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After reading Rick Schwartz's latest blog post about how Google AdSense closed down his account over minisite content, I had an obvious question: why Rick paid THOUSANDS of dollars for minisites?
The term "minisite" was coined as an obvious bait for the domain community, sometime in the past year and a half. It indicates a quick...
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I was chatting with a close friend earlier today, a Domainer, investor, a family man, a business man. This person is extremely successful in business and beyond, one I always looked up to, and he mentioned the following:
These are tough times but this is when we should shine like we did back in the dot com bust days.
Now my respon...
A new six-year study provides good news for domain owners who are developing their own content-rich websites. Data from the Online Publishers Association indicates that if you are going down the development trail, you are headed in the right direction at the right time in Internet history.
This week's video is sponsored by WhyPark.com. Great resource for taking your parked domain names to the next level, check it out for yourself.
Also in this week's video we are announcing the winner of our WhyPark.com contest. Winner will get to choose between an Amazon Kindle 2 or Acer Aspire Netbook. If after watching the
DNJournal reports that Hotel-Reservation.com has changed ownership for a reported $209,916 which is officially the highest amount paid for a hyphenated domain name ever.
Conventionally, domainers feel that a hyphenated domain will lose a lot of it's traffic to it's non hyphenated sibling – which is probably why noone has ever paid more than t...
While many seem to bet on the potential traffic they may be able to get from .CM domains and the official .CM launch should be well underway today after being moved for several times, Kevin Ham and his company Reinvent have quietly retreated from the ccTLD and the wildcard causing all of the .CM domains
As reported by The Domains and Domain Name Wire earlier today, the former owner of the domain name mint.com stands to reap the rewards of the sale of the site to Intuit. But this was more than a simple domain name against stock deal and the previous domain owner was actually an investment firm.
According to
"As far back as I can remember," Henry Hill said in the opening of the hit movie Goodfellas, "I always wanted to be a gangster." And with only three days left in?the?Gangsters.com auction, you have the opportunity to win this domain name that has already received 18 bids and 1477 page views on eBay.
Gangsters.com is
Mint.com domain name sale worth about $2 million.
Mint.com Domain Name sale about $2.M
Hite Capital sold the Mint.com domain name to the recently sold finance web site for equity a few years ago. It has paid off, according to an article by Michael Arrington on Tech Crunch.
…Mint gave a ?substantial? amount of Series
Another crazy domain name dispute.
A company has filed for arbitration on the domain name Project.me at World Intellectual Property Organization.
Confused? So was I. Claiming rights to the term "Project" seems like a stretch.
I did a little research and here's what I've come up with. All searches for the
Using a domain name to drive a message home.
Wednesday evening I was relaxing at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, sipping a Mexican Martini and reading The Onion. (That's as close to perfect enjoyment as you can get.) An ad in The Onion caught my eye.
The ad was for DWI lawyer Charlie
Vacation rental company files domain arbitration cases.
HomeAway.com in Domain Dispute
When I go on vacation with my family, I usually try to rent a vacation home. Not only is it affordable for a family, but it lets you live with the locals. To find vacation homes I usually turn to HomeAway, Inc., an Austin-based
DomainReport.ca - There are only two recent .ca sales to report that I know of, one reported at dnjournal.com, the other showed up on Sedo today.SaveMore.ca - $3,300 USelectricite.ca - $4,500 US (electricity in french)The first domain is a brandable type name that I could see being used effectively in advertising, perhaps by a grocery or department...
I have always been a big fan of .org domain names as I think they are overlooked by many domain investors and end users. The reason I like them is because they give users that "warm and fuzzy" feeling of security. Since the web is a place that is hard to gain trust, .org's seems
This story has very little to do with domain names, but I found this interesting, sad and much more as I researched this a little bit. My final hope of writing this is to spark something by somebody to have the right thing done!
What inspired me to write this?
A list of 70 unclaimed or
Godaddy.com has been in NASCAR sponsoring a truck series truck. In the Nationwide Series as a primary sponsor for the #88 and driver Brad Keslowski, the #5 Nationwide Series car in a couple races with several different drivers and an associate sponsor on the #5 car in the Sprint Cup Series.
Godaddy has provided sponsorship deals
In today's weekly video on ChefPatrick.com, the chef offers up a pretty girl in the video which is nothing new and just fine, but the model today is topless and is body painted with the WhyPark logo across her chest.
Creative marketing for sure and with her nipples very clear in the video, I'm sure many
As the week is coming to a close, I wanted to write a little bit about a few things that I thought about this past week. I bet some of you are thinking the same thing, and I welcome your thoughts in the comment section as always.
I booked my flight to New Orleans for Domainer
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A few weeks ago, I received a message on Facebook from a domain industry friend with an urgent message. Apparently I had befriended a person who was posting Anti-Semitic links on his Facebook page, and my friend wanted to know if I knew the guy and/or if I had seen the links he was posting.
Related posts:Blend of Personal & Business Account...
I was checking out my Facebook page this evening, when I noticed a sponsored advertisement suggesting I become a fan of Facebook Marketing Solutions. The banner encouraged me to become a fan, which will give me the chance to see "Tuesday?s Facebook announcement you don?t want to miss."
I clicked through to the actual FMS page,
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In their never-ending pursuit to evade spam filters, malevolent mailers have deployed a number of techniques to obfuscate their true intent. One of those techniques is using facsimiles of legitimate brand names in Web addresses to redirect victims to outlaw Internet sites where the scammers can work their mischief on their targets, a practice calle...
Have you invested in .CN Domain Names? Right now, it does seem like it?s a sound and a valuable piece of internet real estate (with 338 million internet users) but situations have changed. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has recently announced that China Language Domain Names (.??) will soon be possible?
? The new
Morning Folks!! First of all this is no accident. You are here for a reason and I will explain right now. Calm down, I promise I won't waste one moment of your time if you read this post today. Did you type in Specialties.com and end up here? Want to know why? I own this great domain name that represents a very large industry. 75-150 people a day t...
Good Afternoon Folks!! I will be working on a major post for next week. It is a post to pay close attention to. The sites I had closed were created by different companies. About ten sites, 3 different companies that produced them. I paid TENS of thousands of dollars for them. BE ON NOTICE! No warning whatsoever from Google. No appeal. No discussion...
Last week we told you about the sale of Mint.com, the financial site to Intuit for $170 million.
Today according to TechCrunch.com, we found out that the former owner of the domain, Hite Capital got a "substantial" amount of stock in the Mint.com site's company .
""That stock was worth a "couple of million dollars" after the...
My friend and past Domain Success guest, Bruce Turkel, talks about creativity and how you move people to a destination like Miami, putting "heads in beds" as he calls it. After this clip, VIP members interested in selling ads on their GEO domains, might want to revisit Bruce's full appearance on Domain Success.
Lots of new buzzwords in here. Taken or available?Social TV – The Emergence of New TV 2.0 ecosystemby Richard G. Kastelein (originally published at Atlantic Free Press)The transition is happening. Convergence is inevitable. At least I think so.How much longer will it be (or can we handle) until we move from our passive, numbing, anti-social, tradit...
"Though it is not easy, I believe that diversifying into development in at least one niche area that you are truly passionate about - and doing it well enough to attract an audience - is the key to freedom. It may take multiple tries before you come up with a winner, but if you are able to find the right combination, you will be able to cut out the...
The winner for the WhyPark September Contest has just been announced on ChefPatrick.com's video blog. Check out the video to see if you're the winner of the Amazon Kindle or Netbook Computer. As a bonus, the lovely Anishya Reyes delivers the news with Patrick. You won't want to miss this video.Instantly Develop Your Domain Names with WhyPark
The owner of TheCollegePolitico.com (registered about a year ago) is certainly enjoying some traffic, after receving a "cease and desist" letter from POLITICO. POLITICO which gets over 2 million visitors per month according to Compete, is an online Political News website.n
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As you can see from the screenshot above, the webmaster is posti...
One of the things I have learned recently is the value of short term sites and the value they can bring to an overall web development project. I had never really put much thought into this since most of the sites I had built previously had been long term projects. One thing to keep in
If you are reading this post that means you are now looking at the brand-new version of Domainvestors.tv! This is the fourth version of my blog since its inception in October of 2007! A lot of the changes made in v2 were driven by – you – my readers! As a blogger I am forever
I noticed something odd with Sedo's Commission fees for a Domain Name sale at Sedo.
I parked a domain recently with Sedo. Surprisingly got an offer of $120 which i countered. The prospective buyer made a second offer of $450 after a couple of days.
Sedo's fees is "$50 or 10% Sale Price whichever is greater" as
On September 15th two senior Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith and Howard Coble, dispatched a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom. The letter (text here) starts with a hearty congratulation, but by the second paragraph it is raising concerns over the proposed rollout of new gTLDs and the potential expiration of its Join...
You know we had to do it!? This Friday, we are directing our utmost attention towards the controversial art of domain squatting.? Since there are mixed feelings towards domain squatters, why not poke a little fun at them!? If you have ideas for future domaining comics feel free to submit them to info@dnpimping.com or call
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My Snapnames saved searches are now coming to my email after a long hiatus =P
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