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Moniker has published the list of domain names which will be in the live domain auction in New York City next week. High-End Web Names has submitted domains for the live auction too, including Bourbon.com, Whiskey.com and Elections.com.
[via DomainEditorial]
You should read Sahar Sarid’s post “Carnegie Says ‘No’ To New Domain Extensions” and the corresponding comments today, as some of the industry’s most successful people have left comments on Sahar’s blog post, including Frank Schilling, Chris Hartnett and Kevin Ham.
Mike Mann, the founder of BuyDomains.com, announced the purchase of the domain name SEO.com. After he had sold BuyDomains.com Mike Mann founded a venture capital firm called WashingtonVC. His firm has invested in some nice startups with generic domains, including HappyBirthday.com, Phone.com and Software.com.
TRAFFIC co-founder Rick Schwartz got Terry Jones and Steve Forbes to speak at the domain industry’s most important conference. This year’s TRAFFIC show in New York is also one of the most important events in the history of the domain industry ever, because it takes place in times that domains finally get some positive attention and press coverage in the traditional media, and investors and marketers have just begun to see the great value of generic domain names. Therefore, TRAFFIC NY will take off in the very right place, namely in the neighborhood of Wall Street and Madison Avenue.
Terry Jones, founder and former CEO of Travelocity.com, will speak at TRAFFIC New York next week. Steve Forbes will be the keynote speaker at TRAFFIC East in Miami in October. Excerpt from Rick’s blog post:
Then on October 10th in Miami, Steve Forbes will take the stage at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. EAST. Mr. Forbes is President and CEO of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine.You will find that he has a great interest in what we do. I think you will find his words more than insightful and we are lucky to have someone of his stature coming to speak.
It seems that the Government of Cameroon’s wildcard on .CM domains is no longer active. The .CM domains do not redirect to a Hitfarm parking page anymore. Instead, they do not resolve at all anymore, which means all the domain extension typo traffic gets monetized by Microsoft and Google now.
[via Frank Schilling's SevenMile.com]
Andrew of DomainNameWire.com reports that the owner of Flicker.com received a $600,000 offer for his domain name. Incidentally, this is the correct spelling of the more popular typo-domain Flickr.com, a company now owned by Yahoo. Therefore, traffic to Flicker.com is huge. According to the owner of the site, the domain receives about 150,000 type-ins per month. Flicker is a generic term and Flicker.com predates Flickr, so I don’t think there will be any trademark issues, but it’s still possible that Yahoo will try to get the generic domain and sue the owner for it.
$600,000 is a good price for this domain, in my opinion. I would sell it at that price if it was mine. Let’s see what happens. Good luck to both the seller and the buyer!
Domain Name Wire: Flicker.com Receives $600k Offer
Ron Jackson has a new cover story out at DNJournal.com. His article features NameMedia, the company that owns BuyDomains, Afternic and domain monetization companies Smartname, Goldkey and ActiveAudience. NameMedia also owns one of the biggest domain portfolios in the industry, consisting of more than 750,000 domain names!
The NameMedia Story: How They Are Rocking the Internet and Rolling Up the Domain Industry
There is a nice piece on Fabulous.com’s Dan Warner in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Another domain-related article that has been published in the mainstream press in the recent weeks.
Dan Warner, chief strategy officer at Brisbane-based Dark Blue Sea Limited, is used to watching multimillion-dollar sales of domains such as Diamond.com and Vodka.com take the headlines. His story of a slow and steady accumulation of domains, bought for less than $7 and sold for thousands, day in and day out for several years, lacks get-rich-quick appeal. Yet this measured approach to domain accumulation has grown a $5 million initial investment into a company with a market cap of $68 million.
His company holds the world’s second-largest portfolio of domain names, with more than 550,000. NameMedia Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has about 725,000. Together, these two companies hold more than 1 per cent of the world’s domains.
Read the whole story:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/masters-of-their-domains/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html
Snapnames has been acquired by LA-based Oversee. Oversee also runs DomainSponsor, Revenue.net, Low.com and the popular Domainfest tradeshow.
Email received from Snapnames:
To SnapNames Customers:
I’m writing to inform you that SnapNames has agreed to be acquired by Oversee.net. Oversee, a company already familiar to many in the domain name industry, is a technology-driven online marketing solutions company that offers an impressive array of services to domain name owners. You can learn more about the company at www.oversee.net.
It’s important that you understand there will be no changes to the way SnapNames provides its services. This is a combination of two industry leaders with outstanding reputations for serving domain name investors and customers at all levels.
We were attracted to Oversee for many reasons, including the opportunity to offer SnapNames customers a greater breadth of service offerings. Together, the two companies can provide services that support our customers’ needs throughout the entire life cycle of a domain name, including procurement, monetization and sales.
This transaction is expected to close in mid-June. There is more information available on our Web site at www.snapnames.com. Of course, we’re always available to assist you in any way we can, and encourage your questions and comments. Our support team is available to you here:
On the Web: http://snapnames.custhelp.com
By e-mail: support@snapnames.comAt SnapNames, you will continue to find the world’s largest selection of expired domain names. You’ll find no changes to your account or the way you do business with us. We value you as a customer and thank you for your continued business.
Sincerely,
Sudhir Bhagwan
Chief Executive Officer
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