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Try to register for instance “fuck” at the .TO Registry and you will get the following:
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On October 19, 2007, Sedo was awarded Ernst & Young’s highly-coveted “Entrepreneur of the Year 2007″ by a panel of industry and business experts. A gala was held in Frankfurt to celebrate the event and recognize the outstanding achievements of this year’s winners. Sedo was one of
five entrepreneurial organizations selected from more than 350 companies and 98 finalists across five categories. Sedo won in the “Information and Communication Technology and Media” category.
“We’re honored to receive such prestigious recognition from Ernst & Young,” said Tim Schumacher, CEO of Sedo. “It is a testament to the hard work of the Sedo team and its commitment to innovation and market leadership in the domain name economy, a market driven by entrepreneurs from every corner of the world. We look forward to building on this achievement as we bring new services and offerings to better serve domainers as we enter 2008.”
The panel found Sedo, which was founded in 2001 by Tim Schumacher, Ulrich Priesner, Marius Wuerzner, and Ulrich Essman, as a shining example of what Ernst & Young seeks to celebrate through this annual awards competition. Sedo was recognized with this esteemed honor due to its high growth and excellent innovation. Another factor which was considered was the growth in revenue, exemplified by the fact that Sedo has seen over 100% increases in revenue yearly. The company itself has been growing as well, with more than 150 employees now working for Sedo in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cologne, Germany.
“Sedo clearly demonstrates what many of the German companies have not incorporated into their strategy: a very early and successful internationalization. At Sedo, more than 70% of daily business occurs outside of Germany, and Sedo’s employees come from more than 20 different nations,” said Carsten Knop from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
2007 has been a landmark year of innovation and growth for Sedo, fueling its market leadership and recognition in this year’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. With more than nine million domains for sale on its marketplace and more than 580,000 registered users worldwide, Sedo facilitates nearly 3 million transactions monthly. Extending its leadership position in the domain name sector, in June 2007 Sedo acquired GreatDomains.com, the established marketplace focused exclusively on the trading of high-quality, generic domain names. In addition, Sedo established a strategic partnership with dotMobi to serve as the domain auction platform for premium dotmobi domains beginning in September 2007.
Congrats!!!
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After CEO Terry Semel, Exec VP-Global Sales Greg Coleman, COO Dan Rosenzweig, CTO Farzad Nazem and Chief Sales Officer Wenda Harris Millard, it’s now the turn of Cammie Dunaway, Yahoo’s Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Customer Experience Division to leave the company. Allen Olivio will temporarily take over the position. Cammie has been credited as one of the TOP 100 best marketing experts according to “Advertising Age”. It is not clear where she will be working next but Valleywag thinks it might be Nintendo.
That’s another top manager that leaves the company within 12 months.
A management shake-up is not necessarily always — although it’s truly a sign — a bad thing . Hey, it made Jerry come back and in some way initiated his 100-day plan. Under Jerry’s reorganization Yahoo! appears to be narrowing its focus. Some C-level managers might not agree with the new policies and leave. But what’s important is what comes out of this process.
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Seems that not only Belfast Telegraph is getting a hard lesson in Domaining.
The domain IFPI.com, a domain that once belonged to the The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), now belongs to a staff member of the (in)famous Pirate Bay.
Peter Kopimi, a Pirate Bay staff member was quoted:
Domains“Someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it’s ours and we’re keeping it.“
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Yesterday, local ad specialist and local content publisher Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP) and Yellowpages.com, a subsidiary of AT&T (NYSE: T) announced that they signed a multi-year agreement in which Marchex will provide its local Internet search marketing services to Yellowpages.com.
The agreement will allow YellowPages.com to utilize Marchex’s local ad services for the YPclicks! Search Engine Solutions packages sold across the United States. The ads will be created under the Marchex platform and allows advertisers to target and manage ads through placements with the major search engines and the Marchex local content network.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Yellowpages.com will continue to leverage Marchex’s services to fulfill the YPclicks! Search Engine Solutions search marketing packages sold by Yellowpages.com and AT&T across the United States.
Marchex Connect, Marchex’s highly scalable private-label search marketing platform, is used to create, target and manage Yellowpages.com’s advertiser campaigns and fulfill them through placements on major search engines and Marchex’s local content network.
Charles Stubbs, President and CEO of Yellowpages.com said:
“Yellowpages.com’s online advertising products deliver value to local advertisers across the nation. This new agreement with Marchex extends our ability to offer our customers best-in-class search marketing solutions.“
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After taking over Zinku, Google now acquired another mobile-based company: Jaiku. Helsinki-based Jaiku is sort of a Twitter. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Why buy Jaiku if you already have Zinku? And why not directly acquire Twitter?! Also, these apps are pretty simple, why not develop it by yourself Google?
Regarding Jaiku, they say:
Activity streams and mobile presence are important areas where we believe Google can add a lot of value for users. Jaiku’s technology and talented team are a great addition to Google’s current application and mobile teams.
Google says:
We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. Although we don’t have definite plans to announce at this time, […]
I do think that Google already has definite plans. Google is more and more investing in social networks and in mobile-based apps. Mobile social networking and mobile blogging are on the rise and Google plans its GooglePhone. The mobile web is juicy enough to be invaded by AdSense/AdWords. Good reasons to invest in mobile companies and to acquire know-how. Well, and compared to Twitter, Jaiku has some interesting features like group creation, RSS import and threaded conversation.
Google has the power to market and scale Jaiku and definitely scare Twitter.
Regarding Twitter, RedMonk analyst James Governor thinks that RIM and Yahoo! would be acquisition candidates.
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FreshDrop is a free service that provides a list of domain names that (will soon be) expired and Closeouts from the TDNAM. Lately Sedo auctions were also added.
The “Buy” button on freshdrop.net will take you directly to the buying page on TDNAM for the domain so it helps save you time. For every sale made through that “Buy” button, Freshdrop.net receives some money. That’s fair considering that it is more a “for domainer by a domainer” tool.
What amazes me and makes this tool really useful is the plethora of analytics, filters and quick searches. Examples:
- PR Range Filter
- Fake PR Filter
- Last Regged Domain Age Filter
- Auction End Day Filter
- WBR - Wayback Results
- Language quick searches
Give it a try!
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eNom and Network Solutions, number 3 and number 2 largest registrars (> 13 million domains), partnered to stem a new domain aftermarket marketplace specialized in expired and deleted domains: NameJet.com.
Namejet is based on eNom’s technology (eNom.com, eNomCentral.com, ClubDrop.com and BulkRegister.com) and populated with premium expiring domains from Network Solutions.
This is bad karma for SnapNames which might loose its leadership in the Pending Delete Auction marketplace.
Moreover, SnapNames had exclusive contracts with Network Solutions and eNom to handle expired/deleted domains. This is now gone! Historically as one of the oldest registrars, Network Solutions has a lot of valuable generic domains.
Good luck SnapNames and welcome Namejet!
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