Some time ago I posted derogative comments about domainers and how by them simply sitting on their derriers and doing nothing with their properties, the likes of Google et al were busy reclaiming the traffic and putting the squeeze on the domain channel. Recent reports just surfacing seem to suggest that my brief premonition wasnt [...]
Posts Tagged ‘arbitrage’
Arbitrage, and why greed and the likes of Marchex et al killed it.
Posted in Internet Marketing, tagged arbitrage, domainers, domains, enhance.com, fraud, marchex on March 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I have a friend who works in Internet networks, data streams and all that malarkey. Very successful guy, works with all the big banks and search engines etc. His business tests the infrastructure and network capacity for the likes of HSBC, Ebay, Yahoo, Google… You can imagine the list. Recently he was showing me some [...]
The story of Geosign, Arbitrage, $160m and Google
Posted in Domaining in general, tagged arbitrage, geosign on March 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
“A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over……[__]“
As much as I hate regurgitating others work (and always berate those that do it) this story is an absolute must read for all [...]
Lets take time to recap the state of the industry this week
Posted in Domaining in general, tagged arbitrage, ask.com, bodis.com, domanamewire.com, evolanding.com, Google, imodo.com, Parked.com, parody, Rick Schwartz, Yahoo on February 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
-> Parked.com announce that Yahoo arbitrage is finished. Well, they cunningly announced that ‘its finished’ both on their platform and on a global level. Their arbitrage is due to finish about the time… Well, about the time of this post. No news however from the other Yahoo fed providers, which I find interesting because the [...]