DNJournal reports Moniker has sold Best.com for $331,561 and Best.net for $36,840. Current whois information is protected by Moniker’s privacy service. Previous owner is believed to be NTT Communications. By visiting Archive.org it appears that Best.com was a domain registrar and web host with Best.net forwarding to the .com version. Best.com/.net are both currently parked with Sedo.

Best.com $331,561
Google Results: Not on the first page for buy domain names or register domain names.
Google Page Rank: 6
Compete.com Traffic: 18,070 Unique and 18,194 Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 14,986

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

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Press Release:

London, UK (PRWEB) November 5, 2009 — eBusinessDomains.com has partnered with The Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a product of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), to broaden their domain search inventory of high quality domains.

Under the terms of the agreement, eBusinessDomains.com will market DDN’s domain inventory via its marketplace, which will show in search results next to domains listed directly with eBusinessDomains.com.

Buyers will acquire domains by clicking on a link at eBusinessDomains.com that will take them to the FabulousDomains.com (Dark Blue Sea’s domain marketplace) website to complete the transaction.

The partnership will bring the following benefits to eBusinessDomains.com’s customers:

• Full access to over 500,000 quality aftermarket domains via domain searches.
• Secure payment processing via the FabulousDomains.com website.
• Fully automated transaction, with instant transfer of the domain name ownership via the Fabulous.com Registrar.

eBusinessDomains.com’s founder and CEO Kevin Jackson said, “As a premium domain name marketplace that specialises in selling domains to entrepreneurs and small businesses, we are delighted with our partnership with the Domain Distribution Network, as it expands our inventory and will help us to satisfy the growing demand for quality domain names. We are now able to comfortably supply domains to all niches and business sectors.”

“The Domain Distribution Network is very pleased to partner with eBusinessDomains.com as we continue to expand our distribution channel,” said Jen Sale, Business Development Manager of The Domain Distribution Network. “eBusinessDomains.com truly seeks to add value and satisfy market demand by providing premium domains to small business owners and their customers. We foresee great success for the program.”

About eBusinessDomains.com

eBusinessDomains.com is a premium domain marketplace offering quality pre-owned and pre-registered generic domain names for sale. eBusinessDomains.com specializes in offering to entrepreneurs and business entities of all sizes, domain names that can be used to successfully brand, market and grow their businesses. eBusinessDomains.com also runs regular domain auctions for premium domains with reserves as low as $50. For more information, please visit www.eBusinessDomains.com.

Contact:
Kevin Jackson, Founder and CEO
eBusinessDomains.com
+44 7988684992
kevin(at)ebusinessdomains.com

About The Domain Distribution Network

The Domain Distribution Network empowers domain owners, buyers and sellers to distribute, purchase and sell domains instantly via a transparent registrar-to-registrar protocol. The Domain Distribution Network is operated by Dark Blue Sea Ltd. Dark Blue Sea is the direct navigation expert, whose suite of products including Fabulous.com (ICANN accredited domain name registrar, aftermarket sales and monetization platform), DarkBlue.com (affiliate network) and Roar.com / PageSeeker.com (PPC advertising networks) provide a fully integrated package. Dark Blue Sea is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (code: DBS) and has a Level 1 over-the-counter ADR program through the Bank of New York (code: DKBLY). For more information, please visit www.domaindistribution.com and www.darkbluesea.com.

Contact:
Jen Sale, Business Development Manager
Domain Distribution Network
+61 7 3007-0036
jen(at)domaindistribution.com

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I received this email earlier today from SnapNames explaining that one of their employees setup an account on their system under a false name and, under this name, bid in SnapNames auctions.

DomainNameNews.com dug a little deeper and found the username created was “Halverez” which belonged to Nelson Brady, VP of Engineering Bidding on Domain Names. This username was also in question as early as December 2006 which you can view the discussions on DNForum.com.

UPDATE – Ron Jackson has just posted pictures of Nelson Brady a.k.a. Halverez, visit DNJournal.com.

I personally applaud Oversee.net for uncovering this issue and not only making it public but providing a solution.

Below is the email in it’s entirety, full details of misconduct and their solution.
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Well, not the world, technically. Not yet anyway. I have to take this in baby steps. First, I have to get over my fear of public speaking. If you remember I just got over my fear of roller coasters a few months ago. Now it’s time to get over this one. For me there is no better way than to jump right in and start talking about domain names.

Tonight I will be speaking about buying and selling domain names to a small group of 15-50 attendees. As far as I know, they have zero knowledge of our industry. I will have 45-60 minutes of time to explain the overall essence of buying and selling domains. That’s definitely not enough time to teach our business, but hopefully a start to get them interested.

Not only will I be speaking tonight, but again on Thursday night (provided I make it through tonight). Again, no better way to get over something than to jump right in and face it head on. If everything goes well the organizer and I will put together a 4 hour paid workshop hopefully before the end of the year. I also have intentions of offering my services to anyone that will listen, including domain and blog industry events.

I may try and get everything on video. If I do then I’ll post it tomorrow, as long as I don’t look too bad, lol.

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On day one of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference held in Brooklyn New York last week, I had the pleasure of spending some time with Michael and David Castello. Let me just tell you, in all sincerity, these guys are two of the nicest people I have ever met. I had a great time speaking with them and am happy I had the chance to do so.

For the few of you that have never heard of the Castello brothers, their collection of domain names speaks for itself. Their portfolio include names like PalmSprings.com, Nashville.com, Whisky.com, Cost.com, Daycare.com and many many more. Visit their about page on CCIN.com to read more.

They were kind enough to do an interview with me. Now, just to prepare you for the video, I asked one somewhat edgy question. The question was; did you guys luck into the domain industry? Let me explain myself, because this is in no way shape or form how I feel at all. I have heard the following statement too many times, “I wasn’t lucky enough to have registered domain names ten years ago.” I love what David says in the video, “most people will not do something unless other people are already doing it.” I know the vision and courage it takes to be first, because I’ve done it in my prior real estate businesses.

I apologize ahead of time for the video sound quality. Unfortunately there were not many private areas for us to do the interview. As you’ll hear in the background, the hotel staff was setting up for the welcoming party sponsored by DomainAdvertising.com.

On a non-domain related subject, Michael and David were gracious enough to donate a piece of history to The National September 11 Memorial and Museum. This took place only hours before my meeting with them.

From left to right:
Michael Castello, Jenny Pachucki (9/11 Museum), Alexandra Drakakis (9/11 Museum), David Castello

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