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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 from IdeaLab for $4.9 million. I’m sure Amazon will find a good way to put that particular name to work.
Written by admin on August 7th, 2009 with no comments.
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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 you mean xyz?” suggested correction to the visitor, Comcast will now forward the user to a page with Yahoo search results and sponsored link ads.
Written by admin on August 7th, 2009 with no comments.
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Microsoft and Yahoo have been trying to put a search deal together forever. Headlines indicate it’s heating up again. Andrew at Domain Name Wire (What Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Would Mean to Domainers) continues his speculation of what would happen if the merger finally goes through. Andrew believes any pressure on Google is a good thing.
Written by admin on July 18th, 2009 with no comments.
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Max Chafkin at Inc Magazine (Good Domain Names Grow Scarce) writes about the shortage of “short, pronounceable names” for .com domains. His point is that small businesses are increasingly finding it difficult to register their targeted business name and are having to shop at auctions or come up with creative, often nonsensical, alternatives.
Written by admin on July 15th, 2009 with no comments.
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Andrew LaValle at the Wall Street Journal writes about VeriSign’s latest report on domain growth in the fourth quarter of 2008. The report says 10.1 million new names were registered, but that figure was down 17% from the same quarter in 2007.
Written by admin on February 24th, 2009 with no comments.
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It’s always interesting to look at the recent domain name sales transaction reports. DNJournal published a list of the highest domain sales prices during the first week of April 2008.
Here are the highest priced domain sales for 2008 to date, as reported by DNJournal.
Written by admin on April 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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There was an interesting article by Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek yesterday about the increased market demand for cyber real estate, while traditional real estate markets are experiencing a market depression.
In the first quarter of 2008, $38,029,543 in domain sales were reported, a 78% increase over the $21,253,105 in domain sales reported for the first quarter of 2007, said Ron Jackson, editor and publisher of DN Journal, in an e-mail.
Values of generic domains are being driven up because domain names are now considered to be key brand assets and the market continues to provide more ways to monetize the traffic arriving at these centralized web addresses. Although nobody really knows for sure, the theory is that generic domain names are given higher relevance ranking for semantically related keyword searches by search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
The opportunity for domain investors can be best understood by a recent Yankee Group study that points to the gap between current media consumption (20% via Internet) and advertising spending (7% via Internet). As more and more advertising dollars flow to online markets, the value of generic domain names will most probably continue to rise.
Written by admin on April 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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It is being widely reported by AP, Techcrunch, PC World, Computerworld, and others that Network Solutions is locking up domain names that potential buyers are researching on the Network Solutions site. NS registers the domain in their own name and reserves it for the person researching the name.
Leveraging a policy that allows registrars to register domains for 5 days before paying any fees, Network Solutions has already locked down 72,000 domain names. This is a practice that block others from registering the domain name and forces the potential buyer to purchase it from Network Solutions.
Written by admin on January 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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There was a Bloomberg article published on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer regarding recent lawsuits Microsoft was bringing against trademark infringing domainers.
Microsoft Corp. has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of Web site addresses containing its trademarked terms.
The suits target cybersquatting or typosquatting, practices that divert Internet users seeking Microsoft Web sites by using similar or slightly misspelled domain names, according to the complaints filed this week in federal courts in New York, Seattle and Fort Wayne, Ind.
The article mentions that Dell, Time Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo are planning similar suits.
Written by admin on September 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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