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Those who have been wondering?where new ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom would come down on the organization's highly controversial plan to flood the Internet with new gTLDs now have some answers.Those came in a detailed letter Beckstrom sent two U.S. Congressmen, responding to their concerns about the plan.
Yesterday I attended an open house at my kids school. For those of you that don't have children an open house is a basic recap of how the year is going and things to come. I sat there and honestly blanked out a little, but my wife listened to everything. For a brief moment my
One of my favorite domain industry blogs is by far Bruce Marler's; BruceMarler.com. Bruce recently wrote an interesting post posing the question, Where did professionalism go? Laziness, in my opinion, has one of the biggest links to professionalism. Its role in the up and coming generation is something that I've thought about from time to...
A group of Iowa investors have big plans for AreaRugs.com, so big that they were willing to shell out $405,000 for the premium domain name.
"Our goal is to be the number one shopping destination online for area rugs," said Randy Ward, CEO and President of AreaRugs.com. "We feel we have assembled a great team to
Tony Hsieh, the CEO and Co-Founder of Zappos.com will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual DOMAINfest Global event, scheduled for January 26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.
Hsieh is one of the most respected and successful business innovators in the online world, founding his shoe company in 2000 with new approaches to marketing, human...
Rod Beckstrom
New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to the concerns regarding additional gTLDs raised by two of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's top Republicans, Lamar Smith and Howard Coble, saying that "the new gTLD policy development is the very type of process that the United States government envisioned, supported and encouraged thro...
It seems ICANN is getting it from both sides these days - with Republican lawmakers opposing the new TLDs and trying to delay the process as well as supporters of the new system urging the Board of Directors of ICANN to "initiate the new top-level domain application period without further delay."
Sixty-one businesses, organizations, and individuals...
Keynote speaker announced for DOMAINfest Global.
Tony Hsieh, CEO and Co-Founder of Zappos.com, will be the keynote speaker for DOMAINfest Global 2010. The event will take place January 26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.
This is a good choice for the show, given Hsieh's background in internet marketing and domain names. Hsieh founded the pop...
ICANN responds to Congress.
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to Lamar Smith and Howard Coble's letter and questions. A copy of Beckstrom's response is available here.
Here are some highlights:
Implementation Recommendation Team proposals: "The Board has not yet formally considered the proposals from the IRT…
"After this extensive consul...
DotGreen to take on DotEco.
When I wrote my tongue-in-cheek guide on how to my .Eco a success, I joked:
Make sure the other side doesn?t decide to just get .green instead. You need to get their heads stuck on .eco. If they opt for .green, you could have long term competition. And that?s not what this
I watch a lot of domain sales and try to discover patterns or trends and I can often pick them up a good deal before the trend reaches it peak. This allows me to jump in and buy in the background but sell when I notice the peak.
I have always thought Geo (geographical) domain names
In the past few months, I launched TobagoVacations.com and AthensVacations.com, two "mini sites" I created on my own using the Bluelight template created by my designer and available on ThemeForest.net. Recently, I made a few other travel-related domain purchases as domain investments. They don't receive a whole lot of type-in traffic, so parking t...
When it comes to development, Rick made a good point yesterday. One of my biggest obstacles when it comes to development is myself. With domain sales down for me, I have been spreading myself thinly in an effort to build revenue generating businesses on my domain names.
In the last two years, my company has built
Related posts:Mini Site Templat...
Took a much needed day of relaxation yesterday and went out to the Olympic Peninsula along the Straights of Juan de Fuca in Washington.? It was great to relax on the beach, get out with nature,?and?see quite a bit of wildlife.
We had a few deer walk right passed us while we were on the Dungeness Read more articles on this topic at Green TaxiSequim ...
I have little desire to blog these days but every now and then a sale is published and I say to myself ? seriously, who is the idiot that sold that name or (probably more times) who is the moron who bought that name. Not a day goes by when one of these 2 questions
I need your help. My partners and I are agonizing over a decision so we've decided to lay it on the masses.
While I realize this isn't the most professional way to name an organization that does as much revenue as we do currently and are projected to do in the future; it is the 21st
Oversee.net announced today that the CEO and co-founder of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh, will be the keynote speaker at DomainFest being held on January 26-28, 2010, in Santa Monica, California.
Zappos.com was founded in 2000 and has grown to a $1 billion-a-year online retailer. The company was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the world's...
Well Google has topped $500 a share after hitting a low of $280 this year.
Today represents a 52 week high for Google, but its still well off its all time high of around $750.
As you probably know, Gold has been a liitle over $1K an ounce for a week.
Thought it would be fun to take
During the Buy Domains/Afternic Webinar this afternoon, a new fully-developed monetization platform was offered to SmartName customers.The example cited, Landscaping.com a Name Media Home and Garden Branded House-Owned Site, is awesome. I love it when partners INNOVATE!Also cautioned at Webinar when an audience questioner claimed that their listed ...
Here's a great idea how to develop YOUR domain. ASK the audience to do it. Dumbemployed is such a simple idea, with traffic and awareness building via Twitter. Soon the ads and money will follow. Plus subscribers are worth $30 each!Some of their posts:At work today, we thought that bringing on some extra temps might make work a little easier. We th...
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.Suppose someone actually did a Google search for a name you’re trying to sell. What would they find?• An unattractive parked domain with no original content, no business model or no obvious purpose other than to generate pay-per-click revenue?• Comments in a domain forum denigrating its...
One of our favorite things about NameJet, is there are deals each and every day. If you do some research, and be patient before placing your pre-bid, chances are you can get that name for $69.Since the New Year, we've acquired the following names off NameJet for under $100.
PoliticalScientist.comn
ClassroomLearning.com n
Subdividers.comn
Improvisat...
I have been experimenting with DevHub which is a free website builder for non-technical web developers.?DevHub is user friendly and allows you to easily drop content sections into a webpage.
Most of the?content sections are monetized. Several of my favorites are hotel booking, the local business directory, and the ability to sell products and selec...
Although most of my .ME investment is around geo domain names I also think certain verbs and call to action names work very well with the extension. I was just browsing through the 15 call to action domain names that are headed to the exclusive auction at Namejet.com and noticed that several were already over
No matter how many times this topic is brought to attention, its sad to see some newbies falling prey for this kind of Domain Name Appraisal Scam.
Received the below email and thought of sharing with everyone.
Dear sir,
dear madam,
we have an interest to purchase your domain XXXX and offer between 50% and 65% of the appraised
A diverse group has just sent a letter (http://www.icann.org/correspondence/van-couvering-to-beckstrom-21sep0 9-en.pdf) to ICANN’s top executives and Board in which they “urge you to direct ICANN staff to implement ICANN’s plan to introduce new top-level domains without further delay???.
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Taking a bit of a break today.? I will continue the Domain Spotlight Tuesdays next week.? Thanks to all my readers!
It sounds like a scene out of a movie script, but when Kentucky made a crucial move to seize a number of gambling domains around a year ago the state didn't realize that they might have to answer to a higher authority.? Whelp that higher authority so happens to be the Kentucky Supreme Court!? Techdirt
I have no idea what a $405,000 area rug domain investment feels like but a group of Iowa investors will soon find out!? This particular group of investors decided to team together to purchase AreaRugs.com, now my fellow domainers don't jump on the bandwagon just yet!? I can see it already, almost every product carried
Today I received a voicemail from GoDaddy.com, luckily the number that I use for domaining forwards directly to my email.? Since this is the case I am now able to post the voicemail message that I received here on the blog.? I am posting this message for humor sake more than anything else. Enjoy!
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Making a generic WP plugin for handling twitter OAuth across my sites. Almost ready to go social!
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Just saw my eBay QCP go up to $.19 across all campaigns from a big sale yesterday. Gotta keep those sales coming in!!
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