My Thoughts on GEO domains While I made a promise to myself to never regurgitate press releases and only blog when I had something I wanted to talk about, I must chime in on the GEO domain conversation which my peers are having.
I suppose I’m more bullish than Sahar and more bearish than SimplyGEO and Elliot Silver.
Many domainers, myself included,
Rick Latona - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 21:9
The Economy is Bad??? People are Still Buying: Here’s the Secret I live in the what experts call the worst real estate market in the country, South Florida.
Miami andFt Lauderdale are in the top five markets in the US in foreclosure rates, number of unsold homes relative to population, prices have declined 25% or more in the past year and have recently been predicted to decline
The Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 23:34
27 Great Marketplaces for Selling Your Domain Names (and Websites) Are you ready to market your domain names to the whole world? Here are the most popular forum communities, online auctions and social networks to maximize exposure to your domain and website sales.
Be sure to let them know DotSauce sent you!
Forums
NamePros - The industries largest domaining community.
DNForum - Popular domain forum ...
DotSauce Magazine - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 18:46
Over 200,000 Domains Added to Afternic The inventory at Afternic is constantly changing. Thousands of new expiring domains are listed in the Afternic Auctions section and there are always new portfolios being added by our members. Just in the past week several substantial portfolios were added that should keep you busy looking for the best deals.
You may be thinking, th...
Afternic DLS - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:15
Domainer Earnings Topping the Charts Paula Mooney has a “List of Bloggers Salaries (and Webmasters, Affiliate Marketers, Content Scrapers, Domainers and any other title you can think of)” . It’s unclear why she decided to add domainers to this list (other than for linkbait ) but domainers Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling dominate the top 2 positions.
We&...
Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 13:37
Vancouver.com Beta Launched All this talk about geo domains has been great for the industry. As I stated in my rebuttal, Kevin Ham and his team have begun to transform Vancouver.com into a media empire. The beta site just launched and looks amazing. Pay close attention to these major players who just entered the geo domain SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Vancouver...
Simply Geo - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 14:32
Big Week in Domain Aftermarket According to the weekly sales report distributed by DNJournal, last week saw some fairly strong deals. There were a few six figure deals, including the sale of Coffee.org, and the drop auction market was hot once again with some strong names fetching decent amounts. The real winner of the week was over at NameMedia.
Not
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 9:17
WashingtonVC Startup Receives $6m Investment Just received a note from Mike Mann announcing that Yield Software, a company conceived and incubated by Mike and his WashingtonVC company, raised $6 million in Series B funding. This investment was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and includes WPP Group, joining WashingtonVC. When I finished graduate school, my career started at Wunde...
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:3
Part 9 - Is Google's perfect information really perfect? After a brief sabbatical from writing for a few days I decided to continue the series on the domain industry and explore the concept of negotiating against someone that has perfect information. You can view the earlier articles in the domain industry series by clicking here (index.php/Table/Domain-Analytics/).
As we have...
Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 23:52
Video of Kevin Ham's "What is Success" Speech Reinvent.com, Kevin Ham's company, has posted the video of his famous "What is Success" speech given at a TRAFFIC conference earlier this year. Kevin Ham is based in Vancouver and owns one of the top .com domain portfolios in the world. He was relatively unknown until he was profiled on the cover of Business 2.0 magazine as the "Man ...
Dot CA Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 13:42
Good Domains From The Domainer Meeting Paris 2008 EuroDNS is hosting a Domainer Meeting in Paris from June 19-20 2008 with a SnapNames Live Auction. Unfortunately I can’t make it to this one, but here are a list of good names to bid on:
Xp.com
Chocolate.net
Receipe.org
Order.net
Silver.net
Italian.net
Denmark.net
Pizza.info
Fotos.net
Podcasts.net
Catholic.eu
Motorbikes.net
Ho...
Domainer Income - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 17:25
Travelforless.com at auction The domain travelforless.com is at auction at ebay.
The domain which has been owned for 12 years by Remarkable Technologies, Inc, includes a federally registered trademark.
The auction ends on June 13 and the starting price is $49K
The Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 12:21
Available Domains List #64 Here is another round of available domains, all of which were unregistered at the time of this post. A fair amount of domains from past lists have been tasted and dropped so if you’re willing to search through them you might be surprised at some of the domains that have become available again. Thanks for
Bill Eisenmann - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 9:1
The Worst Domain Ever Registered? Just going through a drop list and came across this domain.
Is it the worst name ever registered?
ifyouthinkthatiregisteredthisjusttobeobnoxiousthenyouarecorrect.com
The Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 17:56
LLL.com Domain Sale Mania - WOW! This Weeks Domain Sales Break or not–I still need about one to two hours online per day. You just need to make sure things are in order and not going haywire while you try to enjoy yourself. I’ve found a pretty decent spot to sit and enjoy myself on my (now with me) laptop… so I’ll try to start
fka200 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 10:38
Ogilvy on Call-to-Action Domains Advertising legend David Ogilvy is turning in his grave knowing the role of clear brand indentification in direct response and how his industry has missed the mark with domains. If he were alive he'd probably say the problem with— and only barrier to unlimited success— with your web and landing pages are the way they look. His advice...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 22:33
Bullying.US I had started this about a year ago and forgotton about it till today, some company emailed me wanting a domain for what else ,reg fee ! when i said i wouldnt even sell even if you were offering 100k he got a little upset ! made me think of bullying.us and while it gets a small trickle of traffic it's still gets more then bullying.co...
Mister US - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 20:42
Speaking of Landing Pages Seeking Domains All you have to do is develop a RELATIONSHIP with someone who has a product to sell and an offer that can't be refused (once the landing page is found). Again, consider the role of domains not for PPC pages, but to improve advertising response rates driving "motivated" traffic to pages such as these.
The Frager factor - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 7:21
GoDaddy Looks to Social Networking for Growth Domain registrar and web hosting company files patents for aggregating social network sites.
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The world’s biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, may be looking to social networking to grow its business.
The company filed three patents this year, published last month, that describe a web portal that aggregates a per...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 9:57
Cybersquatting Should Be Curtailed at the Registar Level: A Proposal by Mairead Moore Cybersquatting: Prevention better than cure? by Mairead Moore - Research Abstract: Since the early Commercialisation of the World Wide Web, cybersquatting as a phenomenon has been in existence and has been consistently rising; with recent 2006 figures showing a 25%...
Domain Dispute - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 13:27
4 Letter .com’s have a big week Several have reported on the 15 three letter .com sales at AfterNic DLS for $40K each but nobody talked about the Stack of 4 letter domain names that also were reported on DnJournal.com .
As an investor in the 4 letter .com market, I sure noticed all the 4 letter sales! 10 CVCV 4 figure sales and 6
DotWeekly - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 10:39
Recent CVCV.com sales Comparison Here is an interesting comparison of reported cvcv sales.
Last week:
Dadi.com
$5,850.00
06/04/2008
SnapNames
3 Months Ago :
Domain Magnate - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 14:56
FadeProof.com, FZH.org & OZUC.com end today at SnapNames.com 3 more domain names that I have listed on SnapNames.com end today! Again, all these are listed at No Reserve!
FadeProof.com is currently at only $99 and I have had had offers on this domain in the past up to $500.
FZH.org is currently at $279. First registered back in 1999 and has never dropped.
OZUC.com is a
DotWeekly - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 9:48
McAfee: .hk, .cn and .info most dangerous domain extensions Antivirus software vendor McAfee published a report today found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info
Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info”.
A li...
The Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 0:12
Dangerous Domain Names…. .hk, .cn and .info According to a new report from McAfee Inc. registrars appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released today by the antivirus software vendor.
McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn&...
DotWeekly - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:22
Reinvent Beta Test Vancouver.com Domain Name News received a tip-off that Vancouver.com has been relaunched in a beta state by Reinvent. The company purchased Vancouver.com in September of 2007 and has obviously been hard at developing this top notch geo domain name.
The site has features that most users would be accustomed to finding at a geocentric website such as...
Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 14:1
How to get your EPP Code at Network Solutions This is a reader submited question. If you have a question, feel free to visit the Contact page and submit your question. If I think the answer will be helpful to others, it will be likely that I post the question here. If you wish not to have your Q&A posted, just let me know.
DotWeekly - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:4
Yahoo News Yahoo annouced serveral items today
1. YaHoo is going to start streaming CBS television shows online for at no cost to viewers.
2. Yahoo! has entered into a strategic, multi-year relationship for online display and video advertising with Walmart.com. Yahoo! also becomes the
The Domains - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 10:44
MyID.ca DOT CA Auction Featured on DNJournal Ron Jackson, editor of DnJournal.com, just posted about the MyID.ca DOT CA Auction in his lowdown section.
Thank you Ron. Greatly appreciated.
DnJournal.com compiles weekly domain sales report and is considered the ultimate resource for domain sales info, domainers conferernce coverage, as well as other well written articles covering...
MyID - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 19:36
Act Blue (.com) There are Red States and Blue States but here's the first to apply domain thinking in COLOR to their advantage.
This is the time to seize the opportunity of any domain with potential to be a political brand. If you don't you'll be like Hillary- lying in wait 4 years for another chance at bat.
The Frager factor - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 15:25
McAfee Reveals List of Riskiest ccTlds for Malicious Downloads, Browser Exploits and Unwanted E-Mail McAfee, Inc. recently announced the results of a McAfee® SiteAdvisorTM research report that provides a global road map of the riskiest, and the safest, places to surf and search on the World Wide Web. McAfee analyzed and ranked 265 top-level domains like Japan (.jp), France (.fr) and Commercial (.com) based on McAfee’s Web safe...
DnExpert - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 4:4
McAfee Identifies The “Mal-web” In Domain Names Anti-virus software maker McAfee released their second “Mapping the Mal Web” (PDF) report today. The McAfee report attempts to map and identify the specific domain names where malicious websites reside. This is the second year for the report. In the 2007 report, the .tk extension was reported to have the highest number of...
Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 13:32
Cybersquatting Should Be Curtailed at the Registar Level: A Proposal by Mairead Moore Cybersquatting: Prevention better than cure? by Mairead Moore - ResearchAbstract: Since the early Commercialisation of the World Wide Web, cybersquatting as a phenomenon has been in existence and has been consistently rising; with recent 2006 figures showing a 25% increase...
Domain Dispute - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 12:27
Fiesta NameDrive VIParatodos
NameDrive está encantado de anunciaros nuestra fiesta VIParatodos, que tendrá lugar tras las sesiones del primer día del II Congreso de ForumDominios en Barcelona la próxima semana (12 y 13 de junio).
VIParatodos es una fiesta a la que están invitados todos los asistentes al congreso. Para aseguraros un lugar en la lista de invitado...
NameDrive - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 12:1
ICANN Timeline for New Top-Level Domains (TLDs) So you've decided to start a new top-level domain! Congratulations! Have investors? Are they asking how long it's going to be before they see a return? Careful now.... Having spoken with ICANN staff and others who keep an eye on these things, here's my best (current) guess for the timeline for new TLDs.
NamesAtWork - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 17:13
NameDrive VIParatodos Party
NameDrive are delighted to announce the NameDrive VIParatodos party which will take place after the first day of the ForumDominios domainer meeting in Barcelona next week (12-13th June).
VIParatos (for those of you who dropped Spanish at school) means a VIP party for everyone. All you have to do is let us know here if you
NameDrive - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 12:2
Busy Times At Name.com First, let me apologize to the five people in the world who read this blog. I’ve been way lax in updating here but I have a really good reason. I’ve been supah busy actually doing things. It’s crazy I know, but it’s good. But that means that we needed help and we’ve been interviewing candidates
