There are many things to love about the domaining community. The amount of great people and creative minds from a wide range of backgrounds, the ability to be just one buy away from a life changing event and more. Most of the advantages of domaining are rarely found in most other industries. The odd thing […]

I totally forgot about this until someone contacted me this morning. Around 4 or 5 years ago when we had a large real estate network operating online I got a call from one of our affiliate sources saying that we just earned $21,250 from a lead referral. It was a simple text link saying Commercial […]

I love the original Google Adwords keyword tool but looking up a particular set of keywords yesterday posed a lot of questions about whether or not the data from (a) the original version is dated or (b) the new Adwords version pulls data from a different dataset. Take for example the keywords ?auto car insurance?

What a great video to display Google's evil powers to the world. Too funny .. and if you are a DAD you must watch the second one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Ckz_O6oE0 DAD's – Ya, we serious rock with style LOL!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s ©2012 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights Reserved..

A very interesting article by a guest blogger at Savings.com today stating that Bloomberg is reporting: "Some bloggers may be covered for online lawsuits under the personal liability coverage of their homeowners or renters insurance policies" Worth a read – check it out here http://www.savings.com/blog/post/The-Hidden-Costs-of-Blogging-for-Mo...

Gunnars Optic glasses – Amazing. Seriously I feel like my eyes were just injected with Red Bull. For anyone who works on a computer this will be the best money ever spent. The glasses were designed to help reduce glare and provide a better overall experience for people working on a computer (among other things).

People buy GEO domains for two reasons. One is the obvious authority factor by having a domain like ChicagoDoctor.com but the other is because of the huge SEO advantage these names give. However what if Google changed local results one day and stopped displaying ALL organic results. Well, it seems like Google is testing this

I?m on this run posting about development purely because it really kicks me when I see so many wasted domains with parking pages and the general lack of any real SEO / Monetization presence at industry conferences. My personal opinion is DomainSponsor, NameDrive, SmartName and all these companies should be entitled to one booth and

Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $350 million. This is a monster deal (and not a domain sale for you blokes who think every company sold with a .com is a domain sale). According to compete these 2 sites have over 2,000,000 unique visitors a month

Francois of Domaining.com Retires from Domaining Due to reasons which do not require an explanation Francois has decided to stop domaining.com and move to a more leisurely life in France focusing on Family ?????????.?????????.?????????.?????????.?????????.?????????.?????????. ?????????.?????????. This could be the post one day?. Are you prepared? I ...

Let?s do another article while I am stuck waiting to speak with a client overseas. I have always insisted that any domainer serious about development quit reading domaining blogs and spend more time reading SEO blogs so why not give you some homework. My SEO knowledge is derived from 10 years of experience yet I would

Since my last post was popular and seemed to open up the eyes of many domain owners on how to monetize websites outside of Adsense or parking a page lets get down to backlinks. The number of backlinks to a site from trusted and relevant sites gives great weight to a websites organic search ranking. For

This article is mostly for domainers who are still learning to develop outside of Adsense. A week or so ago I posted about the basic elements required to have a $2 million property online broken down in number of leads / income generated per day. As we all know Adsense and other forms of PPC have

In only a few short years a $2 million dollar sale happens and changes you overnight. All the work put in was against your parents dreams to attain a higher education from some over rated and expensive school just to get a degree (in some entirely useless subject such as foreign art or gymnasium techniques)

Moniker and SnapNames are certainly everywhere these days and in one of thier first appearances at iGaming that I can remember they seem to have put together some good names in the auction currently live on the SnapNames platform as part of the iGaming Supershow for the gaming industry. Some of the names in auction NOW

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

Ask anyone using the Google Adwords program and you will quickly find many people building businesses around the success of their PPC campaigns however unlike how Rome wasn?t built in a day Google can crush you overnight. The latest change to the Google search results for mortgage related terms such as ?mortgage rates?, ?mortgage calculator?, ?mort...

Forget about sex.com ? some of the most valuable domains in this world surround lead generation. Ask any developer and you will get the most common 5-10 categories as the most valuable. Insurance, Mortgage, Weight Loss, Finance, Debt and others. One of the biggest domains sought after by hordes of people over the years has seemed to

Another domain which was developed but would probably see no more than a couple hundred in auction is ReliableRemodeler.com According to Quinstreet's SEC filing "In February 2008, we acquired ReliableRemodeler.com, Inc., or ReliableRemodeler, an Oregon-based company specializing in online home renovation and contractor referrals for $17.5 million ...

What I love about this business is most domain investors never grew up wanting to be in the domaining industry. Most of us fell in to domains by one way or another but never from a childhood dream of owning a domain name. Fact is anyone around for 10 years + probably never had a computer

Every year people come up with great ideas to make money online which do not involve parking and these stories should inspire all. The million dollar home page was the original money maker and one that has tried to be repeated many times over (with no such luck) however with the advances in social media since

With online courses, full day seminars and formal certification to show potential employers these SEO guys certainly seem to know their stuff. Most of us would love to have a domain like seotraining.com as it is not just a great name to show the world your seo expertise and build a platform with tens of thousands

I have way too many bookmarks so my way to find the Google Adwords tool is archaic (type it in the tool bar over and over every day) but today was worth the humor. # 2 sponsored link was … I will not even link to this site since it does not deserve a link and will

If you're like I am and just have way too much to do then its easy to never follow up on good domains which were recently purchased and developed. Of course, a lot of sales are parked, more will never be developed and some will just sit with empty DNS for years to come but

Halverez has finally been outed – Oversee has stepped up to the plate and not only publicly acknowledged the fraud but taken steps to compensate auction participants and implement policies to prevent this in the future. First, let me say this breach was a breach at the highest level ? both personally and professionally for many.

First let me say this is not a post about either Rick personally but it?s about the way of thought many domainers exercise in the current industry. The economic variables of today we are forced to work in will certainly bring opportunity to many domainers but this opportunity must be considered more than just buying

After speaking with a few people today it was clear that many people might have no idea Rick Latona has an extended auction going on SEPERATE of Moniker's extended auction outside of clicking on the banner of domaining.com I spoke with a half a dozen good buyers today and 3 of them (50%) assumed all the

For newbies and math geeks alike here is an oldie but goodie link to some very interesting stats about the number of domains registered years after year. Quite amazing to see where we are today, what opportunities were missed just a few years ago and more. Enjoy… http://zooknic.com/Domains/counts.html ©2009 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights...

I have little desire to blog these days but every now and then a sale is published and I say to myself ? seriously, who is the idiot that sold that name or (probably more times) who is the moron who bought that name. Not a day goes by when one of these 2 questions

For some time now I thought it was just me and since we are not a big fan of GoDaddy with all the ads and upsells everywhere you look I?ve been ok with letting it ride. However yesterday during the course of conversation with a few investors it came to my attention it?s not just

Some good names are coming up for auction including a bunch FINANCE and LEGAL DUI domains such as DallasduiLawyer.com, LoanRefinance.net and more. Check out some of our top picks below: loanrefinance.net tokyovacations.com dallasduilawyer.com passportphoto.com datingblog.com newyorkcityduilawyer.com dallasduilawyers.com sanantoniomortgages.com pda...

$3 million later and Candy.com is live. The site is practically perfect and has incorporated everything from bulk candy to retro candy (you know, the sweet candy we all can not believe we are actually old enough to consider retro) Its not very often domains sell and re-appear with sites which look as good as this.

In a follow up to yesterday's article about learning how to search better and not follow the herd when it comes to domain auctions the SnapNames summers auction is providing a great example of how people simply do not look for names that are available as "Buy it Now" and care more about bidding in

Few can argue that auction mentality for buying domains is far different than purchasing names listed on venues with buy it now prices however deals exist – sometimes far better deals than anything you can find in auction. Fact is SOOO many domains sell between $1000-$5000 in drop auctions every week yet many names of much

Every domainer has visited this page ? if you haven?t then you really don?t care about trademarks and .com is not fully ingrained in your brain. I visit this page probably a dozen times a month purely by accident however instead of clicking I chuckle with joy for the owner of the domain who has

A few months back I gave mini-site providers a hard time since they were all doing the same thing .. or at least showcasing the same thing. Of course they all argued that behind the scenes they were fundamentally different and gave an incredible value to the price points they charged. Yada, Yada, Yada I said

Yes ? we are selling a few domains. Do we need the money for other projects or did we wake up saying that we feel its time to offer the best deal in the world ? yada yada yada. No ? everybody has a name or two to sell. No excuses. No car salesman pitch. No need

Stock Photos and Stock Images are by far one of the most sought after commodities on the web. PremiumImages.com is a premium domain for the photography world - registered in 2000 and renewed until 2017. Price is $1,500. Contact [email protected] with interest. Comments are closed. This post will self-destruct in 24 hours. ©2009 Newfound Na...

If you are serious about building a geo site then it?s critical to take notes from successful geo sites which have been developed by industry and not domainers. Fact is most every domainer has a limited budget, limited resources and most importantly ? limited knowledge of what makes a good geo site (away from what another

Whats a holiday weekend without sex? Well, sadly many people prefer tweeting to sex (or any physical contact with the real world) but those guys never really could get laid anyway. So today we bring both groups a little fun - from the wild and crazy hedonism.com to tweeters.com for the geeks. Snapnames has quite a few

China.?Probably the largest tourist destination in the world next to the USA.? Imagine owning?a top domain name for the travel industry of this incredible marketplace. ChinaBoutiqueHotels.com - registered in 2004 is now available for sale. Price is $1,900 which equates to just a few nights at many of the boutique hotels in china. Contact luxuryname...

Today we will see the biggest upgrade to date for the SnapNames platform and believe me when I say this is exactly what the domain doctors ordered. Today ? after years of many of us preaching ? you can now DOWNLOAD your search results. This single addition will improve prices for domains, heat up competition and provide

FloorPlans.net, WeddingPlanners.net, LimousineCars.com, OnlinePorn.net and more - These names you will NOT see on the snapnames extended auction list but you can view some of the key drops happening soon along with our top 200 picks for the TRAFFIC conference right here! All 20 of our key drop (not TRAFFIC submitted names) are below: BankForeclosur...

All eyes may be on Moniker and SnapNames but what about those NameJet auctions you joined? Trumpet.com is at $29,458 with still over 24 hours left to go. HomeLoans.net is worth only 18k - amazing. Sure, trumpet.com is a great name but its a brandable name, and in the less favorable singular version plus how many trumpets

SnapNames rocked the house with a 3 letter domain - VRT.com today, attracting a final bid of $92,600 at auction! Nothing else to say but congrats to the buyer and seller on this one. ©2009 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights Reserved..