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Facebook Closes It Pre-IPO market at $44.10 A Share or $110 Million
This week Facebook told the secondary market traders that they need to stop trading securities in Facebook.com in the run up to its May IPO Today Sharespost.com just closed it last offering of Facebook shares and the selling price was $44.10 a share ...
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Facebook Closes It Pre-IPO market at $44.10 A Share or $110 Million
This week Facebook told the secondary market traders that they need to stop trading securities in Facebook.com in the run up to its May IPO Today Sharespost.com just closed it last offering of Facebook shares and the selling price was $44.10 a share ...
Discussion
March 30, 2012, 5:40 pm
The Domains
If Only 20% Of The US Population Has Even Heard Of SEO Why Are We Surprised About There Lack Of Knowledge Of Domains?
According to Matt Cutts of Google only 20% of the US population has ever “heard” of the term SEO. The question wasn’t whether people understand the term SEO, its significance; its importance in the internet community. The question w...
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If Only 20% Of The US Population Has Even Heard Of SEO Why Are We Surprised About There Lack Of Knowledge Of Domains?
According to Matt Cutts of Google only 20% of the US population has ever “heard” of the term SEO. The question wasn’t whether people understand the term SEO, its significance; its importance in the internet community. The question w...
Discussion
March 30, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Domains
UPDATED: Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted? 44,100 is Possible
Now that ICANN updated the number of paid users to the TAS system to 832, with several days remaining its probably fair to say there will be at least 900 users by the time final figures are remaining. We know that each user can submit 49 applications...
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UPDATED: Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted? 44,100 is Possible
Now that ICANN updated the number of paid users to the TAS system to 832, with several days remaining its probably fair to say there will be at least 900 users by the time final figures are remaining. We know that each user can submit 49 applications...
Discussion
March 30, 2012, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Watch Out For The Namjet.com Bulk Bidding Page As Its Now Filling In The Next Highest Bid Automatically
When I’m checking out Namejet.com to see what domain auctions are currently opened for bidding, I usually use the bulk bidding page. I’m not sure when it changed, but I wanted to alert everyone to the fact that the bulk bidding page has c...
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Watch Out For The Namjet.com Bulk Bidding Page As Its Now Filling In The Next Highest Bid Automatically
When I’m checking out Namejet.com to see what domain auctions are currently opened for bidding, I usually use the bulk bidding page. I’m not sure when it changed, but I wanted to alert everyone to the fact that the bulk bidding page has c...
Discussion
March 29, 2012, 2:21 pm
The Domains
Eric Borgos Makes Another Great Buy; Weights.com for $32K On Sedo
Domain Investor Eric Borgos has just acquired another really nice name at a great price. The domain Weights.com just came across the Sedo sales wire at $32,000. We have run into Eric’s purchases from time to time and this marks another qu...
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Eric Borgos Makes Another Great Buy; Weights.com for $32K On Sedo
Domain Investor Eric Borgos has just acquired another really nice name at a great price. The domain Weights.com just came across the Sedo sales wire at $32,000. We have run into Eric’s purchases from time to time and this marks another qu...
Discussion
March 29, 2012, 12:39 pm
The Domains
Yahoo Drops Meme
Yahoo has just send out a notice to uses that it is closing down it Meme program in May. Meme is a micro blogging site that was launched in August 2009. Here is the notice that went out to users today: “Meme will be discontinued on May 25, 2012...
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Yahoo Drops Meme
Yahoo has just send out a notice to uses that it is closing down it Meme program in May. Meme is a micro blogging site that was launched in August 2009. Here is the notice that went out to users today: “Meme will be discontinued on May 25, 2012...
Discussion
March 28, 2012, 1:05 pm
The Domains
Godaddy Is “Ourtraged Over ICANN Giving Verisign A Monolpoly” But “we Are Not Giving Up”
Godaddy.com just put out a press release blasting ICANN for allowing the contract to run the .Com registry to be renewed with Verisign The PR is entitled: “GoDaddy.com(R) Outraged Over ICANN(R) Giving VeriSign(R) Monopoly” “We are b...
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Godaddy Is “Ourtraged Over ICANN Giving Verisign A Monolpoly” But “we Are Not Giving Up”
Godaddy.com just put out a press release blasting ICANN for allowing the contract to run the .Com registry to be renewed with Verisign The PR is entitled: “GoDaddy.com(R) Outraged Over ICANN(R) Giving VeriSign(R) Monopoly” “We are b...
Discussion
March 28, 2012, 11:33 am
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Reprint: Our Post From May 2011 About The Dismissal Of The CFIT Case & The Result Prices Increases Of Verisign
The news broke last night that ICANN was opening the public comment period on the renewal of the contract with Verisign (current one expires at the end of this year) which once again would give Verisign a 6 year contract to operate the registry with ...
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Reprint: Our Post From May 2011 About The Dismissal Of The CFIT Case & The Result Prices Increases Of Verisign
The news broke last night that ICANN was opening the public comment period on the renewal of the contract with Verisign (current one expires at the end of this year) which once again would give Verisign a 6 year contract to operate the registry with ...
Discussion
March 28, 2012, 9:09 am
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Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By ChessStore.com At $11K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,011,383 for the week ending March 25th. The publicly reportable sales were led by ChessStore.com at $11,000 followed by SSDFirm.com at $8,900. Below is the complete list ...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By ChessStore.com At $11K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,011,383 for the week ending March 25th. The publicly reportable sales were led by ChessStore.com at $11,000 followed by SSDFirm.com at $8,900. Below is the complete list ...
Discussion
March 27, 2012, 7:01 pm
The Domains
Sedo.com Sells $1.6MM In Domains Led By End.com At $100K
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data for the week ending March 26th. In all $1.6MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was End.com at $100,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were online-games.com at $48,000 followe...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.6MM In Domains Led By End.com At $100K
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data for the week ending March 26th. In all $1.6MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was End.com at $100,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were online-games.com at $48,000 followe...
Discussion
March 27, 2012, 4:56 pm
