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In all honesty, I can't recall how it all started with web development; I vaguely recall using Wordpad on Windows 3.11
Maybe because I'm about to push mid-4o's or perhaps because it doesn't really matter. There are things that one fails to register, for good.
At some point, however, I started using Arachnophilia, a brilliant HTML editor...
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was a good week for the aftermarket with a 7-figure blockbuster that now ranks as 2010's biggest sale, plus a trio of solid 6-figure sales led by a $370,000 geodomain deal.
With the opening sessions at two major domain conferences, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Milan, Italy and the GeoDomain Expo in New Orleans, less than three weeks away the agendas are firming up for both events. Here is the latest on what you can look forward to from these events. Plus news on another geodomain sale.
The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog ? MorganLinton.com.
ccTLDs offer incredible o...
SnapNames Spring no reserve auction ends tomorrow at 3:15pm EST. I think it's a great idea to hold a no reserve auction. This allows for the market to set fair pricing.
Some of my favorite domain names in the auction are:
IPOLawyer.com
ClaimLostMoney.com
AffordableRate.com
SpamProof.com
NoApplicationFee.com
Visit SnapNames.com to check out a list o...
The SnapNames Showcase Spring auction of low and no reserve domain names ends in less then 24 hours with some really nice domain names up for auction.
Here are my picks Read more »
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As spotted by TechCrunch, the folks of UsedAirplanes.com have purchased the domain name Flying.com for a reported $1.1 Million.
According to what's currently on Flying.com, the new owners plan to "develop Read more »
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This weeks Sedo sales report is lead by pilot.com selling to publisher Hearst Communications for $300,000 USD, but does not resolve to a site yet. Nasty.com sold for $200,000 and is now under whois privacy. The domain was sold for the same price on Sedo in 2006 according to Namebio.com and appears to have changed
The sale of Baibu.com (potentially a typo of Chinese Search engine Baidu.com) for $57,000 is at the top of AfternicDLS' weekly sales report, followed by MusicVenues at $15,000.
Afternic's parent company, NameMedia, is now only reporting selected sales vs. the previously provided full list of all public sales.
See the full list of AfternicDLS report...
As reported by TechCrunch UsedAirplanes, Inc. completed their purchase of Flying.com for $1,1m USD this morning. The company, which operates UsedAirplaines.com, is going to launch a new site on the domain as of June 2010. While the domain, which was originally registered in 1994, has been on whois privacy since the beginning of 2007, the
Two tools from VeriSign help keep your domain names secure.
With a couple recent high profile domain thefts, and the recent hijacking of Baidu's nameserver settings, I reached out to VeriSign Chief Technology Officer Ken Silva to learn what VeriSign offers to help domain owners protect themselves.
"Over the next 12 months, we're working so that fro...
Unpaid parking still a common complaint in UDRP cases.
For many years domain name registrars have shown pay-per-click ads on domain names registered by their customers but not in use yet. It makes sense; the customer usually doesn't care and it helps the registrar earn money and hopefully keep registration prices down. As far
Invest in a domain name or stick your money in the bank? Mark Horne says it's an easy decision.
When I first heard that a company called UsedAirplanes, Inc. had purchased the domain name Flying.com for $1.1 million, I instantly did a double take. It turns out I've written about the company and its
Buyer of hijacked RL.com domain name has spent dearly on legal bills.
In light of recent domain thefts, you might ask yourself what can happen if you happen to buy a stolen domain name. Look no further than the case of John Laxton, who bought the domain name RL.com for $15,000 in 2005.
RL.com was originally
New site watches a watchdog.
One of the more controversial domain name companies is CitizenHawk. The company was founded in 2007 to help brands recover typos of their domain names.
On behalf of clients, the company sends demand letters to registrants of typos and files UDRPs as well. When it recovers a domain, it has
The domain name Flying.com was sold via NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) in September 2009 and at the time the price was not disclosed. Yesterday a press release revealed the price paid and it was $845,000 USD. The buyer is UsedAirplanes.com and they will use 2010 for building a community for aviation members.
According to the press release,
Some companies argue that as long as they own their brand domain name, it's much less important to own their product domain name(s). They may believe this because they carry many products, and it's easier to manage one domain name and website than a group of them. In my opinion, when a company's product is
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One of the most sought after extensions in Europe, .fr, seems to be getting more and more friendly with domainers.
AFNIC, the organization that runs the ccTLD will be sending a few people to Milan for our T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event later this month.
Today, they issued a white paper on the secondary market. You can download the entire
According to a press release today, UsedAirplanes.com has completed the purchase of Flying.com for $1.1 Million:
"""UsedAirplanes, Inc., the parent company of UsedAirplanes.com, announced today that they have completed the purchase of the domain name Flying.com for $1.1 million.
The first (beta) version of Flying.com will be launched on June 1, 2...
According to Hitwise, Yahoo market share of search results rose to more than 15% in March from 14.6% the previous month.
Google had 69.97% of all U.S. searches, down slightly from February's 70.95%.
Bing had a 9.62% market share, down from 9.70% the previous month.
This is the first increase for Yahoo in a LONG
The Sedo .TV auction closes tomorrow, April 8th at noon EST and every one of the 114 domains has a bid.
As of the time of publication, 81 domains have met reserve while 34 have not.
In all there are just about $200K in bids.
It will be interesting to see what amount this auction brings in.
My guess
See an intriguing spot on TV with this call-to-action so I went to follow up- got the extension wrong (AS USUAL-- I ALWAYS ASSUME THE DOTCOM AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR FACE TO THE SCREEN DURING THE SPOT, YOU WILL TOO) so first landed on non-working dotCOM. When I got to IamNOTashamed.ORG it seems to be some kind of Wiki site/social/video applicatio...
AOL to Sell or Shut Down Bebo in 2010Move Comes Just Two Years After Portal Spent $850 Million to Acquire Social Networkby Michael Learmonth Published: April 06, 2010 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- AOL will shut down social-networking service Bebo if it can't find a buyer, the company said in a memo to staff today.AOL is expected to disclo...
Interesting product large dog owners may want to investigate further. Good thing I was looking at the TV screen, though. What a disconnect between product name and Internet call-to-action.
Today, we launched several updates to the My Sites > Layout section. The Layouts section is used when adding or updating the look and feel of sites individually or in bulk. Previously, there was a mix of templates that had static images and those that used the image placeholders. We have been growing our image archives every week, over 5,700 cur...
Developing a location centric domain is a challenge within itself. Not only
does it require extensive research but you must brand the site in such a way
that triggers the acceptance of its targeted audience. Simply put: they need a
reason to use your geo domain versus the overflow of online and offline content
(television, radio newspapers, etc...
This year I have been looking at ways to further diversify my monetization strategy. Affiliate marketing helped save my revenue as PPC declined but I'm always looking for better ways to monetize my traffic. I am far from being a lead gen guru and will definitely file these first few sites in the "learning" category.
The 4L dot nets that were all registered last year during the four letter dot com bubble are now all falling.? You want one…..wait.? They'll be on the regular drop list here soon.??? There are also quite a few 4L dot coms falling as well.? Here are a few names I like for today.
HunkyDory.com A
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To create and run a successful business it takes a lot of hard work by many people.? Even harder is keeping that key group of people together.? The recent departure of David Clements for Rick Latona Auctions and Jay Adelson from Digg show that no matter how successful a company becomes, individuals have their own
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Not my words but the words of a person that tried to buy the domain calbaja.com.?? No it wasn't a domain I own but a domain owned by a person that evidently owns 87 other domains.? It seems that a person interested in this domain tried to buy it and had a bad experience.? Bad
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DrBobParsons
New iPad is good idea but not yet ready for prime time. WiFi issues are a pain. Returning mine. Will wait for 3gs model.
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@iowadawg There are worse things that could happen to a parent. Such as a son who is deployed to war and coming back in casket.
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So far the cat has brought 3 types of live "gifts" inside the house:mice,bird and as of last night: frog. Wonders when its the snake's turn.
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