A huge show for all things Internet hits New York on June 7th-14th. Internet Week, is a week long show attended by all the Major Internet companies including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft which is capped off on Monday June 14th by the Webbie Awards gala. The Webby Awards will honor Vinton Cerf with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Talk about a well deserved award. The show has events, … [Read more...]
55,000 People A Month Go To A Domain That Doesn’t Exist
As you know most the single charter .com are reserved by the registry and do not or have ever resolved. However that doesn't stop a lot of people from typing in those address into their broswer every month. Take for example e.com. According to Compete.com 55K people a month visit the non-existant domain. Alexa ranks the site as 111,000 on the net. F.com is not far behind with 33,000 … [Read more...]
BuyDomains.com Moving Some Inventory On NameJet.com
Well add BuyDomains.com to the growing list of companies that are selling off some of their less desirable domains on NameJet.com NameJet.com which started an an auction house for expiring domains, opened itself up to private sales as well, that get mixed into the expired domain auctions last year. It now appears that Buydomains.com has listed some of its inventory on NameJet.com Once … [Read more...]
Buy.com Sold For $250 Million
According to TechCrunch.com, Buy.com was purchase for $250 million dollars by a Japanese e-commerce company, Rakuten. The deal is all cash Rakuten in Japan counts 64 million members, while Buy.com claims 14 million customers. Seems like a pretty cheap price for one of the most recognizable brands on the net and 14 million customers. … [Read more...]
WSJ: Microsoft Files “Click Laundering” Suits Against “Shady Sites Known As Parked Domains”
Well we have all heard of click fraud but we have a new term to deal with as of today. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft filed two lawsuits for "Click Laundering", on Monday in federal court in Seattle against Eric C. Ralls and the company he founded, RedOrbit Inc., a Dallas science news and shopping site, plus 20 unnamed defendants (Johe Doe's). Microsoft claims RedOrbit … [Read more...]
Our Picks & Pans From The DFG Extended Auction Ending Tomorrow
Last week Moniker.com held a live auction at DomainFest Ft. Lauderdale and tomorrow, May 20th at 3:15pm EST the extended auction from the show will close on SnapNames.com. As usual all of the Live auction domains that didn't sell are back, like jeans.com ($2M starting bid) and Hobbies.com (min bid at $353K) as well as hundreds of other new domains. We went through the list and picked out … [Read more...]
ICM Tells ICANN To SH*T Or Get Off The Pot on .XXX: But Is It Too Late?
Now that the comment period for the .XXX extension has closed, the ICM Registry sent a letter to ICANN asking them to make a decision on the extension. In the letter ICM states in part: """ICM, having been a respectful and diligent member of the ICANN community, and having invested many millions of dollars and a full seven years in trying to bring .XXX to fruition, calls upon the Board to … [Read more...]