Every domainer has heard the story of how Kevin Ham built a $300 million empire – particularly how he profited from the millions of people who accidentally type “.cm” (the country code TLD for Cameroon) instead of “.com” when searching for a website. And now that Cameroon’s ccTLD registrations are open to the public, domain [...]
SnapNames Summer Stimulus auction has concluded with 38 domains selling for nearly $90,000 including DegreePrograms.com for $31,555. Overall, nearly half of the names in the catalog were sold and a number of one and two-word domains met their reserves. Other notable sales included CameraBags.com $10,500, Pumped.com for $5,750, MusicArchive.com for $4,710, DiscountTravel.net for $3,900, BalanceTransfer.net [...]
AfternicDLS had a strong week, reporting over $440,000 in domain sales including Epidurals.com for $8,500, SPAO.com for $6,300, and NVDirect.com for $5,500. Check out the full results – which includes over 300 domain sales – after the jump… .Com Domains Price epidurals.com $8,500 spao.com $6,300 nvdirect.com $5,500 fastphone.com $5,200 yiss.com $5,012 hoteleuropa.com $5,000 storageplus.com $5,000 [...]
Nora Nanayakkara Nominet announced last week that three new members – Clive Grace, Nora Nanayakkara, and Jonathan Robinson – were added to the board following an electoral vote. Nora Nanayakkara is a notable member, having served as Sedo’s Business Development Director since November 2007 as well as being an elected member of Nominet’s Policy Advisory [...]
The SnapNames Summer Stimulus auction is ending today at 3:15pm EDT, with many domains still available at great prices. Of the 80 domains up for auction there’s only about $35,000 worth of bids on half the names. I’m sure many people are waiting until the last minute. Forty of the domains still haven’t garnered a [...]
Sedo posted a spectacular week of sales including Mouse.com for $125,000, Keyboard.com for $100,000, 70.com for $87,000, and 63.com for $75,000. In total there were 128 domains sold for over $750,000. Check out the full list of results after the jump… Domain name Auction Price Currency Translation .Coms mouse.com Sedo 125,000 USD keyboard.com Sedo 100,000 [...]
NASK, the registry operator for Poland’s .PL top-level domain, has lost up to 14 million zloty ($4.5 million USD) on failed FOREX futures investments. And according to a Polish news agency, this is also a potential case of fraud as NASK is a public entity and therefore lost taxpayers’ money. “I am shocked that such [...]
According to a recent study by Memorable Domains, Bing gives keyword-based websites the biggest boost in search engine rankings compared to other leading search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Memorable Domains randomly selected 125 generic .co.uk websites and analyzed the position of each site within the first 2 pages (20 results) for a search [...]
The Castello Brothers – Michael and David – of the Castello Cities Internet Network will be giving the keynote address and host a session at the Domain Convergence Conference in Toronto, Canada, August 13-14, 2009. The duo have a unique success story that is inspirational to both domainers and entrepreneurs alike – morphing their careers [...]
Rick Latona Auctions has announced a NO RESERVE Summer Slow Auction which will start on Thursday July 23, 2009 and run for one week – and there is still room for new submissions. “We are running the best 100 names that get submitted,” the auction house said in a recent press release. “We still have [...]