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The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $525k In Domains Led By APSU.com For $15k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 5th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $525,766. The top seller of the week was APSU.com followed by PromDresses.org at $11,500. Here is the full list: .Com Sales $1...
Discussion
Afternic.com Sells $525k In Domains Led By APSU.com For $15k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 5th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $525,766. The top seller of the week was APSU.com followed by PromDresses.org at $11,500. Here is the full list: .Com Sales $1...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 6:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo Asks Court to Dismiss Women.com Lawsuit on Jurisdiction Claims
Domain broker says lawsuit should not be heard in California. Done! Ventures has fought and won a jurisdiction battle in its lawsuit over Women.com already. Now it has to gear up for another fight. Sedo, which was recently added to the lawsuit origin...
Discussion
Sedo Asks Court to Dismiss Women.com Lawsuit on Jurisdiction Claims
Domain broker says lawsuit should not be heard in California. Done! Ventures has fought and won a jurisdiction battle in its lawsuit over Women.com already. Now it has to gear up for another fight. Sedo, which was recently added to the lawsuit origin...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 5:47 pm
Domain Name News
Latonas.com Relaunches as Web Site Brokerage
According to a press release sent out today, Latona’s, formerly an auction platform for generic domain names has been relaunched as a brokerage firm for money generating web properties. Rick Latona defines web properties as, “A digital as...
Discussion
Latonas.com Relaunches as Web Site Brokerage
According to a press release sent out today, Latona’s, formerly an auction platform for generic domain names has been relaunched as a brokerage firm for money generating web properties. Rick Latona defines web properties as, “A digital as...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 5:01 pm
Elliot's Blog
Wave at the Bus: Why Blogger Users Must Get Their Own Domain Name
A few days ago, a friend sent me the news article about Dale Price, the father who waved at his son’s bus for an entire school year, while wearing a different costume every day. Accompanying the news article was a link to the blog the father ap...
Discussion
Wave at the Bus: Why Blogger Users Must Get Their Own Domain Name
A few days ago, a friend sent me the news article about Dale Price, the father who waved at his son’s bus for an entire school year, while wearing a different costume every day. Accompanying the news article was a link to the blog the father ap...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rick Latona Disses Domains and Focuses on “Cash Flow Assets”
Latona skeptical about domain market recovery and relaunches Latonas.com as web asset sales site. Rick Latona has relaunched Latonas.com as a marketplace for cash flowing digital assets. The site will offer any type of web asset with a cash flow for ...
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Rick Latona Disses Domains and Focuses on “Cash Flow Assets”
Latona skeptical about domain market recovery and relaunches Latonas.com as web asset sales site. Rick Latona has relaunched Latonas.com as a marketplace for cash flowing digital assets. The site will offer any type of web asset with a cash flow for ...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 3:30 pm
The Domains
Data.com Sold For An Amount “Significantly In Excess Of The $1.5 Million Reserve”
I just got an email from Oversee saying that the domain name Data.com which was scheduled to be in tomorrow’s DomainFest auction sold privately today. The domain name Data.com was one of our picks to sell at the auction. The domain had a reserv...
Discussion
Data.com Sold For An Amount “Significantly In Excess Of The $1.5 Million Reserve”
I just got an email from Oversee saying that the domain name Data.com which was scheduled to be in tomorrow’s DomainFest auction sold privately today. The domain name Data.com was one of our picks to sell at the auction. The domain had a reserv...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 12:47 pm
Domain Shane
Monday’s Daily Domain Drop and Auction Picks
To most people a million dollars is a life changing amount of money. More than they’ll make it 10, sometimes 20 years. To a corporation trying to reach millions if not billions of users, it’s a drop in the bucket. Think of all the commerc...
Discussion
Monday’s Daily Domain Drop and Auction Picks
To most people a million dollars is a life changing amount of money. More than they’ll make it 10, sometimes 20 years. To a corporation trying to reach millions if not billions of users, it’s a drop in the bucket. Think of all the commerc...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 12:35 pm
Elliot's Blog
Oversee Closes $11 Million in Domain Sales During First Half of 2011
Oversee just announced that the company closed a deal on Data.com this morning “for an amount that significantly exceeds the $1.5 million reserve.” Andrew already reported that the buyer is publicly traded company, Salesforce.com. Persona...
Discussion
Oversee Closes $11 Million in Domain Sales During First Half of 2011
Oversee just announced that the company closed a deal on Data.com this morning “for an amount that significantly exceeds the $1.5 million reserve.” Andrew already reported that the buyer is publicly traded company, Salesforce.com. Persona...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 12:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys Data.com Domain Name
Salesforce.com pays likely seven figure sum for Data.com domain name before it can be auctioned off. Salesforce.com has purchased the domain name Data.com from publicly traded media company UBM plc for an undisclosed price. The domain name was listed...
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Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys Data.com Domain Name
Salesforce.com pays likely seven figure sum for Data.com domain name before it can be auctioned off. Salesforce.com has purchased the domain name Data.com from publicly traded media company UBM plc for an undisclosed price. The domain name was listed...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 12:11 pm
The Domains
Seomoz.org: 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Exact Match Domains Less Important; Long Domains Suck; eHow Still In Top 10
Seomoz.org has just released data showing the most important ranking factors in for SEO, 2011 edition “”Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey every two years, a piece of content that many...
Discussion
Seomoz.org: 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Exact Match Domains Less Important; Long Domains Suck; eHow Still In Top 10
Seomoz.org has just released data showing the most important ranking factors in for SEO, 2011 edition “”Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey every two years, a piece of content that many...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 11:32 am
