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DropShippers.com Sells for $1.5 Million

Posted on August 24th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

Richard Gabriel sold DropShippers.com for $1.5 to Tom Hashem of Scranton, Pennyslvania this week according to DNJournal.com. You may recall Mr Gabriel sold Auction.com for $1.7 million in March this year in another whopper sale. This sale is the 6th this year to crack the million-dollar mark. Richard Gabriel is not just selling though. He [...]

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Domainer MardiGras Again In New Orleans In 2010

Posted on August 24th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

The Domainer Mardigras conference is to be held in 2010 again in New Orleans following a successful conference in February this year. Next year’s conference will run February 11-13 and will be held at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel on Canal Street in the French Quarter replacing the previous venue (the Westin Canal Place). Special [...]

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Domain Tasting Down By 99.7% Says ICANN

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

ICANN set up a bunch of rules a while back to finally put an end to excesive abuse of the domain registration Add Grace Period (AGP) – domain tasting. It appears these moves are finally reaping reward as ICANN has released a report announcing that AGP abuse has been decreased by a massive 99.7% from [...]

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Afternic Passes $600,000 in Weekly Sales

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

Afternic DLS announced it has passed the $600,000 mark in weekly sales this week selling over 400 names with 248 of them selling for over $1000 according to DNN. Looking at the list I spotted at least a few names that I thought were quite nice buys like: discountmart.com $2,500 pocketcomputers.com $2,500 sportdaily.com $2,088 brandauthority.com [...]

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Telnic Introduces Text Advertising for .tel Domain Names

Posted on August 13th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 5 Comments »

Telnic Limited, the registry operator for .tel TLD, today announced that it will be delivering a new solution for text-based advertising listings for the .tel domain. “Whilst .tel domains provide new ways of generating revenue through the support and optimization of premium rate telephone numbers, software downloads, ringtones and competition-based formats, we recognized that those [...]

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Tr.im Shuts Down – Thousands of Backlinks Lost?

Posted on August 11th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

Url shortening service Tr.im has announced on its website it’s shutting down explaining that it simply can’t afford to stay online any longer. “There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening — users won’t pay for it — and we just can’t justify further development since Twitter has all but anointed bit.ly the [...]

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Oh My God – Yahoo Acquires OMG.com for $80,000

Posted on August 11th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Yahoo has made an astute purchasing decision buying OMG.com for $80,000 – readers might know that Yahoo has a popular celebrity gossip web site at omg.yahoo.com – OMG is an acronym for “Oh My God”. Even though the domain OMG.com currently points to OMG.org – Object Management Group – the whois info clearly states that [...]

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Three Domain Registrars Lose Accreditation

Posted on August 10th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

South America Domains Ltd doing business under namefrog.com, Simply Named Inc of simplynamed.com and Tahoe Domains Inc have not had their Registrar Accreditation Agreement renewed by ICANN upon expiration for failure to comply with the requirements of the RAA. Each of the three registrars received letters with non-renewal notice from ICANN. NameFrog’s violation was failure [...]

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Microsoft Acquires Office.com!

Posted on August 9th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | 2 Comments »

Internet giant Microsoft acquired the domain name office.com on Tuesday last week according to numerous reports online. The address should make for a logical home for the forthcoming web-based version of Office, though Microsoft has not yet revealed how it plans to use the domain name. The domain name office.com was acquired from Belgian firm [...]

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Clothes.com Came With When Amazon Bought Zappos

Posted on August 7th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

When Amazon purchased online shoe retailer Zappos for $928 million in July, it got the Clothes.com domain in the package. Zappos had earlier bought the domain from Idealab for $4.9 million probably with the aim to branch out into online clothes sales. George Kirikos pointed this out to TechCrunch – Amazon’s SEC filing mentions the [...]

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