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DomainAdvertising.com has named industry veteran Dan Warner as the company's new CEO. Warner is a well-known figure in the domain industry having previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and COO of Dark Blue Sea, the Australian public company that owns Fabulous.com.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was another solid week led by one of the year's 10 biggest country code sales. We also saw two of the year's five biggest non .com gTLD sales this week as that category enjoyed its best outing so far in 2009.
We're getting the decks cleared here so we can join the rest of the U.S. in celebrating one of America's biggest holidays Thursday - Thanksgiving Day. Like many Americans we will spend some time on the road traveling to a central meeting place where 17 family members from near and far will gather to give thanks.
Clear your schedule today for 2pm Eastern time so that you can join me in a live video chat session over at GoDrops.com. I?ll be available to talk for an hour during today's drop domain name session. So come with your questions and comments. I?ll be ready.
There is another fun element to this you
To look into the SnapNames scandal a little deeper, I decided to shoot an email over to my friend Monte, CEO of Moniker.com. He then forwarded my email to the Vice President of Corporate Communications for Oversee, the parent company of Moniker, in order to put me in touch with a person who could best
DNUnderground wants to wish all of it's viewers a very happy Thanksgiving. As a gift, DNUnderground has decided to give away a GoDaddy gift card, good for 1 free domain, as well as 1 sponsored link, good for a full year, to the viewer with the best plans for Thanksgiving. To tell us what you're
Following the recent Web 2.0 Summit where Morgan Stanley's Managing Director Mary Meeker reported indications of the economy recovering and predicted that the "mobile web will be 10 times as big as the more traditional desktop Internet", as reported by TechCrunch, we learn that Opera Mini, Opera?s mobile browser, grew it's user base by 11 percent t...
The luxurynames.com auction is over and considering it was a first off, I think they can be happy with the results. I am sure we will see an improvement in name quality and number of bids in the next auction.
Thanks to ChefPatrick and AndrewHazen for the results below:
Grand Total of Sold Domains: $20,747
businesscarinsurance.com $3,777
cheaphousei...
22 year old Pete Danihel, a student attending Mount Royal University, Canada, recently launched a project that earned him a 100% on his marketing final and might earn him quite a bit of money now that he got his grade in.
The project in question is PeepLotto.com (formerly known as TwitterLotto) – a website that has a jackpot total directly in...
This morning DomainAdvertising.com, the company that has launched their new services at the Targeted TRAFFIC show in New York, announced that they have appointed Dan Warner as their CEO. Dan Warner was last COO of Dark Blue Sea (ASX:DBS), parent company of Fabulous.com and left that position in April.
"Dan Warner was the Board's first choice...
The Italian company DomainsBot, who counts Sedo as one of their investors, has just announced the launch of a new website, DomainsBot answers. The site aims to answer questions related to domain names in the style of sites like Yahoo! Answers. To learn more about the new site, visit Answers.DomainsBot.com or read their FAQ.
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Warner joins Directi's new venture.
A familiar face in the domain name world is joining Directi's DomainAdvertising.com as CEO.
Dan Warner, previously the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operation Officer of Dark Blue Sea, the company that runs Fabulous, has joined the company and already hit the ground running.
Warner explained how the company pl...
EVO Media Group picks up investment from private equity group and angel investors.
EVO Media Group, Inc., the company behind web site building platform DevHub, has secured a $1.5 million investment. In addition to an undisclosed private equity group, investors include a number of angels: Geoff Entress of Voyager Capital, John Cunningham of Clearfi...
GoDaddy VP no longer using his accredited registrar.
I always thought it was odd that DNForum owner Adam Dicker still owned his own domain name registrar after he took a job as VP at GoDaddy. So when I saw that ICANN was not renewing his accreditation for Domain Jingles, Inc., it gave me a chance
New web site calls attention to bad UDRP decisions.
There have been a number of poorly decided domain name cases under UDRP, many of which I've written about on Domain Name Wire. Now a new site is calling attention to many of these cases in an effort to alert ICANN to flaws in the UDRP
A lot of domainers are pissed off? because (in their opinion) auction houses are not willing to do whatever it takes in order to attract end-users and that's just plain wrong. Let's crunch some numbers and find out why:
Let's start by analyzing the following scenario and take it from there: auction company "blabla LLC" charges...
I was reading a transfer email from Moniker, which had the following statement: "Moniker has earned the business of many of the largest and most predominant customers in the Fortune 500 and domain space – including: Jupitermedia, Marchex, The NHL, Lions Gate Films, Major League Baseball, Mainstream Adverstising, Nokta, Bank of America, Wells ...
Even with the US housing slump, the REIT industry grew worldwide.??However, now that we see indications that the housing slump is slowing or bottoming (rising Existing Home Sales last week), this is getting close to the bottom of the REITs (Real Estate Investment Trust's) market as well.
Do you agree that picking up real estate at Read more article...
Today, November 25, 2009 starting 12.00 MSK trademark holders and state authorities may enjoy .?? Domains Sunrise Registration as per the approved schedule.
RU-CENTER clients – Russian-named trademark holders may register .?? domains at 1200 rub (including VAT). Sunrise registration is provided for domain names corresponding to verbal symbols...
I missed the announcement earlier this year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging. The less well known multi-blog WP MU is my workhorse supporting many websites on one codebase, perfect for developing many domains. BuddyPress, a set of social networking plugins for WP MU that I have used on select domains is also
Morning Folks!! We have 7 pets. 6 cats and a dog. 4 rescued. Our oldest cat “Bully??? is 9. We just learned has cancer and is undergoing Chemo. We don’t know if he will make it. We are waiting to see how he responds. Bully on Left, Baby Bully on Right. Father and Son. Both Rescued. Baby was just minutes from being destroyed. Then on Monday “Pearl??...
What do you see?when you look at the?photo? The common answer will more than likely be cats playing instruments.? When I look at this photo, I see each individual cat?focusing on doing their best?at playing their assigned instrument and collectively delivering music. This photo inspired me to write this short post, even if it is
Its that time again, for our second annual Turkeys of the Year awards.
This is how I started off last years post and unfortunately all of its still applicable, so I will repeat it here:
"With so many people out of work; losing their homes, companies out of business and retirement plans wiped out, as an industry,
Another web niche no one thought of addressing until now..
Great content for Thanksgiving.com and good advice that will save you lots of time and headaches tomorrow.DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"16317",bannerAdObjectID:" null",videoAdObjectID:"null",videoAdConDefID:"2",playerInstanceID:"24F AD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F",domain:"wptv.dayport.com",rootCateg ory:"null",categoryID:"3",accPos:"CCTVI.NEW...
Via NY Times: TGI Black Friday iPhone App; CheapTweet, a site that scans Twitter for any tweets that mention sales or bargains; Black Friday on Facebook including BlackFridayDeals and BlackFridaySavings. MORE
Does size matter when it comes to turkey testicles? A role model for video content on your GEO site. Why not even invent/sponsor an event in the name of your domain?
Without dropping any names, I've noticed some newer services popping up as of late that offer an affiliate based e-commerce type of setup for your domains which is great and all but you have to pay a few hundred bucks to get started plus split earnings two ways 50/50... Man, screw that! Talk about pretty much getting robbed here... Ouch! At DomainM...
Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I had the pleasure of spending what was one of the more enjoyable nights of conversation about the history of the commercial Internet and life in general tonight. I am starting to think their is a technology mafia in Southeast Missouri as more and more I run into people or stories that surprise me to be in my ow...
For you to fully appreciate my viewpoints in this post, simply imagine that domain parking did not exist, and the only way to make money is to buy and sell domains (domain aftermarket) and develop domains into profitable ebusinesses (web and brand development).
All domain investors go through phases before they see the light of day. Quite a few wi...
Getting ready to get away from the laptop as much as possible the next couple days but thought I would put a quick note out on something we are testing.
The other day I did the post about sometimes just doing things for fun to see where they end up and that is what we are doing with Backlink.us.
In the end it will be a much larger resource than i...
One of my developed websites ranks very well for its terms in google. Second to be exact for about a dozen searches behind retailmenot.com, its a coupon code site. Recently I was just looking at google seeing what sites are below me and I saw a site that was new to me.
They had the same
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If you think that you can make money blogging by just working a few hours a day in your underwear while the cash just starts to pour in then guess what? You guessed it - it ain't gonna happen.
"Wait! Wait!" you say. "I realize it takes a lot of work. I am going to
Wanted to pass along the following? exact match .com keyword domains which are currently available for hand registration (as of 3:00 PM).? All have good search demand with numerous Adwords advertisers. Average cost per click ranges from $2.14 to $26.
1. ThermalPhotoPrinters.com:??? (390/2900 searches per month, $8.31 CPC)
2. DoubleDVDCases.com (8...
Sometimes the hardest advice to take can be your own. This year I have worked hard to decrease the number of projects I'm working on so I can increase my focus. I've gone from having about twenty different projects occupying all day Saturday and Sunday to three projects occupying all day Saturday leaving one weekend
It's Wednesday but not your ordinary Wednesday.? It's the eve before gluttony and one of the few days a year you can goof off at work or leave early and everyone's cool with it.? It's also the day I'm going to eat this. Now on to the links
Having trouble getting up this morning?? This product
I have no idea how I stumbled across Dyx.com but I did, and I am a better man because of it.? It's simple, it's intense, and between the crazy speech and shooting "I", it was an experience. Some people would say that the owner of Dyx should have their flash license taken away, others may
As a domainer I have a natural interest in what other domainers are doing.? Here are the top five domaining blogs I tend to visit:
1.? BruceMarler.com
Bruce's blog entries tend to be well thought out.? He tends to inform his audience on everything from business ventures to the best wordpress plugins to use for your blog.?
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