Aftermarket is holding a live auction of Domains as part of the GeoDomain Expo 2009. The auction starts on Saturday at 6:00 PST, however bidding has already started online on DomainTools. At the time of this post almost 30% of the domain already have met the reserve price. As we often do, we are looking at the auction using Esitbot, not to put a value on the domains as much as just … [Read more...]

New search engines that use visual search, rather than text based search, found in Google and Yahoo, may change the landscape for PPC and parked domains. Checkout SearchMe.com, the largest in terms of traffic of these type of search engines.  Type in a search term like "luxury bedding", as see how the results are displayed.  Instead of returning a page of text links with advertising on the top … [Read more...]

According to a post on a gambling blog, theOnlineWire.com, the company that formerly ran a gambling site, known as Bodog.com, is getting its domain back. Terms of the return of the domain were not disclosed. 1st Technology, a Nevada Corporation, wound up with the domain through a $49 million dollar judgement, when Bodog failed to file response in a patent dispute. Bogdog has been … [Read more...]

A Brooklyn teen found a novel way to land a job in a terrible job market, he launched a worm against Twitter last week, actually four worms. Michael Mooney, a 17-year-old living in Brooklyn, N.Y., told CNET.com,  that he wrote the worms because he was bored and wanted to bring Twitter's attention to the security holes. Michael was hired by a Web application development firm,  ExqSoft in … [Read more...]

Well the race is over and Mr. Demi Moore has beaten CNN, in the race to reach 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. Certainly not life changing, but still quite an accomplishment that an individual beat out the worlds largest news organization for the most Twitter followers. Me,  I'm still trying to crack the 500 follower barrier. Come on, help a brother out, I only need 999,550 more to catch … [Read more...]

Fool.com published an article tonight on MarketWatch technology columnist John Dvorak who argues that Google may trade in the next few year for $20,000 a share. The article looked at the growth of Microsoft shares which have increased 200% since it went public. The reasoning goes if Google shares would follow, then its IPO price of $100 in 2004, would eventually reach $20,000 a share … [Read more...]

We asked the question the other day if Google gross revenue would decline for the first quarter, since going public. Today, Google released earnings after the market closedand the answer was yes. Google for the first time since going public in 2004, saw its gross revenue decline 3% from the previous quarter but it was still up 6% compared to the same quarter last year. Google reported … [Read more...]