SnapNames, the most popular expiring domain marketplace, will begin auctioning off domains that aren't expiring. Expiring domains sell for a premium at SnapNames, thanks to auction frenzy. Domains that receive little attention while they are ... Continue Reading5 Comments
SnapNames to auction off non-expiring domains
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsSedo’s international dominance
· Domain SalesSedo's new auction format shows the number of domains the company sells to the international community. Everyone knows that Sedo is the major player for domains sold outside the United States. Afterall, the company is based in Europe. Just this year ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Mannequins.com sells for $103,000
· Domain SalesAfternic has had a number of notable sales in the past week, including Mannequins.com for $103,000. In addition to the Mannequins.com sale, check out these other notable sales completed at Afternic: -TikiTorches.com $25,000 - not bad for a niche ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Ocean Tomo auction nabs one sale
· Domain SalesThe Fall 2006 Ocean Tomo Intellectual Property Auction resulted in only one domain sale. A collection of domains and associated intellectual property (including a phone number and trademark) including 1800YellowPages.com sold for $1.32M. Among the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy logon error message and user interface
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy's poor user interface and error messages are frustrating. Managing GoDaddy's web site must be a major undertaking. With dozens of products and new ones added seemingly every week, fitting everything onto a web page and making it easy to ... Continue Reading9 Comments
TrafficClub blocks traffic from Turkey and Iran
· Policy & Law, ServicesService cracks down on fraudulant traffic from "Paid to Read" programs. Moniker's TrafficClub service has taken the unusual step of blocking all traffic from two countries, Turkey and Iran. According to the company there is an increasing amount of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
TrafficClub tops $100 RPM
· ServicesMy RPM at TrafficClub topped $100 for October. Setting a personal best, my earnings from Moniker's TrafficClub exceeded $100 RPM (revenue per thousand views) last month. $100.05 to be exact. This is better than 35% more than any of my previous ... Continue Reading5 Comments
News from the Parking Services
· Services, UncategorizedOctober saw a number of changes at the PPC parking services, not all for the better. TrafficZ upgraded its service from version 4.0 to 4.1 on October 22 - just before the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Hollywood, Florida. They added the ability to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Silent auction pushes total over $5M
· Domain SalesThe silent auction portion of the TRAFFIC/Moniker auction netted over $600k. If the $4.5M+ in sales at the live auction in Florida last week wasn't enough, the silent auction sold another $600,000 worth of domains. Domains that didn't sell in the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Was last week’s domain auction a success?
· Domain SalesWith over $4.5M in domain sales at last week's TRAFFIC auction, should it be deemed a success? $4.5M is a lot of dough. 1/3 of the total sales came from one domain, Cameras.com for $1.5M. (See a complete list of sales from the auction here. See ... Continue Reading3 Comments