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Archive for March, 2008

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|30|2008 3:01 pm EDT

More “What’s in a Name?” Coverage

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

This time Australian news site The Age picks up the domain name buzz and covers domainer Michael Gilmour, MelbourneIT, Fabulous and the Australian domain space.

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03|29|2008 1:17 pm EDT

Pizza.com Auction Dough Rises to over $2 million

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Auction

The top-tier one word domain name Pizza.com is up for sale on Sedo.com and attracting a lot of attention in early bidding. In just 2 days of bidding, the domain has already attracted bids in excess of $2 million . Twenty bidders have already placed bids on the auction which has 5 more days [...]

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03|29|2008 2:34 am EDT

Christian Zouzas’ Boston NewsMaker

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

The Boston Business Journal has a short piece on domainer Christian Zouzas selling out some of his domain assets to NameMedia. The article claims some ballparks on the average sale of .us 3 letter domains that seem a bit high to me. Regardless, congrats to Zouzas. On a side note . . . [...]

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03|28|2008 1:19 am EDT

Domain Roundtable Auction Submission Closing Soon

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

Submissions for the upcoming DomainTools Live Auction at the Domain Roundtable will be closing on April 4th.  According to Domain Roundtable Director Susan Prosser, new submissions for the live event are still coming in daily but great domains to add to the event are always welcomed. You can submit your domains for review at the DomainTools [...]

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03|27|2008 5:37 pm EDT

Big Shocker ! Verisign Raises Prices Again.

by Adam Strong in Categories: Registries

In an announcement sent to registrars today, Verisign announced that they will again be raising prices on both .com and .net domain names.  The price increase, effective October 1, 2008, will raise the registry fee to $6.86 for .com and $4.23 for .net domains. (*Note these are registry prices, ie what registrars pay to the [...]

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03|27|2008 2:30 pm EDT

Chitika for Domainers

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Up to the Minute

Chitika has announced a new service to help domainers make more money on their parked domains. “Chitika for Domainers” is a customizable product store that can be added to parked domains to generate extra revenue. The store has a very professional look and pays after the first click. [via Chitika Blog]

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03|27|2008 2:28 pm EDT

Communicate.com Acquires Auctomatic and Changes Name to Live Current Media

by Chad Kettner in Categories: News

Communicate.com has changed its name to Live Current Media Inc. and made a big-time acquisition, buying Auctomatic (a web2.0 eBay listing management company) for $5 million in cash and stock. These moves signal a new beginning for the company from Vancouver, Canada.

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03|27|2008 2:38 am EDT

Demand Media raises an additional $35 million

by Frank Michlick in Categories: News

According to a report by PEhub, Demand Media has raised another $35 million USD in series D financing. Richard Rosenblatt’s company has now raised $355 million in total VC funding since its March 2006 founding.

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03|26|2008 8:04 pm EDT

Skenzo Announces Private Equity Investment from Ashmore Group

by Adam Strong in Categories: PPC industry

Domain name parking company Skezno announced via an email to partners today that they have received a minority stake investment from the Ashmore Group. The company release which has been copied below had not made it to either businesses website at the time of this writing. Skenzo, a leading provider of technology, in the traffic monetization [...]

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