DNForum domainer drama: Wrong man accused for ‘sour sale’ involving Sedo and SnapNames

A full five years ago, a DNForum member posted his plight related to a domain acquisition that materialized on Sedo. In April 2008, he accused ICAP Media and Jeffrey Tognetti of hijacking the domain which was allegedly pushed into Tognetti’s Sedo account. “I had bought a domain on sedo two month ago. It took about [...]

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Ari Goldberger grabs important legal practice geodomain

IP attorney, Ari Goldberger, is well-known in the domaining circles for his successful law practice, as well as possessing a super-duper personality. Ari’s recent project, MD.com, was launched in New Orleans two months ago and Ari could not be happier with the traction it achieved within the medical community, in such a short period of time. [...]

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Sedo HQ in Boston closed today

The Sedo offices in Boston are closed today Friday, due to the locking down of key areas of the city by the Boston police. Sedo made this announcement on their web site: “Sedo’s Boston office is closed today due to events in the Greater Boston area related to the marathon attacks. Customers may still reach [...]

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DNJournal awarded a RAVE of ’99′ by the Combined Domain Sales Report

A new web service, called Combined Domain Sales Report has been launched in private beta this week, by domain industry veterans Tom Smith, Dick Jones and Harry Williams. “We were fed up with reading posts by every blogger about how many domains were sold on Sedo, Afternic, Flippa, NameJet and GoDaddy,” said Dick Jones, CTO [...]

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Paste Magazine buys Paste.com for $100,000

Paste Magazine have just acquired a shorter URL, Paste.com, to the tune of $100,000. “Paste is a leading online destination for pop-culture enthusiasts, covering music, movies, TV, books, videogames, gadgets, apps, beer, comics and just about anything else we find interesting. In less than a decade, the site has grown to more than 3 million [...]

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Google ‘screws’ Sedo: Stats go back to clawback state

A few days ago, Sedo announced that the daily stats will be “clean” and void of any bot or other “garbage” traffic not allowed by Google. In other words, the daily statistics and revenue would appear leaner and smaller. Apparently, Google has not worked well with Sedo in testing this mechanism; Sedo is now switching [...]

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Drop the dash: Bikini USA shows more skin

Bikini USA, a company that brings together model photographers and beautiful models sporting sexy bikinis, finally made the big move to a shorter .com. For more than a decade, Bikini USA operated from the domain name Bikini-USA.com. According to the company’s web site, they produce tv shows about swimwear models, Bikini models, Calendars, Bikini Posters, [...]

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Sedo: 50 select domains from TRAFFIC

Sedo just sent out a list of 50 select domains from TRAFFIC, the list is below: Welcome to the special T.R.A.F.F.I.C. edition of Select 50! Premium Keyword domains are the driving force behind generating valuable traffic. And the great feedback we’ve received on our first edition of Sedo’s Select 50 domains made it clear: You [...]

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And the #1 reason why GoDaddy TDNAM + Sedo MLS sucks for “Make an offer” is…

Sedo MLS partnered with GoDaddy TDNAM a while back; while one could opt out of using Sedo MLS, it’s now being force-fed. Simply speaking, all “make an offer” domains are now listed on TDNAM, and GoDaddy enjoys the local traffic to its marketplace, all while Sedo is confident this will lead to an increase in [...]

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GoDaddy doesn’t want your porn domains from Sedo MLS

Recently, we unveiled how domain names listed with a “Make an offer” option on Sedo, are now on the GoDaddy TDNAM platform; for those domains, sellers and buyers cannot exchange any type of message. There is an update to this messy addition of the SedoMLS: Adult or porn domains from SedoMLS don’t make it to  [...]

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GoDaddy not allowing comments on Sedo MLS

The partnership of Sedo with various domain registrars has created the Sedo MLS platform. Pretty much, when querying a domain via these affiliated domain registrars, an option takes visitors to the corresponding offer page on Sedo, where the domains are listed for sale. The drawback: it’s a 20% fee for selling it through the MLS [...]

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Big Data Pricer: Sedo owns the .com – thank goodness!

Yesterday, we broke the news of Sedo rolling out a brand new interface for adding domains to one’s portfolio. A feature called “Big Data Pricer” automatically attempts to tag a price to the domain, based on a secret domain evaluation formula that calculates its worth. When we tested it at 7:30pm eastern yesterday, the Big [...]

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