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For those who get their domain name on Bido, following is a short list about best practices, stuff we highly recommend you do as your domain name is being marketed by us and watched by the whole community.
1. There's never enough publicity
Exposure is key to building pressure. The more know the better chances there is to create aucti...
It was an interesting day for me yesterday as the traffic for one of my domains suddenly went haywire following some nice search engine ranking on Microsoft Live.Who'd have thought it?This partcular site always did well with Google, so why should Live suddenly make a difference?Personally, I have no idea. But I saw traffic go from around 30-40 per ...
Six months ago its looked like the financial world was ending. Now I'm having my best month ever and a lot of the revenue is coming from a surprising source. My alternate extension domains (like .us, .biz and .info) are finally enjoying their day in the aftermarket sun.
Recently I have been more involved with dealing with the ACPA (Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act), and I wanted to get a chance to state my opinion on the act. As of right now, I can't discuss my involvment with the act as I may be under confidentiality, but I do want to discuss why I
UPDATE: Site seems to be running fine now. Outage seems lasted from 1AM-1:11AM PST. Can anyone confirm??
It looks like NamePros.com is down right now as of around 1AM PST. ?I have posted a screenshot of the error below.
No reports yet from NamePros. Hopefully NamePros.com will be back up and running again soon.
Got another one of those appraisal scam emails today. Luckily they land in spam folder now:
Peter Miller
Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:31 AM
To: domainadmin
Dear sir,
we are interested to buy your domain name AARR.COM and offer to buy it from you for 65% of the appraised market value.
As of now we accept appraisals
Sedo announced this morning that it has brokered the sale of a domain portfolio of 475 domains for 2.38 Million Euro (approximately 3.1m USD). The domains were sold by Hassler & Mair GmbH, operators of a former German ISP (profi.net). This constitues the biggest published sale of a .DE portfolio. The buyer, DomCollect Worldwide Intellectual...
According to a newsletter sent to its members today, Bido has started accepting auction submissions with a reserve. The person listing the domains for sale pays a fee of 3% of the reserve price, in order to continue to encourage low resetrves. If the domain name does sell, the 3% fee is credited towards the
Sedo exceeded the $1 million mark in domain sales for the second week in a row!
The top sales of the week were Body.com for $400,000 (from the portfolio of Live Current Media), GongHui.com for $63,000, LOL.de for over $45,000 (?35,000), 34.com for $45,000, and FindADate.com for $31,000.
Check out the full list of domain sales
Auction platform allows reserve priced domain listings, but there's a fee if they don't sell.
In an effort to establish confidence with sellers and bring more premium inventory to its platform, Bido is allowing sellers to set reserve prices on their domain names.
Part of my prediction was correct - you'll pay a fee if you list...
Owner cites state regulations for temporary shutdown.
Upstart domain escrow service EscrowDNS.com has temporarily suspended new service, citing state regulations:
EscrowDNS is temporarily ceasing operation of it's domain name escrow service. Any outstanding transactions will be completed as always, no new transactions will be allowed. Several state...
KohlerSucks.com saved at National Arbitration Forum.
A $4,331 toilet from Kohler
Kohler Co., which does everything from manufacture toilets to develop golf resorts, should read up on domain arbitration rules prior to filing its next request under UDRP. Domain attorney Howard M. Neu helped the owner of KohlerSucks.com defend the domain name against...
Why can't simple web transactions work the way they're supposed to?
Last year some of those web 2.0 bloggers started talking about web 3.0. It was quite a buzz for about three days before they found something else to write about.
But even as we live in a world of "web 2.0″, why can't big companies
Study suggests some sort of accountability required before ICANN is set free.
A new study, to be formally released Wednesday, suggests that ICANN must be reformed before its ties with the U.S. Department of Commerce are severed. The Joint Project Agreement between ICANN and the Department of Commerce concludes in August.
The study was authored by...
NameMedia cashes in on degrees.
NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) sold two big "degree" domain names over the past week: BachelorsDegree.com for $62,500 and PsychologyDegree.com for $25,000. Both domains are protected by Moniker whois privacy and forward to eLearners.com. Add these other recent education domains the company has sold lately and it ...
DomainReport.ca - Just wanted to add a quick note about a post at DNN.com that reports a country code domain portfolio, made up of 475 .de (German country code) domains, has sold for 3.1 Million US through Sedo.Some of the domains that sold, with english translation in brackets, are:wertpapiere.de (securities)devisen.de (foreign currency) lohnsteue...
Nate Whitehill and the Team at Unique Blog Designs are at it again! With an amazing new product - the WordPress Affiliate Theme.
This is an amazing new way to build interactive and powerful mini-sites using WordPress that are optimized to convert your visitors into customers or subscribers.
This is a very advanced theme which allows you
Tweet Management is probably the most important aspect of using twitter. We all know that once you begin to follow a lot of people things can get hay-wire.? These applications help you manage your tweets and keep up with your followers efficiently.
Tweet Deck is an essential application used for keeping updated and keeping active on
The category killer domain name Furnace.com is currently at auction on Sedo.com and the auction ends today! Auction Link.
The current bid of $50,000 USD may be a price shock to some but those are the same people that were shocked to see Toys.com sell to Toys R Us for $5.1 Million.
Furnace.com is the Toys.com domain
Things were a bit slow today and I will push that off on the St. Patrick's Day holiday that took place today. I myself enjoy a Corned Beef and Cabbage meal with my wife for supper. It's a pain in the ass to cook, so we ordered out! It was well worth it, as
I am raising some extra cash for taxes and another project, and I am ready to clear out WorkOpportunities.com for the low price of $2,800. Job related searches are very popular these days, and this would make a great work opportunity website.? Here are a few stats for the keyword and domain name:
1) 1,390,000 results
Related posts:WorkOpportunit...
For the last few weeks, well before the questions about the Expo arose, I've been trying to figure out if I will attend the GeoDomain Expo. Don't get me wrong, I had a fantastic time at the GeoDomain Expo in Chicago last year.
The issues I am trying to resolve are multi-faceted. I've flown across the
Related posts:Associated Cities' GeoDomain Ex...
A few weeks ago, I heard that Delaware may do something to permit sports gambling, which is only legal in Las Vegas in the United States.? I did some research, and I saw that DelawareSportsbook.com was dropping, so I backordered it.? I just found out that I was able to acquire the name, one of
Related posts:Good News for Gambling Domain Owners A...
Well domains sure are going for bargain basement prices these days. I just saw Cats.Net finish at Sedo for $7,000, which in my opinion is a fantastic deal for the seller but not so great for the buyer.
Morning Folks!! "Folks that lose their job have the opportunity to find their calling." is something I heard yesterday and it is a very concise way of saying something very complicated. When I look at my own circumstances and my own personal economic depression it also became the turning point of my entire life. Until 1984 I have made many people v...
Peace people.? I have not posted for a while for a couple of reasons. However this post is not about why I have not posted in the past week and half. This post is about the growing trend an popularity of ?Twitter and how it coul rock your domain empire in a couple of years.
According to Google's count, there were 127 stories published online yesterday about the report from WIPO that "cybersquatting" cases increased 8% last year.
As one of the readers to this blog commented yesterday in response to my post, each of these 127 stories made it sound that Cybersquatting was totally out of control based on this...
Via DShort.com:The S&P 500 rally that began a week ago resumed momentum today. How far will it take us? See this chart to review the strength of previous rallies during the current bear market.We continue to be fascinated with the saga of the Four Bad Bears. In nominal terms, the March low in the S&P 500 surpassed the Dow Crash of 1929 over the equ...
In recent articles I’ve touched briefly on Click Through Rate (CTR) but in reflection I haven’t done CTR justice. Considering that it’s a major component of the formula that contributes to our revenue line it is definitely worth looking at further.
So what is Click Through Rate and how does...
I use a wide variety of tools when I'm looking to register, buy or develop domains. I'm sure that we all have used the old standbys like Wordtracker, Adwords, Trellian and more, but I ran across a site that has a whole suite of tools that I found quite helpful.
DomainSuperstar.com has almost every type of
Ron Jackson, editor and owner of DN Journal, writes on his blog today about various new domain addresses he has sold in the past couple of weeks. .BIZ, .US, and .INFO domain extensions in particular.
I remember meeting Ron online around 2004, and bought a .US domain name from him several months later.?Funny how time flies.?He,
[Part 3 of my Domaining on Twitter series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.]
Twitter can be an invaluable tool for connecting with other domainers. Most major domainers are now on Twitter and commonly use it to promote their domains and share valuable information. In this post, I'll describe
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