Monster to Acquire Generic Domain Names Rob Monster, the serial entrepreneur and venture capital angel investor behind Monster Venture Partners is looking to acquire more great generic domain names to turn into businesses. The company is raising capital in order to make these strategic investments. According to a blog post on Seattle Post Intelligencer,
Monster will contin...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 16:49
Thank You to Rick Latona & Co. I am floored and touched by something Rick Latona and his employees did for me and Karen. Shortly after I proposed to Karen, I thought about buying KarenSilver.com for her. Unfortunately, I saw that the name had been registered for a while, and there was a website on the site. Sadly, I didn’t...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 9:28
Why I like Fabulous.com Like most large domainers I have accounts at all of the major registrars. Fabulous.com is without a doubt my favorite. There are a number of reasons for this.
My favorite thing about them is their permission based login system. I love the fact that I can have employees login to my account and register names but
Rick Latona - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 12:19
3 Letter Dot Com’s Continue Their Downard Spiral
As far back as June 7, I warned that LLL.com domains were going to fall and that it would be wise to sell them. People laughed. At that time, the cheapest three letter dot com domains were going for $7,600. On June 26, LLL.com domains started falling, with several sales in the $7,100 region. On July 2, LLL.com crashed below the...
Domain Bits - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 20:40
4750 Quality Domain Names at Auction with No Reserve Our Entire Domain Portfolio is Up for Bid at Sedo.com - Offers of $60 Accepted and Sent to Auction
For the next 9 days, we've reduced the minimum offer on every domain name in our Sedo portfolio to just $60. If you put a $60 bid on any domain in that portfolio, we'll accept it
Bill Eisenmann - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:11
Moniker Releases Possible Live TRAFFIC Auction Domains Moniker released domains that are under consideration for their auction at the TRAFFIC show in New York.
This is an early release and not all domains are guaranteed to be in the live auction as the final list is not yet prepared.
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The Domains - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 16:36
Lifetime Acquires 200 Parenting Domains - $10M Lifetime has acquired ParentsClick Network, a company that owns 200 parenting domains including popular social networks and blogs. While the exact sum has not been disclosed, some sources are putting the figure at $10 million.
In case you don’t know, Lifetime is a 50/50 joint venture of Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Co...
Domainer Income - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 5:51
Renew Domain Names Before October Price Increases Renew domains before end of September to avoid additional fees.
It’s that time of year again — time for VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and other registries to increase their wholesale price of domain names.
VeriSign’s wholesale prices for .com and .net increase on October 1, 2008. The new .com price will be $6.86. With
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 16:15
5 With Bill Hartzer, Search Engine Optimization Expert Bill Hartzer is a successful writer and search engine marketing and search engine optimization expert who has created hundreds of websites over the years, beginning in 1996, with the establishment of his company’s online presence. It was during this time that Bill learned about the Internet and how much power Internet search en...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:45
Just Asking for a UDRP from the NBA With the NBA set to announce the name of the newly relocated Oklahoma City basketball team, rumors have been circulating that the team will be named the Thunder. The rumors seem to stem from the registration of OKCThunderBasketball.com as a reason for this, although OKCBarons.com seems to be owned by a law firm in Oklahoma
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 12:48
GoDaddy Hikes Price of .Net and .Org Domain Names to $13.19 You’ve been paying more at the pump. Now you’re paying more at the registrar.
I’m not sure when this happened, but a reader pointed out that GoDaddy has hiked prices on .net and .org domain names to $13.19 per domain. That’s a 30% increase.
This is probably just a business decision
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:12
ParkingPanel.com New Feed, New Features Launching Today For many domainers, the launch of ParkingPanel.com in the fall of ‘06 was a welcome addition to the PPC space. The Oklahoma-based company saw a quick growth spurt with some large domain portfolio owners switching over to their system. Then in February ‘08 the plug was pulled on the Google feed syndication through Ask.com....
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 4:10
Things to check from time to time My browser went crazy when I went to post this the "first time" and when I hit Publish, my browser closed and I lost everything.. so here goes writing number two…
Here are some things that I suggest double checking.
Domain Categories: I have went through all my domain name listings at Afternic and Sedo and set...
DotWeekly - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:28
Stephen Douglas Joins WhyPark.com WhyPark.com has announced that Stephen Douglas is the company’s new Vice-President of Business Development.
Douglas has been an active contributor to the domain industry for a long time. He began investing in domain names in the mid-1990s before moving into a more public role by advising companies such as DomainHop (now DomainS...
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 22:43
SnapNames Down Again Expired domain and domain auction platform hit by outage.
Domain name auction site SnapNames is unavailable again, marking at least the 4th major outage this summer. A notice on the company’s web site for at least the past hour reads “The SnapNames site is temporarily unavailable. We’re sorry for this brief inconven...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 16:39
Life At LifeMemory.Com
Recall Media Group’s LifeMemory.com is a supporting site for our FuneralHomes.com directory. In short, it can be described as a MySpace for memorials, without the social networking aspect. It is an extremely flexible site-builder web application, easy to use, as well as comes with many pre-loaded templates for our visitors. Li...
Conceptualist - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 9:28
Touchpad goes up for sale as a Package Touchpad ~ A pointing device consisting of a soft pad sensitized to finger movement or pressure and used especially on laptop computers as an alternative to a mouse.
Touchpad technology is just really starting to show it’s face IMO. With the movement to upgraded technology to cars, hand held devices and more gives the reason be...
DotWeekly - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 14:18
First Advertiser Arrives At DNXpert.com Today I made it public that the DNXpert.com advertising program has been launched and I am pleased to announce we have our first advertiser.
Our first advertiser is….. DRUM ROLL….. Indian Domain Names Forum.
I gave them a quick look and they seem like a really decent domaining forum so go give them a visit.
DnExpert - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 13:55
McCain & Ridge? Ohio Democratic Party Thinks So It appears that the Ohio Democratic Party believes that Senator John McCain will select Tom Ridge as his Vice Presidential running mate. According to the Whois database, on August 18th, Todd Hoffman from the Ohio Democratic Party registered the domain name McCainRidge.net. At the moment, the domain name resolves to a generic Godaddy ...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 18:34
ParkingPanel.com New Feed, New Features Launching Today For many domainers, the launch of ParkingPanel.com in the fall of ‘06 was a welcome addition to the PPC space. The Oklahoma-based company saw a quick growth spurt with some large domain portfolio owners switching over to their system. Then in February ‘08 the plug was pulled on the Google feed syndication through Ask.com....
Domain Name News - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 13:49
Domain Arbitration Inconsistency: FoodEmporium.com/.net/.org Think UDRP panels are inconsistent? Here’s proof.
If you think UDRP panel decisions are inconsistent, look no further than three cases involving New York grocer The Food Emporium. It filed three separate actions under UDRP for FoodEmporium.com, FoodEmporium.net, and FoodEmporium.org. It won .org but lost the other two.
There ...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:46
SES Silent Moniker Auction Closes Today The silent auction from the SES show held last week closes today at 3:15pm EST, 12:15PST.
Bidding is on Snapnames.com and subject to the normal Snapnames.com rules for bidding and extended bidding.
According to Moniker there are around 6,000 domains in auction.
You can download the entire list here
These are some of the top domains a...
The Domains - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:8
Deciding On A Membership Script I am currently in the process of putting together a membership section here at DNXpert.com. As part of the planning process I am searching for a membership script.
Here are some criteria I have jotted down as key to choosing the right membership script.
1. Integration with Aweber mailing list management services. I find Aweber to be ...
DnExpert - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 5:14
Looking For A Domaining Audience? Advertise On DNXpert.com I am pleased to announce I have finally put together an advertising system here at DNXpert.com.
Interested parties can place 125×125 banners ads in the right sidebar advertising zone (6 available), 240×60 ads in the top ad zone above the top post (2 available) or text links in the right side bar under the cool links headin...
DnExpert - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 7:51
US Govt asks all federal offices to implement DNSSEC So says this news bulletin. Via ICANN’s [ga] mailing list.
The US government has called on all federal offices to take measures to prepare their domains for DNSSEC. Starting in January 2009, the US government will use DNSSEC for all .gov top level domains Second level domains for federal offices will
NamesAtWork - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 23:35
106 Expired Domains I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 106 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 using the form in the top right corner.
If you want to learn more about d...
DnExpert - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:8
A welcome surprise on the domain news front: Rob Monster to build businesses from compelling doma... According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Monster will continue with the firm's strategy, which is rather unique in the venture business. The basic concept is to acquire compelling domain names -- such as Patents.com or Wifi.com -- and then recruit experienced managers to build new businesses around those sites.
With the new capit...
A welcome surprise on the domain news front: Rob Monster to build businesses from compelling doma... According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Monster will continue with the firm's strategy, which is rather unique in the venture business. The basic concept is to acquire compelling domain names -- such as Patents.com or Wifi.com -- and then recruit experienced managers to build new businesses around those sites.
With the new capit...
Fusible.com - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 22:58
Why Microsoft's New IE8 Browser Could Be a Knee to the Groin for Google A new feature in Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, (released in beta yesterday) could spell trouble for their arch-rival Google. Here how "InPrivate Browsing" could short circuit Google's plan to get even bigger through display advertising.
DNJournal - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 14:28
Why Microsoft's New IE8 Browser Could Be a Knee to the Groin for Google A new feature in Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, (released in beta yesterday) could spell trouble for their arch-rival Google. Here how "InPrivate Browsing" could short circuit Google's plan to get even bigger through display advertising.
DNJournal - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 14:28
4530 Quality Domain Names at Auction with No Reserve Our Entire Domain Portfolio is Up for Bid at Sedo.com - Offers of $60 Accepted and Sent to Auction
For the next 9 days, we've reduced the minimum offer on every domain name in our Sedo portfolio to just $60. If you put a $60 bid on any domain in that portfolio, we'll accept it
Bill Eisenmann - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 10:11
