Herinnering:  Premium .ME domain name auction kicked off today on the Sedo platform.  Already, almost half of the names have opening bids, three of them with reserves already met:  Personals.me, Electronics.me and Dates.me all with bids over $499. The auction will run through Thursday, May 31st.  188 previously unreleased .ME domains are up for grabs [...] Lees verder →

You may be thinking “What better time to sell Ballot.com than during presidential election year in the U.S.?!” Interesting timing, but I don’t necessarily think that it will spark a bidding war resulting in a huge sale.  If buying to develop, is there really enough time left to do something with the name in time [...] Lees verder →

Het is een mooi, sunny Sunday morning here in Denver, Colorado.  Hoping you’re having a great weekend!  It was a busy week in the domain name industry!  Recapping some of the top stories: Michael Berken’s announced last week that Most Wanted Domains will be publishing domain sales in realtime on its @MWD Twitter handle and corresponding [...] Lees verder →

Appraiso, the unique website appraisal tool developed by domain investor Morgan Linton announced its first partnership today.  The website appraisal system is now available to Protrada.com customers who can immediately begin tracking the value of their sites as traffic and revenue continue to grow. This is a fantastic partnership for both parties! This first strategic [...] Lees verder →

Later this month the .ME Registry will be auctioning off 188 more previously held back premium .ME domain names through Sedo.com. The first premium .ME auction this year tallied approx $340k in sales, led by hotel.me at $25k. This months auction will kick off on May 24th and run through the 31st. This batch is [...] Lees verder →

An article titled When Should Domain Names Match Company Names? was published this morning by Karen E. Klein on Bloomberg BusinessWeek Small Business Advice Section.   The post was a response to this question asked by a BusinessWeek reader: When is it necessary or advisable for a startup to have a matching dot-com domain name? What should [...] Lees verder →

Domain Holdings announced yesterday that they have come to an agreement to exclusively broker Attorney.com.  Registered since 1994, Attorney.com is held by Vertical Axis Inc.  The sale is only for the domain name and is priced at $2.25 million.  The domain currently serves up a hitfarm parked page.  According to Alexa it gets some natural [...] Lees verder →