Like a real estate market in its infancy, domain names are an important commodity for a business. Many times businesses will attempt to register a domain and discover that the domain they desire is already registered.

This does not necessarily mean that the domain is in use. Some domains are registered in preparation for the start of a company or remain registered after a company closes. These domain properties are often bought and sold through an exchange. A prospective buyer can search through the exchange looking for keywords or categories or other unique identifiers that will create the potential for a successful website.

DealASite.com is an exchange that offers a place for sellers to list sites and buyers to place bids on sites. It works kind of like a lendingtree model.

A seller lists a site, and may or may not put a minimum price on it.

Prospective buyers can then bid any amount above or below the minimum.

When the offering period expires the seller then has the option to sell the site to any of the prospective buyers regardless of the bid amount or the seller can hold the site and not sell at all.

Dealasite leaves the financial transaction up to the two parties, but does recommend the use of Escrow.com to help insure that neither party is defrauded.
Some live websites are even offered up for sale as a fully functioning business that can be purchased and taken over just as any performing business asset might be purchased.

Like a stock or commodities market, some buyers will even buy and sell domains on a regular basis looking for undervalued properties and turning them at a profit. Like a residential home improvement flip scenario, some web designers will purchase an existing functional website, work to improve the site, its traffic and revenue and then flip the business property to another buyer later.

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Engadget is reporting leaked pictures of the soon to be released of the BlackBerry 8100 perl.  Unfortunately, the device is not WiFi capable.  Make sure you check out some of the video demo’s at engadget also by clicking on this picture of the 8100.

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SmartMoney provided an indepth account of the situation at Echo Star owner of Dish Networks. Last week a judge upheld a jury decision in favor of TiVo that was rendered last April.  TiVo requested an injunction to force Dish Network to shut down their DVR service within 30 days.

Echo Star, the company that owns Dish network, fired back with a request to stay that injunction, and so now TiVo has to provide a response today. 

Echo Star claimed that if it shut down its DVR service it might lose customers permanently.  As much of 25 percent of its customers are DVR fanatics.

Its expected that TiVo will soon set its sights on many other companies that have participated in the production of DVR’s using technology that TiVo claims.

The list of follow on lawsuits could include companies that make or provide set top boxes and DVR’s, such as:

• Motorola
• Cisco Systems
• Charter Communications
• Time Warner
• Scientific Atlanta

and possibly more.

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