In Domaining (Or Anything Else): If You Snooze, You Lose! Came across a thread in the “Domain Newbies” section at Namepros that might help someone somewhere in the world.
Summary of the story: Person finds good domain available but decides to sleep on it. Comes back next day only to find it has been registered by someone else. Pissed. Person who registers posts in the thread
fka200 - 5/7/2008 5:30:23 PM
Another Week of Great Domain Sales - April 28, 2008 - May 4, 2008 There’s been another week of great domain name sales–Jobs.ca is the one that stands out to me the most for the week.
1. Win.com €1,000,000 = $1,553,180 Pvt Sale
2. Jobs.ca $600,000 Pvt Sale
3. SimiValley.com $90,000 RickLatona.com
4. YourChat.com $35,200 AfternicDLS
5. Bucket.com $30,000 Sedo
6. UnlistedNumbers.com $24,65...
fka200 - 5/7/2008 10:30:52 AM
Microsoft Decides To Forget About Purchasing Yahoo! Yep. It has been announced that Microsoft isn’t going to bend over backwards for Yahoo anymore. Yahoo! didn’t think their offer from $31.00 to $33.00 was enough!
“Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, w...
fka200 - 5/3/2008 8:12:21 PM
Iranians Not Allowed To Register .ASIA! There was a thread recently posted on Namepros that suggested that the .asia registry has banned all Iranians from registering .ASIA domains! Extremely scandalous if true! I own ZERO .asia domains and am not from Iran so there’s no way I can verify (I assume that if you used “Iran” as the country in your
fka200 - 5/2/2008 12:23:33 PM
Google PageRank (PR) Second Quarter 2008 Update Well, it finally happened. I normally can careless about Google PageRank but it’s allowing me to make a blog post… so more power to it!
You’ve got a ton of threads that sit and discuss Google PageRank. Everyone’s going nuts about it… but what do you expect? It’s not a Google PR Update without all t...
fka200 - 5/2/2008 1:37:37 AM
Top Reported Domain Sales For The Week! Check It Out! Nice week in the domaining world. Take a look at the top reported domain sales for the week (April 21, 2008 through April 27, 2008):
MeetPeople.com - $100,00
SearchEngines.com - $92,500
Sexkontakt.com - €40,000 = $62,280
BathSafety.com $33,725
Winnings.com - $27,000
Plums.com - $26,000
Go.org - $25,350
MNO.com - $18,250
OnlineFina...
fka200 - 4/30/2008 3:11:09 PM
MySpace.co.uk Gets Lucky: Domain Returned To Original Owner An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media.
Absolutely stunning. I can’t believe it… since there was a problem with the .co.uk showing Myspace related ads. The co.uk was registered before the .com; bu...
fka200 - 4/29/2008 1:37:48 PM
LH.com Forcefully Taken Away From Owner Seems like the LH.com UDRP win for Lufthansa is news that is just quickly spreading around. Absolutely ridiculous ruling, IMO.
The name is currently still owned by ‘elequa’. Well known in the domain industry and owns a vast portfolio of short acronym domains. Including ‘i.net’ !
A gem dating back to 1995. It is Lufthansa who have
fka200 - 4/28/2008 1:50:45 PM
“I’ve Got Your Domains, Now Give Us Some Water” A cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing to give up the domain names of several government ministries unless they agree to transfer water to all of Spain’s drought stricken regions.
All I can say is wow. Someone managed to pick up some domains of the Spanish ministry since they failed to register
fka200 - 4/26/2008 2:28:28 PM
My New Hate: Complex Captchas What the hell has been up with some captchas lately? I was going to download a file sent to me by PM from Rapid Share and after waiting the minute or so to download, I had to enter a captcha. Alright… so I end up seeing this:
I know some bots are getting super crazy with
fka200 - 4/25/2008 9:30:50 AM
Random AdSense Rant Post Warning: I had 20 minutes before class available to blog, so I decided to write something extremely random.
Not really about AdSense, but just some of the users I see online in general… It seems as though everyone online loves AdSense and wants to prosper by using it on their site. After a while, I’m assuming
fka200 - 4/23/2008 2:32:22 PM
Super Domains On Auction: XP.com, XU.com, XR.com, Bond.com… and more Great Domains is auctioning off some Great Domains.
Here is a list of their auction inventory
Example of some domains:
XP.com
XU.com
ZR.com
Bond.com
Osaka.com
Vino.com
Sociology.com
Gloria.com
Mif.com
Postal.com
Taz.com
Bucket.com
One that stands out to me the most is XP.com… for the obvious relationship to Windows XP, the oper...
fka200 - 4/20/2008 3:58:19 PM
Google Introduces WHO-IS Records Into Its Search Index Not exactly who-is records, but now when you take a domain and add the word “who-is” in front of a domain (IE: whois google.com) you get a link to domaintools.com which leads you to a page with the who-is information of a domain name.
Not bad for domain resellers, IMO. This will give their information a
fka200 - 4/20/2008 8:34:46 AM
So What Happened With Chitika Domain Parking? I received some e-mails from people asking me what happened with Chitika domain parking… I gave them a shot with ONE domain the first week. It isn’t the best domain… but it received 30-40 type-in hits/day… which made it a decent candidate for using Chitika Domain Parking as my test. It was a sports related
fka200 - 4/19/2008 11:37:48 PM
I Guess People Don’t Care? I had this whole post written out a couple hours ago out of frustration about the discrepancy in an auction thread on Digital Point and the who-is information. I decided I would give the benefit of the doubt to the seller and just not open my mouth since I didn’t do more than 5 minutes
fka200 - 4/19/2008 3:50:35 AM
Widgetbait Gone Wild - Great SEO Article From SEOMoz Just finished reading a great “widgetbait” article written by Matthew Inman @ SEOMoz.org.
It’s a great post written about how they ranked a site for keywords such as “free online dating” and “online dating,” but then got hit by a Google penalty. What was basically being done is distributing f...
fka200 - 4/18/2008 1:23:08 PM
TAX DAY! Eeeckk…. Yep. Today is the final day! Did you do your taxes? I didn’t. I filed for an extension due to having some last minute problems (procrastinator) and will file everything properly soon.
“Legal” Tactics to Reduce IRS TAX Owed from Domain Revenue
Probably should have posted this yesterday, huh? Sorry…
Getting ...
fka200 - 4/15/2008 4:40:31 AM
CEO of Pool.com Gives Advice To Prevent Getting Scammed I wrote a post a while ago about domain scammers, but just recently ran into a pretty good advice post that the CEO of Pool.com, Richard, gave to Namepros readers on a “Help Pool.com (fraudulent)” thread.
So, how can you protect yourself from these scammers? Here are a few ideas.
First, if they only just
fka200 - 4/14/2008 1:29:14 PM
Ultra-Premium, Super-Premium, and Not-so-premium-premium ? Ever wonder about price variations between different 2L/3L/4L domains? Well… it seems I missed something about there being “not so premium premium” letters ;).
Ultra-premium: A and S
Super-premium: E, M, D, I, T, O
Not-so-premium-premium: F, G, H
Also some notes of position:
Strong starting letters: A, O, S
Strong ...
fka200 - 4/14/2008 3:13:52 AM
“Is a .COM movement used to stifle the growth of domaining with respect to alt TLD’s?” I know… I know… lack of updates. Don’t remind me… there’s been nothing that I’ve been able to find that makes me “want to blog.” I’ve had a very very interesting domaining week. AdSense is doing a bit better (I think I jinxed it for today, but OK…)… Parking Panel is ta...
fka200 - 4/13/2008 8:56:53 PM
.ME Release Schedule Updated .ME ccTLD Release Schedule — .Montengero:
May 6 to May 20: General Sunrise Period. During this time, anyone with a trademark is eligible to apply for a .ME domain.
May 20 to June 6: Quiet Period. The registry will be closed to registrars. Sunrise auctions will begin for names that received multiple applications. .ME domain
fka200 - 4/10/2008 9:00:32 AM
Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned SUBDOMAINS Checking out Domain Bits today, there was a damn interesting post that absolutely shocked me. It was mentioned at Tech Crunch, but I don’t visit their site as often as Domain Bits ;).
Network Solutions is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains. This means that a URL like mysub.fka200.com (mysub being the subdomain) would actually...
fka200 - 4/9/2008 7:30:04 AM
Starting Off Fresh With Domaining? I got a request from someone to write a post asking on what advice I would give to people starting off with domains with the current market. I’m going to try and make a post as best as I can, but a lot in succeeding isn’t in a tutorial… it is how you tackle new
fka200 - 4/8/2008 7:00:12 AM
Some Recent CVCV.NET Sales As usual was browsing through the forum and I saw an interesting thread titled “I no not understand LLLL.net.”
There have been some talks between people on the value of LLLL.net and the future of 4 letter domains in com/net/info/org. In the thread, Namepros user krx posted a list of recent CVCV.net sales which I thought
fka200 - 4/4/2008 12:17:31 AM
“Use www.blackle.com. It uses Less Energy” I was sitting and working online this morning and received an interesting text message:
Use www.blackle.com. It uses less energy than Google. It’s exactly the same.
Being the domainer I am, I needed to check out this so called “Blackle.” What did I see? A “blacked out” version of Google. I guess that Goo...
