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This week I am working away in the sun on some asbestos surveys. It's a regular occurrence now and it's nice to get away from the cold and rain of England for a few days, though I do miss the family.Here's the view from my hotel window.I wouldn't be seeing this if it hadn't been for developing a particular domain!A few people joined my notification...
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Continuing a trend we saw develop in 2008, high end domain sales remain few and far between while small business end users dominate aftermarket activity with four-figure and low five-figure purchases. All reported sales were well under the $50,000 mark
The acquisition of a well-known domain industry company is about to be announced, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for their conference which runs next week in Hollywood, California and the daughter of a well-known domainer is featured in an exclusive Huffington Post interview.
In the first major domain company acquisition of 2009, Ask Sponsored Listings (operators of Ask.com), a division of Barry Diller's IAC internet empire, has acquired Sendori.com. Sendori operates an innovative exchange that pairs domain owners directly with advertisers who buy their direct navigation traffic.
Sorry it has been a few weeks since adding a comic strip. Between the holidays, site changes and the recent contest it completely slipped my mind.
This weeks comic is extremely funny and very true.
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I'd like to thank Mark Fulton for the idea. An email will be sent shortly with his prize options.
Everyone
I posted a list of 49 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum.
Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past and future free lists.
If you want to learn more abo...
DomainSponsor has published the final DOMAINfest agenda and it looks like the conference is once again set to be the premier event of the year for expert insights and opinions on the many changes impacting the domain, search, and advertising industries.
DOMAINfest Global 2009 - which is being held at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California,...
Domainers will have the chance to rub shoulders with Hollywood celebrities and athletes at DomainSponsor's fundraising event for Autism Speaks, which will be held at the Playboy Mansion on Thursday, January 29, during DOMAINfest Global.
Some of the celebrities and athletes planning to attend the event include Brady Anderson (Cleveland Indians), Ken...
Company sources confirm that direct navigation company Sendori.com has been acquired by Ask.com sponsored listings.? Specific details of the transaction were not provided.
Sendori.com provides a unique service in the domain space. Rather than parking domain names on a page with search listings the company's service partners domains with advertisers...
Patent office rejects subdomain patent after EFF complaint (c|net)
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Here are some things for domainers to consider now that the Kentucky case has been overturned.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court's ruling that the state could seize domain names associated with online gambling. The Court of Appeals ruled that domain names weren't "gambling devices", which was part of the statute...
eWeek writer can't get copycat whois record changed.
I've heard people complain about "whois identity theft" before. Essentially, this is when someone uses your name on their whois record. You can imagine how this could potentially be troubling for you, depending on the domain name. But in the case of eWeek writer Larry...
Moniker customers will be able to list domains for sale on Snapnames from within their accounts.
Domain Name Wire has learned that Moniker and SnapNames will introduce a new feature next week that makes listing domains on SnapNames easier. The feature will allow customers to list domains on SnapNames from within
Alternative rock group wins bizarre domain arbitration.
This is a follow up to the story I wrote in November (Rock Group Wants ThirdEyeBlind.net). Third Eye Blind has prevailed in the dispute.
In November I speculated:
The owners of ThirdEyeBlind.net seem to be dodging the band by changing its whois information repeatedly. The latest whois inform...
Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC, acquires direct navigation company Sendori.
Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), has acquired direct navigation monetization company Sendori for an undisclosed amount.
Sendori offers an alternative to domain parking that automatically redirects type-in traffic rather than requiring a...
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 21, 2009) - DomainSponsor?, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net and organizer of DOMAINfest Global?, the domain name industry?s premier conference, has published the final DOMAINfest? agenda, which features a comprehensive list of experts who will offer insights and opinions on the key changes impacting the doma...
I contacted somebody today about buying their domain name and got a reply that I have yet to hear in my years of domaining. That doesn't happen that often, so I thought I would write about it a little.
The domain I contacted the person about is no longer a "site" but the owner surely felt
Can domain name flipping still be done in this current market? Where can domain names be flipped? How do I do it?
It really depends on the time/effort you want to put in. Flipping can be easy and you should be able to do it in any kind of market. It ALL depends on the domains
LH.com is back online.
As you may recall, Lufthansa Airlines won a highly criticized UDRP decision for the name, but Future Media Architects, the owner of LH.com immediately filed suit to prevent the transfer of the domain name. FMA owns a tremendous number of great domain names, and they have a policy of never selling a
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There are many great reasons for a person to consider leasing a domain name.? Although the cost of leasing a domain name rather than buying it can be much larger over the long run, it's a great opportunity for a fledgling business to get started with lower upfront costs.? The company is able to prove
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I decided I am either going to sell TrickOrTreating.com in the next few days or I am going to develop it.? First, here's a brief sales pitch. The keyword "trick or treating" appears to be highly searched, according to Google's Keyword Tool.? As one can imagine, most of the searches are done from September through
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I noticed some pretty good legal domain names on Snapnames dropping in the next few days. I really like town/city + attorney or lawyer names, and there are several. I pointed a few of them out in my "Top Drops" page, but there are some other pretty good ones at good prices.
Related posts:Top Drops Every week, I will try to update this with a....
MoreIntellingentLife.com, which looks like a small subsidiary magazine of The Economist, put together a very interesting article about how to make the effort to clean up the Earth a more attractive proposition for people.
It is basically a study in marketing and their point is that the current global green marketing campaign is not working.? They...
A Google document from 2007 entitled "Google Guidelines For Quality Raters" was released into the wild last year. I wanted to analyze it a bit because if you are going to develop a domain, then this document describes what a quality site is, in Google's eyes. Much of this information is what you should be
Two hundred years ago women didn?t even ride horses. Now, when I take my daughter to her riding lessons it?s noticeable how there are no boys there. It?s certainly a girl?s hobby these days and probably the most expensive hobby an eight year-old could have.
My daughter has been taking lessons for years and recently my
I was watching CNN yesterday like most people. I however did notice something interesting. I noticed that a lot of the ads on TV now centers on these themes " We, Together". Everything seams to be community oriented and how you can make the world a better place by getting involved. Notable mentions are the
The silent auction from the Internext show closes tomorrow, Thursday January 22 and 3:15pm, 12:15pm PST at snapnames.com.
You can download the complete list here: (excel file)
Going through the list I found some interesting domains.
WARNING:? THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS ADULT TERMS
For you .me lovers there are several good ones that caught my atte...
Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. who follows Google, stated today that there has been a "weakness in keyword pricing" at Google.
""""Online advertising agencies and Google AdSense affiliates suggest that the primary causes for decreasing keyword pricing were lower paid search conversion rates that prompt advertisers...
The child online Protection Act, a law originally past in 1998 is finally done.
The Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of the case.
Shortly after the law was passed in 1998, a federal judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction against the statute on free speech grounds and the law has never taken effect.
The
Moniker.com released the list of domains for its "Live Low Reserve/No Reserve Auction",? which will be held on Tuesday January 27th at 7pm PST at the DomainFest Show in Hollywood, CA.
Both Live and online bidding will be available for this event.
As always reserve prices are provided in ranges and the list is subject to change:
Finally some basic visual WordPress video tutorials in one place. Far better than trying to source tutorials from YouTube and the like. Simple, easy VIDEO tutorials that make it even easier to execute WordPress. Included is information from the infamous WordPress taining camps.
Thanks Brady
Advice to visit only legitimate Web sites appears to be meaningless as increasing numbers of mainstream sites contain known malicious code.
Seventy percent of the top 100 Web sites either hosted malicious content or contained a link designed to redirect site visitors to a malicious Web site during the second half of 2008, claims Websense's report...
Unlike other new TLD's, I think this one may have some potential from an domain investment standpoint and from a business perspective.
The new .tel TLD is a bit different from other TLD's that have come down the pike. All other existing TLD's map domain names to web sites via DNS. The .tel is not about
Domain At Hand: Ammoshops.com
What's Going On?
Ammoshops.com is one of our own domains that We developed in July of 2008.
Ammoshops.com is a perfect domain for our mini site development. Ammo is a highly searched term with many competitive advertisers. We chose five of the best keywords for each content page based on a combination of searches...
There are many plugins and other solutions to block spam from your Wordpress blog. There is a lot of debate as to which methods work best but I think that manually approving comments and using comment captchas is a lot of extra work turns visitors away.
The biggest problem I have had is with people using
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