Monthly Archives: August 2009
Two High-Profile Domain Purchases
This last week, we saw two interesting high-profile purchasers of domains. The first was Microsoft who purchased the office.com domain, ostensibly to house the hosted version of its popular Office software suite. The second was Yahoo, who purchased omg.com (omg … Continue reading
Clothes.com Domain for Amazon Include in Zappos Deal
Erick Schonfeld, at Techcrunch, noticed (When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box) that Amazon got a little extra bonus in its $928 million deal to by Zappos last month. The domain, clothes.com, had been purchased by Zappos … Continue reading
Comcast is Monetizing Domain Typos
Jeremy Kirk at PC World writes an article (Comcast Redirects Bad URLs to Pages With Advertising) explaining that Comcast will now be forwarding web visitors who mistype urls to a page designed to show advertising. Rather than providing a “did … Continue reading
Domain Monetization, SEO, and High-Value-Keywords
For domain owners who are wondering what to do about falling domain monetization levels from their parked domains, you may want to consider developing your site if you have a domain name that corresponds to a high-value keyword. Lots of … Continue reading