It pays to advertise. I hope! Many of you know I have a two-page spread in Website Magazine. I also just contracted for a two-page spread in Modern Domainer. Today, I took it one leap further. I’ve agreed to a very expensive, 6-digit contract for a two-page centerfold spread in the monthly Internet Retailer magazine.
This magazine is read by the major
Rick Latona - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 16:54
Moniker SES: Steals of the Year If you didn’t bid in Moniker ’s SES auction, you missed out on some great deals.
If you haven’t already heard, Moniker’s live auction at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose was a flop. It’s just further proof that selling domains to non-domainers (unless they are into adult) is a challenge. The official...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:31
Domain Sale to an End User End user sales, that is sales to people or companies who plan to use the domain name to enhance their businesses, can be the most profitable (and satisfying) domain sales. Since most domain owners monetize their domain names using methods that are financed by advertisers, these advertisers may prefer to outlay a lump sum to
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 11:3
Back in the day When i first started out buying domain names (before the “how long did it take you to invent that collective noun†term “domainers†was invented) my sole focus was on the acquisition of domains and other digital stock. I must have spent the best part of 4 years in the late 90’s / early 00’s
Julia Mackenzie - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 8:53
Bido: A Word To Our Members The following note below was just sent to to all Bido members. If you need any further clarification, or anything else we can do, do let me know.
Sahar
Dear Friends & Associates of Bido,
The entire team here at Bido would like to apologize to all of our users. We admit we may have gotten a little ahead of ourselves and let our ...
Newfound Names - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 17:55
What Comes First, SEO or Site Development? This might be a dilemma faced by other domain owners/developers, but I always seem to have an issue with my search engine optimization once my websites are developed. When I consult with friends who do SEO, most give some very good tips, but it can be quite an exasperating amount of work - especially
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 13:44
Does Someone Want to Buy Your Domain Name? By Bill Sweetman via One Degree
Has someone approached you about buying a domain name that you own? This happened to several colleagues recently, so I thought I would pass along some of the advice that I gave them.
If you are on the receiving end of a serious offer to buy your domain name, I strongly recommend that you get a profes...
The Frager factor - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:10
The Greenest Domains on Earth: A Look at Premium “Green” Dot Coms Green.com | For Sale | Registered in 1999
The Green.com website currently resolves to a glorified “domain for sale” landing page which I believe is using some Jedi mind tricks. Below the fold is a promotional blurb for the fabulous Entertainment.com coupon book.
GoGreen.com | Active | Registered in 19...
DotSauce Magazine - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 1:59
Photosynth.com Microsoft got the domain just before launch Microsoft had planned for the launch of the color photo tool for Wednesday (8-20-2008) but fell to a glitch like Bido did. Their servers crashed with the rush of traffic but hoped to be back up today or as they put it ("shortly"). It is up now!
One thing I noticed is the CNAME record for
DotWeekly - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 20:59
SMS Common Short Codes: A Domaining Like Opportunity? Common Short Codes seems a lot like domain names, but they aren’t a good investment opportunity yet.
Have you ever seen an ad that read “Text keyword to 55112…”? Or voted on American Idol by sending a SMS text to a five digit number? If so, you’ve experienced “common short codes”. These are
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 11:39
END USERS and The RESEARCH It Takes to Unlock The TRUE VALUE of Your Domain Names Recently back at home in the Big Apple from honeymooning overseas, Elliot Silver of TopNotchDomains.com has been hammering away at the keys providing us with some quite insightful posts. Be sure to catchup before Elliot's back in full swing and your RSS reader is overheating.I wanted to respond to a post that Elliot published earler ...
Domainer Developer - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 17:39
Arbitrator: Fired.com Complainant Sorely Misguided World2Work Corporation loses Fired.com claim; panel has harsh words for company and lawyer.
A one person panel has found in favor of the owner of Fired.com in a bizarre UDRP case.
World2Work Corporation and founder Scott R. Sargis, which runs the web site Fired.tv, filed a UDRP with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name F...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 16:20
NameJet vs. Snap More Bidders does not mean More Value. Although many of us here are taking a hiatus for the month of August and enjoying life the way its supposed to be (or how Europeans do it) today I feel like sharing some information as the values of some NameJet sales continually surprise me.
The fact is most people buying on NameJet are domainers and
Newfound Names - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 17:44
Search Engine Strategies First Live Domain Name Auction Scrapes Up $19,950 The Search Engine Strategies live domain auction by Moniker/SnapNames came in with a total sales volume of $19,950 on 26 domain names sold. The top sale of the day was Groceries.us at $4000. Reports from Moniker staff indicated that the audience size at the event was around 100 people. The online audience at the time
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 0:23
Where the heck am I ???? Hi all and sorry for no posts over the past few months.
As most of you know my family and I are on the road for 7 months taking some time out and having a great time I can tell you
We have a blog about what we are up to at www.laptopnomads.com so I ShareThis
OzDomainer - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 12:30
NameJet.com Providing Traffic Data on Some Expiring Domains In an email sent to customers today, expired domain auction service NameJet.com released a list of domain names that includes average traffic numbers for the last 30 days. The domain names on the list are ones that NameJet says have not been backordered yet but have traffic. (See list after the jump).
Godaddy’s expiring domain ...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 17:35
Search Engine Strategies Auction Results Another Moniker Auction just eneded: Search Engine Strategies
Most SEO guys can easily pay thousands of $$ for links, but they aren’t willing to spend the money on domains. It’s a shame they still don’t get it: better domain will help the SEO campaign as well, in many ways.
Even though the domains weren’t hig...
Domain Magnate - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 22:15
Few Videos I Want To Share Last couple of days I thought of publishing few videos but the more I waited, the more were added to the list.
First, the excellent interview from All Things Digital of Mark Zuckenberg, Facebook founder.
Second, a movie trailer of Bottle Shock, a movie about a single event in Paris in 1976 which changed the wine industry forever....
Conceptualist - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 6:40
List of Unregistered Domain Names #74 As promised, I'm going to try and increase the frequency of available domain name lists over the next week or two. The following 40 domain names were all unregistered at the time of this post. Head over to your domain registrar of choice and pick up a few of them. Feel free to leave comments
Bill Eisenmann - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 15:54
Moniker.com Affiliate Summit Online Auction Closes Today Moniker.com is holding an online auction through SnapNames.com for the Affilidate Summit Show.
All auctions close at 3:15pm EST through snapnames, unless extended based on snapnames noral bidding rules.
The Domains - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 10:37
Patents.com launches Patents.com has announced the launch of their international patent search site as part of their platform that includes over 12 million searchable patent documents that can be delivered in three different languages. The company is expected to add 12 more languages soon as they continue to grow the number of patent documents to over 45...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 14:48
NameJet.com Providing Traffic Data on Some Expiring Domains In an email sent to customers today, expired domain auction service NameJet.com released a list of domain names that includes average traffic numbers for the last 30 days. The domain names on the list are ones that NameJet says have not been backordered yet but have traffic. (See list after the jump).
Godaddy’s expiring domain ...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 23:42
Bido.com shuts down for an undetermined period Bido.com has shut down for an undetermined time due to technical problems after the site went down twice during the auction for “ForeClosure.com”.
Sahar Sarid wrote on his blog:
We gave it another shot today but still had major tech issues. We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 10:36
SolidHost.nl sues Namecheap and eNom Solid Host, a popular registrar in the Netherlands, has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap and Demand Media (eNom) for $100,000 after losing their main domain SolidHost.com following a hijack.
“This domain hijack was the result of an error at the end of our domain registrar (eNom),” said SH-Andre of the SolidHost Crew on t...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 8:3
HallMark Recognizes Gay Marriage Ok this is a self serving post, as we own gaymarriage.com
As You know most states don’t recognize gay marriage, but now Hallmark does.
The nation’s largest greeting card company is coming out with Gay Marriage cards.
The Domains - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 15:36
Search Engine Strategies First Live Domain Name Auction Scrapes Up $19,950 The Search Engine Strategies live domain auction by Moniker/SnapNames came in with a total sales volume of $19,950 on 26 domain names sold. The top sale of the day was Groceries.us at $4000. Reports from Moniker staff indicated that the audience size at the event was around 100 people. The online audience at the time
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 13:48
No More Gas (.com) Download the latest Mashup from TFF's most popular keyword, DJ Earthworm
The Frager factor - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 23:29
W.H.I.R: Video Interview with Mark Klein, Sedo A really nice interview with some insights into Sedo, one of the most successful and popular domain marketplaces in the domain space.
Via WHIR:
A few weeks back, the WHIR conducted an email interview with Mark Klein, director of business development at Sedo, and asked him to make the case for his HostingCon 2008 session titled “...
Conceptualist - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 20:3
SolidHost.nl sues Namecheap and eNom Solid Host, a popular registrar hosting company in the Netherlands, has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap and Demand Media (eNom) for $100,000 after losing their main domain SolidHost.com following a hijack.
“This domain hijack was the result of an error at the end of our domain registrar (eNom),” said SH-Andre of the Sol...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 14:14
MyID running September .ca auction + more DomainReport.ca - It looks like there will be more MyID .ca auctions, among other items they have planned. MyID just sent out an email detailing their plans into September, and it looks like they have been busy. Here is a copy of their email: Greetings from MyID.ca. As the summer is nearing its end, it's time to get back to business....
Dot CA Domains - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 10:52
Search Engine Strategies Domain Live Auction We are live blogging the Domain Auction at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose. Please note that these are not the official results and while we do our best to provide correct results, there may make an occasional mistake. See the live results after the jump, or read our summary here.
Lot Number
Domain Name
Reserve...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 9:15
ComScore: Baidu 3rd largest Search Engine in the World
According to comscore, Google's worldwide search share declined from 67.9 percent in June to 64.1 percent in July.
This drop was largely due changes in the way comScore measures search and Web traffic in China, Brazil, and Russia.
The Domains - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 15:46
Aug/21/08 Wishing Well-Last Chance to Win Cash! Make a Clear Difference by Making a Sale The SedoCares’ “Wishing Well” Promotion is well on its way with over 4000 GBP already contributed into the “Wishing Well” through Sedo. The amount of positive response the promotion is receiving has exceeded our expectations and we are excited to see the overall s...
iGosh.org: The Best in the Business Now, while this blog is a mostly about domaining, I wanted to write a brief article on website security. The security of your website is an extremely important matter these days with all of those hackers out there just waiting to find a loophole in your site to hack.
Recently, one of our newer websites, JokerBux.com
