 | Rick Latona Domain Name Auction Nets $750,000
Unofficial results show nearly $750,000 in sales at domain auction.
[Update 9-24-08: According to a comment on Domain Name News, some of the results on the Proxibid system were inaccurate. The following names didn’t sell: ResearchLab(s).com, atriums.com, customboots.com, daytraders.com, catfood.com, cognacs.com. But lotterynumbers.co...
 | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 17:18 |
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 | Becoming a Full Time Domain Investor
Nearly a year ago, I left the corporate world to become a full time domain investor. I didn’t really know much about running my own business in a full-time capacity, but the time was right, and I’ve never looked back nor have I regretted my decision. I’ve been fortunate to make some good business decisions
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 10:27 |
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 | Domain Name sales have really shot up
Well this is one strange market. For 2 months I don�t sell a name, then during the last 11 days I've sold 9 names.
Where this interest has come from I don't know, and why it's come at this time is a little odd as the financial markets have been crumbling
| | Name Cake - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 17:20 |
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 | Aftermarket.com Live Auction Results (Targeted TRAFFIC conference)
Once more we will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, this time for the Aftermarket.com Auction. See the unofficial live auction results after the jump. Please not that we do not warrant the accuracy of the results.
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| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 18:18 |
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 | AfterMarket.com TRAFFIC Auction Gross $150K
The Aftermarket auction at the TRAFFIC show just concluded and grossed just under $150K.
The highest selling domains were:
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 18:52 |
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 | Part 5 - domain values and opportunities
Over the last few articles in this series we've been discussing what's been going on in the industry and why PPC rates have fallen and domain valuations have dropped considerably. You can read the previous articles via the following links.
Part 1 - Domain Industry and Valuations (index.php/20080728452/MyBlog/Domain-Industry-a...
| | Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 22:49 |
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 | DOMAINERS: BUILD IT, AND THEY WILL COME
This article is inspired by a discussion on Andrew Allemann’s DomainNamewire.com.
The topic at hand is: How Do We Educate End Users On The Value Of Domains And Get Them Involved In Domain Auctions?
I started this discussion with Rick Schwartz and other domainers back in 2005. Nothing happened because we were all caught up in ...
| | Stephen Douglas - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 8:42 |
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| Rick Latona Domain Name Auction Off to Screaming Start
Rick Latona ’s highly anticipated auction takes place in New York today.
Update: Here are the results.
Rick Latona Auctions, LLC’s first live auction will take place at the TRAFFIC conference in Brooklyn today. The auction goes live at 1:30 PM EDT today. Last night Moniker held the first of its two
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:11 |
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| Moniker First Night Auction Nets $100K
The First night auction from the TRAFFIC show gross just under 100K.
70 percent or 47 domains out of 65 names sold for a total of $99,450
Here are the sales:
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 1:15 |
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 | Rick Schwartz Has A Big Head
This was just too funny yet genius not to share.
I think by now everyone knows Rick Schwartz for his high end domain sales, T.R.A.F.F.I.C events and countless other things he has done for the domain industry.
Read More...
| | ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:16 |
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 | 'TheSecondWeb' is Offering YOUR Domain Names For Sale
According to the website, “TheSecondWeb is a completely new World Wide Web. A new Web Browser, a new domain name system and completely new websites.” It is essentially a web-based “browser” with an in-house domain name system powered by some script.
While this idea is not new in and of itself, this is the fir...
| | Dot Sauce - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 18:49 |
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| Aftermarket.com Sells $150,000 in Live Domain Auction
Aftermarket.com auction ends with $150k in sales.
The Aftermarket.com auction at TRAFFIC just concluded with $148,700 in sales according to my unofficial tally.
Overall the online auction system worked fairly well with no latency. There are a few kinks to work out, though. For example, the bid increments used by the auctioneer didn&#...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 18:40 |
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| Godaddy Caves into Kentucky
Godaddy.com became the second domain registrar to cave into the Kentucky court order as it issued.
Godaddy has sent a “registrar certificate” to the court in Kentucky, which gives the bearer exercises control of the domain name.
Enom.com also transferred domains to Kentucky.
Its quite sad that neither of these regis...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 14:55 |
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 | Rick Schwartz - The 'Bobblehead' King
There was a special surprise at the registration desk given to the first 250 people who arrived at the TRAFFIC conference in New York; a custom Rick “The Domain King” Schwartz bobblehead. The custom bobblehead was produced by Bobbleheads.com owner Warren Royal and approved by the domain king himself. 250 of the bobblehead...
| | DomainWeek - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 14:45 |
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| Rick Latona Auction Nets $750K
The auction held by Rick Latona at the New York TRAFFIC show grossed $750K.
The highest selling domains were:
MCC.com $195,000
Countryclubs.com $85,000
DayTraders.com $80,000
EFS.com $55,000
NAP.com $45,000
Lisbon.net $32,000
Spreadsheets.com $25,000
Per.com $20,000
Lotterynumbers.com $20,000
Many of the domains sold under the advert...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:47 |
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 | Why Escrow.com is NOT safe for domain name transactions
This may come as a shock to many of you, but I do not think Escrow.com is your best option for an Escrow service for domain names. The main reason for this is because of the Whois system and the fact Escrow.com does nothing with the domain transfer.
Here is why I think it’s unsafe and
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 10:49 |
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| ICA Issues Statement On Kentucky Domain Seizures
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) released the following statement regarding the domain seizures in Kentucky:
“”"”The Internet Commerce Association is aware of the extreme concern of ICA members regarding the action of the Kentucky Attorney General ordering the seizure of 141 gaming related domain names. It ap...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:32 |
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| RickLatona.com Live Auction Results (Targeted TRAFFIC conference)
Once more we will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York. Today the Rick Latona auction takes place.
RickLatona.com auctioned off 78 domains at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference in New York today, with 38 of them reaching the reserve price and selling for a combi...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 18:5 |
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| Enom Transfers Domains to Kentucky
Looks like Enom.com was the first registrar to transfer domains to the Commonwealth of Kentucky under the seizure order discussed here on Monday.
Enom has already complied with the Kentucky judge’s order to turn certain domain names over to that state’s Justice Department, Both HighRollersLounge.com and LuckyPyramidCasino...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 1:6 |
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| Swanton.com goes to auction at Sedo.com. Geo and Surname
I have decided to send Swanton.com to auction via Sedo.com at $3,000 USD. It’s a long story, but the buyer did offer $4K for the domain, but we couldn’t agree on escrow service/price so I said I would send it to auction at a lower price. I had the domain listed with a buy it
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 20:41 |
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 | More Domaining Tools
There seem to be more domain tools appearing by the day, and I say you can’t have too many, just a personal opinion
Scott over at TrendDomaining.com has highlighted a couple from Name.com, which I personally find very timely.
My attention was drawn to another tool I rather like, which I spotted on
| | Domaining UK - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:21 |
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| TRAFFIC Live Auction features Premium Domains at no reserve
The Moniker Live Auction at TRAFFIC New York is starting tomorrow, Thursday, September 25, at 3:00pm E.T. (noon Pacific). If you want to participate in the live event you can either bid in person, over the phone, or online by downloading a bidding software.
Some of the premium .com domain names for sale include Cleaning.com (website)...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 19:40 |
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| RickLatona.com Live Auction Results (Targeted TRAFFIC conference)
Once more we will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York. Today the RickLatona auction takes took place.
See the unofficial live auction results after the jump. Please not that we do not warrant the accuracy of the results.
Please reload this page frequently du...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:24 |
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| Your Thoughts On TRAFFIC Auctions, Its Moniker By A Nose
We have been running a poll for a week as to which auction house you think will gross the most sales at the TRAFFIC auction.
After a week of voting you picked moniker by just 2 votes over Rick Latona.
You gave Aftermarket no love with just 4 votes.
We will see if you were right tomorrow
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:30 |
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| Domain Strategies Launches Tanning.com
Domain Strategies, has announced its most recent website launch - Tanning.com, a marketing and information portal for tanning salons in the North America.
The website is intended to benefit salon owners who have found it difficult to market themselves on the internet. Owners will receive a customizable profile page to highlight their...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:56 |
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 | What Will It Be?... A Fraction Of A Winning Bid, or 100% Of A Losing Bid?
What will it be? For some bidders at this week's domain auctions, forming a fractional domain ownership group may be the only way to mount a successful bid for a coveted premium domain. But will bidders even consider Fractional Domaining as an option? Will they simply concede defeat and perhaps miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime opport...
| Fractional Domaining - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 5:49 |
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 | Trophy Domain Names Create Image of Success
Powerful category defining domain names are marketing weapons offline and online and a force to be reckoned with. Top 10 Benefits of Category Killer Domain Assets: Natural Type-in Browser Traffic… premium domains “have legs”. Extremely Rare… a one of its kind ‘gem’. Category Defining… you own the keyword search term. Recall… sublim...
| | Inside Domaining - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 3:48 |
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 | Last Minute Addition - Seoul.com
Rick Latona Auctions is proud to announce the last minute addition of Seoul.com to our T.R.A.F.F.C. New York auction. Seoul is the largest city in South Korea as well as the 2nd largest metropolitan area in the world. This is listed with a very aggressive reserve in the 1 Million to 1.5 Million
| | Rick Latona - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 10:25 |
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| Aftermarket.com Auction Hits NYC Today
Aftermarket.com auction premieres this afternoon in New York.
The Aftermarket.com domain name auction will kick off at 5 PM Eastern today at the TRAFFIC conference. Online bidding is available at Aftermarket.com and you must register your account in order to bid.
This is the first auction under the Aftermarket.com brand, but the tea...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:36 |
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| Domainer Comic Strip #7
My favorite time of the week, Wednesday comic strip. I have to say this one is funny, but next weeks is hilarious. Stay tuned for that one!!!
Click on the image to enlarge.
Submit a suggestion for my next comic strip to win a free newly registered domain name of your choice with GoDaddy. Thank
| | ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:7 |
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| We Get It Award: U.S. Mint
U.S. mint advertises a .gov domain but also registers .com version.
This morning on the radio I heard an advertisement for the new United States Dollar coin. This is perhaps the 50th attempt by the U.S. Mint to introduce a dollar coin in America, and Austin has been selected as one of the roll out
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:23 |
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| Aftermarket.com launches Online Auction
Aftermarket.com has launched it’s online auction interface for today’s TRAFFIC auction. You can visit Aftermarket.com but it still redirects you to online/live auction is set for 5PM EDT (9-24-2008) and is expected to last about 90 minutes.
Make sure you become eligiable to bid. Once you are logged in, the process only ta...
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 7:38 |
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| Moniker.com Launches Domain MaxLock
Moniker announced today Domain MaxLock, a product designed to safeguard valuable domain assets from costly employee errors or malicious cyber attacks.
| | The Domains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 1:20 |
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 | Full Throttle for TRAFFIC Auctions
The traffic auctions will get into full swing today. There will be a series of live auctions, and some will be extended online for another week.
The opening night of the TRAFFIC Conference (Tuesday) saw a short no or low reserve auction generating $99,450. 70% of the 65 names listed were sold. The auction, which was
| | eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:34 |
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| Sedo sales of the week up to September 22
Sedo’s top sales of the week are listed after the jump.
Domain
Price
Translation/Other
.COM
greensuv.com
9,500 USD
zozo.com
8,900 USD
murrellsinlet.com
7,785 USD
graphingcalculators.com
6,500 USD
equinity.com
6,000 USD
sportspower.com
6,000 USD
chiconomics.com
5,650 USD
socialporn.com
5,100 USD
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| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 10:34 |
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 | A medicated life
I was skimming through an issue of Scientific American and was reading an article entitled “The Medicated Americans: Antidepressant Prescriptions on the Rise“.
Some frightening statistics in there including “Close to 10 percent of men and women in America are now taking drugs to combat depression”. It doesn...
| | Predictive Domaining - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 20:41 |
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 | FreshDrop.net Launches FreshDrop.tv - Learn About Domaining Video Site
FreshDrop.net has been the leading website in providing users with quality lists of expiring TDNAM (Godaddy expiring domain auction hour) domains. A lot of people use FreshDrop.net normally in order to see if they can snag some quality domains and hopefully profit off of them by parking or re-developing expired domains.
So what has b...
| | fka200 - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 2:25 |
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 | 67 Expired Domains
I posted a list of 67 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum.
Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past and future free lists.
If you want to...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:27 |
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| Sedo Tweaks Domain Listings
Sedo makes changes to domain listings pages.
Last month Sedo rolled out major enhancements to its domain listings. The domain sales and parking company just made a few more changes based on feedback from the domain community.
First, the Seller Activity Index represents 12 months of completed sales and is represented by a colored
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 12:48 |
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| Facebook's Lexicon Keyword Tool to Get Some Great Updates
You heard about the launch of Facebook’s Lexicon first here on DotSauce in April. This keyword tool tracks the popularity of words used in comments on Facebook friend profiles.
Some big news for Lexicon has recently been announced at the Inside Facebook blog. It seems Lexicon is getting updated! Some powerful and practical new...
| | Dot Sauce - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 2:17 |
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| Moniker launches DomainMaxLock
According to a press release going out tomorrow, Oversee.net’s public registrar Moniker has launched the DomainMaxLock Service. The new domain locking service is now available at an introductory rate of $34.99 per Domain Name Year which will later increase to $59.95.
The security measures put in place on a “MaxLock”...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 0:16 |
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| CountryClubs.com Trades for $85k @ TRAFFIC NYC 2008
New York, NY- Rick Latona's live auction sold 'CountryClubs.com' for $85,000 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C NYC 2008 domain conference. The 3 L (letter) domain- 'MCC.com' was the highest selling name of the RL sponsored auction as it sold for $195,000. Source: RickLatona.com (Country Club Photo by Lem Lynch Flickr.com)
| | Inside Domaining - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:7 |
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| Aftermarket.com auction is starting, small issue with live feed via IE
The Aftermarket.com auction is about to start. I have noticed an issue with the Live Feed button to watch the show. In IE If you just click the button to see the live feed, it only directs you to uStream.tv
The button works correctly in Firefox, so if you are using IE, Here is a direct link
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 17:17 |
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| Kosovo, Transnistria, Abkhazia Top Level Domains
A while back we debated about “what the Kosovo ccTld will be” so here is an explanation of how country code top level domains (ccTlds) are awarded in general.
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) do not decide who gets what country code extension nor do...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 5:25 |
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| Moniker.com Launches Domain MaxLock Product
Moniker.com, an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management services, today announced the introduction of Domain MaxLock, a product designed to safeguard valuable domain assets from costly employee errors or malicious cyber attacks.
Domain asset security is vital in protecting online revenue and brand reputation, and ...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 16:24 |
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 | Don't They Get It?
Stephen Douglas wrote an article and posed some questions that are very relevant to domainers and invited us to come up with a solution to marketing to endusers. Here’s my response:
“This is the very thing I'm working on.
Here is something to always bear in mind.
The prospects human brain shuts down and goes into defense ...
| | Unplain - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 15:14 |
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| Rick Schwartz - The “Bobblehead” King
There was a special surprise at the registration desk given to the first 250 people who arrived at the TRAFFIC conference in New York; a custom Rick “The Domain King” Schwartz bobblehead. The custom bobblehead was produced by Bobbleheads.com owner Warren Royal and approved by the domain king himself. 250 of the bobblehead...
| | DomainWeek - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 13:45 |
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 | Drops - RockYourBOX.com Lending-Talk.com Crunfield.com CruisersPLANNER.com and more…
Everything below - was showing as AVAILABLE
five minutes ago… prior to my post…
Tuesday 9-23-09 midnight Est.
KidsWebUSA.com
KidsZOODLE.com
KombatWORLD.com
LaunchLocations.com
CrownPlazaGROUP.com
CruiseClubPlanner.com
CruiseFriendsCLUB.com
CruisePartyCLUB.com
SportyCAT.com
SportsTeamsPLUS.com
SpotAndStainRemoval.com
T...
| | DropGRABS.com - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 0:0 |
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