TechWorld: Generic Domains Not Important Anymore Various sources are quoting John Dunn, editor of Techworld, who thinks domains are no longer important.
Domains do not make ‘a lot of difference now’ because most internet use is driven by searches for brand names.
“There was a time where it was driven by generic terms, but now people use search,” he explained...
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 18:50
How To Value City Domain Names Look at the maximum population, not the total population of multiple locations.
There are a number of ways to value a geographical domain name such as a city. One factor that certainly matters is the population of the city. All else being equal (and it rarely is) a city of 100,000 people is better
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 10:30
Why brands need generic domain domain names too Companies selling generic products differentiate themselves from their competition by branding their company as being different from all the rest.
So why do brands need generic domain domain names?
Branding is all about pricing and differentiation.
But domains are all about navigation. On the web you need both.
What's the differ...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:22
Financing Options at Rick Latona Auctions are Better FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Rick Latona Auctions Partners with Domain Capital.
Atlanta, Georgia USA - September 10, 2008 - Today, Rick Latona Auctions, LLC and RickLatona.com, LLC announced a partnership with Domain Capital to finance domain name purchases.
Typically, Domain Capital finances up to 60% of the purchase price, requiring...
Rick Latona - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 8:35
Free Traffic for Developed Sites You have developed a website and�spent time creating a bus load of relevant content but how do you get people to come visit?One of the best tips I can give is to take advantage of what is probably the biggest source of free traffic outside of search engines.
Wikipedia is a friend to all developers who have relevant content ...
Newfound Names - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 20:36
Name.com Now Offers Fastest Way to Buy Recently Deleted Domains We’ve been working on a lot of behind the scenes improvements so that we could roll out some cool products and services. One of the first ones to drop is our new Recently Deleted Domains Service.You can search through domain names which have recently been deleted using a variety of search parameters including time since
Name.com - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 20:30
If you own a Jet... I will trade any domain in our entire portfolio for something so simple, so beautiful, so hot and warm to hold but yet so far away…..
Ok - maybe not any domain … but a double double right now sounds really good….and I’m 1,000’s of miles away from the nearest store… arghh
Warning: Only true Cana...
Newfound Names - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 19:15
Top 10 Domain Sales Gross $1m in Domain Aftermarket The domain aftermarket continues to enjoy robust growth in the midst of a global economic turmoil.
The top 10 reported domain sales for last week grossed just under $970,000, a mere $30k shy of a million dollars. This means that each domain was sold for an average of $97,000.
RVrentals.com camped out in style with at $325,000
eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 13:47
SearchEngineWatch: Its Worth Buying a Good Domain Name In a very interesting post today by Mark Jackson over at SearchEngineWatch.com, he discusses a client who hired him to do SEO work for his site. Mr. Jackson tells the story of how he tried to convience his client it was worth spending $20K on a domain rich in keywords associated with the clients business
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:0
Funeral.com using Geo Tracking software Since I will be heading to my uncle’s funeral in a couple hours, I thought I would check out Funeral.com to see if they gave any helpful tips or any services they provide that I could use.
The first thing I noticed is when the page loaded, in the search box, showed my home town. Green
DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:25
Blogging Is Hard Work! Take Time To Embrace And Thank Bloggers A blog is a very powerful media platform if you have an effective writer behind the scenes. A blog can build an industry, a business, and educate individuals across the world. TechCrunch.com is a great example of how a guy with an idea and effective writing skills impacted an industry with a blog.
The blogging
Simply Geo - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:12
Crispin Porter & Bogusky "Gets It" for Volkswagen Usually when I see a newly-created, branded domain name in a commercial using a non-.com extension, I find that the .com was purchased after the commercial went live, frequently by domain speculators hoping to cash in on user errors. Although the lost traffic is arguably light, it’s still enough to warrent purchasing the .com o...
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 10:24
Buy Domains Enhances Website I just noticed that it appears that BuyDomains.com has enhanced it’s website, greatly improving the search functionality. I am now able to do searches much, much faster than before. It looks like there are also better searching tools as well which is helpful.
One bug I noticed is when I did an advanced search using a
Elliot Silver - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 16:46
Have you seen the... For Sale tab right here on DotWeekly? Last week I had added an eBay feature that shows The Most Watched eBay items and I set it up for Domain Names.
Once you visit the tab, give it a second or two to load the info, but a box will open just below the top text and
DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 7:23
Yahoo Traffic Takes a Dump According to ComScore, Yahoo’s August web search traffic fell 10% from August 2007.
Google saw a 13% gain.
So what happens to Yahoo?
There is a thought that Google may walk away from a big legal fight with the US governement and abandon the ad plan with Yahoo, if the Government challenges it.
After all if the government goes
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 15:35
Rick Latona Auctions Teams up With Domain Capital Latona inks agreement with Domain Capital to provide financing.
Rick Latona has partnered with Domain Capital to provide financing for domains purchased through his newsletter and Rick Latona Auctions, LLC (which will be holding a live auction at this month’s TRAFFIC show). Additionally, Latona is paying 10% of the down payment...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 13:51
GoDaddy Drops .Net and .Org Prices Seesaw price changes head in a good direction.
A week after increasing .net and .org domain registration prices, GoDaddy has dropped the price. This is the third price change in recent weeks.
First, prices went up to $13.19 each. Then they shot up another $2.00 to $15.19. Now they are
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 22:39
Majority of ICANN Board 'hopelessly naive' Most ICANN directors can't even file a decent expense report. How can the public put their trust in a group that can't even demonstrate basic governance skills?
NamesAtWork - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 14:3
Domainer Comic Strip #5 Sorry I didn’t have a strip last week, had family in town. Actually to share something personal, my wife met her biological mom for the first time in 29 years. Last she seen her mom was at 18 months old.
OK now on to the comic, this one is FUNNY. I bet this has happened to
ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:45
The Love Affair With Short / Brandable Domain Names The nay-sayers might not like it, but short/brandable domain names are here to stay.
I was looking through TechCrunch today and saw a whole bunch of websites using short/brandable otherwise meaningless domain names.
Ooyala - a video technology company committed to providing publishers, advertisers, and content owners with syndication...
DnExpert - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 6:8
Big News For Grand Names VIPs Check your email, especially the spam if you haven't found our email, so we can get the initial kinks from communication.
Today's private email gave VIPs a brief update on the project. We are putting the finishing touches on the site. And it's looking great.
Grand Names VIPs will get FIRST SHOT on all names listed for sale by inv...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 16:58
Afternic Auctions Top Picks 9/10/08 Here’s a select handful of expiring�domains available for preorder on Afternic Auctions. Be sure to get in on the action and place your preorders today. Remember there is no fee to place a preorder and you have a chance at acquiring these names for as little as $60. Many domain investors are scooping up expired domains on
Afternic DLS - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 16:29
Tucows Hits Another 52 Week Low Tucows.com hit another 52 week low today at $.40 a share, before closing at $.42.
The previous low was $.45.
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 18:28
Legal Domains Ending Soon It’s always nice to wake up and see the weekly sales report from DNJournal - One that attracted my attention today was
AustinDWILawyer.com for $17,000
at NameJet. PrivateNames.com is getting close to rolling out a wealth of great names at reasonable reserves, development tools and more … but in light of this sale I must ...
Newfound Names - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 17:33
Alerts.com Introduces New Delivery Dashboard At the DEMOfall 08 Conference in San Diego, Alerts.com announced a new web application that allows users to set up alerts and aggregate them in one easy place for customizable delivery.
Alerts.com allows users to pick and choose the alerts they wish to receive and have them delivered in the most convenient way possible - whether
Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 21:29
Wall Street: Yahoo's Outlook Sanford C. Bernstein a wall street brokage, cut its price target on Yahoo, saying that the company’s future prospects look bleak, especially if the proposed search advertising deal with Google is not completed before the end of 2008.
It is increasingly likely that the deal will be delayed by regulators, given that the U.S. Just...
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:14
Running A Contest Just Got Easy I can tell you from personal experience that running blog contests is a big pain in the butt. Don’t get me wrong, traffic and exposure benefits are great, but keeping track of everything and staying on top of things takes a lot of hard work.
I ran a relatively big contest a few months ago winners of which were announced here. ...
DnExpert - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 5:53
One .ca sale reported in last week DomainReport.ca - The DNjournal.com weekly sales report came out last night, and one .ca domain was listed in the country code section in 17th place: FreePoker.ca - $2,180 sold at Pool I'm surprised there aren't more .ca sales showing up in the dnjournal report lately, I suppose many .ca sales have been going unreported. But that sho...
Dot CA Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 12:50
Sibername Increases .ca Prices for Second Time in a Year I just received an announcement from Sibername that they are increasing their prices for .ca domains from $14.95 to $16.95 (Canadian). This follows on an increase earlier in the year that increased prices from $12.95 to $14.95.
I am somewhat surprised at this aggressive pricing move, especially in light of Godaddy recently entering ...
Domain Bits - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:48
Shell.us Shell.us went live not too long ago and according to compete is more then double the traffic of shell.com . while shell.com is their global site showing all countries , Shell.us is clearly targeting America and the traffic shows it. shell.com 204,296,,,, shell.us 486,608
Mister US - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:17
78 Expired Domains I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 78 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 - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 17:51
Lehman Cuts Google Price and Earnings Target Lehman Brothers cut its price target on Googleto $600 from $620, and lowered its revenue and earnings estimates on the company for the second half of 2008 and 2009 based on the strong U.S. dollar.
Google shares have lost more than 39 percent this year.
For 2008, Lehman expects earnings of $19.21 a share on revenue of
The Domains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:4
Your Blog Translated To 10 Languages For Free AlfaBetic is a web translation service that claims it will expose your blog to 842 potential new readers by translating your content to 10 of the world’s most popular languages.
The first phase of AlfaBetic’s translation process is similar to what’s offered by Google Translate and other web translation sites - a rou...
DnExpert - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 4:50
Anyone's Penis and Ex-o-Meter (.com) Three PSA’s and a print ad part from a new campaign from the Dutch Soa Aids Nederland (STI AIDS Netherlands).
“Always use a condom until you did a STI test (Sexually Transmitted Illness) together.”
Almost 50% of the people in the age of 18-35 in the Netherlands worries about STIs. From this group only 50% did a STI test.
Frank an...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 0:26
The Domain Aftermarket The Domain Aftermarket refers to the outlets/websites where pre-owned/registered domain names are actively traded.
The buying and selling and selling of domain names is a big and successful business for many. There are individuals who do that for a living, similar to how stock market investors buy and sell stocks. The only major defe...
eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 7:20
Sedo Announces $500,000 Sale of LI.com The domain aftermarket continues to hold strong despite the downturn in the general economy and falling PPC revenues in the domain industry. Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher said, "We have seen increased participation each month, a higher percentage of domains sold and higher average sale prices, and this latest auction will build on our succ...
DNJournal - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 9:56
Diet Domaining: Save a Little Green People are registering many domains every single day, and some are paying regular fee for each of them. You can save about $3.00 per domain using the method of Diet Domaining. Diet Domaining is my way to save a whole lot of money and be able to register many more domains then I would have
DNUnderground - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 0:47
Shell.us Shell.us went live not too long ago and according to compete is more then double the traffic of shell.com . while shell.com is their global site showing all countries , Shell.us is clearly targeting America and the traffic shows it. shell.com 204,296,,,, shell.us 486,608
Mister US - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 10:22
$325,000 Sale Leads Trio of Six-Figure Domains to the Top of DN Journal's New Weekly Chart It was another solid outing for the domain aftermarket with a trio of six-figure sales leading this week's DN Journal sales report.. One of those, a two-word .com, rang up $325,000 to rank among the 20 biggest sales reported so far in 2008. Three country code domains qualified for the all extension leader board as did an IDN and a pa...
DNJournal - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:23
Sedo Announces $500,000 Sale of LI.com The domain aftermarket continues to hold strong despite the downturn in the general economy and falling PPC revenues in the domain industry. Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher said, "We have seen increased participation each month, a higher percentage of domains sold and higher average sale prices, and this latest auction will build on our succ...
DNJournal - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 9:56
$325,000 Sale Leads Trio of Six-Figure Domains to the Top of DN Journal's New Weekly Chart It was another solid outing for the domain aftermarket with a trio of six-figure sales leading this week's DN Journal sales report.. One of those, a two-word .com, rang up $325,000 to rank among the 20 biggest sales reported so far in 2008. Three country code domains qualified for the all extension leader board as did an IDN and a pa...
DNJournal - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:23
Shell.us Shell.us went live not too long ago and according to compete is more then double the traffic of shell.com . while shell.com is their global site showing all countries , Shell.us is clearly targeting America and the traffic shows it. shell.com 204,296,,,, shell.us 486,608
