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Sedo.com Sells $1M+ In Domains Led By Jewel.com for $75k
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 4th. All reportable domain sales totalled over 1 million US dollars. The top seller of the week was Jewel.com at $74,333 USD followed by fr.cc at $50,000 USD. The complete list is ...
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Sedo.com Sells $1M+ In Domains Led By Jewel.com for $75k
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 4th. All reportable domain sales totalled over 1 million US dollars. The top seller of the week was Jewel.com at $74,333 USD followed by fr.cc at $50,000 USD. The complete list is ...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 1:43 am
The Domains
Law Professors: PROTECT IP Will “Make it Difficult For Online Advertisers To Do Business on the Web
According to several stories out today a group law professors has come strongly out against the PROTECT IP bill, saying that the pending Senate bill “could make it difficult for online advertisers and credit card companies to continue doing bus...
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Law Professors: PROTECT IP Will “Make it Difficult For Online Advertisers To Do Business on the Web
According to several stories out today a group law professors has come strongly out against the PROTECT IP bill, saying that the pending Senate bill “could make it difficult for online advertisers and credit card companies to continue doing bus...
Discussion
July 5, 2011, 11:32 pm
The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $985k In Domains Led By rnjobs.com for $29k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 3rd. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $984,961. The top seller of the week was rnjobs.com at $28,800 followed by ramba.com at $25,000. Three of our domain sales mad...
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Afternic.com Sells $985k In Domains Led By rnjobs.com for $29k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 3rd. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $984,961. The top seller of the week was rnjobs.com at $28,800 followed by ramba.com at $25,000. Three of our domain sales mad...
Discussion
July 5, 2011, 6:18 pm
The Domains
Oh Great Now It Takes Zero Backorders To Make The Namejet Top 100 Backorder List
We have often complained that NameJet.com basically advertises domain names in auction with only one back order by including them in their “Top 100 Back ordered list” published daily, one for general drop domains and one for exclusi...
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Oh Great Now It Takes Zero Backorders To Make The Namejet Top 100 Backorder List
We have often complained that NameJet.com basically advertises domain names in auction with only one back order by including them in their “Top 100 Back ordered list” published daily, one for general drop domains and one for exclusi...
Discussion
July 5, 2011, 6:31 am
The Domains
ICE Now Seeking To Extradite Foreign Operators Of .Com & .Net Sites Which Violate US Law To Face Trial In US
So it appears The US government is saying is if you operate a website under a .com or .net and you are subject to US law, even if you live outside the US, your servers are located outside the US and your site is in compliance with local law in the ju...
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ICE Now Seeking To Extradite Foreign Operators Of .Com & .Net Sites Which Violate US Law To Face Trial In US
So it appears The US government is saying is if you operate a website under a .com or .net and you are subject to US law, even if you live outside the US, your servers are located outside the US and your site is in compliance with local law in the ju...
Discussion
July 4, 2011, 11:59 am
The Domains
Domain Investing Isn’t Playing The Lottery, It’s Investing
A comments to another post on Minus.com selling for $115K inspired this post which is about the business of domain investing. Here is the comment that sparked the idea for this post: “”yeah like you can pick and predict the next lotto num...
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Domain Investing Isn’t Playing The Lottery, It’s Investing
A comments to another post on Minus.com selling for $115K inspired this post which is about the business of domain investing. Here is the comment that sparked the idea for this post: “”yeah like you can pick and predict the next lotto num...
Discussion
July 3, 2011, 8:43 am
The Domains
StatCounter: Chrome Now Has More Than 20% of Market Share As Explorer Falls Under 50%
According to Internet statistics firm StatCounter as for the month of June 2011, Google Chrome Web browser has more than 20% of global market share, while Internet Explorer is under 50% market share. Google’s Chrome browser has 20.7% of the glo...
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StatCounter: Chrome Now Has More Than 20% of Market Share As Explorer Falls Under 50%
According to Internet statistics firm StatCounter as for the month of June 2011, Google Chrome Web browser has more than 20% of global market share, while Internet Explorer is under 50% market share. Google’s Chrome browser has 20.7% of the glo...
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July 2, 2011, 1:51 am
The Domains
Sedo.com Raises Commission to 15% From 10% on Marketplace Sales & To 20% On MLS Fixed Price Sales
Sedo.com announced today that it is raising the commission rate of sale made through the it’s Marketplace (without broker assistance) to 15% from 10%. Also for those customers who fix price domains to sell in the Sedo MLS service, the commissio...
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Sedo.com Raises Commission to 15% From 10% on Marketplace Sales & To 20% On MLS Fixed Price Sales
Sedo.com announced today that it is raising the commission rate of sale made through the it’s Marketplace (without broker assistance) to 15% from 10%. Also for those customers who fix price domains to sell in the Sedo MLS service, the commissio...
Discussion
July 1, 2011, 9:00 am
The Domains
Domain Investor Brian Wick Sells Minus.com For $115,000
Domain investor Brian Wick has sold the domain name, Minus.com for $115,000. Brian said he acquired the domain in January 2007 at a Network Solution pre-drop auction for $8,100. So basically a 15x return in just 4 years, in a horrible economy. The bu...
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Domain Investor Brian Wick Sells Minus.com For $115,000
Domain investor Brian Wick has sold the domain name, Minus.com for $115,000. Brian said he acquired the domain in January 2007 at a Network Solution pre-drop auction for $8,100. So basically a 15x return in just 4 years, in a horrible economy. The bu...
Discussion
June 30, 2011, 6:33 pm
The Domains
The Next Big Battle For Online Business; Sales Tax; California Becomes Latest State To Tax Online Sales & Amazon Cuts Affiliates Off
According to the Los Angeles Times a new California state law will require large out-of-state retailers like Amazon to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online.” In response, Amazon and Overstock.com plan to ...
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The Next Big Battle For Online Business; Sales Tax; California Becomes Latest State To Tax Online Sales & Amazon Cuts Affiliates Off
According to the Los Angeles Times a new California state law will require large out-of-state retailers like Amazon to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online.” In response, Amazon and Overstock.com plan to ...
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June 30, 2011, 3:31 pm
