NameBee.com - May 06, 2009 Posts

AfternicDLS: Did you know?

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91% of AfternicDLS Expanded Promotion buyers are SMB “end users???? This is how AfternicDLS commands it's $1,200 median sale price.

Afternic DLS 1106 days ago

Expired Domains Available for Registration for March 6

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Below you'll find a list of recently expired domain names that are now available for registration. Most of these domains expired earlier today and all were available at the time of this post. The following domain names have the highest monthly Google search volume: PackagingEngineerJobs.com 9,900, KindergartenActivities.net 8,100, LinseedOil.net 8,...

Bill Eisenmann 1106 days ago

Must Be My Lucky Day!

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So I get a call from an auction house which will remain nameless for now, telling me that one of my purchases during the live auction won't go through because there was some miscommunication somehow, that is, after I agreed to purchase it. Now I can somewhat understand these issues but this isn't the first time. Then, another domainer which shall r...

Conceptualist 1106 days ago

Preview The New Blog

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I've been putting the finishing touches to my new blog / site.My intention is to have the entire site, not just the blog, based on Wordpress, now that I've finally mastered some of the more intricate things about how it all works.But before I formally launch it, I'd like to show you the progress to date. Feel free to add comments, especially since ...

David Carter 1107 days ago

Double Length Report at DN Journal Covers Domain Sales Reported Over the Past Two Weeks

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After a week off for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley, DN Journal has published a double length domain sales report that will bring you completely up to date on all sales reported since our last column two weeks ago. .Coms and ccTLDs dominate the all extension leader board while .net gives the non .com gTLDs a presence.

DNJournal 1106 days ago

Atlanta.com Owner Skip Hoagland Stages a Talent Raid on that City's Local Newspaper

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In another sign of the times, Atlanta.com is making a bold attempt to lure writers, reporters and managers away from the city's once powerful but now rapidly declining local newspaper. Atlanta.com owner Skip Hoagland is using a revenue sharing model to attract journalists who are looking for a lifejacket..

DNJournal 1106 days ago

First Product Release

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I am pleased to announce the release of my first product, ViralSignUp.com. What is Viral Sign Up? Viral Sign Up is a software application that works in conjunction with your email subscription service. It collects the email address sending it directly to your subscription provider such as AWeber, Constant Contact, iContact, etc,. At the same time, ...

ChefPatrick 1106 days ago

Rick Latona?s TRAFFIC Extended Auction Ends Today

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Rick Latona cleared nearly $375,000 in sales at TRAFFIC last week, but there are still more domain names up for auction in the extended auction that closes today. Of the over 400 domains, several of the names have already met their reserves and will be selling (see below). The most notable of these names is

Domain Name News 1107 days ago

UDRP Arbitration: A Case of Laziness?

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Filta.com case calls into question (lack of) incentives of UDRP arbitrators. I recently read through documents related to Filta.com, a domain name awarded to the complainant in a National Arbitration Forum case on April 23. The case is disturbing on a number of fronts. If you just read the decision, you'd think this was a fairly

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

Moniker Silent Auction Needs Fixing

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Platform needs major changes to accommodate extended auctions. Over the past couple days I've sorted through Moniker's domain names in its TRAFFIC extended online auction. There are some great domains at relatively low prices. But be forewarned: participating in the auction may result in a migraine. The first problem is there are too many domain...

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

Hyperlocal News Trend Benefits GeoDomainers

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As startup local news organizations launch, geo domainers are well positioned. CNN published a story yesterday titled Future of online news may be ‘hyperlocal'. The story discusses the crop of news sites popping up to fill the void not addressed by traditional media and the void left when local newspapers disappear. Geo

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

CEOJobs.com Purchase was No-Brainer for Headhunter

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Recruiter Harry Joiner just bought CEOJobs.com. Here's why. Recruiter Harry Joiner bought CEOJobs.com. E-commerce headhunter Harry Joiner just bought the domain name CEOjobs.com for five figures from Jason Davis, a former recruiter who holds one of the world's best portfolios of jobs related domain names. Why did Joiner plunk down five figures for...

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

Marchex Revenue Sinks, Sells $1M in Domain Names

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Earnings miss estimates while company sells $1M in non-strategic domain names. Online advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) missed analysts' adjusted earnings estimates by 3 cents per share, earning only 2 cents per share in the first quarter of 2009. Analysts had predicted earnings of 5 cents per share. Revenue fell 28% compared to the...

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

National Arbitration Forum?s Surprise Response to IRT

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UDRP arbitration forum makes surprising remarks about Implementation Recommendation Team findings. That National Arbitration Forum would be opposed to Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URSS), a fast-track UDRP-like process, comes as no surprise. After all, it would destroy 90% of NAF's and World Intellectual Property Organization's domain dispute ...

Domain Name Wire 1106 days ago

Commvault.ca sells in DNJ report

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DomainReport.ca - There was one .ca domain name reported as sold in the latest dnjournal sales report.Commvault.ca - 2,500 Eur ($3,325 USD)That domain was sold at Sedo. There was a long list of country code domain sales reported, most of which were .de, .co.uk, .fr, .es and other European extensions.Also, the MyID.ca domain auction ends in less th...

DomainReport.ca 1106 days ago

Confusing Domain = Confused Customers! Unthinkfc.com

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I just had to write this before I head off for my hand surgery but this is a follow up posting to the confusing domain name KFC® is advertising for right now UnthinKFC.com . Just for some proof that if you use a confusing domain, you will have confused customers as well. Here are some of

Dot Weekly 1106 days ago

Working Hard - or Hardly Working

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There is a stereotype about domain investors that they don't work hard, but they do party hard while hardly working. This might be true for a lucky few, but this is false for most. These days, I spend most of my time developing my websites, making phone calls with local organizations and businesses, writing on my Related posts:Considerations for...

Eilliot's Blog 1106 days ago

Don?t Slack on Introductions

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When I was at my friend's wedding last weekend, I had the chance to meet some new people, including friends of my friend's wife. I had met some of them before, but this was the first time we had a chance to chat, since there is a lot of down time for the bridal party Related posts:Becoming a Full Time Domain Investor Nearly a year ago, I left th...

Eilliot's Blog 1106 days ago

Is Tuvalu Sinking Or Is Godaddy Just Slinging Mud?

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Godaddy recently made waves by taking their anti-.tv rhetoric to a new level by including a hover blurb stating "the island nation of Tuvalu is sinking" and recommending other extensions. Is .TV going away? It's possible, but unlikely. I'm not worried about .TV going away. Tuvalu may very well be threatened by global warming, but smarter people...

Name.com 1106 days ago

2008 BC…..I mean 2008 BEFORE CRASH

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Morning Folks!! Last year was 2008 BC. Before the crash and before the meltdown. So is 2009....2009 AC? 2009 AFTER CRASH? In a word, no. It is 2009, YEAR ONE on the Internet. This year is the actual starting point of the net. Whatever happened before was just positioning. Just a test. Just whatever it was. But now 2009 marks the true beginning of t...

Rick Schwartz 1106 days ago

Who is Going To Buy Twitter.com?

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The talk of the Internet over the last few days is who is going to buy Twitter? Apple, is rumored to be offering $700 Million for Twiiter. Google has also been rumored recently to buy Twitter.com. Or will Yahoo get Twitter.com? One thing for sure, is that we will not be buying Twitter.com, not because we wouldn't love to

The Domains 1107 days ago

Sedo.com Sales Up 6.5% For First Quarter

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According to a press release by econsultancy, Sedo? reported an increase in domain sales of? 6.5% in the first quarter of 09 compared to the 4Th quarter of 2008. A total of 9,326 domain names sold in the 1st quater. Key findings from the report include: - .com continues to claim more

The Domains 1106 days ago

News Corp To Charge For Content

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The New York Post (owned by News Corp) is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. are has assembled a team of executives to devise a system to charge for content on the Web. The team is said to be looking at creating a user-friendly device akin to Amazon's Kindle to deliver content from such News Corp.

The Domains 1106 days ago

UDRP: Know Your Arbitrator

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We have expressed the importance of knowing your UDRP panelists in any Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). A recent UDRP arbitration decision has received attention after an arbitrator chose not to exercise his discretion and, therefore, did not...

Traverse Legal 1106 days ago

Warren Buffett on Newspaper Industry

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Warren Buffett has weighed in on the declining newspaper industry. Here's the scoop taken from his comments at?the Berkshire Hathaway stockholder meeting which occurred this past weekend. Buffett states that newspapers run the risk of "unending losses". That's a pretty powerful statement. This collapse of the American newspaper industry is an odd d...

PremiumDomains.biz 1106 days ago

Thank god for WordPress... What would we do without this amazing open source CMS?

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Pretty much everywhere you look this days on the web, everything is setup with some type of content management system (CMS) and the most popular choice is of course WordPress. It's not just a blog publishing tool or application or whatever the correct term is... It is a full blown system that can pretty much do everything that you can dream up and ...