Geaney.com purchased SS.com for $1.25M.

Geaney.com acquires SS.com for US$1.25 million

SS.com the domain that has been on everyone’s wish list has finally been sold to the team at Geaney.com for US$1.25 million dollars.

Jeff Geaney from Geaney.com said the two character .com has unlimited uses in the enormous media field of the Internet and has yet to say what the domain will be used for.

The domain is currently being held in escrow.com until the transaction and transfer is completed.

Another cool sale for LL.com, this one has strong negative associations which makes the price even higher.

AZ.com sold for half a million 5 months ago

Casino.de Sold for $591K

German Domain Name Casino.de Sold for USD 591,000.00

Balslev Media announces the acquisition of Casino.de

HOLSTEBRO, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Danish Internet company Balslev Media has recently purchased the German domain name casino.de for Euro 400,000 / US $591,000. This is a new record price paid for a German domain name. (more…)

Another interesting discussion thread appeared on DNforum that deserves to be featured here. This time it is a comparison between Canadian and Indian domain market. Some figures first:

Canada Stats
Population=33,390,141
Internet Usage=22,000,000
%Penetration=65.9%
Use Growth (2000-2007)=73.2%
GDP Growth(2007)=2.6%
GDP Per Capita (PPP): $35,600 (2006 Est.)
As of 2008-03-16: .ca registration contain 985,474 domains (more…)

Another domaining article in the main press, this time from the British top newspaper the guardian:

Speculators are the latest breed of dotcom entrepreneur, buying up website domain names - and making their fortune by dealing in them.

Neil Stanley goes to bed each night knowing he will wake up a little richer. All over the world, the clicks of computer mice are depositing a few more pounds into his account. His secret is that he was smart enough to ask: what’s in a name?

Stanley is a trader in domain names, the addresses of websites which commonly follow ‘www’ and end with ‘.com’ or ‘.co.uk’. Once a banker at Goldman Sachs, he now has a different portfolio of lucrative investments including bridalfashion.co.uk, onlinecareers.co.uk, schoolguide.co.uk, sendingflowers.co.uk and impotency.co.uk. (more…)

After their previous note a month ago a new press release by Tucows reveals some interesting details including part of their domain portfolio:

TORONTO, February 20, 2008 – Tucows Inc., (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today announced that as of February 14, 2008 the Company had over 150,000 Internet domain names in its private domain name portfolio, including the following:

• Over 1,000 “Gems.” These domain names are considered to have the highest potential value in the portfolio. A sample of 100 of these names is included below.
• 39,000 Surnames. Tucows owns over 65 percent of North American’s surnames as domain names. These surnames form the foundation of Tucows’ Personal Names Service, a recently launched service that allows users to obtain their personal name, for example amy@smith.net for email and amy.smith.net for a web address. (more…)

Here is an interesting list with .asia domains which received more than one application.

Many generics, like:

card.asia

video.asia

policy.asia

vip.asia

ugly.asia

ship.asia

reform.asia

swallow.asia (more…)

				

The Domains reports

AOL Annouced today that it will pay $850 million in cash to acquire social media network Bebo, which has total global membership of more than 40 million.

Bebo is one of the largest social networks in Britain, and is ranked number one in Ireland and New Zealand and number three in the U.S, according to AOL.

News Corp. , which also owns the Fox television and movie studios, in addition to newspaper and Internet holdings, bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, but has estimated the network is now worth more than $15 billion.

Facebook Inc., which owns the Internet’s second-largest social network behind MySpace, now arguably has a $15 billion market value, based on Microsoft’s purchase late last year of a 1.6 percent stake for $240 million.

There is still rumored talks between Yahoo and AOL.

Nothing says online chess better than Chess.com!

This is a perfect example of a truly premium domain and how it should be used.
I remember seeing chess.com for years having a one page site with some affiliate links to chess software and sets. As a true chess fan I’ve inquired on the price a couple years ago and it seemed high to me back then. Now I don’t remember what number they quoted, but seeing how chess.com got developed it sure was a fair amount to pay. Chess.com now has an alexa ranking of 12K indicating a very high traffic and most likely the biggest chess site online. (more…)

I’m selling one of my best LLLL.com domains OOOM.com

One of only 26 domains with triple O’s and even less with all premium letters.

It’s for sale on DNforum, but you can also send offers via this post. Current high offer on dnf is $2000 and I’m looking for a little more to sell quick.

4 letter domains with Triple repeating letters are among the most desired LLLL.com domains because many domainers would love to add them to their collection.

FragerFactor reports:

“I’ve never understood the need for .mobi, my mobile site is doing fine with a .com domain.”

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, is none too keen on dotMOBI.

Berners-Lee — who also is the director of the W3C consortium and a senior research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — argued that adding domain names indiscriminately is not the best way to insure the Web can scale up and out. (more…)