The domain name NationalService.Org sold today on NameJet.com for $9,700 NationalService.Gov is the official site of the "Corporation for National & Community Service". which according to Compete.com gets 31,000 visitors a month. Another good .org, mediators.org sold for $5,100 a few days ago on NameJet.com In other sales in the last few days on NameJet.com: investmentsoftware.com … [Read more...]
E.CO Sells For $81K
The auction for the domain name E.CO just closed today on Sedo.com with a high bid of $81,000. I put the first bid in at $10K to get things rolling and then put another bid in at $25K. I think the domain is worth $100K or more to the right buyer especially following the news this week that Twitter acquired T.CO. In our poll, only 19 of you correctly picked $75K-$100K as the correct price … [Read more...]
Chery.com Sells For $200K On Sedo
The domain name Chery.com sold for $200k on Sedo with the new owner taking possession according to the whois Yes the domain is Chery.com not Cherry.com Of course I have no idea of what the Buyers plan for the domain is however Chery is one of the largest car manufacturers in China. The buyer does not seem to be the car company, as its registered to an individual with an address in … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The TRAFFIC Premium Auction Today At 3:45pm PST
RickLatona.com will be holding the live premier auction from the TRAFFIC show in Vancouver today at 3:45pm PST, 6:45 EST. Online bidding will be available on Proxibid. We have gone through the entire list of around 200 domains. We start with the domain names that should definitely sell which includes all of the three letter .com which have a reserve of $1,500-$5K. There were a bunch … [Read more...]
Google Is Now Fully Caffeinated As Its Web Indexing Project Is Complete
Google announced today on its blog that is had completed its new web indexing system called Caffeine. It was last August that Google first announced it was working on this project. According to Google Caffeine provides: "50% fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, … [Read more...]
Twitter Grabs T.Co For Its Official URL Shortener
With the auction for E.Co hitting $25K today with almost 2 days to go, Twitter.com announced today that it acquired and was going to use T.CO as its official URL shortener. The Whois shows the domain name was registered as part of .CO Internet’s Founders’ Program. T.Co now resolves to a Twitter page which says: ""Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from … [Read more...]
ITIF Report: Global Economic Benefits Of The Internet $1.5 Trillion, More Than Global Sales of Medicine, Renewable Energy, & Government R&D, Combined
Included in the VeriSign 1Q 2010 Domain Name Industry Brief, is a a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Titled "The Internet Economy 25 Years After .com: Transforming Commerce & Life," the study draws on a variety of research sources to gauge the commercial impact of the Internet, in conjunction with the 25th … [Read more...]