Rick Latona’s Live TRAFFIC South Beach Auction sells ~$500,000 of domain names

October 20, 2010 in Domains | Leave a comment

Rick Latona’s Live TRAFFIC South Beach Auction has just sold ~$500,000 of domain names

$  13,000.00 …. DUL.com
$    1,400.00 …. VirusRemoval.net
$    1,000.00 …. UsedCars.cm
$    5,000.00 …. NR1.com
$       700.00 …. DataReader.com
$    1,800.00 …. MoneyInvestor.com
$200,000.00 …. Shock.com
$    6,500.00 …. Flowers.mobi
$    1,200.00 …. AuthorizedReseller.com
$    8,000.00 …. FloridaOranges.com and Florida-Oranges.com
$       400.00 …. OnlineHedgeFund.com
$    9,000.00 …. WebsiteDesigners.com
$  11,000.00 …. Taxidermist.com
$       700.00 …. Dogs.cm
$       800.00 …. Cats.cm
$    5,000.00 …. FloridaStoneCrabs.com
$       800.00 …. ConcealedGunPermit.com
$    3,300.00 …. BZK.com
$    1,300.00 …. FortWaltonBeach.org
$  20,000.00 …. Idle.com
$       600.00 …. iCallCenter.com
$  15,000.00 …. Coches.co
$       500.00 …. iExports.com
$  13,000.00 …. OxygenTanks.com
$110,000.00 …. BVI.com & BVI.co
$    1,300.00 …. CharterJetRental.com
$  15,000.00 …. MZH.com and MZH.co
$    7,000.00 …. WeddingCoordinator.com
$       500.00 …. Free.cm
$       800.00 …. iProgramming.com
$       400.00 …. FamilyStress.com
$    3,000.00 …. Depressants.com
$  10,000.00 …. LuckyStar.com
$    5,000.00 …. CelebrityWeddings.com
$    1,000.00 …. DayTrading.co
$    1,300.00 …. iPlanning.com
$    1,500.00 …. HugeDeal.com
$       900.00 …. LowAirfare.net
$    1,400.00 …. 10 LLL.mobi
$       500.00 …. GameRooms.net
$       400.00 …. iMover.com
$       500.00 …. videoGames.cm
$    2,100.00 …. CigarBlog.com
$    8,200.00 …. KingBeds.com
$    1,100.00 …. Hypnotize.net
$       500.00 …. FreeStuff.cm
$       400.00 …. Cat.cm
$    1,200.00 …. Alquiler.co
$    1,900.00 …. GolfSets.net

E. & O.E.

These names are from the live auction list so many of these domains will not have been paid for yet.

Google Antarctica maps and street view!

September 30, 2010 in Internet | Leave a comment

Google’s Street View is from today available in all seven continents as the Google mapping service has just gone live in 3 new places Antarctica Brazil and Ireland.  This map view shows just how much of the world Google as already mapped. Whlist the area of Antarctica mapped is very small, running the Man Icon over Antarctica shows some stunning photos from all over Antarctica.

How big is the Internet? 5,000,000,000 devices and counting

August 19, 2010 in Internet | Leave a comment

IMS Research say sometime this month the 5 billionth device will plug into the Internet and are forcasting over 22 billion connected deivices by 2020.

Today over 1 billion computers worldwide are regularly connected to the Internet and this number is steadily growing.

The second wave of growth has and is being driven by the mobile phone industry, and the global number of Internet connected phones has now surpassed the number of connected computers. The number of phones is still growing at a much faster rate.

The study adds in emerging Internet connected device sectors such as tablets, netbooks, eBook readers, Internet TVs, digital picture frames, cameras, etc., and reaches 5 billion connected devices.

Pingdom had some interesting statistics in a report on the size of the Internet last year.

.info domain name competition 1st Prize $7500, 2nd Prize $5000 and 3rd Prize $3000

August 11, 2010 in Domains | Leave a comment

Afilias, the registry for all .INFO domain names, is holding its 4th annual INFO Awards program, where .INFO domain name owners can submit their great sites for the chance to be named the Best .INFO website of 2010!

There are also good cash prizes to be won

!st place $7,500  –  2nd place $5,000 and 3rd place $3,000

http://www.info-award.info/    (Submission deadline Sept 10, 2010)

Domain names most popular categories

August 2, 2010 in Domains | Leave a comment

Sedo has just released its Second Quarter Domain Market Survey (.pdf) for 2010. The report provides a great insight into the domain name market with a number of interesting tables and statistical measures.

The most popular domain name categories for Q2 2010

  1  Software
  2  Regions, Country, Cities
  3  Employment
  4  Tobacco
  5  Religion and Spirituality
  6  Domain Industry
  7  Humor
  8  Hardware
  9  Insurance
10  Jewelry

And sedo’s top sales for the Q2 2010 were Cgm.com $365,000,  Software.de €235,025,  Kredit.com €220,000 and  Monalisa.com $200,000.

Women on the Web – How Women are Shaping the Internet

July 29, 2010 in Internet | Leave a comment

ComScore have just released a very interesting white paper “Women on the Web – How Women are Shaping the Internet”. The paper provides insights into the differnet ways men and women inteteract with the web.

Areas covered include

  • The Gender Divide
  • Women and the Social Web
  • Women and Retail
  • Content for Women
  • Search Activity
  • Entertaining Women
  • Mobile Women

Once connected women embrace the Internet, however globally women are still sligtly in the minorty with 46% of the global Internet population being female.  The white paper breaks down these differences further

“Singapore, the U.S., New Zealand, Russia and Canada have the highest proportion of adult female Web users – all with 50 percent or more. Countries with the lowest proportion of female Web users include two countries where Internet penetration is still extremely low – India and Indonesia, with 28 and 35 percent, respectively.”

The ComScore White Paper is a available here
Women on the Web How women are shaping the Internet 
(Registration required.)

London Underground train map – Live!

June 25, 2010 in Internet | Leave a comment

Live (real time train) departure data from the Transport for London API  is overlaid on Google maps to produce a map showing the current location of London Underground trains.  Once the map has initialised you can see all the trains moving around the network in real time.

This (beta) real time tube map was coded in a few hours last weekend!

.co domain names sold before public launch

June 10, 2010 in Domains | Leave a comment

Sedo has just sold the domain name  e.co for $81,000. This comes only a couple of days after twitter.com has announced its intention to use t.co as its official link shortener

The 30 largest registrars

May 3, 2010 in Domains | 2 comments

Sometimes it’s good to try and visualise the domain industry. Here is a list showing the relative size (by numbers of domains registered)  of the worlds largest registrars.

  1 –  33,662,000 Go Daddy
  2 –    9,305,000 eNom
  3 –    7,514,000 Tucows
  4 –    6,439,000 Network Solutions
  5 –    4,818,000 Schlund + Partner AG
  6 –    4,439,000 Melbourne IT
  7 –    3,209,000 Wild West Domains
  8 –    2,810,000 Moniker
  9 –    2,497,000 Register.com
10 –    2,451,000 ResellerClub
11 –    1,687,000 Xin Net Corp.
12 –    1,525,000 Key-Systems
13 –    1,179,000 Dotster
14 –    1,057,000 Fastdomain.com
15 –    1,031,000 Onlinenic
16 –    1,005,000 Strato AG
17 –       966,000 Fabulous.com Pty Ltd
18 –       955,000 OVH
19 –       919,000 Domain Discover
20 –       903,000 Onamae.com
21 –       849,000 directNIC
22 –       832,000 HiChina
23 –       765,000 PSI-USA,Inc.
24 –       673,000 Ascio
25 –       657,000 Gandi
26 –       651,000 Name.com
27 –       519,000 Namesdirect.com
28 –       518,000 DreamHost
29 –       516,000 NameKing
30 –       504,000 Joker.com

For those who prefer charts and pictures Chart.info has a nice chart showing the relative domain registrar sizes

By way of comparison the 2007 30 largest regsitrars

Ordnance Survey Maps of the UK available online

April 6, 2010 in Internet | Leave a comment

Last week the British national mapping agency the Ordnance Survey opened its doors providing for the first time in its 263 year history free online unrestricted public access to its maps and mapping data.

The Ordnance Survey (OS)  has made avilable its 1:250,000 series  maps on-line and is also providing it’s map data for download together with a set of Openspace API tools for embedding the maps into websites and apps.

The London Times has an interesting overview of the history and changes at the OS.