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Two tidbits for the morning.
1. To monitor daily trends, to discuss further with fellow Domainers, Bido sales list is updated daily on both NamePros and DNForum.
2. We've hired additional help (and still hiring) to bring more quality inventory to Bido. If you are tired of listing and want to start selling, talk to us today.
Have a great Monday!
Bes...
Bido.com sold UDRP.com for $16,500 last week. Considering the fact that each side in a single UDRP dispute typically spend several thousand dollars for legal services, we thought someone got a good deal on that domain. As it turns out the buyer was a both a domain investor and an end user.
You all know I love a good contest! Here is one from Name.com created exclusively for my ChefPatrick.com readers.
In case you haven?t heard already, to celebrate .com's 25th anniversary Name.com is running a special this month on their .com, .net and .me extensions. If you register any of those extensions you?ll get their special price
John Zuccarini is back in the news fighting against the collection of a judgment by DS Holdings . DSH has been assigned a judgment by Office Depot from 2000 and is seeking to collect by seizing domain names.? Zuccarini was found guilty of cybersquatting on Office Depot's trademark with the domain officdepot.com.? In the discovery
Goodwill gets Goodwill.com in "amicable" resolution to domain name dispute.
In December, Domain Name Wire wrote about non-profit Goodwill Industries filing a complaint over the domain name Goodwill.com. The domain name was won on NameJet for $55,000 just days before the complaint was filed and then parked.
The next month Goodwill ended up dropping...
Baby products company loses fight with bisexual dating site.
Lamprecht AG, which owns the bibi brand of childrens products, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name bibibaby.com. What makes this even more interesting is that the domain name was originally registered for a bisexual dating
Prices for Geodomain Expo increase tomorrow.
Early bird registration rates for next month's GeoDomain Expo in New Orleans are available through the end of today. The $795 discounted rate was supposed to expire yesterday, but was extended until the end of the day March 1.
This year's event for the geo domain name industry
It's time to approve Expressions of Interest for new top level domain names.
Next week is the highly anticipated ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Err, Washington D.C. And New York. And everywhere else people have decided to participate remotely for fear of their safety.
The big topic next week will be new top level
Bonuses mostly based on short term milestones.
When ICANN released its compensation ideology and information about the top five salaries last month, I wasn't all that taken aback by the salaries. What got me curious was the bonus structure. Bonuses drive behavior, and bonuses tied to poor goals drive poor behavior. I have
One of the nice features at Fabulous.com when using its parking services is that you can mark a domain name for sale. In doing so, there will be two "for sale" banners placed on your parking page for your specific domain name. You can put a price in, select "make an offer" etc.
In this little
Last night I watched the closing ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics and one of the traditions is the passing of the torch to the next hosting country. There was a pretty large presentation for the 2014 Olympics which will be held in Sochi Russia.
Not only did Russia display the 2014 logo for the
When building out some of my websites, I generally look for an inexpensive website theme to use, and lately I've preferred to use Wordpress, as it's easy to update and add plugins. Sometimes I use the theme completely as is, and other times I hire a freelance programmer to make special customizations for me.
I've used
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Have you been thinking about attending this year's GeoDomain Expo put on by Associated Cities and scheduled to be held in New Orleans from Wednesday, April 28 through Friday, April 30, 2010? Today would be a good day to sign up, as the price will increase by $200 beginning tomorrow. Book now to get the
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That's right, one of the original and most recognizable TLDs turns 25 this month and Name.com is celebrating with $8.25 .COM/.NET registrations with the code "MARCH825".
Already have your COMs and NETs covered?
Give your site an extra personal touch and use that same code to register yourself a .ME for only $8.25!
Either way, cheers from Name.com...
We got a new batch of stickers recently and we'd love to share them with our community. If you'd like to show off your Name.com support on your laptop, netbook, water bottle, or forehead you can find instructions on how to obtain a few stickers for you and your friends on the Name.com Schwag Page.
Sticker
(This blog article is entirely inspired by my friend Elliot Silver's blog article)
Elliot Silver, who I respect in the highest regard, stated on one of his recent blog articles:?
"I would much rather own one good name that I bought for $2,500 than 300 newly registered names. If you don?t end up selling them, you?re
As you know we are still waiting the decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court on the seize of the 141 domain names, but now we might be seeing additional motives behind the move.
On Friday the Kentucky?s House passed Bill which places a tax on online and phone betting, by an 85-8 margin.
Now, the measure will
The domain name HowAreYou.com sold this weekend on NameJet.com for $6,600.? Sounds like a low price for an immeditely recognizable domain.
Here were some other notable sales from NameJet.com in the last few days:
healthinternetwork.org
$5,210
cashservice.com
$4,800
greatbeginnings.com
$4,055
acers.com
$3,450
merchantcash.com
$3,20...
According to Net Applications Google?s Chrome browser? has? jumped to a market share of 5.61%, or up almost 1% this year.
Here is the current market share and percentage change since the beginning of the year.
Internet Explorer 61.5% down .50% since January
Firefox 24.25% down .20% since January
Safari 4.45% down .08% since January
Opera 2.35%
Net ...
A nice three letter .com, CIF.com sold today on NameJet.com for $ 17,001.
The domain definitely has some traffic according to Alexa but its the highest LLL.com sale I've seen on NameJet.com is quite a while.
A pretty interesting domain for our industry also sold today on NameJet.com for $1,500, parkingrevenue.com
Root Orange, today announced the official launch of its domain-splitting technology service with what they call, "the number one legal domain name in the world" Attorney.com.
""Root Orange is the first and only company that allows multiple people or businesses to exclusively operate the same domain name in different geographic markets""
?We?re exci...
One of the frequent conversations I had at the domain conferences was about developing websites. Due to the Missouri.me launch and some of my other projects many people had questions about how to develop the sites, tools used, where we get content, etc. I am always happy to share as much as I can but
Minisites are some domainers answer to declining parking revenue and they also work great for long tail domains that receive no type in traffic . They work the best with exact match domains meaning that if you are trying to rank for the term ?Teen Domainer? you are using TeenDomainer.com. Google and other search engines
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This year there are four ccTLD's I'm focusing my attention on – .in, .de, .mx, and .co.za. I can share my reasons for each these choices in a future post but I'd like to focus on .MX for this post.
While Mexico does have a low broadband penetration rate of only 22% – it still has
Another busy weekend leads me into a great week ahead.? I have a few interviews with some great web entrepeneurs hitting the site today and later on in the week.? Don't forget to check the bottom for new names for sale each day.? Now on to the drops
AbortionLaws.com Great name, touchy subject.? Estibot has
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I have had the pleasure of knowing Kurt Kohlstedt since we were both trying to figure out how we could have a little fun and make a little money blogging on the Internet (although he may not be my friend much longer for posting this pic).? What started in 2006 as fun and games has
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Sundays are reserved for relaxation and random domain searches.? After eating great food at a favorite brunch spot of mine in Venice Beach I decided to head home and sleep the day away.? Since I am always thinking about domain names I can never actually do this!? I ended up thinking of some random terms
I thought it would be interesting to share some of the feedback members left on our meetup profile.? One thing I can say is everyone enjoyed the evening as much as I did and I want to thank Moniker again for sponsoring the evening.? For those that wanted to go to this meetup but couldn't
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@CateTV what i have read and heard most recently is that Google does not actually care, someone put it as the myth has been busted
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