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It's really a shame seeing AEIOU.com pull out of the minisite business, simply because it appeared that the company – led by Rick Latona – had a streamlined process in place and many satisfied customers.
The truth is, Rick's statement that "there is no money in web design" is incorrect. The domaining market with its small...
I just received the results from Snapnames October auction. It?s interesting to see that the top 3 domains that sold were not .com?s.Results from this month?s SnapNames auction totaled $107,399. ?The October Showcase Auction results have been posted online at:http://showcase.snapnames.com/2009/10/money-finance-showcase-auctio nSubmissions for the No...
A number of domain owners who have headed down the development path are reporting major product launches and growth in their enterprises. One just signed an official licensing agreement with the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King and another is rolling out a new statewide network this week.
I was out and about over the weekend and drove by this billboard.
I love it when online companies advertise offline. This billboard is short and sweet. The message; start a website, visit HostGator.com and get a free month. Perfect!
Why do I love this so much?
Two reasons:
There is an entire audience that does not see you
BuyDomains.com today announced the availability of premium domain names FlyFish.com and LargeMouth.com.
These category defining and key word rich domain names represent a unique opportunity for an online sporting goods retailer to capture the leading online destinations in the fish and game industry.
Ownership of an industry leading domain is also ...
Sedo just keeps on going and going, just like the energizer bunny. Today they announced the sale of Resumes.com for $400,000. The domain names whois information is listed as private. At this time we do not know who the buyer is.
Below is a break down of the domain stats.
Resumes.com $400,000
Google Results: 112,000,000 (does not show
Rick Latona has announced his recently launched domain development platform aeiou.com is closing down.
He notes on his blog that there is "no money in web design" and there are "bigger fish to fry".
The reality is there is no money in web design. It?s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and
Epik have announced on their blog that they have completed the purchase of JustDropped.com – the expired domain search and drop catching service.
As DomainNameWire reports, this is the second recent domain services related purchase by Epik, as they recently also acquired DNKO.com – a domain auction platform.
About the JustDropped.com pu...
In an announcement making some waves in the SEO world last week, Yahoo announced that they would be ending their paid inclusion program.? SearchEngineLand.com points out access to Yahoo?s paid inclusion sales page has been redirected to their advertising.yahoo.com.
"Both the ?Search Submit Basic? program that charged an annual fee per URL and the ?...
Sedo posted over $1 million in overall domain name sales this week, led by Resumes.com at $400,000.
Other top sales included 1.biz for $32,003, BrowserGame.com for $30,000, Tische.de for $30,000 (?20,000), Musica4All.com for $27,000 (?18,000), Travestis.es for $22,500 (?15,000), Intranet.nl for $22,500 (?15,000), and TDYLodging.com for $20,000.
Che...
Domain investment company gets big vote of confidence from outside investors.
Who says outside financing for large scale domain investments is a thing of the past?
Luxembourg-based Domain Invest announced this morning that it has picked up a 10.2M EUR ($15.2M USD) in outside investment. Domain Invest buys domain names, making money by monetizing a...
Verizon files cybersquatting lawsuit for Verizon.com typos.
Verizon is suing 2Cool Guys.LLC (sic), Warren Weitzman, Arnold Trebach, and several John Does for trademark infringement.
In the lawsuit, Verizon alleges that the defendants registered domain names that infringe on Verizon's trademarks and set up various companies to hide their activities....
AEIOU getting out of the minisite business.
Mini site production company AEIOU, owned by Rick Latona, is throwing in the towel.
In a blog post at RickLatona.com, Latona says there's no money in web design. "It?s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and frankly, there are bigger fish to fry", wrote
Domain registrar asks domain registrants to pay up after reseller doesn't pay the bill.
A reseller of domain name registrar InternetX didn't pay for its customers' registrations, and now the registrar is asking domain registrants to foot the bill.
The company sent an e-mail to customers of one of its resellers that demanded payment for domains the...
Broker makes another blockbuster sale in Resumes.com.
Sedo has brokered the sale of Resumes.com for $400,000.
The domain is currently in Sedo's brokerage account, so it is unclear who the buyer is. Potential buyers include resume services and online job boards. The domain was originally registered in 1993. We'll keep you posted...
Judge forces AOL to change venue.
Advertise.com 1, AOL 0.
Online advertising company Advertise.com has scored its first victory in its legal battles with AOL: a judge has ruled against AOL's favored jurisdiction of the Eastern District Court of Virginia. AOL was forced to refile the case in California Central District Court, where Advertise.com is...
Qualiteam Software, a leader in open source commercial shopping carts since 2001, has just released their newest product, E-Commerce Widgets or "Ecwid" for short.
Ecwid is a free and…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Sponsored by FreshDrop - Powerful web based tools for researching expired domains and domain auctions. Try out FreshDrop f...
The current SnapNames.com affiliate program is likely one of the better current domain related affiliate programs running. Due to being able to market some of the best domain names dropping sure can help a marketer and likely what makes the program so good.
Starting November 20, 2009, SnapNames will be making a change with the affiliate
I happened to just visit FreshDrop.net and noticed they are offering their PRO data feeds currently for Free to everybody. You do not need to sign up or anything like that, just visit the site.
FreshDrop.net offers a very popular service for domain investors to search for domain names that are listed on services like Snapnames,
I have not done a mirco-post in sometime so I thought I would fire one off with some random domain related things that I have on my mind.
~ Ziti.com sold on Afternic.com today for $10,000. Ziti is a pasta noodle but I'm sure has other meanings as well. MostWantedDomains.com was the past owner, with the
I had a situation last week where I wanted to close on a domain name, but the seller had concerns about the domain sales agreement I sent. Since I use a standard domain agreement I had created by a domain lawyer based in New York, I was a bit taken aback by his concerns. I
Related posts:Use a Domain Contract for Domain Sales For a variety of rea...
I am selling CatOwner.com, a domain name with a registration date of 1998. Marchex owns the plural CatOwners.com and they also own DogOwner.com as well. Cat owners spend millions of dollars per year on food, medicine, and supplies for their cats. Many love their cats like they love children.
The acquisition price for this domain name
Related pos...
"You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.
Know when to walk away, know when to run.
You never count your money, when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin', when the dealin's done."
I saw Rick Latona's post today about his company exiting the mini site space, and
Related posts:My Mini Site ...
Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Format: Kindle
The Tipping Point was and still is ahead of its time as it looks at social and economic development.? Gladwell reminds me of Dan Brown with his ability to use interesting and unknown facts to tell a story.? However, in Gladwell's Read more ...
You may have heard the joke about two men faced by a hungry lion. One starts putting on running shoes. The other says "Those shoes won't help you outrun the lion". He answers back "I only have to outrun you".
With a difficult business environment, it is easy to hang on every news report about the
We were the first company to sell mini-sites so we might as well be the first company to stop selling them.
The reality is there is no money in web design. It's hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and frankly, there are bigger fish to fry.
There are only so many things
Morning Folks!! The road to hell is paved with good intentioned people. Everyone generally enters an agreement with honorable intentions. But even the best of intentions lead to failure the great majority of time once lawyers get involved or business heads south. So the contract is the only thing that protects you and if that contract is not rock s...
Last week we reported on the Snapnames Monthly Showcase for October.
At the time we noted that one of the domains, Bankruptcy.net failed to sell although it had a bid of $50K.
Today according to SnapNames.com the domain Bankruptcy.net has now sold for $56,250.
Nice sale.
Snapnames.com also reports that another domain in that online auction,? valuat...
Apple reported? its "most profitable quarter ever" after the market closed today.
Check out these numbers:
Profits up 47%.
Revenue up 25% to $9.87 billion.
7.4 million iPhone's sold,? up 7% from year-ago.
3.05 million computers sold, up 17% from a year earlier.
10.2 million iPods (down 8%).
Shares of Apple were up over 6% in after market trading ba...
My Good friend Elliot Silver on his blog last week a great 5 part Series last week entitled "Advice from The Most Successful Domain Owners of all time".
Although Elliot kindly asked me to give my tip, I passed for a several reasons, one of which was that I had no one great piece of advice
"Gloom and doom aside, I believe it is a great time to be a domainer. The web remains the most efficient platform for processing transactions — buying products, disseminating information, answering questions, making new friends, etc. However, undeveloped domains — like raw land — are not all that economically useful. To extract value from the raw ...
Creepy Tabasco commercial with singing pepperoni which I found funny. http://www.tabasco.com
Via Webbery.com: Here’s something seasonal - the San Francisco SPCA holds a chance for pet owners to have their picture taken with Santa Paws (sic), and this year there was no shortage of unbearably cute puppies and kittens. If you’re looking to adopt one yourself, you can see some at the San FranciscoMacys windows until December 26th.Equally cute ...
RE: AmericanHomeGuides.com"I should point out that the key to his success is not a type-in strategy, but a search engine one. This is one example of where such expertise can really pay off because prospects are looking for very specific things that can be expressed and matched not from one domain (home.com) but in lots of keywords (i.e. 4 bedroom, ...
Flashbacks from the vaults circa 2000:"Timing is EVERYTHING!!I can't stress this enough. I have seen businesses all my life FAIL because they were AHEAD of the market. Some VERY smart folks with GREAT business plans but simply ahead of their times.I think that was never more important then on the net. Human behavior on the net is in early devlopmen...
"To know where you are going, you have to know where we've been"Garden.com shuts doors Pioneering Web retailer runs out of money Thursday, December 07, 2000 Inman News Features Online garden supplier Garden.com, one of the first and biggest sites in the category, has closed its doors, yet another victim of the brutal business environment facing Int...
Someday it's just not going to work out in your favor. Savior today- life is a ticking time bomb. You never know what the next moment brings.<
Today, Rick Latona announced that they're closing up shop at AEIOU. So, we're offering the following for new and existing WhyPark customers who need to migrate their domains away from AEIOU, not currently under a hosting contract.1. Send your site files to support@whypark.com along with your list of domains. We can support any of the content-based ...
I just wanted to discuss Mike Cohen's most recent post, where he "compares" mini site development services. He claims DomainMassDevelopment.com has great on-site SEO, while all other providers offer "weak" SEO or have none at all. I decided to take a look at every example site he posted to see how good he
We have been actively working to get Oklahoma.me ready to go and are just a week or so away from a formal marketing launching. We are extremely happy to see the ease of deployment of our geo-platform onto another state and based on the tweaks we made moving from Missouri.me to Oklahoma.me we have accelerated
I usually shy away from any sort of reporting that has been hit by several others but in this case I wanted to at least say a bit since I have had some level of success with some of my AEIOU.com sites.
First off I think people are missing what happened, no one said Minsites do
This week Rick Schwartz wrote some truly incredible posts on his blog. Rick is definitely a visionary and has a good track-record of predicting trends in the Domaining industry. I have learned a lot from Rick and learn more with just about every post he writes and this week Rick takes the cake with two
Rick Latona announced on his blog today that AEIOU would be leaving the web design game with a post titled, "There' no money in web design. AEIOU is getting out of the outsourcing business." This is not a big surprise in a world where Domainers are starting to become less confident in the potential of
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@justyn I've had reports from everywhere: Namepros, end-users, Bido. Which marketplace really depends on your skills.
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