Rick Latona & Germany.com
April 29, 2008
Well for years Domainers have visited Germany.com and wept. Wept at the tragic waste of this Great Domain name and it’s potential.
The owner seemed quite eccentric with his photograph of his cat talking to us from the picture and a couple of cheap banners.
Well the Germany World Cup (Football/Soccer) came and went, and where you suspect a fully developed site could have swept up a six figure sum at least from Sponsors, affiliates etcetera, this owner did nothing, and made nothing. Also a lot of diappointed people would have visited the site.
Well, where everyone else failed, Rick Latona has won through. He has come to an agreement with the owner to manage for him.
Here’s what Rick says on his site:
Mobility Scooters.TV
April 28, 2008
We are pleased to offer 2 Premium Generic domains for sale:
MobilityScooters.TV - MobilityScooter.TV
New mobile image ads from Google
April 28, 2008
We found this on Googles official mobile blog:
LH.com lost!
April 28, 2008
A scandalous decision has once again been reached by the so called wipo arbitration panel.
The disputed name is LH.com
The name is currently still owned by ‘elequa’. Well known in the domain industry and owns a vast portfolio of short acronym domains. Including ‘i.net’ !
A gem dating back to 1995. It is Lufthansa who have effectively hijacked this name now. Reverse hijacking (or daylight robbery) is on the increase as firms desperate to own a unique short web address try and take via court action from legitimate owners.
DataRecovery.com $1.7 million
April 27, 2008
ESS Data Recovery has purchased the domain name DataRecovery.com for $1.659 million, confirmed by company President Ben Carmitchel.The sale marks the biggest reported sale of the year and shows the promise of a targeted, generic domain name.
The seller is competitor Associated Computers, Inc. of Minnesota. Carmitchel confirmed that the transfer took place on February 1, 2008.
Top 100 Sales
April 27, 2008
The site below (click screenshot) is a great resource to see the top 100 sales.
Soldnames.com
It needs a little updating as there have been some million dollar sales lately and there are a few pending:
Some worth mentioning are Fund.com for $10 million
The biggest all cash deal for just a domain.
The potential sale of Pizza.com for $2.6 million
DataRecovery.com also sold for $1.7 million
Pizza.com
April 27, 2008
Chris Clark has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - after renewing the domain for just $20 a year since 1994.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.
“It’s crazy, it’s just crazy,” Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
“It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure,” he added.
Regret
Mr Clark registered the domain name in 1994, when the world wide web was just starting.
He had hoped that pizza.com would help to get a contract with a pizza firm for his consulting company.
Hot nets
April 27, 2008
This week was a good week for .net
Well there were 2 major .net sales worth mentioning this week.
FilmSchool.net Sold for $49,501 @ Afternic.com
Trabajo.net
(”work” or “job” in Spanish) Sold for $34,000 @ Afternic.com
JOL.mobi
April 27, 2008
Just been reported a private sale of JOL.mobi for $10,000 to Japanese Online.
The private sale was reported on mobility.mobi, look out for the official notification on Dnjournal.com in coming weeks.
Premium Numeric.com
April 27, 2008
867.com
I am offering for sale this gem from 1997
Registered at Godaddy.com until 2010
