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A headline in a local newspaper jumped out at me - White Pages End Is Near! Wow, still another true institution of American life is about to be swept away by the web. How lucky we are to be on the right side of this irresistible wave that continues to wash away things that have been have been a part of our lives for decades.
Submitting your site to free directories is one of the easiest and cheapest (considering time and money if you outsource it) ways to get backlinks for your sites. These backlinks are good because you can choose your best suitable anchors, add some related text and keywords and have your site submitted to the correct subcategory
Amazon granted patent for domain name marketplace. Amazon.com subsidiary Amazon Technologies, Inc. was today granted U.S. patent number 7,805,379 for "Method and system for leasing or purchasing domain names". This patent, which was applied for in December 2007, seems to conflict with a number of existing domain name marketplace and domain monetiza...
Companies belatedly pursue .co domain names. World Intellectual Property Organization has handed down its first two UDRP decisions for .co domain names since .co was relaunched over the summer. In two separate decisions, WIPO panelists found in favor of the complainants for lafitness.co and tilda.co. Twenty-one .co UDRP cases have been filed since ...
Municipality wants .athens, but may run into challenges with trademark application. Add Athens to the list of municipalities that want to register their own top level domain names. I haven't seen anything on the web about the city's plans, but it filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for ".Athens" and...
Michael Arrington sells his business to AOL. It's official. AOL has purchased TechCrunch. GigaOm was the first to break the news last night that AOL was buying TechCrunch. The popular tech blog confirmed the news today. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington spent much of the five or so years directly before starting the blog bouncing around...
Try out free stats sharing service and win a prize. Have you tried DNW Certified Stats yet? It's the easiest way to share domain name parking stats, and today I'm giving you another reason to give it a try: I'm giving away your choice of a new 32 GB iPod Touch with Facetime or an
IPO.com headlines strong week for domain marketplace. Sedo had a great sales week including the sale of IPO.com that Michael Berkens wrote about on September 22. But that wasn't the only notable sale the company brokered. In second place was AirTickets.com at $80,000 followed by ResumeWriting.com at $66,000. ResumeWriting.com appears to have been s...
Comment period open to review proposed arbitration provider. Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution (ACDR) has sent a proposal to ICANN to become a resolution provider under UDRP. Based in Jordan, ACDR is a joint venture between Arab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society (AIPMAS) and the Arab Society for Intellectual Prope...
Four character domain name appears to go from end user to end user. NameMedia, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has brokered the sale of VSAT.com for $61,600. Historical whois records show the seller is Metro Communications Company, Inc of Illinois. The buyer is using whois privacy, but VSAT.com is now forwarding to VSAT.eu, the site
Is the price you are able to obtain for a domain affected by the "Who owns similar domains?" factor? In other words, should you as a domainer who owns let's say UsedCars.com care who owns UsedCar.com or BuyUsedCars.com? Let's find out!
Supply and Demand 101
There will always be companies willing to pay top dollar for a...
DomainReport.ca
It has been a while since I've posted, but I thought it was time to list some recent .ca domain sales that have happened over the last month or two. These sales were reported in DNJournal.com
kellerwilliams.ca - $1,500 (bought by a realty company?)
seasonique.ca - $4,000 (birth control pill)
nordiquesdequebec.ca - $1,300 (Qu...
Being a domain name owner and sometimes domain name seller, I often run into so many questions when being contacted about somebody wanting to purchase a domain name that I own.
Who's the buyer?
Why may they be interested in purchasing?
Can I replace the domain if I sell?
How much do I have invested?
Does the domain have age?
Farmers.com very well could be the LARGEST generic domain name ever to be displayed! OK, yes Farmers.com is a generic domain name and is owned by The Farmers Insurance Group but why would it be the largest generic domain name?
www.Farmers.com is being displayed as advertising on a Zeppelin NT Airship owned by AirshipVentures.com and this
A night of domainer networking and sushi is coming up in New York City, and I will be attending. Here are the details: IDNTools and sponsors Register.com, Moniker, and SnapNames will host the first-ever IDN Event in Manhattan on Saturday night, October 30th from 7:00pm – midnight. The night of dinner and networking will be
I wanted to write about this before, but the news of AOL's acquisition of TechCrunch motivated me to post this general question: At approximately what revenue multiple do you sell a website that has a business operating on it? Over the past few months, a number of individuals and companies have made inquires on a
We're excited to announce that we will be one of the sponsors of the first ever Podcamp Denver! We had a blast at Podcamp Boulder 2 earlier in the year and we'll admit that we're looking forward to participating in one a little closer to home. Things kick off in Denver this Friday night (10/1)
If there's one business I have a lot of experience in it's outsourcing. I myself have been using offshore labor to work on my ever expanding idea list for more than twelve years now. My journey has taken me to many different countries and even gotten me in the business of selling outsourcing as a
Morning Folks!! So many wonder why they are not having the results they would like. But I find one thing interesting. I have been retired or semi-retired since 1998. But even in my state I start earlier in the morning and work later at night than most. But to me it is not work. It is called "Life" and my work is weaved in it. So I look forward to M...
Afternoon Folks!! We are happy to announce that Congressman Cliff Stearns, (Rep. Fla.) member of the very powerful "Energy and Internet-Sub-committee" will be speaking at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. SOUTH BEACH on Monday, October 18th on the latest bills that effect Domains and the Internet. With the new Bill sponsored by Senator Leahy causing such an uproar ar...
A new article by Adage.com asks the question that we have asked in the past, which is whether Facebook is a domain killer. According to Adage, several big brands' Facebook Pages are seeing more activity than their websites. "For example, Kraft Foods' Oreo is the number 3 brand page on Facebook, with a fan base
Just a little over a week ago RickLatona.com announced he was canceling the TRAFFIC Hong Kong show and due in large part to the number of domain shows: "The simple fact of the matter is that we are in a cottage industry." "The domain world is small and it can?t sustain so many companies fighting
The TRAFFIC show organizers announced yesterday that its going to hold its first show of 2011 right before the ICANN show in March in San Fransisco. Now the questions becomes who is going to run the domain name auctions for them. I have checked with the show organizers and they confirmed that they don't have
According to several reports the blog TechCrunch has sold to AOL for "only" $25 Million. TechCrunch has become a go to source for ground breaking internet news, and we hope that continues somehow despite the apparent sale to a huge mainstream media company. Related stories at: Vator.tv
http://www.openoffice.orgFor a free download of Office that will open any document in office, for Mac.They can afford any domain in the world. Why that one? And why hide this best-kept secret? They do no social networking at all seeing everyone as competition.A once proud technology leader stuck in the 70s with no real innovation since then other t...
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I hope everyone enjoyed yesterdays basic post on selecting a domain name to build a minisite on. Today I want to talk about the looks and feel of the minisite. First lets start with a template. I use a program called Artisteer which makes it really easy to design simple great looking custom wordpress?templates. Also
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Do you ever look in the mirror and say to yourself, "Time to step-up my game?" I do every single day and work my butt off to do everything I can to step-up my game. Back in 2007/2008 I was working hard to build-up passive income. In 2009 I stepped-up my game by adding employees
On the eve of its Board retreat in Norway to consider final matters to be resolved before the opening of the application window for new GTLDs, the ICA communicated with the Chairman and the CEO of ICANN.
Our September 23rd letter reiterated two prior ICA positions:
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A funny thing happened yesterday and it epitomizes life.? I'm having a conference call to go over our company moving all our databases online so that we can access them from anywhere and of course, our internet is out.? It only goes out one to two hours a year and it was out 36 hours.?
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The main reason people don't deal with IDNs is they just don't feel comfortable with the foreign languages.? They are a bit more work and involves uncertainty.? Traditionally things that required a bit more work and are shunned by others, lead to great wealth.? Fortunately for you,? there is now a conference that is going
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