Domain name company sees higher e-commerce revenue. Communicate.com (OTCBB: CMNN.ob), a domain name company that owns valuable domains such as Boxing.com and Perfume.com, reported record quarterly revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2007. The ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Communicate.com Reports Record Quarterly Profit
· UncategorizedHow Gateway and Google Are Infringing Your Trademark
· Policy & LawSome of the world's biggest companies are also the web's biggest typosquatters. I've written several times about how Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is one of the world's biggest typosquatters. The company sues people who register typos of its brands, but ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Internet Real Estate Group Buys Patents.com
· Domain SalesCompany short-circuits auction, buys Patents.com for undisclosed amount. A few weeks ago I wrote about an "auction" for Patents.com, which I expected to bring in $1M+. The sellers ended up striking a deal with Internet Real Estate Group (formerly ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Parked Domain Name Parking Update
· ServicesParked service offers good landing pages, allows you to send traffic from Adwords, Yahoo. It's been one year since I interviewed Donny Simonton of Parked.com about the then-new parking service. Donny told me about a number of ways Parked would be ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Will Marchex Dump Yahoo for Google?
· ServicesMarchex hints that it is considering other domain monetization partners. Domain name company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) generated $15.1M in revenue from its proprietary web sites last quarter. Much of that was generated from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
e-Commerce Times: Buy the Domain, Not the Keyword
· UncategorizedMatt Bentley has a good article about buying domains to augment paid search campaigns. People in the domain circle have been talking about the value of domains names as opposed to paid search campaigns for years, but the internet community is starting ... Continue Reading4 Comments
NameBio Hits 20,000 Domain Sales
· Domain SalesDomain sales database now includes 20,000 records. NameBio, a database site of domain name sales, now has over 20,000 domain sales records worth over $225M in its database. The site launched just over 6 months ago but has rapidly innovated to make ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Survey: Sedo Top Domain Name Sales Venue
· Domain Sales, ServicesDomain name aftermarket Sedo selected as best sales venue in survey. The 2007 Domain Name Wire survey results are in and respondents selected Sedo as the best domain name sales venue with 36% of the vote. Here are the results for "best sales ... Continue Reading2 Comments
The Backlash against Domain Parking
· Services, UncategorizedLeonard Holmes of ParkQuick updates us on the latest in domain name parking. April saw signs all around that Yahoo and Google are pressuring parking services to delete the accounts of poorly performing domain owners. Parked took the lead deleting ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Gin.com, HorseRacing.com Added to Moniker Auction
· Domain SalesMoniker's Casino Affiliate Convention 2007 silent domain name auction has added more domains with record-breaking potential. As if Poker.com and Slots.com were not enough to give Moniker's casino domain name auction the potential to be the biggest ... Continue Reading6 Comments