Domain Name Drop Market over $10M

WSJ ($) reports that domain name expiration auctions totaled $11.5 million in 2005 (2,291 sales were reported) which is almost triple that from 2004. In related news, I registered a new domain with Godaddy.com the other day and they informed me that Google is allegedly now looking at whois info related to lenght of registration to aid in determining page rank. Godaddy specifically asked me whether I would like to register the new domain for two years because Google looks unfavorably at one year registrations. Not sure if its a sales technique, gimmick or scam. Anyone out there see anything on this. (tags: godaddy, google, page rank, domain names, drop catchers)

09:05:26 February 22, 2006, Wednesday (PST) Source: techlawadvisor/blog

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