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Long Running “Domain Masters” Returns To WebmasterRadio.FM
by Chef Patrick on Jul.20, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: Victor was a great host of the Domain Masters show for many years, the industry is lucky to have him back again. Press Release: Victor Pitts has returned to once again host the longest running podcast on the domain name Industry, which has churned out over 240 episodes since its inception in November 2004. Fort
Chef Patrick Interviewed By DomainSherpa.com
by Chef Patrick on Jul.14, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: For those of you that have not already seen, I was interviewed by DomainSherpa.com which posted yesterday. Thank you to Michael Cyger for the invite and interview. I also want to add a bravo to Michael. He’s done a great job with his video interviews. Michael has interviewed some great guests such as Frank Schilling,
Frank Schilling’s Internet Traffic Now Serves Over 1 Million Domain Names
by Chef Patrick on Jul.06, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: Over the weekend Elliot Silver of ElliotsBlog.com did an excellent article comparing the amount of domain names that resolve to each parking company. The article was based off of DNS information provided by DailyChanges.com. Unfortunately, as Elliot pointed out, the data may not be completely accurate because some customers use their…
Disney Spends $700 million For ClubPenguin.com Only To Let It Expire
by Chef Patrick on Jun.20, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: Disney purchased ClubPenguin.com in August of 2007 for $700 million, $350 million cash and potentially another $350 million based on performance goals. At the time of purchase ClubPenguin.com had more than 12 million members with roughly 700,000 of them paying $57.95 per year. Do the math, that is over $40 million per year in revenue…
.CO Turns A $5 Million Investment Into Over $30 Million
by Chef Patrick on Jun.02, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: The big news in the domaining community today is that .CO has sold it’s 1,000,000th web address. Here is the statement released by .CO this morning. “.CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO domain, announced today that it has reached the landmark one millionth .CO domain name registration. Less tha…
Restaurants.com Sold For At Least $6,000,000
by Chef Patrick on May.25, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: I haven’t seen any news about this so figured I would bring some attention to it. On October 5th 2010 Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com published information about an upcoming Moniker auction which Restaurants.com was part of. Berkens posted this in relation to the domain name, “Reserve price I’m told is north of…
John Ferber’s Secret Is Out
by Chef Patrick on Mar.26, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: So what’s the big secret, we all already know that John Ferber is a millionaire from creating and then selling his Advertising.com business to Time Warner in 2004 for just shy of $500 million. You can read more about that story on ElliotsBlog.com. The secret here, or at least until Secret Millionaire airs tomorrow night,
ChefPatrickSucks.com, The REAL Truth!
by Chef Patrick on Mar.16, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: I’ve been counseled by many people on whether to post anything about this at all or not. I decided that I would share my side and then leave it there as I believe this will answer everyone’s questions on what really happened.
However, first I need to comment on motivations behind Rick’s postings because I don’…
Goodbye Oversee, Chef Patrick Is Back!
by Chef Patrick on Mar.11, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: Nearly one year ago, after being self-employed for over five years, I decided to take a position with domain name registrar Moniker as a premium broker. A lot of people questioned why I did this. Well, last January before DOMAINfest my friends Morgan Linton and Jason Thompson held their Southern California Domainers Meetup which I
Rocky Mountain Domainer Conference
by Chef Patrick on Jan.28, 2011, under News
ChefPatrick.com: I know this post is going to seem out of the blue considering I haven’t posted since Christmas, (thank you DomainGang.com for pointing that out), but that’s ok. I absolutely had to show some support for my friend Mike Law over at NameTalent.com. Mike recently announced that he would be hosting a new “never before