The recession has been tough on a lot of people, but if you keep up with Rick Schwartz's blog, domaining is a great industry to be in, and if done right, you can come out ahead even during these rough times. We take a quick look back, and ahead at some of The Domain King's notable sales, including: iReport.com, Property.com, PartnerCash.com, and ot...

The domain name Admedia.com has sold via Sedo for $50,000. Sedo will have some strong sales this upcoming week, with auctions of one-character .biz domain names like e.biz set to close in the next couple days.The domain admedia.com has some age - originally registered back in 1995. According to Archive.org, the name has never really been developed,...

With Candy season right around the corner, candy sales in the United States are expected to be $2.16 billion in 2009, up 3.4 percent from 2008. Candy.com isin a positionto scare the competition this Halloween with their category-killer domain name --it's beenclimbing the Search Engine Rankings. If you've typed in "candy" in Google lately,...

Domaining.com is a big help to Domainers, especially for domain bloggers getting started. Not only does the website help to promote the domaining community, but Francois has works hard to provide a number of other resources and sites for both new and seasoned domainers. Our traffic has exploded since being listed on Domaining. Our compete rank/scor...

Part of the reason Rick Latona, an industry leader in the Domaining world,wants to put all his companies under one name is because of advertising dollars. Rick put the question to readers, about whether he should use Cyberspace.com as the new company name, and from the looks of it, the overall opinion seems to be he shouldn't.n n With Rick's vast p...

One of our favorite things about NameJet, is there are deals each and every day. If you do some research, and be patient before placing your pre-bid, chances are you can get that name for $69.Since the New Year, we've acquired the following names off NameJet for under $100. PoliticalScientist.comn ClassroomLearning.com n Subdividers.comn Improvisat...

Dozens of geo-insurance domains that sold in August between $2,000 and $6,000 are already up and running. Most of the names are owned by 360 Quote LLC (most of you might know them as Domain Superstar), andJoel Ohlmanhasn't wasted any time launching the lead generation websites. From California to Delaware, all the sites have the same look and feel,...

We've been watching the Great Domains auction, and there are a number of great names offered in the auction that ends September 24th. The list of names includes: Affect.com, Dvdburner.com, PopCharts.com, LotteryWinners.com, Gratuities.com and many more. Some of our favorites are:n n Deputy.comn Relative.comn Affect.comn LasVegasFlights.comn Intend....

This might not be the case for all domainers, but by the sound of it from most domain bloggers, it's more often the case than not. Alot of domainers like ourselves, hold regular full-time jobs, families, and more - then try to squeeze in a few hours of sleep after working another full day at domaining. Most of us would like to domain as a full-time...

We're pretty big Twitter fans, so we're very excited about this project. We're planning to custom-build Tweetups.com into awebsite for Tweetup enthusiasts. A few weeks ago, we ran a Logo contest, and earlier today we launched our "Coming Soon" page, instead of re-directing the name to our Tweetups Twitter page. Right now we're in the anal...

This past July Rosary.com sold for $78,088 on Afternic. While dozens and dozens of names that have sold in the last year for similar prices are still parked, Rosary.com was acquired by an end user who wasted no time putting the name to work. Even more interesting, is that the "About Page" tells the story how the deal went down, and how th...

Many domainers have allowed several of their domain names that they hand registered years ago -for one reason or another -to expire. We've even let dozens of our names expire over the last year. But we've also hand-registered dozens moreover the last six months, and believe it or not, it's still fun and the PPC earned (in some cases) has already re...

If you ever thought you owned some funny domain names, you should check out some of YummyNames.com's domains. Here aresome we found: RateMyFarts.com, DoggyPoop.com, TheButtocks.com, TheDumbBlonde.com, IdiotRegistry.com, SkankDog.com, and the list goes on.n n As their site says, ifyou search and don't see that perfect domain you're looking for, ther...

Live Current just recently launched one of their kickbutt domain names Karate.com. Live Current partnered on the name with Domain Strategies to develop the website.The website includes a school finder, articles, videos and more.Although the launch of Karate.com hasn't got much press for Live Current, they've been in the news for other reasons like ...

Looks like Kevin Ham is finally working on some big plans for his array of category-killer religious names including Religion.com, Satan.com, God.com, Heaven.com and nearly 20 other names. Although in it's early stages of development, Reinvent will be launching the Gospel Media Network. Most of the domain names have the Gospel Media Network splash ...

Bobbie.com which sold on Sedo recently for $15,000 was picked up by Bobbie Thomas Inc,which is run by Bobbie Thomas-NBC TODAY's Style Editor and the author of the Buzz column for “In Touch Weekly.”A seller on DNForum tried selling the name in 2007, and even lowered the Buy-it-Now price to $7,000, before deciding to hold onto the name wh...

As we are putting together plans for our newest domain acquisition Tweetups.com, we are taking a page from WannaDevelop and First Beat Media and expanding one of our networks: Military Sites. Right now our network includes ArmyVehicles.com, InfantrySoldiers.com, WarJets.com, and NavalShips.com. We acquired all the names on the aftermarket with the ...

By now most every domainer has read the news about XF.com Investments purchasing Symbolics.com - the world's oldest internet domain name registered in 1985.XF.com has big plans for the name to celebrate 25 years of the internet. Right now no plans have been made public, but according to the website: Stay Tuned. Have you wondered about some of the o...

Prices of category-killer domains,often fetchgreatprices, no matter where they end up. On the aftermarket when a name expires, it's not the owner who gets paid unless they're listing the name themselves, but often the registrar who sent the name to auction takesa share of the profits. In the case of ProteinBars.com, Genisoy - the original owner - l...

PelletSales.com recently rebranded their business with the domain name WoodPellets.com and now offers a toll-free number at 1-800-Pellets. The domain WoodPellets.com sold at Sedo for $115,000 in late July. The decision by some companies to rebrand after dumping a bunch of money into marketing efforts, is difficult - but WoodPellets.com gets it. The...

First Beat Media has a lot of success developing domain names into websites. One of their mostsuccessful projects was Soaps.com which they sold to Women United Online. They also own top-performing names like CelebrityGossip.com, CountryMusicPerformers.com,Unsigned.com and more.But instead of letting their namessit aroundparked, they develop them - ...

Yesterday ProteinBars.com and ProteinBar.com went to private auctions on NameJet after both names expired. Today, NutritionBars.com and NutritionBar.com are up on NameJet after expiring. These names weren't placed up for Auction by the owner - they were allowed to expire.n n With over 2 days left in auction, ProteinBars.com already has a high bid o...

These unbelieveable domain names were both allowed to expire by their owner. Both expired on 7/27/2009 and now will go up for auction. Network Solutions, the registrar where they were registered has sent them over to NameJet. ProteinBars.com is already up to $2,300 in pre-bidding with over 160 bids. ProteinBar.com is up to $1,000. We'll tweet updat...

Melville Candy, the new owners of category-killer domain name Candy.com, have another thing to be happy about - one of their candies just got selected to be in the Daytime Emmy Awards swag bags. And their unique visitors continue to soar since launching their site - in June as we reported their visitors were over 28,000 - the month of July has seen...

OnlineEducation.com which sold on eBay for $100,000 and was just reported in DNJournal's sales last week, is already up and running. The new owner wasted no time putting up a website andan officialpress release through PRWEB was even published on August 27th, announcing the launch of the website.This is definitely a category-killer domain name and ...

Pace High school based in Florida uses a .net for their home page - PaceHighSchool.net. By registering and using the .net, they've run into some issues. Namely, porn.Pimpserve, a company thatruns a number of porn affiliate sites,registered the .com and decided to set up PaceHighSchool.com with porn ads. Now parents and students who type in PaceHigh...

Earlier in the week we wrote about getting your Domain News site or blog submitted to Google news. Google News obviously dominates when it comes to Search Engines, but Yahoo! is just as good if you want to grow the visitors to your Domain blog. Getting listed in the News search engines, gives you instant credibility, but more importantly, draws hun...

Sedo reported the sale of Zookie.com in their Reported Sales section this week.The namesold for$25,000. Now, believe it or not, zookie isn't a huge generic term - or even a dictionary term. But someone out there certainly thought it was importantenough to plunk down25K for their business or marketing campaign. The name is parked right now and the W...

Plans are in the works forthe full-fledgeddevelopmentof our latest partnered domain acquisition, Tweetups.com. We're planning to launch a brand new third-party application service for Twitter users on Tweetups.com. The website is aimed at being the world's largest network of Twitter groups who love to meet up face-to-face across the globe. And we'v...

The hyphenated names - many registered back in 2001 - are up for auction over at NameJet. The list of names includes: latex-gloves.com, dry-cleaning.com, canning-jars.com, compost-bins.com, crotchless-panties.com, garden-flowers.com, heroin-addiction.com, national-trails.com, seattle-restaurants.com, and plenty more.n n Traditionally, hyphenated do...

There are several domain bloggers included in the Google News Search. Some of the domain blogs included are: Domain Name Wire, Elliot's Blog, and The Domains. Competition is stiff when trying to get included in Google News and the domain names blogs that are already included write top-quality content. Getting listed now only increases your traffic,...

Mesiab Lab, the owners of Retweet.com, launched their official website this week to compete with Tweetmeme.com - a similar site that is on track to hit 10 million unique visitors per month according to Domain Tools. A couple months ago, we noticed the domain name Retweet.com up for auction at Namejet, which turned out to be a listing error. The web...

The owners of these 6 names plunkeddown$100,000 in the last year according to DNJournalto purchase each of these names. What are they doing now? iGuide.com, Keyboard.com, TimeManagement.com, Usenet.org, Livestream.com, and Wife.com. What do you think they're doing? We take a quick look to find out.n n Some are developed, some re-direct (one, to a T...

The domain name CashforClunkersFacts.com was only registered this past May, but the website that was developed using WordPress, receives over 600,000 visitors per month and shows up on the first page of Google Search results. Talk about optimizing a domain for the search engines - this hand-registered domain name appears above Kelly Blue Book, Edmu...

Over at NameJet, the domain name FightShow.com has today's highest pre-bid, currently at $388 with 32 bids.Even thoughnearly every extension of the name is still available for registration fee (including the .net). Even if you're not a fan of UFC,fighting isa moneymaker on the internet. UFC.com alone gets nearly 1 million visitors per month.n n Eve...

Indeed many domain names that are purchased with the word 'domain' in them, end up in the hands of domainers, aftermarket websitesor registrars. During the last year there have been several notable purchases like YummyDomains.com, GamingDomains.com, ByuDomains.com, Domain.pland many more. We take a quick look at some of these names, and what they'r...