David Warmuz, Author at Above

Trellian and Above.com Acquires DomainState.com

October 17, 2013January 20, 2010 by David Warmuz

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of DomainState.com, one of the oldest and highly respected Domain related forums online. We do have a few …

Drop.com.au Hides Proxy Bids and Stops Snipe Bidding

October 17, 2013January 14, 2010 by David Warmuz

Drop.com.au the Australian drop catching service for com.au and .net.au domains just announced two major changes to their bidding platform. Extended bidding time to stop snipe bidding and hidden bids on all domains that you are not participating in.

This is great news as it was always a big rates to place bids in the last few seconds only to lose the domain, one that you would have bid more on, if you had the extra time. I feel that this will really increase drop’s daily takings and is a good move.

To read the full notification from drop.com.au here.

Happy New Year from all of us at Above.com!

October 17, 2013January 1, 2010 by David Warmuz

Just a quick note to wish all of our clients a very happy and prosperous new year/decade!!

Above.com – DDoS Attack and Down Time Report

October 17, 2013December 13, 2009 by David Warmuz

******* Edit Latest Update – The DDos Attack has been resolved. ******* Unfortunately the Above.com service was targeted and hit by a severe DDoS attack, …

Sedo Launches A New Website Look

October 17, 2013December 8, 2009 by David Warmuz

Just noticed that Sedo.com home page has received a facelift. A brand new website. But that is not all, after you login you are greeted with a whole new interface. Everything has been changed…

This will take some time get used to…

However from the first feel of things it is a substantial improvement for end users trying to find things.

NameDrive Releases NDX 6 Months Sales Figures

October 17, 2013December 7, 2009 by David Warmuz

Since launching in May 2009, 4526 domains totaling $4.64 million have been sold and successfully transferred using NDX Market’s brokerage and sales platform.

Name Drive reported that 24 different TLDs have been sold on NDX Market. The dominant TLDs were .com and .de domains, making up 40% of the sales between them.

Above.com Parking Manager Servicing Over 1 Million Domains

October 17, 2013December 3, 2009 by David Warmuz

The Above.com Domain Parking Manager has reached and surpassed a major milestone this November. Optimizing and reporting on over 1 million parked domains. 1.2 million domains to be exact.

These domains are parked via 15 different Parking Companies and for good reason. Each domain parking service has strengths and weaknesses. Some are Google based and some are Yahoo based, some do better on US traffic, some do better on International traffic, some do better on adult or gaming domains others do better on travel or finance domains.

DomainWatch Raises Minimum Bid Prices

October 17, 2013November 30, 2009 by David Warmuz

Effective as of 1 Dec 2009 DomainWatch.com.au the Australian drop domain service that competes with drop.com.au has advised that the New Minimum Bid is going to …

Fabulous Acquires Domain8.com.au Drop Service

October 17, 2013November 13, 2009 by David Warmuz

Dark Blue Sea the parent compnay of the well know domain parking company Fabulous just acquired the very successful Australian Drop Domain Service Domain8.com.au

Similar to the SnapNames service, Domain8 run by George Pongas, took over where DomainWatch.com.au another Australian Drop Service started. Domain8 was both a registrar and a drop domain catch service, butonly the Drop service was acquired.

Yahoo Gives Out SYNDICATION Rights to DDC!

October 17, 2013November 5, 2009 by David Warmuz

Just received an email from Yahoo effectively advising that they have given Syndication of their Search Feeds the GREEN light.

Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Service) is a great Open Search API, where the goal of BOSS is simple: “to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.” Source http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Yahoo have removed the daily caps, removed all the other restrictions that were with the original Yahoo Search APIs. Well Done Yahoo… that sure is one way to get a lot of third party tools using Yahoo search, aka greater search share for Yahoo.

The Interesting part was that Yahoo emailed advising to sign up via their 1st Yahoo! Search BOSS syndication partner DDC.com. Here is a copy of the email received: