NamePros takes over top spot for domain forums. In a major reversal to last year's survey, NamePros has come out on top in the 2007 Domain Name Wire survey for best domain name forum. NamePros received 55% of the vote compared to only 12% last year. ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Survey: NamePros Top Domain Name Forum
· ServicesPorn.com Sells for $9.5M Cash
· Domain SalesMoniker brokers largest publicly reported all-cash domain sale ever. Moniker has brokered the sale of the domain name Porn.com for $9.5M in cash. This is the largest all-cash domain sale ever reported. The most expensive domain name ever sold is also ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Survey: SnapNames Still Tops for Expired Domains
· Domain Registrars, Expired DomainsSnapNames is the most popular expired domain marketplace with 47% of the vote. You probably don't need a survey to tell you which expired domain service is most popular. Just look at the 100 biggest domain sales of 2006: 15 of them are from SnapNames, ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Communicate.com Reports Record Quarterly Profit
· UncategorizedDomain 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
How 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