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 [...]
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. [...]
Post title comes courtesy of some European banker friends of mine… They sound like Henry Kissinger when they talk It was the thought that rushed through my head after reading the domain related story linked below. It’s an IPO color piece re: Name Media’s offering. I enjoy reading domain related stories viewed through fresh eyes: http://www.xconomy.com/2007/11/26/let-your-fingers-do-the-crossing-direct-navigation-companies-heat-up/ Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land gets the crispest quote [...]
“”Hey Frank, Here is the picture of me drinking the Mai Tai and thinking of you. The next day I took a be “be like Frank” picture. Pretty good if I must say, now I just need the waterfront house in the Caymans to go with that picture and I am all set. Actually, [...]
Personal Computer World site warns it’s viewers to renew domain names, or lose them within 10 seconds of them being deleted. http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2204115/laosed-dommain-names-bought Josh says: “”10 seconds? That’s a long time. I’m guessing .01 of a second in some cases.”” ***FS*** Names which delete never really become available anymore.. If a former site existed there, [...]
JOHN BATTELLE, INTERNET VISIONARY AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR, AND PETER HILLARY, EVEREST ADVENTURER AND CLIMBER, HEADLINE DOMAINFEST GLOBAL IN HOLLYWOOD Los Angeles, CA ( November 20, 2007) – DomainSponsor™, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net, today announced that John Battelle, an Internet visionary and best selling author, and Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmond [...]
http://blog.snipperoo.com/2007/11/death-of-the-do.html Summary: A guy who could have bought billions of dollars worth of domain real estate by applying his foresight (but didn’t) now declares “domain names dead” and hypothesizes that we will abandon domain names in favor of Rube Goldberg inspired Universal Search Locators (USLs) which will take over as the foundational elements of the web.. While I could [...]
Omar writes (from the bay area): “”Frank, It’s brutal out there. A few days ago my company put an ad for a Personal Assistant. We expected about 50 applicants. Imagine our surprise when we received over 350, all from local candidates. So I did some thinking about why this happened…. I think the subprime [...]