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Archive for January, 2008

01|31|2008 11:39 pm EDT

International Herald Tribune covers Domain Industry

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

In a story entitled “What’s in a domain name? Serious money” the International Herald Tribune has covered Domain Investing, spurred by the auction at DomainFest. [via blog.cmnn.com]

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01|31|2008 1:37 am EDT

IAC Buys Minority Stake In HealthCentral Network

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

InterActiveCorp (IACI) said it acquired a minority stake in the HealthCentral Network. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. HealthCentral Network is a collection of more than 30 condition-specific and healthy living Web sites that combine health information with community support. [via CNN Money]

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01|31|2008 1:07 am EDT

Handy Tool For Hunting Domains

by Adam Strong in Categories: Tools

Domain Name News is always on the lookout for new tools or sites that can save time or make more money with domains. We recently stumbled on a handy tool called Domain Auction Cleaner.

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01|30|2008 6:27 pm EDT

eBook Review: Domaining Manifesto & Domain Graduate

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Tools

While the domaining industry continues to get larger, the need for domaining education is also becoming more prevalent. Yes, there is a lot of potential to make money in this business, but there are also many complex money-making strategies and ideas that are often skipped over by a domainer who doesn’t fully understand the marketplace. DomainNameNews [...]

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01|30|2008 5:27 pm EDT

NetShops Plans to Add 30-50 New Stores

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

According to Internet Retailer NetShops, Inc plans to add 30-50 online stores to it’s portfolio in 2008. The Omaha, Nebraska, web-based retailer is #104 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide and operates over 200 specialty retail sites.

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01|30|2008 5:19 pm EDT

Sedo becomes minority investor in DomainsBot

by Frank Michlick in Categories: News

DomainsBot announced today that it has completed a minority investment from Sedo. The company provides Domain Name suggestion tools and services to registrar partners and aftermarket companies.

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01|30|2008 4:26 pm EDT

Christian Higgins Wants to Be a Millionaire

by Adam Strong in Categories: Miscellaneous

The domain space has already seen rocker Joe Higgins and his band The Likes of You competing on reality-TV, and now we can root for another domain guy who’ll be appearing on a popular TV game show. Christian Higgins, Account Manager at Parked.com (no relation to Joe) will be appearing with his fiancée on [...]

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01|29|2008 9:25 pm EDT

Salient Properties Teams Up With Domain Strategies to Develop WiFi.com

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Domain Development

Salient Properties and Domain Strategies have joined together to create a new company, WiFi.Com, LLC. By teaming up to develop WiFi.com, the companies believe that they will be able to grow the domain into a leading technology center for the WiFi industry. In 2006, WiFi.com was purchased by Stuart Wood, President of Salient Properties, for $225,000. [...]

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01|29|2008 6:47 pm EDT

Google And ICANN Did Not Kill Domain Tasting; Domain Kiting and NSI Front Running DOA

by Adam Strong in Categories: Featured

Domain blogs have been buzzing about Google and ICANN’s recent move to “kill domain tasting”. Upon a closer look Domain Name News felt that initial reports were largely exaggerated . Naturally that exaggeration perpetuated through out the web with a myriad of other bloggers like Jay, Sahar, Brett, Elliot, John Levine and even ZDnet and TechCrunch [...]

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01|29|2008 4:29 pm EDT

MySpace.com Snags MySpace.co.uk

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

In a story first seen at The Register, Myspace.com has reportedly won an arbitration proceeding against Total Web Solutions, the former owners of Myspace.co.uk.

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