SimulScribe Buys PhoneTag.com: Rebranding for Growth

TechCrunch is reporting that Voice to Text messaging provider SimulScribe has acquired the domain name PhoneTag.com for $30k and is planning on rebranding under the new name starting April 25. It appears that Strong Inc. was the seller.
The name SimulScribe totally sucks for our business. People have a real challenge remembering the name and they […]

Domain Roundtable Auction Results April 2008

The auction has been slow starting, but there are spurts of activity. So far the most action has been on lot #82 - Retire(d).net, which sold to the room for $23,500.
Through 90 lots there’s been 20 sales for $82,970 total. More to come.
Through 160 lots 38 names have sold for a total of $177, […]

Shoppers.com: UDRP Decision That Makes Sense

UDRP threats can wreak havoc on aftermarket buyers sleep patterns. When it comes to high priced generic auctions and sales it’s commonly thought that there’s no way anyong would drop a UDRP. But it happens. It happened to Xedoc Holdings after they layed out $166k for Shoppers.com in a Pool auction.
In what I hope becomes […]

Domain Roundtable Auction List Shaping Up

Jay over at Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com just released a sneak peek at some of the low reserve domain names which will be on the auction block during the Domain Roundtable Auction on April 21, 2008. Jay has gotten a lot of flak recently about the quality of names in his online only auctions. Between these names […]

Welcome to the Official Name.com Blog

In due time you’ll come to view this space as the best way to keep up on what’s happening at Name.com as well as within the domain industry. We’ll also throw in a fair amount of non-domain related stuff just because we think it’s cool. That’s just how we roll here in Denver.
There’s big news […]