A nice three letter .com, CIF.com sold today on NameJet.com for $ 17,001. The domain definitely has some traffic according to Alexa but its the highest LLL.com sale I've seen on NameJet.com is quite a while. A pretty interesting domain for our industry also sold today on NameJet.com for $1,500, parkingrevenue.com … [Read more...]
Kentucky Passes Tax On Online Wagers: Is This The Motive Behind The Domain Seizures?
As you know we are still waiting the decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court on the seize of the 141 domain names, but now we might be seeing additional motives behind the move. On Friday the Kentucky’s House passed Bill which places a tax on online and phone betting, by an 85-8 margin. Now, the measure will head to the Kentucky Senate. This bill if passed would effect sites like … [Read more...]
Godaddy Starts Affiliate Program @ 20% For All Customers On All Products
Go Daddy.com sent out a press release today announcing the broad opening of an an Affiliate program that pays commissions of 20% to any Godaddy customer that has a "shopper account". An affiliate, can choose from more than 100 Go Daddy banner or text ads to post on your existing Web site, blog, or Facebook. Affiliates earn commissions not only on domain name purchases, but on all … [Read more...]
Baidu.com Launches It New Media Site Using a LLLL: QIYI.com
China's largest search engine Baidu.com announced today it is going to launch an independent online video website subsidiary under the brand name Qiyi.com. The subsidiary's CEO Gong Yu said the "Qiyi" video platform will carry films and TV series including HD programs. This marks a continuation of major media branding using LLLL domains to launch new sites. Interestingly enough the … [Read more...]
Google Sued By Advertiser For Dropping Its Quality Score & Increasing Prices 10,000%
Domainers are all too well aware of the quality scores that Google imposes on publishers/domainers which winds up adjusting the payments that publishers/domainers receive for the traffic it sends to Google. Google apparently also sets up quality scores for at least some of their advertisers which effect the amount that advertisers are required to pay to Google for the traffic. This quality … [Read more...]
Catching Up With The Ongoing 2 Character .Biz Auctions: $37K Sold So Far
The .biz registry has been holding online auctions over the last couple of months for 2 character .biz domains. The auction on these domains really started on New York at the live TRAFFIC auction when NY.biz sold for $7K. Since then all the action has gone online where the .biz registry is still holding auctions daily. Since this auction model extends the auction another 24 hours every … [Read more...]
VeriSign’s Profits On Naming Services Up 9% & That’s BEFORE The Rate Hike: .Com/.Net Registrations Up 8%
VeriSign, Inc. reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009 and year ended December 31, 2009 after the market closed today. VeriSign reported revenue of $263 million for the 4th quarter of 2009, compared to $249 million in the same quarter in 2008. For the year ended December 31, 2009, VeriSign reported revenue of $1.031 billion, compared to $965 million in 2008. VeriSign … [Read more...]