Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Domain Names as Investment Hedge Recent Financial Collapse May Benefit Domainers In the spring of 2001, I came across an eBay auction for the domain Inbox.com, listed with no reserve at $4,000. Now, in a clear sign of the times, the auction ended without any bids or bidders, including myself. After the auction, I emailed the seller and offered him $2,000 Domain Name News - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 2:38 Domain Immortality or Recession Immunity? Like many, I believe that the domain industry is here to stay. There will always be a need for premium domains, and there will always be buyers. The forces of supply and demand will help to influence the prices at which domains are sold for, and as time goes by, hopefully, marketplaces will compete by the eBusinessDomains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:28 Dear Frank: Thanks for the Relevant Links It’s election season, which means I’ve been visiting one of Frank Schilling’s web sites a lot. Above: FactCheck.ORG The U.S. Presidential election is less than two months away, and there’s one web site I’ve been visiting a lot lately: The Annenberg Political Fact Check. On this site you can read about bo... Domain Name Wire - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 14:54 Rick Latona Auction Domain With Reserves Rick Latona has now published the domain to be auctioned off in the New York TRAFFIC auction with the reserve prices. Here is the complete list: BroadwayShows.com - Reserve: 1,000,000 USD to 1,500,000 USD GolfClubs.com - Reserve: 2,000,000 USD to 2,500,000 USD CR.com - Reserve: 300,000 USD to 400,000 USD CatFood.com - Reserve: 75,000... The Domains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 1:45 In New York Life Goes On Having been in New York, all week, though this very shaky stock market, I can report that life goes on in New York. The kids are still playing in central park. The Dogs are still sniffing each other’s butts. The Met’s still look like they are going to fold again in September. On Wednesday the day of the second The Domains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 2:24 Taking a look around Sedo.com. Sales/Current Auctions Each week on DnJournal.com Sedo keeps posting a good amount of sales. The "Recently Sold" section seems to always hold a good amount of 4 figure sales and auctions are always running. So here is a look at some of the recent sales and some domains that interested me that are currently at auction. (the DotWeekly - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 9:9 GeoDomain for Sale - BerkeleyHeights.com - Great NJ Town I am looking to sell BerkeleyHeights.com for $9,000.  Berkeley Heights, New Jersey is a town that’s similar to Secaucus, NJ (I paid $11k for Secaucus.com at the GeoExpo and am now making $2-4/day with my mini-site - and very little SE traffic so far).  Here is some info about Berkeley Heights, NJ: - In Money magazine’s Elliot Silver - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 11:54 Sell Your Domain Names For $5!!! This week I made a few improvements to the site. The main improvement was the new fancy menu bar with drop downs. This will make navigation to our links and sponsors a lot easier. Another feature that I am really excited about is at the top of the site. You will ChefPatrick.com - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 16:46 Logic Boxes Announces 'Domainer Accreditation Program' Registrars for Large Domainers LogicBoxes announced today that it is launching the Domainer Accreditation Program , a new initiative targeted exclusively at large domain name portfolio owners. The program is designed to educate domain buyers of the many risk mitigation benefits that an ICANN accreditation has to offer them, and subsequently helping to obtain and m... The Domains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 18:55 Hand registering ccTLD’s from domain auctions. One thing I do on a regular basis is look over the domain names that are going to auction at any given time and then do a search of my ccTLD’s that I have in my portfolio (mainly .co.uk, com.au & .co.in & .in) to see if that domain name is available in any of OzDomainer - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 17:22 Saturday Musings - TRAFFIC NYC This coming week is TRAFFIC (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/TRAFFIC)C New York and the show is shaping up to once again be an outstanding event domainers flocking to it from all over the world. Sadly, for the first time in I don't remember when I won't be attending TRAFFIC (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/TRAFFIC)C in ... Michael Gilmour - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 11:45 US Olympic Committee Trying to Take Chicago2016.com Away From Grad Student While Chicago is doing everything it can to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, the bid team along with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is trying to take Chicago2016.com away from Stephen Frayne, a 29-year-old MBA student who is studying entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Frayne pu... Domain Name News - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 16:32 GoDrops.com offers up live chat and dropping names Jason from GoDrops.com invited me in to watch and play around with his new service GoDrops.com and it’s pretty cool! Their is a Live Chat box on the left side of the screen and then on the right side as domains become available during the drop, they start showing up. Jason inputs a list of domain names DotWeekly - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 13:59 Own Address (.com) Get your "own address." Whether physical or virtual real estate, everybody needs one. Grand Names VIPs have first shot Monday morning. The Frager factor - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:34 Purple.us Purple.us here's a name i sold last week under a NDA to a publicly traded company goamerica communications (already live site) , a classic example of the key word term meeting the endusers needs. As it becomes more difficult marketing to the world as a whole,,targeting markets thru geo extensions cctld's becomes a neccessity.Whether ... Mister US - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 9:27 Top 10 Premium .ME Domains The .ME tld (MonteNegro) was recently launched with great success - over a million registrations so far I believe and more to come. Some .ME domain names will appear in the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York auction, but there are still some Premium names that have not been auctioned off. When you navigate to them you get a screen shot ... DnExpert - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 2:6 ND Weekly Hello everyone, In what seems to be becoming a bad habit, apologies for no update last week. It turns out Mr B. was not quite as fit as he thought, and he has been ill. Is this the end? Find out next week! (the answer is no). Anyway. Big news is obviously the NameDrive - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 9:26 Thanks to Typo.net, Display Ads COMEBACK and GO FURTHER Mike Berkens called my attention to interesting piece on the return of "eyeball" ads. I don't know if it's agencies waking up, the technology and bandwidth or just Google/Double Click settling in, but I have seen more and more unconventional ad units that really have potential. One is the oversize banner running on Drudge report that... The Frager factor - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 12:2 Is StumbleUpon For Sale? eBay bought website recommendation service StumbleUpon.com for $75 million in May 2007 but less than 2 years later are they trying to offload it? According to a source close to TechCrunch eBay have hired DeutscheBank to try and find a buyer for the apparently stagnating service. StumbleUpon user registrations however continue to rise... DnExpert - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 10:36 THEULTIMATEDRIVINGSCHOOL.COM Here's another batch from the Good URL Bad URL Facebook Group. This DIYURL was uploaded by 2-time URL-spotter Olivia McKinsey. Apparently there is a dot-com wrapping around on the side of the car. These guys need to be schooled on the art of URL promotion. Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 23:6 AIG Direct pulls online ads via CJ.com I had used an ad from CJ.com on DotWeekly recently and I got an email from CJ that stated to pull the ad immediately. The pulling of the ad wasn’t from anything I did, but AIG and their financial problems is the reason. So be sure to remove any ads you might have for AIG on DotWeekly - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 11:40 For Sale: Democratic Dating and Republican Romance :) Here are two perfect domains for a perfect niche in this politically charged season. Passions are running high on both the democratic and republican sides. I just remembered that I have two relationship domains for the single democrats and single republicans. Here is a link to an old “ABC News” article mentioning Democrat... DN Blogger - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 21:20 TRAFFIC Down Under Plans Multiple Auctions According to the TRAFFIC Down Under agenda, the Aussie event will be incorporating a multiple auction format similar to the TRAFFIC Brooklyn event. Aftermarket.com and Rick Latona will have auctions at the event on November 20th.  Aftermarket.com is the “premier” auction with a 2 hour time slot followed shortly after by R... Domain Name News - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 21:15 WSJ: Display Ads Making a Comeback? According to a story in the Wall Street Journal Microsoft says it will publish evidence in the coming week that proves display ads are actually better than searches when it comes to get consumers to take auction. The question is what leads consumers to take action on the Web.  Either to buying something, or do something The Domains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 11:35 Domain Auction Providers for TLDs: Pool.com Profile of auction provider Pool.com, which handled the .ASIA auctions. NamesAtWork - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 20:24 CJU Affiliate Event Wraps Up in Santa Barbara Commission Junction University, an affiliate event by CJ.com, was held this week in Santa Barbara, CA. [Editor's note: the team at Zilker Ventures, an online marketing and affiliate company, are frequent readers of Domain Name Wire. Zilker creates web sites such as FaxCompare.com, which offers email fax reviews. The company was at C... Domain Name Wire - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 18:47 Spoofing possible thanks to particular characters By the technique, that the homograph-Attack is named, become sites made with a domain name in which not-English characters prevent. An example of this is www.p?ypal.com. In the address beam appeared usual paypal. com, but in reality ends up the internal pus on a site of a swindler. Swindlers can for instance also a known domain IDN News - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 7:45 IEFT planning internationalized email addresses The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published three crucial documents for the standardisation of email address headers that include symbols outside the ASCII character set. This means that soon you’ll be able to use Chinese characters, French accents, and German umlauts in email addresses as well as just in the body ... IDN News - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 0:41 Win A John Chow Review Worth $500 Ibusinesstalk.com is running a contest over at their blog allowing one lucky person to win a JohnChow review worth $500. Click the following link to learn more or join the contest: Make Money Online. DnExpert - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 14:2 Future Domain Trend? Frankie What will tomorrow’s domain trend be? I remember three weeks after I bought my first domain, Forsalebyowner.com sold for 750K. That to me was the best domain sale ever at the time. Firstly because the owner owned this domain for less than 3 months or so prior to the sale. I kept asking myself, would I Sky Domains - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 17:15 www.i-am.tv This one comes from the URL-errific Peter Askew. The dubs, dash and dot-tv don't exatcly make this URL jump off the screen. Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:59 OleMissSPORTS.com Here's an Askew anomoly - a Good URL. Of the 13 URLs Peter has submitted to date, only 2 have been good. And we've only agreed on one of them. He thought chick-fil-a.com was bad. I let it fly becuase it's the brand name. Here's another one we disagree on. When Peter uploaded this one to the Good URL Bad URL FB group, he asked me to ... Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:56 www.elnetss.com Here's one more from the URL-man, URL-myth, URL-legend, Peter Askew. This ad is for Elite Networks that has conveniently shortened its URL to elnetss.com. Thanks guys but no way in el I'm remembering that. Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:44 lovebunni.es Here's an interesting one. Richard Longhurst runs this company and sent this in thinking I'd blast it but I actually kind of dig it. Creative use of a country TLD and "don't forget the dot" to help those that might overlook it. This URL's got hops. Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:38 thedoctorforyou.com And here's an example of when trying to be cute with an URL can backfire. The AlURLt Mark Alves spotted this one and points out it may as well read TheDoctorFor.com since the alternate versions like TheDoctorForSonia.com have been scooped up. This URL should never have been doctored. Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:33 dontfear65.com Mr. Askew returns to form with this submission. Clearly a dud here. I hate the use of apostrophed words in URLs -- just throws people off (especially when the people you're trying to reach are 55+ and largely computer illiterate to begin with.) And spreading these words over 2 lines might lead some to misinterpret the ad. Is it 65.c... Good URL Bad URL - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 22:48 A Record Number of Top Tier Domain Names Are Being Offered For Sale In The Week Ahead Between the latest premium domain auction currently underway online at Sedo's GreatDomains and the quartet of live auctions coming up at next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, a remarkable number of high quality domain names could change hands over the next seven days. DNJournal - Friday, September 19, 2008 - 14:9 A Record Number of Top Tier Domain Names Are Being Offered For Sale In The Week Ahead Between the latest premium domain auction currently underway online at Sedo's GreatDomains and the quartet of live auctions coming up at next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, a remarkable number of high quality domain names could change hands over the next seven days. 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