BT buys Ribbit for $105 million
August 27, 2008
BT has acquired Silicon Valley based voip company Ribbit for $105 million. BT is a dominant British telecommunications company and Ribbit.com has been dubbed to be Silicon Valley’s first telecommunications company.
Ribbit’s software lets you make a phone call from a web page, or direct your own phone calls to a web page. It includes ways for you to do things like transcribe these calls into text, that you can then search. More importantly, however, the company launched in December a platform for developers who want to build Ribbit’s features into any other application - including a way to sale the phone applications to large companies.
Touchlight.com
August 19, 2008
Touchlight.com is the latest and coolest Video Sharing Site
It has the cleanest of looks, it takes seconds to sign up and has an easy layout that is a joy to use.
It has new channels being added every day ranging from sports videos to adult videos to funny videos to music videos
Visit today and join up for free and be sure to tell your friends of the coolest new site.
Disney Sells ‘Movies.com’ to Fandango
August 17, 2008
Great article below by the Los Angeles Times. Link to Story: latimes.com
There is no mention of a price but i would imagine in the $50,000,000 range. Yes that’s correct. That high. This is a priceless domain that Disney are mad to sell in my honest opinion……………………
Disney Sells ‘Movies.com’ to Fandango
The movie-ticketing site hopes the generic name will give it broader access to people seeking movie information online.
The familiar real estate adage is as true online as it is when it comes to buying a house: It’s all about location, location, location.
That helps explain why Fandango Inc., the nation’s leading movie-ticketing site, on Monday acquired a similar but smaller website from Walt Disney Co. that sports an attractive address: Movies.com. Fandango hopes the acquisition of Movies.com, with its generic name, will give it broader reach for people seeking movie information online.
When Single Character.com’s Walked The Earth
July 25, 2008
I came across this fascinating piece of research recently that i found in an article dating back to 1993.
The article below and list of mindboggling domains will keep you awake tonight i guarantee and make you think of the ‘what ifs’ .
Many of these domains and websites are still going, some are the original owners , others have changed hands over the years or been dropped and re-registered.
Two word domains
July 11, 2008
Going to keep an eye out for noticeable two word domain sales of note, as they don’t get so much press.
Often they are spotted at sedo & afternic, and any other private sales will be reported.
A big one i noticed at sedo.com today: AdultMatch.com sold for $95,000
Recent Sales
The domain was originally registered in 1997. I will keep this thread updated.
End of internet in 3 years?
July 8, 2008
Well, there’s so much going on at any one time these days, it’s hard to keep ahead on a daily basis.
Ran across this news clip today. Basically in 1981 when things got cooking for the internet they alocated 4 billion ip addresses, seemed more than enough at time. Well there needs to be hugely expensive upgrades to alter & increase.
3 Years is not sensationalist, they are saying possibly way less, and there could be a whole lot of other ramifications.
Watch the video:
DotMobi Roadshow
July 3, 2008
June26th 2008 Dot Mobi (mtld / .mobi) came to London Town.
Mtld held a Mobithinking / Marketing event. We all met at the ‘Hospital’ in Covent Garden.
Disney promote another .mobi
June 29, 2008
This time it’s the turn of CampRock.mobi
Icann Announcement Paris
June 29, 2008
Much has been talked about in the last few days about the Icann proposed ‘cash grab’, allowing whichever and whatever .name extensions potentially.
They seem very pleased with themselves. I guess the proposal of .paris would go down very well in Paris of course, as you can see.
Here’s a video of some of the announcement, would be interested for your comments below:
Bofa.mobi ATM ads
June 25, 2008
Bank of America are now promoting their Mobile website: bofa.mobi on ATMS across America.
Please see photo below, courtesy of Mike a.k.a ‘NameWaiter’ a mobile internet colleague.
This is a screenshot captured on a mobile phone of the ATM screen.
Please email us with any interesting .mobi promotions you spot whilst out and about.
We will aim to print any new info, stories and any site links you may have.
