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• Going.com Raises $5 Million To Market It's Event Site

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Technology, Investing, Social Networking, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Going.com is really getting things going in the fundraising strategy, raising $5 million to help its self grow quicker than it’s competition. Going.com has grow to a half million users, most of which are in the hot demographic of 20-somethings from San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Boston. General Catalyst and Highland Capital have

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• 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Copywriting, Social Networking, Marketing, Mobile, Domains

  to be accessed from multiple domains and will even change the name and URLs based on the address people access it with. (more…)

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• Business.com Sells for nearly $350 million

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains

  Telephone-directory company R.H. Donnelley Corp. clinched a deal for Web-based marketing directory Business.com Inc. for between $340 million and $360 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction. In 1999 business.com was founded by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton that bought the name for $7.5 million, which was a lot of money at the

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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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• Baidu 2nd-Quarter Profit, Sales More Than Double; Shares Soar Aftermarket

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:06 pm

  Tags: Investing, China, Technology, Social Networking, Domains

  WOW! Chinese search engine operator Baidu.com Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit and revenue more than doubled, easily surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s American Depositary shares soared nearly 20 percent in after-hours electronic trading as a result. Baidu earned 141.9 million yuan ($18.6 million), up

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• The Domain Guru Talks About Valuable Names, IDNs

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:39 am

  Tags: Expired Domains, Domain Services

  domain names (IDNs, domains which are not in roman characters). “My big passion is IDN domain names. Since I live in Thailand and can speak and write Thai, I have invested 95% in Thai language domains. Many of the best I got on launch day on April 19th, 2001 but others have been acquired since, both fresh registrations and

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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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• New Last Supper theory crashes Leonardo Web sites

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Marketing, Domains

  I found that the domains mentioned were all unavailable, on another note, there’s a .biz domain mentioned?! A new theory that Leonardo’s “Last Supper” might hide within it a depiction of Christ blessing the bread and wine has triggered so much interest that Web sites connected to the picture have crashed.

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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

  Mike the man writes: ""Frank I spent about $500K at Snapnames last year and almost nothing at pool. Why? Because the customer service at Pool sucks. When 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

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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

  I had the weirdest dream last night..  weird for several reasons. Firstly, I don't usually dream about the domain business (that I can remember) and they certainly don't wake me from my sleep at 4AM. In this dream I was in New York, during some kind of conference and was meeting with Rupert Murdoch about a strategic merger..  A faceless

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• Internet Brands in $100mm IPO

  Published: July 20, 2007, 5:52 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains

  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 this.  How many $100 Million dollar stories do you have in your portfolio?  I

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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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