Moniker posts Live and Extended auction online Premium Live and Online Domain Auction Friday, May 25th 2:00 p.m. Here is the complete list of the live auction in the order that they will be sold. For additional list of extended auction and no reserve auction you can go to monkiers site at No need to look further ?? the best catalog of domain inventory available on the market to...
Direct Navigation - 7 hr 41 min ago
Godtube.com receives 30 million dollar investment It seems that the Tube market is extremely hot. According to The NYTimes, Godtube, a Youtube type site which shows Christian videos received a $30 million dollar investment from a London hedge fund. That put the sites valuation at $150 million. If you were thinking that this is a great idea and you??ll build a site at Jewtube.com, d...
Direct Navigation - 8 hr 42 min ago
Say What? This is an actual email that was sent by someone looking to purchase a prime generic domain. Enjoy.??Hello. I'm going to get straight to the point, I want to buy your web domain name. Let's be realistic though, your site isn't anything much to look at. I'm sure that you bought it fairly cheap (Since many domains are cheap these day...
Direct Navigation - 5/7/2008 3:08:20 PM
Should Domain Auctions guarantee minimums? Major art auction houses around the world hold showcase auctions each season. Their goal is to sell the best works of art available for sale in that auction category. Great works of art bring competitive bidding and higher prices. Most of the major auction house guarantee minimums for these artworks. Without the art, they realize tha...
Direct Navigation - 5/7/2008 9:03:09 AM
Microsoft expected to go Hostile from my reading:??Following developments on Thursday, Microsoft is likely to pursue a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc takeover, people familiar with the proceedings said.???As reported in WSJ, while addressing his staff at its Redmond headquarters in Washington on Thursday, Ballmer confirmed that he was not willing to pay a dime abov...
Direct Navigation - 5/2/2008 8:52:14 AM
Exclusive names for sale - TennisRacket.com, TennisRackets.com, Bulldozers.com, Poolsticks.com I recently noted that I would be happy to list domain names for sale here. I said ?? From now on, if I receive an email asking if i would like to purchase a name and I feel that it is a good name at a fair price I??ll mention it ( if I??m not buying it ).? I have received a lot of requests but up until last night I saw nothing I...
Direct Navigation - 5/1/2008 12:35:21 PM
2 Available names become Taken 2 0f the 5 names that were available on Monday when we posted the current Taken or Available game are now taken. They are:Obamaspastor.comPrepregnancydiabetes.comBoth are excellent names that have strong monetary value above the registration fee. This shows that there are still good domains available that can be registered in todays ...
Direct Navigation - 4/30/2008 10:52:04 AM
Fox loses Myspace.co.uk back to original owner Hugh turn of events. This is very positive for the domain industry.??30.04.2008 - The domain name Myspace.co.uk has been wrestled from the grasp of the social networking site after an independent appeals panel overturned a previous decision to award it to the Rupert Murdoch-owned company.In January Nominet, the official registry of ...
Direct Navigation - 4/30/2008 8:18:28 AM
Rick Latona has the quote of the week This morning i received Rick Latona's daily email which lists high quality domains that he offers for sale. The name that caught my eye on the list was Johnnie.com. John is my son's name so even though we spell it johnny, i thought a nice present for him. After purchasing the name, i mention this to Rick. His comment was priceless....
Direct Navigation - 4/29/2008 10:27:45 PM
Canadian Internet Registration Authority changes Whois Name Policy from reading:??Under the new policy, CIRA will continue to collect the same contact information from registrants as under its current policy. However, it will no longer require that such information be publicly available through its whois directory. In its place, CIRA will only require the public disclosure of limited technical info...
Direct Navigation - 4/28/2008 11:22:22 AM
Taken or Available It??s been a while since our last list. Here are some domain names that i thought of from recent news stories. Let??s see how many were taken or available as of the time of this writing. I will post the answers later in the week.Obamaspastor.com Candymerger.comPrepregnancydiabetes.comPenistheft.comObamaforum.comComboflu.comProfootb...
Direct Navigation - 4/28/2008 10:37:49 AM
Your Names For Sale Posted Here For Free I am constantly getting emails asking if i would like to buy domain names. Some are decent, some are excellent but most are lousy. From now on, if I receive an email asking if i would like to purchase a name and I feel that it is a good name at a fair price I??ll mention it ( if I??m not buying it ). I may mention the lousy name to...
Direct Navigation - 4/18/2008 10:14:07 AM
Yahoo to increase Outsourced Ads to Google per reading in WSJ??Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter said.?A search-ad deal could complicate Microsoft's efforts but is unlikely to derail its plan. Yahoo could simply ...
Direct Navigation - 4/17/2008 10:55:25 AM
2 Million Visitors per Month and Almost No Revenue While reading an article on the Harry Potter copyright infringement lawsuit, I was surprised to read 2 things. The first being that the site draws up to 2 million visitors per month. The second was that the sites earning for the years 200-2007 were a total of $6500 for the entire period. The miniscule revenue from Google Adsense is m...
Direct Navigation - 4/16/2008 8:32:42 AM
Sometimes It??s Better To Lose Leora, Ari??s chief of staff, was featured in a recent news story about her amazing weight loss. Congratulation Lala.http://cbs3.com/seenon/Smart.Cookie.Cookie.2.696163.html
Direct Navigation - 4/11/2008 2:09:39 PM
BMW Increases online ad budget to 50% for 1-Series From todays reading in NYTimes.com:??Almost half the spending for the campaign, estimated at $15 million to $25 million, is being devoted to online media. By comparison, executives at BMW of North America say, Internet ad spending for other models ranges from 1 percent to 15 percent of the total ad budgets.?
Direct Navigation - 4/7/2008 8:59:10 AM
Amazon Accelerates it??s move to Digital from todays reading:Amazon Accelerates it??s move to Digital - NYTimes.com ??We wake up every day thinking about digital,? said Mr. Kessel, senior vice president for worldwide digital media, who reports to Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon??s founder. ??Jeff once said he couldn??t imagine anything more important than reinventing the b...
Direct Navigation - 4/7/2008 8:48:20 AM
Today??s Stupidity I received the following email today:??Larry,?I tried to call you today. Try me when you get a second. I am interested in the domain for my father. He has a ranch called ??a - a - a? ( i changed the name) and I wanted to build him a website on this domain for Father??s Day. I would love to buy it from you (it being a 3...
Direct Navigation - 4/3/2008 5:19:52 PM
Yesterdays Post was for April Fool??s day I would like to thank all who emailed or called me yesterday congratulating me on ??my new post?. I hate to break to news for those not aware of April Fool??s day in the US, but it was just a joke - except for the part about being considered for Bill Gates job :) .All the bestlarry
Direct Navigation - 4/2/2008 8:25:02 AM
Yahoo may Shine but not at Shine.com Yahoo today announced the launch of a site for women between ages 25 and 54. The new site is called Shine and will be presented in a blog form which can be found at It seems someone should have considered buying the domain Shine.com prior to naming the service. It seems that the domain was actually for sale and sold last year based ...
Direct Navigation - 3/31/2008 11:20:23 AM
Namejet Running Interesting Auction Today Michael Berkins posts on Thedomains.com about an interesting domain currently in auction at Namejet. Per Michael??s post:??The domain TravelCuba.com is currently at auction at NameJet.com.There are over 2 days left the high bid is at $750 and there are 86 people who backordered the name.Now here??s the problem.NameJet.com is owned...
AOL Lands Bebo As first noted in TheDomains.com, AOL has bought the social networking site Bebo.com. The first i heard of Bebo was last year on my vacation to Ireland. Bebo seemed to be the ??it? service for teenagers over there. The site was created in 2005 and has over 22 million global users. looks like a smart buy for AOL (or for whoever eve...
Direct Navigation - 3/13/2008 1:44:08 PM
$10 Million Domain Becomes Reality Fund.com domain name bought for $10,000,000. Per CNN - Clek Media Inc. ("Clek") today announced that it has brokered the world-record sale of the domain FUND.COM for US$9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction. Clek, a media consulting firm, represented the seller of the domain, assisting in both the negotiation and closing of the tran...
Direct Navigation - 3/11/2008 2:58:30 PM
Direct Navigation Brings Best Traffic -NY Times The NY Times validates Direct Navigation traffic is best traffic for advertisers:??the most valuable kind of Web site visitor. That honor goes to the people who arrive at a site by typing its Web address directly into their browsers or clicking on a bookmark. Such visitors, who tend to be repeat customers, linger the longest, spend ...
