Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Types of Domain Names I am Buying With as much uncertainty as there is in the domain market these days, I am being more selective about domain names that I buy. As PPC is dwindling, there is less money being reinvested into the domain market by domain investors. Since much of the domain sales market has been fueled by domain investors reinvesting Elliot Silver - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 9:15 Google Chrome Download Available: Is it Bad for Domainers? The first version of Google’s Chrome web browser is out and available for download here: According to a video on how to use the search bar (click on “Watch a video on how to use the address bar.”),  it appears that the Google has combined the address bar with its search bar, which will suggest results. So The Domains - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 15:57 Will Google Chrome Hurt the Domain Industry? The address bar and search box have become one. It’s no secret that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) would prefer internet users to visit Google rather than use direct navigation. The company’s Google Chrome web browser is making that possible by blurring the lines between web addresses and search boxes. Most web browsers now have ... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 15:27 Domain Name parking lot! Here is a list of domains per parking company: Sedo ~ 2,037,302 DomainSponsor.com~ 1,637,974 Fabulous.com ~ 1,311,439 Godaddy.com (paid parking service) ~974,173  Parked.com 812,300 NameDrive.com ~ 531,973 RevenueDirect.com~ 297,146 ParkingSpa.com~ 132,104 ActiveAudience.com ~ 122,314 TrafficZ.com ~ 346,767 WhyPark.com ~ 53,458... DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 9:2 Google Trends can make a domainer laugh and Cry! Google Trends can sure make a domainer laugh and show strong proof that web users do not understand Domain Names or Direct Navigation. Today while looking at the current typed in trends via Google, it just makes me laugh my ass off that somebody would "search for something they already know"! If you think about... DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 15:27 NamePros.com Live domain auction set for Thursday Thursday September 4th, 6 PM EDT is the time, NamePros.com is the place! NamePros is accepting domain submissions currently and Pre-Bidding is now open. View Auctions here. For sellers, they have options of: Reserve Price, $1 No Reserve or Sellers Choice while listing. You can see the rules for listing and the definitions of the abov... DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 10:12 DNHour.com Is For Sale! DNHour.com: The domainer-powered domain name portal, DIGG-style is for sale! The site has a PR4, Alexa ranking is 124,372 and 2437 registered members. There are more than 10,000 links to the website, 15,700 listings on Google and 54,000 listings on Yahoo. The only reported revenue is from $50 ads sold on the site. The seller has set... DnExpert - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 5:28 Sometimes a Scare Reminds You to Renew Domain Names Technology helps keep on top of domain renewals, but you have to keep on top of them, too. I’m pretty good about renewing my domain names. I’ve never lost a domain through expiration on accident. But I have a number of domain names coming up for renewal in the next month or two. Over the Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 11:56 WhyPark.com Welcomes Stephen Douglas To Its Team WhyPark ( is pleased to welcome Stephen Douglas, a well-known maverick in the domain industry, as its new Vice-President of Business Development. Douglas has vast experience in domain name investing and marketing management. Many domainers will recognize Douglas as the executive producer of Name Intelligence’s 2007 Domain Roundtable ... WhyPark - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 10:27 Details Emerge on Sofa.com Heist Here’s a follow up to a story Domain Name Wire covered in August 2007. In 2007 it emerged that the sale of Sofa.com for $200,000 in 2005 was not approved by the actual owner of the domain. An employee sold the domain to what is now an online sofa company. He managed to have Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 21:18 5 Free Domain Name Appraisals Please help me in welcoming our newest sponsor midFlux.com. DNKitchen and midFlux have come to an agreement, we are giving away 5 FREE domain name appraisals. You may be asking why, because I would be. Bottom line is this blog is nothing without it’s readers and our sponsors are nothing without their customers. Who better to ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 22:52 Google’s new browser Chrome’s impact on domains? I just installed and tested Google’s new browser called Chrome. All in all it appears to be a good browser. Here are some good features: pretty fast simple interface private browsing that won’t leave any history behind a lot less clutter than firefox and internet explorer adding new tabs or bookmarks is a breeze The two... DN Blogger - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 17:8 Google to Release “Chrome” Browser Early After accidentally sending out a premature press release, Google is prepared to enter the browser market earlier than anticipated with Google Chrome - a cutting edge web browser that has been created with today’s internet user in mind. More details after the jump. The browser will offer several unique features including… ... Domain Name News - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 14:50 Domain Companies Need to Increase “Switching Costs” The road to profits lies in an integrated approach to domain management. In the domain business there are low “switching costs”. A switching cost is the time and money you incur to change service providers. Consider domain parking, where you can move 1,000 domains from one parking company to another in about 15 minutes. ... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 14:39 Google Chrome Domain Names Google remained tight-lipped about its new browser. So who registered GoogleChrome.com a month ago? By now you’ve probably read that Google is releasing a web browser called Google Chrome. Perhaps you’re feeling the same way I am: great, one more browser to optimize for. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did a good job keeping the l... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 10:59 Google Chrome for Mac Google Chrome looks like it’s going to change web browsing habits if it’s widely adopted. Unfortunately, Google Chrome for Macs hasn’t been released yet. According to the download page, “Google Chrome for Mac is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible.̶... Elliot Silver - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 16:52 Cuil Bots Misbehaving Cuil, the search engine that claimed they will be the new Google, is getting a lot of bad press lately. The folks at The Admin Zone forums have been talking up a storm about the mis-behaving Cuil bot Twiceler. Twiceler has been rampaging on one of the sites I administer. It leeched enormous amounts of bandwidth, nearly 2Gb this month... DnExpert - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 5:41 Hurricane Gustav Domains - Whats Going On? The University of Alabama at Birmingham has reported that “more than 280 Internet domain names have been registered relating to Hurricane Gustav, some of them using words like charity, relief, and support.” Gary Warner reported that Godaddys Registration Privacy service has domains such as: gustav08.org gustav-ala.info g... Domainer Income - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 18:4 Download portfolio at Afternic.com How to download your portfolio at Afternic.com for domain names in your account? Log into Afternic.com Click the “Sell” tab “Bulk Upload”   Download Click Save  What can you do with this list? I used this list to input my prices on my domains listed on Sedo.com so prices matched a... DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 17:7 108 Expired Domains I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 108 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 - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 13:5 Free Choice Ad (.org)- This is HUGE Depending on which cable network you watch this election season you will begin to see a barrage of ads from what appears to be concerned citizens about issues. T Bone Pickens and now his friend the Natural Gas mogul. AARP Divided We Fail that we showcased here. And this one just in that I love for its depiction of the ceo we can all ... The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 9:1 Disputes Jump 30% Claims UK Host UK company Fasthosts is claiming a 30% per cent rise in the number of domain ownership disputes. They believe the reason behind it, is that companies are registering names with employees or third parties as the owner. While I’ve seen a few media outlets pick up this story, I haven’t found the detail behind it. Fasthosts c... Domainer Income - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 17:51 NIC.RU now offers IDN registrations in .COM and .NET IDN registrations are now available not only in .SU. Beginning on September, 02, 2008 RU-CENTER offers IDN registrations in .COM and .NET. More than 80 languages are available. Languages that can be written in the following scripts: Latin; Greek; Cyrillic; Armenian; Hebrew; Arabic; Syriac; Bengali; Gurmukhi; Oriya; Tamil; Telegu; Kan... IDN News - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 21:17 WhyPark.com Welcomes Stephen Douglas To Its Team WhyPark ( is pleased to welcome Stephen Douglas, a well-known maverick in the domain industry, as its new Vice-President of Business Development. Douglas has vast experience in domain name investing and marketing management. Many domainers will recognize Douglas as the executive producer of Name Intelligence’s 2007 Domain Roundtable ... WhyPark - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 6:27 WhyPark.com Welcomes Stephen Douglas To Its Team WhyPark ( is pleased to welcome Stephen Douglas, a well-known maverick in the domain industry, as its new Vice-President of Business Development. Douglas has vast experience in domain name investing and marketing management. Many domainers will recognize Douglas as the executive producer of Name Intelligence’s 2007 Domain Roundtable ... WhyPark - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 9:28 snapnames auction hit by human error In the Silent Domain auction for the SES conference, which originally was supposed to end yesterday, the domain “iq.net” was re-listed accidentally, even though it had originally been reported as sold at the Internext for $17,000.00. i wanted to buy iq.net together with good friend adblogger, due to errors besides snapnames/moniker t... NameWise - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 4:23 WhyPark.com Welcomes Stephen Douglas To Its Team WhyPark ( is pleased to welcome Stephen Douglas, a well-known maverick in the domain industry, as its new Vice-President of Business Development. Douglas has vast experience in domain name investing and marketing management. Many domainers will recognize Douglas as the executive producer of Name Intelligence’s 2007 Domain Roundtable ... 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