Author Archive

Highlight

Jun222008

8 Very Interesting facts about Google

Tags:

Take a look on the inside and behind the scenes!

1. The size of googleplex / google headquarters is 129619 square meters, or 32.03 acres
2. They have their own Restaurant with Organic Meals that are served to all employees FREE.
3. They have 200,000 computers at their headquarters to cater for the massive amount of bandwidth needed to generate and support the millions of users online.
4. After Yahoo Secured a deal with AOL in 2004 (but without signing) to win the bid to take over the European Market, Google found out and flew in their private jet on the same day all the way to UK to convince AOL otherwise and gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse. Yahoo refused to get into a bidding war and let them get the better of it and win.
5. The staff at Google are allowed 1 day a week to work at whatever interests them, and can be anything ranging from developing their own commercial website to whatever they like. The founders Page and Brin see this as expanding their knowledge and allowing this keeps the staff enthusiastic.
6. Google’s first webpage ever recorded in the way back machine in November 1998, with the home page not having a logo.
7. Google invented a special scanner to digitize 15 million library books and have them published on their engine.
8. There is still to this day no resolution on click fraud.
All of these facts were found and put together after reading – The Google Story Book

googleplex

May72008

Microsoft, Yahoo & Google Negotiations

Tags:

If you have read about the latest discussion regarding Microsoft wanting to buy out Yahoo you will find that they have backed out. The story is also at news and the letter is also included here. But to round this off Google are very closely related to Yahoo and always have been and if anyone who helped turn this round it has clearly been Google.

Yahoo helped Google out in the early days and as a result Yahoo has always had a soft spot for them and as it turned out Google have more or less persuaded Yahoo to consider not doing the deal with microsoft. It turned out that Yahoo and Google agreed on taking the deal instead in exchange to give Yahoo exposure indefinitely in Google’s sponsored results (Adwords).

May12008

CONTACTED . COM

Tags:

Dictionary Word, One Word.

An operational website with customised software rights.

This is a not to be missed oppurtunity.

Names like this are as rare as hens eggs, not to mention that this is also a site that is 7 years old

First Registered: 2001

Start: $500,000 US

BIN: $1,000,000 uS

https://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=contacted.com

Apr282008

A Great LL-L + L-LL Set

Tags:

In total there are only 24 possible tripple letter combination L-LL’s and 24 possible tripple letter LL-L’s in both dot com and dot net.

I am a proud owner of the following:

T-TT.COM
R-RR.COM
K-KK.NET
QQ-Q.NET

If you are a serious domainer and appreciate these domains do not hesitate to contact me. I am currently not selling these but there could always be a possibility if there is an offer that is enticing enough!

There is currently a countdown for these babies

Feb232008

Top LLLL com Sales of all Time

Tags:

Some fantastic domains here, many of which would sell way higher in todays market.

Domain Name Sale Price Sale Data Sale Via

porn.com $9,500,000.00 06-2007 Moniker
beer.com $7,000,000.00 01-2004 PrivateSale
shop.com $3,500,000.00 11-2003 PrivateSale
wine.com $3,300,000.00 09-2003 PrivateSale
find.com $1,200,000.00 03-2004 PrivateSale
fish.com $1,000,000.00 08-2000 PrivateSale
rock.com $1,000,000.00 01-2000 PrivateSale
jobs.com $800,000.00 02-2003 PrivateSale
laon.com $500,249.00 01-2007 SnapNames
gays.com $500,000.00 10-2006 Sedo
bike.com $500,000.00 06-2006 Sedo
blue.com $500,000.00 03-2006 Sedo
Bald.com $400,000.00 08-2007 Moniker
cafe.com $300,000.00 10-2006 GreatDomains
team.com $300,000.00 11-2007 GreatDomains
Text.com $300,000.00 07-2007 Moniker
bdsm.com $295,000.00 01-2007 Moniker Internext
xmas.com $294,200.00 11-2007 Moniker
vote.com $250,000.00 02-2003 PrivateSale
wifi.com $225,000.00 07-2006 Sedo
arab.com $225,000.00 08-2004 PrivateSale
farm.com $200,000.00 04-2006 Afternic
sofa.com $200,000.00 12-2005 Private Sale
bird.com $200,000.00 06-2005 Afternic
king.com $155,000.00 10-2005 Private Sale
lazy.com $152,501.00 08-2007 Sedo
camp.com $150,000.00 10-2006 Private Sale
beef.com $150,000.00 02-2004 PrivateSale
Lips.com $135,000.00 07-2007 Moniker Traffic
push.com $125,000.00 02-2003 Private Sale
Note.com $115,000.00 07-2007 Moniker Traffic
jail.com $111,100.00 05-2006 Moniker
base.com $110,012.00 05-2006 PrivateSale
huge.com $106,050.00 06-2006 Moniker Traffic
part.com $100,000.00 01-2007 Sedo
dora.com $100,000.00 02-2006 PrivateSale
cars.com $100,000.00 02-2003 PrivateSale
Bulk.com $100,000.00 06-2007 Moniker Traffic
Baja.com $95,500.00 05-2007 PrivateSale
boob.com $80,000.00 04-2007 Moniker
wind.com $80,000.00 04-2007 PrivateSale
moka.com $72,223.00 02-2007 Sedo
puss.com $71,458.00 09-2007 moniker
Dock.com $70,000.00 10-2007 Moniker
Fact.com $67,000.00 02-2007 Private Sale
hook.com $67,000.00 11-2006 Moniker
Door.com $65,000.00 02-2007 Private Sale
infi.com $57,500.00 10-2006 Sedo
blow.com $52,500.00 04-2007 Moniker
loco.com $50,000.00 04-2006 DigiPawn
ATTY.com $48,900.00 01-2008 NameJet
crow.com $48,300.00 10-2007 Moniker
xian.com $40,800.00 12-2007 Sedo
buff.com $40,500.00 02-2007 Moniker
Knee.com $38,000.00 01-2007 Private Sale
mame.com $36,000.00 03-2007 Sedo
miss.com $35,000.00 07-2004 Afternic
drag.com $34,000.00 12-2006 Afternic
mygo.com $31,000.00 10-2006 Afternic
dent.com $30,500.00 11-2006 Moniker
judy.com $30,000.00 04-2007 Moniker
kwik.com $30,000.00 02-2007 BuyDomains
cage.com $30,000.00 11-2006 Moniker
conn.com $29,500.00 03-2007 Sedo
gary.com $29,000.00 03-2007 Sedo
clap.com $29,000.00 01-2008 DigiPawn
cobb.com $28,500.00 05-2007 Sedo
teri.com $28,000.00 09-2007 moniker
sida.com $27,000.00 12-2006 Sedo
bing.com $25,375.00 02-2007 Sedo
Haul.com $25,207.00 02-2007 Private Sale
Fold.com $25,000.00 11-2007 Sedo
racy.com $25,000.00 01-2008 NameJet
acre.com $22,500.00 11-2006 Moniker
jibs.com $22,472.00 09-2006 Private Sale
indi.com $22,033.00 01-2007 SnapNames
john.com $21,500.00 02-2007 Sedo
freo.com $20,000.00 02-2007 Sedo
yule.com $20,000.00 12-2006 Sedo
xero.com $20,000.00 11-2006 Private Sale
smtv.com $18,000.00 05-2006 Private Sale
imas.com $17,000.00 02-2007 Sedo
womb.com $16,500.00 10-2007 Sedo
rica.com $16,480.00 12-2006 Moniker
itek.com $16,250.00 03-2006 Private Sale
cmas.com $15,250.00 01-2007 SnapNames
aaam.com $15,000.00 08-2007 Sedo
heya.com $15,000.00 09-2007 Sedo
Bevy.com $15,000.00 11-2007 Sedo
csdn.com $14,500.00 12-2006 Sedo
Hotz.com $14,000.00 10-2007 Afternic
fold.com $13,501.00 04-2007 Sedo
mort.com $13,400.00 04-2007 SnapNames
zong.com $13,000.00 01-2007 Sedo
lust.com $12,700.00 05-2007 Sedo
aida.com $12,500.00 03-2006 Private Sale
usti.com $12,500.00 03-2007 BuyDomains
meka.com $12,000.00 12-2007 Sedo
Poda.com $11,840.00 06-2007 Sedo
myyp.com $11,800.00 05-2007 Private Sale
zola.com $11,666.00 12-2006 SnapNames

Feb182008

Wiii.net

Tags:

Widget, Wifi, Wii Nintendo or anything with a W and i.

This is one of my great Collection Wiii.net

Like it? Make an offer right here in this thread folks!

Happy Domaining!

wiii1.gif

Feb182008

LosAngeles.com, San Francisco.com, Philadelphia.com

Tags:

Of the six billion people on our planet, only a few dozen had the foresight in the mid 1990’s to start acquiring domain names with the idea that they could become valuable in the future. Those very rare individuals were almost universally regarded as fools who were flushing perfectly good money down the drain. Fast forward barely a decade ahead and yesterday’s fools have become today’s visionaries.

“Visionary” is a word that gets thrown around pretty casually in this business today and it is often applied to folks who, by their own admission, just happened to be lucky – in the right place at the right time. But there are true visionaries in the space and none is more deserving of that apellation than Dan Pulcrano. He saw (and bet the ranch) on the future of domains. Today he owns a near priceless portfolio that includes 20 of the 30 largest American city names in the .com extension (many already developed), including LosAngeles.com, San Francisco.com and Philadelphia.com to name just a few.

Dan Pulcrano – Founder & CEO, Boulevards News Media