Tomorrow on Wednesday September 8th, Google will be holding a by invitation only event they are calling; an inside look at the evolution of Google search. Some blogs and sites are claiming that BIG changes maybe announced at the event, even looking for a hint of what is to come on Google's home page today, where a bunch of floating colorful dots whirl around the screen to for the word … [Read more...]
Brand-and-Jingles .Co Study: “There Is A Good Potential In The TLD”
In a blog post, BrandandJingles.com staff reported results from a study of .Co domains (pdf) traffic ranking and how they compare to the .Com counterpart. This is from their blog: "There have been many speculations of what to expect from .CO in the coming years. Here is an interesting study by Brands-and-Jingles. We looked on it a bit from a different angle while analysing top .me sites on … [Read more...]
Bedding .Com’s Rock On NameJet.com Producing Over $70K in Sales
A couple of "bedding" .com domain names sold over at NameJet.com producing the highest sales on that auction platform in quite a while. (I know with all the discussion on .Co domains it may come as a shock that people are also still buying .com domains). BedSheets.com sold for a whopping $48K. Honestly I was in that auction up through around $25K. I was going to use the traffic from … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Gets X.Co & Its Already Up & Running
The .Co registry just announced today that Godaddy.com has been awarded X.Co. This is the 4th single letter .co to be released E.co sold for $81,000 in a charity auction sponsored by the .Co registry. Twitter was granted T.Co to use as a shortener. OverStock paid $350,000 for O.Co X.Co is already up and running at Godaddy.com Here is the the official announcement: ""URL … [Read more...]
Slots.com Purchase Leads To 100 New Jobs
Slots.com which was bought by BodogBrand.com for $5.5 Million at a SnapNames.com auction is now creating jobs. According to a press release: ""During the launch phase, the company is looking to recruit a minimum of 100 new employees in all areas of a gaming company from IT to Marketing and all points in between. Inevitably, beyond that initial stage we will require more talent as the … [Read more...]
1,000 Busiest Site On The Net Shutting Down: Vox.com: How Much Will The Domain Sell For?
News today that VOX.com will be shutting its door. The site which mixes social networking in with a blog hosting site, like Typepad.com. The site ranked by Alexa as the 1,037 busiest site on the net, gets according to Compete.com over 1.2 Million visitors monthly. According to comScore the site generated 5.7 million unique visitors a month. Yet it appearently didn't produce enough … [Read more...]
Dolce & Gabbana Loses Bid For DandG.com In WIPO; Having A Facebook & Twitter Page Was Key
The domain name owner of DandG.com just fought off a complaint by Dolce & Gabbana. However is a nice win for the domain holder who was represented by Mike Rodenbaugh of Rodenbaugh Law. Its a very interesting decision since Dolce & Gabbana has a very well known trademark on D&G since at least 1994 and the domain owner even offered to sell Dolce & Gabbana the domain, (among … [Read more...]