Sedo.com introduces trapdoors to the domain selling floor Yesterday, I ate lasagna for dinner. I bought two history books from Barnes & Noble. I applied for a home loan. I played Counter-Strike for the first time after two months. I shaved off my goatee. These are random, daily functions that pertain to me, the person. They are isolated incidents of my life ...
Acro - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 1:10
Parking 2.0! Have you heard of it yet? Well this is the new coming of parking and some companies are on top of this already. This is what i have been talking about in my evolution of domaining posts and such. With PPC down and parking companies struggling to keep their customers its time for a change.
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YGrab - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:30
Sometimes you can find a Gem. Many think all good names are gone and sometimes it sure seems hard to find a decent available name - especially in.com but … every now and then…
We just registered EcoFriendlyLogos.com
Since one of our projects in the very near future list includes matter directly related to this I must say it was a welcome surpise to
Newfound Names - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 0:19
Printer.com Sold for $800,000 According to an article in the Dutch online publication WebWereld.nl (reported on DNForum), a company based in the Netherlands recently paid $800,000 to acquire Printer.com. The notice currently showing on Printer.com says company plans to launch their new website on September 2, although they did not reveal their plans for the new w...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 9:44
Do you read Domaining.com? I have a question. I read Domaining.com daily but the past couple days when I click on a link to read one of the posted blog stories, then back arrow back to Domaining.com, for some reason my screen stays Light Gray when I get back… which does not allow me to click on any links in the "gray" area.
DotWeekly - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 13:21
DNN.com: History Behind Domain Name News’ New Domain Domain Name News has scored the domain DNN.com. But there’s a story behind the domain.
Last week domain news site Domain Name News announced that it had acquired the domain name DNN.com for use with its web site. This is a great domain and the team at DNN deserves a tip of the hat.
Earlier
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 15:25
Yahoo's Confusing Issue With Tropical Birds.com Although TropicalBirds.com has been doing well on Google for some long tail keywords, and it continues to grow daily, only the home page shows up in Yahoo. When I inquired about the issue with Yahoo, I filled out a form asking if there’s an issue, and I received a canned response that may provide
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 15:1
Canadian Domain Laws - What Domainers in Canada Need to Know This has been a banner year for Canadian domains. The year has seen record sale after record sale being recorded with the four highest ever .ca sales closing. Jobs.ca sold for $600,000, and Emplois.ca, CV.ca, Banks.ca, GMX.ca, and Interview.ca all closed for solid five figures. An active secondary market has launched, and even God...
Domain Bits - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:30
Moniker Reduces Exclusivity Period for Domain Auctions As I predicted when Rick announced that there would be multiple live domain auctions at TRAFFIC New York, Moniker just announced that they are reducing their period of exclusivity. From an email that was just received:
Selling names in Moniker's Live and Extended Domain Auctions just got easier, with a new seller's agreement that red...
Elliot Silver - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 18:45
This and that from me… getting back up to speed Since I have been MIA lately, it will be nice to get back to my normal everyday postings. So here is a little bit of what I have been doing, what’s going on in my domain world and so on.
First, things have just been simply slow in the domain industry, so if you want to
DotWeekly - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 17:26
Domain names and travel mix very well. I am writing this post from our first class coach on the train from Scotland to London on the last leg of the UK section of our travels before heading for Europe.
The train has free high speed wifi on board so my wife Lois, Daughter Sasha and I all had our laptops out making good
OzDomainer - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 17:8
And You Thought Your Domain Traffic Was Secure? According To Wired, The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole Revealed Via Wired:
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacke...
Conceptualist - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 23:4
Today’s Sales: Printer.com - $800K, Bedandbath.com - $50k Two top sales reported today on Dnforum
printer.com sells for $800,000
Today the Dutch webmag webwereld.nl published the sale of printer.com for $800,000.
(in Dutch) was purchased through Sedo by a Dutch startup that spent half of its funds on it. The company is not yet reveiling its exact plans with the domain name but the site
Creative Thinking: Replycycle for Parked Domain Names New service will help monetize emails to parked domains.
Our friend Adam Strong over at Domain Name News has the scoop on a new product launching at TRAFFIC Brooklyn next month. Replycycle is a system for responding to misdirected e-mail, such as an e-mail sent to a parked domain name. This can create an
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 11:7
Sedo Introduces New VP of Product Management Sedo announced today that Sam Nunez, a former Oversee.net executive, has been hired as the new Vice President of Product Management. In this role, Nunez will be in charge of product development, marketing and strategy for the leading domain marketplace.
Nunez has a rich history of building successful online products. At Oversee.net, ...
Domain Name News - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 18:48
.PRO is ReLaunching EnCirca the registry of the .Pro domain announced today
that the extension will be relaunched on September 8th.
The relaunch of the .pro domain is now allows all licensed
Professionals from every country in the world.
The Domains - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 8:57
US to Top World Mobile Web Usage For First Time After years of lagging behind European countries, the U.S. is poised to take the top spot for mobile Web usage by month’s end, according to data collected by technology firm Bango, which provides mobile Internet access platforms to 100,000 Web sites worldwide
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The Domains - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:48
Google Suggest I recently talked about Google Suggest from Google Labs and now this tool is going mainstream. According to the offical Google Blog, this will now be the default for the Google search box. You can turn it off if you wish by choosing Preferences and choosing your preferred option under Query Suggestions.
I think it will
Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 23:54
The Obama / Biden Domain Rush If you are living in the USA, or are the poor victim of American television, you will probably know that Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate. Now the domain name land grab has begun.
OBAMABIDEN.ORG -> +16 variants = $100k on eBay. Good luck with that!
Even the believers have seen the light - catholicsforobama-biden.net ...
Domainer Income - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 8:43
Canada Launches Review of Google-Yahoo Deal
Canada’s Competition Bureau has launched a review of a proposed search engine partnership between Yahoo and Google amid concerns the deal will lead to rising costs for Canadian companies that advertise online.
In July, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was launching its own investigation into the deal Yahoo would out...
The Domains - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:2
Building Stronger Products with Corporate Branding corporate branding attempts to transpose the corporate brand to create brand recognition to its products. It is otherwise known as family or umbrella branding. Disney, for example, has capitalized on the corporate branding strategy by prominently displaying its company name, Disney, on all its products. Same is true with Apple, McDon...
Name Cake - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:29
LLL.net's: What's the Deal? Recently, I have read up and done some research on LLL.net’s. In fact, about a week or two ago I bought one. LLL.net’s actually have a very interesting market. It seems to be a risky investment at this point, and no one knows where the market will go.
In my opinion, I think LLL.net’s only have
The Importance of Business Management Coaching Why is business management coaching important to your company’s success? It gives your management the tools they need to increase productivity and performance in your staff. By learning how to use those tools through the coaching program, negativity can be turned into something positive
Name Cake - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:35
Brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands via cybersquatting and typosquat... MarkMonitor Reports Continuing Rise in Online Abuse of Top Drug Brands SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the Summer 2008 Brandjacking Index™, reporting that brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands, endangering consumers via a...
Domain Dispute - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:5
Brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands via cybersquatting and typosquat... MarkMonitor Reports Continuing Rise in Online Abuse of Top Drug Brands SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the Summer 2008 Brandjacking Index™, reporting that brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands, endangering consumers via a...
Domain Dispute - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 14:5
Parking 2.0! Have you heard of it yet? Well this is the new coming of parking and some companies are on top of this already. This is what i have been talking about in my evolution of domaining posts and such. With PPC down and parking companies struggling to keep their customers its time for a change.
What
