 | Domain Industry Faces a Bigger Recession: Part II
Yesterday, I wrote about the stock market crash we had yesterday afternoon, and it’s effect on the domain industry. Domains were selling and prices yesterday that I couldn’t even believe, as I stated in Part I of this article, which you can read by Clicking Here. And I would highly suggest you read that article
 | DNUnderground - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 15:55 |
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 | Godaddy.com rolls out Power Content - Web site building
GoDaddy.com introduced a new service for those who are looking to develop domain names without investing a lot of time or money into the process.
Power Content Plans lets anyone with a domain name enhance their place on the Web with a little effort. After meeting with a design expert, Go Daddy creates a site with custom con...
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 19:58 |
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 | A Time Like This.
This is probably one of the great times of opportunity in our generation. A great time to be young, a great time to be a domainer and a fabulous time to have cash in hand. If you have some cash that is not committed to any emergencies, then you may be able to rewrite your economic history in a
| | Sky Domains - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 12:8 |
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 | Domain Beginnings: Andrew Allemann
The domain industry is made up of a diverse group of people with vastly different backgrounds. I’ve always found it interesting hearing about how domain investors became familiar with domain names and ultimately decided to invest some (or all) of their money in these virtual assets. Today we learn about how Andrew Allemann, editor of...
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 10:51 |
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 | Two More Domain Conferences Will Get Underway Over the Next 7 Days
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is over but two more domain conferences will get underway outside the U.S. over the next 7 days. We have details on those events in Poland and Canada (both of which will include live domain auctions) as well as info on a pair of online auctions worth taking a look at.
| DNJournal - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 16:8 |
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 | How's the Financial Climate for Domains?
There has been some debate on how the current banking and financial crisis is affecting the domain industry. Whether or not this specific crisis affects domains, the general economic slow-down is definitely having an effect. While $2,000,000 did change hands in Moniker's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York live domain auctions, this is down from...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 23:55 |
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| Follow Up: NameJet.com is up to something!
I was the first to report when Tucows started sending domain names to Afternic.com, and I think once again I am on to something…..
I don’t know if there is a Merger going on or what. I do know that when NameJet.com started they had two basic feeds for expired domain names. Those two feeds were
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 19:41 |
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 | Why Domain Names make a great investment
A question many people are asking themselves after all the recent economic turmoil is: Which asset class is safe? Safe for income, safe against inflation and most importantly offers Capital preservation. There are many things to look for when choosing an investment vehicle and I believe Domain Names satisfy almost all of these criter...
| | Name Cake - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 9:9 |
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 | Register.com jumping ship?
Jamie at DotWeekly.com found an interesting thing happening at NameJet today. As he was digging around he noiced a domain name that is registered with register.com was actually being auctioned off on NameJet. The interesting thing about this is that Register.com has long sinced partnered with snapnames for all of their expired domain...
| NameBio - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 15:47 |
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 | Local gets trademarked
So are all domains with local in them at risk ? When everything is local these folks think their entitled to exclusive use of word Local, give me a break. Local.com name and logo have become a well-recognized search brand. Registering our trademarks helps us to prevent confusion in the marketplace between our Local.com website and ne...
| | Mister US - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 8:30 |
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 | Approvals.com >> Exclusive Premium Domain Deals
Over the past week alone, eBusinessDomains.com have added domain portfolios consisting of thousands of high quality premium domain names.
Here is a list of some of the great premium domains that we are brokering:
Approvals.com - BIN: $185,000 ONO – Reduced from $285,000
Chosen.com - BIN: $175,000 ONO
CurrentPrice.com - BIN: $60,000 O...
| | eBusinessDomains - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:41 |
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| Create some good Karma!
I strongly believe in Good Karma! Do good things for others and good things will happen for you!
DotWeekly.com has provided me to present large amount of relevent and helpful content to my fellow domainers for Free. DotWeekly is one of the Best free eBooks on the domain market imo. It makes me happy to provide and
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 9:5 |
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 | iPhone and the end of type-ins
Vocalia for iPhone allows voice recognition
Creaceed has released its speech-recognition software, Vocalia, for the iPhone. It allows users to access contacts for calling or emailing, without having to navigate through the iPhone Contacts app. With Vocalia active, users speak the name they wish to call up, and the software selects a...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 21:33 |
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 | Working Away
I was abroad with my business partner last week, conducting asbestos surveys. This is the large contract we won after being contacted from one of our web sites and being invited to tender for the work. The contract will take several months and quite a few more visits. Usually, when we conduct these surveys in the UK, we don't get muc...
| David Carter - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 7:39 |
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 | What to Ask Your Financial Advisor?
I truly believe the next quarter or two of the American economy is going to be very ugly. The primary reason for this is that I think mainstream America (Main Street) has finally realized how bad the economy truly is and that it is going to actually affect their lives directly. Consumption is going to dry
| | Green Taxi - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 16:0 |
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 | Who is the Boss? DomainBoss.com
We have decided to make available the premium domaining business related domain name:
DomainBoss.com
It has been registered for almost 10 years since 1999.
Many other extensions of the ”Domain Boss” have been snapped up by others including the:
.net, .org, .biz, .us, .co.uk, .cn, etc.
This is an eye-catching and ins...
| | DN Blogger - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 21:9 |
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| Sedo Sells Coiffurefemme.net for $80,000
French .net term sells for close to $80,000.
Sedo has completed the sale of coiffurefemme.net for 55,000 EUR, or almost $80,000 USD. The domain means women’s hairstyle in French. This is a surprising price paid for this domain, and the domain’s whois record is protected by whois privacy so it’s difficult to
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 13:50 |
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| Bush and The Google! Palin and VPilf.com
I came across a posting from the WashingtonPost.com that VoteForTheMilf.com was redirecting to JohnMcCain.com . Funny stuff! I guess the "owner" pulled the redirect and are now sending it to Wikipedia for Domain Names and registration.
Showing the power of the internet, this domain will be getting some large tr...
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:6 |
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 | Cameroon (.com.cm) Domain Sunrise Period Opens October 15th
NETCOM.cm Sarl, the official registry in charge of the Country Code Top level Domains of The Republic of Cameroon, proclaimed today that it will launch second level .cm domain name registrations on 15 October 2008.
Now NETCOM can offer .COM.CM, .NET.CM and .CO.CM to businesses and individuals throughout the world.”
“We would like to ...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:0 |
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| Sign Of The Times? Banksy Works Fail to Sell at Auction; Lehman CEO Art Collection on Block
via The New York Times:
Banksy, the British graffiti artist who remains semi-anonymous, had five of his works at a Lyon and Turnbull auction in London over the weekend. None of them sold.
Part of the problem stemmed from Banksy's refusal to claim the work as his own. Banksy has a history of stating that street art should remain in ...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 23:0 |
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| Register.com owned domain on NameJet.com today?
NetworkSystem.com appears to be a Register.com owned domain name. Not just registered with Register.com but appears to be Owned BY Register.com. Is this a mistake?
The domain is listed in the Pre-Release section on NameJet.com . NameJet does not have an agreement with Register.com that I am aware of but SnapNames.com does.
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| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 14:29 |
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| DomainConvergence to Host Auction With a Twist
Conference will include auction managed by Fusu.
DomainConvergence, a new domain conference coming to Canada October 6-8, will include a live and online domain name auction managed by Fusu.
So what’s the twist? People selling domains in the auction will have to pay 1% of the reserve price up front. The goal is to encourage
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:43 |
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 | Sedo Completes $1,015,000 Sale Of Invest.com
Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com reports that Sedo has finally completed the $1,015,000 sale of Invest.com.
The sale was first reported in December 2007 but it took until now for the funds to come through and for the domain name to be transferred to the new owner.
Invest.com is the first seven-figure sale reported since the first quarte...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 4:11 |
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| 0 Billion (.com)
Grand Names VIP, Leigh Ann asks me to share this....
How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,but one advertising ag...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 11:46 |
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| Failed Bank List (.com)
Thanks to Conor for some important information and warnings about what happens now.
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 21:15 |
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| RobotShop.us head quatered in Quebec targeting the US market with dot US
RobotShop Distributon Inc. is proud to put robotics at your service at RobotShop.US . We specialize targeting the US market with a wide range of robotic products and services in this sector. Our head office is located in Boisbriand, Quebec. At RobotShop, our mission is to be the World leading source for domestic and professional robo...
| | Mister US - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 13:10 |
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 | Super Parents online
Parenting is the number one online activity cited by moms, ahead of search, e-mail and news in a new study by AOL’s Platform-A and global communications agency OMD. More than half of moms use the Internet as their primary source of parenting advice and information.
Moms online
Moms use the Internet regularly for shopping, getting inf...
| | Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 23:6 |
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 | Chinese International Domain Names - IDN.CN Being Auctioned For Pretty "Pennies"
Sorry, my post title is a little misleading… well, sort of. IDN.CN have been selling like hot cakes lately; to get one, you need a lot of those pretty pennies. Here are some recent IDN.cn sales:
卫浴.cn Bathroom Vanities us$3126
机票.CN - Air Ticket US$7,150
二手车.CN - Second Hand Vehicle -US$5,704
| | fka200 - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 7:59 |
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 | New Private Aviation Co. Launches Private Jet Club
Private jet club launches New private aviation company- JetRepublic has ordered 110 learjets. JetRepublic will fly private jets to over 1,000 airports throughout Europe by the summer of 2009. The company's private jet club offers fractional ownership, an emerging trend among the jetset.* Stellar Aviation Domains Available: URLBroker...
| | Inside Domaining - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 15:24 |
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| Live Current Partners with Domain Strategies to Develop Karate.com
Deal will help monetize one of Live Current’s many valuable domain names.
Hot of the heels of its latest cricket media announcement, Live Current Media (OTC: livc.ob) has announced a new deal with Rob Monster’s Domain Strategies for the domain name Karate.com. Live Current and Domain Strategies will develop a new company...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 10:46 |
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| IPv4 To IPv6 Transition Breakdown
We have reported in the past about the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 IP address system versions.
Geoff Huston predicts that the world will run out of current IP addresses by the year 2010 and most companies have been slowly preparing for the transition to a larger scale IP system version for a while now. Vint Cerf has a similar predic...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 8:15 |
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| Grand Names FREE Domain: A Study in Krazyology (.com)
One of my favorite domains, Krazyology.com, is up on the block over at Grand Names today while still in preview mode, kicking the tires and talking to visitors in order to make improvements for public launch.
Other just listed domains include many hand registered original creations that have never been offered for sale before:
Cont...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 9:21 |
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 | Interim Report on DNAME Technical Evaluation
Overview
• Prepared DNS emulation environment
locally – the environment includes:
– Root DNS server, JP DNS server, “Nippon” DNS
server, other authoritative DNS server and
Cache DNS server
• Evaluated the followings:
(1) Functionality: Verification of name resolution of
“Nippon” TLD
(2) Performance: Measurement of impact on
Root/JP/C...
| | IDN News - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 21:24 |
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| Domain Convergence Conference To Hold Live Domain Auction
Domain Convergence, a domain-industry conference and educational meeting to be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario from October 6-8, 2008, will feature a live premium domain name auction. The auction will be operated by Fusu, the domain aftermarket specialist.
Fusu’s live auction platform will debut on October 8th, 2008 at 3:00pm E...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 17:40 |
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| If Looks Could Kill (.com) and Get Me One of Those (.com)
The Five Biggest Digital Marketing Cliches
Why Marketers Use Them, Why They Often Don't Work and What to Do Instead
VIA ADAGE:
Once upon a time -- say, 2002 -- digital spending was a negligible portion of total marketing budgets and we lived in a world where few marketers would dare go "beyond the banner." Fast-forward to 2008, and ...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 15:25 |
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| FAR-LEFT (.COM)
Are you sick of the far left? Over the nexty five weeks there's never been a better opportunity to take them on using far-left.com.
Other new listings on Grand Names just in time for the election include OFFICIALRECESSION.COM, SHORTRECESSION.COM,
LONGRECESSION.COM, and widget/application gem, TRACKVOTES.COM.
View them here and reme...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 12:3 |
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| Vote For Me Song (.com) and President Dolls (.com)
Just in time for what the world needs- a "sing in" candidate and reducing all the others to dolls so we can play with them for a change. Now listed on Grand Names. Of course, "vote for me" is a great expression- how many times has someone asked you to vote for them? Imagine sending your request in a ringtone? And Presidents are not j...
| | The Frager factor - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 10:40 |
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