 | Drop Wizard Gordon Martin Puts All of His Chips on Country Code Domains
Drop Wizard Gordon Martin is back in the saddle. After closing his popular drop catching service in 2004 he quietly switched his focus from .com to country code domains and now he has rolled out a new business centered entirely around ccTLDs.
| DNJournal - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 13:45 |
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 | What’s Your “End Game?”
I think that every domain investor (and people in other businesses) should have an “end game,” or at least be working on establishing an end game as their business develops. What are your ultimate goals for your domain business? I think it’s very important for people to set goals - both business goals
 | Elliot Silver - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:58 |
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 | Update: Google Parking Changes and Arbitrage
What effect will Google’s changes in domain parking have on domainers?
Over the weekend Julia Mackenzie scooped that Google was planning changes to domain parking.
I reached out to Sedo and DomainSponsor to find out when these changes will be implemented and any details. DomainSponsor declined to comment. Sedo CEO Tim Schumache...
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:42 |
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| Associated Cities Becomes Associated Geos
While the change was announced at the Geo Domain Expo, Associated Cities has officially announced that it will now be known as Associated Geos. The change comes as the organization is now permitting state and country .com owners to become members.
From today’s release:
“The 2008 GeoDomain Expo served as the official launc...
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 16:3 |
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| Creating Stickiness - Bringing Visitors Back & Making Money
The goal of most websites (and businesses) is to generate “stickiness,” which is basically attracting visitors and keeping them coming back to the website or business for more of what is being offered. There are various ways a company or website can create stickiness, such as providing updated news and information (which ...
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:26 |
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 | Villas.com Sold for 305,000 EUR
Sedo played host to one of the largest domain name sales of the year today, as Villas.com sold for 305,000 EUR ($480,000 USD). With nine different buyers interested in the domain, there were only two who bid beyond 200,000 EUR before the final sale price was reached.
According to DNJournal.com, it was the eighth largest domain
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 18:30 |
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 | .Me Auctions Like the Engerizer Bunny Keep Going AND Going
Wel the .Me auctions are stil going strong with all the ones i am participating in are still getting extended each day.
Here are the current high bids for all auctions over $250
Domain Name Bids Time Left Current Price
insure.me 111 20H 23M $23,605
why.me 103 20H 46M $6,580
hug.me 53 23H 55M $5,555
ski.me 31 7H
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 17:3 |
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 | SimplyStatic: Domain Portfolios vs. Ad Networks - What’s the difference?
Via SimplyStatic:
…The advantage of Domain Clouds for domain portfolio owners is that very often the very nature of their domain name is what gives them their relevancy. Users end up at the site because they type a specific phrase into their browser bar, such as “healthaccess.com,” because they are looking for “access to healt...
| | Conceptualist - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 15:47 |
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 | Major companies launching dot-Mobi sites or Is it just a fluke?
Ever since its launch, .mobi domain extension has seen people arguing about its merits with an almost insane passion. Dot-Mobi registrants and website owners always argued that it has a special place for mobile web among the jungle of domain TLDs out there, while others argued that mobi is not even needed when devices are getting SHA...
| | DN Blogger - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 18:56 |
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| 4-Letter-dot-Com…..LLLL.COM market alive or dead? Will you Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Four-Letter-dot-com i.e. 4L.com domains have been a hot topic of discussion among domainers for quite some time. Domain forums and domain blogs often discuss the LLLL.com values and if one should buy them or sell them?
Often times you can see the believers of LLLL.com saying that they will not sell their 4L.com domain cheap because S...
| | DN Blogger - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:0 |
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 | Constant Renewal Notifications
The biggest problem of having a portfolio of over 3,000 domains is of course the renewals, but not only the decision what to renew and what to drop is tricky, but the most annoying part is the constant renewal emails. Some registrars like to send multiple emails for each domain which creates huge amounts of
| | Domain Magnate - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 15:21 |
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| C.S. Lewis Beats off .Mobi Cybersquatter
C.S. Lewis estate gets hands on Narnia.mobi.
I have to hand it to Richard Saville-Smith and his family. Ever since the estate of C.S. Lewis, famous for The Chronicles of Narnia books, filed a UDRP against him for registering Narnia.mobi, his family has put on the pity plea with the media.
How could they do this
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 14:30 |
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| Bolt Bus is Awesome!
If you are exploring ways to get to New York City for TRAFFIC in September and you live in the northeast, I would recommend taking Bolt Bus, which is owned and operated by Greyhound. I just returned from a trip to Lowell, Massachusetts via Boston and took Bolt Bus to get their. Not only is
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 14:28 |
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 | Resort Sues Hawaiian Girl
While reading The Honolulu Advertiser I saw an article about a Maui resident who was being sued.
The story goes something like this…. girl registers and runs Kapaluaadventuretours.com - company that developed the Kapalua Resort (Maui Land & Pineapple Co) files a complaint in federal court. Apparently they own the Kapalua t...
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:6 |
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| Domain and Search Tools Integrate New Google Data
Popular software programs tap into new Google search count data.
A couple weeks ago Google launched a new “Overture score” type of tool that lets you see estimated search counts for keywords. (See Google Releases “Overture Score”-Like Tool.) Tool providers that cater to the search and domain businesses have been working o...
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:46 |
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 | DebtSpecialist.com is hitting the auction block for $1 NR
DebtSpecialist.com will be on auction at Bido.com and will end Aug 1, 2008 at 1:00 pm EDT. Will the domain sell for more then DebtNews.com did? We will all find out shortly and you can view the listing and place pre-bids as here.
This is a No Reserve auction and bidding starts at $1.00 and the
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 20:31 |
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| Hasbro Sues Over Facebook “Scrabulous” Game
Hasbro which sells the Scrabble board game, has sued over the Knockoff game on Facebook called Scrabulous.
Hasbro on Thursday filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit in New York against the creators of the ad-supported Scrabulous application, which boasts an astonishing half-a million daily users.
Hasbro said of Scrabulos “Thi...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 14:42 |
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| Property.com Sold By Rick Shwartz
Rick Shwartz, aka the domain king, recently announced his sale of Property.com to Foreclosure.com.
The sale is obviously marked as one of the highest in the domain industry, however the price wasn’t made public.. for all we know it could $500k.. or $1M, or $5M. Or $10M, as many domainers would expect.
Dnjournal has the full cov...
| | Domain Magnate - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 4:33 |
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| Narnia.mobi Awarded to Trademark Holder
The World Intellectual Property Organisation, ruled yesterday that the domain name Narnia.mobi should be transferred to the trademark holder.
Domain name disputes focus partly on whether a “cybersquatter” is using the site for commercial gain and whether trademarks are involved. Mr Saville-Smith claimed yesterday that he had done not...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 13:13 |
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 | Rick Schwartz sells Property.com to ForeClosure.com
Brad Geisen, Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO announced today that he has reached an agreement with 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 convenient — one-stop online real estate marketplace th...
| | DnExpert - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 8:31 |
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 | Using StumbleUpon To Promote A Domaining Blog
How effective is using StumbleUpon to promote a domaining blog? I’m conducting a bit of an experiment to find out.
I’ve been using StumbleUpon for well over a year and it’s a great way to find interesting web pages, just by clicking on the Stumble button, (especially in the evening, when you’re unwinding). I...
| | Domaining UK - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:5 |
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| Foreclosure.com Owner to Acquire Property.com
Brad Geisen, owner of foreclosure.com has reached an agreement with Rick Schwartz to acquire Property.com. Aparently Rick purchased it in 2005 for $750k. The terms have not been disclosed.
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:56 |
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| Family Loses narnia.mobi to CS Lewis
The parents of 11 year old boy registered narnia.mobi back in Sept 06 so that their son could use it for email. Fast forward to 2008 and the World Intellectual Property Organisation rules in favor of the C. S. Lewis estate.
The mother, Gillian Fergusson told the BBC that she was shocked by the decision. “We
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:41 |
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 | Your Macs, iPods And iPhones Are Now Being Targeted
11 posts on the front page of Domaining.com are reporting the sale of Property.com.
Not here! I have a Mac trend instead!
One of the main draws for Macs is the sense of security that you have in that malware is designed for Windows. Combine that with the halo effect (iPod, iPhone) and you have about 8%
| | Trend Domaining - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:26 |
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| Baidu Profit up 87%
Baidu.com China’s leading search engine, and a member of our domain stock parking index, second-quarter profit soared 87 percent over the year-earlier period on rapid growth in revenue from smaller advertisers.
Net income for the quarter ending June 30 was 265 million yuan ($38.6 million), or 7.62 yuan ($1.11) per share, on rev...
| | The Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:19 |
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 | Jul/24/08 Wishing Well Promotion-Win Cash and Promote Change!
Make a Clear Difference by Making a Sale SedoCares’ Wishing Well Promotion:In the domain industry, we deal with property that can’t be touched and we build relationships with people we may never meet. With this question in mind, we created SedoCares; a new Sedo team that will be proactively working on social and environme...
| SEDO - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 18:14 |
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 | Teas.ca sold at Afternic
DomainReport.ca - The domain teas.ca recently sold at Afternic for $650 US. This is a nice generic .ca domain that can be used for a commercial product, especially if you are in the tea or hot beverage market. Tea products are light and easy to ship. Lots of potential for a good ecommerce website with this domain.
| | Dot CA Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 18:0 |
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| Preview of Affiliate Summit 2008 In Boston
The guys from Oversee dropped me an email yesterday about their upcoming auction. It starts on Sunday August 10 and continues through to Thursday, August 21.
Here is a small selection of names that I like:
CreditCheck.us, SuperSaving.com, Trades.net, OnlineDiscounts.com, SellingTips.com and OrlandoHotelGuide.com.
There are a lot more...
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 17:35 |
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| GMX.ca sells for 20,000 Euros
The front page at Sedo.com today shows a sale reported for GMX.ca GMX.ca - $20,000 Euros ($31,900 Cdn.) That is a surprisingly high price for this domain at first glance. It's not yet known who the buyer is, but some speculate that the owners of GMX.com bought it. GMX.com is part of a large company that runs a webmail system. GMX is ...
| | Dot CA Domains - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 13:40 |
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| Aussie Domain Market Still In Infancy Or Stalled?
With the recent changes announced by the Australian Domain Authority’s (auDA) policy on change of domain ownership, a lot of people thought that domaining would really take off in Australia.
A couple of auction websites were launched eager to build on the initial excitement and publicity generated by the auDa announcement.
A l...
| | DnExpert - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:2 |
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| ScottishDailyMail Handed Over To Associated Newspapers
scottishdailymail.co.uk is now in the hands of Associated Newspapers after Nominet gave them ownership of internet domain name. Apparently it was used to point visitors to rival media including the Independent newspaper.
Nominet spokesperson Margaret Briffa said “It is clear that since registration the domain name has been used in a ...
| | Domainer Income - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:56 |
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| Jul/24/08 Wishing Well Promotion-Win Cash and Promote Change!
Make a Clear Difference by Making a Sale SedoCares’ Wishing Well Promotion:In the domain industry, we deal with property that can’t be touched and we build relationships with people we may never meet. With this question in mind, we created SedoCares; a new Sedo team that will be proactively working on social and environme...
| SEDO - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 18:14 |
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Information Week reports that Google is being sued for fraud, unjust enrichment, and business code violations for its use of “low-quality” ads on parked domain names and error pages. Google’s AdSense for Domains places advertisements on empty domain names, and...
| | Domain Dispute - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 23:28 |
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 | Monografias.com Gets its Accent
After reporting on the successful defence of IDN matériel.net from the owners of materiel.net, there seems to have recently been another case were the decision (unfairly?) went the other way.
Monografias.com, one of the most popular sites in Latin America, wins over its accented domain with the help of WIPO.
On May 28, 2008 a Panel ...
| | IDN Focus - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 19:51 |
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