Canadian Domain Auction Update As previously reported, Pool has started a one premium domain at a time auction format. The first domain it auctioned was cafe.ca. Unfortunately, this domain did not sell, as it did not meet the reserve price. The next domain they are auctioning is slots.ca, which is also an extremely good domain. If you are interested in bidding on ...
Domain Bits - 5/4/2008 2:40:53 PM
DomainBits - The Interview By Domain Magnate I recently did an interview with Michael of Domain Magnate. You can read it here.
Thanks a lot! And make sure to add Domain Magnate to your feed reader.
Domain Bits - 5/1/2008 12:59:41 AM
Sabotaging Websites - A New Way To Do It There are many ways to sabotage a website, but today I found out that one of my websites was sabotaged in a way that I had never seen before.
A few months ago, I started a new, content-rich website. It included about 100 articles. Like I often do with a new website, I got a few backlinks to the site, then left it to age a few months ...
Domain Bits - 4/24/2008 3:25:20 PM
IDNs Prevent Death I've said before that IDNs are going to do well simply because even if people know English fluently as a second language, they prefer to use their native tongue when using the internet. Now an extreme example of the importance of IDNs has just surfaced - because IDNs weren't available, two people died and three people are in jail.
Th...
Domain Bits - 4/22/2008 7:49:57 PM
Sedo Auctions Phishing Domains I do recommend investing in IDNs - but only when appropriate. Appropriate means good commercial and similar terms in languages that use more than just English's 26 letters of the alphabet. However, domains that are simply English words, replacing a vowel such as an "i" with an "ì" are worthless. Their only possible value is for phish...
Domain Bits - 4/22/2008 2:06:35 PM
Canadian Domain Auction Landscape Changes There have been some notable changes over the last few days in the Canadian domain auction landscape.
Sibername has introduced changes in their TBR system. First, they have raised the minimum bid from $15 to $25. While I'm sure domainers will complain about the increase in price (after all, who wants to pay more?), I believe that thi...
Domain Bits - 4/22/2008 11:13:51 AM
Domain Registrar Secrets Revealed! Have you ever bothered to read the fine print in the agreement you entered into with your registrar? Chances are you haven't, and quite honestly, until now, nor have I. Well, for some weekend fun, I decided to do this. Here's what I found that my registrar was guaranteeing:
Thousands of customers have bought domains from us, partly ...
Domain Bits - 4/20/2008 9:15:34 PM
Special Domain Deal For Canadians - 0b.ca For Sale I'm offering a top NL.ca for sale - 0b.ca. NL.ca are obviously very rare - there are only 260 of them.
QUICK BIN price: $1,495
0b has overture of 113. There are 8,590,000 Google results for 0b. It makes a good acronym.
Here are some recent comparable sales (all in 2008):
3W.ca - $1,500
X2.ca - $1,495
6X.ca - $1,250
There have also be...
Domain Bits - 4/17/2008 7:39:09 AM
Free Domaining Resources at DotSauce One of my favorite domaining blogs is DotSauce, written by Mark Fulton. One of the things that makes his website special is the premium content section. In this section, he offers additional tools, bookmarks, coupon codes and articles. Normally, he charges a mere $10 per month for this - a real bargain. Now, for a limited time on...
Domain Bits - 4/16/2008 2:42:20 PM
Funniest Forum Thread of the Year You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink. You can see this principle in action at an ongoing thread at Domainstate. A chap going by the handle "Ace Brawler" is looking for an appraisal of the term AceBrawler.com. He's told very politely that it's worthless and why. Instead of learning from this, he decides ...
Domain Bits - 4/14/2008 4:28:08 PM
Estibot Adds A New Tool My favorite set of domaining tools is at Estibot. The main tool available is a domain appraisal tool. This tool provides an automatic appraisal of a domain name based on a wide variety of data, including keyword frequency in Google, keyword frequency in urls and titles in Google, backlinks, pagerank, alexa rank, number of ppc ads f...
Domain Bits - 4/14/2008 1:06:38 PM
Don’t Drink The "Develop Your Domains" Kool-Aid The biggest theme in the domainersphere in the last few days has been about development of domains. Many people are saying that this is the way forward for domainers and the best way to profit from domains. Elliot talks about his ideal portfolio. If you look at the direction he is heading in, he is basically selling off his portfo...
Domain Bits - 4/12/2008 1:28:48 PM
ICANN Story Misreported Recently, I called attention to a news article in Gulf News that claimed Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN, made some very negative statements about domaining.
I have since been contacted by Jason Keenan, who works at ICANN media relations. His statement is as follows:
"I have discussed this news report with Paul Twomey and h...
Domain Bits - 4/9/2008 12:26:16 PM
Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move Not content with the profits it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.
A subdomain is basically a domain built on a domain - so, for instance, some sites might add a blog at blog.domain.com. An unassigned subdomain is a subdomain that hasn't...
Domain Bits - 4/8/2008 10:31:12 PM
ICANN Says: Domaining is Bad Paul Twomey is the president and CEO of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the big kahunas who run the domain system. So, their view of domaining is obviously somewhat important.
Now we here from Mr Twomey that domaining is bad. In fact, it's not only bad, it's as bad as cybersquatting and typosquatting.
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Domain Bits - 4/8/2008 12:59:44 AM
Indian Domains - A Great Investment Opportunity I'm proud to announce that I've recently acquired the leading domain forum for Indian domains - INForum.
INForum is the place on the internet to discuss Indian domains, their future and their development. You can get your Indian domains appraised, and there is also a marketplace where you can buy and sell your Indian domains. You c...
Domain Bits - 4/3/2008 11:24:35 AM
IdiotU.com - My Great New Domain Just acquired a great new domain for my collection - IdiotU.com. Best of all, I didn't even need to pay anything for it. That's right, no cash at all. All I had to do was give this sucker one of my kidneys. Well, I needed to lose weight anyhow, and what a fast way to do it! Can't wait to see how much traffic IdiotU.com gets!
Domain Bits - 4/1/2008 3:55:29 PM
13 Things Domainers Should Know About Domain Law There has been a lot of news lately about domains that involve legal issues. The law regarding domains can be very complex, and often domainers don't understand the consequences of this. To help you deal with these issues, here are 13 things domainers should know about domain law.
1. The Contract Rules. Most of the rights and o...
Domain Bits - 4/1/2008 1:53:29 PM
MyID Dot Ca Auction Update Further to my recent post, the details of the MyID Dot Ca Auction have been released. Here it is in a nutshell:
1. Monthly Auction - The auction will start on the first Thursday of each month at 15:45 EST and end on the following Thursday at 15:45 EST. The first auction will be start May 1, 2008 and run until May 8, 2008.
2. Dead...
Domain Bits - 3/31/2008 10:56:05 AM
MyID.ca Launches .ca Auctions MyID.ca has now tossed their hat into the .ca auction market ring.
Prior to this, the only company offering .ca auctions was Sibername. Sibername only started offering these auctions in December 2007. It's good to see increasing competition in this market, and it's a sure sign that .ca domains are becoming more important.
The MyID ...
Domain Bits - 3/27/2008 11:48:24 PM
Fucked Up - The Theft of Fucked.com and Pornos.com A domainer is cheated of over $120,000. The FBI and the police are involved. And so is an allegedly 16 year old boy in Ontario, Canada.
You work hard for what you have earned in life. You spend all day crouched over your computer doing research and negotiating deals. But some people aren't willing to put in this work and want qui...
Domain Bits - 3/7/2008 11:54:45 PM
Domain Bits - In the Spotlight at Domain Developer Domain Developer recently did a profile of this blog and me. You can read it here.
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Domain Bits - 3/7/2008 2:37:51 PM
WHAT EVERYONE OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT GEO DOMAINS I've got a real interest in Geo Domains as I think that they have a lot of potential for future appreciation. As well, coming from a competitive webmastering background, I could see how the right Geo Domain could provide a substantial competitive advantage. In fact, the first major domain purchase I made was a Geo Domain.
Because o...
Domain Bits - 3/3/2008 2:04:58 PM
Great Domains Auction With all the concern lately about the domain market softening, I watched the auction that ended today at GreatDomains closely. Except for a few good names, there did not seem to be very enthusiastic bidding.
Here are the final results that I saw (unofficial results). Some of the names were regular Sedo auctions that were closing at...
Domain Bits - 2/28/2008 2:10:22 PM
The Big List of Domain Auctions Domain auctions are one of the most important market venues for a domainer - whether you are a buyer or a seller. If you are a seller, they offer immediate liquidity for your domains - you don't need to wait for an end user (or another domainer) to show an interest in your domain. If you are a buyer, you have a choice of a number o...
