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GameSpy and a number of video game websites are reporting that Warner Brothers has been registering domain names for its sequel to the Batman video game Arkham Asylum.
Arkham Asylum, according to Wikipedia, "holds a Guinness World Record for 'Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever', with an average score of 91.67 from reviewers." ...
The Twitter market is only growing stronger in numbers and events like the World Cup demonstrate how powerful the microblogging website can be. According to the Associated Press, "Though Twitter normally sees about 750 tweets per second on an average day, there were 2,940 tweets per second".
Having got on the Twitter bandwagon relatively...
After weeks of back and forth between a Beta site and Coming Soon page, Kevin Ham and Tony Lam of Reinvent, have finally launched GoodNews.com to the public. At the end of April, Kevin Ham took advantage of all the type in traffic by advertising GoodNews.com among his network of domain names like Pajamas.com.
From there, a Beta site was accessible...
Just over a week ago, I wrote a story titled Getting the drop on Domain Companies, who try to sell a .COM name to a Domain Investor. After explaining how we had been contacted by someone trying to sell us a .COM name that we wanted, we actually had found the name on NameJet as pending delete.
So, instead of purchasing the name for hundreds from th...
Kevin Ham's @GoodNewsVanannounced just hours ago that GoodNews.com will officially launch next week. The Group Buying service run by Kevin Ham and his crew at Reinvent, promises more deals and surprises as it makes the leap from Beta.
@GoodNewsVan, the Twitter account for GoodNews.com, posted the following tweet less than 10 hours ago:
"Than...
Sometimes you have to wonder what it takes to get a name accepted at a Great Domains auction. If you've been rejected in the past, you might be trying to figure out what's going on after you see some of the domain names listed for the upcoming auction in less than a week.
Before I get started, here's a look at the criteria for a GreatDomains listi...
Love them or hate them, typo domain names with traffic can be profitable.In December 2009, Bissel.com (a typo of Bissell)sold on NameJet and ended with a $10,088 sale price and 118 bids from 74 bidders. But at least that name came with type in traffic.
Not all typo domain names, no matter how good they look, are worth very much - even if every typ...
If you've logged on to Twitter recently, @GoodNewsVan (the Twitter account for Kevin Ham's Group Buying venture GoodNews.com) announced that followers would get to take a sneak peek at the new web site.
True to their word, since July 5th, there have been a limited number of Tweet messages sharing deals that give GoodNews.com members bargains in Va...
Jane McEntegart a blogger over at Tom's Guide has an article titled "Sex.com Up For Auction, Could Fetch $28,000,000."
Where's the logic in that amount of money?
The author includes a quote from Liesbeth Mack-de Boer, chief sales officer at Sedo: ""It is hard to say what it will sell for as there are no other domain names in t...
Now that Frank Schilling is back to blogging, you might see more Frank Schilling stories here at Fusible as a running theme. When it comes to the Domain Industry, Frank Schilling is an interesting character, as well as one of the most successful domain investors of all-time. If there was a Domain Hall of Fame, Frank Schilling would definitely take ...
There are a number of sources online where you can information about domain names. Blog sites published by citizen bloggers involved in the domain industry are a great source to go to. These types of domain industry blogs are particularl helpful for new domainers entering the industry who use them to read up on "lessons learned" - in an i...
The day after Frank Schilling put up a new post on his SevenMile blog titled "The World Changes But Domain Names Stay The Same", Frank Schilling put up a post on his DomainNameSales blog, further sharing information about his domain business.
This time, which domain names potential buyers have been interested in.
PointandShoot.com.
Spo...
So you own a geo domain and are pressing ahead with development. So why not add Group Buying as a service on your web site? While loads of group buying start ups are showing up online, those companies and individuals who own built out geo domains can benefit from offering deails in the city or state of their geo domain.
Group buying is of course a...
For anybody who has ever been curious about the domain names that Frank Schilling owns, there's a way to learn more with his DomainNameSales.com web site. As many Domain Industry bloggers have reported already, Frank Schilling's blog SevenMile.com which went inactive in 2008, now re-directs to his domain sales website which lists thousands of domai...
Elliot Silver has been talking up the re-launch of one of his premium internet properties: Burbank.com. The new website was was developed by Scottsdale.com's and their "City in the Box" platform. Scottsdale.comhas been responsible for designing, developing other geo domain namesincluding Sunnyvale.com and GreatFalls.com.
So, what do you ...
EPN.com has attracted almost 40 bidders and a high pre-bid of $5,100 over at NameJet, despite the fact the name doesn't even go to auction until July 27th. The three-letter domain expired on June 22 and is pending renewal.
The expired name was first registered in the early 1990s and was once linked to the "Essential Public Network". The ...
Here at Fusible we own hundreds of domain names including .NET and .ORG domains. Names that include Primaries.org and IncomeTaxrefunds.net and literally dozens of others. Since getting started more seriously in the Domain Industry even just part-time, we've picked up a few skills along the way, and each week we learn something new.
For example, th...
id Software knows all about video games and domain names. The game development company with iconic brands such as Wolfenstein, DOOM, and QUAKE that have become part of gaming history will be releasing Rage, a first-person shooter and racing video game, in 2011.
With the hype of E3, surprising the name didn't sell for more
Over a week agoSedo repo...
Domain developers and bloggers now have a resource - "The Yahoo! Style Guide". TechCrunch, Mashable and numerous other web sites are reporting the news.
According to Yahoo!, "Polished and expanded for its public debut, "The Yahoo! Style Guide" covers the basics of grammar and punctuation plus a multitude of topics with a W...
In the Hot world of "Group Buying" there have been a number of developments since my last blog. There are a lot of news stories both in the Group Buying industry and domain names. Domain and business investors alike, who have been following what's been going on with group buying so far in the last year, know this is an industry that has b...
The domain name Beautygames.com expired on June 13, 2010 and is currently pending renewal or deletion. The name is in Pre-Release and listed over at NameJet with 15 bids already. If you've been following casual online gaming news at all you'd know that Dress up games and games for girls are popular with online players.
According to Wikipedia, &quo...
The Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, signed into law March 30, removed the ability for students to choose private lenders for their federal student loans.
The new law forced us to change our business plans for StudentLoancenter.com - a site we developed and soft launched a year ago. Over the last few weeks, we de...
Although Bryan Pendleton (the grad student, tinkerer and hacker) registered the vanity URL twitter.com/bp with Twitter early on, he's been the target of mistaken identity by people upset about the BP oil spill which continues to take a toll on the environment and economy.
The official Twitter page for BP is @BP_America, but that hasn't stopped peo...
If you've been following any news about Bill Kara and his company Hallpass Media, you'd know he's undoubtedly one of the top playmakers in the Domainer-Developer world with internet properties that get over 3 million gamers monthly. His company is positioned to grow significantly more over the next several months as he's already launched CookingGam...
Hallpass Media run by Bill Kara, has launched its newest website, VirtualPets.com. The casual game company that acquires and develops killer game properties unveiled VirtualPets.com earlier today, where casual gamers can adopt, dress up, care for, or play with their favorite zoo, farm, exotic, house and ocean pets.
The site featuresan 'Adopt a Pet'...
Ron Jackson just posted his official weekly domain sales report, and according to the sales chart WebcamRoulette.com sold for $47,000 at the Moniker /iGaming auction held earlier this month. The highest domain sale of the auction was poker.ca for $400,000, in auction that had few reported sales compared to Moniker / SnapNames auctions.
The sale of...
It's not often that Rick Schwartz sells a domain name or least shares the sale publicly. Since the nineties, he has only sold a handful of names out of his portfolio of thousands. But the total sales for those domains is in the millions. The Domain King, who got his start in 1995, with the purchase of lipservice.com for $100 has sold less than 20 n...
Independence Day, otherwise known as the Fourth of July here in the United States, commemorates the day that the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Contintental Congress on July 4, 1776. Independence Day also comes with plenty of big fireworks, family fun, cookouts and a slew of local and nationwide events each year.
Independenc...
A web venture by the Domainer and Blogger Namecake is enjoying some serious success. The domain name OilPrice.com which NameCake developed into a website full blown website over the last year has gone from 10,000 unique visitors per month since our last report in November 2009 --to 100,000 unique visitors in May 2010, and it's continuing on a high ...
A little known tactic for drawing interest to a domain name is to let it expire, then renew it at the last minute after attracting bids and drumming up interest. I don't know how effective this tactic is or how often it'sactually used by Domain Owners(if only rarely), but it's a tactic pointed out by a Fusible reader in an earlier story titled Some...
So as not to mislead readers to our own successes and failures, 2010 has been a slow year for sales compared to 2009. Though it's been frustrating,it hasn't discouraged us at all.
In 2009, we grossed just over $13,000. To date in 2010, we've grossed $0 in domain sales.
Although we've received offers, we're focused on our first big domain sale in ...
After watching traffic surge to domain names around Fathers Day last year (thanks to the .coms not being developed) we ran a small experiment wondering what would happen if we put up various minisites around additionalFathers Day keyword domains.
The domain names in 2009 that we developed into minisites consisted of several .NET names where the .C...
It's hard to avoid some of the beginner mistakes that many fall into when buying up domain names. There are a number of issues with buying up certain names including cybersquatting. As Wikipedia notes, cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to ...
Boxing.com which is owned by Live Current who launched Karate.com in September,sits undeveloped, has a lot of unused potential. By parking the name, the company opens up major opportunities to other websites who place value on development - a possible reason why Boxing.net has received a lone bid of $15,000 on GreatDomains meeting its reserve.
Box...
Next week the .CO Landrush takes place starting June 21 through mid-July. General availability begins July 20 once the global sunrise and landrush processes are complete. Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney.com, recently wrote a post about the .co landrush and asked his readers whether anyone cares?
Well, obviously, domain investors care. Sadly, there ...
Weeks ago, I started covering Bill Kara here on Fusible.com, who is by far one of the nicest people in the Domain Industry. Bill who owns some of the best gaming domains on the net, holds a major share of the casual games business with sites like StickGames.com and CookingGames.com - his latest website launch. After writinhg so much about game doma...
A lot of time was spent on developing one of our most expensive domain name acquisitions StudentLoanCenter.com. The purchase took place in 2008 for $2,100 after the name expired and ended up at auction on NameJet. The plan was made to develop the domain from the ground up utlizing a system where banks or issuers could pay to join the StudentLoanCen...
He did it again. Dutch Boyd the professional poker player and domainer has won his second WSOP bracelet. He won his second bracelet this past Sunday in the six-handed limit hold 'em event and collected over $200,000 in winnings. The buy-in for the tournament only $2,500. Not a bad return for the second youngest law school graduate ever, who's also ...
You can read blogs about the domain industry, however, if you spend the time to write a blog about the domain industry, there are quite a few perks that often get overlooked. Of course, getting long term sponsors like National A-1 and Domain Tools is a big plus, but the list of perks goes much further than just sponsorships.
Running a blog gives y...
The domain name PornLive.com which has been registered for over 10 years received one bid at GreatDomains meeting its reserve price. Porn domains are a niche that always seem to do very well, year after year.
With adult cam websites experiencing even stronger interest in 2010 thanks in partto ChatRoulette, it's no surprise PornLive.com hit its res...
Once you purchase a domain name and see a profit, you could build up an insatiable hunger for buying more domains. You can never own too many domain names when it comes to category killer domains - that's why investors like Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling own hundreds of thousands of them. But just because you don't own category killers, doesn't mean...
As Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly points out, news of Apple's iPhone 4 has received a lot attention, which could be more good news for those who have invested in iPhone domain names.
Although I won't be saying anything about the possible issues of owning an iPhone domain, I will say that since the first release of the iPhone there haven't been any signif...
A rush of group buying sites have hit the web in the past year using domain names like WowWhatSavings.com and TownHog.com. This might surprise some of you, but a lot of the group buying sites aren't using category killer domains or even purchasing names on the aftermarket - they're hand registering the domains.
Though category killer names have no...
One of the most talked about, over hypeddomain names in history that has had books written about it, is holding an online video contest sponsored by Escom, LLC. The now-bankrupt Escom will be auctioning off Sex.com through Sedo. While no date has been set for the auction, Escom is running another websitecontest asking submitters to put together a v...
Is it really possible to make a million dollars as a domainer if you missed the landrush of the nineties and early 2000s? Although it's highly unlikely most people entering the Domain Industry as a hobby can afford to buy up category killer names, there are steps you can take to build up a nice portfolio.
The downside is that you have to be patien...
In May it appeared Kevin Ham's Gospel Media Network of domain names was taking a backseat to other ventures like GoodNews.com and Vancouver.com, but names within the Gospel Media Network are undergoing changes, the latest makeover to the domain name Heaven.com which now has a landing page that allows visitors to subscribe to be notified when Heaven...
It's no secret that a number of Domain Industry bloggers make a nice income writing about domain names, just take a look at Andrew Allemann's blog Domain Name Wire. As well as being a domain investor, Andrew is also a prolific blogger, producing over 100 articles in the last 30 days alone, each post averaging over 100 clicks according to Domaining....
So maybe you can't afford the best names on the market, but if there's a niche you are familiar with, you can probably spot domain names others might pass over because they don't see the potential or relevance - giving you a chance at a golden opportunity.
We'd all love to own category-killer names, but some times budgets can stop us from affordin...
The news of Bodog's Founder Calvin Ayre purchasing Slots.com for $5.8 million USD was revealed at the beginning of this month. The landmark sale is one more for the record books for gaming-related domain names in 2010 as Poker.org sold in February for a whopping $1,000,000 USD.
In case you were tempted to guess at the mystery buyer in mid May, if ...
The variety of domain names available on the internet, especially during holidays and other special days throughout the year can be very profitable for domain investors, especially for those who choose to develop those names -- evenif it just means, quick-and-simple informational websites. In fact,Seasonal domain names don't even have to be a .com ...
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