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06|30|2008 12:31 pm EDT

Godaddy - Employees No Longer Allowed to Bid

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

In an official statement posted on Slashdot.org Godaddy.com attorneys have stated that they found nothing improper with the bidding activities of Godaddy VP Adam Dicker at the companies TDNAM.com expiring domain name marketplace.  The official statement goes on to explain that in the future all Godaddy employees will be prohibited from participating in any future [...]

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06|21|2008 5:36 pm EDT

NameJet.com - Employees Not Allowed to Bid

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket, Miscellaneous

There’s a bit of controversy swirling around the expiring domain name after-market as reports of “insider bidding” have been raised at NamePros and DomainNameWire.com. According to DomainNameWire the topic of NSI and Enom employees bidding at NameJet was discussed with an employee over the phone. Enom Sr. VP Taryn Naidu informed DomainNameNews.com that this is [...]

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05|15|2008 1:06 pm EDT

Domain Flipping Covered by Local Jacksonville TV Station

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

First Coast News covers domain flipping and the story of Natalie Williams a Jacksonville, Florida resident who has gone from a single income family on welfare to owning a home and 2 cars by flipping domains, pulling in as much as $2500 a month. Sure there are guys pulling in millions on domains, but this [...]

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03|31|2008 10:22 pm EDT

Dark Blue Sea Investors Presentation Released

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous.com,  made a presentation to investors on Monday, a copy of which can be downloaded as a pdf here. DBS detailed their partnership implementation with Godaddy, company earnings and expectations. An interesting part of the presentation was the detailed examples given of the domain names that were sold and [...]

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03|09|2008 11:19 pm EDT

Godaddy and Dark Blue Sea Strengthen Relationships

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous.com have entered into a five year agreement with Godaddy to sell domain names from the Dark Blue Sea portfolio through Godaddy’s sales channels. The agreement also puts Godaddy in a position to become a major shareholder in DBS. Share

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01|23|2008 2:42 pm EDT

Sedo Tops $70 Million in Domain Sales for 2007

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

Sedo has announced that the 2007 was a record breaking year for aftermarket domain names, with the demand reaching a new benchmark. The company was able to top the $70 million mark in domain sales for the first time in history, a number that almost doubles their domain sales from the previous year. In their Domain [...]

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01|23|2008 2:39 pm EDT

Fusu - The Domain Stock Exchange - Is Now Public

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

Fusu, the world’s first Domain Stock Exchange, have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with EuroDNS in preparation for today’s public launch. Fusu’s domain exchange platform allows participants to liquidate a fraction of their domain to the market and immediately receive money without having to give up control of the website. In return, [...]

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01|17|2008 8:04 pm EDT

NameJet Lowers Initial Bid Prices, Adds New Features

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

In an email sent out to customers today, NameJet announced lower initial bid prices, improvements and new features to their expiring domain name sales site. NameJet had received some early negative reviews for releasing a seemingly rushed version of the site and some unusual bugs and complaints are still being reported from time to time [...]

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11|07|2007 6:24 pm EDT

.Mobi Buyer’s Remorse ?

by Adam Strong in Categories: Alternate Extensions, Domain Aftermarket, Domain Auction

In an email sent out today, Moniker.com has announced a re-auctioning of a batch of .mobi domains purchased recently from the TRAFFIC domain auction in Florida. The domains have now been placed back on the market by the winning bidder. Note: I was not a .mobi buyer or bidder. The buyer/bidder of these .mobi names [...]

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11|07|2007 2:47 pm EDT

Godaddy Lowering Premium Auction Reserve Prices

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket, Domain Auction

From Godaddy representatives : “Go Daddy Signature Auctions has worked with the sellers to reduce the reserves of some of the domains listed in the auction. As result, some of the names from yesterday will be relisted over the next two days. Many of these names were significantly reduced. There has also been [...]

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