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The list of recently expired domains below dropped on June 10th and are now available for registration. Using the Google Adwords Tool, I found these domains to have the highest monthly Google search volume: HandheldTextScanner.com 6,600,? BusinessContactManager.net 4,400, JacksonvilleFloridaEmployment.com 4,400, OttawaCounty.net 4,400, CordlessWall...
I don't want to be a domainer anymore.
In fact, I don't really consider myself to be a mainstream domainer and never really have done.
Always a hybrid, I've tended to err on the side of development and look more at the marketing side of the Internet, especially user behaviour – getting a visitor to perform a
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This week's hit parade is led by a pair of domains that cracked the million dollar mark - only the 4th and 5th domains to reach the 7-figure level so far in 2009. Seven ccTLDs made the all extension leader board as the country codes continue to rock.
A heavily advertised auction of geo-targeted real estate domains will be held Thursday in San Francisco - but will buyers show up? (There will be no online bidding). Meanwhile, the ICA warns ICANN could become "an unaccountable Internet regulator." We thought they already were but it could get even worse.
When you buy a domain name there are a three things you should do.
Record sale for tracking purposes (my spreadsheet)
Update whois information - buyers can't find you to make offers if it's not
Update your nameservers
This article is about updating your nameservers, so why is it important?
When you purchase a domain name and do not change...
Friendly URLs become available this Friday night/Saturday morning.
This Saturday morning at 12:00 am EDT (Friday night for most of the United States), Facebook will let users create "friendly URLs" for their profiles. So instead of the current facebook.com/blahblahnumbersnumberblah, you will be able to get Facebook.com/yourname or something simil...
Man who originally won small claim against Google loses appeal.
Aaron Greenspan won a small claims court case against Google earlier this year. Google had canceled his Adsense account without providing a reason. The judge ruled that it can't cancel accounts for any reason at all, and awarded Greenspan $761. Greenspan wrote an
ICANN Chairman of the Board asks government to conclude JPA upon expiration this year.
Peter Thrush, Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors, has sent an eleven page letter (pdf) to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) asking to end the Joint Project Agreement when it expires later this year. The letter was in response...
Popular domain news aggregator launches tool to find good domain name auctions.
Domaining.com has launched an advanced tool for finding gems in closing domain name auctions. Called ClosingAuctions.com, the tool sorts domains according to closing time, bids, price, value and interest.
The first three categories are self explanatory, but the latter ...
Apps let you check stats on all three NameMedia platforms.
On Monday Cortnee Gunn, a NameMedia domain parking account manager based in Austin, stopped by my office to show me the company's latest parking innovations.
If it seemed that NameMedia and its parking companies — GoldKey, ActiveAudience, and Smartname — fell off the earth fo...
An appeal from the US District Court was recently lodged in California. The Plaintiff is the Coalition for ICANN Transparency with the Defendant, Verisign, Inc.
Here is a small extract that I found interesting:
"CFIT alleged that in order to get ICANN to agree to the terms VeriSign desired, VeriSign paid lobbyists to support its position, ?stacked?...
Domain.com launches Spanish language services to provide tools for one of the fastest growing online markets
Vancouver, Wash. – June 9, 2009 – Recognizing the importance of giving Latin American, Hispanic, and Spanish-speaking small businesses the tools they need to reach the burgeoning global online market, Domain.com, a leading d...
~ The Sedo.com themed "Career" auctions end in less then an hour. Several great domains are being offered but many have yet to meet reserve or even get a starting bid. The highest domain I had seen with reserve met was Careers.us currently at $4,499. It is looking like this theme auction may be a
I have stated several times that I wished Sedo.com would remove the underline from it's domain listings as it hides letters! The following is gpljoq but with an underline gpljoq .
Browsing at Sedo today, I noticed they have finally removed the underline from hypertexted domain listings.
This makes Reading the domain much easier and does not...
I had wrote yesterday about the generic domain name Soaps.com that would potentially hold several uses due to it's generic nature. I think Soaps.com is a Perfect Fit for a Soap Opera site as it is now!
Today comes another generic domain name Bowl.com that also could be used for a couple different things, but found
After today's shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, the reports about the shooter started ringing out and people talking about the "Shooters Website".
Well, the address of the site all the reporters are speaking of happens to be HolyWesternEmpire.org but according to the whois database of domain name owners, doesn't show the sh...
The super powerful content management system WordPress released it's latest version today, 2.8. Fixes include 790 bugs (not sure where they were, but that's what they said) and is reported faster with several improvements.
DotWeekly is run with the powerful WordPress system.
Here is the direct link to the WordPress.org 2.8 version. There is a video...
I personally think a lot of people use the term premium domain names a bit too. Some think a premium domain is any domain name that will sell on the domain aftermarket. Some think that a premium domain name is a premium domain name if it is registered, pre-owned and is being offered for sale
A few weeks ago a blogged about the birth eBD.me. We had only acquired the domain name then.
It was only after acquiring the domain name EBD.me that I found out that ?EBD? is widely used as an abbreviation for Emotional and Behavioural Disorder, sickness that is quite widespread in a few countries.
I have also since
When I first heard about the TRAFFIC ccTLD conference in Amsterdam, it was shortly after Rick Latona worked out an agreement with Rick Schwartz to operate the show. My first thought was that I needed to be there, but my second thought was that I am not a ccTLD investor, so it wouldn't be smart
Related posts:Who Should Attend TRAFFIC Amsterdam &#...
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