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With our new Reserve pricing structure (one Bido credit per one thousand dollars), your auction would start at $28 with no risk of selling for less than what you wish to sell. However, in the process, even if the top bid dos not meet your expectations, it will tell you the liquid value of your domain. In addition, even if the outcome...
Tuesday was a busy day at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference, starting at 10am and running into the wee hours of this Wednesday morning. We have photos and highlights from all of the key events including the keynote address, Rick Latona's live auction and Skenzo's official party in Manhattan.
Day three schedule: (final day)
10am - Inside the Candy.com deal.
Greg Belestrieri and Joe Melville, buyers of Candy.com, talked about their acquisition and view as the end user. No picture of this session, I didn't show for this.
11am - 2009 TRAFFIC Awards and Brunch
The award winners are:
Parked.com - Sponsor Of The Year
Michael Berkens - Doma...
It's funny when I see the same domain name listed on the forums about 7 times in a given year by different sellers. People talk about purchasing a name and then flipping it to a reseller for reseller value, but is there really such thing as reseller value? What exactly is reseller value? Well, I
Godaddy is at it again – I just learned that they are offering a one-off deal for a .com domain name registration for $1.99 plus ICANN fee ($0.20).
This is the lowest offer since the $0.99 .com at Godaddy earlier this year.
To get your .com domain name for $1.99 follow this link and use the coupon
Rick Latona Auctions will be the exclusive T.R.A.F.F.I.C domain auctioneers from next year as we announced a while back – and the guys had a dress rehearsal yesterday in New York.
Here are some notable results as announced via Proxibid and first picked up by DomainNameWire and DomainNameNews:
Rio.com $450,000.
Whiskey.com $185,000.
SchoolLoan...
Following in the footsteps of .BIZ and .DE who recently made their 1 and 2 character domain names available to the public via registration or auctions, dotMobi have announced they too are following suit.
In a press release on the dotMobi website, the company has announced they will "make sought-after domains, consisting of one and two
I haven't managed to post during the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference in New York. There are always so many things happening during these few days of conference, that there is hardly any spare time to blog When I am at the conference I try to focus on it as much as I can.
For the
DNN.com and DNW.com are combining forces to host? a live chat and video broadcast at 3:50 EST today.? Andrew Alleman and Adam Strong will be chatting live during the "pre-game" video chat and will be in the chat room throughout the auction. ? Barring any technical issues, we're also hoping to be joined by at
Next year's DomainFest Global in Santa Monica, which again feature a charity fundraiser party at the legendary Playboy mansion. The event will benefit Jenny McCarthy?s autism organization Generation Rescue, a foundation dedicated to funding biomedical treatment for families who can not afford it and research into the causes of autism Guests at this...
We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in New York City for Moniker/SnapNames Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction, which goes from October 29th to November 4th, 2009.
During the auction
Lawsuit provides complete correspondence in alleged domain heist.
A lawsuit against Tucows provides a rare, detailed glimpse into a possible domain theft.
The suit was brought by Mrs. Jello, LLC against Tucows with regards to a domain name purchased by Mrs. Jello (MJ). MJ bought the domain name W9.com for $20,000 from someone purporting to be...
Fill out survey to (hopefully) shape ICANN priorities.
ICANN has opened a survey listing a couple dozen priorities and asking stakeholders to rank each priority as Low, High, or Very High. Examples of priorities include:
-The introduction of new top level domain names
-Introduction of internationalized domain names
-Security concerns and DNSSEC
-I...
Join me online during today's Moniker auction.
Coming off the heels of yesterday's successful Rick Latona Auctions event at TRAFFIC in New York, Moniker gets the bill this afternoon starting at 4pm Eastern.
You can join Adam Strong and me in a live chat during the auction. We'll get started around 3:50 ET.
Oversee.net announces party plans for DFG 2010.
Earlier today Oversee.net announced that it will hold its finale party for DOMAINfest Global in January at the Playboy Mansion for the second year in a row. The event will benefit enny McCarthy?s Generation Rescue Foundation. This year's mansion party has been talked about all year, so
Consulting company settles fight with Wolfgang and Gelila Puck.
New top level domain name consultancy Minds + Machines has settled its lawsuit brought against restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his wife Gelila.
Minds + Machines, along with its parent company Top Level Domain Holdings and Frederick Krueger, sued the Pucks last month, alleging that Gel...
The list of domains? which will be featured at Rick Latona's extended auction has been published. It starts today and will end on the 5th of November. Some extremely interesting domains, definitely an auction worth following.
The list can be found here:
http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=23754
Two of my domains, Armchair.net and MeetingWom...
First of all, I'd like to thank Frank from Domain Name News for posting the live results of Rick Latona's auction yesterday. Since Andrew from DNW and the folks from DNN will be busy with the live chat, I thought I'd cover today's Moniker auction. Enjoy!
Lot
Domain Name
Reserve
Status
10
CollegePrepClasses.com
$501-$1000
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20
PartTimeHelp.c...
DomainReport.ca - The .ca market continues to be fairly quiet through the fall. There is the odd sale you hear about in the forums, and the weekly TBR still has lots of activity, but there haven't been any public sales in a while (at least that I've seen).There is, however, a new site called Dropping.ca that will help you catch the .ca domains tha...
DomainReport.ca - I had an email about a month ago from the owner of blogue.ca saying they were interested in selling this domain. It is the French Quebec spelling for 'blog'. The owner had a site for the domain and was hosting many people's blogs through subdomains, but was having trouble with fake signs up and hacking.Now the domain is parked a...
Before I get into the actual solution for adding affiliate IDs to RSS feeds, here is a little background information on what led me to seek out this…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.How To: Append Your Affiliate ID to Any RSS Feed Using Yahoo Pipes
One in the crowd!
This is what your domain name is when you submit it to a live domain auction or any domain auction really. One in the crowd. Unless your domain is one of the headliners due to it being an amazing domain name, the rest kind of are just "in the list". Your domain
This isn't that big of a deal but I couldn't resist posting it because I thought it was funny as hell and is also not very professional!
Moniker rep John M fires off what I would consider a preset email before today's auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. offering any assistance I would need about a specific domain, proxy
Well I guess some would say 6 reasons:
~ You can also party at the Playboy Mansion where you will likely see a lot of women like above from a past DomainFest show. You can help Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue Foundation, with the party only available to DomainFest attendees.
~ Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh is the Keynote
New York based Internet media company, Acme Media, LLC, had a big day yesterday. Keith Levenson, CEO of Acme, attended yesterday's Rick Latona TRAFFIC auction intent on one thing – winning Rio.com. By the end of the afternoon, the company prevailed in the auction, winning Rio.com for $450,000. The company plans to build a comprehensive
Rel...
Today is somewhat of a bittersweet day in domain auction history, as it marks the final Moniker Live Auction to be held at a TRAFFIC show for the foreseeable future. Moniker was the pioneer in live domain auctions, and they've scored tens of millions of dollars in TRAFFIC auction domain sales over the years.
This afternoon
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I won't bore you with the details from TRAFFIC New York since Ron will certainly provide a great recap, and there are a few others covering the event. I want to give you inside access to the conference, and share some rumors I've heard over the last couple of days that are probably not true.
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I enjoyed this one.? Our business contingency plans have been extreme at times, yet, amazingly, we have used them multiple times.
*image source: dilbert.com
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Anyone who knows Kenya knows it is famous for tea. And while I can now get Kenyan tea online from US companies like Starbucks, Caribou Coffee or any number of other re-sellers, like most consumers I would vastly prefer to cut out the middle man and buy my tea direct from Kenyan companies. Why not?
But here's the rub. Besides me and a significant ...
It has been a while since I did a sales report, so there are lots of results to report.? While the summer was slow, things have really picked up in the autumn.? Today I'll cover the summer, and I'll follow this up with a post of autumn sales soon.
June
There was one more sale in June
The domain name SLS.com is currently at an expired domain auction at Godaddy.com and with over 7 days to go is already at over $23,000.
According to Compete.com the domain received on average over 2,000 visitors a month and it has an Alexa ranking of 1.8 Million.
A nice three letter domain but looking more like a
Looking through the Moniker live TRAFFIC auction list today here are what we consider to be the domains most likely to sell.
First for the higher priced domains:
Photo.com Talk about a category killer, whether for stock photos like a gettyimages, or an online processor like shutterfly.com, a camera manufacture like Kodak the possibilities and endl...
The Moniker.com Live TRAFFIC auction just ended in New York with just under $380K in domains sold.
Multivitamins.com lead the way at $45K.
The scheduled auctioneer ran into a problem and didn't make it to the auction, leaving Moniker scrambling for a last minute replacement which I think really hu the results.
The floor callers were basically non-e...
In a big 4 letter .com sale,? the domain CUNY.com sold for $30,050 on NameJet.com today.
CUNY stands for among other things,? the City University of New York, which holds 3 trademarks on the term
The City seems to have owned this domain and let it drop, as it was pointed to Cuny.edu according to the wayback
Hey, Dorothy, we're not in Boca any more. Turn on Morning Joe in my hotel in Brooklyn and instead of getting the local ads for Uncle Tai's I normally see, I am greeted at 6AM with vibrator ads:
Now that Property.com is back on the block, time to drag out this older exchange from the vaults.8 figure sale and some adviceRick Schwartz: I have a company courting me for Property.com for about a year now. The current offer is a 3 year lease option with a $10M buy out at the end of the term. I have been dragging my feet in getting back to them. ...
Every communications medium in the 20th Century has evolved over some period of time from an infant stage to a fully adult stage of development. Almost all media have been revolutionary for their time. The telephone, radio, television, cable, satellites, and others all made profound changes in how Americans work, play, and socialize.But a strong ca...
The Investing Channel is the ad bar provider on the right side of all these financial websites. They don’t generate any of the content, just the ad bar on all these sites. You have got to look at this niche paired revenue sharing model the Investing Channel is using… There are thousands of guys writing these really good financial blogs and once ...
Something that has seemed to come up more than normal in conversations this week with various people is the difference in buying domain names for development versus buying domain names for investment. When I look at buying for development I have completely different metrics as well as intangibles that I think about as compared to
Recently I did a series of posts on how to setup a Facebook fan page as well as a few other Facebook fan page how to examples. After doing those I thought it may be good to list a few examples of various types of businesses taking advantage of the promotion that Facebook allows.
Here are
What is the absolute best domain investment that you have ever made?
Come on, I know that all of us get the urge to brag about some of the great deals that we have gotten or how we were smart enough to spot a money making trend years in advance or how we were able
Welcome to the second article in my three-part series about pricing your domains. This section is going to be short and sweet but should not be overlooked. The most important thing to take-away from part two is that this is only part two of three. What I am suggesting here should not be used independently
I no longer a Rick Latona/Traffic auction virgin anymore.? No,? I wasn't able to go to the auction in person (I am going next year) but I sat through the entire thing and here is my look at it from the viewpoint of a medium sized domainer (portfolio 50-100K)
1.? There were some really good flips
If you are a resident of this friendly planet called earth then you have probably seen this creature on your TV screen.? This lovable character is currently used as one of the main mascots for GEICO, an insurance company based out of the United States.
As always something caught my attention in regards to the company
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