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(Above: "Featured commentary" on Bido)
Today auction of MyEntitlement.com has ended up with one bid and sold for a total of US$ 2.00, lowest auction ever so far on Bido. Some may think we're disappointed by that however that is not the case. We're here to provide the platform, to provide you, the motivated seller, with the tools to sell, and for th...
I registered a new domain name this morning. To be honest, I was very surprised that it was available, but that's domaining for you.The newest addition to my portfolio is SalesRecruiter.co.uk.Given that there are many specialist sales recruitment firms in the UK, the domain name already has resale value.Probably not fantastic value, but it's generi...
ICANN President and CEO Dr. Paul Twomey today that he will leave the organization after his contract expires this year. The announcement came on the opening day of the current ICANN meeting in Mexico City.
When someone tells me they are thinking of starting a new domain conference I tell them "think of something else!" But when Modern Domainer told me last year that they were going to put on a new show during Mardi Gras in New Orleans I started looking for a flight. Here's what really went down at Domainer Mardi Gras.
As I am sure most of you have noticed, DNUnderground has been down since January of 2009. We wanted to announce that as of last night, we got most of DNUnderground's content back up, and DNUnderground will be constantly updated as it was before the crash.
We thought viewers definitely deserved an explanation as to why
The ICANN meeting in Mexico City is well under way again for the third day. If you are interested in listening in on the meetings, many of the audiocasts can be found by clicking on the event list at the ICANN Mexico website.? If you don't know much about ICANN it may be a good
ICANN president Paul Twomey announced this at the opening ceremony at the ICANN meeting in Mexico that he is going to step down as an ICANN president at the end of 2009.
"Last year, I told the Board that I did not want to renew my contract as President and CEO for another 3 year term,"
Dark Blue Sea Profit Down 80% [DNW]
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NameDrive is introducing 6 new innovative templates.
According to ICANN staff's presentations at the ICANN meeting in Mexico the opening up of the application process for new TLDs will be delayed until December 2009 or the first quarter of 2010. In addition there will be a third revision of the new TLD guidebook, which was initially supposed to be considered completed with
Elliot Silver has announced that his company, Top Notch Domains, is starting a domain consulting service for domainers and businesses which will offer domain portfolio analysis, domain valuation, domain acquisition strategy, domain sales strategy, and domain purchase or sale negotiation.
"I have had considerable success as a domain investor and I a...
Two new registry consulting & services companies - Minds + Machines and Central Registry Solutions - were launched at ICANN Mexico City to help anybody interested in starting a new TLD work through the process from beginning to end - saving time, money, and confusion along the way.
Minds + Machines was founded by two very
Many domain owners see a drop in income, but few take big plunge.
With all the horror stories out there of domain parking revenue down 50%, self-reported results from the 4th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey show parking revenue isn't that bad.
To be sure, 45% of people said their domain parking revenue was down in 2008
New York Times articles seem to predict mortgage mess.
I know this is the second time I've gone off topic in just a few weeks. But with the Dow dropping below 7,000 this morning, I have to bring this up.
The origins of the housing bubble and mortgage mess are complicated but were preventable. You
Getting your TLD approved by ICANN doesn't mean it will go online.
Section 1.2.3 of ICANN's Applicant Guidebook for new TLDs points out a stark reality for new TLDs: they may not work. Worse, they may work in some places and systems and not others:
All applicants should be aware that approval acceptance of their applications
Domain company sees profit plummet as revenue slips 6%.
Dark Blue Sea ASX (Code: DBS), parent company of domain parking provider and domain registrar Fabulous, reported that profits for the second half of 2008 plummeted 80.5% compared to the same period in 2007 as revenue dipped 6.3%.
Revenue totaled $14.56M compared to $15.53M in the second half...
After $2 auction, platform needs to step up quality fast or users will lose interest.
I love Bido.
There. I said it. Bido is an imaginative auction platform. It's the first truly social domain auction platform. Stop by the site during auction hour and you can join a discussion. Prior to bidding
ICANN is apparently embarking on a million dollar campaign to convince us to buy their story on generic domains. Its reported that the campaign will start in Q4 2009 with a series of announcements and PR.
The Australian is reporting that Dr Twomey said an independent panel would be appointed to decide who would be allowed
Not long ago I posted some minor things that I would like to see added to Sedo.com and Sam N. from Sedo just informed me that you can list a domain name with price showing on the landing page and still allow an interested party to submit an offer. It was news to him as
BankSolutions.com is currently on auction with 3 hours until it ends! Current bid is only $192 USD at time of posting.
Bank Solutions has great end user potential and would make for a very strong "brand". Domain name is very clean, looks good and speaks for itself.
BankSolutions.com was first registered January of 1997 and has been
It seems like I just did a this and that post not all that long ago.. Oh well, not much free time today to blog, but here was what I was up to.
~ I was working on some SEO via my blog today. Lot's of things to learn, but many things make sense what I
For many domainers, when they think of the ideal domain name sale, they think of making a six-figure sale to a blue chip/fortune 500 company.
Given my intimate knowledge of Internet marketing, and the trend that I have personally seen in the corporate world, I always knew that that was a flawed outlook.
Most Fortune 500 companies
Tickets for Associated Cities' 2009 GeoDomain Expo, scheduled for April 23-25 in San Diego, California, are now on sale, and the early bird registration fee through March 15 is just $595/person.Registration after March 15 is $695, and registration on site is $995.
I believe this is the best conference for people who own geographic domain names
R...
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about how important it is to back up your data, and I recommended using a flash drive for your data back ups, which is what I did.? A few people commented and others emailed me about this topic, and a few of those notes suggested that an online data
Related posts:Back Up Your Data! I'm glad this post isn't a "I wish...
Successful Internet entrepreneur and domain industry veteran Elliot Silver has announced that his company, Top Notch Domains, LLC will offer domain consulting services for corporations and individual domain investors.? Elliot Silver has bought and sold more than one million dollars in domain assets, and his two companies own and operate several ind...
So, I'm not exactly sure how many of you have heard of uSniper.com, but it's pretty much a new FREE program that allows you to automatically place bids on domains at Godaddy auctions. This is an extremely helpful service for those that normally browse the auctions daily and try to get domains. If you set
The United Arab Emirates will now allow Arabic domain names for websites, which was previously restricted to using only English characters.
The proposal was put across by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority as part of a national strategy to manage Arabic language on the internet. It was officially approved by the Ministerial Council for Ser...
Official Google Blog: Search and find magazines on Google Book SearchNYMag.com and Google have reached an agreement to have New York Magazine's archives dating back from 1968 to present to be made available online. Imagine the content and monetization ideas that can be created online for category domain names and geo-domains by scanning archived co...
The 5min Blog » Blog Archive » 5min Unveils VideoSeed for Smart Syndication"5min’s semantic syndication platform for instructional video programming now reaches 100M unique users via our vast network of partner publisher sites. This platform pairs brand advertising with relevant video from 5min’s library of hundreds of thousands of new and existing...
The cry that comes up very often from the domain community is, ?they don?t get it, they don?t understand why my domain is worth xxx.? I myself have said just this and commented that we need to educate businesses and individuals on the benefits of owning a good domain name.
I was reading an article on seasteading in the English Times and it brought to mind the whole Kentucky gambling website situation and moving off-shore. Seasteading is the idea of creating communities at sea and that can include being outside the reach of government regulation and law. The term covers many ideas including communities on
Offers.com officially launched this week.? A great domain, perfectly matched with an application.
What makes this story so interesting is that the developer is also a domainer and used both of his skills to launch the site.
Steve Schaffer, is the Founder & CEO of Vertive, Inc., a Leader in Performance Marketing & the creator and developer...
Paul Twomey, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
In a prepared statement, Twomey did not give a reason for departing, other than to say he wants to "move on to another leadership position in the private or international sectors." He said he declined a three-year contract renewal with ICANN last...
The .ME Registry today announced 35 of the domains reserved by the registry will be auctioned off at Sedo.com.
Online bidding for these names begins March 26, 2009 and remains open until April 02, 2009.
The full list of .ME domain names available for bidding are:
Add.ME
Bet.ME
Book.ME
Clean.ME
Compare.ME
Discount.ME
Dodaj.ME
Download.ME
Drink.ME
Em...
More news out of the ICANN meeting in Mexico City today.
ICANN has started a "Working Group on Registration Abuse Policies (WGRAP).
The Working Group mission is to define domain name registration abuse, as distinct from abuse arising solely from use of a domain name, while it is registered. The Working Group is also charged with identifying...
According to report by the Wall Street Journal, tonight, it appears Microsoft has been testing it new search platform named Kumo as a replacement to its current platform, live.com
It also appears according to a report by theregister.co.uk,? that the domain Kumo has recently changed hands from Dascar Samira Facendo of Venezuela, who is also owner...
"Not everyone who buys toothpaste visits a dating site. But everyone who visits a dating site buys toothpaste"~~Rick Schwartz (The Domain King 1997)"Since September, the site has brought onboard ChapStick, Colgate-Palmolive and TV network ABC as clients and is working with them to develop branded content. ChapStick, for example, hosted a popular "K...
Here is new evidence that will keep you hanging on and talking up death of pc=birth of mobile=death of .com=birth of .mobi crap in the forums:Gartner predicts sharpest decline in PC sales everWorldwide PC shipments will tumble by the largest percentage ever recorded in history this year, with desktops hit especially hard as mini-notebooks boost gro...
For those who wonder why mainstream doesn't "get" domains..."WhiteHouse.gov," Phillips said, "is not like BarackObama.com or Change.gov. We're not running a campaign anymore. To us here, WhiteHouse.gov is not just a Web site. The new programs that we will roll out are more than just URLs. They are new ways to engage with citizens. Stay tuned."Phill...
A search of the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy decisions by WIPO and NAF of .net domains reveals the following results. It is no surprise that .net domains are heavily cybersquatted along with the .com heavyweight. In many instances,...
At long last I’m continuing the series that I started at the end of last year on the risks associated with purchasing traffic domain names. You can read the previous three articles by clicking on the following links:
Part 3 Risk – Where did all the traffic go? (index.php/20090123503/Domain-Analytics/Risk-Part-3-Where-did-all-the- traf...
Are we missing something? But when you list your domain names with Google, you can view the page impressions (including the Landing Page and Results Page impressions), but when Google reports your earnings, they don't display which channel/domain namethe earnings came from. This isn't keeping us from listing our domains with Google, considering tod...
I decided to pick up some more dot IN domains this past weekend. I and many other domainers have seen the potential of ccTLD's for some time now, but they are really coming into the limelight now with folks like Rick Latona diving into ccTLD's.
Even though there are still many opportunities in the dot com
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...
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