Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Apr 28, 2006

The Wine Lover’s Media Feast

It should be clear to anyone who has paid close attention to the wine media over the past decade that the amount of good, entertaining and useful information available to consumers and the trade has exploded in quantity. Interestingly, it is on the Internet, not the print media, where the vast majority of that exploding information is coming from. This makes the evolution of the wine media different in no way from the rest of the media. There is a…

Mar 3, 2006

Wine Domain Name Economics

Domain Name Commerce…Now there’s a topic that hasn’t been hot since the heady days of the Internet Bubble. Yet today I run across a press release by winedomains.com, a company that traffics in domain names…as you might expect. They report that with the opening up of direct sales after the May Supreme Court ruling, sales of wine-related domain name sales have increased siting the consummating of the following sales: CabernetSauvignon.com    $20,000 WineList.com        $21,255 RedWines.com     …