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Over 275 listed auctions today, site is getting busy. To make life easier on buyers, we're fast to address and try and make things better. I mentioned few days ago we have some visual enhancements in the works which will make spotting better inventory easier. These will be released soon.
First, the new Interest Gauge:
(Screenshot from our testing...
While Traffic in Las Vegas may be the first major event of the year, Domainfest may be the biggest. From what I am hearing, over 1000 people are expected at
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Yes you read it correctly Free-sms.de was sold through Sedo for 115,000 euros which is about $170000 USD. I even called Sedo to confirm. Other notable sales were toys.co.za at
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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Pre-Bidding opens for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction, DOMAINfest Global posts the final agenda for next week's show in Santa Monica and Mocus.com launches an affiliate program paying 50% on domain sale profits.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Jeff Kupietzky, CEO of Oversee.net and wanted to share a portion of that interview. Below are five questions that to this point have not been answered about the SnapNames auction fraud. Tomorrow I will post the full interview with ten additional questions.
Q. When did Oversee learn about bidding
Some of us have been in the domain industry since domain registrations opened to the public, while others of us are just beginning to invest in domain names. Over the years, or even months, often times, if you?re a good investor who owns a .com domain, the .net or .org will also be registered sometime
The Russian edition of Forbes magazine has won the use of the domain name Forbes.ru and a record $300,000 in damages in a landmark court ruling, the magazine announced on Friday.
The domain name was registered by Landmark VIP Services (landmarkvip.ru) in 2002. Landmark used the name to advertise their own travel packages via a simple website setup ...
The registry for .MX domain names, NIC Mexico, has announced it is reducing prices for .MX, .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX domain names starting February 1, 2010.
The company explained on it's website on 14 February 2010 that it was able to reduce prices as a result of the growth of .MX in the last few years.
NIC .MX announced that the following prices ...
Rick Latona's Latonas auction has released it's full inventory for the live portion of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction which will take place Friday the 22nd of January, 2010.
Interestingly, one of the names being auctioned off is Rick's own aeiou.com – the domain behind the domain development website Rick closed a few months ago. AEIOU.c...
Quarterback Brett Favre carved his name in NFL folklore while playing for the Green bay Packers between 1992 and 2007. He was so revered by the fans in Wisconsin that there is a "Brett Favre Pass" in Green Bay and Mayor Jim Schmitt proposed renaming the city's main thoroughfare "Brett Favre Boulevard" in 2008.
Not so any more though, as following a...
The SnapNames 1 to 4 Character and ccTld Showcase auction has just ended. It has netted a total of $147,936 according to the auction results posted on the SnapNames website.
In total, 120 domain names were sold.
Notable sales include:
czr.com $22,250.00
coa.com $17,500.00
bgm.com $12,000.00
amz.com $9,750.00
gzc.com $6,550.00
coni.com $4,100.00
ftp...
A few months back I wrote about the charitable work many domain name companies and individual domain investors are involved in supporting.?? Now I'm going to ask YOU to consider stepping up to the plate and help a charity.? The beauty of it . . . it costs you NOTHING except a few minutes of
Earlier this month the same group (the "Iranian Cyber Army" that had modified Twitter's DNS, also modified the DNS for the Chinese search engine Baidu.com. Baidu.com has now filed suit against Register.com (according to AFP) seeking damages for the interruption of the service. The group had managed to get access to the domain management account...
Over the last few months, SnapNames.com has been conducting monthly auctions and even private party auctions with varying results.? The recent monthly showcase auction, which ended yesterday (January 19th), concluded with the companies best result of? nearly $150,000 in domains sold.
The January showcase auction (officially billed as the 1-4 charac...
Cybersquatting challenges fall in 2009.
The number of cybersquatting cases filed under Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) fell to a three year low in 2009, and the rate of cybersquatting cases compared to the total number of domains registered fell to an all-time low, according to an analysis by Domain name Wire.
Data from WIPO, N...
Auction enters final hours with over 100 domains meeting their reserves.
Over 100 domain names in this month's Snapnames Showcase Auction have met their reserves. The auction ends later today.
The auction features 1-4 character domain names as well as one word country code domains. The highest bid on a domain name that has met
Lottery wins domain name it says was stolen in 2006.
German state-owned lotto company NKL Nordwestdeutsche Klassenlotterie has won the transfer of the NKL.com domain name, three years after the domain name was allegedly stolen. NKL won the domain name through a WIPO proceeding.
In a strange series of events, it appears the domain name may
Top UDRP filers for 2009.
Here's a message to all the cybersquatters out there: don't mess with the companies on this list.
Using data from UDRPSearch, Domain Name Wire tabulated the total number of UDRP cases filed by these companies in 2009. This isn't as easy as it sounds, given that both WIPO and
Hyphenated .de domain leads pack.
Sedo has brokered the sale of German country code domain name Free-SMS.de for 115,000 EUR, or about $165,000 at today's exchange rates. The domain name was purchased by SuperComm Data Marketing GmbH, according to whois records.
The next highest sale for the week was ConnectionExpress.com, which sold for $30,000....
Domain name registrar sued over alleged security breach.
Baidu, Inc. announced that it has sued domain name registrar Register.com over a hacking incident by Iranian Cyber Army earlier this month. Baidu claims that Register.com was negligent, allowing the hackers to change the DNS for the domain name.
I have searched U.S. Federal Court records to ...
This event has broken the previous record (~$125,000) when it comes to showcase auctions, with a grand total of $134,244.? Congratulations are in order and here are the domains which have been sold:
Domain
Price
1cm.com
$1,161
40d.com
$920
4lu.com
$410
50m.com
$640
5md.com
$300
649.net
$475
649.org
$300
668.net
$2,802
700....
DomainReport.caTBR.ca, a new .ca domain drop catching service, is now open for business at http://www.tbr.ca. I thought this service would be of interest to anyone who buys .ca domain names, especially in drops, so I have posted their announcement below.The site is currently in beta stage.-----TBR.ca offers full statistics of each name that is dro...
When you think of batteries, you may think of some of the powerful brands that spend Billions on advertisements but you may be shocked to find out that none of those "brands" own what many people naturally search for on the internet, Batteries.com!
Batteries.com is a work horse all by itself. When anybody simply sees or
Several sources are reporting that FOX® "might of" registered the domain name ConanOnFox.com on 1-12-2010. TMZ.com even ran a report on it's site. Since I know a thing or two about domain names, here are the potentials and the reasons why I think it's somebody other than FOX that registered the domain name.
FOX's main owned...
Here is somebody worth following on Twitter.com, Bill Gates! Bill has joined the Twitter world and the account is Verified so it has to be the real Bill Gates. You can follow Bill Here twitter.com/billgates and you can follow me here twitter.com/yofie
Bill uses his foundations website for his URL profile which is GatesFoundation.org. Although Bill...
When I was writing down a list of a few things I'd like to accomplish in 2010, learning about the IDN market was one of those things. I know of a few domain investors who invest in IDN domain names, but I don't know enough about them yet to invest. In fact, as of right
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Rick Latona announced the final inventory with reserve prices for the live domain auction that will take place in Las Vegas on Friday, January 22nd at 4pm. Bidding can also be done online on the newly launched Latonas.com website. Below are my top 10 domain names (along with the reserve prices) that are included in
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Roger Lowenstein, in the New York Times, suggests that homeowners should walk away from their mortgages. His theory, in effect is that homeowners must walk away from their mortgages in order to straighten up the banks into not lending more than the homes are worth.
I agree with the premise. The system is broken. Banks make Read more articles on thi...
As promised a few weeks back I have just finished interviewing my mate Perry Marshall who I consider to be one the worlds leading authorities on the subject of Google AdWords. I have learned a great deal from him over the years regarding Google AdWords and my AdWords Consulting business would not be where it is today if it were not for his help and...
I'm proud to announce that the Latona's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction is now live for pre-bidding. Please visit Latonas.com and register if you haven't already. Happy bidding!
Below is our full inventory for the live portion of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction which will take place Friday the 22nd of January, 2010.
Lot
Lot Title (Domain ...
According to USA Today, Twitter and Sweethearts candy plan to stamp "Tweet Me" on the familiar heart-shaped, candy which usually has messages like "kiss me" and "love you".
Your odds of landing a Sweetheart candy that actually says Tweet Me: about one in 80. That's because there are 79 other phrases in use this year.
Sweethearts will...
The Snapnames.com monthly showcase for January is closing is just over 2 hours at 3:15pm EST and there are already over 100 domains with bids that have met reserve and several more that have bids but have not hit reserve.
Here are the domains that have met reserve and the high bid as of 1:20 PM.
Domain
We couldn't help but notice the auction for the domain name Beccary.com, at Godaddy.com, which has a high bid of over $10K with almost 2 days to go.
The domain has a valuation by Godaddy.com of less than $1K and although it get some traffic its not the enormous amount of traffic that would support such
And you can offer them too through VistaPrint.Interesting facts about Military.com:Military.com has 10 million members.20,000,000 Search --over 20 million records for military buddies with Buddy Finder.35,000 Search --over 35,000 unit pages, find reunions and correspond with old friends.4,000 Search our database of over 4,000 institutions, and find...
Today I woke up to an email from someone who had used the contact form on DallasTexasMortgage.com to ask me to call them to discuss acquiring the "site".
I had meetings scheduled throughout most of the day but when I made it back to the office I received a call from the person (persistent, I like
I've been working on a few new projects (which I hope to blog about shortly), but since it's been a while I wanted to post a short pre-screened list of available exact match domains with search demand.?? I've used Valuate.com to quickly summarize demand and CPC and have linked to product examples where possible.
All are
If you are using Google's keyword tool to check keyword demand, remember that by default it checks the previous month.???? Since demand for many items spikes in December, using this tool in January can provide greatly inflated results.
For example, I was just checking availability for ‘chocolate gift tower'.?? Google's keyword tool showed 72...
I am excited to share my first interview from the Affiliate Summit West 2010! My first interview is with one of the most famous bloggers in the world and a personal favorite of mine – John Chow from JohnChow.com! John has been able to make over $40,000/month blogging and there is a lot that Domain
Hope everyone had a? nice holiday yesterday (not a day off for me but still an important day).? I had to pack last night because I have two conferences this week with one being TRAFFIC.? I don't know what I spent more time picking out, these names or clothes for the conferences in Chicago and
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What gave away the fact that I'm excited about going to TRAFFIC?? Was the 1st post about it or the 50th??? By now you know that I'm headed to Vegas to break my domain conference virginity.? The main reason I'm going is to finally meet all the great people I've come to know since I've
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Recently I was contacted by @techfreaks on twitter.? They have asked me to appraise a few domains for them.? This is one of the first requests I have had to appraise domain names over twitter.? Since that is the case, I have decided to type a blog entry about it.? Here are the domain names
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"At any given moment, everyone is doing just about the best they can." Say it 3 times, then laugh your ass off.
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Next vacation should I? A.Long Motorcycle trip B.Problem animal control in Zimbabwe C.Hang out in Hawaii w/@NayNay3
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