According to the official Google blog, 100 Google HR positions were recently eliminated. Although minor in the scheme of things (Google lists roughly 20,000 employees as of September 2008) this move gives a clear sign that the company is scaling back. The Google post also references the recent cuts of contractor positions which you can [...]
Good news. If you missed the TRAFFIC Down Under conference last year, you now have a chance to catch all of the content online. Fabulous has put all of the presentations online at the TRAFFIC Down Under site (works best in IE). It’s great to see the content of these presentation available for all, rather [...]
AboutUs, a website wiki service that receives over 7 million hits per month, has secured $2.5 million worth of financing from Voyager Capital whose managing director, Erik Benson, also opted to join its board. AboutUs is a 3-year-old business startup with an early record of success. The company is already turning a profit by generating [...]
It has been a busy holiday season – so we ended up putting the last two Sedo weekly sales lists into one. There have been a number of impressive sales from December 22-January 5 including… nudetube.com for 167,500 USD 25.com for 124,555 USD basket.com for 88,888 USD 94.com for 81,000 USD toners.com for 55,600 USD [...]
After concerns have been voiced by participants and others, John Motson has taken his MysteryDomainAuction.com (DNN reported earlier) offline. The money has been refunded for all bidders and John will be paying affilliates out of his own pocket. The site states: Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers [...]
In our previous post about the news that Verizon had won a default judgment against domain registrar OnlineNic, we pointed out an important fact in the case. The registrar OnlineNic is a owned by a Chinese company. The company is listed on the ICANN list of registrars as a US based registrar and reportedly has [...]
In a fashion reminiscent of investment pump and dump scams, domain sellers list domain names for sale and pump cheap traffic to the names to make them look appealing and then dump the names on unsuspecting buyers. These scammers list domains for sale on domain aftermarkets that advertise the inflated traffic information and dump the [...]
ICANN advertises new TLDs in The Economist (Stephan van Gelder) Bido.com to restart auctions on February 2nd, 2009 (Conceptualist) ICANN releases 2008 report Google apparently gives up on Gmail.de (Thanks Dan) (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com DomainFest Global: January 28th to 30th in Hollywood California. Register by December 31st and save $100.
UPDATE : MysteryDomainAuction.com has been taken down by the owner. All money has been refunded to bidders. John Motson, the domainer behind DnXpert.com and the ebook Domaining Manifesto has concocted a new domain auction site with a twist that should get people talking. The recipe? Take 1 high value domain, mix in a little Bido.com-type [...]
Sedo?s parent company United Internet AG, has announced its intent to acquire United-Domains for 34 million Euros. Sedo’s parent company United Internet AG, has announced its intent to acquire United-Domains for 34 million Euros. However, the final value of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2009, will depend on [...]