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 Domain Name News: The big tech news yesterday was that Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, was fired.  Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo! is a possible takeover target (when weren’t they a takeover target).  As Business Insider puts it,”That’s the equivalent of sticking a FOR SALE sign on the lawn.”  Yahoo! may have …

 Domain Name News: Domain name broker Andrew Rosener recently delved in to building out an online business, launching a daily deals aggregator at DX.com.  I ventured over to the site to see how things were progressing and noticed a dramatic change to the layout and what appeared to be new ownership in the whois. DNN contacted Rosener who confirmed

 Domain Name News: At the beginning of August, Goddaddy lowered it’s Premium Listings from 30% commission to 20%.  The company informed DNN today that they will be extending this offer through to the end of September. Godaddy’s Premium Listings are a popular way for some domain name investors to sell their “fixed price” inventor…

 Domain Name News: After watching an interview on MO.com with Brent Beshore, an Inc 500 entrepreneur, I cruised over to Inc.com and noticed another familiar name in the list of the fastest growing companies.  Matias de Tezanos and his company BrokerWeb.com ranked #20 in the 2011 Inc 500issue. The company saw a 3 year growth of 8,127% with 2010 Revenues

 Domain Name News: DNN has just received word from Godaddy that Premium Listings sales commissions have been reduced to 20% on all new Premium Listings for the month of  August.  The previous rate was set at an industry-high 30%.   Many domain name sellers had noted that the Godaddy commission was excessive but had seen good results using

 Domain Name News: Back in November of 2009, Daniel Goncalves was indicted on charges that he had stolen the domain name p2p.com from domain name investor Marc Ostrofsky and Albe and Leslie Angel.  The details of the case and investigation were docmented in a story on DNN published in August 2009. Although there have been other notable cases

 Domain Name News: DNN received an unconfirmed report today that Oversee.net had let go of several of it’s key executives, including President and CEO Jeff Kupietzky. It was also believed that because of these changes that the board had taken over. When questioned about the topic Oversee’s Mason Cole confirmed with us over the phone that fo…

 Domain Name News: After the disappointment of the DomainFest Barcelona live auction cancellation, the SnapNames.com re-do auction has ended with what most would consider to be more disappointment, only 4 domains sold for a total of $55,070. (Note this is an unofficial total). The highest priced sale, Houses.co.uk at $50,870,  received the most activit…

 Domain Name News: After technical difficulties last week, the DomainFest Barcelona auction was re-scheduled to conclude online today. The auction of Social.com had gained some press and I’m sure the cancellation of the live event was a huge disappointment for the owner.   There’s nothing more disappointing than building up buzz and getting…

 Domain Name News: Entrepreneur and domain investor Marc Ostrofsky appeared on ABC Television’s The View on Thursday for a brief segment to promote his book, Get Rich Click.  Ostrofsky talked up domain names to the five female celebrity hostesses, who grilled him with a seemingly enthusiastic interest in making money online.  As Ron Jackson at DN…