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Domain Name Wire Reader Feedback

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Feedback will help shape the future of Domain Name Wire.
I’d like to personally thank everyone who provided feedback to Domain Name Wire through the survey over the past couple weeks. The feedback is extremely valuable and will be incorporated into the site.
Most people said they wouldn’t change a thing, but several people made constructive [...]

Bido Domain Auction Preview

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

As announced earlier, Bido, the low-reserve one domain a day auction, is set for launch tomorrow, June 18th. Sahar Sarid, Dan Kimball and Sean Stafford were so kind to walk us through the site. The main features of the new site are: 1 domain auction per day 7 days a week Starting at 1pm [...]

Tucows Will Use Afternic To Auction Expiring Domains

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Tucows has chosen Afternic as their exclusive partner for auctioning their daily inventory of expiring domains. When Tucows decided to end their in-house drop auction, there were questions regarding where they would send their domains. After some investigative work by DotWeekly and an official announcement on the Afternic frontpage, the answer is now clear. [via [...]

Who Owns Hillary4McCain.com? DomainTools To the Rescue

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

A bit of research turns up a probable registrant of Hillary4McCain.com.
I read a story on Wired.com today about the domain name Hillary4Mccain.com, which was registered with bogus whois information. The John McCain camp denies having anything to do with the domain.
So who owns the domain? I did a little research on [...]

Marchex Releases New Pay-Per-Click Advertising Platform

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Marchex (MCHX), a company already known for its leading local search/advertising network as well as their domain portfolio, has combined Industry Brains and Enhance Interactive to create Marchex Adhere, a new pay-per-click channel that will provide advertisers and agencies with exclusive access to more than 200 premium publishers. Marchex Adhere is primed to compete with [...]

Domainer Earnings Topping the Charts

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Paula Mooney has a “List of Bloggers Salaries (and Webmasters, Affiliate Marketers, Content Scrapers, Domainers and any other title you can think of)” . It’s unclear why she decided to add domainers to this list (other than for linkbait ) but domainers Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling dominate the top 2 positions. [...]

ccTLD Spotlight: .AE United Arab Emirates

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

A look at the .AE country code domain name.
Overview: United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven states in the middle east, including Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. This oil-rich territory uses the country code domain name .AE.
Population and Demographics: UAE has only five million [...]

Second MyID .CA auction to start today

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

The second MyID .CA domain auction starts today at 1pm EDT and will run until June 12th. The auction features 101 .CA domains. In the first auction 24 (out of a total of 77) names were sold for a total of $158,000.00 CAD. Also Pool.com will start the premium auction for betting.ca today. [...]

NPR Covers TRAFFIC Domain Auction

Friday, June 6th, 2008

A local reporter, who also works with NPR, was in attendance at the last TRAFFIC show interviewing bidders after the auction. The story was released today including interviews with Andy Booth, Rick Schwartz and Jeremiah Johnston. Listen here. Previous coverage of domain names from NPR : Web Site Names Become Big Business (c) [...]

Sedo Sales until the week of June 2nd, 2008

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

.COM Sales 248.com 175000 USD bluephone.com 22500 USD mif.com 17000 EUR numismatics.com 11750 USD vert.com 8500 USD cwl.com 6800 USD web-solutions.com 5100 [...]