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Our press release is out today and it is a sign of things to come. If you follow our progress this year you will see how dedicated we are to making Bido the absolute best place to buy and sell "in demand" inventory. There are numerous developments in the work as well as in 2010, much is going to be invested in media, marketing, partnerships, educat...
There are some sites that offer information. Other websites purely look to make money. But sometimes you just don't see the obvious benefits of owning a primary generic domain. Take
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Over $600K in sales last week at Afternic. The Top domain sold was Vivant.com for $30,000. Names that stick out to me are spinalinjury.com at 13k, raise.org at $12,800 and
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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Rooms have sold out at the host hotel for DOMAINfest Global but organizers have found more rooms nearby - IDNTools makes a splash in New York's Times Square & free seats are available for a webinar on Top Parking/Selling Strategies for 2010.
It didn't take Sedo too long into 2010 to bring in a big domain name sale. Sedo.com sells Credit.fr for 587,500 EUR which at today's exchange rate is $853,519 USD.
Credit.fr 587,500 EUR
Google Search: Not listed on first three pages. Probably listed higher in France.
Google Page Rank: 5
Compete.com Traffic: No Profile
Alexa Rank: 714,199...
Owen Frager has asked me to guest host his Domain Success Power Lunch Show and interview Bruce Marler. We will be live tomorrow, January 13th from 2:30pm to 3:30pm EST. If you would like to listen in register now.
I have a few unexpected questions to ask Bruce so this should be fun.
Have any
One week ago today, I posted that DomainState.com Was Going To Auction because of the high amount of interest to purchase the forum. Well, I just received the following email from DomainState.com admins.
"We have had a pre auction offer from one of the current 3 part owners of the site (Paul Shaw/Snoopy) at $20,000 USD.
An Introduction to Meta Tags: Part II
Implementing meta tags is not as hard as one would think, and it?s definitely not anything that one needs to dive into their piggybank for. This article will not only provide you with not only the coding you?ll need to copy and paste into your current website?s coding, but
It's no secret that DomainState.com is for sale and has been a hot topic within the domaining community since it was put up for sale approximately 1 week ago. After 2 days of receiving interest and offers, they sent out an email to the people who have shown interest in the website stating the they
The following domain names are either listed for sale on SnapNames, are in auction or are about to drop and can be backordered with SnapNames. The names are directly linked to the bid screen.
PoolCleaning.com
RingSports.com
AdultFiles.com
RiskyJobs.com
LocalGames.com
HotLays.com
StudentPlans.com
GemAuctions.com
LocalHeadlines.com
Strollers.org
Live...
Leading domain name registrar EuroDNS announced yesterday that it was holding a 1 month promotion campaign for .ES domain names.
Registrations of .ES domain names surpassed the 1 million mark in 2009 and the number is still growing. .ES is the country code top level domain name for Spain.
Regarding the .ES promotion, Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, st...
AfternicDLS starts the new year off with sales adding up to $600,000 USD in the first week. The chart is lead by the sale of Vivant.com for $30,000, followed by SpinalInjury.com for $13,000 and the third place is a .ORG – raise.org for $12,800. See the full list of reported sales after the jump.
.COM Domains
Domain
Site for used airplanes uses a great domain name.
Looking for a used airplane? Here's a site that just came out of beta: UsedAirplanes.com.
In a press release issued this week, UsedAirplanes Inc. explained:
As buyers and sellers flock to the internet and continue their mass exodus from print publications UsedAirplanes.com is well positioned online...
A warning to owners of "Visit" domain names.
A National Arbitration Forum has handed the domain name VisitNorway.us to Innovasjon Norge, dba Innovation Norway, which owns the domain name VisitNorway.com. The basis for transfer is that the complainant owns common law rights to the term "VisitNorway". It has applied for a U.S. design trademark...
INTA asks members to submit comments in opposition to Expressions of Interest for new TLDs.
Last month ICANN opened up a comment period on its Draft Expressions of Interest/Pre-Registrations Model (EOI), which I've written about before.
I checked in today hoping to see some constructive comments on the EOI draft, such as costs and procedures. Inst...
.Asia auctions don't give much promise for resale values.
If you invested in English-language .asia domain names, you probably haven't seen much of a return on your investment. Five .asia auctions that closed at Sedo today didn't add up to much:
RealEstate.asia $6,000
Credit.asia $4,250
Single.asia $770
Wireless.asia $1,750
MP3.asia $655
.Asia cur...
TCI and Westerdal getting closer to resolution.
A settlement between Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal over the former's acquisition of DomainTools' parent Name Intelligence is closer to reality, court records show. As a result, both parties have requested a postponement (pdf) of deadlines and the trial date.
The parties held a mediation sessi...
With help of $30k sale, NameMedia clocks another solid sales week.
It's another week and another $600,000 plus in domain name sales for powerhouse NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and Afternic. The company sold 327 .com domain names at a median price of $1,000 and 78 other domain names for a median price of $794.
The top
Travelocity.com took DNRecover to the National Arbitration Forum over the typo-domain traveolcity.com stating that it was:
1. Confusingly similar
2. They did not have any rights or legitimate interests
3. They registered the domain name in bad faith
DNRecover didn't respond, so after taking into consideration the Travelocity mark filed with the USP...
The auction will end today at 3:15 PM EST, less than 12 hours left and as you can see, a lot of amazing domains are being offered at the cheap: Necklace.net, Offended.com, Dullard.com, Armchair.net, Casserole.net, Epilator.net, FleetInsurance.com, ComputerChair.com and about 100 others.
Click HERE and you'll be taken to the main auction page, here...
Less than 3 hours left, the auction will end at 3:15 PM EST: Necklace.net, Offended.com, Dullard.com, Armchair.net, Casserole.net, Epilator.net, FleetInsurance.com, ComputerChair.com and about 100 other impressive domains are being offered at ridiculously low reserves. Don't take my word for it, click HERE and analyze the list yourself, I'll let th...
The grand total: $66,295. There have been a LOT of bargains, congratulations to the buyers and a big "thank you" to everyone who has helped me out:
Domain
Price
Necklace.net
$10,145
Offended.com
$9,075
Dullard.com
$7,550
HydronicHeating.com
$7,265
Armchair.net
$7,240
Epilator.net
$7,240
FleetInsurance.com
$4,940
Management.mx
$4...
I personally write a lot of stuff on my site and many times when I write them, I happen to include "current" things. Well, overtime what was current at time of writing may not be relevant today! Depending on your writing style, some things are pretty easy to adjust and can reduce you from going
Cottonelle® toilet paper launched a new ad campaign using CottonelleRolPoll.com asking it's customers to vote if they have the toilet paper roll from the Top or from the Bottom of the roll.
It's an interesting poll since everybody has TP in the house and you can put the roll one way or the other. I like
I am headed down to Park Slope, Brooklyn today to meet with the buyer of ParkSlope.com. He suggested a sushi restaurant, and I have no idea how to get there, but fortunately there's a handy website that will map my voyage using New York City's public transportation.
HopStop.com is a great tool for people who use
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I want to offer you two separate development tips today, although they aren't exactly related to each other. I have had very good luck with DogWalker.com, a site which now boasts somewhere around 80 paid/paying customers. As more and more companies signed up, I began to seek ways to scale this model.? $10-20k/annually is great
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As you probably read on TechCrunch or the same article in the Washington Post, Apple recently won a UDRP filing for 16 domain names owned by Daniel Bijan.? The domain names that they were awarded include: blueipod.com, iphonecheap.com, iphonetoys.com, ipodaccessories.info, ipodkits.com, ipodsbaratos.com, macbookpro.biz, macbookpro.com, macbookpro.n...
Google want's to end censorship of its Google.cn after some hack attempts were found on the e-mails of some Chinese human?activists. With the possibility of leaving operations in China due to these reasons, they do in fact go back to their "Do no evil" motto, which I find refreshing, especially after us not getting any View the rest of Google to en...
Essentially, in 2010, we are waiting for the next recession to hit, along with a multitude of other factors that could determine how fast (tax hike all at once?) and powerful the impact.
John Mauldin's first post of the year explains a lot of the problems that we face and how they will slowly hit us. Read more articles on this topic at Green TaxiJo...
There are a few new features at the DomainFest.com conference in a couple of weeks but for me the new morning structured networking sessions seem the most exciting.
Last year a couple of these were tried but they were schduled at the end of a busy day.
This year the structured networking sessions will be held each
Snapnames.com Monthly Showcase Auction for January just opened up for bidding a couple of hours ago and there are plenty of bids on lots of domain names.
The January auction is showcasing "1-4 Character & 1 word ccTLDs"
Already 33 domains have bids meeting reserve.
As you might expect 3 letter .com's are leading the way with several...
According to Google's blog it may pull out of China.
Google said it detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China" in mid-December and that the attack resulted in "the theft of intellectual property from Google."
"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered, combined with the ...
Congratulations to Colin Pape and the ShopCity.com group on their rollout of the first of thousands of domain-branded local launches. This is a company to watch in the Hyperlocal market. It's where the online bread lies. You can bear witness to ShopCity's fast track growth HERE.Via The Mountainview Voice:Local biz gets boost with ShopMountainView ...
Okay,?DomainingTips.com Snapname auction is coming to an end shortly.
I'm going to list my favorites of which they already have bids and then I will list what I think are
the hidden gems that have no bids so far.
First my favorites:
Necklace.net
FleetInsurance.com
Hidden gems with no bids:
ComputerChair.com (have you seen the search numbers for thi...
Some of you might remember my post about letters I sent out to end users a few weeks ago about buying domain names.? The real letters worked quite well I am just finishing up on my long case study about real letters vs emails and phone calls but so far of the 12 or so
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Not a lot of good, cheaper dot coms falling today but some real nice .nets.? There are plenty more but you'll have to find them yourselves and like I mentioned yesterday. I used? DomainStryker.com to help me find all these names and they're running a special $1 for 7 Days if you want to try
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It works especially well with this blog. Maybe it's because it's because I'm in a hurry. I've figured out a way to get search engine traffic that is targeted traffic but not many other people get. What's this super secret way? Typos in the headlines.
It seems that people mistype things all the
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Some people follow trends.? Others just squat on people's names.? There is no more squatted on TV event than American Idol.? For some reason, some people think they will be able to capitalize on the fame found by these young contestants.? 10 to 20 of them most likely will become a house hold name over
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