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You probably noticed lately a number of tags in our sales archive which reads "Accepted Offer". What does it mean? There are few possibilities:
1. It may mean that a domain was up for voting, and before receiving the ten needed votes to go to auction, a potential buyer made an offer which the seller than decided to accept.
2. It may be that a doma...
This morning I received an email which claimed to be from Smartname.com. Most of you will realize that its a hackers attempt to gain access to you account. I wanted
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Last year online spending reached $ 22.6 Billion as opposed to magazine ad sales which which totaled $19.5 Billion. This is the first time that Internet spending was higher
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An analysis of domain sales reported to us in the 1st quarter of 2010 showed that total dollar volume was down 18% from the same quarter a year ago, however the entire year over year difference can be attributed to three big sales made in 1Q-2009. On the bright side the median sale price topped both the previous quarter & 1Q-2009.
Present day website/domain development usually goes hand in hand with social network integration as social network exposure is a great way of building brands and traffic to your site.
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With a press release published this morning DNS service provider Comwired rebrands itself as DNS.com. The company is known in the domain industry mostly through Dan Kimball (CEO) and Sean Stafford (COO) who both have extensive experience in the domain & hosting industry through their work at ModernBill and other companies. Comwired was launched...
DNS management company acquires the perfect domain name.
What happens when a DNS company with a domainer background wants to upgrade its brand? It acquires the category-killer, three letter domain name DNS.com.
Comwired, which offers hosted DNS management services, acquired DNS.com and is changing its brand. It appears the acquisition was made ab...
Three letter domains continue to be hot commodity.
With Comwired's relaunch as DNS.com, I found a recent study by domain investor Nat Cohen on three character domains rather timely.
Cohen randomly generated 100 three letter domain names that contained only premium letters (no j, k, q, x, y, z) to see who owned them.
WIPO panelist selection numbers are very different from National Arbitration Forum. Why?
Attorney Zak Muscovitch released a study last month about distribution of cases to panelists at National Arbitration Forum. His findings were shocking. Not only were there "runaway panelists" who have heard a disproportionate number of cases, but those runaw...
Sex.com disagreement isn't sexy, but it is an important warning.
If you've ever formed a partnership or had a business partner in a venture, you know how contentious it can get. When you draft the legal documents, the lawyer wants a provision for every possible outcome under the sun. Everyone is on good terms
Customers voice frustration over paying for whois privacy.
When you give something away for free, it's really hard to then start charging for it. Just ask Name.com.
On April 21 the company announced via its blog that new domain name registrations would no longer come with free whois privacy. Domains that already have privacy turned
Go Daddy cracks the five figure mark with three digit domain.
Go Daddy Auctions, still often referred to as TDNAM in domainer circles, is known for selling a high volume of domains but rarely very valuable ones. This past week was an exception as 778.com traded hands on the platform for $23,000.
Unlike many domains that
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The results are in from?last week's poll and it's clear to see that many of you are buying hundreds of domains this year.
This week I would like to see if any significant…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Poll: Have You Sold Domain Names via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn?
Name.com has been kind enough to share exclusive coupon codes with DotSauce readers in the past, so I thought I would pass on the latest news concerning changes to their WHOIS privacy service.…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Free WHOIS Privacy at Name.com With Coupon Code
Nationwide Insurance® started a new sweepstakes using a pretty good and catchy domain name CodeSpotter.com . The domain name matches the sweepstakes campaign message very well. It appears Nationwide® purchased the domain name around 4/9/2010 based on whois history records. The domain name was in use before as a coupon / code style site, s...
Many domain owners use the very popular Google Adwords Keyword Tool and live and die based on the metrics provided by this free tool. It can greatly help you focus on search volumes to help you decide if a certain keyword set is right for the domain name you use. IMO, this tool is very
I happened to discover a good friends domain name expired over the weekend and listed at public auction and as soon as I noticed it, I dropped him an email to make sure he was aware of it. Good thing I did because he wasn't aware of it and the domain is pretty valuable.
Let's face
I think personal domain auctions are great, and both Snapnames and Latonas.com have been working with private domain investors and domain companies to host medium-sized domain auctions on behalf of single parties. If you have enough good, saleable domain names, and you are looking to quickly raise capital, it's something you may wish to consider.
A...
People ask a lot of interesting questions in the legal section of forums like DNForum, Namepros and DomainState, and some of the better known domain lawyers visit those forums and give good information. This is pretty impressive, because a lawyer's knowledge is generally his best asset, and if he's giving the advice away for free,
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I still buy freshly registered domain names, and two such names I picked up over the weekend are Frankenword.com and Frankenwords.com.? What are frankenwords, you ask? According to Wiktionary.org, a frankenword is "a word formed by combining two (or more) other words."
After registering these domain names, I've been thinking of some of my favorite ...
After botching Coachella and spending the week in Tahoe for business, I definitely had some work to do on the homefront this weekend. Well, thank you Stagecoach, you saved me.
Stagecoach is the Country music version of Coachella. It is the weekend following Coachella and has two days worth of music instead of three. Read more articles on this top...
Andrew from DomainNameWire.com has an auction going on at snapnames Ending Tomorrow so we are in the final hours and I must say its a nice well rounded inventory.
With over 24 hours left to bid there are already 33 bids and over $16,000 in sales. We all know most bids happen in the last couple
The DomainNameWire.com auction on Snapnames.com is ending tomorrow on Tuesday April 27th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames normal closing procedures.
The auction currently has 9 domain names that have hit reserve and about $16K in bids.
Here are our picks from the auction (the one's in bold are our domains):
duj.net
No Reserve
alba...
The RickLatona.com .EU auction at the TRAFFIC show is scheduled to kick off at 9:45 am EST Tuesday April 27th with remote bidding available on proxibid.com
All domain names have a 500 Euro reserve.
Here are our favorites from this auction:
3G.eu
DanceLessons.eu
Decryption.eu
Diapers.eu
Evictions.eu
HalloweenCostumes.eu
Hikes.eu
Interpreters.eu
Priv...
This is the third article in the series on developing out a domain. The first two articles can be read by clicking on the following links; Article 1 (index.php?option=com_content view=article id=616 catid=49 Itemid=156), Article 2 (index.php?option=com_content view=article id=617 catid=49 Itemid=156).
So what's happening on the traffic and revenue ...
Here are my handpicked available names for the day along with demand, CPC and some possible uses.?? These names are all available as 11:00PM and unlike pending drops, can be immediately registered with your favorite registrar for about $10.?? If you find this post useful, please consider retweeting it or signing up to my domain
If you rely on PPC for your income then there's a good chance you have been desperately searching for a new solution – a way to grow your revenue. Affiliate marketing is a great way to take your domain monetization to the next-level but sometimes it can be difficult to know how to get started.
I read a great article while eating lunch today by Michael Gray from Wolf-Howl.com on the value of getting links from directories. Michael still feels there is value to being included in paid directories and shares his recommendations in this article:
IMHO there are four directories that every website should try to be listed in: Yahoo,
Good morning.? Man, there are a lot of great names dropping today.? One of the better days in the last few months.? It's not a bunch of great names but a ton of good names.? Take a look at a few I found.
PlasmaLcd.net No bids but $4200 valuation on this nice TV name
Tahoo.com Great 5L
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My real domain business has and always been plant names.? I have coneflower.com, heucheras.com, vermicomposting.com, moderngardener.com, nurserycatalog, coleus.com, landscapemanager, and 100s more.? It's how I make my real money in domaining but i DO love 5 letter dot coms.? They are such great brands.? Generally they don't mean anything and contra...
We all love going after dropping domains.? It shows in the final bids that they are some of the most sought after domains in our industry.? We're all willing to pay money for domain drop analyzers and other than Patrick's GoDrops, I think I can get everything with DropDay.com now that they've added new data
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