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If you are like most of our members, you are smart, savvy, and take buying and selling very seriously. We respect this about you and it challenges us to exceed your high standards in everything we do. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce two new major initiatives that will drive traffic and
I've received a few questions regarding my sources for the statistics I provide with the domain availability lists. For search volume I use Estibot's Total Search figures. Estibot's Total Search figures use the search volume from the Google Adwords Tools along with a few other online keyword databases to arrive at the total.
For average CPC
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As you may know Bido recently opened the flood to ccTLD's. Here are the three ccTLD's auctions we've ran so far and their results:
Recycle.IT - US$ 6,712.00
TechSupport.Mobi - US$ 540.00
Today.US - US$ 2,409.00
Following Bido and our progress, Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire wrote:
I?ve been a fan of domain name auction platform ...
A small business start-up boom continues to gain steam in the midst of the recession as laid off employees decide to try working for themselves. The trend is boosting low to mid-range sales in the domain aftermarket, even though the high end continues to lag.
The domain name auction platform Bido has captivated the domaining community with its unparalleled user experience. You can read domain reviews, join a web chat during the auction, and enjoy the convenience of only having to bid on one domain at a time (starting at only $1).
The complaint, however, has always been domain quality…such as
Aftermarket.com has decided to spice up the Geo-Auction that started on Thursday by adding ten Showcase Domains to the mix including Ticket.com, a high-profile generic domain name that deserves some attention from the larger ticket companies such as TicketMaster, TicketsNow, StubHub (an Ebay company) and TicketNetwork.
The full list of new domains ...
EFF and other organizations ask Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold lower court decision.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky filed a friend of the court brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision blocking the seizure of gam...
LiveStream.com tops Sedo's weekly sales list.
Sedo has brokered the sale of LiveStream.com for $100,000. The seller was Control Room Technologies of Lansing, Michigan. The buyer is using whois privacy protection to protect his identity.
Sedo also sold SEO.info for 17,000 EUR.
Here are other top domain name sales at Sedo over the past week:
.com
...
Shift to web makes headlines even more important.
The most important part of a news story has always been the headline. Whether in a newspaper, magazine, or online, editors have to pique the reader's interest. But headlines are more important on the web than in print media.
Print publications have the added benefit of drawing
High temperature to be in the 60s during conference.
The good folks at Associated Cities must have called in a favor for this week's GeoDomain Expo in San Diego. After a sweltering high of 98 ?F yesterday, the high temperature will cool to the 60s for the duration of the conference that kicks off Thursday
That is unless you cover your bases. Today Rachel Ray had the blog owner of 5DollarDinners.com on her show.
So what do A Lot of viewers of the show "search for" when they get on the net?
Five Dollar Dinners with the Word, Not the number….
It was the 6th most searched term on Google.com for the hour
SAN DIEGO, CA - In honor of the new Miss USA, the gorgeous and talented Kristen Dalton of North Carolina, we are proud to announce the Showcase names for the GEO-Domain auction – yes, including Miss.com.
Auction is going on now until Saturday with live finale at 4pm PST from San Diego. We think this is
We will be offering a few deals via our blog on a regular basis until we are out of BETA.
We are doing quite a few database edits at the moment and this is affecting our newsletter delivery system. So we will offer the exclusive deals here.
For winners of the $100 gift vouchers in the Blockbuster
To be honest, I thought I was making a mistake by being so strict on quality control. It does take a lot of time to sift through countless domains to maintain a marketplace that consistently sells pure quality domain names.
However it seems like domainers and other marketplace are finally waking up to the real impact
My primary web designer, Mike McAlister of Six One Five Design, has released a new website template that would be perfect for personal or business use. Mike didn't ask me to post this - and I am not getting compensated in any way for posting this, but I found the link and thought the design
Related posts:Looking for a Custom Wordpress Template I...
Many months ago, I interviewed DomainTools founder Jay Westerdal in one of the first "5 With…" interviews I did. Since then, Jay sold his company to Thought Convergence, which has moved right to the top as one of the domain industry's leading companies. Their services run the gamut - parking (Trafficz), conference (Domain Roundtable), domain ...
Shows.com is among the many premiums to be auctioned at TRAFFIC Silicon Valley. The most important thing is, there is no reserve, so the market can fully decide its value.
I offer a free domain development + SEO Super package ($136 value) to whoever gets closest in their prediction of the final sale price. Deadline for
Google has changed its Adwords Keyword Tool so that it now provides less data when looking at search volumes in particular countries.
In the past, the Tool would provide the most recent month's search volume and the average month's search volume for that country.
Now Google has replaced the average month's search volume with "Global Monthly Search...
SnapNames rocked the house with a 3 letter domain - VRT.com today, attracting a final bid of $92,600 at auction! Nothing else to say but congrats to the buyer and seller on this one.
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Morning folks!! Tip of the hat this morning to Rick Latona as he is putting in Shows.com with no reserve. THAT my friends, is an auction! That is what excitement is made out of. Trust the market to set the price. Allow the audience to compete for a GREAT domain name. I predict the bidding action will be the best in a long time. In my mind there are...
Morning Folks!! Follow smart people's lead or follow fools. That is an everyday choice. I am an Einstein fan. He said "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." I look to the past to get ALL the answers to the future. And looking at the past you look to events and people. If I had one gift that I could give everyone...
Lets go back to why you started domaining. Was it to make the registrars?richer? Was it to spend countless hours looking over endless list of domains you own? What was your original vision? What did you hope to accomplish by now? If you are not there yet, are you on the right path? MY IMAGINATION
New search engines that use visual search, rather than text based search, found in Google and Yahoo, may change the landscape for PPC and parked domains.
Checkout SearchMe.com, the largest in terms of traffic of these type of search engines.? Type in a search term like "luxury bedding", as see how the results are displayed.? Instead...
Talk about jumping this gun.
Pool.com just sent out an e-mail inviting people to place preorders on the propsed? gTLD's.
Problem is none of these extension exist.
As ICANN is still setting up the rules for applications for the new g'TLD's Pool.com is accepting pre-orders on such g'TLD's as:
.health
.sports
.xxx
.sex
.news
.blog
.movie
.music
Geo do...
Yahoo reported that its gross revenues fell 13% to $1.580 million, compared to the first quarter of 2008
Yahoo also reported, that its first-quarter net income fell to $117.6 million, or 8 cents a share, from $536.8 million, or 37 cents a share in the same period a year earlier.
However, net income for the first quarter
As seen on TV. Find out how much you over pay for ink. A big "we get it" for another Kodak moment.
The Cafferty File is ON FIRE today:Marin writes:The credit card companies are hurting the consumer rather than helping. The interest rates skyrocketed for everyone, even for long-term customers like me who have always paid on time. The only option they have left me with is that I have stopped using my cards.Rich from San Clemente, California writes...
Elise aka Elise.com has 11 super-sized mini-sites up and running. My favorite is foodblogsearch.com, so elegant in it's simplicity. Could Mike Cohen the man behind this curtain? Is this is secret? Or does the secret go more like this? Links to the 11 mini-sites HERE
Ten Names Including Miss.com, Mundo.com, SantaClarita.com, Ticket.com Added
SAN DIEGO, CA - In honor of the new Miss USA, the gorgeous and talented Kristen Dalton of North Carolina, we are proud to announce the Showcase names for the GEO-Domain auction - yes, including Miss.com.
The auction is going on now until Saturday with
The domain name JohnMaynardKeynes.com is currently for sale at SnapNames. I enjoy reading about economics, so I was quite lucky when I got the chance to buy this domain name. But, as often is the case, I later realized that I would't have enough time to write quality content for a good website about this Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Dominik Mueller.
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