November 11, 2009 Posts

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. There were no blockbusters this week but Sedo rang up a bucket load of solid five-figure sales to sweep the first 8 spots on our new Top 20 Chart. They also placed eight ccTLDs on the all extension leader board including a trio that ranked among the five biggest sales.

I received an email early today from Michael Ward of Domainer Mardi Gras about another great registration special. Not only is Michael running a $595 registration special when you book your hotel room by Friday, but he is also giving away a 500GB Hard Drive with each registration. Please, if you have not purchased your

DNUnderground wants to be the first domaining blog to wish you a happy Veterans Day. For those of you who don't know much about what Veterans Day is, it's a day where Americans honor military veterans. Veterans Day is considered a federal holiday in which most take off work and school. We hope you enjoy

Good news for the folks planning to attend the annual Domainer Mardigras event traditionally held in New Orleans – the agent for the 2010 event has been announced. For those interested in the event showcase auction, it is scheduled for day 3 of the event at starting at 1:30pm. For the entire agent please follow this link.

Parking company says publisher committed fraud by parking domains it didn't own. Oversee.net, parent company of domain parking company DomainSponsor, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against one of its former customers. The lawsuit alleges that Simple Solutions, LLC, parked domains with DomainSponsor and represented that it owned the domain names. Howe...

Our first ever episode of DNW Radio. About a month ago I announced I was working on DNW Radio, a radio show that will feature domain industry leaders. Better late than never, here's the first episode. You may recall that I'm not a huge fan of using video when you can get something across in text.

Tucows reports stable revenue and increase in brandable domain sales. Tucows today reported earnings of $.07 per share for the third quarter, compared to a loss of less than a penny per share in the same quarter last year. The company benefited from income from its final receipt for selling its stake in domain name

DomainReport.ca - As I've noted in recent posting, the .ca newsfront has been very slow in recent months. Today there was an interesting TBR drop with at least two great domains, senior.ca and mutualfunds.caIn addition to this, I received an email from MyID about a new .ca Marketplace they are launching. There are many components to this marketpl...

The domain name Science.org sold during the week of 9/21-9/27 2009 at Sedo.com showing a price tag of $20,000 . Great domain name at a price that I think was a great deal. Some of the largest companies are in the science field. Science is around us every single day and will always be. I was thinking

Adding a description when you are offering a domain name for sale is something that takes time. Your description should be specific about the exact domain and it really should be a quick and to the point sales pitch. I admit that I have very few descriptions on most of my domain names for sale. I

LuxuryNames.com, one of the newest entrants into the domain newsletter vertical (and also an advertiser) has announced that they will be holding a week-long domain auction using the Snapnames platform. The auction is set to begin November 18, and the list of domain names that are up for auction has been released. Some of my favorites Related pos...

DrinkRecipes.com drops the most of the three this week.? Our current site continues to generate steady interest with us having done almost zero work since we put it up.? Almost half of its traffic is direct navigation, so the potential for any search engine or other source of traffic is huge. Potential: The ability to grow Read more articles on thi...

Nov 11, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) — EuroDNS announces the opening of a pre-registration period for .eu Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), based on a first-come, first-served model. Companies and individuals based in the European Union have now the opportunity to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .eu domai...

Morning Folks!! As long as we are talking about “Shills???, let’s talk about “Forum Shills???. What is this? These are guys defending the indefensible. Each board seems to have at least one poster ready to defend each and every negative thought. My advice, give it a rest. But what this post is about is something many won’t like. From the little I k...

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.60% of all U.S. searches for October. Yahoo search share was 16.14% down 1% Bing.com search share rose 7% from September to 9.57%. Hitwise also found that Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, increased 3 percent between October and September 2009. ...

Via Kullen: 24/7 Wall St. lists what they believe are the 25 most valueable blogs in the U.S. The latest ranking estimates that the top 25 US blogs are worth $729 million in total. That is a considerable increase since the previous ranking in February 2009 that valued the top blogs to a total of $482 million. For the analysis, the site has moved up...

As mentioned a few weeks ago we are working through beta testing of EzDevelop.com which as many know will provide free minisite creation tools that allow for modification of key components of the site in a very easy to use manner. So far the feedback has been great, as always in beta there were a few

Here is my story for the day and it isn't really pleasant. I am having a tough time to make a paypal payment because paypal won't accept the credit card. It hurts when we get stuck with making a paypal payment. Paypal says the credit card company denied the payment(thats the error i get) but i

Today's featured domain name is Marlboro.com.? Personally, I don't smoke and I am kind of curious how this mailer showed up to my house.? The mailer is quite flashy and graphically pleasing.? Even the Surgeon General's Warning was placed in a good location!? Philip Morris gets it, even if they are steadily trying to push