The burning question among domainers this week is: how much will sex.com fetch on the auction block on March 18th?
It reportedly sold for $14 million in 2006, but many consider that price tag way too high for today. But one never knows. Poker.org sold for a cool million recently and insure.com was sold for about $16 million last year.
Reports show that the site gets 120,000 unique visitors per month nowadays for nothing other than the name. In its heyday, however, sex.com cashed in $15,000 a day. Maybe the makers of Cialis or Viagra could scoop it up and retest that kind of money making prowess?
The auction is being run by Richard Maltz of Maltz Auctions who announced that all prospective bidders require a $1 million dollar certified check to participate. Here are the details should you have the means:
Auction Date & Time: Thursday, March 18th at 11:00 am.
Auction Location: Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, 156 West 56th Street, New York, New York 10019.
Further information: www.maltzauctions.com
We all know that inspiration sometimes comes from the written word. Steve Rogoschewsky, CEO of BlackSun Inc. based in Saskatoon, recently completed the purchase of a letter handwritten by Lady Diana.
The letter, purchased for $990 from England-based Dominic Winter Books Auction, was about how Princess Diana found comfort by practicing feng shui during one of the distressing periods in her life.
"We're interested in owning pieces of history, small pieces that influence our lives," said Rogoschewsky.
The Web hosting company has an interesting collection of memorabilia including a signed book by Albert Einstein, a dozen Pablo Picasso signatures and obscure video games systems.
BlackSun keeps the following quote from Einstein and the Universe on display: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
The 14 employees from the Saskatchewan-based Web hosting provider, which began operations in 1998, find inspiration from that each day, said Rogoschewsky.
There's no doubt that the data center market continues to heat up, in more ways than one. The market will obviously enjoy further expansion as demand for data center facilities increase.
Digital Realty Trust released survey information from 300 corporate IT decision makers on March 3rd indicating that a vast majority plan data center expansions in the next 12-24 months. In fact 83 percent will proceed with expansion by 2011 with 36 percent saying the plans will definitely take shape by the end of this year.
It was somewhat surprising that he need for additional power is the top reason for data center expansions, rising from fifth place on last year's survey to first place this year.
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To kick off the Cloud madness at the
Parallels Summit 2010, the popular "Show me the money" clip from Jerry Maguire was shown on the big screen. It set the tone off well to the 'Profit from the Cloud' theme in the three day extravaganza held on February 22-24 at Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach.
Melanie Posey, IDC Research Director, in her opening keynote, quickly alluded to the fact that large businesses will be able to navigate their own way in the Cloud market but SMBs need to partner with service providers. This, she noted, "is the way to gain access to new capabilities that wouldn't be accessible to small businesses otherwise.'' The key to success then, is to offer services or packages that eliminate the complexity for the end user.
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As I stare out my window and watch wet snow and strong wind beat down on the winter-weary pedestrians, I breathe a long sigh of relief. The Parallels Summit, the fifth such event, is a mere five days away.
The Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach is firmly on the radar of the thousand or more attendees and though I suspect most are thinking sun and sand initially, the focus will eventually gravitate to the Cloud.
Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service, Automation and Virtualization are concepts that may be new to some right now but those with a thirst for more information will find plenty available through February 22-24.
Many on hand will want to turn knowledge into profits ASAP. Expect no empty seats during Business Tracks such as Profiting from Software-as-a-Service delivered by an all-star hosting panel and How to launch and make money from Cloud Services from Parallels CTO, Matt Domo.
Although there are dozens of must-attend keynotes on the agenda, the tech-savvy will have to squeeze in Industry Tracks such as Will Online Backup grow to be your biggest SaaS business? and Google Services for Websites.
So while Parallels has mapped out an agenda for all to 'Profit from the Cloud' - it's up to you to seek out ways to benefit from the sun and sand. See you in Miami!
