 | Uneducated Comments from Amateurs
These past couple weeks, I’ve been irritated by people making uneducated comments about end-user sales being too high. On various public domain forums, some people seem to think that end users are paying too much for domain names that define their nice or define a major category in their niche. I think these comments are
 | Elliot Silver - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 13:22 |
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 | What categories I think are hot for domains
I think several categories change very often that make a domain hot or not and then you have the Long Term domain categories that are always hot.
Stay away from domain names that have low shelf life. These low shelf life domains are "Breaking News" type domains and most are "what’s going on now". With elections ...
| | DotWeekly - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 10:6 |
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 | Who is Rick Schwartz?
Rick Schwartz.� Love him or hate him you gotta respect him.� Elliot posted an article about people commenting on the sale of RoomDividers.com and how some people are personally attacking Rick.
I will be the first to say that I don�t agree with everything Rick has to say but guess what � I don�t agree with
| | Newfound Names - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 18:41 |
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 | See You Down Under. Rick Latona Auctions Lands Another Contract
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
RICK LATONA AUCTIONS TO FEATURE AT TRAFFIC DOWN UNDER DOMAIN CONFERENCE
Atlanta, Georgia, USA (September 8, 2008) – Rick Latona Auctions will be holding an auction at the TRAFFIC Down Under conference on the Gold Coast, Australia. The show is scheduled to take place November 18th through the 20th. Please see t...
| | Rick Latona - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 19:43 |
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| Moniker Live Auction List is Fantastic
Mike Berkens just posted the tentative Moniker Live Auction list for the TRAFFIC show in New York on his blog, and the list has some incredible domain names. I don’t remember seeing a better live auction list before, and if the reserve prices are reasonable, this could set a new record. Hopefully Moniker is busy
| | Elliot Silver - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 18:42 |
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 | Moniker Releases Tentative List for TRAFFIC Auction
Moniker.com has just released a tentative list for the live and silent auction to be held at TRAFFIC New York.
“”"”"This is a tentative list of all domains to be included in the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NYC Live and Online Extended Auctions. The catalog is subject to change!”"”
You can see the entire list of ...
| | The Domains - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 18:6 |
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 | Sticky Situation For Domainers
I was recently speaking to fellow domainer Evan, owner of HuntingMoon.com. We talked about business in general and our current ventures. Evan mentioned a pretty sticky project so of course I was curious.
NetGum.com, the newest domainer forum launched last week. The main question I had was why or how did he come up with that name. ...
| | ChefPatrick.com - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 21:52 |
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| Smart Domain Acquisition Strategy & Global Branding
When you see this logo, do you think soccer.tv, football.tv, futbol.tv, calcio.tv? Perhaps this sport goes by another name in your country, and you would use an IDN to find the site. Regardless of what you call the sport depicted in the logo, Michael Schneider has it covered because of his smart domain strategy. Michael
| | Elliot Silver - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 10:47 |
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 | case study | Cross-Country-Skis.com
Domain at Hand: Cross-Country-Skis.com
What’s Going On?
Cross-Country-Skis.com came to us by way of Chris Brooks. We felt it was a great time to ramp up this site that was doing very little parked. Since a hyphenated domain works well in the search game we felt we would give it a go with our Rapid Mini Site
| | aeiou.com - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 18:16 |
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 | Ricks Files Lawsuit to Retain Control of BME.com
Domain owner files lawsuit against BMEzine.com, LLC.
Perhaps filing a UDRP for a three character domain name isn’t as cheap as complainant BMEzine.com, LLC thought it would be. BMEzine.com, LLC won the domain BME.com at a WIPO arbitration, but respondent Gregory Ricks has filed a lawsuit against the company to block the transfe...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 10:19 |
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| Plural, Non plural when it comes to domain names
This question is asked often when it comes to domain names. Is the plural or non plural version better for a domain?
No simple answer really, since each domain name term is different. Car.com or Cars.com? One would say Cars.com is the better of the two and I would strongly agree with this. If you are thinking "Brand"...
| | DotWeekly - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 15:46 |
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| Domain Name list sorting tools that I use
Going through lists of domain names can be a pain! Most lists include TLD’s that you do not want to see, include domains with numbers, hypens and so on.
Here are a couple tools that I use to sort lists to more of a manageable size.
Excel~ Most people have Microsoft Excel. Although the tool is really
| | DotWeekly - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 13:8 |
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| Vote for me! Member of the month at NamePros.com!
I have been a member since 2006 at NamePros.com with the user handle "Yofie" and currently have nearly 2,400 posts. This is the first time that I was nominated for Member Of The Month and it would be nice to win. I like winning.
If you are a member of the NamePros.com domain name forum
| | DotWeekly - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 13:39 |
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| Arbitrators Define DeepThroat.com
Arbitration panel finds in favor of domain registrant in DeepThroat.com case.
“Honey, I’m just doing some homework for a legal case I’m working on.”
That’s what the three panelists in a recent UDRP arbitration through National Arbitration Forum must have told their spouses as they decided the fate of Dee...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 17:6 |
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 | Craig Rowe to Speak at TRAFFIC New York and TRAFFIC Down Under
Craig Rowe, President of WhyPark will be speaking on the following seminar at TRAFFIC New York on Wednesday, September 24th at 3:30pm: Domainers vs monetizers, who has backbone? Which group has shrinking margins? Which group is on the short end and how do investors regain their FAIR SHARE of the pie? What are the alternatives to park...
| | WhyPark - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 15:57 |
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| Triple.com
Triple.com recently contacted me to do a quick overview of their provided services. Well, here it is a general overview of what they offer and their affiliate program.
Triple.com is a domain name registration site that offers other services as well, such as web hosting & SSL certificates since 2003. They offer 24/7 customer sup...
| | ChefPatrick.com - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 12:17 |
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 | Google Chrome Design Began In The 1970’s
After installing Google Chrome, I thought to myself - “I’ve seen this somewhere before“. It wasn’t until I read John Younkers Global By Design did it dawn on me.
Simon was an electronic game launched in 1978 by Milton Bradley. Google, its time to confess. Which 70’s / 80’s product designer “b...
| | Domainer Income - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 17:54 |
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 | Will The .NYC TLD Go To Auction?
As we all know, ICANN staff and its auctions partner PowerAuctions LLC published the Economic Case for Auctions in New gTLDs paper on August 6 which concluded that auctions, not comparative analysis, were the best means for allocating contested TLDs.
This most likely means bad news for the not-for-profit ConnectingNYC organization th...
| | DnExpert - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 4:27 |
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| 85 Expired Domains
I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 85 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 do...
| | DnExpert - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 17:13 |
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| Microsoft: Chances of Buying Yahoo “Negligible”
The Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, Chirs Liddel told a Citibank conference in New York today that the chances of Microsoft buying Yahoo are “negligible.”
“You never say never, I can never say that, but it’s so close to negligible,” he said.
Liddell made similar comments in July, when he described ...
| | The Domains - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 12:15 |
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 | CTOPD - UncleSam.com
(CTOPD is our hobby project … read more about it here)
we’re headed into an election year, so what better time to visit UncleSam.com..
and per wikipedia:
He is often depicted as a serious elderly white man with white hair and a goatee, with an obvious resemblance to Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln[citation n...
| | Domainers Gazette - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 17:54 |
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| The Economist on the Mobile Web
Article discusses importance and challenges of mobile web.
An article in the September 6-12th edition of The Economist discusses the mobile web (The meek shall inherit the web, Technology Quarterly supplement, page 3). Rather than analyze the article and face the wrath of people saying I’m biased, I’ve include some quotes...
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 9:55 |
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| .Pro Relaunches For Licensed Professionals - Prices Slashed
The new and improved .pro domain goes live today. To celebrate the re-launch of the .pro domain, EnCirca is offering registrations at an introductory rate of $24.99 for the first year.
“We’re thrilled that the new .pro domain is finally available to a variety of professionals from around the globe,” says Thomas Barrett, P...
| | DnExpert - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 4:15 |
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| Legal & Travel Domains in Auction…
As we continue to work behind the scenes to develop a platform friendly to both domainers & end users I just wanted to let you know that PrivateNames.com has introduced some category specific download lists.
We now have the popular LEGAL and TRAVEL categories available for download with much more to come over the next week.
Most ...
| | Newfound Names - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 19:41 |
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| WSJ: US Hires Attorney to Look at Google-Yahoo Deal
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , the Department of Justice “has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.”"
The Journal states that the hiring...
| | The Domains - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 23:48 |
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 | The Google Keyword Tool
Now that my company has gotten into keyword domaining, we have discovered one of the main thing end-users look for in a keyword domain when they make you an offer. Most will say the reason I am about to share is quite obvious, but it’s something a lot of people don’t give a second thought
| | DNUnderground - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 20:5 |
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 | Soon in a Mail Box Near You: Internationalized Email Addresses
The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses e.g. måtte@københavn.dk or ??@??.?? .
There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protoc...
| | IDN News - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 14:15 |
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 | EuroDNS Introduces New LatDNS.com Service
Following Europe and Asia, EuroDNS is now proud to bring the Latin-American market closer to Internet users worldwide through its new LatDNS service at LatDNS.com. Launched today at an unprecedented low price, the Internet extension from Mexico (.COM.MX), will soon be joined by 30 more from the Latin region.
“Since its launch i...
| | eBusinessDomains - Monday, September 8, 2008 - 12:36 |
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