Part 3 - Smartpricing traffic This article continues directly on from the Part 2 (index.php/20080507423/MyBlog/Part-2-Google-and-the-quality-myth.html) in the series on Google and the domain industry. I would highly recommend that you read these articles prior to this one.
Since Google is really smart what they now introduce is a concept known as smart pricing...
Michael Gilmour - 5/12/2008 8:49:44 PM
Saturday Musings - housekeeping at the blog I can't believe that it's another week already; the year seems to be going so fast! You may have heard of the term spring cleaning and I thought that it was time that I did a little myself for whizzbangsblog.
Domain Parking Survey
I would like to encourage everyone to...
Michael Gilmour - 5/9/2008 12:20:24 PM
Google/Yahoo and the domain industry - Part 2 This is part 2 in the new series on what are the changes occuring in the domain industry and how Google in particular is controlling the landscape that we all work in. It continues directly on from part 1.
For example, the online games vertical may have a maximum profitable...
Michael Gilmour - 5/7/2008 8:14:56 PM
Google/Yahoo and the domain industry - Part 1 For the past few days I've been trawling my way through global Internet reports, advertising reports and through the last five years of Google annual reports. In fact, I think that I'm nearly reported out.
After reviewing the recent Google quarterly report it can clearly be derived that Google is...
Michael Gilmour - 5/6/2008 5:14:40 AM
Saturday Musings - domains for sale I can’t believe that it’s May already. This year seems to be flying by! Have you ever noticed that when you’re busy or just really enjoying life that time seems to move more quickly?
About 12 months ago I read an interesting article in Wired Magazine about how a young...
Michael Gilmour - 5/2/2008 10:16:47 PM
TRAFFIC Orlando and domain conferences I'm really interested in hearing different people's reaction to domain name conferences. Each person has their own reasons for going, from partying to the small hours of the morning or just to hang, for me, I go to conduct business.
A classic example was the recent Domain Round Table (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Dom...
Michael Gilmour - 4/30/2008 8:36:27 PM
Whypark.com receives angel investment I just received an email from Whypark (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/WhyPark) founder, Craig Rowe (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Craig_Rowe) outlining that he's just received an angel investor to spur WhyPark's growth. This is great news for any entrepreneur and Craig should be congratulated for securing the additio...
Michael Gilmour - 4/27/2008 9:26:25 PM
Saturday musings - fear is the mindkiller! While at Domain Round Table in San Francisco Ed Russell from NameDrive suggested in one of the sessions that I was moderating that rather being upbeat there was a feeling of fear entering the industry. Fear of the Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, fear of what Google has planned, fear of...
Michael Gilmour - 4/26/2008 1:01:07 AM
2nd Annual Parking Company Survey This is the second parking company survey that asks domain owners to rate different aspects of the parking company service that they predominantly use. There are 13 short multiple choice questions that only take a few minutes to answer.
The goal of the survey is to provide valuable data that...
Michael Gilmour - 4/24/2008 11:04:11 AM
Domain Round Table - the journey home I've made it to the Qantas club in LAX after flying down from San Francisco on my way home to Melbourne from Domain Round Table. It's been another one of those adventures of up and back across the Pacific pond but as normal it's been really worth while.
Domain Round...
Michael Gilmour - 4/22/2008 3:16:16 AM
Domain Round Table - boarding now... I'm sitting in the Qantas club at the moment reflecting on what the upcoming week in San Francisco will bring. Nothing like winging my way across the Pacific once again :-)
I must admit it that I'm really looking forward to the sessions that I'm moderating on Saturday as they...
Michael Gilmour - 4/17/2008 10:25:35 PM
Domain Valuations - beauty is in the eye of the beholder Since my last post on the value of progolfer.com I've received a number of very perceptive comments that have provoked me to write this article.
In the previous article I explored the notion that price and valuation are two completely different things and that as domain investors we need to...
Michael Gilmour - 4/15/2008 10:52:12 PM
Progolfer - what's it worth? I've recently discovered that the previous owner of progolfer.com has posted what I purchased the domain for in a number of forums. I'm not sure of their motivation in doing this but it opens up a number of interesting issues that I believe are worth discussing.
About 12 months ago...
Michael Gilmour - 4/14/2008 8:00:05 PM
progolfer.com - a journey into selling a domain. So what happened with the progolfer.com sale....well.....I'm embarrassed to say that absolutely nothing has moved forward. I was working with one of the major online auction houses and found that it was impossible to get a link from them in a timely fashion so that I could promote the sale...
Michael Gilmour - 4/13/2008 10:19:44 PM
Saturday Musings - "the times are a changing..." I'm feeling old. My daughter is having her 13th birthday today and I don't think that I've heard of any of the music that she wants to play. I remember the days when I used to know the top 40 playing songs off by heart. Casey's Coast to Coast...
Michael Gilmour - 4/11/2008 9:48:59 PM
Are we on our way to GooHoo? I woke up this morning to discover that the domain world is in the early stages of a dramatic upheaval. In an effort to frustrate Microsoft's aspirations for Yahoo in anyway possible, Google will be providing advertising inventory for Yahoo's search results. Initially only a small percentage of the inventory...
Michael Gilmour - 4/11/2008 3:54:30 AM
Domain Round Table Domain Round Table (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Domain_Roundtable) (DRT) is starting next Friday in San Francisco and I'm sure that it will be an outstanding event. I couldn't help myself, the allure of all those great domainers in one place was too much with the result I'm once again heading across the Pacific to....
Michael Gilmour - 4/10/2008 5:48:26 AM
Com.au - a rich resource for domainers It is wonderful to see a prediction come true. The Australian domain governing body (AUDA) has finally taken the first steps to liberalizing the com.au namespace. Several years ago I predicted that this is the direction that AUDA would take simply on the basis that there is too much money...
Michael Gilmour - 4/8/2008 8:50:55 PM
Holiday musings - conference time! Well, I'm back and feeling refreshed after a two week vacation with the family on the Gold Coast in wonderful Queensland, Australia. During the time away I managed to do a considerable amount of reading and thinking while staring at the surf. Two things I love doing!
Domain Round Table...
Michael Gilmour - 4/7/2008 12:11:35 AM
Standards - Part 13 - What parking companies need to do. So what does a parking company need to do in order to be classified as clean and above reproach? The first thing that needs to be done is the adoption of standards:
Uniques - a proposed definition was outlined in Part 3 (index.php/Standards-and-Transparency/Standards-Part-3-Traffic-definitions-and-reporting.html) and Part 4 (ind...
Michael Gilmour - 3/31/2008 10:45:00 AM
Monday Musings - whoops a couple of days late! For the next couple of weeks I'll be enjoying the hospitality of sunny Queensland where the marketing pitch is beautiful one day, perfect the next . In fact, I'm about 10 minutes from where TRAFFIC downunder is going to be held and let me assure you that it's absolutely...
Michael Gilmour - 3/24/2008 8:52:21 AM
Whizzbangsblog gets a typo parked! I have a fantastic announcement to make! Whizzbangsblog.com has hit the big time! The domain name whizbangblog.com (a typo) has been registered and parked by another domain name owner. It's nice to know that my blog has managed to gain enough traffic that others are viewing the typos as valuable....
Michael Gilmour - 3/20/2008 2:26:12 AM
Standards - Part 11 - Show me the money! This is the third article in the series on domain standards and transparency that relate directly to Google. You can view the whole series in the Archive area of the blog under standards and transparency . The reason why many domainers aren't screaming is that they've been reinvesting a...
Michael Gilmour - 3/18/2008 10:45:00 AM
Standards - Part 10 - Our Google which... This is a follow on article in the series on transparency and standards. The previous article examined how both Google and Yahoo have agreed to the standards outlined by the IAB but have not flowed the transparency down to domain owners.
Because our industry is so small it's been suggested...
Michael Gilmour - 3/16/2008 10:45:00 AM
Saturday Musings - being a better domainer Is there life outside of domaining? Sadly, for many of us the answer may be no. Buying and managing domains have become a hi-tech addictive drug where getting a fix becomes our central preoccupation. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Domainers work incredibly hard for their...
