July 24, 2009 Posts

This will be the last available domains list posted to the blog this week. I will be sending out an email list on Sunday so sign up for the free service. The top Google search volume domain names from today's list are: LafayetteLouisianaHotels.com 12,100, UpsBattery.net 4,400, FlintMichiganHotels.com 3,600, BarahonaHotels.com 2,900, DecorativePlate...

(image source) It's no secret times are challenging. With everyone I talked with lately all are taking steps to look closer at their financials, reduce expenses. For me, I always lived with this paranoia of "circumstances happen?" and today, with the current economy crisis, it is truer than ever. So what am I doing? Besides working hard, I'm workin...

Sedo is about to unveil a new Price Suggestion Tool aimed at providing domain owners with guidance on pricing their names for the popular sales site. Automatic domain appraisal tools usually produce laughable results. Will this one break the mold? Are "human" appraisals much better?

A client of mine's Wordpress installation got hacked the other day – lots of hidden iframe tags pointing to various hacker domain names got inserted into various index.php files inside wp-content and wp-admin as well as inside the main index.php file. This was the first of this kind of hijack that I have seen and to

Digimedia has an enviable but daunting task: building out the world's best domain name portfolio. Most domainers struggle with the question of which of their domain names to develop into full-fledged web sites. But imagine if your portfolio of domain names included Recipes.com, Shops.com, FantasyFootball.com, and MovieReviews.com? Choosing which ...

Court rules Hotels.com can't be trademarked. A federal appeals court has ruled against Hotels.com in its bid to trademark its name. The court ruled that "Hotels" is generic and descriptive of its business. Here's what it means for domain name owners: 1. Generic domain names are harder to trademark and thus harder to protect....

A lot of talk, blog posts and news articles have been done since the sale of Candy.com for $3 Million. I often wonder if these write ups are because of the quality of the domain name or because of the $3 Million dollar price tag paid for the domain. Outside of the domain name industry, I

I didn't know what to title this posting, because it's going to be a Micro Post, but figured I would change things up a little. Here are some domain related things that I noticed today that I thought may interest you with me explaining a bit more about the specific domains. ~ CandyCompany.com is listed on

Have you ever heard of the famous saying, "the shoe maker's son has no shoes?" This saying generally means that the cobbler spends so much time repairing the shoes of his customers that he doesn't have the time to repair his childrens' shoes. The saying can also be applied to domain developers and designers who Related posts:Find a Top Web Desig...

Hello everyone, This week, we put a couple of new features live on our Virtual Folders. The main change is the new NDX Market virtual folder. This shows you all domains you have listed on NDX Market, all domains you have offers on and all domains you have not listed on NDX Market yet. This will

Let's play a game. Take the following domains and tell me would you pay these amounts to buy them, or take these amounts to sell them if you owned them. That's your choice; Buy or Sell at these prices and later on today I will let you on to the secret, which if you know already, congrats,

Hotels.com lost its bid to register a trademark on ?hotels.com? when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled the mark was a "too generic term" to be trademarked. The decision handed down yesterday, upholds the ruling by the Trademark Appeal Board, of March 2008, which denied Hotels.com's application for a trademark,? also calling...

How To Make $100 Million Per Week From One Deal Warren Buffett loaned Goldman Sachs $5 Billion 10 months ago when the economic crisis went into full swing on Wall Street and GS was in dire need for a cash injection. The deal gave Warren preferred shares paying a 10% annual dividend of $500 Million. Buffett also received warrants to buy $5 billion i...

Another article verifies that we are seeing a recovery in the real estate market. I wrote on July 10 that the Las Vegas residential real estate market set a record for the most home and condo sales ever successfully closed -> 4702 in June alone. Associated Press Real Estate Writer, Alan Zibel, wrote yesterday that existing

I find it hard to believe such a valuable resource is so underappreciated by the domain name community. Perhaps the Compete.com and Alexa stats are way off the mark — I can't see how so few domainers would be taking advantage of it as a free resource and Alexa and Compete suggesting more people visit Related posts:Help a Domain Newbie Out!...

CNN reported yesterday?that the SEACOM cable is now live, providing East Africa with 17,000 kilometers of high speed Internet. I knew Internet penetration was quite low in Africa and there were some obvious reasons for it — for example, the widespread poverty many African nations are afflicted with. Another unsurprising fact is the lack of ...

Renown web usability expert Jakob Nielsen has released a?mobile web usability report?which says exactly what many .mobi investors have been saying for a long time — mobile web users have different needs and while a walled garden approach is both unnecessary and far from ideal, the mobile web experience still suffers when websites are not R...

Domain Investment is spending your bucks on Domains(Price to acquire, Development cost if applicable, Maintenance cost etc) with the intention of making a profit in future. Is Developing Minisites kind of Domain Investment? Yes very much. No matter it is a minisite or a massive site, every buck you spend comes under Domain Investment. Is PPC the o...

As a domainer, I used to find myself wasting the majority of the day trying to buy and sell domain names.? I had no concept of time and spent 6 – 8 hours on the computer checking email as often as possible, browsing forums, bidding on auctions and just plain wasting a great deal of