February 22, 2010 Posts

Welcome back for another helping of available domain names. 40 domains were registered from my client list today and below you'll find the remaining 201 domains that are still available. Nearly all of them return search volume on their exact match keyword according to the Google Adwords Tool. Please limit your registrations to 10 domains per

Last week, it was announced that Poker.org sold for $1,000,000. Most people were surprised by the amount. I wasn't. The same people were surprised when Ireport.com sold for $750,000. Again No related posts.

The owners of PokerCompany.com made history last week when they purchased Poker.org for $1 million, by far the highest price ever reported for a .org domain. We have learned that they also paid the second highest price ever reported for a .org domain in the previously unannounced sale we are reporting today.

I have heard too many horror stories on the forums that domain thief's have been able to log in to a customers account and transfer domain names out without permission. With the abundance of internet fraud I tend to look for companies that offer extra security features. For instance, I love my PayPal security key.

Verisign, the registry provider for .com and .net, has released their domain industry brief today. The report can be found in PDF format here. Some of the highlights of the report include: -? At the end of 2009 there were 192 million domain name registrations across all TLDs, an increase of nearly 15 million since the end

…for some domains, anyway. A lot of the talk around new top level domain names is the lack of pricing controls on providers. A company that launches a new TLD can set prices however they wish, and owners of existing TLDs worry that this idea would then be applied to their domains. Have a

Survey finds little support among domain community. Support for ICANNs "current plan" of introducing new top level domain names is still limited — although the ice may be thawing. In the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 26% of respondents said they were in favor of ICANN's current plan to introduce new top level domain names....

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets low marks. The percentage of people rating ICANN's performance as "Good" has hit its lowest point since Domain Name Wire started its annual survey five years ago. In the fifth survey, including responses from over 500 people in the domain name industry, only 12% rated their...

Registry wants to offer name.xxx later this year. After winning an independent review against ICANN for denying ICM Registry's application for a .xxx top level domain name, the registry says it hopes to begin offering .xxx domain names later this year. It has already opened up a process on its web site to pre-reserve names. Whether

Here is a marketing mistake that would be wise if you didn't make! When you are known for a term like Everybody Gets One™ as Doctor Gadget® is but your domain name you use for marketing is EverybodyGets1.com, it is confusing! Known or not know for a term, it makes sense to match your domain

Since my background is in the direct marketing business, I pay attention to infomercials and other marketing efforts specifically to analyze the execution. Some of these commercials (maybe most) are cheesy, but everything from dialog, domains, actors, and product placement has a purpose. The domain name is also important, and in many cases, it's us...

First Superman comic fetches $1M - NYPOST.comA rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing a record set just last year.The issue sold Monday morning is a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. It features Superman lifting a car on its cover and originally cost...

Morning Folks!! I am a worrier. I worry about this and I worry about that. But worry is also my greatest single motivator. The fear of failure. The fear of losing. The fear of things not going properly. That fear is my motivation. It’s almost like a self contained energy and power plant. Fear leads to worry and worry leads to motivation. Motivation...

According to the new VeriSign released its State Of The Industry Report for the 4th Quarter today, (pdf) the Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 and wound up the year at more than 192 Million domains. New registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 came in at around 3.7

According to TechCrunch:Canadian performance marketing solutions company Yellow Pages Group (YPG) this morning announced that it has come to an agreement with rival 411 Local Search Corp, under which terms YPG will purchase the 411.ca brand and domain names and acquire an ownership interest in the company to boot.Simultaneously, the company announc...

We domain investors tend to not talk about the domain names we have acquired in our blogs but one that I am happy to talk about and discuss why is WirelessISP.net. The Wireless ISP business is set to boom even in this down economy due to the 7.2 billion dollar stimulus package the government is allocating

Do you remember the scene in Jurassic park where the terrified archaeologists hear the T-Rex in the distance? They know it is coming and look to their water glass and see its shaking as confirmation…it's getting closer! This is how I feel about the iPad. Apple is great at making Product Disruptors – those products that

Just enough to keep the dreams alive of all the people that buy all the other junk 5Ls.?? I hated to even post it because I didn't want people think that all 5 Letter dot coms are valuable.? Most are not,? but you can spell a lot of things with 5 letters and you can Related posts:Take a Look at Some of the Great 4L Sales in the Last Two WeeksThe...

Today I was presented with a problem and a geo domain helped provide the resolution.? Someone dear to me told me about a dilemma with the IRS.? As everyone knows the IRS is notorious for collecting past due taxes.? In this situation it got to a point where a lawyer who specializes in dealing with