A Typo Can Ruin You Life
First, the following article is not about typo domains. It's about a young mans world being destroyed because of a typo and the internet.
Years ago I used to be an executive recruiter. One of the m...
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Reverse Domain Hijacking Ruled In Rain.com UDRP
In what turned out to be the right decision, the National Arbitration Forum ruled Media Rain LLC engaged in Reverse Domain Hijacking in their attempt to win the generic name [...]
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Disney Adds To Their Domain Name Collection
Disney registered 11 domains yesterday, all of which are dot com’s. While they may not be used in the near future, It gives you an idea of some of the [...]
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Landing Page Seminar Today At 1PM EST by Ion Interactive
i just received this invitation to attend a Webinar from a company I met at adtech. It sounds interesting and will list the registration info below TODAY, December 16th at [...]
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Facebook Starts Using FB.me While Google Uses Goo.gl As a URL Shorteners
Both Facebook and Google Have entered into the world of URL shorteners. At present, Google’s goo.gl will only be used for Feedburner and Google Toolbar while Facebook’s FB.me is currently [...]
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Over 600k in Afternic Sales Last Week
There were ~500 domain sales representing nearly $600k worth of domain sales. Additionally, there were many private sales, including one’s for $67.5k, $12.5k and $12k, that could not be reported. [...]
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Seo’d Generic Domains Are Selling For Lots Of Money
I have a friend who happens to be an SEO expert. He has shown me a number of properties he has built and sold for both 6 figures and 7 [...]
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Latonas.com Becomes The “Christies” of Domain Auctions
Rick Latona is an amazing businessman. He is professional and puts 1000% into everything he does. Recently he rebranded to Latonas.com. It’s a very logical move. The major auction houses [...]
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Sedo weekly sale list – SPB.COM Leads the list at 65k
Sedo’s weekly list starts off with a 3 letter domain SPG.com being the highlight at 65K. Of interest, I’m curious to see the site started with the domain bowels.com which [...]
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The Best Generic Domain Portfolio Sale in Years – The Multi-Million Domain Auction That No One Knew About – Part 5
We are now in the final moments. Both bidders, me being one, are on a conference call with the company selling the domains. The conference call started a few bids [...]
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The Multi-Million Domain Auction That No One Knew About – Part 4
A day or 2 before the bidding starts, a wrench is thrown in. It is told to us that google has blocked their top revenue name. It is being switched [...]
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