 | 28 Symptoms of a Serious Crisis in Domaining
We all know things are different now in this industry than they were a year ago. I’d like to present to you 28 symptoms of what I believe is a very serious crisis facing us all. Almost everyone I speak to is feeling these things. And if you’re feeling them yourself, the likely culprit is that you’re still hanging on to a lot of...
 | Domaining.com - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 2:56 |
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 | Branding vs Branding vs Domainer
Morning Folks!!What if I told you that this single post can make you a millionaire many times over? Well it will if you read carefully and fully get your head around this simple message. That's exactly what can happen. I have made a lot of posts in my time, but none are more important than the one you are about to read. So close the ...
| | Rick Schwartz - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 6:54 |
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 | Interview with Estibot.com Owner Dr. Esa
Estibot.com is one of if not the most popular free domain name appraisal service available, for this reason I had to find out more about the man behind the site. If for some reason you have not used the service please visit Estibot.com. The appraisals are free, they also offer a paid membership which helps
| | ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 17:32 |
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 | Domain Convergence Live Auction List
Below is the list for the FUSU Domain Convergence Live auction, which will be held on October 8th at 4pm EST. Internet bidding is available through Domains that are not sold at the live auction will go to an extended 7 day Internet auction.
The list of domains in the auction and their
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 14:53 |
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 | Kentucky Hearing Held Today: Can a State (Commonwealth) Be a Hypocrite?
gambling911.com did a live blog from the Kentucky courtroom where a hearing was held today on the 141 domains seized by the commonwealth of Kentucky.
After hearing arguments from attorney representing the gambling industry and representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the judge advised he would need 7 days before making his rulin...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 14:14 |
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 | MeetDomainers.pl Wrap
MisterB and the team are back from the MeetDomainers.pl event in Poland. The first independent domainer event in Poland was held in the beautiful city of Krakow and was attended by the top domainers in the Polish space.
The event was a great success, culminating in the most professional, most active domain auction MisterBlogs has see...
| NameDrive - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 12:2 |
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 | Domain Stocks Pummeled
Domain name related companies get pummeled on Wall Street.
Google’s 52 week stock performance(from Yahoo.com)
The stock market is in a free fall, and domain stocks are no exception.
Shares of Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) dropped 12.5% yesterday to close at $8.28. At one point it dropped to $7.75. It’s down 27.5% since the begi...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 11:49 |
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| Domain Name Bargain Hunting on eBay
A look at some of the more comical domains for sale on eBay.
Every once in a while you find a good domain name for sale on eBay. Not today. Here are some of the more comical offers I found when looking through eBay’s domain name category today.
Item: TheFallofWallStreet.com Historical Domain Name!
Behold! Misery!
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 14:2 |
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 | BankRate Throwing Cash Around
BankRate Inc made a few surprising purchases lately, paying millions of dollars for small one man sites.
First was CreditCardGuide.com, a site that provides credit-card comparisons. According to compete.com it receives close to 200K monthly visitors from US. Still hard to imagine the site revenues being able to justify the $32 milli...
| | Domain Magnate - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 9:51 |
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 | "Half A Million And A Guaranteed Movie"
I’m not exactly sure how many of my readers watch the HBO series “Entourage“, but last nights episode just glued itself into my thoughts for the title of this article: “Half a million and a guaranteed movie”.
Let me give you the scenario behind the quote: Two writers write a movie script
| | fka200 - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 0:20 |
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 | When the 'Domain King' Speaks Domainers Listen... What about the Rest of the World? Wake Up!
Legendary domain investor, Rick Schwartz aka the "Domain King", reveals online success secrets. A must read for anyone doing business online. Learn how to change your business on the Internet by applying the domaining secrets you are about to discover... Read here about the Domain King's Secret Weapon! Click Here!
| | Inside Domaining - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 11:30 |
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 | 22 Year Old Sells His 2 Year Old Blog For $15 Million
Johns Wu, 22, is one happy blogger today. He has sold his 2 year old banking blog, Bankaholic.com for $12.4 million to Bankrate. They have agreed to pay Johns an additional $2.5 million if the site performs well over the next 12 months. This sale is indeed confirmed by an official press release from Bankrate, Inc.
| | Dot Sauce - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 7:25 |
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 | Part 7 - domainers under the magnifying glass
Here is the list of the previous articles in this series on the domain industry:
Part 1 - Domain Industry and Valuations (index.php/20080728452/MyBlog/Domain-Industry-and-Valuations-Part-1.html)
Part 2 - The domain bubble (index.php/20080818456/MyBlog/Part-2-The-domain-bubble.html)
Part 3 - What caused the domain bubble? (index.php/...
| | Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 1:16 |
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 | Hand picked Available domain name list
Here is something that I do not do very often. A hand picked available domain name list. Not a huge list but several good domains that are worth taking a look at. All domains were available at posting, so if you register one please post it here so others do not waste time looking for
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 7:23 |
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 | Monetizing Expired Domains
My friend Brian Johnson, the author of the great domain monetization guide - Revenue Domains Exposed, has just published a great free video outlining how you can monetize expired domain names.
The video gives Brian’s views on expired domain monetization and how he goes about deciding what domain names to buy. It is definitely w...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 23:18 |
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 | Sedo weekly sales up to October 6
Sedo’s top domain sales for the week are posted after the jump…
Domain
Price
Translation/Other
Type
.COM
quix.com
12,000 EUR
sportwette.com
10,600 EUR
Sport Bets in German
heidou.com
8,100 USD
mobilesign.com
8,000 USD
skireservations.com
7,500 USD
GreatDomains
mry.com
7,100 USD
chinaglob...
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 21:0 |
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 | Mindshare versus attentionshare
Rick Schwartz has a nice post on his blog talking about how purchasing category-killing domain names for end users is a no brainer. This is true in the “real world” also where buying a shop on main street is always better than buying a shop on some side street. The latter requires far more advertising
| | Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 18:38 |
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| New .Info Policy Announced
Afilias, a global provider of registry services, announced today a new registration policy that will go into effect on November 6, 2008, which prohibits registrants from using .info domain names for “abusive behavior”
Abusive Behavior includes, but is not limited to: phishing, e-mail spam and other types
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 10:27 |
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| DomainConvergence Auction Domain List Released
Domain Convergence, the domain-industry conference and educational meeting being held in Niagara Falls, Ontario from October 6-8, 2008, will host a live premium domain name auction on Wednesday, October 6th, 2008, 16.00 EST.
Internet bidding is available through Domains that are not sold at the live auction will go to an extended 7 d...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 15:4 |
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 | DomainFEST Global Open for Submissions
Everyone is getting really excited for the upcoming DomainFEST event, coming up this January 28-30. This year the event will be taking place in Hollywood, California. DomainFEST always features a live domain auction within it’s event, which this year, will happen on Thursday, January 29. DomainFEST has just opened itself up for...
| | DNUnderground - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 18:34 |
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| MeetDomainers.Eu Live Domain Auction nets $ 90,000
This guest post was submitted by Daniel Dryze, a reader and contributor to this blog:
The first MeetDomainers (MD) in Poland is now a history.
84 participants - mainly from Poland - but also from Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg and United States were visiting this first Polish domainer event.
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 14:11 |
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| Build Traffic Via Forum Posting
You can drive hundreds of targeted visitors to your website by participating in forums frequented by members interested in your niche.
In order to get targeted traffic from forums you need to participate in forums that let you include a link to your website in their forum signature line. For example, the DNXpert Domain Forum allows ...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 5:45 |
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| Who's Cooking and Sou-Chef Program
Just like a real kitchen the head chef cannot do everything on his own. If you run a successful blog then you know what I mean. It is not easy manufacturing quality articles on a consistent basis. In fact it is my goal for us to create at least one or two articles a day.
| | ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 13:6 |
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| Domain Convergence Releases Auction List
As mentioned earlier, Domain Convergence will be hosting the first ever Fusu live auction on October 8 at 2:00 pm EST (11:00 am PST) during the domain conference in Niagara Falls, Canada. Bidding will take place at the event as well as over the internet at If you’re planning to bid online, make sure
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 21:2 |
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| Introducing AQDN.com - Affordable Quality Domain Names Marketplace
AQDN.com is a new marketplace featuring high quality .COM domain names at affordable reseller pricing recently launched by Mark Fulton of DotSauce.com.
The folks at AQDN.com strive to “provide web developers, domainers, businesses and individuals the best quality domain names at reasonable prices” and looking at the selec...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 8:19 |
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| RSS.com Domain Name set for $750,000 USD Sale
Sedo, the leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings (Torex(TM)) to oversee the sale of rss.com.
With the development of the Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has emerged as the industry standard term which describes the delivery of automated news...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 0:44 |
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 | Spotlight on .CA Top Level Domains
Fusu has released the list of domains that will be auctioned at the Domain Convergence event on Wednesday 8th October at 4pm EST.
The list only has 36 domains, which is a mere fraction of the 2,000+ domains that Moniker had on its auction list for the TRAFIC conference last month.
The advantage of having a short
| | eBusinessDomains - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 20:45 |
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 | Super Premium two letter domain on MyID.ca DOT CA Auction
SN.ca is currently on auction at MyID.ca.
SN.ca is a premium two letter .ca domain and a perfect address for a great number of uses. N at the end is extremely versatile and may designate among others: News, National, Nature, and Network. S at the beginning has vast possibilities including Sex, Social, Super, Special, Sports, and
| | MyID - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 17:49 |
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| Godaddy teams up with Hendrick for Sprint Cup Series
Godaddy.com first started out with Danica Patrick in the Indy car series. The Indy car series is not nearly as popular as NASCAR but NASCAR also hold many divisions. This year, Godaddy teamed up with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Hendrick Motorsports for the Nationwide Series and sponsored the #5 machine for 5 races.
Well, it’s time ...
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 16:3 |
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 | Expired Domain Name Recommendations 10/07/2008
I’ve recently decided to bring my expired & available domain name lists to my blog. Originally these lists were only available via mailing list, but I felt that many people were missing great opportunities for investment quality domain names.
I see a lot of garbage being registered… domain names that aren’t eve...
| | DomainBash.com - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 13:15 |
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| A View from the Top: High Value Domains on MyID.ca Auction
The most expensive domains (reserve wise) on the current DOT CA auction are Single.ca, Lesbian.ca and eJobs.ca.
Single.ca is a super premium generic and an excellent match for any online dating business, whether new or established. There are tens of millions of singles in canada and more and more of these are turning to online datin...
| | MyID - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 18:0 |
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 | Discoveries - Words Generics and SHORT Domains Available For Reg. Fee
Here’s some Discovery Domains…
These are all showing as Available for Reg. Fee…
These were garnered through random text searches (for the most part)
I send these out to my DropGrabs.com Newsletter Membership (Free)
and then after they have had at least 12 hours + to review the
Newsletter — then I post what...
| | DropGRABS.com - Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 13:0 |
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