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11|06|2008 4:09 pm EDT

igen.com at NameJet: Current bid $100,000

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

The igen.com auction at NameJet is currently at $100,000 USD and ends in 1 hour. Recent high-price auctions for Vida.com (75k 70k) and lets.com were re-auctioned again on NameJet (as reported by TheDomains), after the original buyers backed out. UPDATE : igen.com SOLD for $100,100.

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11|05|2008 1:33 pm EDT

NameJet Plans to Open Up Platform to 3rd-party Domain Sales

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Aftermarket

As many in the domain industry have predicted, NameJet.com will soon be opening up thier platform to third party domain name sales. Recently, DNN and a few of our readers spotted domains on NameJet that were not expired domains.  These domains stood out because of their quality and sales prices and since the company is [...]

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10|29|2008 11:41 pm EDT

NameJet Auction Blunders Cause “Re-do”

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Auction

NameJet.com announced in an email to customers tonight that several auctions that occured on October 26th will be re-done with an ending date of October 30th.  The company issued the statement and blames technological problems relating to daylight savings time rules and server settings for auctions closing AFTER the closing times. Typically, when auctions are re-ran, [...]

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08|21|2008 5:35 pm EDT

NameJet.com Providing Traffic Data on Some Expiring Domains

by Adam Strong in Categories: Domain Auction

In an email sent to customers today, expired domain auction service NameJet.com released a list of domain names that includes average traffic numbers for the last 30 days. The domain names on the list are ones that NameJet says have not been backordered yet but have traffic. (See list after the jump). Godaddy’s expiring domain [...]

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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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06|21|2008 3:14 pm EDT

Domain Aftermarket Exec Bidding On Own Auctions

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

As reported by Andrew at DomainNameWire.com, reports have surfaced that Godaddy VP Adam Dicker has been bidding on domain auctions at TDNAM.com, the domain name after-market site he is charged with running. Network Solutions and Enom also allow employees to bid on domain names in auctions at Namejet.com. The practice of allowing employees to bid [...]

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06|05|2008 2:43 pm EDT

SnapNames renews Partnership with Register.com

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

According to a press release SnapNames has renewed their partnership with register.com for listing non-renewed names for auction. After being purchased by Oversee.NET SnapNames had previously lost the exclusive inventory from Network Solutions to the newly launched NameJet. Tucows recently announced that they are dropping their own aftermarket auction as of June 10th, but have [...]

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05|08|2008 3:13 am EDT

NetworkSolutions Cross-Promoting NameJet Services Via Email

by Adam Strong in Categories: News

In a recent letter sent to my inbox, NetworkSolutions.com emailed regarding a domain that will be expiring soon, and they encourage me to place a back-order for the domain name at NameJet.com. The domain name they are emailing about is a .net version of a .com domain name that I own. The [...]

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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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