October 22, 2009 Posts

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Caution: Active Bido Trading Day Ahead

 Mark As Read    

It looks like today is going to be a pretty active day, with around 1:3 expected sale ratio (67 listed domains). Below are some of our picks for the day, I will leave it up to you to decide if to jump in on the action, or sit on the sidelines and watch others get some great deals. Best, Sahar Today's upcoming auctions on Bido are: 10/22/2009 6:00 A...

Conceptualist 941 days ago

Quick Note: Vote Fraud On Bido

 Mark As Read    

It was brought to our attention an email that is recently circulating promoting vote swap regardless of quality of domains on Bido. Our position on it is very clear: It is unacceptable. This specific person in question will get one and final warning about this issue, as well as all existing votes within his account reset, including all votes he mad...

Conceptualist 941 days ago

What Does Your tld Tell Google?

 Mark As Read    

Because I live in the UK, I usually buy only .co.uk or .com domain names. It struck me as odd that some of my .com domains were ranking well (often number 1) on Google.com searches, but were not getting much exposure on Google.co.uk when searching for UK results. Having researched this more lately, I thought I'd post

David Carter 942 days ago

Newspaper Reporters Urge Publishers to Move More Quickly from Print to Online Distribution

 Mark As Read    

Though owners of traditional media outlets may still be hostile to the web, a new study says nearly half of their reporters want them to speed up their transition from print to online distribution. Also today, WhyPark announces a unique charity domain auction for December.

DNJournal 941 days ago

Win Your Very Own Domainer Blog

 Mark As Read    

Do you have some thoughts you want to share with the domaining industry, but the closest you come to sharing is leaving comments on other domaining blogs?? Well now is your chance to have the blog others leave their comments on.? Keep reading to find out how you can win your very own domaining blog. Arbel

ChefPatrick 941 days ago

.de Launch Brings Sedo.com Down

 Mark As Read    

.de domain registry will be issuing 1 and 2 character names on a first come, first served basis beginning Friday, October 23rd and 12am PST. Sedo.com is offering a pre-auction on the domain names that have not even been released. Remember though, as I mentioned it is "first come, first served registration", Sedo does not have

ChefPatrick 941 days ago

Extras! Extras! Get Your Trademark Infringed Upon!

 Mark As Read    

While catching up on the domaining news over the past few days, I read an interesting article on Domain Name Wire. Basically, a woman by the name of Lorie Price is suing Oversee.net and DomainSponsor for picking up a domain name in 2008, that she dropped in 2007. When I first read this, my original

DNUnderground 941 days ago

20% Off Shared Godaddy Hosting Accounts ? Limited Time!

 Mark As Read    

I just got word that to celebrate the opening of their European data center, Godaddy are offering 20% off their shared hosting accounts – this is a limited time offer. A new data center means faster service for European hosting customers. If you are on the lookout for a new hosting provider and are looking for

DNXpert 942 days ago

ICANN Continue With Plans To Overhaul Their Website Design

 Mark As Read    

ICANN are finally heeding calls to revamp their website. For an organization of their structure, their website leaves a lot to be desired. ICANN have contracted external consultants Revere Group to redesign the website to better fit with the community?s needs based on research and surveys of site visitors. ICANN staff and the external consultants h...

DNXpert 942 days ago

One- & Two-Character .DE Sedo Auction Ends Today!

 Mark As Read    

You probably heard the news about releasing one- & two-character .DE domain names. Names are listed on Sedo pre-auction site. Less than 4 hours left, so place your bids before it is too late. Winners in that auctions are not guaranteed to het their .de names but they will only have to pay if Sedo

Results of .DE Sedo Pre-Auction (part 1)

 Mark As Read    

After technical difficulties Sedo divided their 1, 2, 3-Character .de auction into three sections. Sedo apologized for the problems. Sedo website was down for quite a long time before they brought it back to life. Read more about recent changes in DENIC registration policies in my previous post, on Dominik Mueller's blog and in the official DENIC...

Results of .DE Sedo Pre-Auction (part 2)

 Mark As Read    

Some of the high pre-sales at .DE Sedo Pre-Auction (one character): 1.de 56,000 EUR i.de 49,000 EUR 6.de 46,000 EUR e.de 36,100 EUR s.de 34,500 EUR a.de 32,111 EUR x.de 32,000 EUR b.de 31,100 EUR c.de 31,100 EUR d.de 31,100 EUR m.de 31,100 EUR n.de 31,000 EUR p.de 28,100 EUR w.de 27,800 EUR h.de 26,500 EUR f.de 26,...

Sedo faces technical difficulties, Extends .DE auctions

 Mark As Read    

After technical difficulties during before the Sedo auctions for the newly released and previously blocked .DE domain names (we reported last Friday) the company has now split the ending times for the auctions as follows: auctions for 3+ letter domains will end at 9pm CET auctions for 2 letter domains will end at 10pm CET auctions for 1

Domain Name News 941 days ago

Sedo 1 and 2 Character .De Domain Name Auction Ends Today

 Mark As Read    

.De auction ends today. Sedo's one and two character .de domain name "pre-auction" ends at noon Eastern today. .De is the country code for Germany, and is arguably the most successful country code domain name on the web. .De registry DENIC is releasing one and two character domains, as well as other domains that previously were...

Domain Name Wire 942 days ago

Putting 2009 Domaining into Perspective

 Mark As Read    

2009 has been rough for domainers, but put it in perspective. I got an iPod this week. Yes, it's my first iPod. I bought it because I got back into running and needed to get my own tunes rather than borrowing my wife's iPod. Since I plan to use it primarily for running, I initially

Domain Name Wire 941 days ago

WhyPark Hosting Charity Domain Name Auction

 Mark As Read    

Domain company organizing online auction for charity. Domain parking alternative WhyPark is hosting a charity domain name auction with a twist — the single highest bidder gets to pick which charity receives the proceeds. The five day auction will run December 7th and end December 11th and contain about 50 domain names. When the auction is...

Domain Name Wire 941 days ago

Arkansas Company Spills Hot Coffee on Rival?s Domain Name Claims

 Mark As Read    

Respondent in domain dispute successful against rival online coffee retailer. An Arkansas company has successfully defended a domain arbitration case brought against it by a rival online coffee retailer. Discount Coffee.com Inc. filed an arbitration case against WCM Investments of Arkansas, which operates Coffee.org. WCM had registered the domain ...

Domain Name Wire 941 days ago

.De Domain Name Auction Melts Sedo?s Servers

 Mark As Read    

.De auction traffic halts auction. Massive traffic for Sedo's .de "pre-auction" has taken the site down. A message on the site reads: Due to the extremely high participation in the .De Pre-Auction Sedo?s website was temporarily down. We have decided to extend the auction until 8:00 PM CET. If necessary we will extend the auction later...

Domain Name Wire 941 days ago

TV.de Auction Ends Over $400,000

 Mark As Read    

TV.de leads .de domain name pre-auction. When .de registry DENIC starts releasing previously unavailable domain names tomorrow, you can bet a lot of Sedo's partner registrars will be hammering the registry for TV.de. A "pre-auction" for TV.de closed at 279,499 EUR, which is about $419,000 USD at today's exchange rates. The auction is still ongoing ...

Domain Name Wire 941 days ago

DomainingTips.com Has Been Bought by Billion Dollar Media

 Mark As Read    

No need to waste valuable time, I?ll get straight to the point: my name is Andrei and I?m currently in charge of running things over at Billion Dollar Media, the company which bought DomainingTips.com. Interested in finding out what I?m putting on the table as a blogger? Read on and you won?t regret it, scout?s

Domaining Tips 941 days ago

WhyPark Charity Auction

 Mark As Read    

I received an email from Craig Rowe, President of WhyPark, announcing a charity auction the company will be running in December. Full details about the auction can be found on the WhyPark Auction page. At this point, they?re looking for high-quality domain submissions to be auctioned.? All domains will be donated for the auction with the Related...

Eilliot's Blog 942 days ago

See WIPO UDRP Cases as They Are Filed

 Mark As Read    

Although I generally learn about UDRP cases after the decisions are made, I occasionally look through all of the WIPO UDRP cases that have been filed. The World Intellectual Property Organization, which oversees UDRP cases, lists all of the cases filed by year, and it provides a status update next to each case – from Related posts:Two Impo...

Eilliot's Blog 941 days ago

Does Microsoft Need to Watch Out for AOL?

 Mark As Read    

I missed the article in TechCrunch on Tuesday until just now, but AOL's Sphere, the self-dubbed "next phase in the evolution of AOL News," is undergoing a rebranding effort. The new name of the brand will be Surphace, and the company will use Surphace.com as its domain name. Of course, when people tell their buddies to Related posts:Microsoft Bu...

Eilliot's Blog 941 days ago

Hotel Review: Four Seasons at Punta Mita

 Mark As Read    

Location: Punta Mita, Mexico Hotel:?Four Seasons Our first trip to the Four Seasons in Punta Mita will be a memorable one. While it was our honeymoon and thus we will never forget it, the resort stay was one of our best ever. From the start they new we were newlyweds and treated us like royalty. We received an Read more articles on this topic at Gr...

Green Taxi 941 days ago

MCU.com Sells For $24K On SnapNames.com

 Mark As Read    

Last week we told you that there were 3 three letter .com's all dropping on the same day. Snapnames.com wound up getting all three beating out NameJet.com, Pool and other registrars. Today the auction for one of those domain ended with MCU.com selling for a whooping $24,500. MCU is a common acronym for a Microcontroller Unit, also a

The Domains 941 days ago

Replace With Your URL (.com) Rebrands as Tweet Board (.com)

 Mark As Read    

Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what'...

The Frager Factor 941 days ago

WhyPark Charity Domain Auction

 Mark As Read    

WhyPark is organizing a 5-day charity domain auction to begin December 7th and end December 11th. Donate your high quality domain names to be included in the WhyPark charity domain auction. Approximately 50 domains will be chosen for the charity auction, and all domains will start with no reserve. At the close of the auction, the single highest bid...

WhyPark Blog 942 days ago

New WhyPark Feature: Custom Page Tags

 Mark As Read    

Tags are commonly used on blogs as a way to organize certain pages and blog posts by similar subject. We've now added tagging functionality to WhyPark custom pages. For those customers who add a significant number of unique pages to their WhyPark sites, this will be a welcome update. Not only will it help add depth to your WhyPark sites, it will al...

WhyPark Blog 941 days ago

How To Promote Your Facebook Fan Page

 Mark As Read    

After my two posts concerning how to create a Facebook fan page and then how to set your Facebook fan page username I thought it only proper to finish off the series with a post on how to promote your Facebook fan page once you had it up and running. Here are the ways that

BruceMarler.com 942 days ago

Using Search Volume To Select A Domain Name

 Mark As Read    

When I am hand registering a domain name or searching through dropping domains I typically spend a lot of time analyzing search volume based on exact match results from Google. Although this is a good way to look for hidden gems for back order or hand registration there are times that it may be valuable

BruceMarler.com 941 days ago

Announcing DNBlogs.net ? A Blog Network Just For Domainers!

 Mark As Read    

As a blogger I can say with confidence that blogging is one of the most rewarding things in the world. Bloggers are passionate people and like to share their opinions and advice with others. The problem is that growing your following and revenue can sometimes take time away from what you really should be focusing

Domainvestors.tv 941 days ago

Is H1N1 A Domainers Dream? It is for me!

 Mark As Read    

So as many of you know (or maybe don't know) I've made a good amount of money monetizing trends. One of the biggest trends I cashed-in on is the "Stimulus Check" trend with a few simple MiniSites that made thousands of dollars. Since then I've been doing my best to spot trends and monetize them

Domainvestors.tv 941 days ago

There?s Been a Noticeable Lack of CVCV.com Changing Hands

 Mark As Read    

One of my favorite type of domain names are CVCV.coms and CVCCV.coms.?? The last three years I was acquiring as many of these as I could afford but then the rest of the world fell in love with LLLL.coms and prices skyrocketed.? I didn't sell any of my acquisitions thinking that these were the gems

Domain Shane 942 days ago

Sedo?s 1 & 2 Character .de Auctions Ending

 Mark As Read    

Just a heads up that Sedo's 1 and 2 character .de auctions are ending today. From my understanding, being the winning bidder does not guarantee you will become the owner of the domain. Ownership depends on one of Sedo's partners securing the domain.

godrops RT @brucemarler I did pick up DecafEspresso.com today // Nice backorder! Much competition?

 Mark As Read    
942 days ago

godrops Default behavior for Safari is to NOT set cookies from IFRAME'd urls, who knew?! Trying session vars...

 Mark As Read    
942 days ago

godrops If you need motivation to go to work today http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

 Mark As Read    
942 days ago

godrops @findub I always go to Munich if possible. Love the Munich airport!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops Check out the Daily Domain Name Drop happening Now Live at http://godrops.com !

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops Tweets.net just dropped and was caught by Snapnames backorder... =D

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops RT @domainvestors Announcing DNBlogs.net ? A Blog Network Just For Domainers! http://su.pr/29nJFd >> just signed up!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops RT @wannadevelop GoDaddy expiring domain listings data is coming to Domain Stryker this weekend... woohoo!! http://bit.ly/4gm4C6 >> awesome!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops RT @ChefPatrick DomainHack.com Open For Business - http://su.pr/27N18P >> ch.eckito.ut!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops I'm getting the new Motorola Cliq phone tomorrow! http://bit.ly/1zsVtD Will be adjusting my sites for mobile soon! =D

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops @wannadevelop I restrict lists to 2 word dot com,net,org. Then rank, start at the top. Never get through it all. Still too much!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops Wanting to sell a NLN.com. Goes toward the new smart phone fund. GoDrops is going mobile! http://bit.ly/1h6RgQ

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops @colemason Thanks! Did you manage to sell it at Bido?

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago

godrops Can't wait to catch a new Tosh.0 (@danieltosh) tonight!

 Mark As Read    
941 days ago
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