 | Property.com SOLD to Foreclosure.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORECLOSURE.COM OWNER TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY.COM Brad Geisen continues to build online real estate empire to expand opportunities for future homebuyers and investors nationwide Boca Raton, Fla. â?? July 22, 2008 Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, announced today that he has reached an agreemen...
 | Rick Schwartz - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 17:20 |
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 | Rick Schwartz Sells Property.Com, Rumored a 8 Figure USD Value Deal
Press release via Rick’s blog:
Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, announced today that he has reached an agreement with “Domain King” Rick Schwartz to acquire the domain name “Property.com,” paving the way for his entry into a new market.
With Property.com Geisen intends to create a one-of-a-kind — and co...
| | Conceptualist - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 17:30 |
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 | Property.com Sold by King; Properties.com Retained
As everyone knows by now, Rick Schwartz just sold Property.com in one of the most lucrative domain deals ever. One of the coolest things about this is that Rick still owns Properties.com, which I believe is on par with Property.com. With the buyer’s plans to develop Property.com into a huge real estate marketplace, the value
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:28 |
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 | Company Goes After Fired.com in UDRP
Here’s a UDRP case that will get domainers “fired” up.
A company that filed for a trademark on the term “fired” in 2004 has filed a UDRP against the owner of Fired.com to try to get the domain name. The case commenced yesterday at National Arbitration Forum.
Domain Name Wire has learned that World2Work ...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 13:25 |
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 | Anatomy of a Flip: Kayaking(dot)org - Part 4 - Finished!
As I write this it is currently 11:41PM on Wednesday, July 23rd and I am proud to say that we have just finished building kayaking(dot)org! It was our goal to have the site completed by the 23rd and I am happy to say that we made it - albeit a bit down to the wire!
The final steps were to add our second form of monetization - Google...
| | Domain Flipper - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 23:49 |
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 | Angry Domainer: Full View
I have a bit of justification for this…Angry made a lot of fun of Cowboys.com…
Dear Angry Domainer: Listen we should all just get along. This cartoon is a joke, if we ever meet up lets have a beer and laugh at all this silly nonsense. Just remember, you did go on a You
| | DN Cartoons - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 15:21 |
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 | FUSU.com The Newest Player for Domain Auctions
FUSU.com, announced today that it was entering the ever growing community of sites hold domain auctions.
Their auctions will have only a 1% sales fee.
Here is the full press release:
Dear Fusu users,
we are happy to announce the introduction of domain auctions to Fusu.
Fusu Auctions allow you to list your domains for sale and gain ex...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 14:37 |
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 | Domain Monetization Videos - Awesome stuff
Recently I purchased an instructional video/ebook course authored by super affiliate Brian Johnson - yea, I only recently heard about the guy too and I have been raving about his work to my friends and associates ever since.
It’s a funny story actually. Because I run a domaining news blog I get a lot of press
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 16:34 |
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| Google Launches its Answer to Wikipedia
Wikipedia, which receives it material largely from unpaid, anonymous contributors has a new competitor.
Google is taking the wraps off its own internet encyclopedia called “Knol”.
Knol says Google, is designed to give people a chance to show off and profit from their expertise on any topic.
For the past seven months Knol...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 16:16 |
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| Google to buy Digg for $200 million
According to TechCrunch, Google is about to finalize the deal to bring Digg under it’s wing for a sweet $200 million.
The two companies have apparently signed a letter of intent and are close to sealing the deal in the coming weeks.
TechCrunch raises an interesting issue - most of Digg’s revenue comes from a three year
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 10:3 |
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 | Birds of a Feather...
It occurred to me yesterday that I no longer have any close friends in full time employment. Even those neighbours I've got to know are all self employed. My brother and sister also have their own businesses. After 15 years of being in business myself, I could no longer imagine being employed. I think I could even be unemployable. So...
| David Carter - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 4:17 |
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| The Domain King Strikes Gold Again: Property.com sold to Foreclosure.com
Rick Schwartz just announced that he has sold Property.com to Foreclosure.com
Although price and terms we not disclosed we would expect that it was a very lucritive deal for Rick and I’m sure that he is going to retain a interest in the new venture.
Rick continues to lead the industry with ground breaking deals.
This is really ...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 17:56 |
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| .ME Auction Updates
Here are the highest bids at the moment for the .ME auction for all auctions which have high bids over $500
Some of the domains start closing tomorrow.
Domain Bidder Time Left High Bid
insure.me 94 22H 9M $13,010
why.me 87 1D 0H $4,501
ski.me 30 21H 17M $3,505
hug.me 43 2D
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 15:38 |
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 | Off the wall domain name stats
It’s been awhile since I have done my "off the wall domain name stats". These are stats that are not always delivered publicly. I enjoy seeing numbers and these kind of stats as they can reveal things or give ideas.
These stats are from yesterday 7-22-2008.
Parking movements will rule these stats as entities are searchi...
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 11:47 |
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| Daily Domain Drop Annnouces Weekly Auctions
Beginning next Wednesday, August 30th DailyDomainDrop.com is launching Weekly, Members only Auctions.
Bidding is restricted to Members only and will begin at $10.00 with $2.00 minimum bid increments and NO RESERVE. Here is a summary of the August auctions:
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 17:12 |
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| Moniker.com Announces Top Domains for Affiliate Summit
Moniker.com Announced the Top Domain Names for the Online Auction for Affiliate Summit 2008 in Boston Today.
The top Premium affiliate domains available at auction include:
Clients.com
AffiliateForum.com
CreditCheck.us
FindALender.com
MortgageBanking.com
PriceComparison.us
SuperSaving.com
RealEstateListed.com
SaleFinder.com
Fina...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 14:20 |
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 | Own “The Domain Game” Courtesy of Afternic
The Domain Game is a 209-page book that chronicles the exploits of the world’s leading domain investors and provides tips and great information to help you succeed.
Afternic will send you The Domain Game as a “thank you” when you purchase a domain on Afternic from now until July 31, 2008. Make sure to ask
| Afternic DLS - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:59 |
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 | Ultra Unique Content: Movie-Themed Establishments
Don’t worry, this is not a post about Property.com (the last SEVEN posts on Domaining.com were the same news).
This is a post about a growing trend that’s just brilliant. It really surprises me that this isn’t already big.
That would be movie themed establishments.
When I say “movie themed,” I don’...
| | Trend Domaining - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:1 |
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| Moniker.com Announces Domains for Affiliate Summit
Moniker.com Announces Domain Name Inventory for the Upcoming Online Auction at Affiliate Summit 2008 in Boston
–Clients.com, CreditCheck.us, and OnlineDiscounts.com Are Among The Top Names Available–
POMPANO BEACH, FL (July 23, 2008) – Moniker ( an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management® se...
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:12 |
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 | Rick Schwartz Sells Property.com For Big $$$
Just when I thought I was taking a break, I got the news that Rick Schwartz sold Property.com to Brad Geisen of Foreclosure.com. Congrats to Rick on a name he purchase 3 years ago for $750,000. I believe I remember the asking price on Property.com being somewhere over $10 million. The actual sales price was kept confidential.
| Direct Navigation - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 18:0 |
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 | Is Digg the future of search?
Google is arguable the best search engine out there, and yet when using it we sometimes get poor quality search results and “made for adsense” sites. In fact, many of us in the domain and/or SEO industry are responsible for some of those sites. What is a “made for adsense” site? Well,
| | DomainWeek - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 17:21 |
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| Blog Adrenaline - Pump Up Your Blog Traffic
A few days ago I released my new blog traffic building product - Blog Adrenaline - Pump Up Your Blog Traffic.
The product is made up of
* an 80+ page traffic building ebook full of the latest traffic building techniques that I have been using to promote DNXpert.com and my other blogs;
* a 23 page guide
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 5:11 |
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 | Propeller Relaunch Fails Miserably
Propeller.com, Aol’s 2nd try at social media, after netscape.com was thrown into the dupster, relaunched today with a new look and feel.
Miserably Failure isn’t only being used to describe the old-school “google bomb” any more.
Here’s the home page of Propeller.com right now:
So what are others sayi...
| | Scott Fish - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 20:6 |
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| Google Adding a Feather to their cap: Digg.com
Google is reportedly in talks with Digg (again) to acquire the social news site. Google would be adding a very nice addition to their Google News property that was recently touted as being worth nearly $100 million by Google’s VP, Marissa Mayer. Currently Google news shows no ads, will that change with a digg integration...
| | Scott Fish - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:18 |
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 | Available Domain List #70
Below, you will find another list of 40 available domain names. An email list will be going out sometime this weekend so take the time to sign up if you haven’t done so yet. I’ve received a few messages from readers who are confused about the email lists. These are completely seperate lists, with different
| | Bill Eisenmann - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 8:42 |
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 | Domain King strikes again - Property.com SOLD to Foreclosure.com
Property.com SOLD to Foreclosure.com - Rick Schwartz sells another domain for mega dollars! The deal is rumored to be one of the best ever or perhaps the biggest ever.
The specific terms of the deal to acquire Property.com were not disclosed. However, Geisen indicated that the value of the deal is one of the largest URL SHARETHIS.add...
| | DN Blogger - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:26 |
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| Parked Changes Dashboard Graph, Improves Usability
Domain parking company creates simple yet valuable graph on dashboard.
It’s always nice when companies listen to suggestions.
Earlier this month I made a few usability suggestions to domain name companies. One of these was to change the graph on Parked.com ’s dashboard. The graph didn’t make a lot of sense. It doesn...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 16:54 |
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| GoDaddy Extends the Closing .ME Auctions an Extra Day
I have gotten several noticed today about some domains I am tracking in the .me auction.
For some reason not explained in the e-mail, Godaddy has extended the closing of several domain auctions that was suppose to close today until tomorrow.
Here is one of the notices I received:
Dear Valued .ME Auction Customer,
The closing time for...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 20:23 |
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 | Godaddy TV Commercial Spotted In The UK
Yep, last night, 11.15pm UK time.
I was preparing some late night snack and had the TV volume down quite low, so I didn’t hear all of it. After some bizarre ad where a man swapped eating porridge for a 37K per year IT job, (74K in dollars), I noticed a familiar logo more commonly seen
| | Domaining UK - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 8:25 |
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 | Rick Schwartz sells Property.com to Foreclosure.com
“Domain King” Rick Schwartz has sold “property.com” to foreclosure.com. Rick purchased the domain for $750,000 USD less than 3 years ago. Details of the deal have not been disclosed at this point and it is not known if “properties.com” was included in the deal.
Property.com will include all listing...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 18:1 |
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| Moniker Sends Silent Auctions to SnapNames
Move will increase audience for silent auction domains.
Moniker announced that it will now use the SnapNames platform for auctioning domains in its silent auctions. Previously, silent auctions were held on Moniker’s online platform which required a separate login and access code.
By moving to SnapNames, silent auction domains s...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 9:59 |
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| Microsoft Executive who Lead Charge to Buy Yahoo Quits
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the head of Microsoft’s online business, who led the company’s bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving the Microsoft for Juniper Networks.
Kevin Johnson, is president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, which includes both the online services business and Windows software ...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:58 |
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| Child Online Protection Act Declared Unconstitutional, Again
Yesterday a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia struck down as unconstitutional the “Child Online Protection Act:, a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
This law has been fought in the courts for over a decade. The fight has already reached th...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 14:33 |
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 | Speed-dating new TLD Registry Providers: CoCCA
Contestant #4 in our registry provider speed-dating is CoCCA (Council of Country Code Administrators) is a terrific co-operative of sixteen (and growing) country-code registries. Their open-source software can either be hosted or installed on your machines. Just as important, they have put together a policy framework, providing their...
| | NamesAtWork - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 11:10 |
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 | LinkedIn's New Purchase of .au ccTLD Shows Increase In Australian TLD Popularity
Builder.au reports that LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, has joined an increasing number of companies that have sought to register their trademarks on the Australian (.au) ccTLD. Several months ago LinkedIn contacted Australian marketing firm Clear Blue Day,...
| | Anticybersquatting - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 15:51 |
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| 152 Expired Domains
I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 152 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 - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 16:4 |
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| Work, Work, Play
Over the last few days some very interesting ventures have come across my desk that I hope to share them with you down the road. We will be focusing our attention on these and applying any remaining time to enjoying the summer and some light posting.
| Direct Navigation - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 14:24 |
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 | property.com
…just sold for a whopping figure..by Rick Schwartz, who bought the domain for $750,000 in 2005.
Rick’s�asking price for the domain was $10million at some point. Did it sell for more or less,.. we will not know since the actual sales price was kept confidential.
The new owner of property.com is Brad Geisen of Foreclosure.c...
| | TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 19:39 |
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| Is Digg the future of search?
Google is arguable the best search engine out there, and yet when using it we sometimes get poor quality search results and “made for adsense” sites. In fact, many of us in the domain and/or SEO industry are responsible for some of those sites. What is a “made for adsense” site? Well,
| | DomainWeek - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 16:21 |
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| failed.me
The .me (Montenegro country TLD) has been opened recently for anyone to register…
and obviously, there was a landrush for them, and a lot of people did not get the domain they wanted…
( created a lot of controversy as well…but that you can find about on other blogs)
this guy managed to get failed.me though.. haha...
| | TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 9:26 |
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