The Co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake, talked about her new venture appropriately named Hunch.com A very interesting concept, paired with a great, easy to remember domain, should make this site one of the next BIG Web 2.0 sites.  We had the myspace.com period, then facebook.com, now twitter.com is all the rage. Looking for the next HOT thing, we may have found it On Ms. Fake's blog, she … [Read more...]

Google announced Thursday it is cutting about 200 jobs in sales and marketing, citing an overlap in responsibilities across the organization that could complicate the "decision-making" process and make teams less effective and efficient. The cuts will take place globally and employees will have an opportunity to apply for other posts throughout the company, Google said in a blog post. "We over … [Read more...]

The auction for Badgirl.com ends today at snapnames.com at 3:15 EST. The high bid is currently over $8,000 and you can still join the auction by clicking here. UsNotary.com closes today at well, a pretty good domain still under $100, to join the auction for UsNotary.com click here. … [Read more...]

A company that sells instructional videos and CDs sued Amazon for trademark infringement stemming from PPC ads on Google. The complaint, filed this week by Video Professor, alleges that Amazon uses the phrase "video professor" to trigger pay-per-click ads that direct people to a site that sells instructional CD-ROMS made by the company Professor Teaches. The complaint also alleges that the … [Read more...]

CNN.com reported on a site which raised $50,000 in less than 2 months, whose sole promotion was giving a homeless man a sign to hold with a Web site's address. Sean Dolan and his father came up with a plan to drive traffic to his website PimpThisBum.com by simply giving Timothy Edwards, a homeless man,  a sign to hold while panhandling in Houston. Mr. Edwards, the homeless man was paid $100 … [Read more...]

DropDay.com, is a cool FREE tool which attempts to  analyze all domain drops at SnapNames.com, NameJet.com, Godaddy.com, Pool.com and Afternic.com,  in a search-able database. So this tool should catch all "real true" expired dropping domains, as well as those registrars that drop their domains to a specific service, plus all privately sold domains through SnapNames.com and Afternic.com. In … [Read more...]

In a article appearing in  Popular  Science, discussing Al Gore proposed .eco extension, the author takes a non-domainers look at the new gTLD extension and concludes: """For domain names not associated with a trademark, who really cares about anything except ".com"?""" """I think there's this general sense that whoever lays claim to the ".com" version of a domain is the legit owner and … [Read more...]