(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII are here Sahar has been writing a lot lately on accurate pricing. The question is why? Because there is no liquidity in the domain name market mostly in part due to inaccurately priced domain names and no real valuation method to determine the fair market value of domain n...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI are here They are waiting to join in, but will we help them, or just wait for them to figure it out on their own, if they ever? As with most liquid markets, casual end users come from time to time, but they are not the market. Markets for the most part are comprised of industry prof...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V are here Nobody wants to be a sucker. With auctions, the results of accurate pricing is a bidding war. Bidding war allows spectators to get in the game, assuring them that value exists in the marketplace, not just with one party, but with many. Marketing to spectators is different than marke...

part I, part II, part III, part IV are here You know that you have priced accurately when there's a bidding war happening. Pricing accurately does not occur when one bid happens to buy at the reserve price. This isn't an auction at all, it's a sale. In most industries, in order to price accurately you need to attract the most likely group that will...

part I, part II, part III are here Let's look at what a professional trader looks like. As I know a couple I will try my best to give you an idea here. So who is the professional trader and how does he thinks? The professional trader is not attached to the deal. He buys because there's a good deal to buy and he is well aware there are others out th...

(Image source) (For those who come late, part I and part II are here) When trying to liquidate via an auction offering, for optimal results, who should you price your items for? Liquidation isn't about finding end users, it is about moving inventory, preferably quick. End users are hard to find as well as a "hard sell", they tend to not understand...

(Above: "Featured commentary" on Bido) Today auction of MyEntitlement.com has ended up with one bid and sold for a total of US$ 2.00, lowest auction ever so far on Bido. Some may think we're disappointed by that however that is not the case. We're here to provide the platform, to provide you, the motivated seller, with the tools to sell, and for th...

A couple of days ago I posted a comment on Newfound Names that I am in Costa Rica, and will try and post pics on here when I get back. Well.. I'm back, pics below. Enjoy! Breakfast in the mountains Dramatic view from the Costa Rica Marriott Hotel San Jose Darren Cleveland, RMG CEO, and a friend (Pete) help a local get going Darren Cleveland, Sah...

(image source) Many wish to use the services of auction houses are not ready, willing, and able. This post is for those who wish to sell, need to sell, and motivated to sell. If you belong to the group who wish to hold tight to inventory, this isn't meant for you. Ready, willing, and able: Ready: This one is about motivation. If you are not motivat...

(Image Source) We've all seen this before: Auctions go underway, item is overpriced, no interest whatsoever, auctioneer whispers "Pass". Why is this happening? It's happening because a seller did not price according to the market. The seller really did not care that much. He sets the price and watch from the sidelines. The seller in this instance m...

(Above: New design) Design was never our strong area but with time, you just get better. Our folks at FuneralHomes.com just released a new design to the wild. The design is not only graphical (now it is much better on the eyes) but also architectural. From an architecture standpoint, there is less clutter on the main page (less links), new header/l...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, says: Via Flickr On May 31st, 2000, I signed up with a new service called LiveJournal. I was user 4,136 which entitled me a permanent account and street cred in some alternate geeky universe which I have not yet visited. I was living in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland California and starting a company to di...

We put many months of hard work in bringing the Bido "social auction" platform back. While most has been done on the back-end infrastructure and isn't noticeable by users, some small changes such as live chat and trackbacks are. As I wrote before, there are many more upgrades scheduled in the coming months. As always, we rely on your feedback to ma...

Via Nashua Telegraph: There's nothing like an anecdote to show how much the online world has changed in the 21 years ? that's right, 21 years! ? since Litchfield's Mark Mallett first registered MV.com as a domain. So here goes: "Back then, there wasn't any way to find out who owned a domain, there wasn't whois. So BBN published a book of domain own...

I read the following statement on Success Click this morning: DOMAIN BUYERS HAVE A BETTER SOLUTION THAN THE CREEPILY ADVERTISED GODADDY Because we're all too invovled in the domain channel we know the alternatives (Moniker, Fabulous, others), we hear about them often, we met those who run those services, and we also have done business with few by ...

(image source) Via NamePros: Brendan writes: So I was thinking of new domains for a project I want to start and I thought of one that I really really liked and I typed it into my browser…and to my surprise, it redirected to Yahoo. I don't really see why Yahoo wants this domain..so if I were to contact them about purchasing it, do you think th...

Via FanNation: For years fans and analysts have talked about ways to revive the night before the NBA All-Star Game. In its heyday it was a night where you could watch Larry Bird win the Three-Point Shootout and then see Michael Jordan battle Dominique Wilkins in the Slam Dunk Contest. It was a night more talked about and anticipated than the actual...

2004: What worked then does not work now. Jeff (red shirt, with our team in Russia) and I started in the domain business some nine years ago, in November 1999. At the time I remember didn't know about the "dot com bust", I didn't know much about business either. Not knowing gave me the opportunity to start without worrying about the economy, about ...

Two must read stories for the day: 1. GoDaddy.com founder Bob Parsons "Success key: Never give up (but be very quick to change). Turning $15,000 into $64 million. Kissing $64 million goodbye." Laying in bed at night. I used to lay in bed at night flipping through the pages of a prominent microcomputer magazine and looking at all the full page ads....

Via PRNewsWire: Travelzoo (Nasdaq: TZOO), a global Internet media company, today announced that it has purchased the Internet domain name fly.com for $1,760,000 in cash. Travelzoo intends to use this domain name for a new information Web site to be launched in February. "We are delighted to acquire fly.com for our new offering," said Brian Clark, s...

Via Tech Daily Dose: Recovery.gov, a new Web site that President Barack Obama has said will enable the public to monitor how effectively the U.S. government spends and distributes the $800-plus billion stimulus package, is ready to go live, an Obama transition team member and former director of the White House Office of Administration said Thursday...

A while ago, for obvious reasons, we purchased the domain name Flamenco.com. You can imagine my surprise today, while browsing a local art magazine which advertises upcoming events, I saw the following: (Source) while visiting San Fransisco I met with a good friend of mine and while chatting about the greatest and latest, I asked his opinion about...

By Tia Wood About a decade ago a term dominated the internet: Webmaster. To be a webmaster was to be the master of your domain. Most webmasters were not domainers and most domainers were not webmasters. Most webmasters owned a domain or two and most domainers owned many. Each character was almost unaware of each other. This continued for many years...

Via AdLab: Sixt, a rental car company that brought us ASCII AdWords ads, is back with an animated racing ASCII cars in the browser address bar. Check it out in action here (Firefox 3 only), or in the video below. While I'm not in love with this one it's refreshing to see a new concept within the URL bar. Have a great day, Sahar

<a href="http://www.joost.com/135bc3k/t/George-Michael-Faith">Geor ge Michael - Faith</a>Many times I've been asked about "the secret", you know, how you got to where you are, what should I do, How should I start, etc. "Faith" is the short answer. The longer one? I try to relate to these individuals the importance of "sup...

Judging a year by the events and results within it will do no justice, as many correspondent events will only manifest in the future, at times, many years afterward. The tech bubble of 2001 brought many prosperous years to many, possibly even to you. There's no doubt 2008 was a an extremely historical year. From an African American president to the...

By Jarred Cohen, VP of Operations, Bido, LLC It's been a few months since we placed Bido domain auctions on hiatus. The response has been loud and clear to bring Bido back as soon as possible! We've missed running the auctions as much as you missed participating in them! DNZoom and PortfolioHelp have been running uninterrupted in the interim whil...

(image source) Following on part I, Why Domaining Sucks, here's a general list of why I also believe Domaining rocks: 1. Extremely cheap barrier to entry With registration fees at approximately 7$ per domain name not many can say they cannot afford to get in the domain game. Back in 2000 we stumbled on an expired domain, one that no one really wan...

In my last post, in comments area, Stephen Douglas of Success Click wrote: It?s time for domainers to reassess their domains by evaluating their monetization paths, and then move accordingly The domain industry has significantly changed in the last 12 months like never before. Payouts decline, layoffs, Marchex and other domain related public compan...

(image source) Tough economic times, especially for those who have not gone through such turbulence times, can be extremely confusing. Questions such as "Should I continue to hold?", "Is my income going to shrink again next month?", "Should I bet all on this venture?", or "Should I cash out my chips before it is too late?" are not uncommon. Matter ...

Since we took Bido offline due to tech issues we've been very quiet about progress, giving you a date when we will bring Bido back. The original plan was to bring Bido back a couple of weeks ago, in November. Due to unexpected turn of events this was not possible. December did not make much sense to us to bring Bido back as it is a shorter month, a...

(image source) While I'm not a very religious person, I've browsed through the Bible, but cannot tell you who wrote it, there are many words of wisdom in it. I define words of wisdom as "Ideas that make sense", or "Fundamental Wisdom". One of my favorites bible quotes is "Give And You Shall Receive". It does not say "Receive And You Shall Give". If...

(image source: Initial Designs) To those in the domain space, before being in the space have you realized the power of domain names? Before seeing in your own eyes the statistics on domains and the enormous power of which have type-in traffic, power that can be measured by quantity and quality, would you believe if one told you about it? Before see...