April 08, 2009 Posts

Below you'll find the domain names from my watch list that made it through today's domain drop. Many of these domains will get registered in short order so don't hesitate to pick one up if it fits your development needs. All domains were available at the time of this post. Please be considerate and limit

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the first time since early February, no 6-figure domain sales were reported. However there were hundreds of four & five figure sales, the range favored by the small business end users that are the most active buyers in today's aftermarket.

What is a Podcast? A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually digital audio or video, that is made available for download via Web syndication. In simple terms it is similar to a radio broadcast. Voice is recorded by a publisher then stored on the internet for others to download and listen. My video and

As per a Press Release from Rick Latona Auctions, the company has opened submissions for the Targeted TRAFFIC Silicon Valley show with a new unique commission model:If the domain name has a reserve price less than 6 years? earnings and meets certain other conditions, the commission will be rebated to 10%. More detailed information after the

Brief notes about what's going on in the domain world. There are a lot of stories I haven't gotten to lately. Here they are in brief. Don't want your WordPress site to get hacked? Richard Douglas, who helped me yesterday when it happened to me, put together a great post of WordPress security tips. Since many

Acquisition was small in monetary terms, but important in its signal. According to public company financial reports, Sedo paid $825,000 for its acquisition of RevenueDirect in February. The purchase price included the customer base, RevenueDirect brand and all respective software. The transaction price was not announced when the company was purch...

Endless.com has two s's. This morning I received an e-mail from Amazon.com with the following subject line: Free Overnight Shipping on crocs from Endles.com Endles? What are those? They meant to type Endless.com, which is the web site for Amazon's shoe store. But somehow the subject line made it through review with a typo.

Moniker.com, today announced the availability of premium domain names at its live and extended online auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley 2009 domain conference. The live auction takes place Wednesday, April 29 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific Time at the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The extended online auction will be...

The domain name ViewIt.com (viewit.com) sold at Sedo.com for $40,000. The new owner appears to be ViewIt, Inc. of Canada. The domain name changed ownership on 4-4-2009. There is already a site on the domain, but a text line on top of the site says, ViewIt.com will soon be ShopViewIt.com? ShopViewIt.com is owned by the Old Owner of

SitOrSquat.com started out in 2007 as a silly little blog according to site owner Danika Landers. Danika, who happens to find bathrooms fascinating and fun to talk about watched the site really take off in September of 2008. Today, the SitOrSquat.com site has an App for the iPhone® and Blackberry® to find a restroom nearest to

First off, congrats to Rick Latona on his great personal accomplishment - he quit smoking and hasn't had a cigarette in 3 weeks. Three weeks might not seem like a long time, but it is forever for a smoker, especially considering all the stress that comes with managing businesses. The first few weeks after quitting Related posts:Rick Latona's Gre...

No matter who you are or what you do online, your websites are at risk of being hacked. With so many websites running on the Wordpress platform, it's important for owners to keep up to speed on security issues to prevent hacking and other malicious attacks. Richard Douglas has posted some Wordpress security tips for Related posts:Domain Security...

I haven't launched a business to consumer ecommerce site in seven years. Smoking cigarettes though, that I've been doing for 20+ years. Jesus I'm getting old. Well, in celebration of?three weeks?without a cancer stick I'm proud to announce KickTheHabit.com. This site will be a labor of love. It doesn't have much content now but a great deal...

I have always imagined what I would tell someone who is just starting out in the domain business, in this time in our hemisphere. My advice is so simple that its simplicity might put some people off. I remember when I was a personal trainer, everyone wanted the quick fix. It has not changed even

Wow Talk about the power of the Internet. Today according to Facebook's offical blog, they will "welcome there 200 millionth active user" some time today. One site, 200 million users. It took the United States some 200 years to get the same number of people it took Facebook to reach in just a few. Started in just 2004, well after...

n Believe it or not, using Google's External Keyword tool, you can still find keyword terms that are available for registration fee which have a decent search volume. Here's a sampe of some of the names hand registered last night. It's not to say, these names are worth thousands, but if you build the right site around them or find an end user, you ...

Andrew at dnw.com had his Wordpress hacked recently. I noticed it at around 5am EST and tried to contact Andrew to let him know, without success. Ultimately, my buddy Elliot was able to get the news to him. Wondering how I noticed dnw.com was hacked? I got the same warning in Firefox that a