Internet domain names the new 21st century real estate
Inside a midtown hotel, Larry Fischer is on his mobile phone with a financial backer as his partner Ari Goldberger does quick research on a laptop computer. They are bidding furiously at this auction...
View ArticleInternet domain names return hefty profits
The Web addresses that businesses and people online call home have generated the equivalent of a real estate boom in the real world with speculators, appraisers, developers, investors, and brokers...
View ArticlePharmacy.com is up for sale for the first time since 1994
Domain name speculators, open your wallets. Pharmacy.com is up for sale for the first time since 1994 and the domain name’s broker is looking to break a few records. “Based on modeling, we’re...
View ArticleUK domain name bought for record amount
ASAP Ventures, parent to leading car hire comparator Carrentals.co.uk, has purchased Recycle.co.uk for £150,000 – the highest amount ever paid for a .co.uk internet domain name. The investment is the...
View ArticleTypoSquatting – Interesting findings from McAfee
– A typical consumer who misspells a popular URL has a 1 in-14 chance of landing at a typo-squatter site – Children’s sites are heavily targeted: More than 60 of the most squatted sites are...
View ArticleLapsed domain names bought in seconds
Website owners have been warned to keep their registration up to date because lapsed domain names are being snapped up within 10 seconds of becoming available. Re-registration, which has to be done...
View ArticleUseful Internet Marketing Tools
Courtesy of a post on WickedFire posted here for my notes: Preview your adwords ads from any country https://adwords.google.com/select/Ad…ingPreviewTool Local Adwords & Keyword Lists Local PPC...
View ArticleMedia Corp acquires sport.co.uk
Media Corp has acquired the domain name and website sport.co.uk for £135,000 as part of a continuing focus on expanding its digital properties. Media Corp, which revealed it was overhauling...
View ArticleCompany pays £560,000 to add “s” to domain name
A cruise operator has paid £560,000 for a domain name, blasting the previous British record sale out of the water. Cruise.co.uk bought the domain Cruises.co.uk from German travel company Nees Reisen,...
View ArticleTrade in web names worth millions
Speculators are the latest breed of dotcom entrepreneur, buying up website domain names – and making their fortune by dealing in them. Neil Stanley goes to bed each night knowing he will wake up a...
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