Archive for July, 2008

BuyDomains Does Dirty Work of Targeting End Users

Friday, July 4th, 2008

NameMedia division uses marketing muscle promoting domain names to small and medium businesses.
It seems like everywhere I look these days I see an ad for BuyDomains. I’m not talking about ads targeted to domain owners, but ads targeted to end users.
There were the skyscraper banner ad on GigaOm and CitySearch. [...]

Pizza.com Sold (Finally)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Andrew at DomainNameWire.com is reporting that Pizza.com has finally sold to National A-1, a company that owns an extensive portfolio of high caliber domain names. No official information about the sale price was reported. The domain name was previously sold at auction on Sedo.com for $2.6 million. However the winning bidder later backed out of [...]

GoDaddy Bans Employees from Bidding on TDNAM

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Domain registrar changes policy on employee bidding.
GoDaddy has changed its policy on employees bidding in TDNAM domain name auctions after a firestorm erupted last week (and over the weekend).
Domain Name Wire’s original story, which was based on a thread from NamePros and additional information from a reader, put a hot topic in the limelight. [...]