 | Yahoo Sells MusicVideos.com, LookUp.com, and FreeComputers.com to True Magic
In a $250,000 deal that took place on Sedo last week, Yahoo sold the domain name MusicVideos.com to Merlin Kauffman’s True Magic, LLC. According to some analytics that I have seen, MusicVideos.com gets considerable traffic – nearly 1,000 unique visitors a day according to Compete, despite the fact that it hasn’t bee...
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| Exclusive Domain Conference Being Held at The Palms on March 22-23
Did you know there’s an exclusive domain conference being held at The Palms resort in Las Vegas on March 22-23? The Domain Madness 2 conference is being run by DomainConsultant.com, and it sold out within a few days. Most of the attendees are domain investors who attended last year, and a few others received personal
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| Differences Between Domain Investing and Cybersquatting
I had a conversation a few days ago with someone in the legal department of a large company, and we discussed cybersquatting and the importance of buying potential typo domain names before a product launch, especially when the product is targeting children.
In our conversation, I mentioned that I am a domain investor. He stopped me
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| Sedo’s Domain Market Study: 2009 Overview and Outlook into 2010
This is a guest post written by Simonetta Batteiger, Director of Sales Operations North America. The article discusses Sedo’s 2009 Market Study (that’s a link to the pdf file), which was recently released. The information in the study is valuable to domain investors and can be helpful in seeing market conditions and trend...
| Elliot Silver - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 13:22 |
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| Chat Roulette: Everybody’s Doing It
Apparently, ChatRoulette.com has become an Internet sensation, visited by millions of people in the last few weeks. There have been plenty of stories in the mainstream media covering it, and one of the funniest was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (clip embedded below).
One way to know a website is a hit is to
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| Elliot Silver - Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 13:27 |
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| You Can Still Win a Snapnames Auction if You Are Bidder #2
I sometimes place bids on Snapnames auctions that have other bids, even if I am not interested in buying the domain name. Generally, if a domain name has a bid already and you place a bid, you are considered the losing bidder when it goes to auction, as the person who places the first bid
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| Elliot Silver - Friday, March 5, 2010 - 15:12 |
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| Moniker’s Monte Cahn Featured on WebProNews Video at SMX
Monte Cahn, co-founder and President of Moniker, was featured yesterday in a video on WebProNews.com. The video was taken this week at the SMX West conference held in Santa Clara, California. In the video embedded below, Monte discusses the value and importance of owning the right domain name.
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| Elliot Silver - Friday, March 5, 2010 - 10:52 |
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| Interviewed on Domainers Digest
I feel like most people who read my blog have a good idea about who I am and what I do, but my friend Steve Kaziyev asked to interview me on Domainers Digest, and I agreed to do it. I think it’s important to be open when you have a blog, and I hope you
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| Elliot Silver - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 16:40 |
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| Chef… errr… Captain Patrick Announces Domain Conference Cruise
Chef Patrick of Chef Patrick.com is going to be hosting a domaining conference so awesome it will literally make you float. This event will be the first domaining conference he’s held and the industry’s first ever conference on a boat. The event will be accommodated aboard the Carnival ship Imagination.
The cruise is leaving
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| Elliot Silver - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 14:21 |
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| Disney & Marvel Make Domain Mistakes
Dear Disney,
I grew up watching your movies and television shows and appreciate all you do for kids everywhere. Since you’re based in Burbank, California, I also did quite a bit of research on your company for my website, Burbank.com. However, some of your recent domain registrations are a disservice to children who will inevit...
| Elliot Silver - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 17:2 |
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| GoDaddy Price Increase Announced for .Com & .Net Domain Registrations
I just received an email from GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, and the email announced a price increase for .com and .net domain registrations. As of July 1, 2010, the price of .com domain names will increase 7%, while the price of .net domain names will increase by 10%. The email cited VeriSign’s price
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| Elliot Silver - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 12:59 |
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| HomeAway Acquires BedAndBreakfast.com & Inns.com for Undisclosed Sum
TechCrunch is reporting that HomeAway has acquired BedAndBreakfast.com for an undisclosed sum. HomeAway is a vacation rental company that operates a number of web properties, including VacationRentals.com, VRBO.com, and several other popular websites. Homeaway has close to a half a billion dollars in funding.
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| Elliot Silver - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 12:3 |
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| Oversee Announces DomainFest Prague
DomainFest Global is set become a fully “global” conference. For a couple of weeks now, I have heard rumors that Oversee was thinking about – or planning to have a DomainFest conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and this information has just been confirmed by the company. DomainFest will be held in Prague for two d...
| Elliot Silver - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 22:18 |
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| Johns Wu, Founder of Bankaholic, Interviewed on MO.com
Johns Wu is most famous for building a website on Bankaholic.com and eventually selling it to BankRate for a reported $15,000,000. Wu is a well-known Internet entrepreneur, and he is knowledgeable about generic domain names. This afternoon, I read an interview with Johns Wu on MO.com, with considerable focus on domain names. In fact,...
| Elliot Silver - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 14:8 |
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| Planning to Attend the GeoDomain Expo? Better Book Now
Have you been thinking about attending this year’s GeoDomain Expo put on by Associated Cities and scheduled to be held in New Orleans from Wednesday, April 28 through Friday, April 30, 2010? Today would be a good day to sign up, as the price will increase by $200 beginning tomorrow. Book now to get the
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| Elliot Silver - Monday, March 1, 2010 - 14:38 |
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| 5 Customizable Wordpress Themes
When building out some of my websites, I generally look for an inexpensive website theme to use, and lately I’ve preferred to use Wordpress, as it’s easy to update and add plugins. Sometimes I use the theme completely as is, and other times I hire a freelance programmer to make special customizations for me.
I’ve us...
| Elliot Silver - Monday, March 1, 2010 - 13:33 |
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| Some Sunday Thoughts
It’s another lazy(ish) Sunday, and here are some things I am thinking about today. Hope you have a great afternoon!
Does anyone know of a tool/script that I can use to analyze names at Snapnames and Namejet? Specifically, I would like to load a list of names (10,000 or more) into the tool, and it will
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| Elliot Silver - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 13:22 |
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| Quick Tip to Buy Domains in Private
This morning, I was looking through some drops on Snapnames for the next couple of days. I was researching one of the names I thought was worth bidding on, and I saw that it was an expired domain name rather than a private seller’s auction. After some further research (including a Whois History search), I
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| Elliot Silver - Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 13:18 |
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| New Domain Aftermarket Sites
In the last couple of months, I have learned about several new domain aftermarket sales websites. Most of the new sites haven’t been started by amateurs, but rather by professional domain investors who make their living in the domain space. Here are a few of the newer aftermarket websites:
DomainMarket.com – This site was...
| Elliot Silver - Friday, February 26, 2010 - 13:26 |
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| Could .Jobs Get a Boost and Help Future gTLDs?
I read an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today about the former President of Monster.com, Bill Warren, who is now working as the Executive Director of DirectEmployers Association, an organization that intends to utilize a network of domain names across the .Jobs domain extension. The effort could give a boost to the .Jobs domai...
| Elliot Silver - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 19:3 |
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