The movie 30 minutes or less, starring Danny McBride (Eastbound and Down) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) opens today. The 50 commercials I saw on tv for the movie all had #30MOL. A Twitter hashtag instead of the domain 30minutesorless.com which the studio owns. Interesting to see if the Twitter hashtag will be promoted like […]
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Go Daddy Closeout picks 8/11
Every day with closeouts will not be as strong, its not like expiring auctions where there are a lot of good names on NameJet, SnapNames, Go Daddy expiring. So I still try to find names that could be used and be memorable or are a popular phrase. Not everyday will have a product or service […]
Continue ReadingGoogle keeps above 65 % search share according to comScore
Eweek.com did a report on the latest comScore search results for July. Microsoft’s share of the U.S. explicit core search market remained unchanged between June and July, according to new data from research firm comScore. Overall, Google Websites led in July with 65.1 percent of the U.S. market, a slight decrease from 65.5 percent in […]
Continue ReadingGo Daddy Closeout picks 8/10
Go Daddy Closeouts for 8/10 CheckRaising.com 6 year old domain. Great poker blog name or poker strategy site. Need2Sell.com 6 year old domain. I know that numbers in a domain are not great, but names like these do have appeal to certain domainers so wanted to include it. .net,.info,.us,.ca regged. Concert-Hall.com 8 year old domain. […]
Continue ReadingZY.com auction closes on Sedo at $105,999
The two letter domain ZY.com sold for $105,999 on SEDO. Bidder #8 won the domain. Here is a link to the auction history http://sedo.com/auction/auction_history.php?language=us&auction_id=118008&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us Some info provided by Domain Tools: ICANN Registrar: TUCOWS.COM CO. Created: 1998-02-26 Expires: 2012-02-25 Updated: 2011-01-27 Alexa Trend/Rank: #462,842: for the last three months. Compete Rank: #4,659,911 with 68 Unique visitors […]
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8/8/2011 Go Daddy Closeout picks ChicagoInteriors.com 9 year old domain, some ad listing on Google. If you are in the Chicago area it may be worth a few bucks. The .net registered. MontrealInk.com 8 year old domain, makes sense for tatoo parlors in Montreal, an art site displaying various tatoo artists, and who knows maybe […]
Continue ReadingIf .xxx is an example, new tlds may make porn look clean
By: Raymond Hackney Elliot Silver wrote an interesting article today about Frank Schilling and .xxx. Make sure you read it its a good post. The most interesting thing for me was the fact that Frank Schilling purchased .xxx names before there was an approved .xxx extension. The article says he paid seven figures for some […]
Continue ReadingMusic Industry has concerns over .Music
In an article on Billboard.biz, it seems there are many in the music industry concerned over the possibility of a .music extension. From the article:This time, they're taking their case to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency of the Department of Commerce that is soliciting feedback on new proposed rules for how new […]
Continue ReadingHow domain related companies fared in a big market sell off today
Demand Media, symbol DMD has its relationship to domaining through its ownership of ENOM. The stock traded at a new low of $8.27 before closing at $8.46. Marchex Inc., symbol MCHX a large internet advertising play and the company that purchased the domain portfolio of Yun Ye for $165 million, traded off 5.3% to close […]
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