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Today I read the following on NamePros:
…Good to see more sellers using bido; are these the first you've sold? If not, how are your results so far? Mine, as an average, have been excellent (in my opinion). I've had a few domains that I expected a bit more out of and a couple that did significantly better than expected. Overall, above average ...
What would you do if somebody offered you? a popular and proven course, showing you how to make a fortune online for a few thousand dollars?
Would you be sceptical?
Would you read beyond the sales letter?
I've bought many such courses over the years and I have to admit that a few didn't even make it out
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the aftermarket staged a comeback this week with five 6-figure transactions. One of those ranks among the year?s top dozen sales. We also saw the year?s 2nd highest .org sale and the 3rd highest ccTLD sale of 2009.
DOMAINfest Global has named the Keynote Speaker for their January conference in Santa Monica, California, Registry operator Neustar goes .Green and Sedo fuels continued growth by acquiring a former competitor.
Actually I have my first two Bido auctions today.
I have used Bido service to purchase several domain names at a great value. Fact is, I visit Bido daily just to see if anything grabs my attention. So, I figure it's time for me to give the service a chance to sell a couple domain names
This is a little off topic for the domain industry, but one that I believe we can all benefit from.
A friend of mine, Wajed Salam, wrote an ebook titled "The Power Of Personal Notes". The ebook in a nut shell is about personalizing business relationships by using thank you notes. I implemented this practice into
According to California-based company Verisign, domain registrations have gone up 9% since last year. There are now over 184 million domain names registered. Not only are domain registrations up, but traffic on the internet is up 29% since the beginning of the year.
When I saw these numbers, I was pretty surprised. Being a domainer, the
Godaddy is running a promotion that will get you a free 2GB USB drive with a purchase of a .ASIA domain name.
If you planned to purchase a .ASIA domain name now is probably the time to do so as until October 6 2009 the .ASIA registry will deliver the 2GB USB drive to your address
If you, like myself, develop a lot of your key domain names you most probably use aweber.com, getresponse.com or some other list manager to manage your email lists / newsletter subscribers and send out mail campaigns.
Both aweber and getresponse (and many others) cost money per month – affordable, but adds to the overhead of maintaining
I don't know whether you have checked out Market Leverage yet, but if you haven't I will list below the big reasons why you should if you are looking to make more money from your high performing sites via affiliate sales.
I have been using them successfully on several of my high performing sites for over
I just registered a domain at Godaddy for the still working 299BUYCOM coupon code giving me a single .com domain name for $2.99. It still works.
Other coupon codes you may find useful include:
fun3 – $7.49 per domain name
gdr924y – save 30% on renewals
sg20h – for 20% off hosting
SG5 – for 10% off any order
SG6
The .ME Registry has announced a new program for the non-auction allocation of premium .ME domain names to successful companies and organizations that have big ideas for development.
In order to apply for a domain, potential recipients need to submit a creative and viable business proposal for the development and use of a premium .ME domain.
Sedo today announced it has acquired the parking company ParkingPanel.com, a domain monetization service provider that is well known for working with large domain portfolio owners and hosting companies to increase revenue.
Sedo will be incorporating the ParkingPanel.com brand into its own, transitioning ParkingPanel.com's members to Sedo's platform...
As mentioned yesterday, a group of businesses — mostly consisting of registrars, new gTLD candidates, and new gTLD consultants — sent a letter to ICANN urging the Board of Directors to initiate the new TLD system without further delay. While 61 businesses endorsed the letter, the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) declined the invitati...
Elephant Traffic has launched its new online service for direct navigation advertising - offering domainers a risk-free monetization method for high quality, high traffic generic domain names.
The Elephant Traffic service allows domainers to use their traffic for direct navigation advertising, offering the traffic from the domain names to advertise...
One character .biz domain name auction off to strong start.
An auction for one letter and one number .biz domain names at Sedo is off to a strong start.
After just a day of bidding, e.biz leads the pack at $6,201 with 17 bids. X.com is close behind at $5,000 with four bids. It appears
NameMedia presentation is worth watching.
This week NameMedia presented a webinar "How to Sell your Domain Names Fast, and for Maximum Value." The webinar is now available for playback on the Afternic web site.
I just watched the thirty minute webinar, expecting it to be one big pitch for NameMedia. And although that's
Sedo acquires another domain name parking company.
In a long rumored transaction, Sedo has acquired domain name parking company ParkingPanel.com for an undisclosed price.
ParkingPanel was launched in 2006, but ran into a few roadblocks. In March of 2008 it lost its advertising feed and was forced to look for an alternate provider.
According to The Economist, deal between ICANN and U.S. government is imminent.
The Economist is reporting that ICANN will likely be mostly set free this month, signing a four page "affirmation of commitments" with the U.S. government.
The Joint Project Agreement, which currently governs some of the government's relationship with ICANN, is due to e...
Lawsuit heads to mediation.
Moniker and Transamerica will enter into mediation to try to resolve their legal battle.
Transamerica sued Moniker, claiming that Moniker owned domain names that infringed Transamerica's trademarks and set up fictitious entities to hide its ownership. Transamerica later amended the complaint to suggest that Moniker didn...
Pre-paid wireless company gets a better domain name.
Cricket Communications has a domain name problem, but it just fixed some of it.
The pre-paid wireless company is growing quickly. But finding it on the web isn't so simple. If you go to Cricket.com, you'll find the recently sold domain name that pertains to the sport
DomainReport.ca - I received an email this morning from Josh at JDP Network informing me that God.ca is now for sale on Ebay. The buy it now price is $49,000 US, or you can make a best offer.The seller is listed as honeybeau07 with 100% positive feedback and a rating of 264.The listing reads:For sale, one of the most powerful, impacting and target...
I would like to present some tips on being a frugal domainer and keeping 100% of sales profits for yourself. By not paying sales commissions and doing some of the work on your own you can earn maximum return on…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Sponsored by FreshDrop - Powerful web based tools for researching expired domains and domain ...
Sedo.com and it's sister company GreatDomains.com are currently running a premium domain auction at Sedo. The auction ends today (9-24-2009) at appro 11:15 AM CT.
There are some really nice domains as always included in this auction. Some of those that have met reserve so far include:
Pals.net $950
PopCharts.com $1,500
79.net $5,900 EUR
TJJ.com $4,...
Microsoft® has launched a new software program called WebsiteSpark™ for web developers and designers and they just purchased the domain name as well, WebsiteSpark.com .
Microsoft is normally pretty good when it comes to owning the exact match domain name of a product or service BEFORE they launch it. Many companies fail at doing this and...
If you happened to miss my posting about the new service FreeDomainNewsletter.com, then it is likely that you have not signed up yet to get the free newsletter that offers domain names for sale and in return missed the first edition published today.
The newsletter includes Free Listing of your domain names if you choose and
CBS has launched a new interactive Real Estate website in conjunction with LMG Digital Media, a leading boutique web development and social networking company based in New York City. The real estate website they created can be found by visiting CBSREM.com or CBSRealEstateMarket.com.
LMG Digital Media may be familiar to domain investors, as the comp...
This morning's New York Post reported that the owners of Greenhouse, a beautiful downtown NYC night club, "bought the Internet domain name Provocateurnyc.com." Provocateur is the name of another nightclub that is expected to open in the Hotel Gansevoort very soon. The Whois registration for ProvocateurNYC.com is private, and the domain name forward...
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary, announced a major recall of Tylenol products today. According to an article on CNN, Tylenol recalled 21 kid's and infant's liquid medicines, which will be pulled from stores and warehouses as a precautionary measure to protect against possible contamination.
Incidentally, J & J owns ...
Morning Folks!! Many people get upset and lash out when they are forced to think. When they are forced to look at what they are doing. When we have a failure. We are brainwashed in school that failure is bad. But failure is the only path to success that I know. I hope to fail a dozen times today. With each failure comes the silver lining of knowled...
Merchants looking to take advantage of a free 30 day trial may upload there products to Order.com right now by first registering here http://www.order.com/merchant/merchant_register.php
We are looking for some feedback from merchants so email me Shai AT order.com
We told you about the earlier results of the .cm auctions at NameJet.com at the beginning of the month.
However, the prices of? many of the .cm domains selling at NameJet.com, have been in a free fall, as bidders are pass on their chance to grab the domains.
.cm auctions have been operating differently than normal NameJet.com
According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter is about to get another $100 million from investors.
The new money is coming from mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, and existing Twitter investors Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners.
After the funding, Twitter will be valued at about $1 billion....
Are you just developing a domain into a site that is dependent on traffic to justify ads, or are you developing lifetime customer base and value that will make your development the next Billion Dollar IPO? A case in point:MLB.com CEO: Why Brands Need to Push Mobile NowExec Says Baseball Has a Solid Hit as More Than 400,000 Have Bought $9.99 'At Bat...
Tia suggested I should write a blog post on a very important topic I put out on the social networks today, and to our VIPS, referencing an article by Seth Godin about lifetime customer value versus eyeball value. The bottom line is that if you are developing domain names into sites that need traffic to click ads, you are not developing the true pot...
Here I am sitting in an armchair typing away on my laptop while pondering what life is all about. Like many of us in the domain industry I?d initially thought that it was about the whirring of bits and bytes as they shot around fibre optic networks at the speed of light. But I was sadly mistaken.
What brought my reality to a screeching halt was the...
We've added a new Site Settings option as you add or edit domains individually or in bulk: A For Sale Link.If you include a "for sale link", the [[forsale]] placeholder will be replaced with the link you've specified. Rather than visitors being taken to our on-site contact form, they'll instead be taken to the link you specify here. If you want thi...
Back in January, I wrote up a comprehensive article titled "The Art of Domain Sales..." and here we are almost 9 month's later with a much needed follow up. I would like to share a few more exclusive tips and tricks about how to close $$$$ deals with end-users, quickly and easily. Now, we've been selling tens of thousands of dollars worth of domain...
Another? busy week as I'm in the final stages of launching a new domaining tool. If you'd like to have access, signup here for my newsletter - as I'll be announcing the tool to my subscribers first.
Didn't have time to hyperlink them all to product examples and potential end users, but here are some interesting
After having my blog hacked this year I've spent a considerable amount of time trying-out different Wordpress security plugins. I've probably tested around thirty different plugins now and have come-up with my top four. First let me say that there are many more great plugins out there so don't think that if a plugin is
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Just received a domain appraisal scam from domain.trd[at]gmail.com, beware...
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