Alan Mitchell of Calculate Marketing wrote over a year ago that many may be paying too much for their Google Adwords clicks. In an article on Search Engine People he gave this example: To see why, let's suppose you have four Google AdWords keywords: red bikes red bikes sydney men's red bikes men's red bikes sydney All four of your keywords are set to phrase match, meaning that they … [Read more...]
Guilty Of RDNH: JJGC Industria E Comercio de Materiais Dentarios S.A. of Curitiba, Brazil
JJGC Industria E Comercio de Materiais Dentarios S.A. of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, represented by Baril, Brandão & Brofman Advogados (BBB), Brazil has just been found Guilt of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name neodent.com. The domain holder represented themselves. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member WIPO panel: "The Complainant is based in … [Read more...]
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Launches His Newest Project On a .Co; Jelly.Co
Biz Stone one of the co-founders of Twitter, just launched his newest project on a .Co domain name. Jelly.co Jelly.co is an app which was originally launched on jellyhq.com which is now forwarding to the domain name jelly.co "Using Jelly is kinda like using a conventional search engine in that you ask it stuff and it returns answers. But, that’s where the similarities end. Albert Einstein … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports $840K In December Sales Led By 5.co.uk
Namejet.com reported some $841,000 in domain name sales in December These sales are not all inclusive but simply are reportable domain name auction sales that took place in December 2013. Sales were led by 5.co.uk which sold for $67,611 Actually .there were plenty of big dollar co.uk sales Personally I got outbid on getcash.com at $33,901 Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
Cisco Acquires A Domain In Stealth Mode That Represents An Industry They Say is Worth Trillions
Mike did a story the other day about IOT.com and it having a price tag of $2.8 million. The Internet of Things has become a very hot topic over the last couple years, Cisco has also been busy branding the Internet of Everything or IOE. IOE.com is now owned by Cisco although the sale was never made public. The name back in the day was first owned by the International Oceanic Enterprises of … [Read more...]
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.3 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 12/30/13 – 1/5/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,363,221. The top .com sale was lead by MyTicket.com for $20,000, with the top non-com sale lead by Uber.org for $36,000. Below is the complete report: .com … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $3.4 Million Over 3 Week Period
Over the past 3 weeks, 1,317 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $3.4 Million. 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: msc.com at 35,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: jobs.ca at 450,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: 3.biz at 12,500 EUR Below is the complete list of transactions between Dec 16th, 2013 and … [Read more...]