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Revenue is severely down across the domain parking industry, as PPC companies slowly but surely pass the "benefits" of trickle-down economics to the domainers.
Meanwhile, the main advertising providers, Google and Yahoo post record revenue while they're reducing ad revenue paid to domain holders. Time to develop your domains.
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I thought I'd mix things up a bit and post an evening list for a change. All of these domains expired and became available for the past 10 days or so. Google reports the following as having the highest monthly search volume for the keywords that make up the domain:? CremationCosts.net 4,400, DelawareCorporations.net 4,400, HotTubSpa.net
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It's been one week since we changed from "one domain a day" to "multiple domains per day" format and I wanted to write a little about progress being made. We've added 100 domains to site inventory yesterday as well as have many others pending process, will be added in the coming days. To view the complete list visit the Bido.com site,...
Dates and a new location for the 2010 DOMAINfest Global Conference have been announced. Oversee.net's big annual event is staying in Los Angeles but will be moving from Hollywood to the beach for a show that will run January 26-28. Registration will open August 15 with a special early bird rate.
I have switched my video hosting services to YouTube. Until recently I was using Vimeo because YouTube had a ten minute video limit and the quality was not so hot. YouTube has since made changes to both aspects of their video hosting. On the other end, too many people were having issues watching videos hosted
I've just got word from Moniker that they are offering some pretty good deals on certain extensions until July 31, 2009.
Until the promotion runs out, you can get the following deals:
.ORG first year new registration for $7.97
.US first year new registration for $4.99
.MOBI new registrations up to 10 years for $5.59/yr
.MOBI renewals up to 10...
It appears Microsoft's search engine Bing allows search result spam by keywords in the domain name - judging by the ongoing discussion on the subject at Bing's own forums.
Deducing from the discussion, for now at least, some sites are appearing at the top of the search engine's results based on domain name and keywords alone
I read an interesting bit of news from MediaWeek.com via DotWeekly.com yesterday - AOL have acquired the domain name and website MMAFighting.com for an undisclosed fee.
According to AOL's execs the plan is:
to eventually merge MMAFighting.com, which launched in 2001, with the existing MMA channel within AOL?s own sports site FanHouse.
The sites wil...
DOMAINfest moves to a new venue for 2010.
DOMAINfest Global, the largest domain name industry conference, is moving to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California this January. Previous conferences were held in Hollywood, California.
The entire hotel has been reserved for guests of the show, which will take place January 26-28, 2010....
Registrar adds new "Express Buy" option that speeds up the domain registration process.
One of the complaints you hear over and over about GoDaddy are the pages and pages of cross-sells you encounter when trying to register a domain name. In fact, some people used the company's mobile web site to register domain names because...
UK registry operator sends demand letter, then files UDRP.
UK registry operator Nominet, which oversees the .uk country code, has filed for arbitration to get the domain name Nominet.name.
Nominet began communicating with the domain's owner last year, and in April sent a demand letter requesting the domain be turned over. The demand letter...
End of sales agreement could have broad implications for Australian domain company.
It's been a rough year for Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), parent company of Fabulous. Its profits are down by three quarters, it has cut half its staff, and one of its biggest shareholders is trying to oust its Chairman. But
If deal goes through, it would be good news for domainers.
The on-again, off-again relationship between Yahoo and Microsoft may be on again.
When news of a potential merger between the two companies first broke early last year, I wondered what it would mean for domainers. At the time I was conflicted. But then the
Its been reported that a woman in the UK has become the first person to change her name by Deed Poll to a domain name. 24 year old Claire Forshaw changed her name earlier this week to Princess-Rainbow.com.
?I knew that if ever I got the chance I would change [my name] to a web domain,
Sedo.com has rolled out two more Six Figure domain name sales in the form of Mouse.com for $125,000 and Keyboard.com for $100,000!
Both appear to have went to the same buyer, Communicate.com Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
Another nice sale was for the domain name GunAuction.com for $28,000 which is still currently in the tra...
This is the eighth of a ten-part series that should provide some guidance to newbies on how to legitimately make money with domains and developed websites in a risk-free fashion.
To see the previous posts in this series, simply browse the Making Money Online blog category. We will interlink the posts as soon as all of
I know a number of companies and individuals that have spent a lot of money buying domain names based strictly on revenue multiples, and there are many reasons why I think this is a bad idea. I personally have never bought a name strictly based on the amount of money it generates because of the
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If you read my blog frequently, you are probably well aware that David Castello from CCIN has given me great geodomain development advice on Lowell.com and Burbank.com. As I mentioned in a previous article, David's advice led me to add banners across the top row of the home page on my geodomains, whereas before I
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My guest today on Domain Names Podcast is Zappy Zapolin co-founder & CEO of Internet Real Estate Group & InternetWarrior.com and the visionary behind such leading internet brands such as Beer.com, Computer.com, Music.com, Debt.com, CreditCards.com, Diamond.com and many many more...
Morning Folks!! Many folks in the industry don’t think Bing will be a big deal. I am going to explain why they are completely wrong. Bing is the first TRUE challenge to Google. Bing is good for the domain industry. Bing is good for the consumer. The only ones Bing is bad for are Google and SEO guys that have yet to figure out Bing. Make no mistake,...
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