GOOGLE in European antitrust inquiry - Search rankings and advertising service to be probed... Is Google utilizing its strength to keep some advertising pricing over inflated?  Not the first anti-trust review however the details are interesting...  What are your thoughts?

New Google Search Layout?

Looks like Google is testing a new page layout for search.  Nothing major but my first thought is if its not broke don’t fix it.  If your using the newest version of Chrome you will notice the changes.  It is not resolving for me yet on FireFox or IE.

Let me know what you think?

Luke

Just a quick note that we are interested in purchasing domains in the following categories…

- Health / Beauty Domains
- Diet Domains
- Law Domains
- Finance Domains

If you have a domain or a portfolio of domains that you are interested in selling for a REALISTIC price.  Then please submit your domain(s) and pricing here.
Thanks!

Luke

PITCHfest 2010 – DFG

DevRich presented painFREE Development (aka “The Lazy Button”) at the 2010 PITCHfest. Competing in the 2nd round of pitch’s. I (Luke Webster) rolled out our new Free Portfolio Development pitch.

Peter Celeste of Oversee moderated the event.  The panelists where judged by a seasoned board of professionals including the founder of DOMAINfest Ron Sheridan.

Root Orange (winner of the people choice award; congrats guys) kicked off day 2 of PITCHfest with an overview of their unique approach to “Localized Domaining”.  Skinected was next showing off their very colorful monetized background skins for parked domains.   Chad Folkening took the grand prize with his Rapid Domain Builder platform a robust system allowing domainers several options for buildout (nice work!).  I followed up with DevRich’s new painFREE Development.  Thanks to everyone involved it was a real pleasure and very entertaining.

One thing that became unfortunately obvious as the Q&A sessions began for us pitching was a slight disconnect from the judges on the reasons why we were all there.  The idea was that we would be showcasing new development and monetization ideas/solutions for domainers.  All parties presenting had prepared their presentations for being reviewed based upon Creativity, Viability, Originality and Revenue Potential (revenue for our clients) instead we all found ourselves in more of a SharkTank answering questions no longer from the perspective of a domainer (ie Johnny 50k Longtails) but from the perspective of a investor (ie Warren Buffett) looking at our corporate revenue model and bottom lines.  A bit off base from what we all understood the objective was.  I did feel that this change in direction was limiting and rather pointless for the audience as to my knowledge no one presenting was looking for investors/venture capital.  That being said I don’t feel it affected the outcome of the awards.  But I do feel we all could have connected more with our target audience with a bit more solution related questions and perhaps audience Q&A as well.  From my experience domainers don’t care about my bottom line they care about theirs.  Nor do they care how much work has to be done as long as they are not the ones doing it… =)

Looking forward to seeing you all again next year and thanks for the best domain conference we have attended.  The hotel and staff at the Fairmont where excellent!

Luke Webster

We are at DOMAINfest preparing for PITCHfest today.  It is a beautiful sunny southern California morning.

DevRich will be presenting our portfolio development platform that we are branding painFREE development.  The idea is we will subsidize the upfront costs of development.  Allowing domainers to develop their portfolio without the huge upfront initial investment.

Please pay attention to the site for additional information.