The Snapnames Monthly Showcase auction for March, closes tomorrow on Tuesday March 16th at 3:15pm EST according to Snapnames.com normally closing rules. We went through the hundreds of domain in this auction and came up to what we think are the most interest domains in the auction: ScreenSavers.com $250,001 - $500,000 Huge price drop ProFootball.com $250,001 - … [Read more...]
Wired.com Covers The 25th Birthday of Domain Names & The Registration of The 1st Symbolics.com
Wired.com just published a story on the 25th Anniversary of the first domain registration, Symbolics.com. The article highlights the history of the first domain registered including up to its recent acquisition by Aron Meystedt, of XF.com last August and well as some other important dates in domain name registration history An interesting article you should check out. Congrats to Aron … [Read more...]
Report: Google 99.9% Certain It WIll Close Down In China
According to the Financial Times, Google talks with China have reached an impasse and Google is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, Google.cn. Google.cn is currently ranked as the 14th most visited site on the net by Alexa.org The Financial Times went on to say Google has drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine "to bring about an orderly … [Read more...]
GoVideo.com Sells For $18k on NameJet.com
The domain GoVideo.com sold on Namejet.com today for $18,100. The domain has an Alexa rank of under 2M and according to Compete gets between 1K-3K visitors a month. The domain used to be owned by an electronics company that made dual VCR/VCR & DVD/VCR devices but that day pretty much came and went and today the domain name went for $18K. Here are a couple of other interesting domain … [Read more...]
Our Prediction: Who Will Make The Most Money Off The New Extensions? Hands Down, Godaddy.com
After the developments this week we are ready to make an early prediction on which company is going to make the most off the new extensions. By a mile its going to be Godaddy. Godaddy announced this week that the have a market share of 50% of every new domain registration. That's huge. Think about Google and search. What is your perception? Google owns the market, … [Read more...]
As We Predicted .XXX Decision Is Pushed Off Until Brussell Meeting
As we predicted in our blog post last month, ICANN pushed off a a vote on ICM Registry's proposal to run the .XXX domain name extension to “no later than its Brussels meeting,” which is scheduled for June 20-25. ICANN directed its general counsel and chief executive to formulate "possible process options" to the plan that would be available for public comment. The ICANN board will post … [Read more...]
Utah House and Senate Pass CADNA Backed Trademark Bill, Why This Is VERY Bad News For Domainers
The “UTAH E-COMMERCE INTEGRITY ACT” which was just introduced in December of 2009, passed the Utah Senate last month, was voted into law by the Utah House today. When I first wrote about this bill in December, it was meet with the usual domainer apathy I see when I write about something that can have huge negative effects on their holdings. Sine then, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse … [Read more...]