You just got to love the domain business. A typo domain name, OnlineTelevison.com just sold for $2,206 on Bido.com after 44 bids so there were at least 2 bidders battling it out. The Bido price was only $28. The domain has no Alexa or Compete ranking and even Word Tracker only counts 2 people searching a month for the misspell. Congrats to the Seller. … [Read more...]
Will The First Site To Make It Big Off the iPad Be An Adult Site?: PinkVisualPad.com
Despite Apple's well known disdain against porn, the first site that might ride the iPad's waive to fame and fortune maybe a porn site. On the day that the iPad hit the stores, PinkVisualPad.com, launched. PinkVisualPad.com, is according to the company, the first iPad optimized adult site on the Web. The President of Pink Visual, Allison Vivas, said she registered the domain name the … [Read more...]
Slots.com Auction Set For Next Week
According to OnlineCasinoNews.com, the auction for Slots.com will be held one week from today on April 28th. ""It has been confirmed that one of the most eagerly awaited domain name auctions will take place next Wednesday 28th April 2010. The Slots.com domain is on offer with those groups interested in getting hold of what could be a potentially very lucrative name having until this … [Read more...]
Yahoo Earnings Up, But Revenues Down
Yahoo reported earnings after the market closed today. Yahoo! said its first-quarter profit was more than double that of a year ago. Yahoo earned 22 cents per share, better than the 9 cents analysts had anticipated. However Q1 search advertising revenue down was down 14%. "We stabilized our search share and we believe it will tend up in Q2," Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz said in … [Read more...]
SFGate.com: “Demand Media Will Be The First $1 Billion Tech IPO Since Google”
In a post today in SFgate.com, authored by Lou Kerner, of the Business Insider, he predicts that Demand Media will be the 1st $1 Billion dollar Tech IPO since Google. Here are Mr. Kerner's arguments for Demand: Demand's. ehow.com is the 44th most trafficked site according to Alexa (I show it being #141).... which gets most of its content from over 10,000 "qualified" contributors that … [Read more...]
Yahoo Acquires Me.Me
Sedo.com announced today that brokered the sale of the domain name Me.Me to Yahoo!. The domain name was previously owned by the .Me Registry. Yahoo! has acquired the domain name to enhance the brand of its social networking site, meme.yahoo.com, which allows users to connect and share their common interests. “Thanks to Sedo’s services and the consultation of Sedo broker, Jeff … [Read more...]
SnapNames.com To Hold A .Me “Catch Phrase” Auction: Auction.Me, Trade.Me, See.Me Change.Me, Use.Me + More
SnapNames.com will be holding an online auction of .ME Catch Phrase Domains starting on May 4th and ending on May 11th. To date the catch phrases have done much better in the resale market than the personal names. Earlier this month the sale of Call.me for 20,000 Euro's ($27k) was announced. Of course Date.me still holds the record at $70K. Some of the domain to be included in this … [Read more...]