The CEO of the now defunct personal finance website Wesabe.com posted a great article detailing some of the reasons why he believes that Wesabe lost out to Mint.com and caused Wesabe to fold all while Mint.com was recently acquired by Intuit for $170 million. You can read former Wesabe CEO Mark Hedlund's post here but

Along with our Twitter Trending Topics tool, we've also released our Typo Domain Finder tool. This tool checks the availability of common typos for a given domain name. The typos can be checked against a variety of different TLDs. This tool is useful both for people looking to capitalize on type-in traffic by having

One of the core skill sets for any Internet marketer who call themselves an "SEO" is of course link building. Domain names can play an important part in any link building campaign. There are lots of different ways to build links to a newly developed website but one truth that I have long suspected and

We wanted to highlight how easy it is to find keyword domains with our Keyword Domain Repository, so we thought we'd list some domains that we found in there. All of the below domains are availabe for hand-registration as of the publishing of this post PREGNANTVIDEO.ORG 27100 exact match monthly searches MONTMARTREPARIS.ORG 27100 exact match ...

As Joel recently blogged, we've been hard at work updating our dashboard and revamping the back-end of our tools. The biggest update is that we've added .ORG lookups to our Type-In Traffic Finder, Bulk Keyword Checker, and Geo-Domain tools for premium members. A lot of our users have been asking for this feature

In a recent Wall Street Journal describing how the ultra premium art market is benefiting from the recent downturn in the economy, Godfrey Barker points out how there seems to be a "flight to tangibles" like art by many wealthy investors. Are ultra premium domain names next? It wouldn't be too far of a stretch to

If you haven't checked out our premium suite of domain tools in the last, oh, 30 minutes or so then CLICK HERE to visit our newly redesigned domain tools dashboard with all kinds of JQUERY goodness. Many more tools are on the way so stay tuned. You can use all of the basic tool features

If you had a choice between one of the two domains in the following niches below where one was a short brandable domain and the other was a long keyword domain then which domain would you choose? NICHE SHORT BRANDABLE DOMAIN LONG KEYWORD DOMAIN Business Triant.com LaptopRepairBusiness.comm SEO SEOCentral.com SEOBusinessTools.com...

Blogging can be fun. Blogging can take up a lot of time. Blogging is very rarely a solid business model. Yup, I said it. Blogging is a great add on to an existing business model to stay in touch with your customers, add fresh content to your website, target some long tail keywords to rank

I just happened to come across the site IIJM.com earlier today and thought that it was kind of a cool LLLL.com that was developed as an abbreviation (for "Is It Just Me"). I didn't join the site but it is kind of a clever idea to let people post/rant by posting a short Twitter style

While I am not ordinarily a huge fan of .org's (the only .org that we have is a home loan calculator website) I did recently stumble across what I think is a very smart use of a number of category killer .org domains by the Consumer Media Network. Ordinarily, .org domains can seem a little off

This week's Case Study Friday features a great one word domain ending in an alternate TLD: Computer.asia. This computer site was submitted by Chris so let's see if we can all give him some feedback on what he was done with the site so far and hopefully also give him some tips for improving the

Many domainers talk about the need to educate "end users" and further the domain name industry by telling people about the value of domain names. Now is your chance to chime in with some comments on a guest post that I just got published on the popular personal finance blog FinancialSamurai.com (one of his posts

If you take Domaining.com out of the mix then who do you think has the absolute best domaining related domain name out of all of our list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs? Here are some of my favorites (talking purely about their domain names and not their actual websites): DomainNameNews.com - What could be a better

It's common for large content rich sites to implement measures to increase page views and decrease bounce rate but BankRate.com appears to be taking this philosophy to a whole new level. The reason that most sites want to increase page views is of course to theoretically better engage visitors but usually the real force behind

This week's Case Study Friday features a baby cribs website submitted by Greg who is one of readers: SimpleBabyNecessities.com. (Notice the juicy anchor text for the above link that I am giving the site because A. I think its a well done and trustworthy site about baby cribs and B. Maybe this will incentive YOU to

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! This will be short and sweet. I recently posted about Demand Media and as a new RSS subscriber of their corporate blog (and a big fan of theirs all around) I wanted to just point you to a great little post of theirs titled "What Do Domains Have

If you think that you can make money blogging by just working a few hours a day in your underwear while the cash just starts to pour in then guess what? You guessed it - it ain't gonna happen. "Wait! Wait!" you say. "I realize it takes a lot of work. I am going to

Now is the time where we can all be armchair quarterbacks and look back over the LuxuryNames.com domain name auction that just completed today and decide who came away with the best deal. Of course, I actually bid and won a few names that I am very happy with so I can be a "real

Are you developing a website and want to get some feedback from John and me and all of the Domain Superstar members? In previous posts in our Case Study Friday series we reviewed a couple of sites that John and I have been working on although our goal is to review many different sites from

When you first heard the product name "Viagra" then what came to your mind? If you are like most then the name brought to mind images of strength and life and maybe even a flowing waterfall because of its close association with the familiar name "Niagara" as in "Niagara Falls". Now what comes to mind

Ever since Demand Media was profiled in a recent article in Wired Magazine titled "The Answer Factory" (if you have not read this article then set aside 10 minutes and READ IT NOW - then come back here and finish reading this post of course ) I have been extremely interested in learning as

One of the things I like the most about the upcoming LuxuryNames.com domain name auction to be held at SnapNames.com from 11/18/09 to 11/24/09 is that according to the list I have reviewed 80% of the reserve prices are less than $1,500 AND the focus of the auction is strictly on .com, .net, and .org

The WordPress Coming Soon Plugin by CSSJockey.com is one of the niftiest little WP plugins that I have come across in quite some time and although it is very simple and elegant I think that you will love what it can do for you just as much as I do. I actually just stumbled across

One of the sweetest things about our new list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs is that the list is fully sortable by all of the column headers. This means that although the default list is sorted by Alexa rank you can also click on different columns to see which domain name blog has the

Are you one of the top 100 domaining bloggers? Do you want to see where you stack up against your fellow domain name bloggers in terms of Alexa rank, Compete rank, # of Twitter followers, PR, # of backlinks, and more? Maybe you just want an easy place to scour the rankings and find interesting

I will be the first to tell you that I rarely take the time to watch video posts but I just took 6 minutes and 11 seconds to watch the following video and I am extremely glad that I did. Check out this video from the entrepreneur boot camp of Tina Seelig during the Stanford Technology

"Business Owner to SEO to Domainer vs Domainer to SEO to Business Owner" Wow, if this title doesn't confuse you then please immediately submit a guest post so that I can replace your post with this one… Just kidding! Alan Dunn had written a post earlier about Ad.ly that had a great little statement in

For the third installment of Case Study Friday, we're going to look at one of Joel and my newer acquisitions, Versailles.com. Weeks one and two focused on CreditCardChaser.com, one of Joel's finance-related sites. The posts generated a lot of discussion. Versailles.com is in the early stages of development, but we're very excited about the...

Last week, in our Type-In Traffic 2.0 blog post, we announced our new partnership with NameMedia, giving us access to their inventory of over 2,000,000 premium domain names. Today, we've just released our Premium Domain Finder, which allows you to search that inventory through our easy-to-use interface. The tool allows searching for premium names ...

What is the absolute best domain investment that you have ever made? Come on, I know that all of us get the urge to brag about some of the great deals that we have gotten or how we were smart enough to spot a money making trend years in advance or how we were able

A few days John posted that we had just released the new exact match capability to the Type In Traffic Finder and as of tonight we have also added some additional exciting new features. Here is a breakdown of the new features (and then I will show some screenshots detailing what some of the features

As many of you know, our Type In Traffic Finder is tool for finding great keyword domains. Up until now, however, one of the limitations of the tool was that it only display Broad Match monthly searches. Well, as of this evening, we are now showing Exact Match monthly searches! In our

Domaining.com is one of my favorite sites and I visit the site on a daily basis. If you have visited the site recently you most likely saw that Francois has the Domaining.com domain name listed for sale at a buy now price of $3,000,000 (the price does not include the website but Francois has mentioned

Here is a list of 200 keyword domain names that are for sale. Some of them are very nice category killer 1 and 2 word generic keyword domain names that would be ideal for developing. I started to go through and add pricing for each but honestly I didn't really feel like going through each

Since it seems all the rage for domainers to talk about web development and SEO - with "talk" being the key word I thought it might be a fun thing to do to dedicate Fridays (or at least most Fridays) to do case studies of different development and SEO projects that either John or

If you have been a fan of our domain name tools for a while now then you are probably very familiar with our geo domain name tool. In fact, you have likely been using this tool for months. It now appears that GoDaddy is launching a tool that is spookily similar to our tool. You

There has been some discussion lately in the domaining world whether the sale of Insure.com was a "pure" domain name sale. Contrary to published information, it seems that many domainers are insisting that the $16 million paid was strictly for the Insure.com domain name. Now, whether this mistaken belief is because some domainers simply want...

It would only seem natural that Bank of America, the largest bank in the US according to assets, would own the domain name BankofAmerica.com - and of course they do BUT it would seem like a no-brainer that a company as big and as well known as BOA would also own the domain name BOA.com.

Believe it or not the person who said "I go out of my way NOT to get search engine traffic" is none other than Rick Schwartz, otherwise known as the "Domain King". I am a big fan of a lot of the things that Rick Schwartz says on his blog as he really cuts loose

I just finished reading the article on the acquisition of Mint.com by Intuit (the makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, MyCorporation.com, etc) at the WSJ Online as well as the synopsis by Chef Patrick and Michael Berkens and I was struck by something that I think is very applicable to all domainers, developers, and web startups and

Apparently I have been living under a rock lately (or maybe just working too hard) because I just recently came across this great Frank Schilling interview by Paul Sloan that I had not read before. Great stuff and well worth a read if you have a few minutes. Here it is: Click here for the

While I have never done any Facebook advertising myself and don't ever really plan on it either I have wondered from time to time though what kind of conversion rate different domain name related Facebook advertisements typically pull. One example of a nice looking site that I noticed that was advertising brandable domain names on

If you have not subscribed to the RSS feed of Darren Rowse AKA "ProBlogger" over at problogger.net then I would strongly recommend that you do so. His latest post is a great example of not only top notch content on how to monetize domains with the Amazon Associates affiliate program but also a case study

According to Mashable Microsoft just acquired the domain name Office.com and will most likely use this domain name for the online version of Microsoft Office. I have to say, nice job Microsoft on nabbing the perfect domain name for the MS Office web only suite. You can read the full story by clicking here.

I certainly do not agree with everything that this article says in regards to choosing domain names but I did find some great domain name statistics mentioned. You can check out the full article by clicking here but here are some of my favorite pieces of domain name information that Preeti Pradhan of Smashing Magazine

I read these 2 posts a while back and I really enjoyed them but for some reason I just never got around to mentioning them. Aaron Wall from SEO Book makes some veeerrry interesting observations about Barack Obama's use of domain names and the effect that it is having on certain niches in the SEO