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Kraft Proves Picks New Name (Mondelez) Based on Domain Availability And It’s Pretty Bad

By - March 25, 2012 - 5 Comments
  [caption id="attachment_15926" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of Bloomberg"][/caption] Kraft Foods has decided to make a name change. Kraft Foods will remain Kraft in North America but in the rest of the world it now be known as Mondelez International Inc.   According to Kraft...."Mondelez" (pronounced mohn-dah-LEEZ') is a newly coined word that evokes the idea of "delicious world."  "Monde" derives from the Latin word for "world," and "delez" is a fanciful expression of "delicious." In addition, "International" captures the global nature of the business." The n... Read More »
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Cloudservers.com Closes at $32,010 and CloudApp $24,000

By - March 14, 2012 - 18 Comments
  The cloud domains took center stage over at GoDaddy Auctions and hit some pretty good prices.  Take a look at some of the solid final results CloudServers.com  $32,010 CloudApp.com $24,000 129 bids CloudDevice.com $655 43 bids CloudDevices.com $705 42 bids Most of these domains looked to have the same original owner as they were all under whois privacy.  Its that same whois privacy that will most likely let them actually sell rather than be renewed after domain investors email him left and right trying to get him/her to renew and then sell.  The whois may not be getting to the o... Read More »
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What Did Bob Parson’s Get On His IQ Test?

By - January 26, 2012 - 5 Comments
Barbecue Sauce.  In all seriousness, we certainly need to thank Bob Parsons, Godaddy, Oversee, and dot co for their recently added attraction to DomainFest, Natalia Velez, the new Dot Co Godaddy Girl. She will be joining DomainFest attendees at the SuperCars event aka the new Playboy Party without the 70's venue and water born illnesses.  Every year DomainFest seems to keep the goodies piling on.  They haven't forgotten their target market with this years' theme (made up by me)  Hot cars, hot women, cool seminars. To take a closer look at Natalia you can see the new commercial or go to her websit... Read More »
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Adam Dicker Announces He’s Starting a New Domaining Blog: Now Hiring Writers

By - January 6, 2012 - 4 Comments
Looks like we are all going to have some new competition in the domain blog industry. And I may be losing a writer.  Adam Dicker announced tonight that he is paying writers up to $20 per story.  Here is his description of the project Next week we will be launching a domain industry blog. I am looking for writers to write about: Current events in our industry New companies in our industry New products in our industry New services in our Industry New / current tools people could use in our industry. reviews of companies, products or services. CCTLD and TLD related stuff. ICANN rel... Read More »
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Incredible. Reddit Traffic for December…35 million Uniques…2 Billion Pageviews

By - January 6, 2012 - 1 Comment
 The numbers are pretty impressive.  Ever since Digg dug their own grave, Reddit has taken over the Internet and has become THE source of unusual, informative, or just plain crazy links.  It's made Conde Nast look like geniuses when they bought the site. Look at these stats from the month of December 2,065,237,338 pageviews 34,879,881 unique visitors 12.97 pages / visit 16 minutes average time on site Over 100 million monthly pageviews per employee   The last stat is a business owners dream.  One hundred million page views PER employee.  And they did all of it after selling... Read More »
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