March 04, 2009 Posts

part I, part II, part III are here Let's look at what a professional trader looks like. As I know a couple I will try my best to give you an idea here. So who is the professional trader and how does he thinks? The professional trader is not attached to the deal. He buys because there's a good deal to buy and he is well aware there are others out th...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This week a German country code domain flattened the competition in all extensions with a big six-figure sale at Sedo. The next two names on our Top 20 chart were both sold for a second time with one doubling in price from the last time it changed hands and the other jumping 28%.

If you have been involved in the internet industry for a reasonable amount of time, chances are there are a few web pages about you, or that mention you. Matt Cutts from Google discussed on his blog that he'll get an email from time to time with people requesting Google remove certain pages from their

Linton Investments has unveiled its latest creation - DNVideos.net, a website dedicated to premium Domaining videos. This site was inspired by blog readers who have told me over and over again how hard it is to find high-quality, reliable videos about Domaining online. With so many marketing videos and poorly-created tutorials online across a numbe...

AfternicDLS sold nearly $800,000 worth of domain names last week including Claim.com for $80,000, CounselingDegree.com for $11,000, Regattas.com (sport of boat racing) for $10,000, FreeBay.com for $10,000, and LiberalArtsDegree.com for $8,000. Check out the full list of domain sales after the jump, including over $100,000 worth of? non-.com domains...

Sedo had yet another strong week with over $800,000 USD worth of sales. The most notable domain of the week was FlatRate.de, which sold for 160,000 EUR (over $200,000 USD) - but there were plenty of other noteworthy sales including: Bruxelles.com for 28,500 EUR (over $35,000 USD) - "Brussels" in French, a city in Belgium with

Former Vice President Gore, who often took barbs about his misconstrued statement about ‘inventing the internet', can now partially lay claim to inventing a new domain name. Al Gore and his Alliance for Climate Protection have announced? their intentions to join a group of other "internet entrepreneurs, leading scientists, ecological and phil...

Moniker limits domain submissions to 250 and provides additional guidelines. Responding to results and criticism of recent live domain name auctions, Moniker is setting a limit to auction submissions to April's TRAFFIC auction. Domain owners may submit a maximum of 250 domains to the auction. Frankly, this number is still too high but is a step...

Registrar with valuable domain names receives breach notice from ICANN. Parava Networks, Inc. dba 10-Domains.com, has received a breach notice (pdf) from ICANN for some pretty serious issues: 1. Not paying its accreditation fees to ICANN 2. Not escrowing its whois information as required 3. Failure to take steps to correct inaccurate whois informat...

Bankruptcy court approves landmark domain name sale. Judge Brendan Shannon of the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware has approved Toys ‘R' Us purchase of the toys.com domain name for $5.1M. The domain name was auctioned last Friday as a continuation of an auction held the first week of February. In the original...

Domain registrar's web site down for two days due to hardware failure. Domain name registrar Dynadot is recovering from a hardware failure that took dynadot.com offline for two days. Webhosting, dns servers, website forwarding, parking, and email forwarding were not affected. In an email to customers, Dynadot president Todd Han explained: …...

DomainReport.ca - DNjournal released their weekly domain sales report today, and there were many country code domains that sold, including a few .ca's.twister.ca - $1,000 USBU.ca - $1,650 USTicketAgency.ca - $1,250 USTicketStore.ca - $1,250 USThe top country code domain sold was FlatRate.de for about $200,000 US. It's surprising how english words ...

53.mobi Building on mobile banking momentum, 53.mobi marks the site of the first two-character Internet address used specifically for the mobile phone DUBLIN and WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- dotMobi, the company behind .mobi - the only Internet address created specifically for locating content that works on all mobile phones - today ...

This is a Hot Domain Auction Alert for the domain name FSBOProperty.com . FsboProperty.com has been registered since 1998 and has never dropped. The current bid price is $170 USD and the auction ends in about 1 hour @ 9:02 PST as of posting. FSBO is a popular acronym for For Sale By Owner and the term

I recently exchanged emails with the director of my grad school program (MS in Direct & Interactive Marketing - now the Integrated Marketing Program) at NYU, and I let her know about some of the things happening in my business and personal life.? Among other things, I mentioned that I am using my direct marketing Related posts:Email Marketin...

Remember the Dynadot downtime? You don't? It was that period where when you wanted to change the nameservers of a domain name in your Dynadot account that you couldn't. You got that stupid "Technical Difficulties" warning. Yeah, now you remember? (Personal experience) Well, here's Dynadot's explanation! P.S: My intro to this post might seem a littl...

Domains on a whole, even great ones, are not going to be doing so good in a few months. A massive tidal wave of domains getting ready to drop.....especially alternative TLDs to the .com. It will be phenomenal to watch. The extra supply will lower the purchase prices willing to be paid by other domainers. End user sales on a whole might still do ok....

This is a Micro-Post meaning it is a very short post and should take you less than 3 minutes to read. The radio station in my area just caught on to Twitter?(about time) ?and was making so much noise about it on the air. You will think they just discovered electricity. They interviewed someone who

Well I'm up against some BIG competition tonight. You can Talk to me Live Tonight I?ll be a guest on DomainSuccess.com?s Gratitude series from 8-9PM EST I'll share my thoughts on how you can make money in this Recession. I?ll talk about tips for buying and selling domains, building brands and domain value, domaining in a recession -...

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said the economic storm will affect all forms of advertising, including the online ads that Google depends on, but said that he doesn't expect Google to experience a decline in revenue. "We don't predict things like that," Schmidt said in a CNBC television interview on Wednesday, when asked if the company's diversity...

As the microblogging service explodes in popularity, the suitors are lining up. Facebook has already made a play—others will likely followThe microblogging service Twitter has caught on with everyone from celeb Ashton Kutcher to CEOs. Yet for all the buzz, Twitter has always seemed more novelty than business. Many of the 140-character posts, or "tw...

It’s sad but true. I completely admit it that I’m an Internet junkie. Last night I was in the middle of a conference call when a storm hit Melbourne with gusts up to 120 kilometres per hour. Everything was going fine until the lights went out and my UPS...

This is a follow-up post on my investigation from earlier today into who is behind the $3,000 a day domainer web site.? Shortly after I made the initial post, I was contacted by a representative of First Beat Marketing who claimed they were publishing the $3,000 a day domainer site on behalf of a domainer