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Stop Whining And Go Do Something About It Dot Com

Posted in Domaining in general, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2008 | 19 Comments »

This morning I read Joe Davidson’s excellent piece on the crisis in domaining. I knew I’d enjoyed it as I also felt the need to post a comment in his thread highlighting my long standing belief in that domainers are inherently lazy. Before I attempt to mitigated any fevered replies i might invariably get here, [...]

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Is (or more importantly “will”) Google kill the domain channel

Posted in Domaining in general, tagged , , , , , , , on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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 [...]

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Arbitrage, and why greed and the likes of Marchex et al killed it.

Posted in Internet Marketing, tagged , , , , , on March 26, 2008 | 8 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 [...]

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Dang, just when you thought the fight was over

Posted in Domaining in general, tagged , , , , , , , on February 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Google stock goes down the proverbial drain. A high of $750 in October down to below $448 on Tuesday. Who’d have thought it? And all this, just as i read from Sahar (although i cant find the article to trackback to,  due to all this bido malarkey) that Yahoo have seemingly pulled the rabbit from [...]

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Why a Yahoo / Microsoft collaboration is good news for domainers.

Posted in Domaining in general, tagged , , , , , , , on February 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

So Microsoft have once again come in for Yahoo for $44.6bn. In 2006 they made what, by all accounts, was a similar offer. At that time the Yahoo stock was trading much higher than of recent weeks and therefore a “not so great” deal for Yahoo’s shareholders. It was then a private takeover bid and [...]

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