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We are en route back home to Florida after stops in New Orleans and Ohio. Some things you need to know while we are making the trip; our weekly domain sales report will be pushed back one day due to our travel commitments and while we are in the air today, news may come of a major domain industry acquisition.
What WordPress theme are you using and do you like it?
I get this question a lot so I wanted to do a quick response for future reference. This way if I'm asked again, which I know I will be, I can just refer to this link.
This site is based on a theme called Live Wire
XF.com Investments is pleased to announce the launching of the most exclusive domain forum on the Internet. Found at www.XF.com,?the Exclusive Forum? already has representation from top domain investment companies across the globe. Corporations such as Reinvent.com, Directi.com, NetraCorp LLC., BPHG Media and Fabulous.com are
charter members of thi...
Sedo announced this morning that they purchased parking company RevenueDirect from registrar Dotster.
[Sedo Press Release, Dotster Press Release]
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DomainFest Global: January 28th to 30th in Hollywood California. Register by December 31st and save $100.
We were liveblogging the Domainer Mardi Gras Aftermarket.com Live Auction. 26 Names had bids before the auction started. Out of the listed 51 domains, 34 sold (66.67% of the inventory) for a total of $439,369.00 with voodoo.com being the highest sale for $300,000 and Heal.tv being the lowest sale for $300. About 40 people were
Verizon recently filed two cases against domain owners claiming trademark infringement. The first case was filed in California federal court(PDF).? The second case was was filed recently in a Virginia federal court (PDF).
DNN was tipped off that Verizon had started the California case in an unusual way. Verizon apparently used the recent DomainFest...
Aftermarket.com announced on their blog today that they have added 10 more no reserve domain names to their Domainer Mardis Gras extended auction which ends on Saturday. The company is also continuing their charity raising effort by agreeing to donate $100 for each No Reserve domain sold - no matter what the sales amount is.?
Sedo has acquired RevenueDirect, Dotster's domain name parking service.
Sedo has acquired domain name parking company RevenueDirect.
For established domain parking companies, acquiring another domain parking company usually doesn't make sense. Parking companies rarely have long term contracts with customers, so the acquirer risks seeing acquired...
Registry to take additional measures against buyers who haven't developed domain names.
It's taken a long time, but buyers of premium .mobi domain names appear to finally be developing their domain names. dotMobi says it will take additional measures against those who have not taken this step as required in their purchase agreement.
I've written ...
Clever ad pokes fun at single serving sites.
Those guys at Woot, the one-a-day product showcase, sure are clever. Consider this advertisement on downforeveryoneorjustme.com:
Woot is poking fun at so-called Single Serving web sites that do just one thing. Part of the irony is that this ad is on the single serving web site downforeveryoneorjustme....
Japanese find ways to navigate web even before IDNs.
In an article titled "Domain names? We don't need no domain names", IDG News Service writer Martyn Williams explains how the Japanese use the search box in lieu of domain names.
Instead of typing Google.com into their browsers, they search for Google at Yahoo.
On the Yahoo...
Sam Nunez explains the RevenueDirect acquisition and the potential for future acquisitions.
Sam Nunez, VP of Product Management for Sedo , answers some questions about the companies acquisition of RevenueDirect.
Domain Name Wire: When did Sedo first enter into discussions with RevenueDirect/Dotster about acquiring the parking company?
Nunez: The ...
I had submitted several domain names to the Aftermarket.com domain name auction for Mardi Gras and all with No Reserve. Yes, I submitted a couple so/so domains but I also put in several nice domains as well. (irrigators.com and GenuineGold.com/.net)
I was a little upset when nothing made it into auction but that's the way it
I have listed a mix of domain names that I own for sale on SnapNames.com . Some are Buy It Now listings and some are Auctions. All end Today, Feb 24, 2009 but the Buy It Now domains can be gone at Any Time if the BIN option is used.
4n.net Buy It Now $6875 Rare
Sedo.com is clearly doing things Right! They are selling some great domains at great prices which is very exciting to any domain name seller.
These are a couple things that I wish they consider to offer or change.
~ Parking Pages: If you park your domain name with SedoParking.com, the parking pages are not bad, but if
WhyPark is a unique company whose platform can allow you to customize dozens, hundreds or thousands of domain names into websites with fresh daily content and multiple monetization options for just $.99/each (or less in bulk). Instead of solely relying on type-in traffic to produce revenue via parking, your site has a much better chance
Related ...
I just received a very interesting e-mail from RevenueDirect, a domain parking company that I use sparingly. Apparently, Sedo now owns RevenueDirect. Not that great of news to me since for some reason Sedo has left a sour taste in my mouth late-2006 after trying to squeeze out "acceptable" customer service from them. Business is
Forums are a legitimate way to develop a domain but I rarely use them. Proponents argue that the content is created by users and it brings life to a website. This is true but does that outweigh the negative aspects of forums? In my experience, forums are rarely worth developing except in certain cases.
The origins
Search Marketing Standard Magazine - You can subscribe by following this link.
In April of 2008 I took a very risky move and started to advertise in Website Magazine. We took out a 2-page spread to make sure that everyone noticed us.
In August we added Internet Retailer. Again, with a two-page centerfold.
Shortly after we added Modern
I think that's a Jonas Brother's signature. LOL
A month or so ago I was thinking about our auction business. It occured to me that I have an auctioneer, an auction staff and a willing audience. It was one of those "whoa" moments where I realized I should be auctioning off anything and everything that people
Morning folks!! Interesting that out of the 3 part series that the #3 post had the most readers. #1 sets things up, the meat of the posts are in post #2 and that was the least read. Go figure. I had a very constructive conversation with Moniker yesterday as well. I think they get it. They know what they need to do and I am confident that they heard...
I am writing this post from my PDA so bear with me. I am going to be calling similar post in future "micro posts"
Most domainers will not want to believe this. I am a domainer so this is a painfull micro post to make. I believe that for this moment, the smart money
There is nothing spectacular about this post. There is no big secret to unleash I am just going to tell you what I did recently that increased the number of offers I got for my domains even in this though time.
Before I start I must give you some background info. I park most of my
Yahoo announced today the launch of three new targeting products for advertisers.
The car maker Volvo, filed a case under the dispute resolution panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), against? the owner of a spare parts seller, for control of the domain volvospares.com.
The panel found that the owner of volvospares.com was found to have legitimate interests in the name.
The panel said that although the dom...
My representative at Enom.com informs me that they are offering discounts on any premium .tv domains you may have, if your willing to renew them now.
I just renewed one of my few premium .tv domains, great.tv for 2 years.? With interest rates at 2% you could save a lot more by renewing any premium .tv
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The roiling economy is reversing the fortunes of traditional media across the spectrum and has caused a leading forecaster to revise its initial outlook. A new report from private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson projects that overall spending on media will fall 0.4% in 2009, after an increase in 2008 of 2.3%. The compan...
Reality Sinks in at Online Advertising ConfabRecession Could Lead to Business Failures, Irrational RisksNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- For five years online was advertising's growth business, but 2008 delivered a wake-up call: Online advertising isn't immune to the recession, and it's only just begun.That reality has clearly sunk in at the annual meeting ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co (NYSE:AXP - News), battered by mounting credit card losses, is offering $300 to a limited number of U.S. card holders who pay off their balances and close their accounts, the company said on Monday. "We sent the offer out to a select number of card members," said Molly Faust, a company spokeswoman. "We are l...
Some new research in Psychological Science from The Association for Psychological Science, tells us that human beings tend to find unpronounceable product names risky.Two made up food items were put head to head, Magnalroxate and Hnegripitrom, and the latter, which is almost impossible to pronounce, was declared by consumers to be the most dangerou...
After Party being held for Domainer Mardi Gras Auction further benefiting Habitat for Humanity
From DomainConsultant.comWhat's an after party without those great, fun ‘No Reserve' names to add some fresh fever and flavor to the mix? Aftermarket.com and DomainConsultant.com are proud to announce the addition of ten high-quality, keyword-rich d...
One of the things I'd like to do with this blog is to share lots of domain names that are still available to register. I spend quite a bit of time trawling through expired domain lists and of course it's not possible to register all the names I come across and it just seems
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