Marketshare.com gets some serious market share. Afternic has brokered the sale of MarketShare.com for $148,500. It appears the seller was a software company, but the buyer is using whois privacy to protect their identity. While by far the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Archives for 2010
Sedo Sells Over $1 Million in One Week, Including LawFirm.com for $233k
· Domain SalesBrokerage closes six figure domain name transaction. Sedo sold over $1 million in domain names over the past week, including closing a transaction for LawFirm.com at $233,501. Another interesting sale is TreasureMap.com at $25,000. Here's a ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Adam Strong Buys NameBio.com
· ServicesDomain sales database switches hands. Domain investor Adam Strong has purchased the NameBio.com web site, a searchable repository of domain name sales. NameBio was the second notable site of its kind after DNSalePrice.com. Both sites aggregate ... Continue Reading8 Comments
VeriSign Registry Changes Logo and Web Address
· UncategorizedVeriSign finds a new image and home on the web. The company that manages dot.com has a new dot.com. VeriSign -- the .com and .net domain name registry -- has changed its web address to VeriSignInc.com and changed its logo as a result of selling off ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Time Capsule From 10 Years Ago
· UncategorizedA walk down memory lane in the tech world. Last weekend I was looking for some financial documents when I came upon a stash of old credit card receipts and stock trade confirmations from 1999-2001. In the process of sending some of these old documents ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Here’s What Your Afternic Premium Listings Look Like
· Domain SalesLots of exposure for premium listings. I added a couple domain names with Afternic's Premium distribution over the past few days to try out the system. There was a technical glitch with Moniker's implementation, but this has been sorted out and ... Continue Reading17 Comments
Companies Have Filed 51 .Co Disputes and Haven’t Lost Yet
· Policy & LawBenefit of the doubt given to complainants in .co cases. Companies have filed 51 UDRPs against .co domain names since the relaunch of .co into an international domain name extension over the summer. They haven't lost yet. Complainants are 25-0 in ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Bank of America Wants You to Know Its Executives Don’t Suck
· UncategorizedCompany defensively registers hundreds of domain names for its senior executives and board members. As Bank of American awaits a possible release of information from WikiLeaks, it wants to ensure that you don't think its executives suck. Or blow for ... Continue Reading28 Comments
New Top Level Domain Delays Will Hurt Domainers
· Policy & LawCurrent negotiations and delays could result in unfavorable terms for domain name investors. A lot of domain name investors are against the wholesale introduction of new top level domain names, or at least some of the provisions attached to them. They ... Continue Reading8 Comments
A Fun New Tool to View Today’s New Domain Registrations
· ServicesSite shows latest registered domain names. There's a new site to search through today's (OK, yesterday's) newly registered domain names: AddedDomains.com. All you do is type in a search term and the site displays domain names including the term that ... Continue Reading6 Comments