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Over the past four months I have been giving the new ecommerce platform at SmartName.com a thorough test to see if their quick development system could breath some life into domains that weren't producing anything parked. Over that time span I have moved about 500 domains into SmartName. Here is what happened.
I was reading TMZ.com, which I do daily. Yes I like celebrity gossip, lol. During my daily read of celebrity news I found an article which included GoDaddy.
It appears that Michael Jackson's estate is suing the owner of MichaelJacksonCasino.com and has included GoDaddy in that lawsuit. Why is GoDaddy involved, because they allowed the registrant...
Parking company sees results from new European operations. The two largest Google domain name parking partners have long known their turf — DomainSponsor was strongest in the U.S. while Sedo was strongest in Europe. Many years after Sedo set up an office in the U.S., DomainSponsor finally decided it needed a home base in Europe,
Could WikiLeaks backlash bring renewed attention to whois privacy services? The backlash against WikiLeaks over its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan is building. It's never pretty when your web site is blamed for death. And although the public now knows who is behind WikiLeaks, I think the...
Social networking site picks up domain name in arbitration. A World Intellectual Property Forum panelist has awarded the domain name Facebook.me to the giant social networking site. In what may be one of the longest WIPO UDRP decisions I've ever read, the panelist ruled against Amjad Abbas. Facebook claimed that Abbas had placed the domain...
PPC no longer a driver of domain name registrations, says VeriSign CEO. When it comes to growth opportunities for the .com namespace, domain parking "is a dead thing", VeriSign President and CEO Mark McLaughlin explained on an analyst conference call yesterday. McLaughlin was responding to a question from JP Morgan Chase & Co analyst Sterling...
When you make a domain name sale, there is one thing that is pretty obvious.. they are a domain buyer! They may be an "end user", they may be a developer, marketing company or they simply may be a domain investor but they are a domain buyer. You may not realize it at the time
With the deadline for launching Bahamas.CO looming, I have selected the winning entry in a logo competition held on 99 Designs. Not only was the chosen logo my favorite of all submission, but it was also the leading vote getter in the poll I set up with the final designs. I feel like the colors,
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Late last week, TMZ reported that the estate of Michael Jackson was not happy over an online casino being run on MichaelJacksonCasino.com. Apparently someone thinks it's a good idea to run a casino, sportsbook, and poker room using Michael Jackson's likeness allegedly without the permission of Michael Jackson's Estate (this is according to the Esta...
As the founder and editor of Domain Name Wire, Andrew Allemann is known as one of the two most respected domain industry journalists. Andrew has a no-BS attitude, and he really digs into issues more than most other people would. When I learn about something important that needs to be investigated and reported on involving
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We're in the process of adding a bunch of cool stuff to our Facebook page and one of those things is a new poll feature. We love hearing from our customers, so we're looking forward to asking you all sorts of questions, some serious and of course some fun ones too. Right now we have
Simon Johnson - DomainerIncome.com In this episode of Domain Names Podcast I talk with Simon Johnson from DomainerIncome.com Domainer Income Simon has a huge amount of experience in the domain industry and has been flying low under the radar so far, but that is all about to change with his new domain name management service.
Our inventory is starting to shape up for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin. The good domains keep pouring in. Today we've added mouse.com, keyboard.com and photograph.com to our ever improving list. All three of these names will be auctioned off on August 25th. For information on the auction or to apply for financing, please contact toby @ latonas.com.
Panerai's are popular. Boy, they fly off our shelves. It's one of those few watch brands that have an excellent chance of increasing in value right after you buy them. I have a good friend that's a Navy Seal and loves his Panerai watches. It got me curious about the Navy's effect on their style
A couple of .Co domain sold at Sedo in the last 24 hours. One had a hyphen and still sold for $1,200. The domain name Car-insurance.Co? bought for the keyword value was the hypenated domain that sold for $1,200. The other .CO domain sale from Sedo.com was Touchscreens.co which sold for $2,500, certainly a nice
The newest spam hitting my Inbox is coming from a company trying to get me to use them to register trademarks on domains I have registered: Here is how the email reads: "Dear Entrepreneur: "We are contacting you with the purpose of helping you avoid infringement problems with your new trademark or domain name!" "You
According to a study released Monday by The Nielsen Co, entitled "What Americans Do Online"? lookek at the surfing habits of 22,000 Americans. So What Do Americans Do Online? 36% of their time is spent on social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging, which is 43% more time compared with the same month in
This is like a Mike Berkens, Frank Schilling, Rick Schwartz or even Owen Frager name.In NYC? Find $10,000 worth of gold in a viral treasure hunt that must have both a sponsor and a point you also need to find because I can't.
Here are my favorites from the offers made last week. Make your offer HERE:16.com183.comangelinvestor.comanimalportrait.comappmaker.combesto ftimes.combillboardadvertising.combreastlump.comCaptainNemo.comchant.c omdrugrehabcenters.comductcleaning.comelectricalsupplies.comevileye.co mfertilitydrug.comfreda.comhealthcheckup.comhouseinsurance.net=
A branded name, getting 50,000 visits a month, owned with 14 others by College Collective, LLC, that's getting tons of word of mouth play. Including ads for generic Textbook.com owened by TXTB.com (see you'd never gues what those LLLL's can be used for)
Julia Casale has contacted me for a retraction and correction of a headline I wrote regarding their attempts to thwart distibution of Malware in ads. We should read everything we post. She deserves one. We apologize for the misstatement and have edited the headline to reflect the truth. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. But t...
Dear friend, As your domain name is very good and meaningful, I go through your site, at that time one thought came to my mind about how can we increase our income by increase traffic to our website ?Answer is first take steps for increase traffic to our website- this will automatically results in increase of income.By studing human psycology ,ment...
I concentrate on exact match keyword names (mostly .com) and get a good number of unsolicited domain inquiries - both from domainers and end users. ? Wanted to share the checklist I use to help determine the potential value of a name before responding to legitimate looking inquiries.
1. Check to see if other extensions registered
The
One thing I've learned about having lots of websites with unique content is that the content remains unique for only so long. Yes, you can write the content yourself, or pay someone to write it, but that won't stop someone from ripping off your content and claiming it as their own. This happens all the
Another short list today.? Man there is a lot of junk dropping lately.? As I've said before, I don't know if this is a good sign because the market is getting stronger and less names are dropping, raising prices of those that do. Or a bad sign in that we may have to work a
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Here are some recent sales of 5L dot coms.? Slower than the last few weeks but still strong and steady.? I've included some lower value names just to give an idea what some of the names sold in the $300-500 range look like uGolf.com $2400 NameJet Cuppy.com $400 NameJet Sleen.com? $300 NameJet Fubus.com $2580 Sedo
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When trying to sell a domain I've come up with a few different strategies that should help you reach top dollar.? Feel free to try any one of these and let me know how it goes Use the word "about" as often as you can so that you aren't held to any real number Buyer:?
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Remember those "15 minutes of fame" that Andy Warhol talked about? You don't? Well, that was said way back in 1968 and you probably weren't born yet. With YouTube recently upping their max video length from 10 to 15 minutes, this is now entirely feasible verbatim! So what is the latest web phenomenon? A crafty
It seems like yesterday when I watched, a kid still, Pel?'s farewell demonstration soccer match on TV. New York Cosmos played New York Santos on October 1, 1977 – a game that featured legendary Brazilian soccer player Edison Arantes do Nascimento, or Pel? to the rest of the world. Cosmos won 2-1 with a goal
This is a reminder that we've been featuring a new graphic indicator tagged as "100%" for all news and stories that contain one hundred per cent authentic parts Here at DomainGang we introduced "real content" from early on; however, a few people had a hard time distinguishing parody and fiction from real events, scoops and...
MediaOptions – broker of the top tier domain name Pizza.net – have announced that they have completed the sale of Pizza.net Patting their virtual back through a poorly written press release, Media Options asserts that the sale was one of the top 5 .net domains ever to be sold. Unfortunately, due to an NDA signed
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