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January 23, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain online marketplace Sedo (sedo.com) announced on Wednesday that the demand for aftermarket domain names grew substantially in 2007, setting a new benchmark for the market in the coming years. Sedo also topped the $70 million mark in domain sales in 2007, almost two times that of its 2006 total.
According to Sedo's annual report titled, "Sedo's Secondary Domain Market Study for 2007," the continued increase in domain name value was spurred by the necessity for organizations and businesses to secure quality domain names that are no longer available through traditional registrars.
The report also found that advertising revenue generated from domain name parking, or matching pay-per-click advertisements with relevant domain names, also increased substantially as parked sites offered visitors more compelling content. Average domain name sale prices also went up by approximately 7.8 percent due to an increase in value of both geographic and other alternative top-level domain extensions like .co.uk, .eu and .mobi while traditional alternative domain extensions such as .info and .biz decreased in average value.
"2007 proved to be another banner year for Sedo as even more businesses and investors became aware of the pivotal role secondary domain names play on the Internet," says Tim Schumacher, CEO for Sedo. "We look forward to continued global expansion in both our domain brokerage and parking service offerings."
Last week, Sedo held the first GreatDomains Auction of 2008.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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