 | So where is the next bubble going to be! Is your domain portfolio prepared?
I recently had a meeting with a very smart pair of Hedge fund managers and the topic eventually came up about where the next bubble is going to be when all the current mess has finally gone away. So who were the contenders?
Well commodities have had a tremendous run these last few years, but the bull market is looking a little tire...
 | Name Cake - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 8:25 |
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 | Top 5 Domain Name News Stories September 2008
A look back at the past 30 days in domain news.
As the world’s economies made headlines, the domain industry chugged along. Here are the top 5 news stories on Domain Name Wire for September, ranked by views.
1. Dell: “We’re F’d” - Dell is either creating a new line of highly interactive computers or is
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:44 |
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 | Moniker.com Silent TRAFFIC Auction Scores Big: $960K
The silent auction from the TRAFFIC show held last week in New York just completed and the results are a whopper.
In a week where the stock market has tanked, commodities sank and the everyone in the world is worried about their money, domains, once again proved to be a shinning light.
The preliminary total is $960,000
| | The Domains - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:0 |
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 | Part 6 - the pressures on PPC
Despite the robustness of the online advertising industry the current negative economic sentiment will flow and is flowing through to the domain industry. There are two reasons for this:
Google and Yahoo are both under pressure to over perform to maintain their share price in a massively declining market. Despite...
| | Michael Gilmour - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 5:6 |
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 | My chat with Pool.com CEO and HE wants to hear from YOU!
I did not agree with Pool.com’s decision to "move back" the domain name auction Opens.com . Pool stated they moved the auction back from it’s orginal ending date of Sunday to Monday so the auction ended on a "business day". See here from my first post.
Below is my Full Unedited email conversation with Pool...
| | DotWeekly - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:40 |
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 | Selling A Few Names
I am selling some domain names that I don’t think I’d ever get around to developing. They are registered at Moniker for an easy push. Shoot me any questions you might have about these names. First come, first served.
TobagoVacations.com - $1,000
SchoolVacations.com - $750
BerkeleyHeights.com & LittleEggHarbor.com - $5...
| | Elliot Silver - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:33 |
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 | NewYorkRestaurants.com Sells For $30,240
As reported across the industry blogs, Moniker.com’s silent auction concluded yesterday. Among the names that sold for top dollar was the geo domain/geo targeted domain NewYorkRestaurants.com for $30,240. It took the number 5 position on high sales for the silent auction. One year ago, no one would have expected a domain li...
| | Simply Geo - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 14:19 |
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| You Choose the Topic
I am working very hard on re-launching a completely new Burbank.com, so my brain is fried. A number of people have asked me various questions about domain investing in the past few weeks and I’ve tried to post responses when possible. Today I am asking people to submit questions to me which will become
| | Elliot Silver - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:43 |
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| Kentucky Domain Seizure Update: ICA Gets Involved
Today is the deadline set by the judge to file briefs in the Kentucky domain seizure action.
Phil Corwin, legal counsel to the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA”) was preparing to submit a brief on behalf of the ICA as a friend of the court. As soon as we get a copy we will make it
| | The Domains - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 15:2 |
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 | Short Domains - Both Sides Of The Coin
A conundrum presented itself long ago - There simply aren’t enough Tier 1 Generics to go around and lesser premium multi-word domains often evoke preconceived expectations and biased opinions in visitors which limit development possibilities to a subset of what they might otherwise have been.
Short domains and brandables presen...
| | DNKitchen - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 13:7 |
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 | Extremely Rare 2 Letter Domain 'LT.com' Trades for $100,000
New York, NYC- Just last month a rare gem of a domain traded for 6-figures at the TRAFFIC NYC 2008 live auction. After looking at the new sold results from the extended live auction and revisiting the results from the Sept. premium live auction, LT.com stood out. All I could think of was how a legendary pro bowl football superstar m...
| | Inside Domaining - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:15 |
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 | McCain Campaign Registered Palin MILF Domain Name?
Here is an interesting piece of news. The US election is coming up in November and both the Republicans and Democrats have been actively working on their campaigns for months now. In today’s day and age it is common practice to register domain names which may be used by the opposition to smear or hinder their campaign so itR...
| | DnExpert - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 23:9 |
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 | LLLL.com Goes for $7900 on Sedo
The domain LLLL.com recently sold on sedo for $7900.
This is undoubtedly one of the best of 4 letter domains and a perfect one to make a site on the industry news and sales.
The previous owner VURG planned to do so, but eventually decided to sell the domain.
The new buyer is Reece, the owner of BQB.com,
| | Domain Magnate - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:43 |
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 | Don't Miss Joe Davison's Live Domaining Webinar on Oct. 10th
Joe Davison, internet entrepreneur and domainer, recently published an excellent editorial entitled “28 Symptoms of a Serious Crisis in Domaining.” If you have not had a chance to sit down and read it I highly recommend taking a few minutes of your time to do so. Joe analyzes some serious and timely problems that we as
| | Dot Sauce - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 17:22 |
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| Register.com Home Page is a Winner
Re-designed web site is simple. Competitors should take note.
I had to make one of my infrequent visits to Register.com today to unlock a backordered domain for transfer. When I arrived at the home page I was greeted by a simple, yet bold home page:
In a business where many companies believe “more is better”,
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:10 |
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 | Headaches of Forum Admin
One of the ways to quickly develop your site is having a forum. For example if you have a job related domain, you can start up a job related forum and go from there. The past few days have been very challenging for me. I run a couple of forum style websites, PetMessageBoard.com, OverseasContract.com also
| | Sky Domains - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:14 |
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| ICA to Participate in Emergency Summit
News release from MarketWatch:
FRANKFORT, Ky. & WASHINGTON, Oct 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Internet Commerce Association, a non-profit trade organization representing domain name investors and developers and the direct search industry, today announced it will be participating in an emergency Summit on the State of Kentu...
| | Elliot Silver - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 15:9 |
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| Opens.com auction Extended before it's even over!
Pool pulled a fast one today IMO! Auctions run for 3 days at Pool.com and most other auction services, but since a "nice one" would be ending on a Sunday, Pool.com did all the bidders a "favor" and extended the auction so it ends on a Business Day…
Why didn’t they just say… Man, if Opens.com
| | DotWeekly - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 14:10 |
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| Moniker Silent Auction Nets Another $900k
Moniker ’s silent auction concluded yesterday with $900,000 in sales.
You can raise the tally on Moniker’s TRAFFIC auction to about $4 million, thanks to another $900,000 in sales in the silent auction. Nearly 200 domains sold in the silent auction.
loto.com $91,331 (Spanish for “Lotto”)
wholesale.net $88,240...
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:17 |
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| National Advertisers Want to Target Locally Online
National advertisers want to target local communities online according to a new study conducted by Sterling Market Intelligence and commissioned by Marchex, Inc. The down side to this new trend is National advertisers are confused on the best tactics and best traffic sources to use and how to
| | Simply Geo - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:3 |
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| Bailout Pork (In Parked Domain Names)
Here are some of the sweetener’s the in the Senate’s bailout package.
Whenever there’s something I want to discuss that can’t be tied to domain names, I just find parked domain names for some of the words. I felt sick last night after reading about the pork shoved into the $700 billion bailout package.
| | Domain Name Wire - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:1 |
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| Great News! Register .ME Domains for Just 1 Year
The .ME domain registry has just announced that the registration length requirement has been reduced to 1 year! If you missed out on the landrush now is the time to register .ME domain names at GoDaddy for just $19.99.
The .ME domain name extension has grown wildly popular in just a short amount of time since
| | Dot Sauce - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 19:48 |
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| TellTheTruthWLUK.com Fox pulls tv feed from Time Warner
Time Warner Cable get’s it!
Today is a pretty interesting day here in Wisconsin. Time Warner Cable and our local channel Fox 11 WLUK (Lin TV) have not come to terms and for the first time that I am ware of, a local channel is not being aired on local Cable.
Time Warner’s push is the Feed is FREE
| | DotWeekly - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 14:0 |
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 | IDN Sales Report - September 2008
IDN Sales Report Sept. 1, 2008 - Sept. 30, 2008
All sales are over 500 USD
IDN
punycode
language
translation
price*
where
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????.com
xn--h1aliz
russian
Sochi
21 555
idnchannel
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??.com
xn--oorp09c
chinese
sofa
9 000
private
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????.com
xn--9ckxbt7377c
japanese
stock map
8 ...
| | IDN News - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:42 |
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 | Does your domain name suck?
The National Arbitration Forum maintains a Domain Name Dispute Proceedings and Decisions searchable database and of course I couldn’t help poking around.
Domains Suck
I searched for cases involving domain names with “suck” or “sucks” in them and turned up 38 cases. With 5 withdrawn and 3 split, that left...
| | Predictive Domaining - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:41 |
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 | Whoa Daddy!!! $19.95 .us Registrations.
If you’re a fan of the .us extension, then you’re probably upset about the recent price hike to $19.95. I can’t waive a magic wand and bring the prices back down… but what I can do is share some promo codes that I know about to help bring your totals down a bit.
Emma1 will save
| | DomainBash.com - Friday, October 3, 2008 - 12:21 |
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