I?ve been watching domains drop every day for almost two years now over at GoDrops.com and it?s turned out to be not a small source of domain registrations for me and for some members. First, I have to thank Jamie from DotWeekly.com for getting me hooked and up to speed on the drop-catching process and great "insider" information. (Other domainers ...

Despite tracking a zillion (approx.) names in that time over at GoDrops.com, only 10 new names have been added to my domain collection (dare I call it a portfolio?). I've been keeping busy developing a real-estate Wordpress-based site and, of course, keeping up with what's dropping and the bargains at auction. Here's a run-down of my latest 10 doma...

GoDrops.com is my personal whois scanner gone wild. Everyday, I host the Web's only "Live Chat and Drop" event where I stream live my dropping domain picks for the day. Not only do you see domain dropping and picked up live by big companies like Buy Domains, Zag Media and Portfolio Brains, backorder services like Pool, Namejet and Snapnames, and do...

WP-Domainer is a free Wordpress plugin I've developed that's basically been a bag ‘o tricks for my various sites. With WP-Domainer you can insert a message at the top of every page, upload favicons for Wordpress MU installs across multipe domains, and list domains in a post or page using a flexible Wordpress shortcode. Like I said, it's absol...

Not long ago, I helped Alltop.com acquire the domain name alltop.net. Soon after, we were sporting our new Alltop T-shirts all around southern California and, as the picture below clearly shows, off the beaten path as well. ? Thanks Alltop! You Might Also Like: See You At The GeoDomain Expo! Hitting the Ground Running! My Snapnames Picks for Tod...

I've started scanning domains at Snapnames that are ending soon. I may go after a couple, but here's my short list for today. I just applied to get a Snapnames affiliate ID, so in the meantime, I'm using DotWeekly's code =) I'm also testing out my Domainer Wordpress plugin that makes listing names in blog posts easy. Look for a release of that here...

Hot on the trail for a Wordpress theme for my Travel domains — thanks to Booking.com for getting me signed up and ready to go, by the way — I noticed many new themes both gratis and premium being released in the last few days. Here's a run down… Zenko from WpZoom.com Blog News from Gabfire.com Berita Business from Biz Artic W...

At the GeoDomain Expo a couple weeks ago, I found myself sitting down with a representative from Booking.com over lunch. They're big in Europe covering all the large hotels and the smaller independent ones (i.e. the long-tail). I've got a solid collection of undeveloped travel names now and it's time I rolled-up my sleeves and get them built. Yeste...

This is going to be the start of a series of posts describing how I go about developing my most expensive domain so far for 2009. The name is ExploreHungary.com and it set me back a cool $25.00 at Snapnames recently. For me, this is as near premium for geo/travel without having the exact city or generic "travel" keyword domain. Early last year I pu...

A couple days ago I grabbed HaircutReviews.com from the daily domain drop. The day before, by coincidence, my wife was complaining about how she couldn't find the salon a friend had reccomended to her online. For the local places she could find, the reviews were either non-existent or not very helpful. The next day, I saw this name in the drop list...

Today's Catch of the Day from the daily domain drop was BocceWorld.com. I love playing bocce ball. We used to play on the small green outside the main Budapest metro station between teaching jobs. A friend of mine had a really nice box set he used to carry around in his pack. "Bocce" gets 165,000 searches at Google and there's no abiguity about wha...

I chose the domain ResidentTourist.com for my domaining blog. What do you think? Two ‘T's together? Oh, I know… but it is catchy, no? I thought about using my NameStew.com, but that sounded too much like a Chef Patrick spin-off, lol. Anyway, I've just applied to be aggregated by NameBee.com — my Domain News reader of Choice. Cross...

Andrew from Domain Name Wire and Elliot from Elliot's Blog have weighed in on the GeoDomain Expo, now it's GoDrops' turn! This was my first domain conference, so I had really little to go on other than being familiar with a few of the personalities on the various panels. Setting up GeoRevolution.com was a good idea and made a great ice-breaker duri...

Wish me luck getting down there tomorrow! Don't worry if I end up on the side of the road, the GoDrops scanners will still be plugging away for drop-time. Maybe I can get a projection screen and have a 10 foot tall Live Chat + Drop tomorrow =) The Daily Drop will occur during the "Dailies: They're gone, now what?" session. That's where I'll be. I w...

I've finally stood up GeoRevolution.com in time for the GeoDomain Expo in San Diego that starts tomorrow. If you're attending then I encourage you to Sign Up to have your tweets aggregated at the site. Also, during the event, I'll have a live chat working so people at home and participate in any goings-on. So, to find out what's happening at the Ge...

I'll be trotting down to San Diego later this week for the GeoDomain Expo. This will be my FIRST domain conference — first of many if all goes well. While I'm there, I'll be twittering, blogging and chatting on my new social platform that I'll be rolling out later today. I really believe in GEO – not just because I'm a cartographer by t...

I'm seriously thinking about going as it's literally just down the road from me. Looks like the who's who will be there and lots of good topics scheduled… Anywho, If anyone is going give a shout-out here… maybe GoDrops.com can have a Birds-of-a-Feather meeting down there over some ale… =D You Might Also Like: Domains Added to the...