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straight day today. After the
latest technical mishap Bido co-founder Sahar Sarid wrote
on his blog,
"We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues and come back when we are ready. It may be few days, weeks, months,
none of us really knows. All who submitted domains to Bido we will work with you to get it back to your accounts."
Sarid said. Two other company services, DNZoom and Portfolio
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While Bido
tries to get a handle on their problems, Moniker
will be back in action tonight with their latest live
domain auction at the Search Engine Strategies
conference in San Jose. It is scheduled to get
underway at 8:45pm U.S. Eastern time (5:45pm
Pacific). You can download the auction catalog from this
page.
In other
auction news, the latest one-week premium domain auction
at Sedo's GreatDomains.com
gets underway tomorrow afternoon and will run to approximately 2pm U.S.
Eastern time Wednesday August 28. Some of the name
on the block are Citizen.com (there is a high
quality watch company that could really use this great
generic domain), UD.com and Receipt.com, to
name just a few.
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NameMedia's busy
aftermarket sales platform, the AfternicDLS,
has extended its reach with a deal to become
the exclusive provider of aftermarket domains
to registrar Name.com.
Beginning this month, Name.com customers will have
full access to more than 800,000 domains
targeted toward small to medium size businesses
(SMBs).
Pete
Lamson, the senior vice president and general
manager of NameMedia’s Marketplace
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said,
“NameMedia has developed the world’s largest
network of SMB targeted resale marketing partners.
Our mission is to create a global network of SMB
focused domain buyers and sellers. The Name.com
partnership we are announcing today is an important
milestone towards this objective."
Name.com
Founder and CEO Bill Mushkin added, “This
was an easy decision to make. The Afternic Domain
Listing Service has established itself as the
industry’s leading venue for the sale of premium
domains. We’ve been impressed with the consistent
quality of their inventory and business for a long
time.”
(Posted
August
20,
2008) |
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