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The following list of recently expired domain names are now available for registration. If search volume is your thing, these domains showed the highest monthly values according to the Google Adwords Tool: TvConverterBox.net 90,500, GardenersSupply.net 18,100, FireworkShows.net 9,900, FranzJosefHotels.com 9,900, DandelionWine.net
6,600, SummerDrink...
NameMedia continues to have strong sales in the market. Total sales for all domains totaled $ 443,105.68. Sales of dot com made up the largest portion totaling $370,789.89.NM .com sales for last week are listed below followed by alt tld?s:epidurals.com $8,500.00 spao.com $6,300.00 nvdirect.com $5,500.00 fastphone.com $5,200.00 yiss.com $5,012.00 ...
Microsoft made a bold move today. They announced a free online version of Office. This is a shot across the bow of Google. I have no doubt that this will be a big boost to Microsoft traffic share. There will be those saying that it?s a last ditch effort to catch up with Google. There?s probably some truth to that. I feel that it was a necessary pla...
Warren Weitzman's worst nightmare has just come true. He has been in the domain game since 1994 but Weitzman has never seen anything like this. Somehow over a dozen domains have been stolen from his Enom account and he thinks the break-in may have occurred as high as the registry level. Even worse, the thefts may not have stopped yet.
I want to apologize for not getting this up sooner for you all to see.? MiniSites.com is our newest advertiser and I wanted to make sure I give you guys as much information about them as possible.? First, let me just say I love their domain name, MiniSites.com for obvious reasons, I would think.? They
I finally got around to upgrading my blog's Wordpress version to 2.8. I followed the usual procedure – download latest code from Wordpress, disable all plugins, upload latest code to my server overwriting everything except wp-content and wp-config.php.
Once I was done, I went to my admin page hoping to run the upgrade script and re-enable...
Sedo posted a spectacular week of sales including Mouse.com for $125,000, Keyboard.com for $100,000, 70.com for $87,000, and 63.com for $75,000.
In total there were 128 domains sold for over $750,000. Check out the full list of results after the jump…
Domain name
Auction
Price
Currency
Translation
.Coms
mouse.com
Sedo...
The SnapNames Summer Stimulus auction is ending today at 3:15pm EDT, with many domains still available at great prices.
Click here to visit the auction headquarters so you can start bidding today!
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AfternicDLS had a strong week, reporting over $440,000 in domain sales including Epidurals.com for $8,500, SPAO.com for $6,300, and NVDirect.com for $5,500.
Check out the full results - which includes over 300 domain sales - after the jump…
.Com Domains
Price
epidurals.com
$8,500
spao.com
$6,300
nvdirect.com
$5,500
fastphone....
Nominet announced last week that three new members - Clive Grace, Nora Nanayakkara, and Jonathan Robinson - were added to the board following an electoral vote.
Nora Nanayakkara is a notable member, having served as Sedo's Business Development Director since November 2007 as well as being an elected member of Nominet's Policy Advisory Body (PAB) si...
Snapnames auction ends today; more auction activity in the weeks ahead.
SnapNames' first "Showcase Auction", a new monthly online domain name auction, ends today at about 12:15 PDT. Auctions that receive bids in the final minutes will be extended.
At the time of writing, about 40% of domain names have met their reserves. DegreePrograms.com is...
Major company can't get domain names to resolve without www.
Last week I went to payroll processor Paychex's web site, typing Paychex.com into my internet browser. After a few seconds I got an error message "Network Timeout. The server at paychex.com is taking too long to respond."
The problem? I didn't type in www....
RevenueDriver is the newest domain parking company on the block.
These days it seems like the number of domain name parking options is declining. So it's nice to see a new option on the table in RevenueDriver.
Based in Italy, RevenueDriver brings multi-lingual support and a European perspective to the parking business. Currently, Sedo and...
Here is a little "This and That" from me to you! Just odds and ends related to domain names.
~ Mcat.info sold on Afternic.com for $4,250. I guess the sun does shine on a dogs ass once in a great while! The domain was registered in 2006 and all major TLD's are registered.
~ Did you submit
Since Bido.com has now opened it's auction system to more then one domain name a day, getting ALL the notifications for Each domain auction daily in my email box is getting annoying.
The basic settings in Bido is to get email notification 1 hour before an auction starts which is a nice reminder and I
Time flies when you are having fun! Today is exactly one year since the launch of the eBusinessDomains.com domain marketplace.
This blog was launched on September 1st last year, so we still has just over a month to go before a full year of blogging.
I believe we have done very well in terms of what we
The Snapnames Summer Stimulus Low & No Reserve auction is ending today, and there are many auctions with very low reserves still available for bidding. As previously announced, Snapnames and Moniker will be running monthly theme auctions on the Snapnames platform. This is the first auction of the summer.
Some names that I like that are
Relat...
Some of the best domain names I have ever purchased came after receiving a notice with the subject "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" meaning that it was not received by the intended recipient. This tells me that inquiries from others went unreceived as well, and acquisition attempts probably ended there (or a phone call, which generally
R...
Newly appointed ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom posted a message today on the ICANN website with updates on a few key topics. Beckstrom discusses IDNs, DNSSEC, New gTLDs, and the future of ICANN and the Internet (albeit briefly).
Regarding the new gTLDs, Beckstrom notes the original memorandum of understanding with the US Government from 1998, which stated...
Today's interview is with Sabine Dolderer, the CEO of DENIC which runs Germany's .de ccTLD.
Most of my readers are well aware that Germany's extension crushes other ccTLDs in aftermarket sales.
.de names are also the most widely registered ccTLD. .cn names have had a nice run in the last year and might even have more
Morning Folks!! Before I get started on the Neanderthal’s (Lighten up, I have been called much worse), I want to thank TechCrunch.com for following the Candy.com deal. They have written about it twice now and that is a good thing. Their articles have been good. So I have nothing bad to say about TechCrunch.com and want to thank them for following t...
Network Solutions announced today that its launched a its free whois app for the iphone.
First the official announcement then my comments and comparison other free whois apps currently available
"""The app developed by Network Solutions allows iPhone users to use the company's WHOIS database search tool from anywhere their iPhones receive service. ...
The first Snapnames.com showcase auction just closed with DegreePrograms.com leading the way, selling for $31,500
Other notable sales from this auction include:
CameraBags.com $10,500
Pumped.com $5,750
We hope to get the fully results to you shortly.
We picked up AnnuityProducts.com for $2,450
In all,? 38 domains look like they sold making for a pr...
Yahoo! reported revenues of $1,573 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of 13% from the second quarter of 2008, after the close of the market today.
Excluding the impact of currency rate
The first Snapnames.com showcase domain auction ended today with a total of $108,300 in sales
As promised in our earlier post of today here is the complete list of all domains that
degreeprograms.com? ? ? ? ??? $31,555.00
camerabags.com? ? ? ? ? ? ? ????? $10,500.00
pumped.com?????????????????????????? $ 5,750.00
musicarchive.com?? ? ? ? ? ? ???? $...
A bright spot in an otherwise dim economy. Stock @$150 regains 50% of the market loss in October market blood bath. MLB live 'AT Bat" application for iPhone. Apple sells 52 million iPhones... most of them recently. MOREPhoto: Apple
TechCrunch alert:Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility.Bit.ly has started warning users of potentially malicious sites, based on information it has about URLs being shortened. For example, if you click on this link, y...
A judge has decided that Google can't be held liable for any defamatory comments that appear in its search results.London’s Metropolitan International Schools run distance learning courses in games development that go under the name under the name Train2Game. They were far from happy about some defamatory comments that appeared on a website forum a...
Here's something to give you pause.
I contacted a teddy bear company to inquire and establish an account for buying wholesale or having them dropship.
This is for the domain HopeBear.com that I had acquired. I've seen various types of fund raising "hope"?bears sell for roughly $69.
Here's the conversation with an online customer service rep of this...
I just received a notice that in the middle of all of the various corporate manoeuvring that is happening between...
I thought that it would be a good idea to highlight a number of new features for whizzbangsblog so that...
Be sure to read the first article in this series as part 2 continues directly on where the previous article...
A Seattle Times article discusses where some of the weird web names come from for popular sites like Flickr, Ning, Orkut, Yahoo and more. It seems pretty obvious like in cases of Flickr, they just didn't want to spend the money to purchase a category-killer name like Flicker.Either way, the brands are still very successful. But that being said, the...
I'd like to let you know that I have added a new page to my blog with an extensive list of domain-related articles and news reports. Currently, the list contains links to almost 80 highly informative articles from publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, CNN Money, Wired, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0, Washington Post Copyright (C) 2003-200...
Man, I tell ya.. Everybody is a domain development pro all of the sudden it seems. The domain development boom is in full effect in 2009!! Domainers are slowly but surely building out their domains, however they can, which is great but I have one issue with all of this.. Something that is pretty damn annoying. I mean, it's nice that you got a websi...
Are you an expert? Are you an expert in something? Anything? Chances are that many domainers are leaving money on the table by not putting their niche expertise to work.
What do I mean by "niche expertise"? It has been said that almost everyone has some area of specialized knowledge where they know more than
I thought it would be interesting to review three of the top keyword domain sales from today's Snapnames Stimulus Auction and highlight some available related domains.
One word of caution:? It's a common newbie mistake to register worthless domain variations after a major domain sale is published.? For example, if Treats.com sells for a million, do...
Press release available here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/domain/internet/prweb2662174.htm
.info deals can be viewed here: http://www.info.info/deals?. You can even get a .info deals widget for Facebook or iGoogle.
Is it just me or do you not think this is pure genius? Seeing as Afilias, VeriSign, etc make money on every single domain registratio...
It appears that may very well be the case. I'm not exactly sure how they ever planned on making this business legal…?Sure, you could try and monetize the traffic but how valuable and loyal are people looking for illegal torrents going to be for a law-abiding business?
Related posts:Link Building ResourcesInternet Business Plans and Tips on ...
Another silly thread on Namepros about the new domain name extensions: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/597878-com-will-lose-gr ound-xxxx-travel.html#post3517585?.
Predicting the future is often a coin toss for even the sharpest domainers… Why do?new domainers so often think they know the answer? And why is the answer always the ...
Dominik Mueller has compiled a list of nearly 80 high quality articles related to domaining that have been featured over the years in publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, CNN Money, Wired, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0, Washington Post, etc. Dominik has indicated that he will be updating this list as he comes across
Related posts:Soc...
These are tough times and every dollar you spend counts. You have to find out ways to avoid spending those extra dollars whenever possible or if you feel you can't cut down the dollar then make sure atleast you have more than one reason for your spending. Choosing a Registrar is significant as it also
There aren't many dot com domain names left in the world with any relevance that can still be hand registered. The only opportunity left is certain major events that draw attention.? I am usually not that fast of a mover, nor am I a good SEO person to capture the traffic in a quick manner.?
Alright guys, this is my first domaining tip and domaining video.? I call this "Automatic Domaining" and it is something that I discovered while using the justdropped.com website.? As some of you may know I am an avid user of justdropped.com and have registered a great deal of domains based on the information that the
A company named Theoretical Games, LLC seems to think so.? While searching google news for the keyword domain, I was surprised to see an official press release for the shoot.us domain name.? On July 30, 2009 at 1:23 PM EST the company will utilize the Bido auction platform to sell the shoot.us domain to the
I am in the process of creating a list of rules to follow while working on my domaining projects.? One of the rules which actually applied to me today was "When In Doubt Register A Dot-INFO."? While searching for an extension to register my complete name in, I ran across several other extension which looked
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