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Domain Shane
Monday’s Daily Domain Picks From the Auctions and Drops
Pretty slow weekend domain investing wise. Finally got 3 hours to finally watch two of DomainSherpa’s videos. He does a great job. I have to admit I liked him the first time he came out with the videos but he was going under the name of Morgan ...
Discussion
Monday’s Daily Domain Picks From the Auctions and Drops
Pretty slow weekend domain investing wise. Finally got 3 hours to finally watch two of DomainSherpa’s videos. He does a great job. I have to admit I liked him the first time he came out with the videos but he was going under the name of Morgan ...
Discussion
September 26, 2011, 9:00 am
The Domains
Power.com Hits The TRAFFIC Auction
A few months ago we wrote about the domain name Power.com which was placed up for a private auction with a minimum bid of $2.5 Million and which carried a cost of $2,500 just to register and bid for it. Apparently people were not over thrilled with h...
Discussion
Power.com Hits The TRAFFIC Auction
A few months ago we wrote about the domain name Power.com which was placed up for a private auction with a minimum bid of $2.5 Million and which carried a cost of $2,500 just to register and bid for it. Apparently people were not over thrilled with h...
Discussion
September 26, 2011, 3:38 am
DomainSherpa
Generic Domain Names in Ads Perform Better Than Non-generic Domain Names
In a search engine pay-per-click advertising campaign, achieving more clicks may simply be a matter of employing a generic domain name.Two studies show that the use of a generic domain name in search engine ads resulted in higher click-through rates ...
Discussion
Generic Domain Names in Ads Perform Better Than Non-generic Domain Names
In a search engine pay-per-click advertising campaign, achieving more clicks may simply be a matter of employing a generic domain name.Two studies show that the use of a generic domain name in search engine ads resulted in higher click-through rates ...
Discussion
September 26, 2011, 12:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Roche Loses Control of 454.com, Fights to Get It Back
Pharma company loses key domain name. Roche subsidiary 454 Life Sciences has lost control of its 454.com domain name and is asking a UDRP panel to help it get it back. The history on 454.com is intriguing. Piecing it together with the help of DomainT...
Discussion
Roche Loses Control of 454.com, Fights to Get It Back
Pharma company loses key domain name. Roche subsidiary 454 Life Sciences has lost control of its 454.com domain name and is asking a UDRP panel to help it get it back. The history on 454.com is intriguing. Piecing it together with the help of DomainT...
Discussion
September 25, 2011, 9:25 pm
IDN Blog
IDN Tools: Adapt or Die
IDNTools is changing once again. We are winding up our droplist service given that Google has tightened its Google Adwords Keyword API usage terms, and we can no longer use it to rank dropping names in our droplist. We are instead working on another ...
Discussion
IDN Tools: Adapt or Die
IDNTools is changing once again. We are winding up our droplist service given that Google has tightened its Google Adwords Keyword API usage terms, and we can no longer use it to rank dropping names in our droplist. We are instead working on another ...
Discussion
September 25, 2011, 12:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Facebook Registers FBPAC Domains Previously Owned by American Farm Bureau
Facebook makes intriguing domain registrations. Facebook has yet to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with American Farm Bureau despite paying millions to buy the FB.com domain name from it. Now Facebook may have upped the ante, registering FBPAC.o...
Discussion
Facebook Registers FBPAC Domains Previously Owned by American Farm Bureau
Facebook makes intriguing domain registrations. Facebook has yet to settle an ongoing trademark dispute with American Farm Bureau despite paying millions to buy the FB.com domain name from it. Now Facebook may have upped the ante, registering FBPAC.o...
Discussion
September 25, 2011, 10:15 am
The Domains
HuntingMoon.com Adult Auction Underway With 888 Adult Domains
Huntingmoon.com is holding an online auction for adult domain names. WARNING: The following post contains sexually explicit domain names, so if your under 18 or offended by such material do not read further. There are 888 adult domain nam...
Discussion
HuntingMoon.com Adult Auction Underway With 888 Adult Domains
Huntingmoon.com is holding an online auction for adult domain names. WARNING: The following post contains sexually explicit domain names, so if your under 18 or offended by such material do not read further. There are 888 adult domain nam...
Discussion
September 25, 2011, 8:04 am
Domain Shane
Video: Andy Samberg Does a Pretty Good Mark Zuckerberg at FaceBook F8
Andy Samberg opened up Facebook’s F8 on Thursday as Mark Zuckerberg and per usual is funny as hell. But then in comes Zuckerberg and it gets a little uncomfortable. Mark is so much like a young Bill Gates it’s almost scary.&nb...
Discussion
Video: Andy Samberg Does a Pretty Good Mark Zuckerberg at FaceBook F8
Andy Samberg opened up Facebook’s F8 on Thursday as Mark Zuckerberg and per usual is funny as hell. But then in comes Zuckerberg and it gets a little uncomfortable. Mark is so much like a young Bill Gates it’s almost scary.&nb...
Discussion
September 24, 2011, 9:27 pm
The Domains
Forbes.com: Out Of Google Senate Hearing: “Google’s ‘Bait & Switch’ Deception Exposed”
Forbes.com just wrote a pretty scathing article on Google based off the Senate antitrust hearing on Thursday saying “Google has perpetrated what maybe the largest bait and switch scheme ever.” “Simply, Google has baited over a...
Discussion
Forbes.com: Out Of Google Senate Hearing: “Google’s ‘Bait & Switch’ Deception Exposed”
Forbes.com just wrote a pretty scathing article on Google based off the Senate antitrust hearing on Thursday saying “Google has perpetrated what maybe the largest bait and switch scheme ever.” “Simply, Google has baited over a...
Discussion
September 24, 2011, 3:21 pm
Domain Shane
This Weekend’s Picks for Domain Auctions and Drops
Ahh finally feeling normal again today. The damn thing called life keeps getting in the way of my fun. I had 3 tv shows to do this week and countless media things. I have no idea how people do press junkets. It’s absolutely ex...
Discussion
This Weekend’s Picks for Domain Auctions and Drops
Ahh finally feeling normal again today. The damn thing called life keeps getting in the way of my fun. I had 3 tv shows to do this week and countless media things. I have no idea how people do press junkets. It’s absolutely ex...
Discussion
September 24, 2011, 12:28 pm