Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers End users just do not get it, when it comes to domains I get contacted often with offers on domain names that I own. Some are by phone, most are by email/whois some threw parking companies and some threw after market auction houses like Sedo.com and Afternic.com etc. When you are contacted by phone, you can really gauge how the buyer feels about the domain they are interested i... DotWeekly - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:37 An answer to a post that deserves a post Anunt Patel // Feb 12, 2008 at 8:11 pm Rick, are you willing to sell our premium domains for us that we own and take a percentage cut? thanks! That’s an excellent question Anunt and it deserves it’s own post. The short answer is yes. There are however, a few rules. I’m not going to sell more than 1 Rick Latona - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 20:53 What’s the best time of day to send these Daily Domains? My new software lets me queue these Daily Domain specials for any time I want. For instance, today’s email is going out at 5 pm EST. I know you guys are scattered around the globe. When is the optimal time? Rick Latona - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 13:36 Time Capsule December 27, 2000 Morning folks!! This is going to be another â??Time Capsuleâ? post. This post I made on December 27, 2000 on my 5th year on the net. You will see I say we are entering â??Phase 2.â? That is particularly appropriate today as I believe we are now beginning â??Phase 3â? of all this. So this post is a little over 7 years old. The more... Rick Schwartz - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:58 How an $8 Domain Became a Million-Dollar Empire "$8 bought me a dotCOM" We featured Ashley Qualls whateverlife.com here before, but now Yahoo has a video that communicates her story with impact. An inspiration for anyone who wants to believe "YES I CAN". WATCH IT NOW The Frager factor - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 22:48 The “King”, his alter ego and why Rick should be pleased. I personally don’t know Rick Schwartz that well. It seems however that no matter which way I turn in the domaining world people are talking about him.. Not always negatively I must say as, generally, hes normally spoken about with affection. Is it me though, or is there not much middle ground when it comes Julia Mackenzie - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:39 Guy Kawasaki: The Cleverest Idea I’ve Seen In Years Via Guy Kawasaki’s blog: This is the cleverest idea I’ve seen in years (and Apple had nothing to do with it as far as I know): PlayPumps. Kids play on a merry-go-round and pump water for villages at the same time. Girls benefit in particular because they are usually the ones fetching water. How cool is that?! About Pla... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:43 Toronto.com - The Decline of Toronto’s Web King Toronto.com is celebrating its ten year anniversary, or so enthuses a press release which arrived in my inbox this morning. Aahh, Toronto.com. What fun would we have if we didn’t have a site like you to kick around? In fact, part of the reason we started blogTO way back in 2004 was because of the general consensus that exist... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 16:45 Wire: Threats to the Domain Industry This morning’s article in Domain Name Wire is an important read for anyone who has money invested in domain names. There are many serious threats to our industry, and if we don’t take some sort of action, the threats could be detrimental to the survival of this industry. When significant money is being made in Elliot Silver - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:40 NNNNN.com Countdown Approaching 10k NNNNN.com Countdown Approaching 10k. Around 11k NNNNN.com’s are currently remaining unregistered. Latest count shows 10, 736 10,696 to be exact. They are likely to run out within a week if this trend continues. According to NNNNN Domains Marchex owns around 60K NNNNN.com, which are valid US zip codes, which only leaves the othe... Domain Magnate - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 12:15 Unregistered Domain Names #28 Sunday’s email list seemed to go over pretty well as a majority of the domains are now registered. Today’s list of available domain names represents a wide variety of specific niche topics and categories. I favor CreateClick.com, GoldSouvenir.com and LatestBargain.com from this list. Bill Eisenmann - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 8:47 Yahoo Kills Domain Arbitrage: Fallout for Google, Others Yahoo will stop allowing arbitrage as of this Friday, will affect other major companies as well. Advertisement In a major move sure to have ramifications across the online advertising industry, Yahoo (YHOO) has told its advertising partners that it will no longer accept “arbitraged” traffic as of this Friday. Here... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 15:52 Country Codes Of The World Country Codes of the World maps 245 top-level domain country codes encompassing all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories. (At the end of every URL and email address is a top-level domain. Although .com is the world’s most popular top-level domain, it is far from alone. There are more than 260 top-le... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 17:12 The Countdown And The Blog Only a couple days left until the big announcement is made.  15 February is around the corner.  It will be great for the Geo domain industry and will help expedite the maturity of the industry.  I would really like to thank all of you for taking the time out of your busy days to read the blog.  SimplyGeo.com has become the SHARETHI... Simply Geo - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 23:13 Finding value in purchasing existing websites Existing websites can be a source of domain names with traffic or a website with greater potential and there are bargains out there. Here is one idea: Start with a directory such as DMOZ or Yahoo directory so you know the website has at least one good inbound link and has been around for a while. DMOZ Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 19:35 A Look At MainStreet.com I woke up this morning, got some coffee and readied myself for the day. I drove to breakfast, ate, then headed to the office. I set up my laptop and hit Google Reader, I then saw Jim Cramer’s company TheStreet.com released a new site named MainStreet.com aimed to be the TMZ of the personal finance market. Basically, TMZ meets TheSt... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:39 Dog (.com) If it was only that easy. But here lies more proof of the web's evolution to a broadcast medium and the value of a domain as a TV station. Changes the whole value chain. And its NOT going to happen on dotTV. NOT. The Frager factor - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 12:58 Is Yahoo Really Killing Domain Arbitrage? Via Parked.com eMail: Dear Parked.com customers, We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states: “All other types of traffic inc... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 14:46 Free Domain Search Tool Launched. Your Database, Your Search I am pleased to announce the latest project of mine! www.LazyMate.com 100% free and in Beta, so your help and ideas are welcome. LazyMate.com is a tool for domainers that search large domain names lists and are sick of spending Hours doing it looking for the Best Domains. Until now, there was no service that allowed YOU to input DotWeekly - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 21:59 Domain Name Wire: Threats to the Domain Name Industry Domain Name Wire has learned through multiple sources that Ask.com’s Google feed will no longer be syndicated to parking companies as of March 1. A number of parking companies use this feed to augment other search results. I know that Parked.com uses it for traffic to some foreign companies, and apparently HitFarm and Skenzo use thi... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 10:31 Survey Focus: Most Influential Person in Domains Here’s a focus on a new question on the 3rd Annual Domain Name Wire survey. Advertisement Over 300 people have already completed the 3rd annual Domain Name Wire survey. If you haven’t done so yet, please take 3 minutes to complete the survey. You will be eligible to win a $100 credit at the domain Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:21 Dan Pulcrano’s Geographic Domain Excellence Dan Pulcrano is a geographic domain pioneer, and Ron Jackson’s DNJournal has an in-depth article about Dan and how he was one of the first print media publishers to realize the significance of the Internet and take advantage while the opportunity was there. Dan made a gamble based on his research and gut instinct, and Elliot Silver - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 14:21 Novice Domainer tattooes DomainTools logo on arm. Brave or Mad? Wow. This is definitely a first! Paul Brin of KYGallery.com ( he earned the linkback with this stunt :)  ) tattooed the DomainTools.com gears logo on his forearm while in Seattle. Having tattooed the cool lookin’ logo on his arm he notified Jay Westervald of DomainTools and Jay, being a good sport, rewarded Paul with a DnExpert - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 18:17 Parked Eliminates Parking Arbitrage - Yahoo Puts An End To Arbitrage Received an e-mail stating that Parked.com will no longer accept parking arbitrage. Parked was the only provider I knew of that never really said “no” to arbitrage; seems that Yahoo! no longer wants to tolerate it. I’ve never done arbitrage, but I’m sure there have been people making decent amount of money doi... fka200 - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 17:26 CBS Rebukes dotMOBI Another example of full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times that set consumer behavior against typing in (or even knowing about) dotMOBI. What are the dotMOBI folks doing with their war chest of cash to counter- attack this in what needs to be a full-boar crisis management initiative? 700,000 people stand to loose ... The Frager factor - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 12:53 Should DotMOBI FIRE Their PR Agency? 100 out of 100 consumers surveyed at the mall tonight never heard of dotMOBi; would never type it in. Developing.... (VIPS check SNOOPY for full survey details) The Frager factor - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 22:23 yahoo acquires Maven.Net One way to let microsoft know your worth more then their bidding is to get start buying other companies see,,SUNNYVALE, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb 12, 2008 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has acquired Maven Networks, Inc., a leading online video platform provider, to e... Mister US - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 19:48 TechCrunch: Hearst Acquires Kaboodle for $30+ million This is the second recent acquisition announcement for Hearst Interactive Media - UGO for around $100 million last month, and tonight they are announcing the acquisition of Kaboodle, a social shopping service that launched in late 2005. Kaboodle, founded by Manish Chandra, Keiron McCammon, Chetan Pungaliya, closed a key distributio... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 10:36 Rick Schwartz: Time Capsule December 27, 2000 Morning folks!! This is going to be another “Time Capsule” post. This post I made on December 27, 2000 on my 5th year on the net. You will see I say we are entering “Phase 2.” That is particularly appropriate today as I believe we are now beginning “Phase 3” of all this. So this post is a little over 7 years old. The more things ch... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:55 Prince Andrew makes stop at Go Daddy One of the Duke of York’s key stops during his visit Tuesday to Arizona was to Scottsdale’s world leader of Internet domain names. Prince Andrew, the younger brother of Prince Charles and son of Queen Elizabeth II, visited Go Daddy Group Inc. in his role as United Kingdom’s special representative for international ... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 19:30 .CA domains inching to One Million Total .ca domain registrations are now at 966,200.Since I posted two weeks ago, that's a gain of about 10,000 names.At this rate, .ca registrations will reach 1,000,000 within two months from now, about the middle of April. Dot CA Domains - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 14:38 If This Bill Passes, I'm Toast Photo via a source that I am now using all the time and highly recommend: iSTOCKPHOTO.com NO FAT PEOPLE SERVED HERE: Mississippi legislation would prohibit restaurants there from serving obese customers. You're big, bulky—and hungry. So you lumber into a restaurant to get a bite. You scan the menu for a tasty meal, but when it comes ... The Frager factor - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 17:2 Follow-up On The Ask Domain Parking Feed Fiasco Mini follow-up on the whole — not quoting anyone yet since I’m not exactly sure still what’s going on, but people are saying yes and providers are saying no. Who to believe? Not sure. Will still be trying to dig around but it seems like the only way to see if there is any change is fka200 - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 15:18 In The Works: ASSISTA New Look (Click to enlarge) Now that we took ASSISTA live, it is time to polish the site, upgrade functions. For next 10 months we plan to do mostly that. Sometime next year, we’ll bring the site to the next level - execution. Image above is work in progress of new look/feel. In terms of functionalities, we are making community indicat... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:21 Venture Beat: Brace yourselves for the SPAC attack Life-science IPOs may be hitting the wall — so far this year, seven biotech and medical-device startups have yanked their offerings — but one part of the IPO market is booming. That’s the field of “special-purpose acquisition corporations,” or SPACs, which are essentially blank-check companies that raise money through initial offeri... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:6 Record 10 Billion Web-Video Views Reported in December 2007 According to AVN.com there was a record 10 Billion video’s viewed on the web in Devember 2007. The figures suggest that about 141 million Americans viewed online video that month. The particular strong results was attributed to for one the Hollywood writers strike. The Top Five sites for viewing the videos were: Google sites in... The Domains - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 3:7 Yahoo Acquires Ad Technology Company Yahoo! for sale, yeah right, at least not for now!  Today they announced the acquisition of Maven Networks for $160 million.  Maven sells a system that embeds advertisements into videos.  A smart move on Yahoo’s part, since some of Maven’s clients are several of the largest traditional media companies of the world.   Thi... Simply Geo - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 22:16 SEOKER: Google hijacking 404 error pages Via SEOKER.Com: This morning I installed the Google Toolbar beta version on one of my computers and my oh my - there is something that can have huge impact to many webmasters. Google grabs the 404 error code returned to the web browser in certain situations and instead of displaying the 404 error page of the website you are on, it c... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:33 RWW: Delver Reinvents Search The most impressive thing about the new search engine Delver is that it knows who you are and who your friends are even if you don’t import your address book or add your social networking profiles. Instead, Delver leverages the social graph to map out a user’s social connections. Since everyone’s soc... Conceptualist - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:49 UDRP: Lack of Use of a Domain is NOT Always a Defense The mere holding of an infringing domain name without active use can constitute use in bad faith under the UDRP.  Despite this, all too often trademark owners watch as domains are registered that incorporate their trademark.  Unfortunately for the trademark owner, they think costly litigation under the ACPA is the only mean... 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