Low x,xxx to a million dollar sucessful web hosting business?

I was looking through domain sale history in the past and I found some interesting domain sales because the end users have developed the domains into multimillion dollar businesses.

I am a bit “hosting” keyword orientated and therefore was looking at the “hosting” keyword domain sales in the past. I found out that the domain which was sold at Afternic in 2007 became a successful web hosting business. It was the domain JustHost.com, which has now become recognised web hosting provider. JustHost.com domain was reportedly sold for $1,300 at Afternic in December, 2007. I think it would NOW be regarded as a multimillion dollar business because of its status as an established web hosting provider. When I checked its Alexa ranking , it was around 2,700 and they have grown quite a bit within just over 2 years if the domain sale report was right. The business head office is based in the UK and it also has headquarters in US and an office in Australia.

No Google Flowers for China

Chinese citizens, grateful to Google for stepping up against the unholy internet filters, started leaving flowers at the China location for Google, reports say. Al-Jazeera reports that  Chinese citizens are aware they are getting shafted by Chinese government policies and are happy someone is finally standing up to Big Red. This could mean a slammed shut China market for domaining and web space enterprises. Many experts cannot predict where China’s inflexibility will take their internet presence and how citizens will react.

China delimits Internet Webmaking

As befits a national government free of corruption, China today underscored its intent to censor Internet activity centered on website launches and content creation, citing prevention of child-based pornography, piracy, and fraud.

Yet transparently this seems to many to be a way for the current political establishment to elimination development of the opposition. And, ironically, these efforts to shut down sites leave the options to buy .Cn domains to foriegners.

“Individuals have also been banned from registering Web sites ending in .cn, China’s country code domain name. That domain is now limited to registered businesses.

 Although individuals can still register Web sites in other domains, such as .com and .net, the new rule “will have a negative impact on the vibrancy of the Chinese Internet,” Kenneth Jarrett, vice chairman of the communications firm APCO Worldwide’s China region, said in an e-mail message.

“Local e-mail e-commerce startups and individuals will find it difficult to apply,” he wrote.”

from the New York Times

Michael Jackson Death nearly crashes Web

A major force in popular culture, contemporary music, visual media, and modern dance has died and the world is the poorer for it. Michael Jackson at 50 has died entirely too soon to suit hundreds of millions of people on earth. But they all rushed to the internet to talk about it, proving once again that social networking operates as a universal benchmark of what people are cocnerned about.

Michael Jackson’s death Thursday afternoon has brought enough world emotional impact that individuals across the planet looking for more information and consolation crashed Twitter and the Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia entry. Emotion ran high and fans erected memorial sites. Facebook and Youtube participated in each other’s bandwidth helix of shutdown pain.