DomainNameSales.com Videos Released Frank Schilling and the team at DomainNameSales.com released a pair of great videos geared towards end users. The first one, featured below speaks to the value of quality domain names and the second one is more about the DomainNameSales.com company. Thanks to Frank and team for producing quality videos about the value of quality do...
NameTalent.com - Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 20:35
A Letter From Bill Sweetman (Chairman of the ICA) To Domain Investors The following letter is a request to support the ICA that was published in the domaining.com newsletter on Monday. The ICA or Internet Commerce Association, is an organization that actively fights for the rights of domain name investors. I hope that if you are reaping benefits of domain name investing that after reading this lette...
NameTalent.com - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 0:26
Morgan Linton’s iGoldrush Domaining Videos Featured on Forbes Investing While visiting with family at Easter brunch yesterday my uncle mentioned to me he saw some videos about domain names on Forbes.com over the weekend. My family knows I invest in domain names and being that domains are in the news quite often with all the new TLD happenings I wasn’t surprised to hear that
NameTalent.com - Monday, April 1, 2013 - 20:30
Big East To Become America 12 Conference? Based on some domain purchases made this week, all signs point to yes. DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s and Villanova are bolting from their current conference structure on June 30th, and are taking the Big East Conference name with them. This leaves a number of current Big East teams conference...
IceHockey.com Sells for $25k at Webfest Global IceHockey.com sold in the Webfest Global Live Auction today for $25k. Big deal or big steal? Other notable sales include jf.com $250k, XU.com $210k, free.me $19k and bez.com went for $17,650. See all of the auction lots/sales in the DNN post: Webfest Global 2013 Domain Auction Results (unofficial)
NameTalent.com - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 22:16
One Way to Acquire the Domain (types) You Want Quite often I have domain investor clients and friends contact me asking if I can help them find a domain name or several domain names in a certain niche. For those looking to build a decent domain name portfolio or just seeking out a certain type of name, hand registered domains just won’t cut it.
NameTalent.com - Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 11:1
Do You Love Promo Codes? GoDaddy constantly puts out new promo codes that save me a lot of money when buying, transferring and renewing domain names. GoDaddy is not the only domain registrar that uses coupon codes for discounts on domain services, however, it does give out the most aggressive coupon codes in the domain space. There are even $1
NameTalent.com - Monday, November 19, 2012 - 23:14
Sports.tv Hits the Sale Block at $650,000 Sports.tv was announced for sale in the most recent DomainStore.tv newsletter with an asking price of $650,000. The newsletter went out yesterday and also included FantasySports.tv for $125k and Retirement.tv for $150k. There is a side note with all three names that JV opportunities may be considered. As with all of the DomainStore...
NameTalent.com - Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 10:39
.TV Spotlight Post #25 .TV time! It hasn’t been the most active past two months for .TV news but there have been many impressive sales and plenty going on behind the scenes. It was pointed out in a thread at AllThings.tv that SanFrancisco.tv and Hamburg.tv, which were registered on the premium drops in early September have already exchanged hands.
NameTalent.com - Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 16:58
Saturday Tidbits It’s going to be a snowy Saturday here in Denver! I hope you’re enjoying the weekend so far. Lot’s to talk about in the domain industry this week including some nice .com sales, launch of new partnerships and conferences, interesting URDP decisions and much more. Diving right in, I noticed a new gTLD conference was
NameTalent.com - Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 12:36
153k Domain Names to Hit Auction Block in ‘Court Ordered Domain Sale’ Could this be the grand finale of the Jeff Baron domain saga? As covered last year by TheDomains in a post titled “He Once Had Over 1 Million Domains & Made $1.5 Million A Month, Now This Domainer is On The Verge Of Losing It All”. It appears the last of the domain portfolio owned by Baron’s Ondova Limited Company will be up for sale...
NameTalent.com - Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 18:8
CRMSoftware.com Sells For $40,000 Coming through the Sedo sales wire this morning you will find a couple nice five figure sales reported including CRMSoftware.com which, according to Sedo, has sold for $40k. CRM stands for customer relationship management, a very common term and type of software in the sales niche. The buyer is Philadelphia dentist, Anthony Lam. A...
NameTalent.com - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 12:12
1,000 Generic Keyword .XXX Names Up For Sale + 15 Picks Under $7k ICM Registry, operators of the .XXX top level domain announced this week they are releasing over one thousand ‘premium generic keyword’ .xxx domain names in a public sale. The names are available on a first come, first serve basis. This comes shortly after the launch of search.xxx a search engine that only only serves up adult conten...
NameTalent.com - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 16:31
Domain of the Day: Scared.com An appropriate topic for the upcoming Halloween holiday. I can't remember the last time I went to a haunted house but if I was looking for a good one in my area I would know (and remember) where to look online and it wouldn't be Google.The folks behind Scared.com have done a huge marketing push here in Denver. I've hear at least 3 sc...
NameTalent.com - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 11:50
40 Recent ccTLD Sales From the Sedo Marketplace Sedo.com continues to be the top marketplace for ccTLD sales racking up more a quarter million in ccTLD sales so far this month. Doctor.co.uk lead the pack with a 24,999 GBP sale (approx 40K USD). The .co.uk extension saw several other very strong sales including content and keno which both attained five figure sales. Italy’...
NameTalent.com - Monday, October 22, 2012 - 12:2
#FF A Few to Follow in the #DomainIndustry on Twitter Every Friday I get a few fine folks who include me in their #FF (follow friday) tweets. I thought I would post today some of my favorite profiles to follow on Twitter from the domain industry. Happy Friday! Enjoy the list…, @thedomains @DNJournal @adamstrong @fusible @morganlinton @DomainingCom @elliotsblog @mwzd @Nameclerk @Dom...
NameTalent.com - Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:31
Newsweek Stopping Print Edition, Moving to Digital Only Starting in 2013, you will only be able to read a Newsweek publication online. The U.S. weekly news magazine announced today that it will no longer publish its print version with the last print publication going out on December 31st, 2012. Not only is it ceasing print publications but will rebrand to Newsweek Global.
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NameTalent.com - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:17
Namepros Forum DDOS Problems Continue A recurring problem with NamePros over the last couple years, database error.. database error.. database error. It looks like more DDOS attacks. This popular domain forum suffers from more DDOS attacks than any other domain industry website it seems. I have a couple open transactions there on names I’m buying so it’s a l...
NameTalent.com - Monday, October 15, 2012 - 12:39
Apple Files Lawsuit Against A.pl Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a Polish online grocery delivery service accusing them of using a similar name and logo to benefit from its trademark. A.pl Internet SA runs the popular A.pl website which has attained a worldwide global Alexa traffic rank of approx 72k and 1,032 traffic rank in Poland...