Not a good harbinger of things to come..  this morning I stumbed on to the chart linked here, while watching this video:   http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vagklPtCku9U.asf   ..  and then read this in a private finance forum:  “”I have a typical savings and checking account at Citibank and just received an email regarding a change in their electronic transfers. They [...]

Guy.com Sells for 1 million. 3 letter .com’s with good/great useable meaning are rare. Another compelling week for reported sales. .Net and .Org are the steady climbers. From:  DN journal weekly domain sale reports.http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm  ***FS***  I remember men.com selling for 1mm couple of years back.. Men.com is 100X better than Guy.com ..  There’s the domain biz in [...]

   http://namemedia.com/?p=50 Wow..  What “credit crunch”?  In the midst of what some describe as a credit crisis and currency crisis (happening at the same time), Our friends at NameMedia.com have just secured a new 5 year credit facility on as yet unspecified terms. Release states they can use the facility to “”repay all obligations outstanding under [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)    Floating/Anchored 5-700 feet offshore.. right in front of the Ritz Carlton here in Cayman.. I can see it right out my office window..   This is a seriously impressive ship. Second biggest yacht in the world (2nd biggest privately owned yacht, 6th overall if you count ‘royal’ yachts) Cost a rumored $200mm (back when the dollar [...]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=203100004   Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has filed a trademark infringement suit against a California dentist who has registered more than 40 Internet domains with names similar to the software maker’s products or brands. The domains registered by Dr. Saed Said are “identical or confusingly similar” to Microsoft’s trademarks, the company claims in court papers filed [...]

Netsol releases white paper: Pros and Cons of Pay per Click vs. SEO. ***FS*** Why would a registrar go to all the trouble of writing a white paper on this stuff?  It’s not to sell more domains, that’s for sure..  I smell a shift happening..  Registrar’s are worse copycats than Domainers..  Watch what happens at [...]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071126.wgtmedia1126/BNStory/Technology/home Excerpt: “”Experts say advertisers need to remain competitive in a tightening market while keeping costs down, making them likely to boost spending in areas more directly linked to commerce, such as Web search queries. That would benefit companies like Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. But television networks like CBS or NBC and [...]

Godaddy Go Daddy asks how to improve their signature auctions:  Elliot puts his mind to work and posts up a three point plan. http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/11/27/godaddy-tell-us-how-to-improve-signature-auctions/   Domain Speculation Pointers. http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/11/26/domain-speculation-pointers/ ***FS*** Elliot goes into depth.  Focus of this article is brand spanking new registrations. I thought all good names were already taken?   Everything but new [...]

Seed Money  Sendori gets more funding from First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Maples Investments. Compelling model that Sendori. http://www.personalbee.com/261/23600663 Domain Wire Mag New issue online. (PDF) This issue contains an overview of the Domain Name System, an update on the Internet Governance Forum and everything you always wanted to know about Internationalised Domain Names. [...]

 http://www.dnjournal.com:80/articles/events/geodomain-expo-2007.htm Ron is such a great writer.  Nice job sir.