By: Raymond Hackney Jordan Elkind wrote a piece today on Search Engine Land that took a look at ecommerce trends from the past holiday season. Santa’s elves weren’t the only ones busy this past holiday season. Paid search was also working overtime to make sure shoppers ended up with perfect holiday gifts. The share of [...] Continue reading →

By: Raymond Hackney Footmarseille.com led all sales this week at 25,000 Euros. The French football site is already up and running. Dental.ca was the top country code sale at $22,600. For the numeric fans out there 10018.com sold for $4,888, this is a popular New York zip code and not just a random nnnnn.com sale. [...] Continue reading →

By: Raymond Hackney February was a turbulent month for BitCoin, from the ddos attacks to the shutting down and bankruptcy of Japanese exchange Mt. Gox. January saw a flurry of Bitcoin related domain names registered and that continued in February. In January there were 3,776 .com and .net Bitcoin related domain names registered. Bitcoinisgood.com was [...] Continue reading →

Projectbook.com and Copella.com tied for the top spot this week. There were not many 5 figure sales this week. The .org extension had a strong week led by a couple strong LLL.org sales. Sedo sold $1million in domains for the week. Go Daddy/Afternic sold $1,848,381 in domains for the week. Sedo Sales [...] Continue reading →

By: Raymond Hackney Dan Primack reported for Fortune  a story that SecondMarket will create a separate company that will include a New York based exchange.  Second Market is known for the buying and selling of illiquid assets, many quoted Second Market for a price on Facebook while it was still private and waiting to [...] Continue reading →

By: Raymond Hackney This is a cool little guide that you can bookmark and refer back to as an easy reference. The roadmap should be helpful for those new to starting an ecommerce site and checking off each step. Of course you need to do a lot more research but this is a handy checklist [...] Continue reading →

By: Raymond Hackney The new gtlds are a complex animal, there is opportunity, hypocrisy and a lot of noise to wade through to find the real info and the real gems. I liked Jason Thompson’s post about the newgltds. There has been a lot of good posts lately on the new gtlds imo, Some echoed [...] Continue reading →