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Interesting Domain Name Price Battle With Ads (Pic) | Mark As Read |
Here is an interesting domain name price battle with ads that I saw this morning doing a domain name type search on Google Register.com leads the "Low Price" battle offering $2 domains GoDaddy.com is next in line offering $2.95 domains Domain.com follows with $3.00 domains NetworkSolutions.com rounds out the bunch at $4.95 Those were the...
ZyngaSlingo.com Domains Registered Day Of Launch | Mark As Read |
Zynga announced yesterday that they partnered with a company called Slingo and have licensed with them to launch Zynga Slingo. The game will be on Facebook and is a cross between bingo and slots. The day that the announcement was made, Zynga privately registered the following domain names: ZyngaSlingo.com ZyngaSlingo2.com ZyngaSlingoPlus.com U...
TankOfThanks.com Cenex Gas Giveaway Gas Problems | Mark As Read |
Here is a classic plural / singular domain name problem! Cenex® is doing a nice thing and offering a free tank of gas to people based on submissions from others who think they could use some free gas. Pretty cool idea! According to whois records, Cenex hired the company "Colle & McVoy" to do the
Dictionary Domain Name Filter ZipZing Launched | Mark As Read |
Several months ago I launched ZipZing.com, which is a Windows® software that I had created for personal use and then I decided that so many others could use it to save a lot of time, I offered it to the public. I only allowed it to be for sale for one day and then removed
Rubbermaid Clean And Dry Plunger Domain Stinker | Mark As Read |
Based on several new domain name registrations by Rubbermaid® it appears they will be launching a new "Clean And Dry Plunger" in the near future but things have went down the toilet with the domains they didn't register! Rubbermaid registered the following domains yesterday: buyclean-and-dry.com buyclean-and-dryplunger.com buyclean-n-d...
Zearn.com GoDaddy Domain Auction Site Soft Launch | Mark As Read |
Zearn.com is moving out of beta and is soft launching! What is Zearn.com? Zearn is a free service that allows you to watch, find and bid on expired domain names that are on auction at GoDaddy Auctions®! Did I mention that Zearn is FREE!!! The bread and butter of Zearn is the live domain auction
Rewards.com Domain Sells At Sedo | Mark As Read |
Rewards.com has been sold at Sedo.com. I happened to simply discover this because the domain name went into transfer at Sedo, so I wasn't able to dig up a sales price. I'm sure it was a fair amount. Who are the new owners? Hard to say as they simply put "rewards.com" as the owners and
Don?t Kill Your Ad Domain When ?Your Done? | Mark As Read |
Companies often use unique domain names when advertising special events, promotions and for many more reasons… but don't just kill the domain name when you think you are done with it! Domain names can live on long after you think you are done with them. Traffic! Print doesn't just go away Links on the internet
Hashtags And Domains Of Super Bowl 2012 | Mark As Read |
I have been covering domain names used in Super Bowl commercials since 2009 and I did so again this year. I like doing these types of articles, because it's history and nice to be able to look back. Here are past articles if you wish to look back: 2009 Super Bowl Commercials Domain Wise |
GoDaddy.com / .co 2012 Super Bowl Home Page Revealed | Mark As Read |
GoDaddy.com is prepping for the big game today and has already changed its home page hours before the Super Bowl® is ready to air. The main focus on the home page is for the two Super Bowl commercials they are running with a large video box and they also added GoDaddy Girl® Jillian Michaels alongside
Papa Johns Sponsors Wrong Super Bowl | Mark As Read |
Papa Johns® pizza company is making a huge marketing push with the 2012 Super Bowl and is the official pizza sponsor of the game! The problem for them… they are not sure if they are sponsoring Super Bowl XLV or XLVI Right under the XLVI logo in the upper right hand corner, it states: Official
SmorePages.com Upgrades Domain To Smore.com For $27K | Mark As Read |
SmorePages.com is likely a website you have not heard of but they just did a domain name upgrade and dropped the "pages" from their domain name and have converted to simply Smore.com . Smore Pages purchased the domain name Smore.com at Sedo.com for $21,000 EUR, which converts to about $27K USD. I checked out Smore
Box.com Acquires Box.org, Completes Sweep | Mark As Read |
I had broke the story that Box.com had been acquired in late September 2011 and the domain name was purchased by the rapidly growing company Box.net. Fast forward to December 22, 2011 and I had announced that Box.net was officially changing its "name" to simply "Box" but also changing its main domain name from Box.net
EnjoyBetter.com Time Warner Cable Superbowl Ad Blunder | Mark As Read |
Time Warner Cable® is getting ready for the big game on Sunday, by getting the matching domain name to the marketing message they will be having during the Superbowl ads. Enjoy Better! But will Dish Network get "free" business from the Superbowl ad Time Warner is going to run? Well, first….TWC obtained EnjoyBetter.com from Sonnev...
ICE Seizes Hundreds More Domains (Full List) | Mark As Read |
ICE has seized hundreds more domain names prior to the 2012 Super Bowl. 307 "websites" were seized in this latest round, with 16 sites being "streaming" sites. The remaining sites were selling counterfeit merchandise. You can read more about the details of the bust on NetworkWorld.com but I will focus on the domain names! First...
See What Domains Are Selling At Sedo Before Others | Mark As Read |
Here is a little tip and trick that I use for different services to get a "behind the scenes" look at domain name transactions. Today I will talk about the process I use to monitor domain names that are selling at Sedo.com before many people even know about them selling! What you will need A
An Article About Domain Names | Mark As Read |
Well, the title says it all! This article is going to be about domain names, just a little bit of different things floating around in my head that I didn't want to write about in single articles. Juice.com which is owned by Marksmen (or may be brokered by them, but I'm not sure why whois
Coca Cola Was $20K Buyer Of BattleForEverything.com Domain | Mark As Read |
Back in November 2011 I shared a very interesting story about turning an $800 offer into a $20,000 domain name sale. The domain name in the story was BattleForEverything.com. At the time when I was helping Ryan out, I had fully thought that NBC was the interested party in the domain name, because they registered
ExpiredDomains.com Hits Expired Domain Auction | Mark As Read |
13 year old domain name ExpiredDomains.com has, well expired and is on public domain auction! View Auction Expired domains are some of the most popular for domain name investors, so clearly this domain has some major potential. According to some data provided with the expired domain auction, the domain already has some built in traffic
Google Sending Wrong Domain Message | Mark As Read |
If you were to do a search on Google.com for google keyword tool, which is a pretty popular search term… I was pretty surprised to see two domain names that contain the trademarked word "google" and they rank in the top 5 for the search term! GoogleKeywordTool.com ranks in the natural #3 position. IMO, the
DotWeekly Discoveries: Domains Acquired By Larger Companies | Mark As Read |
I haven't been posting much lately as I have been under the weather. I am having some kind of heart issues, but hopefully with all the tests they have run last week, they (doctors) can discover something. Speaking of discovering, I haven't done a DotWeekly Discoveries for sometime now, so on a day when the
Netflix Buys Netflix.tv Domain Name For $1K | Mark As Read |
Exclusive~ Netflix Inc. has purchased the domain name Netflix.tv for $1,000 USD from its past owner. .TV is the international country code domain for the country of Tuvalu. Many may think .TV would stand for "Television" but it is really a country code TLD. Netflix used domain name buyer BrandCertified Inc., which is a sister
WinTheWienermobile.com Your Chance May Be Coming! | Mark As Read |
According to a new domain name registration by Kraft Foods, the makers of Oscar Mayer Wieners and the famous Wienermobile that was created in 1936 to help promote the hot dogs, may be sitting in your driveway! Kraft hand registered the domain name WinTheWienermobile.com on January 18, 2012 and has registered the domain name until
New Domain Trend Alert! HD With iPad 3 Rumors | Mark As Read |
I see a lot of newly registered domain names by big and small companies and one thing I have been noticing over the past week or so are domain names ending in HD! At first this threw me off a little bit, because HD TV's have been around for awhile… then I got reading a
Novartis Registers 198 Domains With Latest Pill Recall | Mark As Read |
Novartis has announced a voluntary recall of several of its popular brands like Excedren®, Gas-X®, NoDoz® and Bufferen®. The recall was announced on January 9, 2012 but 3 days after the recall, Novartis went on a big domain name shopping spree and purchased 198 domain names related to the recalls. All the domain names contained...
Domaining.com Offering Second Round Of Domains For Sale | Mark As Read |
Domaining.com is offering a second round of the newsletter of for sale domain names to help support Domaining.com's content providers like DotWeekly. This round of domain names for sale are ones that didn't make it onto the 100 that were first published. The domain names are listed for sale on Cax.com for easy purchasing. The
GoDaddy Goodies To Take A Break | Mark As Read |
I try new things all the time, some work and some do not! GoDaddy Goodies is a series I have been doing on DotWeekly for sometime now (I think well over 100 lists to date) and I have always enjoyed doing them. Many of you enjoy them as well. The bad thing, they take a
Parked.com Goes Black | Mark As Read |
I was onto something the other day when I posted this article about Parked.com but I was just "off" a little bit about what was likely going on. Actually, I'm still not 100% sure what is going on, but Parked.com is only showing this on it's home page today! "For questions regarding Parked.com, please contact
Brand Certified Grabs OneToday.org For Google Inc | Mark As Read |
According to whois records, Google Inc. used domain name buying service Brand Certified Inc. to purchase the domain name OneToday.org in Mid December 2011. Brand Certified also acquired OneToday.com for Google but they did that around June 2011. Neither the .com or .org domain names currently resolve to anything, but Google always seems to have...
Is DomainApps.com Buying Parked.com | Mark As Read |
This article is currently speculation / rumor for now but the following was stated from a Parked.com account rep: "make sure you sign up for an account at DomainApps.com as you will soon be able to access Parked.com account via DomainApps." Now the above statement by itself wouldn't flag a purchase / sale to me
GoDaddy Mobile App Reaches 1 Million Downloads | Mark As Read |
I finally got a smartphone shortly after Christmas and after figuring it out for a couple days, I jumped on the Android Market and searched for the GoDaddy App and installed it. I didn't actually use it for a couple days after installing it but I have used it a couple times since then. Today,
GoDaddy Goodies: 55 Expired Domain Name Auction List | Mark As Read |
Welcome to another series of the exclusive GoDaddy Goodies on DotWeekly. GoDaddy Goodies is a hand picked list of expired, No Reserve domain name auctions currently taking place. Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction page for easy one click bidding or watching of the domain auction. All auctions start at only
Domaining.com?s 100 Domains For Sale To Support Bloggers | Mark As Read |
I had announced that Domaining.com would be running a newsletter with 100 domain names for sale that the commissions from the sales would be going to domain name bloggers that provide content to Domaining.com and today is the day it is released. A wide range of domains and a nice mix of different pricing! Here
Did Salesforce Acquire Desk.com Domain Name? | Mark As Read |
According to domain name whois records, Salesforce did acquire Desk.com The change of ownership appears to have taken place around November 2011. Desk.com was owned by Reflex Publishing Inc. according to whois history records. Interestingly enough, in the whois information when Reflex owned Desk.com, it stated "Not For Sale". I guess money ...
Time Warner Buys CableWifi.com Plus More Domains | Mark As Read |
Time Warner Cable is starting off 2012 by securing some domain names related to its "cable wifi" product they offer. What makes more sense for your "cable wifi" product than CableWifi.com? Nothing, so it makes perfect sense for them to purchase/own the domain name! Not only did Time Warner purchase CableWifi.com (the domain is actua...
uVideos.com Buyer For $22K Was Univision | Mark As Read |
Michael Berkins of TheDomains.com had posted that Mike Mann sold the domain name uVideos.com very recently for $22,000 and I happened to just noticed who purchased the domain name. It was Univision Communications, Inc. Mike Mann stated he purchased the domain name uVideos.com for $79. Here is a little more information based on whois data:
Cart.com Domain Sells For $49,999 At Sedo | Mark As Read |
A very nice 4 letter dictionary word domain name has been sold at Sedo.com for under $50K, Cart.com According to whois records, the buyers were Original Web Ventures Inc. The deal appears to have closed right around the Christmas holiday. A couple other domain name sales that grabbed my eye over at Sedo include: VitaminCenter.com
GoDaddy Goodies: 78 Expired Domain Name Auctions | Mark As Read |
Happy New Year! Welcome back to another round of my series I call GoDaddy Goodies. This exclusive series includes a hand picked list of expired, no reserve domain names that are exclusively on public auction at GoDaddy.com . Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction page for easy one click bidding or
How To Find Potential Domain Name Buyers | Mark As Read |
I wrote an article the other day about buying domain names that contained exact match terms to domain names that people already own and Joe asked a question in the comment section on how I would go about contacting the potential buyers I mentioned in the article. So this is how I would do it.
GoDaddy Goodies: 70 Super Hot Expired Domain Names | Mark As Read |
Welcome to another exclusive series of GoDaddy Goodies! The following is a hand pick list of expired, no reserve domain names that are currently on public auction. I filter a huge list of over 400,000 domain names and come up with a manageable list of domain names that I think are worth considering to invest
Domaining.com To Give Back, Hot 100 Domain List Coming | Mark As Read |
Francios Carrillo, the owner of Domaining.com has been setting up a list of 100 domain names to be offered for sale with some of the funds going back to domain name bloggers like DotWeekly. You can submit a domain name for sale to be included in the 100 domains! This list of domain name is
Domain Education, Don?t Fail Like This | Mark As Read |
I do these types of articles for one reason, to help! I'm not bashing any company or person when doing them as it simply helps to have a real life example. The Company: Bill Paul Limited Domain Used For Website: BillPaulLtd.com Company Name Advertised As: "Bill Paul Limited" The problem lies with using the acronym
Finding Domain Names With Your Domain In It | Mark As Read |
Investing in domain names that contain "your domain" is always a very wise investment. (.com that is) One thing that I often do when investing in domain name is finding domain names that I think others will own but with "added" words to it. Example: FoamInsulators.com is a domain name I recently purchased in an
$10, 1 Bid Expired Domain Name Auctions (backorders) | Mark As Read |
I haven't done one of these lists in a long time but figured I would do one since it has been awhile! The following list contains expired, no reserve domain names that are currently on public auction. The domain names have a current price of $10 and have 1 bid on the domain names. This
Exposed! Domain Privacy Protection Needs To Be Removed | Mark As Read |
With tomorrow being the day to "boycott GoDaddy", many entities will be exposed from behind domain privacy protection if they do transfer out! A lot of companies use "Domains By Proxy" which is a service owned by GoDaddy for whois privacy protection and that needs to be removed in order to transfer a domain name
Repossessed by Go Daddy | Mark As Read |
No, this doesn't have anything to do with SOPA! Today, I was doing some investigating and ran into something that I haven't seen yet. "Repossessed by Go Daddy" in the whois data for a domain name? After doing a bit more digging, I ran into some domain names that contained Go Daddy Software but used
Just A Domain Name Story | Mark As Read |
Here is a little domain name story that I thought I would share and you may find interest in. Here we go: Back around this time in 2008 I had purchased the domain name BailoutBill.com on an expired GoDaddy auction for $161. This was right around the time that the bill had passed, so a
GoDaddy Goodies: 64 Good Expired Domain Auctions | Mark As Read |
Here is another round of my hand picked expired domain name auctions that are currently taking place in public auction that I call GoDaddy Goodies. All domain names are expired and no reserve! Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction for easy one click bidding or watching. Each auction starts at only
Namecheap Calls Out GoDaddy On Transfer Out Problems | Mark As Read |
Namecheap.com is calling out GoDaddy.com with transfer out problems relating to domain names transferring out of GoDaddy.com to Namecheap. The article posted on the Namecheap Blog states that GoDaddy is sending incomplete whois data to Namecheap. "GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer p...
GoDaddy Goodies: 69 Tasty Expired Domain Auctions | Mark As Read |
Welcome to a holiday edition of GoDaddy Goodies! 69 expired, no reserve domain name auctions all hand picked and displayed for you in one list. Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction page for easy one click bidding or watching of the auction. All domain names start at only $10/$12 with No
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