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A little over a year ago I started consolidating my domain names at a single registrar. At that time, I decided to use Fabulous.com for a number of obvious reasons: low pricing, extensive backend to manage the domains, great tech support.
As time passed by, I still have domains in a handful of other registrars, but
Over 300 live auctions on Bido today. Here are my Bido Picks for the day:
bladdercontrolmedication.com BidoPrice $28 - Strong keywords, SEO play, attractive BidoPrice.
networkmarketingbooks.com BidoPrice $85 - Exact match, see Amazon to understand potential.
eldespacho.com BidoPrice $28 - Love these types of domains. A+++++ (see Google for millions...
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com with high ranking sales reported in every category. We saw the 2nd biggest non .com gTLD sale of 2010, as well as the 3rd biggest .com sale year to date and the 5th highest country code sale thus far in 2010.
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sedo's parent company gets a new but familiar name. Plus, news from DomainConsultant.com, a new social networking site at SocialDomainers.com and Domainbie.com who is offering an industry beginners ebook that you can try before you buy.
In October DNN.com reported the acquisition of popular pending delete domain name service JustDropped.com by Rob Monster of Epik, LLC.
Now, let's fast forward to today. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dan Rubin of JustDropped.com during the last South Florida domainer meetup and he informed me that the sale never went through. Dan...
By now, most of you know that earlier in the month I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes.
Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who
The Domain Madness 2 Live Auction which ended yesterday sold 21 of 76 domains for $209,692 USD, bringing the average sales price to $9,985.33. Leading the pack was the sale of CamRoulette.com, which apparently only has been registered last year. The domain changed owners in February of this year for an unknown sum and now
Three character domain in the spotlight.
Sedo's monthly Great Domains auction ends tomorrow, and a three character domain in the auction is attracting a lot of attention.
MEC.com is up to $41,000 with its reserve met. Four different bidders are in on the action. There are a number of companies and acronyms for MEC, and
Go Daddy drops .cn, but Chinese can still register domain names at the registrar.
In a hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China today in Washington, Go Daddy Group Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Christine Jones explained that the company will no longer offer .cn domain names under strict requirements imposed by C...
Rick Latona discusses next month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Milan.
The next Targeted TRAFFIC conference will be held in Milan April 27-29. I reached out to show organizer Rick Latona to find out what attendees can expect.
DNW: Your second conference of the year will focus on ccTLDs. You held a ccTLD conference last year.
Adlink Group renamed to Sedo Holding.
Adlink Group, the parent company of domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo, is changing its name to Sedo Holding. The company will also change its stock ticker to SEDO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The new name has been in the works since the company sold off its display
Trade group asks ICANN not to approve .xxx TLD.
In a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, Diane Duke of the adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition asks ICANN to reject ICM Registry's plans for a .xxx top level domain name.
Much of the adult industry opposed .xxx after governments started getting involved. Governments suggested...
Football players union gears up for possible lockout by buying domain name.
Is a lockout of National Football League players likely in 2011? NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith told ESPN that, on a scale from 1-10, the likelihood of a lockout is a 14. That sounds serious.
Perhaps to gain an upper hand, the
SEOMoz just launched an overhauled SEOMoz Toolbar for Firefox featuring new page and domain authority metrics that display live as you browse.
These metrics help determine the…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.SEOMoz Toolbar Features Page & Domain Authority Metrics Plus Page Analysis
Autographed.net is currently on live auction at a place many people may simply miss because it is on eBay! Although eBay is often cluttered with what most would consider "junk domains" or simply overpriced domain name auctions, it is still a place worth checking out from time to time and see what is listed. I
Sadly there really is no accurate tool to use as a guide to how much traffic a domain name is actually getting, without actually owning the domain name and using a trusted stats provider. The simple thing to understand when buying a domain name is not to base your purchase solely on the reported traffic
I got a call a little while ago from my (was) GoDaddy.com executive account manager Justin and he informed me via voice mail that GoDaddy is moving the minimum amount of domain names needed in ones account to at least 300 domain names to qualify for an executive account.
The message started off btw with him
The IDN domain name registration contest sponsored by IDN Tools and ElliotsBlog.com will end tomorrow, Thursday, March 25th promptly at 9am EST. All entries must be posted in the comment section of the blog by then, or they will not count.
The newly registered domain name with the highest footprint will win $150. The second place
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One of the things I've noticed about domain investors is that they aren't short on ideas for businesses on their domain names. People seem to buy domain names with a specific idea in mind for them, although many either lack the funding to build out the idea, the drive to build it, or they lack
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As you may or may not be aware, my designer and I are in the middle of re-designing Lowell.com. The new website will be on a much better content management system, and that will allow visitors to submit news and calendar events, create advertisements manually, and post comments on articles. The new site will be
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The first GreenTaxi monthly newsletter went out today and the amount of interaction with it has been great so far. If you are interested, please sign up on the bottom left of my homepage or on the Sign Up page. Thanks for all the support!
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GoDaddy.com announced today that it will stop registering new Chinese domain names following Chinese government requests for additional personal information on its existing customers.
"This is the first time a registry has asked us to retroactively obtain additional verification and documentation of individuals who have registered a domain name...
According to Gambling911.com, one member of The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA.org) has decided to step forward and, as such, satisfy the court's requirement on "standing".
TruePoker.com, owned by Yatahay Limited Limited will step forward and identify itself as the owner of the domain, and provide the court a cop...
The most annoying about contacting end users is the low rate of response. Sometime I will send 50 letters or emails and get only 1 or 2?responses other time more, but it is time?consuming. A few days ago while on twitter and writing end user letters at the same time I decided to send the
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So far this trip I've focused on my adventures in Hong Kong so I thought it was time to give a bit more insight into what I learned about investing in the Asian domain market!
While I liked .Asia a lot before coming on this trip I can't say I understood it nearly as well as
I recorded this video my first day in Hong Kong when I stumbled across an open-air fish and meat market. All I can say is be glad smell-o-vision hasn't been invented yet as this was definitely one of the stinkiest places I have been in my life!
Gotta love the $151K camroulette hit yesterday.? We all hope that our next pickup will be the next camroulette.? I'm a bit more realistic but a man can dream can't he?? Now here are some names that you may be able to make at least a portion of that
Comfrey.com Comfrey is an herb that has
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Ask any website owner and they'll tell you the most valuable part of the site are the email subscribers.? Its saves you thousands (sometimes millions) of dollars in advertising because you have a direct channel to you audience without having to pay some form of media to reach them.? Unfortunately you will occasionally lose someone
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After about 345 articles regarding it, you've realized I love strong 5L domain names.? I picked up weeba.com the other day and am always looking for 5 letter words with no meaning that are easy to spell, pass the radio test, and tend to buy names that end in "o" or "a".???? Finding 5Ls isn't
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Product portals – make money, guaranteedDuring the last 6 weeks, the Epik team has had the pedal to the metal across several project areas. One of the more exciting areas has been the commercial rollout of Epik's product portal platform. During the last 6 weeks alone, we have released more than 300 new product portals
GoDaddy is offering 1 year, new domain name registrations or transfers for $4.99 plus $0.18 ICANN fee for a total of $5.17 with coupon code 499DOMAIN. The code appears to work with .com, .net, .org extensions and possibly others. Payment via credit card or by check and to be used only once per GoDaddy account.
Stephanie was in distress.
The loss of her parents in an fiery car accident left her an orphan at a young age. She was raised by her paternal grandfather, whose chronic ailments brought on many bills she was struggling to assist with.
At the young age of 20, she had already become a mother and a wife,
According to Wikipedia, the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands is a Polynesian? French island territory in the South Pacific between Fiji and Samoa.
It is made up of three main volcanic? tropical islands and a number of tiny islets.
The territory is split into two island groups lying about 260 km apart: Wallis Islands? in
It is fun to see domainers at their most competitive. Recently our joint ElliotsBlog/IDNTools contest, which can be found here, received some very strong entries from long-time IDN domainers.
The leading entry at the time of this post has a footprint (footprint = average CPC x Google exact match search term (as determined by Google
With the .com turning 25 years old this months a peek at the oldest currently registered .com domain names along with the registration dates, according to VeriSign. DOMAIN NAME DATE symbolics.com March 15, 1985 bbn.com April 24, 1985 think.com ......
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