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Mike Dammann: Rick, you have recently made your last blog post and announced that one of your main projects will be Property.com.
Are you getting more involved in the development process?
Rick Schwartz: Very much so. Property.com is one project, however
the project I am going to put a lot of effort into is Widgets.com.
Probably by ...
Conceptualist - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 20:31
Why I Like GeoDomains Based on my recent acquisition of Burbank.com, mini-development of Salinas.com, and recent launch of Lowell.com, you can probably guess that I like geographic domain names. I do have several other non-geographic domain names, so I am not just a geodomain buyer/developer, but I happen to really like these names. There are a number of ...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 15:36
Are Geo Domains Overrated?
Been a lot of talk last few months about Geo domains. Associated Cities have done a great job pushing Geo domains to the forefront of the domain industry however, very little have been said how to make such domains winners. The main question here is what is the plan, what is the exit? As demand for such domains is high (mostly betw...
Conceptualist - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 13:38
How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Domaining - MUST READ POST.
This is My True Story
There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside thousands. What was worse was that
Domaining Tips - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 5:6
DNJ: Did he really say that?
Did
he really say that? I wasn’t going to comment
on this until I hear what ICANN CEO and President
Paul Twomey has to say about it, but since many
other sites are already buzzing (and possibly jumping to
co...
Conceptualist - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 16:57
ICANN Says: Domaining is Bad Paul Twomey is the president and CEO of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the big kahunas who run the domain system. So, their view of domaining is obviously somewhat important.
Now we here from Mr Twomey that domaining is bad. In fact, it's not only bad, it's as bad as cybersquatting and typosquatting.
...
Domain Bits - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 0:59
Top Notch Domains, LLC Acquires Burbank.com Top Notch Domains, LLC, a New Hampshire based domain investment and development company has acquired Burbank.com for an undisclosed sum. Burbank is one of the fastest growing cities in the state of California, with a population of over 100,000 residents. Previously, Burbank.com was used as a private Burbank news website.
The city of ...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 12:19
Are Geo Domains Overrated? Sahar posted this topic on his blog today. It is a great topic that I wanted to share my insight with readers of the blog. There is alot of uncertainty about the geo domain industry among domainers. To many, it is just a fad/trend in the industry that will come and go. This fad/trend has SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Are Geo Domai...
Simply Geo - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 20:34
ICANN HATES YOU The president of ICANN today, reveled what he thought of your domainers: your a problem and he doesn’t like you.
In a story written in the gulfnews.com today the publication in writting about the possibilty of ICANN granting of new domain extensions said:
“”"”Dominaing, which is technically legal, is still s...
The Domains - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 10:33
Back to the Future: iREIT Pricing Blunder iREIT lets three letter domains go for under $1,000.
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Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 8:41
AostaValley.com GEO domain! Italy 1,500+ Uniques 209 Clicks I am offering the domain name AostaValley.com for sale. I have only had this domain parked for 30 days and it does nicely. The reason I am selling is because I really think it needs to be developed and I do not have the time right now. It currently ranks # 3 & # 4
DotWeekly - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 20:22
Lowell.com is Launched There is still some work to be done, but I am happy to announce that I have launched Lowell.com! While my developer and I are still working out some of the kinks, we are at a point where we are able to release the first version of the Lowell.com website. I know it’s not perfect
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 9:44
DomainingTips: Making Money from Domain Names Some solid advice on DomainingTips.com on how to turn average domain names into valuable revenue-producing domain names. People often complain that they were too late in the game to get the “good names,” but this proves there is no such thing as being late in the domain industry. The successful entrepreneur will learn how...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 7:49
Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move Not content with the profits it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.
A subdomain is basically a domain built on a domain - so, for instance, some sites might add a blog at blog.domain.com. An unassigned subdomain is a subdomain that hasn't...
Domain Bits - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 22:31
Domaining Strategy Probably one of the most important things to get straight right from the start is what your domaining strategy is going to be.
Business Plan
Think of it like starting any new business, you need a business plan before you start investing money. I will have a series of posts on various domaining strategies but here
Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 15:16
Exit Strategy - Do you Have One? At some point every business owner (not just domainers) look to sell or “exit” the business. In this industry it seems many people are building and building portfolios so someday they will “exit” by selling the entire portfolio to a buyer.
Is this really a valid exit strategy?
It certainly sounds great but it’s also the elusive
Newfound Names - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 15:9
PPC vs SEO For Online Business In the domaining world, everyone loves making money off of PPC for doing very little work. It is easy money when you own the asset that delivers the traffic. But what will happen when the revenue well runs dry? PPC has started to decrease for many who depend on the PPC business model. Soon, it may drop even more SHARETHIS.addEntry...
Simply Geo - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 10:47
Interesting “Comments” on Domain Names These are "Comments" that I grabbed from random sites that I found interesting. I will not display the stories they came from, as they are comments and pretty much explain themself. Also a couple stories that I found "interesting".
"From Geoff" Parkers and squatters can be useful. At least they are i...
DotWeekly - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 14:33
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 - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 20:50
Type-in Traffic on 4 Word .org Domains?! Check out this recent DNF thread
Who Really Knows?
I go against all the “rules” here for buying domain names. I get super long names (3-4 words my norm), often with hyphens and always a .org or .net. In the appraisal section, my names always get no response, 0 or “reg fee” values.
For instance, I offer up
Domain Magnate - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 7:8
Guest Post - Step by step with a domaining n00b Your host - Lord Brar - has invited the old simian to talk about selling domains.
So here I am, about to lay down the case study on my very first domain sales that just happened a few weeks ago.
I will take my building and selling and cross-reference it to his article, to see where I
Domaining Tips - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 7:56
Closed in Observance of K'lagina Mama Check back in a few days for "a simple solution to an annoying and wasteful problem" .... the biggest domain success stories from the $10mm-50mm a year domainer earners you never heard about.
The Frager factor - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 14:24
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 - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 7:0
GoDaddy rollsout Buy It Now feature on TDNAM Some exciting news from Godaddy. As you all know they run The Domain Name Aftermarket TDNAM where most of us have picked up a bargain or two over the years - some more then others. Anyways, Godaddy/TDNAM have announced that a new feature has been rolled out for some of the expired domain names at
DnExpert - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 9:47
Available Domain Names: Resources, Tools and Services Here are some excellent places to find free and fee based available domain names lists. Often times you will need to subscribe to an email newsletter or sign up for forum membership to access these resources.
And by free I mean the domains you find have always been available or have recently expired. You
DotSauce Magazine - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 8:9
Revealed: Amazing SEO Tips from TNX TNX.net is a link building network providing an invaluable and innovative service to both webmasters and advertisers. It is free to join the TNX service.
What does TNX do? How does it work?
The process of buying and selling textual links is based upon the TNX points market, the dollar value of 1000 TNX points
DotSauce Magazine - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 3:49
Domains Available for Registration #50 This blog is just one of many sites providing services in the available domain names space. DotSauce.com Magazine put together a fine collection of available domain resources in their latest blog post. The article references a variety of forums, newsletters, free web based tools, software and paid services, all closely related to ava...
Bill Eisenmann - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 19:45
infotapes.comSM OK, folks, after devoting 10 days to my beautiful baby girl, her blog, and her mommy, I'm ready to get back to URL'ing again. Here's one I've never seen before -- an URL with a service mark. I didn't realize you needed to trademark your URL to keep people from using it. I thought you could just buy it and that would be that. I wouldn...
Good URL Bad URL - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 12:5
Yahoo Rolls Out AMP Yahoo! has announced its one-stop-shop advertising platform aimed at streamlining the process of buying and selling online ads across digital formats. This is a pretty smart idea that advertising networks created in the past. Now Yahoo! is making it much easier for businesses both small and large to find the right targeted advertis...
Simply Geo - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 9:35
IPO Domain Dispute Decisions under the Cybersquatting Provisions of the UDRP for April 4, 2008 The following Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) decisions were entered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). There are 37 panel decisions, and of those decisions, 33 domains were transferred after findings of cybersquatting and 4 UDRP complaints were denied.
Domain Dispute - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 9:54
Online Retail Sales to Increase by 17% This Year A study by Forrester Research released today concludes that online retail will increase by 17% this year to $204 billion, with clothing, computers, and cars topping the list of sales categories.
“The State of Retailing Online 2008: Marketing Report,” is the first of a three-part series of reports based on the study. It fo...
The Domains - Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 16:56
Online sales to grow 17 percent in ‘08 NEW YORK - Online spending is expected to rise a robust 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-based retailers, according to an annual survey to be released Tuesday.
Retail sales online, excluding travel purchases, are set to grow to $204 billion in 2008 from $174.5 billion last year, fueled by
