Submit A Domain Name For Sale On Domaining.com’s Newsletter Today! Francois, owner of Domaining.com, has organized a special domain name sales newsletter that will benefit sellers and bloggers. The idea is for the blogging community to promote January 9th’s Domaining.com newsletter, giving it more eyes for sellers and increase newsletter reach. In addition to the blogger circuit the newsletter...
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 20:9
.ME’s Premium Auction At Sedo Closed With $167,708 In Sales Although the .ME registry completed their premium .me domain name auction last week, I haven’t seen any posted sales, so I figured I would share some information about it. In short, of the 178 domain names listed for sale about 41% (73) met reserve. Total sales ended with $167,708, which is an average of $2,297
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 15:11
Less Than 24 Hours Left For .ME’s Premium Auction At Sedo Can’t afford to buy that premium .com domain name? .ME might be the perfect alternative for you. As an avid reader of TechCrunch.com, usually there is not a week that goes by where a new project is funded involving a catchy .ME domain name. Startups love value and .ME domain names offer just that. .ME
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 16:12
Monday Is The Last Chance To Grab Your .XXX Domain Name During Sunrise Period As reported on ElliotsBlog.com, .XXX Sunrise period which originally was to end today, has been extended until Monday, October 31st, 4pm EST. Also reported is they have received over 70,000 pre-registration requests. At roughly $200 each that is $14 million, WOW! For those of you that don’t know if the Sunrise period is for you...
ChefPatrick.com - Friday, October 28, 2011 - 14:19
Netflix.com Forgets To Renew Its Domain Name Ok no, Netflix.com did not forget to renew its domain name, but this is funny. Still, within the humor are several important messages. Don’t forget to renew (auto renew) your valuable domain names. Buy easy to spell and pronounce domain names, nothing too tricky. Secure your developed brand by purchasing available typos. Watch ...
ChefPatrick.com - Friday, October 7, 2011 - 14:28
.XXX Sponsoring A Boat, Second One In The Last 30 Days The news of .XXX sponsoring a powerboat broke late last week, so I am a little late to posting. Although late, I think it’s great news. Any chance of getting the word out about domain names is awesome and this is certainly a BIG way to do it! This is now the second boat that
ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 13:44
DOMAINfest Officially Not Returning To The Playboy Mansion Earlier today Oversee.net sent out a press release announcing DOMAINfest’s Global 2012 date, January 31 to February 2. The one question I had, and I’m sure everyone had, will they be ending at the Playboy Mansion again?. Well, I emailed Oversee and this was their official response. “After three years of Farewell Par...
ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 18:11
Jeff Kupietzky Is Voluntarily Leaving Oversee I just received the following email from Mason Cole, Oversee.net VP of Communications & Industry Relations. I am confirming the departure of Jeff Kupietzky from his executive role with Oversee at the end of August. After five years with the company and the last two and a half years as CEO and President, Jeff has elected for
ChefPatrick.com - Friday, July 29, 2011 - 14:48
DNCruise Money Back Guarantee (Comic Strip) Wow… it has been a long time since I have posted a comic strip. Actually this one was prepared for my first DNCruise, but I never posted it. Last year we offered a money back guarantee for DNCruise guests that have never been to a domaining conference prior to this. We were the first and
ChefPatrick.com - Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 10:0
Long Running “Domain Masters” Returns To WebmasterRadio.FM Victor was a great host of the Domain Masters show for many years, the industry is lucky to have him back again. Press Release: Victor Pitts has returned to once again host the longest running podcast on the domain name Industry, which has churned out over 240 episodes since its inception in November 2004. Fort
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 15:9
Chef Patrick Interviewed By DomainSherpa.com For those of you that have not already seen, I was interviewed by DomainSherpa.com which posted yesterday. Thank you to Michael Cyger for the invite and interview. I also want to add a bravo to Michael. He’s done a great job with his video interviews. Michael has interviewed some great guests such as Frank Schilling,
ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 12:28
Frank Schilling’s Internet Traffic Now Serves Over 1 Million Domain Names Over the weekend Elliot Silver of ElliotsBlog.com did an excellent article comparing the amount of domain names that resolve to each parking company. The article was based off of DNS information provided by DailyChanges.com. Unfortunately, as Elliot pointed out, the data may not be completely accurate because some customers use their...
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 12:42
Disney Spends $700 million For ClubPenguin.com Only To Let It Expire Disney purchased ClubPenguin.com in August of 2007 for $700 million, $350 million cash and potentially another $350 million based on performance goals. At the time of purchase ClubPenguin.com had more than 12 million members with roughly 700,000 of them paying $57.95 per year. Do the math, that is over $40 million per year in revenue...
ChefPatrick.com - Monday, June 20, 2011 - 20:42
.CO Turns A $5 Million Investment Into Over $30 Million The big news in the domaining community today is that .CO has sold it’s 1,000,000th web address. Here is the statement released by .CO this morning. “.CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO domain, announced today that it has reached the landmark one millionth .CO domain name registration. Less tha...
ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 15:50
.CO Turns A $5 Million Investment Into Over $30 Million The big news in the domaining community today is that .CO has sold it’s 1,000,000th web address. Here is the statement released by .CO this morning. “.CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO domain, announced today that it has reached the landmark one millionth .CO domain name registration. Less tha...
ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 15:50
Restaurants.com Sold For At Least $6,000,000 I haven’t seen any news about this so figured I would bring some attention to it. On October 5th 2010 Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com published information about an upcoming Moniker auction which Restaurants.com was part of. Berkens posted this in relation to the domain name, “Reserve price I’m told is north of...
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 13:55
John Ferber’s Secret Is Out So what’s the big secret, we all already know that John Ferber is a millionaire from creating and then selling his Advertising.com business to Time Warner in 2004 for just shy of $500 million. You can read more about that story on ElliotsBlog.com. The secret here, or at least until Secret Millionaire airs tomorrow night,
ChefPatrick.com - Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 15:47
John Ferber’s Secret Is Out So what’s the big secret, we all already know that John Ferber is a millionaire from creating and then selling his Advertising.com business to Time Warner in 2004 for just shy of $500 million. You can read more about that story on ElliotsBlog.com. The secret here, or at least until Secret Millionaire airs tomorrow night,
ChefPatrick.com - Saturday, March 26, 2011 - 15:47
ChefPatrickSucks.com, The REAL Truth! I’ve been counseled by many people on whether to post anything about this at all or not. I decided that I would share my side and then leave it there as I believe this will answer everyone’s questions on what really happened.
However, first I need to comment on motivations behind Rick’s postings because I don’...
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 14:50
Goodbye Oversee, Chef Patrick Is Back! Nearly one year ago, after being self-employed for over five years, I decided to take a position with domain name registrar Moniker as a premium broker. A lot of people questioned why I did this. Well, last January before DOMAINfest my friends Morgan Linton and Jason Thompson held their Southern California Domainers Meetup which I
