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When I bought Acro.net on eBay for about $180 - a bargain for a 4-letter, 12 year old domain with a 4-million Google keyword - I hadn't thought of using it as my blogging site. In fact, I hadn't thought of the blogging process as much more than a platform to vent off. A year
I remember the day I got my first phone number and was listed in the White Pages. Then thirty days later, the bill arrived in the mail and I realized it was not as much fun. In the early 90's I got an email address and in the mid-90s an ICQ number. That's all I
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What is accurate pricing anyways? I touched a little on the subject in part I, where I stated "the initiative for accurate pricing should be on the seller and the seller only". But how do you educate sellers to price correctly? A step further, how do you educate two professionals to price correctly? By listing an item in a live/event...
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Many wish to use the services of auction houses are not ready, willing, and able. This post is for those who wish to sell, need to sell, and motivated to sell. If you belong to the group who wish to hold tight to inventory, this isn't meant for you.
Ready, willing, and able:
Ready: This one is about motivation. If you are not motivat...
Qualified bidders for Fridays auction of Toys.com have begun to be posted. In addition to Faculty Lounge which is the stalking horse, new bidders include Eagle, LLC, which was the entity which purchased assets for Toys R Us at the previous auction, and National A- 1 which documents state has already wired $1,500,000 into an attorney trust account. ...
New research from comScore shows the recession is driving a huge wave of new traffic to search terms related to financial matters, traffic that adds value to related generic domain names. Also today, some notes on Sedo's acquisition of RevenueDirect and Aftermarket.com's Domainer Mardi Gras online auction.
I was doing some research on the top domain name sales of 2008 and found something very interesting. Forty percent of the top domains sold are not developed.
The following information was compiled using sales reported on DNJournal.
Domain Name
Invest.com
FinancialAid.com
LowFare.com
FinancialAide.com
Floor.com
Seks.nl (Sex in Dutch)
Action.com
A...
If you haven't caught-onto the Twitter craze yet then it's time to leave the cave and come play with the rest of the world. All joking aside, Twitter is making headlines everywhere. I was watching the news this morning and the reporter spent an entire five-minute segment just dedicated to Twitter - the interesting thing
ICANN has gone mobile for the upcoming public meeting in Mexico City, using icann.mobi to publish useful information for all attending the event.
The mobile version of the website will help conference attendees access information directly from their phones including the full meeting schedule, a map of the venue, a twitter feed, security advice, tax...
It was another solid week for AfternicDLS with over $500,000 worth of reported domain sales. Some of the highlights included RCSI.com for $10,000, MLTD.com for $9,800, RippleEffect.com for $8,000, and AutomobileInsuranceQuotes.com for $6,750.
Check out the full list - which includes several notable non-English .coms, a few decent IDNs, and a $5,000...
Last week Sedo reported an incredible $1 million worth of domain sales. Although the results weren't quite as high this week, closing at around $800,000, there were plenty of impressive sales including Forums.com for $399,990, Primus.com for $33,000, Statoil.ru for just under $30,000 (23,400 ?), EnterpriseGroup.com for $17,500, and Mama.es for $15,...
A look back at last week's top sales on Sedo and Snapnames .
Domain Name Wire will now publish newsworthy information about sales from SnapNames in addition to its coverage of Sedo sales.
But before discussing expired domain sales, there is a big .com sale to report from Sedo: Forums.com has sold
Sedo and Parked.com selected as top domain parking companies.
For the third year in a row, Sedo has topped Domain Name Wire's survey for best domain name parking company. Here are the top 4 vote getters including percentage of the vote:
1. Sedo /SedoPro 33%
2. Parked.com 17%
3. NameDrive 11%
4. Fabulous
As part of new TLD process, ICANN commissions study on pricing restrictions for registries.
After receiving a number of comments about lack of pricing limits in new TLD registry agreements, Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has commissioned a study to determine if price caps should be implemented.
A number of domain owner...
The TaylorMade Tourino Stand Bag is today's Woot on Woot.com . Coming in at only $59.99 plus $5 shipping is a heck of a deal!
As Woot put's it.. you can put a lot more things in a golf bag then just clubs. lol, Wrapping paper, Swords, Foam Katana's and more. Consider it a cool and
Sedo.com is continuing to impress with 5 figure sales and strong 4 figure domain name sales as well.
Man.org sold at Sedo at $12.5K . Men.org also sold recently for the same price ($12.5K) according to NameBio.com at the Moniker TRAFFIC auction (12-17-2008)
VoipReview.com at $15K
FastGold.com $5K
TheLoveShack.com $5.8K
AtAir.com $3.2K
PerfumeOils....
Here is a Hotlist of current domain names on auction at Godaddy.com . All domain names are directly linked to it's specific auction. Auctions can end from Today to 10 days from now. All auctions start at $10 USD.
I liked the domain names listed below for one reason or another and maybe you will as
I like to do a "This and that" post from time to time as it allows me to cover several things at once. Most of the things I cover in these kinds of posts do not hold enough info for me to do one post.
~ Vivid.com aka Vivid Entertainment, the world leader in adult entertainment
We really don?t know if the pretty woman on our eBusinessDomains.com homepage did us any favours or not. Perhaps she helped us to secure some domain sales, or she did a better job at distracting our clients.
Well, regardless or what she did, our relationship is about to come to an end. We will be replacing
I am a relatively new Twitter user, and although I might not be the best person to discuss the benefits of Twitter because of my limited experience, I want to share how I am using Twitter to help build my brands.? Twitter is a powerful tool that companies and people can use to promote and
Related posts:Will Twitter Buy Tweeter? When I was hangin...
The internet in 1997 - AOL, Stock Market, iMac, and lots of "LOLS". Figured this was humorous enough for domainers. Forward to 1:20! ~ Colbert Report Internet in 1997
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...
Auction DetailAcai affiliate domain offered in this month's Great Domains premium domain auction- 'AcaiWeightLoss.com' auction ends Feb/26/09 12:00 PM EST (11 bids at the time of this blog post)... Click headline to bid
Quick post to let you know that there is a new tutorial showing you how to style your headlines in CSS. I have also added better quality video to replace the video?about how to make?a website banner in Photoshop. I will be adding more tutorials as time permits
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I have been reading both Rick and Sahar's blog posts recently on auctions. I come away wondering if auctions are really the best model for buying and selling domains. Are auctions bringing new money into the industry or recycling old money? Is the industry growing through new domainers bringing in new money or through sales
When most people read this title, they will?instinctively think this is a brokerage deal. Well let me stop you right here. It was not a brokerage deal.? I have told this story before in a forum right after it happened so if you have read it before, move on but if you have not, it
Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they've been working on called USniper.com
USniper.com is a FREE service that allows you to automatically place bids on expiring domain names at the time you designate. You choose the price, and you choose the bid time, allowing you to stop worrying and being
The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here, a phrase burnt into everyone's memory by Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk.
That's what came to mind a week ago when I saw a stack of "the real yellow pages" sitting in the mail room of the condo i live in.
Now as
According to the Kelsey Group, mobile advertising revenues are expected to skyrocket to $3.1 billion in five years, especially local mobile activity.
The group says, mobile advertising will have an annual compounded growth rate of over 80%.
Currently, mobile advertising sits at $160 million in 2008.
In looking at mobile local search alone, the grou...
Market research group IDC said today that internet advertising could fall by as much as 5% in the 1st quarter of 2009, which would be the first contraction in online ad spending, since the dot com bubble burst in 2001.
IDC analyst Karsten Weide also said the U.S. Internet ad market could get worse in the
There have been a few stories in the last days that seem to indicate that Microsoft is still interested in Yahoo or at least its search business.
Today Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jorgensen of Yahoo said it was "not opposed" to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search business.
However, he went on to say
The Ladders has doubled its TV advertising budget and launched two new commercials created by the Fallon agency.NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marc Cenedella is one of those rare marketers who's doing well as a result of the recession. He's CEO of TheLadders, an online job site that lists exclusively positions that pay $100,000 or more. The company is awa...
Domain humanitarian Rick Schwartz taught me a lot about the world and domains. He's always professed that some simple tweaks to page layout and other nuances can make a huge difference in revenue. He urges constant testing and refinement. A case in point:JARED M. SPOOL: How Changing a Button Increased a Site's Annual Revenues by $300 MillionIt's ha...
Here's proof that the most profitable domain development can be a simple as possible.But if you land here, beware of the man bearing free gifts. Remember all those "drop your card in the box" at tradeshows where you'd never win anything but always end up on a mailing list... well registering a domain with the name "free" in it, making a landing pag...
There was time when cybersquatting was pursued vigor as business model. After trademark attorneys and their clients turned up the heat, attitudes changed somewhat. Domainers sought to clean their portfolios of cybersquatted domains in order to avoid domain disputes under...
The Wall Street Journal has very interesting article on the value of numeric domain names titled What’s In a Name? More and More, a Number Despite Limited Success of Digits, a Numeric Trend Blossoms in Internet Domain Monikers; 10012.com, Anyone?...
If you're already using WhyPark, we don't have to tell you how our development platform makes it quick and easy to customize your sites to be more effective.But maybe you feel you don?t have enough time to customize your sites the way you?d like too. We understand - you?re a busy person after all. That?s why WhyPark has combined our most popular se...
Domain At Hand: meatlessrecipes.com
What's Going On?
Miri Rossitto is a new client of ours and this is a name that we completed the development of on Nov. 25th of 2008.
meatlessrecipes.com is a domain Miri bought from BuyDomains last year. The site was parked up until we developed it. The keywords meatless recipes have a high advertiser
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