Archive for January 2007
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Joystick.com leads weekly sales charts with $65,250
DNJournal's current weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (for the complete list go here). It's been a relatively slow week with no six figure sales. However, this list is only the "tip of the iceberg" where both buyers and sellers have agreed to publicize the transaction. Most domain sales actually [...]
dotMobi director interviewed by Domisfera
Domisfera has an interesting interview with Pinky Brand, dotMobi's Director of New Markets. The interview leaves no stone unturned and it goes way beyond the one-sided promotion or derision we have seen on other sites. Pinky Brand stands his ground, making many notable and controversial points about dotMobi's premium domains, domain speculation, domainers, and the [...]
Google.de back under Google's control
This is a follow-up to last night's post. According to heise.de, google.de was indeed hijacked by a client of the German web hosting company goneo.de. The client had claimed to Goneo that he was the owner of google.de, and Goneo had automatically passed on the claim to the .de registry DeNIC. In accordance with DeNIC [...]
Google.de hijacked, then dropped; now owned by drop catching firm
Earlier today, the domain google.de displayed a "no site available" notice by German webhosting provider goneo.de:
The Death of Domain Parking and the Birth of a New Vertical Web 2.0 Empire
Why domain parking as we know it is about to come to an end… and what's next
This story is about Richard Rosenblatt, an innovator and serial entrepreneur who sold his startup iMall to Excite@Home for $565 million in 1999, and went on to broker MySpace to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $580 million.
He is [...]
ICANN Launches Blog
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, started its own blog today to facilitate ongoing discussion between ICANN staff and the Internet community. The blog's initial post presents ICANN's first annual report, which makes for an interesting read.
New Domain Forums Launched
The past few days saw the birth of two new discussion forums where domainers gather and discuss the latest domain-related topics: The Spanish Forumdominios.com and the Indian INForum.in.