Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday March 20th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $507,522. The top seller of the week was Sincerely.com at $20,000 followed by Tview.com at $19,550.   Here is the full list:   .Com Sales … [Read more...]

An 8.8 earthquake hit overnight in Japan causing Tsunami warnings to go up in Hawaii and along the west coast of the United States including San Francisco. According to the New York Times: "Waves were projected to arrive at the Northern California coast at about 7:15 a.m. local time, and hit the San Francisco Bay Area at about 8 a.m., the National Weather Service said. Surges could … [Read more...]

Afternic.com changed it up again this week and now is back to reporting .com sales of only $2K or more and changed to reporting non.com domains of only $2K or more. Afternic.com report also changed this week and put all off the domain into one list, no longer separating out the .com's from the non-com's: After all the changes there were just $355K in sales reported lead by esol.com at … [Read more...]

March looks like another busy month in the domain world. The Month once again starts off with a conference and this time it's the Domain Roundtable which runs March 1th-4th at Atlantis in Paradise Island. On Site registration will run you $995 and you can get more information here. I will be speaking on a panel with Greg McNair entitled "Tactics for Successful Branding on Wednesday. A … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, Google promised that they were gunning for content farms and today it looks that they fired the first shot. According to a post on Google's blog: "In the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on." "This update is designed to … [Read more...]

A UDRP decision released today held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name 7S.com, despite that the fact that the domain holder did not even respond to the UDRP. The complainant, a German company,  holds trademarks on the term "7S" A majority of the three member panel held in favor of the domain holder based substantially by the fact that he domain name was registered 2 years prior … [Read more...]

The domain name GamesForGirls.com is showing as having sold for $500,000 on Sedo.com. Its currently on their front page of recent activity. The domain currently gets over 43,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com If so its a ton of dough for another gaming domain and 2011 as predicted is starting to look like a record setter for domain sales. … [Read more...]