You’ll Never Guess Whose Making Money on This Frequently Visited Typo URL There are plenty of times when I “fat finger” a url and end up on a website I had no intention to visit. We all do it. Oftentimes, these typo domain names are owned by typosquatters who place pay per click links on the landing page, with the hopes of making money from this traffic. This morning, I went to visit …
Great news for marketing folks that understand the value of the .ME brand, as is being reported on a few other domain blogs such as TheDomains.com and ElliotsBlog.com Yahoo has acquired me.me from the .ME registry. Sedo brokered the transaction between the two entities. This is great news for the .ME extension as it shows continued awareness by major internet…
According to a press release that hit the wires this morning, Yahoo has acquired the domain name Me.me from the country of Montenegro’s .me ccTLD domain registry . The terms of the sale weren’t disclosed, but Sedo handled the transaction through its domain broker Jeff Gabriel. Yahoo plans to use Me.me to enhance the brand and brand recognition of its social networking site meme.yahoo.com . Yahoo …
Techcrunch is reporting today that Yahoo is going to spend a whopping $100,000,000 on a new marketing campaign centered around the catchphrase, “It’s You!” In typical Yahoo fashion , they did not spend any of the $100 MILLION to acquire the rights to the domain name ItsYou.com , which is owned by my friend Gregg Ostrick (and has been registered since 2002 – back when Yahoo was… well… you know). Now Yahoo is heavily promoting, …
In a $250,000 deal that took place on Sedo last week, Yahoo sold the domain name MusicVideos.com to Merlin Kauffman’s True Magic, LLC. According to some analytics that I have seen, MusicVideos.com gets considerable traffic – nearly 1,000 unique visitors a day according to Compete , despite the fact that it hasn’t been promoted in quite some time. In the week since acquiring the domain name, Kauffman’s company already completed another deal and re-sold …