Ebay Auction names
A few Interesting names at auction at ebay.com RentalHomes.com auction is at $23,100, reserve has not been met. NewYorkers.org minimum bid is $22,000 Missouriforeclosures.com minimum bid is $15,000 isold.com minimum bid is $15,000 Set of 84 LLLL.com names Bidding is at $2,032, reserve has not been met, but there is a buy it now for $4,500 … [Read more...]
Microsoft Withdraws its Offer for Yahoo
Accroding to a report in cnet.com today Microsoft officially pulled its offer for Yahoo on Saturday In a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft was willing to offer $33 a share, but that Yahoo wanted at least $37 a share. Ballmer also says he is ruling out a hostile offer aimed directly to Yahoo's shareholders. "This approach would … [Read more...]
UDRP: Are Domainers their own worst enemy
We are all familar with the stat; in 85 percent of cases decided by the WIPO the panels transferred the disputed domain names to the complainant. I took a hard look at some recent cases in light of LH.com and this famous statistic. Certainly having this 85% figure out there is the pink elephant in the room. It hurts the perpection of domaining. It makes it sound to the layman that 85% of … [Read more...]