This month in the Name Monetizer newsletter we will take a look at Joomla! - a content management system for full-scale sites that have a lot of content. Joomla! (officially spelled sorta like "Yahoo!") is free open source software. It runs on PHP and ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Satire: Internet scientists demote .ORG to “dwarf domain”
· UncategorizedA satirical article about domain names jokes about demoting .org to a "dwarf domain". Need a break from your Thursday afternoon? Click on over to TheSpoof.com for a humorous article poking fun at the recent decision to demote Pluto from its major ... Continue Reading1 Comment
The future of domain parking plus Call.com $250,000
· Domain Sales, UncategorizedCommunicate.com filed its form 10QSB yesterday and it contains interesting information about parking pages plus the valuation of Call.com. The company, which owns a number of premium domains and e-commerce web sites, reacquired Call.com last month. It ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Analyzing the eNom acquisition of BulkRegister
· Domain Registrars, UncategorizedeCommerce Times has a good article analyzing eNom's recent purchase. The two-part story debuted last week but the second half was just published today. Despite having some inaccuracies (such as saying Business.com is the highest-ever reported domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
CNNMoney.com article on domain names
· UncategorizedCNNMoney just published a domain name article about acquiring the right domain. The article is very high level and probably won't be helpful to experienced domains (it is geared to the mass market of business owners). Nonetheless, it's great to see ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
.Com research in Wall Street Journal
· UncategorizedToday's Wall Street Journal has a column about .com domain name registration data. It features Dennis Forbes, who has run extensive research on the list of 47M registered .com domains. Dennis Forbes was able to acquire the entire list of 47M ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Boston Globe article about direct navigation
· UncategorizedThe Boston Globe has profiled NameMedia (formerly BuyDomains) and the direct navigation market in general. The Boston Globe article is poorly titled "Internet Stealth Company Steps Out". But anyone in the domain industry knows NameMedia hasn't been a ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Branson.com sells for $1.6M
· UncategorizedIn a sale sure to send shockwaves through the domain community, Branson.com has sold for $1.6M For those who don't know, Branson is a small Missouri town that's a big tourist attraction. It's kind of like Nashville for people that don't want to make ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Celebrities get smart about domain names
· UncategorizedAt 8:27AM Saturday morning, actress Angelina Jolie's lawyers were hard at work -- registering domain names. Having fought to get their names in cyberspace, celebrities are getting smarter about registering their kids' names. Angelina Jolie's team of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Nintendo goes on Wii registration spree
· UncategorizedNintendo has snapped up a number of Wii-domains for the upcoming launch of its newest video game system. Moments after announcing the name of its next generation video game system, speculators began snapping up any domain they could think of that ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment