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While everyone is awaiting the next wave of the Nelson "Halvarez" Brady tsunami to hit the domain shores, the lingering question is obvious: will there be more transparency in the future?
Oversee is currently rushing to wrap up the Snapnames shill bidding scandal in a manner that does not instill confidence. The forensics company that was...
Remember the good old days when you could post up a mini site, load it full of Adsense ads and promote it in the search engines, then sit back and watch the money come in?
That used to be a half-decent business model, along with parking some better quality names,? just like parking did.
Not so anymore,
Date: 4 November 2009 and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch decides to light up the domain industry and set the fireworks off by lighting the blue touchpaper under the domain industry.
I stay away from most sites to do with domain names and steer clear of all domain forums for most of the time, simply because there
Afternic had a strong sales last week. They sold 488 domains with the largest .com sale being Cancerhelp.com. as always the complete list follows below.Domain Price cancerhelp.com $40,000.00 jawa.com $20,000.00 hfx.com $13,766.00 onlinephdprograms.com $12,500.00 snapretail.com $8,250.00 VLOOP.com $8,000.00 bickering.com $7,388.00 cbam.com $7,00...
If you remember, on Tuesday I posted "Off To Teach The World About Domain Name Investing", because I was going to be speaking publicly for the first time later that evening. I spoke to an audience of right around 25 online entrepreneurs about buying and selling domain names. I was able to video record myself
Rick Latona Auctions
Live auction result: $1,295,000
Number of domains sold: 77
TOP SALES:
Rio.com $450,000
Whiskey.com $185,000
SchoolLoans.com $137,500
iAuction.com $50,000
Boy.com $45,000
Porn.co.za $45,000
Megan.com $42,500
900.com $40,000
Kasino.com $35,000
Hookahs.com $26,000
PapuaNewGuinea.com $25,000
PopStars.com $21,000
Extended auction re...
In the recently admitted "halvarez" scandal where an employee placed bids in Snapnames domain auctions against company policy, the company has started to email details on the offered rebates – you can find a de-personalized copy of the email after the jump. By accepting the rebate and signing the release you are also signing your...
An update for the developing Snapnames story:
According to a post on NamePros from Rob, an employee of Oversee.net's support, Snapnames will restate all bidding history in their interface. The information had been truncated before and thus was only showing auctions up to November 2007.
[Ed. Emphasis added]
There's been a lot happening today and I w...
Registered base of .mobi domains is sinking.
The total number of .mobi domain names registered fell to 850,712 in July 2009, the latest number available through ICANN. That represents a 10% drop from the same month in 2008 when the total base was 946,357.
The number of .mobi domains registered has held stagnate this year, hanging
Considering .asia and .tel results, how many domains can a new TLD expect to register?
What makes a top level domain name successful?
If you compare any top level domain to .com, they are all failures. But if you look at it from the registry's perspective, the number required to be profitable isn't that
Glenn Beck loses challenge to parody web site.
Conservative TV personality Glenn Beck has lost his dispute over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. (See Domain Owner Respond to Glenn Beck.)
In order to win the domain name, Beck had to prove three things to an arbitrator:
1. The domain name was confusingly similar to Beck...
Letter insinuates that CADNA does not take a balanced approach to intellectual property rights.
The ICANN IP Constituency is distancing itself from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA).
In a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, J. Scott Evans, President of the Intellectual Property Constituency, referred to a recent discussion in which CAD...
Man gives controversial domain name to Beck after proving a point.
Isaac Eiland-Hall just won a highly publicized case against Glenn Beck over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. As soon as he won, he did something surprising: he offered the domain name to Beck for free.
In a letter (pdf) to Beck, Eiland-Hall explained t...
Nope! This post may or may not piss you off, depending on which side of the fence you're on. Let's get right down to business, here's why (IMO) type-in traffic is NOT a long-term selling point:
1) Traffic Quality Issues
Look (I've mentioned this last week as well), if you own DallasLoans.com then yes, your type-in traffic...
eBay's latest online destination is a vibrant magazine style blog dubbed The Inside Source which features just that, eBay insiders observing and reporting timely trends from the world's…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.eBay's Insider Source Blogs Latest Trends from Global Marketplace
My wife buys some interesting products from time to time after doing research on the net. A new product I found laying around the house is a paper bottle container of Bar Keepers Friend. Not knowing what the heck it was, I checked out the package. In doing so, I noticed they use 3 different
I am a fan of Afternic even though I am often critical of it's service. They have so many things going well for them but often people who list domain names with the service see little action (offers/sales).
I do get offers and sales using Afternic, but very few. I have used their advice in the
This is my second post in the Business Planning series. You can read the first post here.
Why Do You Need To Plan?
There are different reasons why people write business plans. There are a lot of people that get into business without any basic form of planning, while for some, it is absolutely critical to do
I just received two emails from Snapnames with information about the rebate offer (both emails look the same). The email from the company confirms the bidder ID as "halvarez," which has been widely reported already. It also informs users that audits were performed on all closed auctions by FTI Consulting, a third-party forensic accounting firm.
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I know a number of people that either use eDirectory on their websites or have considered using eDirectory, and I wanted to let you know about a special offer I just received in case you are thinking about using them in the future. I am not being paid or compensated to post this (nor have
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Marchex, reported its earnings after the market closed yesterday for the 3rd quarter of 2009.
Marchex reported revenue dropped to $22.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period of 2008.
Adjusted operating income before amortization fell to? $1.9 million for the quarter, compared to $6.6 million
Outside of the world of domaining, but extremely important for the overall economy, the The U.S. unemployment rate rose more than expected in October to 10.2%, its highest level in more than 26 years.
Nonfarm payrolls fell by 190,000 last month, with the largest job losses in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade.
Economists had expected a ...
When I saw th ad for this in the Wall Street Journal, I thought for a moment that domains had finally gone mainstream. Instead I got this site.
Since Michael Arrington's indictment of the domain industry is fresh on everyone's mind, I thought I'd expand on a Tweet I got from Guy kawasaki. He writes: "The interesting post I’ve read in a long time: “How Much Traffic Does TechCrunch Send You???? In it Niall Harbison reveals that impact of a TechCrunch article about his company.I work with man...
Via Seth GodinMark points us to this great set of stats.Basically, all of the clicks for all the ads online come from only 16% of the surfers, and most of them come from just 4% of all internet users.So, if you optimize your ads for clicks, it means you're ignoring a huge population.If your business is built around the kind of person who clicks, yo...
Via MobileMarketer:After being live in the App Store for three months, the Pizza Hut application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch has surpassed $1 million in sales.As the featured icon in the iTunes Lifestyle Category, the application is an option for customers wanting to order their pizza, pasta and wings from Pizza Hut while on the go. Pizza Hut...
In a November 4 press release, it was announced that Pool has teamed up with the Neustar Registry to auction off over 1000 2-character .biz domain names between November 2009 and Feruary 2010. The auction initiative is being?titled "TwoDotBiz".
The press release explains …
"The release of two-character .BIZ domains represents an unprecedented...
The blog redesign is complete for BruceMarler.com and it is now much more advertiser friendly. If you are looking to promote a product to the domainer community or to any of the followers of the blog I am now offering ad spots to people looking to offer their products or services.
Although the blog has been targeted at the domain investment commun...
One of the sweetest things about our new list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs is that the list is fully sortable by all of the column headers. This means that although the default list is sorted by Alexa rank you can also click on different columns to see which domain name blog has the
DomainSuperstar.com has created a list of the top 100 Domaining blogs and I'm excited to say that I'm currently #18! It's about time someone made a list of the top Domaining blogs and a great thing about this one is that it updates daily so there will definitely be some nice friendly competition going on
I'm starting a new series here every Friday. We'll take a satirical look at the best and worst of the domain industry and make up completely pointless awards. The best part is that the winners will receive absolutely nothing. This is a great week to get started as there was plenty to talk about, starting with:The "Me Too" Blog Award goes to the ent...
In December 2004 a simple note at the bottom of Twitter.com said "We sell this website-name (twitter.com) because of other biz schedule.Sale price $4500". Six months earlier the domain twiter.com? registered.? Certainly not as a typo of twitter because at this point in time it was a nothing site and twitter as we know it
I am happy to bring you this week's comic.? Where will you find the Domain Pimp next year?? Well you might find me at Domainer Mardi Gras in New Orleans.? I love the city and I am sure the convention will be another great reason to go.? Today I present to you part 1 of
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When is Moniker going to fix their affiliate page for "Payment History"? Are they on twitter (not the brokerage)??
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Waiting for my snapnames rebate stimulus check. What? You had to have won auctions? Nevermind.
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NameBright takes a lot of my picks now everyday. Honesty, it was better pickins' when the big tasters were active...
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Just saw 3 con men working old shell game scam at gas station. Sucks in people thinking they can make quick score.
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@Lrex yep, got my notice but since there is no way to see history no one to say its not right..... I dont think it is...
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