Mother’s Day Domains I find it interesting to check out the owners and uses of holiday and event domains, such as today’s Mother’s Day. Following are some of the top search phrases, their owners, and their uses. MothersDay.com 165,000 searches per month, per SEMRush.com Owner: Privacy Protected, per DomainTools.com Use: Parked MothersDayPoems...
AccidentalDomainer.com - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 11:21
Asking Price vs Sales Price: Season.com, Bosnia.com, Leo.com, IQN.com I recognized a few names in DNJournal’s sales charts in recent weeks, and dug through my emails to see how they had been listed previously in the domain sales newsletters. Season.com Sales Price: $47,000 via Domain Holdings Asking Price: $90,000 in the Media Options newsletter 4/18/12 Bosnia.com Sales Price:
AccidentalDomainer.com - Friday, May 11, 2012 - 19:10
Marketing Fail: QR Codes vs Domains, v2. It’s worse than billboards. (pics) I received a bunch of pictures after the ‘Marketing Fail‘ post re: QR codes vs domains. I thought a billboard was the worst place you could have thrown a QR code. Boy was I wrong. Here are a few more pictures where a domain name would have
AccidentalDomainer.com - Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 10:47
Marketing Fail: QR Codes vs Domains……on Billboards? I was driving through a new town recently and nearly spit out my coffee when I encountered a billboard that was dominated by a QR code. Uhhh……don’t you think a domain name might have been a little better on the memorability factor? This was a roughly 40 mph road
AccidentalDomainer.com - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 19:36
Cornering a Niche Market with Domain Names OK, “cornering” is far too strong of a word. However, it is interesting to follow DNJournal’s sales charts and investigate similarly-themed domain names that have been scooped up. One niche that recently caught my eye is towels. Here are a few 2012 sales, thanks to DNJournal, NameBio.com and DNSalePrice.com.
AccidentalDomainer.com - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 21:38
Auction.com Sold for $1.7 million in 2009 – Where is it Now? Thanks to my prior commercial real estate days, I’m still subscribed to a bunch of related newsletters. A recent headline caught my eye, “Auction.com Sells $424M in Multifamily Assets” As a refresher, Auction.com sold for $1.7 million in 2009, which put it at #4 of that year’s
GoDaddy NameMatch Recommendation Emails I’ve gotta say that I like the GoDaddy NameMatch recommendation emails that I receive regularly. In a world with a steady stream of spam emails peddling crap domain names, GoDaddy’s e-mails are nicely done, and don’t come off to me as a spammy burden. The main reason the emails don’t come off as spammy
AccidentalDomainer.com - Monday, March 5, 2012 - 18:52
Great Billboard: SkiLaw.com Driving back last night from an afternoon of snowshoeing, a billboard with a great domain caught my eye — and probably the eye of most the other drivers on Interstate 70. SkiLaw.com The billboard’s location is perfect on I-70 — the primary route that thousands of skiers take
AccidentalDomainer.com - Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 14:30
Take Advantage of Google’s ‘AdSense In Your City’ Events If you’re a website publisher that makes some income from Google AdSense, I encourage you to attend one of Google’s AdSense In Your City events. I was able to attend one of the sessions last year, and was happy that I took a few hours out of my day. The events are
AccidentalDomainer.com - Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 10:24
Domain Name Sightings: El Tunco, El Salvador Edition Spent a week at the beach in El Tunco, El Salvador and had plenty of time to snap a few photos of domain names, when not getting crushed by waves while trying my hand at surfing. Similar to Guatemala (Lake Atitlan,
Domain Name Sightings: Copan, Honduras Edition My new Mayan friends in Copan, Honduras told me the world isn’t coming to an end in 2012, so I figured I’d take the time to snap a few photos of URLs in/around town. Similar to the Guatemala sightings (Antigua,
AccidentalDomainer.com - Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:11
Inflatable Turkeys, Jump Ropes, Dog Toys, Peacock Feather Earrings, and More What do they all have in common? They all sold through Amazon affiliate links on various sites of mine during the holiday shopping season — despite the fact that I don’t have any sites anywhere related to those topics. I recently received a direct deposit for some Amazon affiliate commissions, and it reminded me to
AccidentalDomainer.com - Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 9:6
Asking Price vs Actual Sales Price: A Couple Recent Domain Examples Domain buyers: don’t be afraid to offer prices significantly below a seller’s asking price. Why? Let’s take a look at a couple recent differentials between original asking prices and the actual sales price. The first three are all reported as sales in the most recent DN Journal sales report: Deny.com
Domain Name Sightings: Lake Atitlan Edition A variety of TLDs shown below, but .com still dominates the URLs that I’ve seen in Guatemala. As a commenter to the Antigua post pointed out, Guatemala’s .com.gt costs $40 for 2 years ($60 for foreigners), so why stray from the .com if your chosen domain
AccidentalDomainer.com - Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 15:13
SuperBowl Ads Too Cheap at $3.5MM for 30 Seconds Or so it appears, as NBC announced today that they’re all sold out of their time slots for the February 5 SuperBowl — they actually sold out just after Thanksgiving. For any advertisers who either didn’t make the cut for the SuperBowl, or have a couple bucks left in their advertising budgets, let
AccidentalDomainer.com - Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 22:40
End User Sales: 1200.com for $10k, for a Special Purpose Campaign DNJournal reported that 1200.com sold for $10,000. The buyer? Ava Financial Ltd, which currently has its main site at AvaFx.com. As their domain eludes to, Ava Financial is a prominent Forex trading firm. Their current promotion to attract new Forex traders? Up to a $1,200 bonus on your initial deposit, when
AccidentalDomainer.com - Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 20:30
Forbes: “Buying A Domain Name For Your Child Is A Good Idea” Securing a domain for your child isn’t a new idea, but it’s great to see a publication such as Forbes cover it. Excerpts from yesterday’s blog post – “Baby’s 1st URL: 3 Reasons Why Buying A Domain Name For Your Child Is A Good Idea”: “Tech-savvy parents today
AccidentalDomainer.com - Friday, May 27, 2011 - 9:29
An Update on Google’s Plans to Kill the URL Bar in Chrome Mike Berkens wrote in February about Google’s rumored plans to eliminate the URL bar from their Chrome browser, and the potential crushing impact on direct navigation traffic. ConceivablyTech.com is now providing an update to the story, and while it’s not a total elimination of the URL bar
AccidentalDomainer.com - Friday, May 20, 2011 - 12:6
