 | Go Big or Go Home. RickLatona.com is now in the live auction business.
“Exciting times my friend!” Those were the words used by the illustrious Rick Shwartz when we came to agreement on my company doing a live auction event at the Targeted Traffic meeting in New York this coming September. Exciting times indeed, Rick.
I’ve become the largest individual reseller and broker of domains in...
 | Rick Latona - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 15:20 |
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 | Screw.Me
So we applied for 150 .me domains with Godaddy which should have been awarded before the landrush today (or put into auction) and out of those we got the grand total of:
zero
that would be none, nothing, zipo.
We did get a notice that we would be in an auction for 31 domains 2 days ago, but
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 19:27 |
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| Moniker.com Silent Geo Auction Nets a Whopping $25K
The silent auction held by Moniker as part of the Geo show finished today with a total of $25K in sales:
Here is a list of the domains that sold:
eastorange.com $5,890.00
northolmstead.com $2,950.00
norridge.com $2,950.00
southeuclid.com $2,9...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 19:8 |
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 | The Value Of A Sale Includes The Overall Value Of Your Time, And More
Over the years I’ve seen many declare they have closed on a great deal or that development paid off big time however, when examining closer, you see it isn’t as sweet as first presented. What I’m talking about is those who tend not to value their time as you would value yours. They will go on and on spending their t...
| | Conceptualist - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 8:59 |
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 | I want your take on DebtSpecialist.com
I figured after yesterdays sale on Bido.com of DebtNews.com for over $10,000 I wanted to see what other’s thought of my domain name DebtSpecialist.com .
Another reason I ask this, is because I got a $1,500 offer for it via Afternic. So what would you do? Counter offer and if so at what price? Sent it
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 11:57 |
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| Banks.com Stock Sinks: IRS.com in Jeopardy?
Banks.com one of the stocks in our domain parking stock index took a huge hit today down 29% to $.17 a share.
The company which was trading over $1 a share in March, disclosed on July 7th that it was in default of a certain “Investment Agreement” in the aggregate principal amount of $7.0 million which
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 0:49 |
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| PayHalf.com up for Auction on June 22
BigBangNames.com is auctioning off what they are calling “a $1 million e-commerce site for only $1,000″
According to the press release, Payhalf.com is an online consumer electronics retailer that invested over $2.5 million before it ran out of cash. The sale includes the high value domain name portfolio, appraised as high...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:35 |
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 | 60 Day Lock at Godaddy Still?
I read that Godaddy had done away with their 60 day transfer lock policy on domain names where the Whois information changes. I know ICANN prohibits transfers away when a domain name is newly registered, and I heard that there were major rumblings when Godaddy had their own lock, but I thought that situation was
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 11:31 |
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 | Domain Name Stocks Pummeled in 2008
Stocks of domain name companies take beating with the market — and beyond.
It’s been a rough year for stock markets, and domain name companies’ stocks are having a tough run as well. The good news is that two “pure play” domain companies’ stocks are performing much better than the market overall. H...
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:3 |
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| Geo Silent Auction Ends Today
Moniker.com silent auction from last weeks Geo show ends today beginning at 11am EST.
Available in the auction are the unsold domains from the live auction and several thousand new domains.
One interesting domain I spotted was Streetlookup.com for $7,100 and looks like it has mad traffic. Over 13,000 people a month according to Comp...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 0:26 |
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| F.A.Q.s about .Me Domain Names
Here are answers to your questions about the .me “landrush”.
I was checking search logs today and noticed someone found Domain Name Wire by searching for “Will three letter .me domains be valuable.” Regretfully, the web surfer didn’t find what he or she was looking for on Domain Name Wire. So I thought ...
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 15:57 |
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| Domaining Time Management
Time management is one of the hardest things no matter what business you are in! I have been full-time domaining for years now and I do not have a clue how a part time domainer could even survive in the domain industry. The domain industry seems to change daily, if not hourly and keeping up
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 16:15 |
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 | My Latest Startup Business to be Featured on CNBC this Friday
This past weekend, 50 entrepreneurs gathered together in Raleigh, NC for Startup Weekend. The event was a wonderful experience. Out of this meeting-of-minds, four unique web based businesses were developed from conception to launch. You can read more details about all four startups at the RTP Startup Weekend blog.
Take the Guesswor...
| | Dot Sauce - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 15:27 |
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 | Domain Name Appraisals
Have you ever triedto sell a domain name? Some domain name reseller services insist that the seller gets an appraisal or valuation of their domain name before they will list it for sale. I first wrote about this subject several years ago, but it seems that some people still don't learn. I know because I get loads of emails from peopl...
| David Carter - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 17:25 |
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| The Danger of a Domain Registrar “Run on the Bank”
What happens when a domain registrar is in jeopardy?
[Editor’s note: this is a follow up article to “A Run on the (Domain Name) Bank”, originally published on Domain Name Wire on November 13, 2007.]
We’ve seen a lot of “runs on the bank” recently. Rumors spread that a bank is about to collapse. Nervous
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:58 |
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| Google Misses Earnings: Stock Tanks After Hours
Google Shares fell $40 a share after hours as it reported per-share earnings that missed Wall Street expectations, raising questions about rising costs at the Internet giant.
The Mountain View, Calif., company reported revenue, excluding commissions paid to marketing partners that were in line with Wall Street estimates, as income ro...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 19:26 |
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 | Deal of the Day: Buying Nob Hill for $4 bucks
This evening I completed the purchase of NobHill.info for a whole $4 bucks.
I’m not a huge .info fan but when I saw that this geo-neighborhood domain was in a list for $4 domains, I had to grab it.
Nob Hill is a district in San Francisco, but it’s also home to some of the richest and
| | Scott Fish - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 21:30 |
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 | $395 Million Invested Into Virtual Worlds In 2008 Alone
TrendDomaining.com has hit the 2 month mark, and, 40 posts later, I’m still chugging along. I figured I would tap into a fun time of my younger internet days.
As a domainer, I’m sure you know of World of Warcraft (WoW). MMORPG’s have been around for quite a while now.
I was playing Ultima Online(UO), the first
| | Trend Domaining - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 22:35 |
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 | Video.us auction ends at $12,000
The auction for Video.us ended at 12pm this afternoon, and this time it sold for $12,000. The name sold for $75,000 last year and then $18,500 earlier this year.
Check out Ron Jackson’s recent post on DNJournal.com for more information about the strange history of this domain name:
In the past 15 months, two previous owners
| | DomainWeek - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 14:48 |
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| .ME Domains Open Registration Goes Live Today: Don’t miss out!
The much anticipated launch of the .ME domain is here. Public registration for all .ME domains begins today!
Official opening time is 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT.
.ME Goes Live Today, Register Yours at GoDaddy!
GoDaddy.com announced in a press release in January that they won the bid to manage the new .ME ccTLD.
Over 30,000 .ME domains have...
| | Dot Sauce - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 5:35 |
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 | Microsoft Cries - Google & Yahoo Get 90% Of Net Ads
Microsoft senior VP-general counsel Brad Smith told the US Senate and House judiciary committees:
“Never before in the history of advertising has one company been in a position to control prices on up to 90% of advertising in a single medium. Not in television, not in radio, not in publishing. It should not happen on the
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 8:1 |
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 | Vancouver Power Outage Walloping Some Domain Owners
A power outage in Vancouver is taking a huge hit on some in the domain industry today. Domain Name News noticed that Name Administration parking sites were not resolving earlier today at around 1pm CST. The many domains owned by the company such as ceilingfans.com and personalloans.com were still unreachable at the time
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 16:54 |
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| Taxi.us takes a ride at Sedo for $35,000
Taxi.us was reported sold today on Sedo.com for $35,000 USD! This is a great sale for the .us extension on a super strong keyword! Taxi.us is the highest reported .us sale so far in 2008, second to Baseball.us which sold for $25,000 in June.
Here are a couple other current auctions g...
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 7:46 |
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| Update on Vancouver Power Outage Story
While the power outage was affecting the Vancouver area, DomainNameNews.com researched to see whether domains redirecting to Hitfarm and Name Administration were reachable. Hitfarm.com and sites like Vancouver.com were offline. We also reported that several domains we checked were redirected showing DomainSponosor landers instead of ...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 16:53 |
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 | 112 Expired Domains
I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 112 expired domains today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to subscribe to my FREE newsletter. My newsletter is free and you can subscribe at any time though.
If you want to learn
| | DnExpert - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 16:7 |
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| Video.us auction ends at $12,000
The auction for Video.us ended at 12pm this afternoon, and this time it sold for $12,000. The name sold for $75,000 last year and then $18,500 earlier this year.
Check out Ron Jackson’s recent post on DNJournal.com for more information about the strange history of this domain name:
In the past 15 months, two previous owners
| | DomainWeek - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 13:48 |
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