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Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2010
Web.com to Buy Domain-Name Firm Register.com for $135M
Financial Times, June 17, 2010
A battle for online naming rights
Miami Herald, May 14, 2010
Internet domain names bring in millions at Fort Lauderdale auction
Bloomberg (DomainNameWire.com link), May 05, 2010
Bloomberg Television feature on Directi and its founder
CNN Video (YouTube.com), May 03, 2010
Live CNN Television Interview on IDNs
Long Island Business News, October 16, 2009
Long Island internet marketer is master of domain names
TechCrunch, October 09, 2009
Insure.com Sells For $16 Million
Los Angeles Times, August 03, 2009
Mark Madsen: Clipper, ex-Laker and domain name speculator
Associated Press, August 03, 2009
NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft
BusinessWeek, July 17, 2009
The Domain Name Business
New York Times, July 14, 2009
Brokering Peace Between Brand Owners and Domainers
Boston Herald, July 13, 2009
Key Web names seen as “free” advertising
Forbes, July 09, 2009
Get Your Internet Domains Now
Inc. Magazine, July 01, 2009
Good Domain Names Grow Scarce
CNET News, June 30, 2009
Do URLs matter anymore?
TechCrunch, June 05, 2009
Candy.com Sells For A Sweet $3 Million
Wall Street Journal, March 03, 2009
How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing)
TechCrunch, February 27, 2009
Toys’R'Us Buys Toys.com At Auction For $5.1 Million
E-Commerce Times, January 07, 2009
Negotiating the Domain Name Thicket
Inc. Magazine, January 01, 2009
And the Money Comes Rolling In
The Deal Book (NY Times), December 15, 2008
First, the Scandal. Then the Web Site?
Wall Street Journal, December 05, 2008
What’s in a Name? More and More, a Number
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German), November 12, 2008
Top Ten der teuersten .de-Domains
Financial Times Deutschland (German), November 11, 2008
Lukrativer Handel mit Domain-Namen
Focus (German), November 10, 2008
900.000 Euro für Kredit.de
Forbes, November 08, 2008
Flipping For Domains
MSNBC/Entrepreneur.com, July 30, 2008
Imminent Domaining
Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2008
Demand Media wags a long tail of niche websites
Globes Magazine (Israel), June 10, 2008
Realtors of the Web
Boston Globe, May 19, 2008
Is America.com a $12m name like Sex.com?
The Industry Standard, May 06, 2008
The allure of the .com domain name
The Huntsville Times, May 02, 2008
Master of their domains: Mark Van Dyke owns popular military, college sports Web names
InformationWeek, April 18, 2008
Domain Name Sales Boom During Real Estate Bust
Washington Post, April 07, 2008
Building His Own Start-Up Ecosystem
Times Online, March 23, 2008
Get a good name on the web
The Observer/Guardian, March 16, 2008
Trade in web names worth millions
Boston Herald, March 14, 2008
Right domain name key to Web success for company
Investor’s Business Daily, February 11, 2008
Domain Name Game Still Going Strong; Tad Less Secretive
The Christian Science Monitor, February 07, 2008
What’s in a (Domain) Name? Some serious cash.
New York Times, February 01, 2008
Coins in the New Realm
International Herald Tribune, January 31, 2008
What’s in a domain name? Serious money
Sydney Morning Herald, January 29, 2008
Domain king’s rivers of gold
Fortune, January 25, 2008
Are domain names recession-proof?
Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2008
No slump in online real estate
Business 2.0, September 27, 2007
The Web’s local mogul
Forbes, September 26, 2007
The Mixologist
Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2007
Web-Address Theft Is Everyday Event
E-Commerce Times, August 31, 2007
Domain Names: The Latest Real Estate Deals
BusinessWeek, August 13, 2007
Does Success Hinge on a Domain Name?
Red Herring, August 06, 2007
Pharmacy.com For Sale
USA Today, July 21, 2007
Internet domain names the 21st century real estate
Business 2.0, July 17, 2007
How to beat Yahoo at its own game
Forbes, June 29, 2007
The Most Expensive Web Addresses
New York Times, June 27, 2007
More Than Just Squatting (on Domain Names)
Red Herring, June 25, 2007
Domain Auctions: Heady Days (article not available)
BusinessWeek, June 25, 2007
The Domains Of The Day
Nashua Telegraph, June 22, 2007
Virtual properties paying off
New York Post, June 22, 2007
Dot.Com Sale Nets Big Bucks
Lowell Sun Online, June 11, 2007
Domain Game (article not available)
Financial Post, June 09, 2007
B.C.’s masters of their domain
Sidney Morning Herald, June 05, 2007
Masters of their domains
Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2007
How Najafi Cos. Hit The Buyout Jackpot
New York Times, May 28, 2007
Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One
Business 2.0, May 22, 2007
The man who owns the Internet
E-Commerce Times, May 08, 2007
Don’t Buy the Keyword – Buy the Domain
Palm Beach Post, March 02, 2007
Fred’s Head: What’s in a (domain) name? Millions (article not available)
CircleID, February 28, 2007
Domain Aftermarket Overdue for an “Asset Repricing”
USA Today, February 19, 2007
Entrepreneurs profit from free Web names
SiliconValley.com, January 26, 2007
Cyberspace land grab (article not available)
CircleID, December 20, 2006
The Closing Window: A Historial Analysis of Domain Tasting
Reuters, December 14, 2006
Russian vodka maker buys Vodka.com domain for $3 mln
David Kesmodel, December 14, 2006
Vodka.com Sold for $3 Million
Austin American-Statesman, November 07, 2006
Austin firm buys site for comparing credit cards (article not available)
Forbes, October 31, 2006
Master The Domain Name Game
IT Week/Computing.co.uk, October 31, 2006
Value of generic domains questioned
Tophosts.com, October 30, 2006
Sedo Makes Another Record Domain Name Sale With gays.com (article not available)
Red Herring, October 26, 2006
There’s Hell To Pay!
Washington Post, October 22, 2006
‘Click Fraud’ Threatens Foundation of Web Ads
BusinessWeek, October 02, 2006
Blogging for Dollars
Business 2.0, October 01, 2006
New ways to strike it rich on the Web
BusinessWeek, August 14, 2006
Valley Boys
USA Today, August 14, 2006
Google search ads find momentum
CNN Money, August 02, 2006
A domain by any other name is not the same
Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2006
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken – In Domain Names, Too
Houston Business Journal, May 19, 2006
Internet REIT nets big names
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 17, 2006
Speculating on domain names
USA Today, April 13, 2006
Sellers of Internet addresses surf for – and get – some big payoffs
Business 2.0, December 01, 2005
Master of their Domains
Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2005
Thanks to Web Ads, Some Find New Money in Domain Names
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 24, 2004
Marchex solidifies its Web presence
Puget Sound Business Journal, November 23, 2004
Marchex agrees to $164.2 million purchase of domain operator
MSNBC, July 20, 2004
Domain name sells for $2.75 million
MyBusiness Magazine (NFIB.com), July/August 2001
The 6:30 a.m. Domain Gold Rush (article not available)
Wired, June 01, 2001
Drugs.com Kicks Domain Habit
Wired, March 06, 2001
MP3.com Joins Domain Scheme
Wired, November 17, 2000
Do We Really Need New Domains?
South Florida Business Journal, September 22, 2000
The king of domains
Forbes, December 30, 1999
The name says it all
BBC News, December 06, 1999
Betting on banks.com
New York Times, December 01, 1999
What’s in a Cybername? $7.5 Million for the Right Address
TheStreet.com/Jim Cramer, December 01, 1999
Did Jake Winebaum Overpay for the Rights to Business.com?
San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 1999
Porno.com – It’s Big, It’s Really Big
New York Times, August 22, 1999
Unreal Estate
Palm Beach Post, August 16, 1999
Want Web Address? Talk To The Landlord
Wired, August 13, 1999
Tadpoles Hopping onto Drugs.com
New York Times, August 09, 1999
Net Address Sold at Auction for $823,456
Wired, July 21, 1999
A Prescription for Riches?
New York Times, July 15, 1999
At Least Some Domain Names Draw Money at Net Auctions
Time Magazine, August 31, 1998
What’s In A Name?
Sacramento Business Journal, March 16, 1998
Internet domain name sold for $100,000
BBC News, February 25, 1998
Gambling on e-future
Bill Gates, February 25, 1998
“Domania” rules the World Wide Web (article not available)
The Independent, June 15, 1997
Smart Net address nets $150,000 profit
CNET News, June 04, 1997
Domain name fetches record price
New York Times, May 12, 1997
Prototype Internet Name Is Sold for $100,000-Plus
CNET News, May 04, 1996
What’s in a name? bigmoney.com
Wired, October 1994
Billions Registered
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