 | Domain Hall of Shame: Cuil.com
This has to be one of the poorest naming/branding moves I’ve seen in a while. Cuil.com just launched, and apparently the term “cuil” is suppose to be pronounced “cool.” This big news is currently being covered on the homepage of CNN. My buddy Thunayan (who never sells his company’s domain names) al...
 | Elliot Silver - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 10:49 |
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| Things to Consider When Selling a Domain Name
Some of the largest domain portfolio owners rarely if ever sell a domain name. They’ve built strong (and profitable) business plans that are effective by not selling a domain name, or only selling for a very, very compelling offer. While I would like to be able to keep every domain name I acquire, it isn’t
| | Elliot Silver - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:26 |
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 | Domain Industry and Valuations - Part 1
Since the beginning of the year many of the parking companies have reported a steady decline in earnings per click payments from their upstream providers. This decline seems to have really unnerved many domain owners and a flood of domains for sale (albeit secretly ) has recently hit the...
| | Michael Gilmour - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 2:23 |
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 | The tail of 2 businesses.. One get’s domains, the other doesn’t!
A pretty interesting story came accross my RSS reader today from NJBiz.com . Being a domain investor, I thought it was laid out Very Clear in the story of two different businesses. One that "Got It" and the other that doesn’t when it comes to domain names and their businesses.
Femworks LLC wanted to own/purchase Femwork...
| | DotWeekly - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:55 |
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| TobagoVacations.com & SchoolVacations.com - On Sale
I’ve decided to reduce the price of two domain names I previously offered for sale. A month ago, I received a $3,500 offer for TobagoVacations.com, but the buyer backed out. I offered it on my blog for the same price but didn’t find a buyer. I also offered SchoolVacations.com at around the
| | Elliot Silver - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:39 |
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| Putting your trust in a 3rd party to sell your domain name
This is a follow up post to an earlier post called "The tail of 2 businesses.. One get’s domains the other doesn’t!"
Near the end of the post I put in two links to the TKG.com blog postings about purchasing the domain name TKG.com . As a domain investor, this gives myself and others a side to
| | DotWeekly - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 17:18 |
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 | What Does Google “Knol” About Product Naming and Domains?
Google’s latest hit is Knol, but it doesn’t own Knol.com.
Google employees some wicked smart people. So why can’t it figure out this whole naming and domain thing?
First it released Google Adsense. There was already a marketing company using the domain Adsense.com. (Ironically, that company was turned down when it a...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:23 |
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| NameTumbler Helps with GeoDomain Mining
Tool makes it easy to find geo-related domains (and more).
Every once in a while a new domain tool comes out and you don’t get around to using it. The buzz subsides and you never realize what you’ve missed.
That’s what happened to me with NameTumbler, a free tool from WhyPark . You see,
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:57 |
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 | The Death Of Newspapers Is The Birth Of Nichepapers
The death of the modern day newspaper has been long predicted. Microsoft’s CEO chimes in to predict this will happen within 10 years. Wired shows that you don’t exactly want to buy newspaper stocks. There’s even a site that chronicles the death: NewsPaperDeathWatch.com.
This article on TrendBird goes into detail the...
| | Trend Domaining - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 7:47 |
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 | dot-US domain Extension - A sleeping Giant?
There’s always a great deal of discussion going on about various TLDs such as .com/.net/.org/.info/.mobi/.de/.ca etc. We all know that dot-com the undisputed King is ruling the domain Kingdom ever since internet came in to existence. Along with dot-com, we saw the early adoption of .net and .org TLDs.
Then came other ccTLDs and...
| | DN Blogger - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 10:30 |
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 | Elysium Internet Completes Name and Ticker Change
Elysium Internet, Inc. a member of our domain stock parking index, announced today that it had Completed its Name and Ticker Change.
The company begins trading today under the new ticker symbol “EYSM”
Elysium Internet Founder and CEO Scott Gallagher commented, “We’re excited to have completed the lengthy proce...
| | The Domains - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:47 |
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 | GOOD gURL BAD gURL
Here's my little Ellie modeling the latest from the Good URL Bad URL gift shop.
| | Good URL Bad URL - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 22:48 |
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| Barack Obama Goes .Mobi
Presumptive Democrat nominee uses .mobi for mobile web site.
United States Presidential candidate Barack Obama is leveraging the mobile web to get his message out. His campaign is using ObamaMobile.mobi. And unlike most popular .mobi domain names, it actually resolves to a .mobi domain rather than just forwarding to a mobile version...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 21:55 |
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| DNQA.net is open for your reading, questions and answers!
I registered DNQA.net 5 days ago during the Pending Delete domain name drops and it’s up and running already. It’s a virgin site being only 5 days old but already has 20 Domain Name Question & Answers on it!
I will be building the database with Domain Name Question & Answers only and hope the site
| | DotWeekly - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 13:54 |
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| .Me Domain Name Auctions to Last a Loooong Time
Bids in final 24 hours extend auctions by 24 hours.
I haven’t been paying much attention to the .me domain name auctions, but Michael Berkens has. Some of the domains are being bid up rather high, including Insure.me (135 bids, $26,130), Hug.me (74 bids, $13,016), Secure.me (93 bids, $7,540) and Portland.me (230 bids, $6,151)....
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:33 |
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| Neal Voron of Fractional Domaining Blog Interviews… Me?
Neal Voron of Fractional Domaining Blog has posted an interview with yours truly. It is a four part series; you can view part 1 here. If you wanted to know a little bit more about how I research trends and apply them to domaining then this is a must read.
While you are there, be sure
| | Trend Domaining - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 19:41 |
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| Tucows Revives OpenSRS Brand for Resellers
Company reinvigorates reseller program with legacy brand.
Domain name registrar Tucows is breathing new life into its reseller program by reintroducing an old brand: OpenSRS.
Tucows was the first reselling registrar on the web back in 1999, claims Tucows VP of Marketing and Product Management Ken Schafer. Tucows hopes to leverage th...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 10:3 |
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 | Upcoming Articles and Interviews
First I want to say thank you to everyone that has visited DNKitchen.com. As of today we have reached 1,000 unique visitors, not bad for just launching last week. To everyone who has picked us up via RSS Feed, that is a huge compliment, thank you.
We are adding a domainer comic strip to the site later this
| | ChefPatrick.com - Monday, July 28, 2008 - 13:20 |
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