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As Andrew previously noted, The Boston building housing the U.S. operations of Sedo had an electrical fire on December 8th. A notice on Sedo’s web site stated that all Sedo employees escaped without serious injury. Sedo is headquartered in Germany, with servers located in a number of different locations. The fire did not affect any of Sedo’s web operations. A Boston television station noted that more than 50 people were injured in the fire. The 17-story building is owned by MIT but reportedly had a number of tenants. Nearby roads were closed and the Boston transit system’s Red Line was temporarily halted.
Sedo disclosed a partnership with Dotster to offer Dotster clients one-click access to Sedo’s domain marketplace or brokerage service when the domain they searched is by now registered. As stated by Sedo, this marks the fifth such integration of its secondary domain name marketplace at a major registrar this year. In Q3 2006, Sedo reportedly sold more than 1,200 domain names through the registrar channel, resulting in significant fresh revenue for Sedo’s registrar partners and more transactions for Sedo’s domain sellers. Sedo and SedoPro are highly recommended.
TrafficZ disclosed fresh images in their image bank:
- business: freight, moving firm, vending machine, criminal justice, justice
- geography: Boston, Florida, Hong Kong
- health: AIDS
- misc: bathroom, bright flowers, celebrity, curtains, fall, grocery store, lightning, lingerie, lingerie 2, men shoes, men shoes 2, night club, old film, plus size fashion, women shoes
- sports: boxing, wrestling, street fighting, badminton
- technology: desktop
TrafficZ also noted in Mid-December that “landings, uniques and searches have not updated properly in your Domain Manager … still verified revenue data is being accurately noted. Our network engineers have isolated the issue and are right now working hard to resolve it…. Please be assured that all traffic and revenue has been and will continue to be accurately tracked on our system.” Income does seem to be holding fairly steady.
ParkingDots appears to have stabilized their stats problems, but they still have a disclaimer on their site warning regarding delayed or incomplete stats. Our income has been stable, and they still pay top dollar at 80%. If things remain stable they will again be a highly recommended site in the future. If you have domains there that are doing well, I don’t recommend moving them.
DomainSponsor continues to hold back their planned customization platform. As we noted last month, this interface will eventually allow you almost complete control over the look and feel of your domains. DomainSponsor continues to finalize plans for DOMAINfest Global. EuroDNS, Circle ID, and Name.com have sighed-on as sponsors. DomainSponsor is highly recommended.Following announcing in late November that it has purchased Afternic, NameMedia, the firm behind ActiveAudience and GoldKey, followed-through and replaced DomainSponsor with ActiveAudience as the preferred parking provider on Afternic. Expect to see GoldKey get a face lift in 2007, with many of the features right now on ActiveAudience migrating to the GoldKey platform. I personally hope that they keep some of GoldKey’s simplicity when they do the face lift. ActiveAudience and GoldKey are both highly recommended.
Parked continues to pay out twice a month. I don’t know of any news from Fabulous or Dotzup (which we are still in the early stages of testing). IMonetize is working pretty well for us, but not in the very top tier. Others apparently disagree, as it remains one of the top choices in our ParkQuick poll.
Also in the latest Name Monetizer newsletter you can read regarding Domainer’s Magazine – the fresh Print magazine for domainers and get the real scoop on Why Park – a “non-parking service” that creates websites on the fly for your domains. As always – Thanks, Andrew!
Leonard Holmes
