Due Diligence Before Buying a Domain Name If you’re a domain investor, it’s likely that you’ve either been offered a stolen domain name or seen one advertised for sale, whether you knew it was stolen or not. Buying a stolen domain name can cost the buyer quite a bit of money (once the name is recovered) and it could hurt his reputation
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Elliot Silver - 18 hr 41 min ago
Hump Day Light Humor When I was in graduate school earning a degree in Direct Marketing, my thought about an ideal first job was to work for Lester Wunderman, the person considered the father of direct marketing (he didn’t go by “Direct Marketing King” although he could have). As it worked out, when I graduated in 2004, I was
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Elliot Silver - 21 hr 42 min ago
Buying Trademark Domain Names Anyone who owns or has registered more than a handful of domain names has probably owned one or more names that infringe on the trademark of another company, whether its intentional or unintentional. Figuring out what domain names are dangerous to a domain portfolio is a big part of doing business as a domain investor.
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Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 14:25
Breaking: Sedo Brokers Sale of Jerusalem.com for Over Half a Million USD In June of 2009, it was reported that Jerusalem.com was purchased for $750,000 (the news was also reported in the Jerusalem Post). The website was used on its own for a while, and I later found it to be forwarding to GoJerusalem.com, which I thought was strange after such a big acquisition. Just a couple
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Elliot Silver - Monday, August 30, 2010 - 20:37
Why Push to Auction on Sedo Might Be a Bad Idea From my perspective (as an infrequent buyer on Sedo), a seller pushing a domain name to Sedo auction after receiving a private offer is a bad idea, and it may cause the seller to leave money on the table, as I will explain below. A couple of weeks ago, I made an offer on a
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Elliot Silver - Monday, August 30, 2010 - 13:46
Sunny Saturday Afternoon Update I watched the weather forecast yesterday, and the weatherman said it was the first time he can remember being able to post seven consecutive sunny days on his forecast. There are no clouds expected, and temperatures are in the 80s-9os. Today is suppose to be the best of the bunch, so if you need me,
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Elliot Silver - Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 13:35
Good Internet Marketing: Email Newsletter Waaaay back in graduate school for direct marketing (circa 2003), I learned about the importance of connecting with customers and clients. One of the easiest and best ways to do this is the email marketing newsletter, and I use Constant Contact for that after using their free trial. I want to share a recent example
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Elliot Silver - Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 11:33
5 with… Rob Monster, CEO of Epik Most of us have probably heard about Rob Monster’s development company, Epik, and the company’s development conference from September 15-17 in Seattle, Washington. I had a chance to ask Rob a few questions about the conference that may be of interest to you if you are either thinking about attending or working with Epik....
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 15:39
Great Looking Landing Pages I know there are people who swear that more minimal landing page graphics are better for click through rates and ultimately revenue on parked domain names. There are also people who think that a better looking landing page creates a better user experience for visitors, and they will stick around longer as a result. My
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Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:34
August Might Be Bad, But It Could Be Worse August has been a fairly bad month in terms of domain sales for me, as I mentioned before. Thankfully the rest of the year has been (somewhat surprisingly) very good. Maybe it’s the summer doldrums, the economic slowdown, or perhaps I am investing more cautiously, which generally yields lower results. I really shouldn’t b...
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 19:16
Guest Post: CIRA’S .CA “Election” Is On Zak Muscovitch from DNattorney.com writes this guest column on the Canadian domain name registry elections that are currently underway. Canada’s .CA registry, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is run by a Board of 15 Directors. A single seat has opened up for the public, and I am running in the election for it. The ...
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 13:55
5 With… Alex Tabibi, CEO of TABcom Alexander A. Tabibi is the founder and CEO of TABcom, the multi-divisional internet company that focuses on the pet, equine, garden and green spaces, and uses ultra premium generic domain names to do so. Now among the 200 largest e-tailers in the United States (Internet Retailer – 2008), TABcom develops and maintains ‘con...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 13:44
Flipping.co: .CO Worth “4% of .COM” I went to check on a submission I made at Flipping.CO, and I noticed that the domain names had appraised values next to them. Curious about how these were appraised with barely any sales results, I sent an email to Flipping.CO’s Francois Carrillo to ask how the values were ascertained.
According to Carrillo, the .CO appraisal
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Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 10:34
Potential Problem with Paypal Subscriptions I’ve had a good amount of success with DogWalker.com, and there are around 250 paying advertisers on the site right now (maybe more). Nearly all of them pay annually using a Paypal subscription, which is connected to my company. As every business owner knows, recurring payments can be an important revenue stream (just ask Domai...
Elliot Silver - Monday, August 23, 2010 - 16:58
DomainFest Recap + CNN Coverage When Oversee.net announced the one-day DomainFest event in New York, I didn’t think I was going to attend due to previous travel obligations. After speaking with a few friends who were coming in to NY specifically to attend the conference, I made sure I would be back in time, hopping on a red eye flight
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Elliot Silver - Monday, August 23, 2010 - 11:38
Sunday Afternoon Updates Happy Sunday to you. It’s the middle of August, and I can’t believe the Summer already seems to be coming to an end. I shouldn’t really complain though since sales have been down this month, and the weather has been sticky-hot in NYC. Bring on the Fall!
Here are a few updates and thoughts:
- I wrote
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Elliot Silver - Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 13:26
BP Cares About BPCares.com There was a lot of commentary on Rick’s Blog when he mentioned that he bought and was successfully monetizing many BP-related domain names. It seems that whenever Rick writes something controversial, there are dozens of opinions voiced in the comment section of his blog, and this post was no different.
I received a Google News ...
Elliot Silver - Friday, August 20, 2010 - 12:15
Special Birthday Deal at ThemeForest I am a big fan of ThemeForest.net because the Wordpress and website themes they offer have made my life easier and they’ve saved me a considerable amount of money. My developer emailed me a few days ago to let me know that the special birthday offer its parent company (Envato) has annually is now running.
I
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Elliot Silver - Friday, August 20, 2010 - 11:27
PeoplesBank.com Expires; Who Is to Blame?
On July 30, 2010, PeoplesBank.com expired, and it now appears to be coming up for auction on NameJet. The previous registrant was Maine Bank and Trust, located at 6 Atlantis Way in Lewiston, Maine. According to some research I did, TDBank is (or was) located in that space, which jives up with the @banknorth.com email
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Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 21:5
Safeguard to Prevent a Domain Theft I was speaking with a friend at DomainFest yesterday afternoon, and he had just learned a few of his domain names were stolen from his Moniker account. A friend of his saw these stolen names for sale on DN Forum, and fortunately for him, the domain names were quickly returned to his account once Moniker
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