April 02, 2009 Posts

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Dropped Domains for April 2nd

 Mark As Read    

Until recently, I've always limited my domain drop list research to the .com extension. The main reason for this was that I was primarily interested in domain reselling and the .com extension was what a majority of domain investors wanted. Limiting my research to .com also saved me hours of work scanning through the .net,

Bill Eisenmann 1140 days ago

DiggBar Launches, May Help Direct Navigation Traffic

 Mark As Read    

Via Digg's blog: DiggBar from Kevin Rose on Vimeo. I believe the more users interact and familiarize with the address bar the more they will come back to it when they need something else. Have a great day, Sahar

Conceptualist 1140 days ago

A Popular Domain Industry CEO is Stepping Down and.the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley Agenda is Out

 Mark As Read    

Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: The popular CEO of Fabulous.com's parent company, Dark Blue Sea, is stepping down...T.R.A.F.F.I.C. has released the preliminary agenda for this month's conference in the Silicon Valley...and Friday is the last day to get the early bird discount for the GeoDomain Expo.

DNJournal 1140 days ago

Google Page Rank Updated

 Mark As Read    

Check your page rank!!! I am pleased to say that ChefPatrick.com went from a PR3 to PR4. Thank you to my readers and everyone who has linked back to me. Sorry to those of you who may have lost page rank. Stay motivated and update your sites. Google updating may not be 100% completed, check it again in

ChefPatrick 1140 days ago

Sedo .ME Auction Ends Today At 1pm EST

 Mark As Read    

Sedo's first ever .ME auction is coming to a close today at 1pm EST, so if you're looking to purchase premium .ME domains you better visit the auction soon. There are 35 high quality names including Pay.me, Bet.me, Book.me, Download.me, Compare.me, Tell.me, Print.me, Film.me, Rock.me, and Add.me. Click here to see the complete auction inventory. (c...

Domain Name News 1140 days ago

Bido?s Charity Auction Raises Over $7000 For Arizona Animal Sanctuary

 Mark As Read    

Bido, which used a charity auction to sell? a long list of animal related domain names and other items for $2120, has raised over $7000 in total for Hacienda de los Milagros, an animal sanctuary in Arizona, thanks to the generous bids and donations from many within the domain industry. "In Arizona, people have been hit

Domain Name News 1140 days ago

Dark Blue Sea CEO Richard Moore Steps Down

 Mark As Read    

April 1st is always a day full of fun at DNN.com, but we were disappointed to read elsewhere about news at DomainNameWire which turned out not to be part of an April Fool's joke.? As per a company press release (PDF), Dark Blue Sea CEO Richard Moore has announced that he will be stepping down

Domain Name News 1140 days ago

What Happens in Vegas?

 Mark As Read    

Domain Consultant organizes a fun (and productive) event in Las Vegas. Some might have called it one big party. But after spending the day flying back from Las Vegas yesterday, I can say that the 36 hours I spent in Vegas for the Domain Madness auction were very productive. And fun. In the tech world

Domain Name Wire 1140 days ago

Moore Stepping Down as CEO of Dark Blue Sea

 Mark As Read    

CEO Richard Moore not renewing contract. Richard Moore is stepping down as chief executive officer of Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS) effective at the end of June. Dark Blue Sea is parent company of Fabulous, a popular domain name registrar and domain parking service for domainers. According to a press release (pdf), Moore will work part

Domain Name Wire 1140 days ago

GoDaddy Gets Split Decision in Domain Dispute

 Mark As Read    

GoDaddy wins one domain name, loses two others in UDRP. An arbitrator has handed down a split decision in a domain dispute brought by GoDaddy.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. As Domain Name Wire reported back in February, Go Daddy filed four UDRPs at WIPO for a number of domains covered by its trademarks.

Domain Name Wire 1140 days ago

Newspapers 2.0: The Billion Dollar Opportunity

 Mark As Read    

As print newspapers fail, where's the business opportunity? We've heard before that traditional print media was on its way to extinction. But in this recession it's finally becoming true. 100-year-old city newspapers are dying. Staring at new media startups is one of the biggest opportunities in a century. It's not just about...

Domain Name Wire 1140 days ago

Name Administration Looks to Direct Advertisers

 Mark As Read    

Name Administration to offer direct ad placement on its domain names. Perhaps in a bid to counter falling pay-per-click revenue, Frank Schilling's company Name Administration is soliciting direct advertisers via a banner on some of its parked pages: The service will be called LinkBox. The description at Linkbox.com reads: Welcome to Linkbox.com. ...

Domain Name Wire 1140 days ago

Property.ca listed for sale at DNForum

 Mark As Read    

DomainReport.ca - The domain name property.ca has been listed for sale at DNforum.com with an asking price of $111,000. Offers are also being taken.The thread for this sale is here:http://www.dnforum.com/f356/property-ca-thread-359965.htmlI don't usually post sales of .ca domain names like this, but this is a highly premium domain and is worth not...

DomainReport.ca 1140 days ago

Old Vs New: Overture or Google Adwords Tool

 Mark As Read    

Most likely two of the most used tools by domainers: Overture and the Google Adwords Tool. Overture which was provided by Yahoo.com but the free service was stopped a pretty long time ago. There is still data available, but it's Old. Google Adwords Tool is up to date and since Google holds about a 70% share of

Dot Weekly 1140 days ago

Hand Picked PendingDelete Domain Drop List

 Mark As Read    

Here is a hand picked PendingDelete domain name drop list. I did the work, you get the rewards. Many of these should be able to "hand register" during the drop today that starts at 1 pm Central Time. Included in the list is the Drop Order of the domain names. About 500 domain names drop Per

Dot Weekly 1140 days ago

Domain Name Drop Order Revisited

 Mark As Read    

After I made a posting today about PendingDelete domain names and the drop order of the domains I posted in the list, I have had several people ask "How To" get the number of the domain and the order they will drop. If you happened to miss my first Domain Name Drop Order posting, you can

Dot Weekly 1140 days ago

SnapNames.com: Quick way to make $20 Bucks!

 Mark As Read    

OK, not a quick way for YOU to make an extra $20, but a very quick way for SnapNames to raise a domain by $20. Likely not on just one domain either… As I have said many times before, things with domain names are very often hard to explain. Example: Dotster Expired domain names "normally" go directly

Dot Weekly 1140 days ago

.Tel Reveals That Domainers Are Not Necessarily Business-Minded People

 Mark As Read    

Having followed a few domaining channels over the years, I had realised that a lot of domainers are not necessarily business people, but more like computer geeks without programming skills. Now, I am not setting out to insult anyone. I know that some people seem to think that the domain industry revolves around them, so every

eBusinessDomains 1141 days ago

March Madness at WhyPark

 Mark As Read    

WhyPark continues to make improvements to their platform - some are obvious to the domain/website owner and some are more subtle. My personal favorite are the changes to the URL, which I commented on a few weeks ago. Instead of seeing http://www.oenophiles.com/dg33644-hd3-ddj.cfm (or something of the like), the URLs are now much more search engine ...

Eilliot's Blog 1140 days ago

Classic Response to a Domain Inquiry

 Mark As Read    

I get random legit email inquiries for some of my domain names, but many of my friends get a whole lot more of them than I do. They get annoying after a while, and instead of politely responding to a $500 offer for a domain name that is worth six figures, people are tempted to Related posts:Making a Reasonable Offer for a Domain Name Usually whe...

Eilliot's Blog 1140 days ago

Great Viral Marketing ? errr Mistake

 Mark As Read    

Apparently Domino's pizza made a big marketing mistake that was uncovered by someone looking to find a coupon code. The customer entered the word "bailout" when he was ording his pizza online, and the website responded by saying his medium pizza was free. The person then told other people about this error, and when all is Related posts:Logo Cont...

Eilliot's Blog 1140 days ago

Wanted ? A Very Good Writer on Finance and Commodities

 Mark As Read    

I?m after a very good writer who can comfortably write about finance, Oil, Gold, and soft commodities. Initially there will be a batch of about 20 articles, but there will be ongoing work once the site is launched.

NameCake 1141 days ago

Happy Birthday Rick!! RicksBlog that is....

 Mark As Read    

Morning Folks!! Tomorrow will mark 2 years since I started blogging. 160 posts and an average of 2000 page views per post. But while my "Official" blogging birthday is tomorrow, I started blogging before the term was invented. Since 1996 I have been sharing my thoughts and views. Blogging without the blog. I like things on record so I can go back a...

Rick Schwartz 1141 days ago

To Become a Multi-Millionaire You Don?t Have To Invent Technology, Just Master It

 Mark As Read    

While everyone is looking for the next big thing, many people think you have to invent or "come up with the idea" for technology to make the big hit, but in reality you don't have to invent the next big thing, just master it. For example take a look at a rap/hip-hop artist known as T-Pain. Basically

The Domains 1140 days ago

ChangYou.com Becomes Best Performing IPO In A Year

 Mark As Read    

Today the the chinese company ChangYou.com went public. Note the name of this company is not changeyou.com but Changyou.com. Yes, an IPO during the economic meltdown and it looks like this might be the best performing IPO in a year. The company, an online video game maker, Changyou.com Ltd. is up almost 40% today (symbol is cyou). The Beijing-based...

The Domains 1140 days ago

Senator Snowe Backs New Bill Calling For Stricker US Control Over ICANN

 Mark As Read    

The Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, introduced legislation today that would require a presidentially appointed cybersecurity advisory panel to ensure that national security would not be compromised before approving the renewal or modification of the contract between the U.S. government and the Intern...

The Domains 1140 days ago

Microsoft Spends $100 Million to Explain a Bad Name Choice

 Mark As Read    

"according to one person close the situation, the forthcoming campaign will be careful to not position "Kumo" as a competitor to Yahoo or Google and instead cast it as a reimagined search engine that ups the game by yielding fewer but more-focused results. The proposed strategy is probably a good -- if not the only -- way to go."Microsoft Looks to ...

The Frager Factor 1140 days ago

Wanna Buy A Car (.com) / Wanna Buy A Plame (.com)

 Mark As Read    

This picture sums up the state of the economyAnd for the first time, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Nissan have each asked to lease space from the port for these orphan vehicles.Long Beach is a very important port. It’s where all the products come to get sorted into their appropriate trucks and trains and sent off to end up in the hands on consumers, T...

The Frager Factor 1140 days ago

Dark Blue Sea appoints new CEO

 Mark As Read    

A press release went out yesterday announcing that Mr Gregory Platz (current CFO) has been offered the position as CEO of Dark Blue Sea (DBS). Richard Moore has elected to not renew his contract and will be stepping down on June 30th,2009. According to the release Richard will continue to...

WhizzBangsBlog 1141 days ago

Domains Dropping Today, 2 April

 Mark As Read    

Here's another list of domains dropping today (2 April) that I thought I'd share with you all.? I've been going through the list quite quickly and these are ones that caught my eye and may be worthy of some further research - try using the SEOBook Keyword Tool.? I'll update the list after the drop

NameTopic.com 1140 days ago

Chartbeat Real Time Stats Service Launches

 Mark As Read    

Today Betaworks launched a new real time website stats service called Chartbeat. The potential looks very good with this one. Although I use Google Analytics on some of my minisites I still always seem to default back to?Awstats but Chartbeat may change that. Chartbeat requires a couple lines of code to be added to your site,

BruceMarler.com 1140 days ago

Just Got A Really Official Letter from Liberty Names

 Mark As Read    

Today I went out to get my mail after my and along with lost of letters from colleges, (I must get 5 letters and 10 emails every day from Universities) There was an official looking envelope with the security ink on the inside. It looked like the envelope my various bank statements come in. The outside Related posts:Do You Own YourName .com? Why...

Teen Domainer 1141 days ago

Anyone Going to GeoDomains in San Diegeo?

 Mark As Read    

I'm seriously thinking about going as it's literally just down the road from me. Looks like the who's who will be there and lots of good topics scheduled… Anywho, If anyone is going give a shout-out here… maybe GoDrops.com can have a Birds-of-a-Feather meeting down there over some ale… =D You Might Also Like: Domains Added to the...

Resident Tourist 1141 days ago
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