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StartUps.com shutting down Daily Deal site after a Year

May 3rd, 2012 Comments off

Screenshot of StartUps.com EmailIn an email to its subscribers today, Startups.com Network, Inc. announced that they are  shutting down their daily deal site, StartUps.com after a year. The company states that they “didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago. ” While the letter does not state anything about the future of the site, it also mentions that the company is selling Blinklist.com.

Startups.com Network, Inc. is the company behind KillerStartups.com. Serial entrepreneur Matias De Tezanos, who has worked with many premium domain names before, is an investor in the company.

See the full email after the jump.

Startups.com Is Closing Up Shop…

Yeah, unfortunately we couldn’t make a go of it. We didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago. So, with regret, this news of our departure from
the realm of Daily Deals. This may be a shocker to some of you and we want you to know that we’re really sorry we failed to achieve your expectations.It’s Spring and it feels like the right time for us to do some Spring cleaning. We’re evaluating all of the projects we’re working on, (and we’ve got tons, believe me), and unfortunately we had to
make the painful decision of shutting down Startups.com as a Daily Deal service.

We’re selling Blinklist.com, and shutting down other sites as well. There’s no point in going on
with something just because you’ve been doing it for a certain amount of time. In a startup, as
you well know, everything takes up your precious resources. And people’s time and effort is something we can’t afford to waste. We believe this is the right time to pull the plug.

New and fresh ideas need room to grow and for us that means clearing out some of the old ideas which never took off. We wanna thank you, one of our 20,000 loyal subscribers for sticking with us for all this time.

We’re really sorry we couldn’t make it work for you. But hey, life goes on. Best of luck in your endeavors, we shut our doors knowing that we did all we could to help you grow your online business, which was our main goal for launching Startups.com as a Daily Deal site.

To Your Continued Success!

gonzo P.S. Reach out to me at gonzo@startups.com with comments, concerns, just to say “Sorry, it was good while it lasted,” or to share your stories about the awesome Deals you got on Startups.com.

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DNN’s most popular articles in April 2012

May 1st, 2012 Comments off

The most popular posts on DNN in April of 2012 by web traffic were:

  1. XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers (04|15|2011)
  2. Joichi Ito Joins Tucows Board (12|15|2008)
  3. Frank Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com now powers 1,500,000+ domains (04|19|2012)
  4. Will Marchex Sell iPanel.com to Apple? (04|05|2012)
  5. First Brannans Domain Auction by Clements brothers yields $34,000 ( 04|09|2012)
  6. Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years (04|16|2012)
  7. Internet.bs Corp Responds to KnujOn Accusations (04|09|2012)
  8. Keep Playing the Music . . . Really, The Ship’s Not Sinking (02|22|2008)
  9. LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool (04|16|2012)
  10. ICANN Issues additional statement regarding new TLD Application System Bug (04|14|2012)

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Sedo Is In The Porn Business?

February 8th, 2012 Comments off
Wait a minute, what? When did Sedo become a porn website? ***WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW – DO NOT LOOK IF OFFENDED BY NUDITY*** Let me start off by saying I don’t know how long or if anyone else has noticed this before, but this is a first for me. So this morning I was heading [...]
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Domain Registrars “Blackout” in Opposition of SOPA and PIPA legislation

January 18th, 2012 Comments off

I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the online protest with sites like Wikipedia, Reddit.com and thousands of other sites going “dark” to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Even Google blacked out their logo today in protest.

If you haven’t noticed this maybe you noticed that your favorite registrar also joined in the protest. Domain name registrars such as NameCheap.com, Name.com, Hover.com (and likely some others I’m not aware of) jumped on the protest bandwagon today as well. Name.com blacked out their sites name similar to what Google.com did. Hover.com, whose parent company Tucows shut down their software downloading site for the day, ran a simple header across the top of their site in protest.  Namecheap.com took it the furthest with a complete “overlay” of their home page turning it in to a virtual blackout in protest of the US legislation.

Godaddy.com which had previously been blasted for supporting the bill also did their best to protest their new stance with a pip-squeak banner ad “below the fold/babes” on their homepage. With all the bells and whistle distractions on the Godaddy homepage, I’m sure this caused mass confusion for their customer base :)

Many before me have pointed out the concern with the SOPA and PIPA legislation and why it is dangerous. Hopefully the US legislators begin to hear from the people that are opposed to this and start to change their stance or reconsider the way to fix the problem without creating more problems.

  Here’s a video that explains things

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Submit A Domain Name For Sale On Domaining.com’s Newsletter Today!

January 4th, 2012 Comments off
Francois, owner of Domaining.com, has organized a special domain name sales newsletter that will benefit sellers and bloggers. The idea is for the blogging community to promote January 9th’s Domaining.com newsletter, giving it more eyes for sellers and increase newsletter reach. In addition to the blogger circuit the newsletter will be broadcast on two popular domaining [...]
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Netflix.com Forgets To Renew Its Domain Name

October 7th, 2011 Comments off
Ok no, Netflix.com did not forget to renew its domain name, but this is funny. Still, within the humor are several important messages. Don’t forget to renew (auto renew) your valuable domain names. Buy easy to spell and pronounce domain names, nothing too tricky. Secure your developed brand by purchasing available typos. Watch the entire [...]
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.XXX Sponsoring A Boat, Second One In The Last 30 Days

October 4th, 2011 Comments off
The news of .XXX sponsoring a powerboat broke late last week, so I am a little late to posting. Although late, I think it’s great news. Any chance of getting the word out about domain names is awesome and this is certainly a BIG way to do it! This is now the second boat that [...]
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Internet Marketer Meets Domain Names Webinar Today

September 11th, 2011 Comments off

Internet marketer and chiropractor “dk” (as Dr. David Klein is known) networks with all the big names in Internet Marketing. Once a year he holds a thinktank event where many successful business professionals network and exchange ideas. Some domainers have already been there too. In order to promote this years event he’s holding a series of webinars and has invited Adam and myself to join him to bring the world of domainers and marketers together.

The webinar takes place today at 8pm EDT, 5pm PDT – make sure to register now to participate.

To learn more about dk, read this interview by our friends over at MO.com.

Here is how dk announced the webinar to his list today:

Having a premium domain name without good content on it, is like owning a piece of ocean front property and not bothering to build a home on it.

And for those of you who know how to build sites that make money, there are tons of domainers sitting on quality domains, who don’t know where to begin to build them into real sites. They literally would beg you to build out their premium domains into real sites.

Frank Michlick domain consultant and expert, and Adam Strong domain name wizard will be joining dk, who has helped all kinds of sites, including facebook.com to make more money.

We are not selling anything. This is simply part of the ramp up to dk’s thinktank, which takes place next week. It is an invite only event, which takes place on the beach for three days, with top guys from all parts of the internet business world.

Should be a fun ride for domainers, and guys who turn domains into money machines.

Tonight at 5:00 pm PDT, 8pm EDT. Click here to register.

Join us – we’d love to answer your questions there.

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DNForum Announces 6th NFL Pool with almost $4,000 in Prize Money

August 29th, 2011 Comments off

Via email from Adam Dicker:

DNForum announces its 2011 NFL pool, this is our 6th year running this pool.

There is almost $4,000 in prize money up for grabs so good luck to everyone.

All you have to do is pick who you think will be the winners in games each week. The one with the most right selections wins.Each week has a first, second and third place prize.

This is a fun way for DNForum to give back to the community that has supported us over the last 10 years, Enjoy and Good Luck!

The pool is FREE to join and FREE to WIN!

More information is available in this thread on DNForum.


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Disney Spends $700 million For ClubPenguin.com Only To Let It Expire

June 20th, 2011 Comments off
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. You [...]
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