NameBee.com - March 11, 2009 Posts

Fool?s gold Part 3: It?s a .mad .mad .tel world

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Had I known that I'd be writing part 3 of the .tel chronicles, I might have opted for Roman numerals, like Sahar does in his daily opus about "Accurate pricing", currently at volume VIII. As a new user of Twitter, I toyed around with this new gadget and recently found Twitter.com/dottel which is a placeholder for

Acro.net 1162 days ago

The Importance Of Accurate Pricing, Part VIII (Guest Post By Darren Cleveland, RMG CEO)

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(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII are here Sahar has been writing a lot lately on accurate pricing. The question is why? Because there is no liquidity in the domain name market mostly in part due to inaccurately priced domain names and no real valuation method to determine the fair market value of domain n...

Conceptualist 1162 days ago

AfternicDLS weekly sales up to March 8

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AfternicDLS reported over $450,000 USD worth of domain sales last week - ranging in closing price from $12,000 for Ria.org to $60 for SocialPipe.com. Aside from Ria.org, other top sales included GivingBirth.com for $10,000, NetFoto.com for $8,688, PlayersLife.com for $6,800, 3Deep.com for $5,461 and KidsMeals.com for $4,888. See the full list of sa...

Domain Name News 1162 days ago

Another Webmaster-Holds-Domain-Name-Hostage Case

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How can we educate lay people to register domain names in their own name? The typical domainer lives and breathes domain names. It's understandable that non-domainers who hire a web designer to create a web site don't realize the importance of registering and owning the domain name themselves. How can we teach them? I was

Domain Name Wire 1162 days ago

Internet Commerce Association Has Busy Agenda

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Domainer's group has busy schedule fighting for domain owners' rights. Over the past month Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has stepped up efforts to inform the domain community about its activities. Current issues and updates are available on the home page of its web site. Here's a quick summary: Representing domainers in Mexico City - ICA...

Domain Name Wire 1162 days ago

Google Now Targeting Ads to Users, Not Just Content

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Domain name related ads may follow you to your favorite automotive site. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is introducing a new type of behavioral tracking to Google Adsense ads, the company announced on its Inside Adsense blog. Currently, content network ads served by Google include geo-targeting but the content is based solely on the content of the web page...

Domain Name Wire 1162 days ago

Domain Name Industry Acquisition Watch

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2009 could include more mergers, acquisitions, and outright closings. Domain name companies including registrars, parking companies, and portfolio holders are considering their strategic options in 2009. Domain Name Wire has learned that Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS)has been shopping its services businesses, including Fabulous parking and registration. ...

Domain Name Wire 1162 days ago

SnapNames Server Outage Brings Down 50 Domain Registrars

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Outage of (perhaps only one) server takes down 50 registrars. A reader just informed me about an interesting situation affecting about 50 ICANN accredited registrars. If you visit any of the 50 domain registrars you will see this error message: Downtime Notice We have been dealing with a major hardware failure that has necessitated replacement of...

Domain Name Wire 1162 days ago

New Country Code domain forum launches Contest

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DomainReport.ca - Just recently launched, ccTLDs.com is a domain name forum specifically tailored to country code domains. There are subforums for .ca, .us, .in and all other popular country codes. I joined this week as the 26th member.The forum was created by Rick Latona, who has taken a recent interest to country code domains and like many othe...

DomainReport.ca 1162 days ago

SnapNames Domain Name Auction Hotlist

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Here is a SnapNames.com domain name auction hotlist. All domain names are directly linked to it's specific auction page for easy backordering. All auctions are No Upfront fees unless you win the auction. Auction starting prices range from $59-$119 USD. The list starts with the earliest domain names that need to be backordered. The dates and...

Dot Weekly 1162 days ago

Page Titles Are Important, Very Important!

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I often see page titles on blogs that are not doing the site owner any good, so I thought I would bring it up. Page Titles are important, very important really! They do a couple things and if you are not thinking about it, you may miss the point. Page Titles are what help you get

Dot Weekly 1162 days ago

Why Are Domain Names Valuable?

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Many people have a great deal of examples why domain names are valuable. Many people will say because they are one of a kind! Very True! Some people will say domain names are valuable because it matches their brand and it's a must have because how popular the internet is. True! Some people will say it's because

Dot Weekly 1162 days ago

Irresistible Domain Name Deals - Because We Can

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I did a blog post some days ago highlighting the fact that due to favourable foreign exchange rates, we now get more British Pounds when we convert our US Dollar earnings. Read the post here. We are now going to pass on the gains to our clients and newsletter subscribers, because we can. Our domain newsletter subscribers

eBusinessDomains 1162 days ago

We Have Made Our Domaining Contest Even Juicier

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We have listened to your suggestions and we are now going to make our Blockbuster Domaining Contest even juicier! We were wondering why people were a bit hesitant to join, and we have got the answer. The points were not evenly distributed. Not everyone has a blog, and not everyone has the time for Twitter or understands what

eBusinessDomains 1162 days ago

Teaching About the Value of Domain Names

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I got together with some of my former colleagues a couple nights ago at a memorial party for a colleague who died suddenly last week. We were discussing the progress of my former group, and we started discussing the Internet strategy they have and where it's headed. They are in the process of launching a new Related posts:Types of Domain Names I...

Eilliot's Blog 1162 days ago

ComWired: Helping Domainers & Developers

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Sean Stafford is at it again. Every few months, it seems that Sean is building something helpful to domainers, and I think his new service, ComWired.com can help domainers and domain developers. The DNS service is billed as a way to split up a domain name's traffic depending on where the traffic originates.? For example, if Related posts:Portlan...

Eilliot's Blog 1162 days ago

Where do You Sell Your Domains? Time to Start Thinking Outside the Box!

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The market is pretty tough at present and each and every one of us needs as much exposure as possible. So apart from the usual marketplaces it?s essential we think outside the box if we are to generate the sales we need. So lets go through a small list of possible places to sell our names: