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• Pool Wins Bid to Be Official Auctioneer for .ASIA LandRush

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Investing, Landrushes, Technology, Acquisitions, Domain Auctions, Domains

  Pool has won the bid to be the official auction house for .ASIA domains during the land rush period. If a domain gets more than 2 requests for registration, then it will be auctioned at Pool. The process will employ EPP Commands and can be white-labeled by registrars for full integration. More details from pool More details on .ASIA

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• The Domain Guru Talks About Valuable Names, IDNs

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:39 am

  Tags: Expired Domains, Domain Services

  Resolution was to become a domainer,” says Hodgson. In 2000 and 2001 he started writing articles about domain names, including the infamous “Domain Goldrush” article at SitePoint. Hodgson says a handful of people have never forgiven him for writing that article and exposing the domain drop, although many more have thanked

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• R.H. Donnelley Acquires Business.com for $345M

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Domain Sales

  services. The business.com domain name helped ignite the domain name business. Businessman Marc Ostrofsky, who is also a co-founder of iREIT, purchased the domain name for $150,000. He later flipped the domain for what turned out to be $2.0M. R.H. Donnelley Corporation will discuss this transaction and 2nd quarter earnings on a conference

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• Domain Roundtable Hits Seattle August 12-15

  Published: July 25, 2007, 1:04 pm

  Tags: Domain Services

  to last only 3 hours. Domain Capital will provide domain financing at the auction. Domain Roundtable costs $995, but there are a number of discounts available. Domain Roundtable provided a $100 discount code to Domain Name Wire, which can be used by up to 20 people. Just enter Domainnamewire2 in the promo code box during registration at

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• Domain Name Parking Companies Gear Up for Fall

  Published: July 23, 2007, 7:16 am

  Tags: Domain Services

  Domain parking companies tuning up services in time for fall traffic increase. It’s the doldrums of summer and that historically means a drop in internet traffic and domain parking revenue. My revenue is holding strong this summer, in part because the parking companies are doing a good job adding new features and optimization techniques in

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• First GreatDomains Auction Off to Solid Start

  Published: July 20, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Domain Sales

  that Sedo purchased GreatDomains for, well, its great domain. Bidding for the domains in this auction actually takes place at Sedo. Many owners of generic domains that haven’t been active in the domain industry since earlier this decade think of GreatDomains.com when it comes to domain sales. The current auction runs through July

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• Domain & SEO Links for Today (7/27/07)

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Mobile Phones, Blogging, Investing, Domain Conferences, International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains, Mobile, Google, Domain Auctions, Seo

  Domain & SEO Links that I know you’ll love! Great Moments in Advertising: 1982 Gates and Gibbons Jerry Gibbons, President of Doyle Bane Bernbach Advertising met with client Bill Gates of Microsoft in 1982. Our feeling is that you're not spending at a level that's appropriate for your company right now' Gibbons told Gates, whose

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• Ask to Syndicate Microsoft Adcenter Ads

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:26 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains, Google, Monetization, Paid Search

  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001806 ...  Of course as a Google partner with the leading Google rev-share, Ask probably won't be displaying Microsoft ads very often.  Microsoft's paid search marketplace is still young and and doesn't have as robust a bid-base yet..  If Ask operates like I think

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• Ari/Larry Piece Now in The Washington Post

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072200339.html ..  one paper picks it up and the rest follow..  It is a great story tho.

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• What's Up at Pool?

  Published: July 22, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  I can't get the login for a domain, Pool drags their feet helping me out. Their attitude is "its your domain and its your problem" Recently when I couldn't get the login for a domain they responded by saying they sympathize with me. That is nice but not very helpful. I have had so many problems with their partner registrars that I

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• USA Today Rediscovers the Domain Name Industry

  Published: July 21, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  Scott Day sends link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2007-07-21-domain-name-dealing_N.htm The Ari/Larry story revisited here..  Lots of Main Street folks will be taking it in this weekend.  Good for the industry.

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• I Dream of Rupert

  Published: July 21, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Domain Names Domains, Google, Investing Non Domain Investing, Microsoft, Paid Search, Sports, Television, The Power Of The Internet, Traffic, Type In Traffic, Yahoo

  suite we talked about the domain name business, how domain name traffic powers part of Google, Yahoo and drives a significant portion of generic-intenet Internet traffic.. Rupe tried to get his head around the concept that many of the companies he had bought and invested in had domain name underpinnings. He was quite clever, savvy and aware of

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• Internet Brands in $100mm IPO

  Published: July 20, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  You can do this. Peel a few great domains off the top of your deck, spend a months revenue hiring 40-50 people, building infrastructure, offices, creating content and running arbitrage to drive traffic..  Then sell the growth story to the street in an IPO like

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• Past Domain Marketing

  Published: July 20, 2007, 5:08 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  this picture - it's aGreatDomains' marketing action they took back in 2000. http://web.archive.org/web/20000303204324/www.greatdomains.com/AuctionCountDown.asp We aren't doing that kind of promotions (yet?), but after just one day, bidding is already very active in the big July GreatDomains auction: stockquotes.com 150,000 $US

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• Affiliate Convention Silent Domain Auction Brings Incremental Dollars

  Published: July 20, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  Danno sends link (thanks player): ""More Than $680,000 in Premium Domain Names Sold During the AffiliateSummit East Domain Name Auctions: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,143203.shtml___Best,Dan""

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