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Above.com Receives 2 Nominations 2010 Traffic Awards

By David Warmuz on September 2, 2010 11:34 AM | No Comments

We are pleased to announce that Above.com has been nominated for two distinct categories in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Domainer Awards for 2010.

Nominated for both BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION and BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION.

There are some other great Companies, Domainers and Services that have been Nominated.

Note that Ballots will be sent out later this month so go through the nominations and get ready to vote.

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o.co Sells For $350,000

By Brooke Hunter on July 22, 2010 9:31 AM | No Comments

Overstock.com has purchased o.co for US$350,000

Overstock.com believes that the one character .co domain will act as an opportunity to expand their online presence and branding of the letter 'o'.

This is a rather high .co domain sale in comparison to e.co which sold for $81,000, with all proceeds going to charity.

Over 200,000 .co domains have already been registered to date, since the launch on the 20th July 2010.

Overstock is trying to obtain any single letter 'o' domain. Overstock already owns o.biz; and the shopping website on o.biz is brought to consumers by Overstock.com.

O.co currently redirects to Overstock.com but it will eventually become an individual store powered by Overstock.com.

Trellian AdNetwork - Direct Navigation

By Andrew McGrath on June 24, 2010 5:17 PM | No Comments

We are pleased to announce the release of the Trellian AdNetwork, a direct navigation platform.
http://bid.trellian.com/

The Trellian AdNetwork reaches over 200 million unique visitors each month and can deliver targeted, direct navigation traffic at a fraction of the cost.

Instead of paying per click, Trellian drives targeted traffic directly to your website. As there are no ads to view or to click on, there is no competition from organic search results or other advertisers. This means more traffic at a much lower cost.

The Trellian AdNetwork has the same traffic that you can currently buy from most major search engines and you can setup both keyword and category based campaigns.

For more information or to test drive a campaign, please go to:
http://bid.trellian.com/

e.co Charity Domain Sells for $81,000

By Brooke Hunter on June 11, 2010 12:15 PM | No Comments

Sedo and the .co registry joined to auction off the premium, one letter domain name, e.co with the selling price to be donated to a charity of the winners choice.

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Pioneer Domain Site iGoldrush Announces Re-launch

By David Warmuz on May 27, 2010 10:30 AM | No Comments

iGoldrush.com, launched in 1996 is recognized by many in the industry as the original and most comprehensive domain resource, providing everything from basic details on registering domain names to advanced domain name strategy and sales.

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.Co Domain Launch

By Andrew McGrath on May 19, 2010 3:44 PM | No Comments

With the Local Sunrise phase of the .Co ccTLD launch closed and roughly two weeks until the end of the Global Sunrise, Landrush (public availability at a price of around USD $300 per year) is not far away.

The Landrush phase is provided for businesses that do not hold a registered trademark for a particular name, but wish to protect their brand. This phase gives them the opportunity to register the .co variation of their existing domain, though owning the existing domain is not a requirement. Since this phase is technically open to anyone, many of the bigger domainers will be buying up valuable generic domains. The high price is designed to discourage domainers from snapping up too many domains, during this phase. If two or more people attempt to register the same domain during this phase, it will go into an auction.

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All your domains belong to us

By Maxime Grandchamp on May 17, 2010 9:05 PM | No Comments

Some extensions require to be a resident of a specific country or to own a business.
If you don't qualify yourself, it may be tempting to own the domains to use the services of a third party.

However, is it the right choice ? There are two main issues with this approach:

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Slots.com sold for $5.5 million

By Brooke Hunter on May 14, 2010 4:23 PM | No Comments

Slots.com has sold for $5.5 million through Moniker. Slots.com now tops the highest reported domain sales list for 2010 and is one of the highest selling domain names, ever.

Slots.com was originally registered in 1995. The website currently leads players to other Internet casinos offering slots.

Dating.com sold at DOMAINfest Live Auction for US$1,750,000.

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DOMAINfest Live Auction

By Brooke Hunter on May 14, 2010 4:22 PM | No Comments

The DOMAINfest Live Auction sold 35 domains, with the total exceeding $2 million! Dating.com was the highest selling domain at US$1,750,000.00 and the lowest sale, PersonalBanker.net sold for US$250.00.

See the list below; in highest to lowest selling prices:

Dating.com
$1,750,000

Boardgames.com
$450,000

Therapists.com
$50,000

Antidepressant.com
$30,000

Golfresorts.com
$22,500

Efp.com
$9,950

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.co Pricing from accredited registrars and resellers

By David Warmuz on May 12, 2010 2:36 PM | No Comments

I had a look at the various .co (Colombia) registrars, resellers and included their pricing below for the various stages:

Global Sunrise: Apr 26 - June 10, 2010 (for Global TM holders)
Landrush: June 21 - July 13, 2010 (for top generics)
General Availability: July 20, 2010(for anything that is left)

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