David Warmuz, Author at Above

SnapNames Employee was also bidding on many auctions!!!

October 17, 2013November 5, 2009 by David Warmuz

Just received an email from SnapNames that they discovered an Employee under a fake alias was BETWEEN 2005 and 2007 bidding on many of the SnapNames domain drops and using internal system to see the max bids and win good domains, and also the same time also bidding up the prices.

I don’t know about you but we have always had that nagging feeling that our max bids always seems to just stop at the very top and this would explain some of these. There are a few user accounts that were active in 2005 and 2007 that I recall that won some great name… Anyone care to guess which user handle it was?

In compensation, SnapNames are offering credits or cash refunds to all accounts affected by this which shows great customer service. The full email is below.

TRAFFIC New York 2009 Awards

October 17, 2013October 29, 2009 by David Warmuz

The TRAFFIC Awards were present to the winners last night. Voting for the nominated parties started 2 months ago and as these are votes by domainers, well done to all that won the praise of their fellow domainers.

And the nominations and winners were…

Over $2.8 Million in domain sales at TRAFFIC NY

October 17, 2013October 28, 2009 by David Warmuz

Not sure about you, but the Domain Economy seems to be strong to me with over US$2.8 million worth of domain sales at Rick Latona domain auction at TRAFFIC NY 2009

The full list is below with final price…

DomainFest Jan 26 to 29 2010 – Agenda

October 17, 2013October 21, 2009 by David Warmuz

Domainer Fest Global 2010 in Santa Monica have published their extensive Agenda. For the site details, sponsors, agenda and registration please visit http://www.domainfest.com/

You can also see the Full Agenda below. Above.com will have a booth spot, so please drop by. See you there!!

Domainer Mardi Gras 11 – 13 Feb 2010 – Agenda

October 17, 2013October 21, 2009 by David Warmuz

Domainer Mardi Gras have published their Agenda. For the site details, sponsors, agenda and registration please visit http://domainermardigras.com/

You can also see the Full Agenda below. Above.com will have a booth so please drop by. See you there!!

Yahoo to Shut Down their Paid Inclusion Programs

October 17, 2013October 18, 2009 by David Warmuz

Yahoo has annouced that by the end of this year all forms of Paid Inclusion into the Yahoo Search Index will be shut down!

This is probably the best news I have heard from Yahoo for a long time for Domainers.

Background… Trellian was a long standing Yahoo partner, reselling Paid Inclusion services via our Priority Submit service since 2001, since the good old Inktomi and AltaVista paid inclusion days. Unfortunately Inktomi was acquired by Overture and shortly later Overture and AltaVista was acquired by Yahoo.