 | Would You Turn Down $100K for a Domain You Might Lose?
An article in the Miami Herald yesterday talked about the story of Steve Thiele who registered the domains miccosukeetribeofindians.com, miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and a site named after tribe chairman Billy Cypress, billycypress.com.
The Miccosukee tribe is major tribe in Florida and own and operate a casino.
According t...
 | The Domains - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 10:24 |
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 | Godaddy Domain Auction Hot List!
Here is a list of domain names that are currently on auction at Godaddy.com . I liked these domains for one reason or another and thought you might as well. Happy hunting and Godaddy’s domain aftermarket has been producing several "bargains" lately.
Xoda.com
ShowRatings.com
OldWarehouse.com
Gung.com
DiningDi...
| | DotWeekly - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 10:38 |
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 | Saturday Musings - A ray of sunshine for domainland
Over the last few weeks I've been analyzing the broader domain industry and in particular external impacts such as the financial meltdown. I've received a number of comments that suggest support my gloom and doom analysis of the current PPC market. Some people have even suggested that it...
| | Michael Gilmour - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 0:27 |
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 | .SE To Make Over 4000 Reserved Geo Domains Available For Public Registration
The .SE registry is to make 4000+ reserved Geo domain names available for public registration on 16 December 2008.
In 2003, when the .SE registry relaxed registration rules for it’s ccTld, and allowed domain names with the .SE extension to be registered on a “first-come first-serve: basis, it reserved a collection of 4000...
| | DnExpert - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 2:30 |
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 | Impetus for our Economic Woes - "Free Money"
About 10 months ago, I wrote a guest post on Owen’s Blog about people who were “lucky” enough to receive lines of credit by accident at K-Mart. While everyone is pinning the credit problems the country is facing on Wall Street greed, I think the blame needs to be shared. I believe this is a
| | Elliot Silver - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 19:42 |
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 | Domain Flipper's Dream Ticket
Domain flipping is now a popular way of making money with domains. Buy low, and sell high. Better yet, if you can buy and hold!
Widest Media owns thousands of domains, with just a fraction of these being offered for sale through eBusinessDomains.com. The others are sold through Exdon.com or directly to end users and investors.
Here
| | eBusinessDomains - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 19:47 |
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 | If the candidates were domainers . . .
The United States presidential election 2008, scheduled for Tuesday November 4, 2008, will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election and will select the President of the United States.
There has been massive media coverage (as expected) throughout the whole world.
The decision of the Americans will have ...
| | TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 21:2 |
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 | Hitfarm Prepares to Launch Parking Indices and Hitfarm 2.0
Hitfarm, a company specializing in domain parking, is releasing two major domain market indices - the Reinvent Index (RVT-200) and the Hitfarm Composite Index (HCI) - so domainers can increase the performance of their parked domains. DNN will be featuring the indices on the homepage in the coming months.
The Reinvent Index tracks th...
| | Domain Name News - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 18:47 |
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 | Give The Little Guy A Chance (.com)
This GREAT call-to-action domain just listed at Grand Names for just $99.
Also listed, and will make you smile, DotcomDinosaurs.com.
| | The Frager factor - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 15:21 |
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 | TRAFFIC NYC 2008 Domain Auction Results
What follows are the results of the domain auctions held at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference in New York City this year, which sold just under $5 million worth of domains:
Overall, three auction houses were selling domains at TRAFFIC NYC 2008:
Rick Latona Auctions, Aftermarket.com and Moniker.com.
Results after the fold.
It was Rick Latona’s first live auction and he did...
| | Dominik Mueller - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 7:55 |
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| ICA File's Brief in Kentucky Domain Seizure Action
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) filed a friend of the court brief yesterday.
The brief attacks the governor action on several grounds.
First the Kentucky law which was cited by the state in taking the action relates to “Mechanical Gambling Devices” which domains simply a...
| | The Domains - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 10:50 |
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| 50 Expired Domains
I posted a list of 50 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 - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 16:3 |
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| Verisign Acquires .Name TLD
Verisign has closed a deal to acquire Global Name Registry, the London-based company that runs the .name registry. This move adds to Verisign’s control over the domain industry, as the company already operates the registry for the .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domains while also running the DNS servers for .edu and .jobs.
Although t...
| | Domain Name News - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 21:14 |
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 | TDNAM Coupon for October 2008
gdbb776 gives you a discount off the renewal component. I have tested this on both .com and .net and they went from $10.69 to $7.50 each.
Edit: By the way, the latest Namecheap coupon code for October is INDIANSUMMER.
If you know any others or it saves you some $$$ then feel free to post a comment.
| | Domainer Income - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 20:6 |
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 | Making history in Poland
Hello from Mister Blogs in Poland.
We’re here at the MeetDomainers event in beautiful Krakow and are witnessing the first-ever live domain auction in Poland.
With several great domains, such as Photography.pl (in Polish) with a 1 Zloty (about €0.30) reserve price, we’ve seen some great action in the room.
As this is th...
| NameDrive - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 12:23 |
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| Verisign Acquires Dot Name
According to TechCrunch Verisign has acquired the UK based company that runs the .name top level domain name. The news has not yet been formally announced but Verisign has sent out an email to all registrars with the news:
We are pleased to announce that VeriSign closed on an agreement to acquire Global Name Registry, Ltd., which inc...
| | DnExpert - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 23:42 |
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| Domain Owners Association of Canada Launched
At long last a new association promising to address the concerns of Canadian domain owners is being launched.
In order to represent the interests of Canadian domain name owners, the Domain Owners Association of Canada (DOAC) aims to protect and increase the value of its members’ domain names.
“It’s high time Canadi...
| | DnExpert - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 12:53 |
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| Google-Yahoo Deal On Hold
Google has agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with Yahoo to give U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal.
Two weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told The Associated Press he would not wait much beyond the intended Oct. 11 start date.
But in a statement Friday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based
| | The Domains - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 11:48 |
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| 10 Years Since Jon Postel's Passing
Vint Cerf has posted an article on the ICANN blog in memory of Jon Postel (the founder of ICANN) and the IPv4 system as we know it. Jon Postel once famously said “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send” - a statement which he obviously meant in the context on Internet Protocols but one which can ...
| | DnExpert - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 8:40 |
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 | Discoveries - AVAILABLE - ZenLIKE.org THINGSiLOVE.tv RelaxingSOUND.net iFiF.tv and more…
Here are some DISCOVERIES for you…
They are showing as AVAILABLE…
You can register whatever you want from the list - wherever you want…
Have fun…
Things I LOVE
these are AVAILABLE:
ThingsLIKE.info
ThingsLIKE.us
ThingsLIKE.tv
ThingsLIKE.mobi
THINGSiLOVE.info
THINGSiLOVE.us
THINGSiLOVE.tv
THINGSiLOVE.mobi
R...
| | DropGRABS.com - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 1:6 |
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