Yahoo reported earnings after the market closed today. Yahoo! said its first-quarter profit was more than double that of a year ago. Yahoo earned 22 cents per share, better than the 9 cents analysts had anticipated. However Q1 search advertising revenue down was down 14%. "We stabilized our search share and we believe it will tend up in Q2," Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz said in … [Read more...]

According to allhiphop.com Jay-Z sued David Ortiz of the Boston RedSox today, for not only opening a night club in the Dominican Republic using the same name as Jay-Z 's club, 40/40 but for also using the domain name fortyforty.net. According to Jay, Ortiz' club opened in October of this year, while Jay-Z's first 40/40 location in New York opened in June of 2003. Jay-Z claims Ortiz is … [Read more...]

Latonas.com, first daily auction starts closing in just about an hour at 10am EST,and already there is around $40K in bids. The auction's closings are staggered almost over 4 hours. Today's auction features 120 domains and here are our picks: ePayments.com a really nice domain is already at over $15K while its brother, e-Payments.com is almost $3K making it a nice combo for … [Read more...]

Patrick Ruddell who writes the very popular domain blog, ChefPatrick.com, has been hired by Moniker.com as a "Domain Sales Specialist". Patrick will be brokering domain sales for Moniker.com as well as getting more end user domains into their live and online auctions. Nice to see Moniker hiring a domainer to fill the position. For all of his loyal readers, the Chef will continue to blog, … [Read more...]

According to a press release today, UsedAirplanes.com has completed the purchase of Flying.com for $1.1 Million: """UsedAirplanes, Inc., the parent company of UsedAirplanes.com, announced today that they have completed the purchase of the domain name Flying.com for $1.1 million. The first (beta) version of Flying.com will be launched on June 1, 2010 to display all of the used airplanes … [Read more...]

DomainSponsor, announced today it will hold two,  a one day "Domainfest" events, the first  on May 13, 2010 at the W Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale and the second on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in midtown Manhattan. ""Each meeting will continue DOMAINfest’s tradition of providing a rich setting for discussions around how to increase the value of Internet real estate with subject-matter experts … [Read more...]

Sendori a announced today that is has been granted approval for two U.S. patents relating to its core web navigation redirect technology. Sendori’s patent applications to “an electronic marketplace which allows owners of unused domain names to lease their domains to bidding advertisers”. Advertisers receive visitors redirected from unused domains which match their keywords. "This … [Read more...]