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The Lowdown
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March 2, 2009 Post
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Here's the The
Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated
daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going
around the domain name industry!
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by Ron Jackson
(DN Journal Editor/Publisher) |
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Our
next domain sales chart will feature some real
blockbusters.
The public Whois
record indicates that Toys.com was
transferred to its new owner, Toys R Us, over the
weekend. Unless you have been living in a cave, you know
that Toys R Us bought rights to the domain |
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with
a $5.1 million bid in a bankruptcy court auction
a couple of weeks back. We do not consider sales
complete until the names have been paid for and
transferred to their new owners and now that that has
apparently happened, this landmark sale is eligible for
our list.
In
a another big deal, Sedo.com
reports that they have sold Top.com for €357,700
($451,889 at today's exchange rate).
Unless something else breaks between now and our next
sales report, that will be the 3rd highest sale of the
year, trailing only Toys.com and Fly.com ($1,760,000). |
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Speaking of
our next weekly
sales report, that will be published
Wednesday, March 18. There will not be a report
this week because I will be away on vacation (heading
out early tomorrow morning). I will bring you completely
up to date with all sales since our last report March 4
by producing a double length report on the 18th.
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Another note
related to Sedo. Our latest
monthly newsletter was emailed to
opt in subscribers Sunday. It featured three
industry executives, including Sedo VP Sam
Nunez, Parked.com President Donny
Simonton and Neustar Senior Director Ivor
Sequeira talking about domain investing in
2009 and beyond. Their comments were made during
a seminar at last month's Domainer
Mardi Gras conference in New
Orleans.
This morning Sam
told me that the format for that session had
been switched to a Q & A discussion at the
last minute. As a result he did not show a Powerpoint
presentation that he had produced for the
seminar. We have uploaded a copy to our site so
that anyone interested can check
it out here. |
Sedo
VP Sam Nunez |
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Elsewhere, country
code fans now have their own
domain forum. Rick Latona has just
opened the new meeting place and as you would
expect he built it on the perfect domain name
for this purpose - ccTLDs.com.
We just registered (User ID: DNJournal) to
become member #7 of a forum that we expect will
quickly build a large and enthusiastic user
base. |
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The
major ccTLDs have gotten hot over the past year
so Latona's timing couldn't be better. He also
plans to put country codes squarely in the
spotlight June 1-4 when RickLatona.com
will host a T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference in Amsterdam devoted
entirely to ccTLDs. |
BuyDomains.com
has scheduled another free webinar for March
19th from 2-2:30pm (U.S. Eastern time) that will be
devoted to "Using Google Analytics to Help Your
Email Marketing Campaigns Succeed." You can register
here for that special event.
Finally,
since I will be on the road vacationing with my wife and
daughter through Friday, I may not be publishing another
Lowdown item until I return Saturday (unless I find a
wifi connection and quiet corner somewhere to hide in!).
However, there is a good chance I'll post a few tweets
via Twitter.com
from my cell phone between now and then. For anyone who
would like to follow
DN Journal on Twitter, our ID is
DNJournal.
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(Posted March
9, 2009)
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