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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. [...]

Sedo Sales of the week up to June 23rd

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Selected Sedo sales of the week till June 23rd after the jump. Domain name Price Currency Translation Type blonde.com 99000 USD alpari.com 65000 USD nwn.com 22500 USD brillen.com 10600 EUR [...]

Don t Panic. Now is the Time to Invest.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Much like in the stock market, the time to buy in the domain market is when domains are “on sale.”
Fear. Worry. Panic.
Those are common words to describe the U.S. stock market these days. And it’s becoming the word of the day in the domain name market.
Over the past few weeks I’ve shifted much of [...]

NameJet.com - Employees Not Allowed to Bid

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

There’s a bit of controversy swirling around the expiring domain name after-market as reports of “insider bidding” have been raised at NamePros and DomainNameWire.com. According to DomainNameWire the topic of NSI and Enom employees bidding at NameJet was discussed with an employee over the phone. Enom Sr. VP Taryn Naidu informed DomainNameNews.com that this [...]

Early Domain News And Stuff For 06/26/08

Friday, June 27th, 2008

20 web domain name to go for 1m Dot TK - Free domain names with no strings attached Stuff: Yahoo’s board doing a heck of a job, Yahoo says Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more Microsoft’s war against Google Ticketmaster looks to master ticket resale domain [...]

Sedo and Pool Explain Employee Policies for Bidding

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Sedo has strict policy on domain speculation, Pool outlines rules.
Many people (63 comments and counting) have commented on Domain Name Wire’s article about GoDaddy letting its employees bid on domain name auctions on its site. Several readers e-mailed requests for information on other companies’ policies. Here’s what I’ve found:
Sedo - Sedo places perhaps [...]

NameJet.com - Employees Not Allowed to Bid

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

There’s a bit of controversy swirling around the expiring domain name after-market as reports of “insider bidding” have been raised at NamePros and DomainNameWire.com. According to DomainNameWire the topic of NSI and Enom employees bidding at NameJet was discussed with an employee over the phone. Enom Sr. VP Taryn Naidu informed DomainNameNews.com that this [...]

ICA Establishes Its Presence In Europe

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has announced, with the support of EuroDNS, it will start a sister organization in Europe. The Internet Commerce Association-Europe (ICA-EU) will be located in Luxembourg, providing ICA with a better opportunity to represent its members throughout the region. Domainers’ investments are being challenged from all directions - whether its a [...]

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