Category: News

Items.com which sold in January on Sedo for $50,000 recently launched a shopping site.  Items listed on the website range from “At Home” items to Beauty, Clothing, Computers, Electronics and more. 

The Items.com web site appears very new as the Facebook, blog and twitter entries associated with the site went online about a week ago. 

Traffic to the domain name items.com which had been previously parked was just over 2,000 unique visitors per month in March, but with items.com developed, and getting ready for summer shoppers looking to purchase swimwear and other items, it’ll be interesting to track the progress of this site’s traffic.

Items.com is currently the #50 top domain sale in 2010, and while many other names remain parked in the DNJournal YTD chart, the owners of Items.com strategy is development to make the best use of its investment.

According to the website:

items.com is a hot new way for consumers to find and compare all the best online deals out there. Get a better shopping experience by utilizing all of our fun and functional features. At items.com we utilize intuitive search to help customize your shopping experience, while cutting down search time. Our lively shopping community consists of consumers just like you. Join our community and voice your opinion on popular products and offer your expertise by talking about experiences you have had. Walk away from our site with a better idea of what deals are available, and what products provide the best bang for your buck. Become a better shopper at items.com.

Goodnews.com isn’t limited to a Coming Soon page, the website is in beta as well, and you can access the beta website and learn about Kevin Ham’s newest plans for an online business powered by group buying.

You can probably expect the full version of the website to be unveiled soon to the general public, but during the beta period you can visit the site and check out today’s deal, recent deals and a whole lot more.

And this venture is definitely run by Kevin Ham. According to the Beta website’s about page under the Who We are section:

We admit it, we’re deal lovers ourselves. That’s why our entrepreneurial team, based out of beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia (see our office Webcams), isn’t happy unless everyone shares the good news.

Our parent company, Reinvent, Inc. is a private online media and advertising company, as well as a leader in the business of direct navigation on the Internet. Working with our portfolio of over 400,000 premium domain names and the extended Reinvent Network, we receive over 30 million unique visitors every month.

The domain name Rookie.com expired on April 20, 2010 and goes to auction on May 25.  It already has 59 bids with a high pre-bid of $2,301 on NameJet. 

The domain name was once owned by the National Rookie League which had a website online in the early 2000s before being disbanded.

According to Wikipedia:

The National Rookie League (NRL) was an American unaffiliated minor league for the National Basketball Association that completed its inaugural season in August, 2000.

The NRL was exclusive to players under the age of 24 and was designed to help prepare the nation’s most talented young athletes for a professional basketball career.

It consisted of just four teams, located on the eastern side of the country: Baltimore Blaze, Washington Justice, Philadelphia Force and the Delaware Destroyers.

The National Rookie League was disbanded in 2002.

Hallpass Media has launched a new company site that showcases the company’s collection of highly entertaining gaming and virtual world websites.  The owner of Hallpass Media is the March/April cover story at DN Journal and Bill has been the subject of several stories here on Fusible.com in recent weeks.

A week ago we wrote about the facelift to the Hallpass Meda site that was more a landing page, but that all changed today.  Bill emailed earlier and said the new site has been launched just today.

The new site has a cleaner interface that immediately draws attention to the popular internet properties such as StickGames.com, GirlGames.com, GuyGames.com and more.  There is also a section for advertising that offers information on the demographics so that companies looking to advertise to teens, moms, and women for example, can easily choose VirtualPets.com and WordGames.com.

In the last story run here on Fusible.com Hallpassmedia buyer of CookingGames.com, gets a facelift; over 3,000,000 gamers monthly, Bill commented and even offered up advice to domain investors:

Develop those generics folks!