 | I am tired of depending on others
The domain name game is a tough one. Security issues during transactions, listing domain names with Sedo and Afternic to only have your domain names lost in the mix. Parking revenue is down with your X amount of uniques in a day and your pennies of revenue, uneducated buyers etc.
The fact is, I am pretty sick of
 | DotWeekly - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 16:50 |
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 | Follow Up: What's a Domain Really Worth?
I read an interesting blog post written by Tim Berry on Entrepreneur Blog Network. Tim discusses a brief email conversation he had with the owner of SWOT.com who had cold-called him regarding the sale of the domain name. It’s interesting to see Tim’s (and his reader’s) perspectives of domain values vs. my own perspe...
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 15:44 |
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 | Value Your Domain Names the Dark Blue Sea Way
A look at how Dark Blue Sea values domain names.
Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS.AX) is one of the world’s largest holders of domain names, with over 550,000 domain names in its portfolio. It’s also a publicly traded company, which helps us peer in to see how the company works.
Only a small percentage of DBS’
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:44 |
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 | Conclusion: Zero Reserve is an Imprudent Business Practice
The domain Convergence extended online auction being conducted by Fusu will end on Wednesday October 15th.
There are still some very great deals there for the taking, including ChargerKits.com.
We tested the Zero Reserve idea in this auction with ChargerKits.com, and personally, am not convinced that the Zero Reserve style auction is...
| | eBusinessDomains - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 21:21 |
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 | Building A Domain Sales Site - Installing Wordpress
This is my first time installing Wordpress on my new Bluehost account. I jumped over to the Bluehost help desk and did a quick search for Wordpress install and found this:
To Install WordPress using Fantastico:
| | SellingMy.com - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 16:30 |
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| New WhyPark Platform Looks Promising
Parking alternative set to launch completely overhauled system.
Domain name parking alternative WhyPark is getting ready to release a complete overhaul of its platform. Based on a sneak peak I got from WhyPark founder Craig Rowe, the new WhyPark may be just what domainers need to counter falling parking revenues.
The basics are stil...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:54 |
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| Why I Don't Like the Burbank Website
I will be the first to admit, I don’t like how Burbank.com currently looks. I don’t believe the current site is attractive or would make people jazzed about visiting the city of Burbank, California - a great city with a ton of activities. Don’t get me wrong, the content is good, but I just don’t
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:25 |
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 | Premium and Generic Domains at giveaway prices now!
The current economic climate is unearthing some great bargains as people hurry to liquidate assets. Adding to the bargains out there Namecake.com has put some fantastic Premium domains on sale.
| | Name Cake - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:13 |
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 | Please be clean
I just read an interesting article from Ron Jackson’s DNJournal about NBC’s plans to use NBC Geo domains in the near future. Have a read for yourself here.
It would be interesting to know how these plans would affect GeoDomain owners like Chicago.com. Would it be tough competition, or as David Castello thinks, may work in...
| | TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 20:45 |
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 | Cold.com to be Auctioned off for a Cool Million?
Cold.com will be auctioned in late November with a minimum acceptable bid of US$1 million, announced Patent Kinetics, LLC, an intellectual property strategy, evaluation, and brokerage company.
“We anticipate exceptionally strong interest in Cold.com,” said Bob Weber, Managing Director, Patent Kinetics, LLC. “Marketi...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 10:25 |
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 | Wall Street Journal Covers Domain Naming Rights
Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal has written an article discussing ICANN’s changes to the gTld Naming System.
The article talks about the lack of available names in the current naming system and why next year’s changes will provide us with “the opportunity to do the same thing that city planning did for cities...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 2:46 |
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 | Domain Names Available for Registration #77
Generally speaking, hand registrations aren't going to make you rich but they aren't going to break the bank either. By registering quality domains and flipping them for multiples, one can help supplement the purchase of premium generics and domain development projects. Here are today's available domain names. All the domains listed ...
| | Bill Eisenmann - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 9:28 |
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| The Domain Name World in Los Angeles
Look for exclusive stories this week on Domain Name Wire.
I’m off to Los Angeles this morning for several days of meetings with area domain name companies. Today I’m meeting with ICANN and Thought Convergence, and have several meetings set up over the next couple days.
Los Angeles is one of the “domain name centers&...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:40 |
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 | Rock Bottom Domaining: Keep Our Heads Up and Stay Positive
“Rock bottom domaining” means that the domain industry’s economy is basically at rock bottom, it’s at an extremely low point. At this point, I wouldn’t hesitate to say our domaining industry’s economy is either close to, or at rock bottom. But this article isn’t about focusing on the negative...
| | DNUnderground - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 15:0 |
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| Building A Domain Sales Site - Select A Hosting Company
Welcome to the official first step of building a domain name sales site. As I mentioned in my first post on this topic, I will be building the site on the self hosted version of Wordpress.
Before we get started building the site let me follow-up to comments made in my first post. I spoke this morning with the existing developer/host...
| | SellingMy.com - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 14:9 |
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 | Legal Name Changed To A Dot Com
I had to post this, it was just too interesting not to.
Virginia resident Jennifer Thornburg has officially changed her legal name to CutoutDissection.com. When asked why she decided to change her name this was her answer.
“I changed my name in order to raise awareness about the six million animals that are killed for dissectio...
| | ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:23 |
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| Sedo Completes UD.com sale for $99,000
After an off week, Sedo is back with some solid completed sales.
Sedo completed the sale of UD.com for $99,000 over the past week, narrowly missing a six figure sale.
But after a slow week for completed sales the prior week, Sedo is back in action with some solid sales. Here’s a drumroll of
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:50 |
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 | NamePros Domain Auction Live Event This Thursday at 6PM EDT
Its that time of the month again. Another Namepros.com auction is about to happen. If you have not been to one of these you NEED to jump on the bandwagon. These events are not just to pick up some nice names but to socialize and have a little bit of fun in this laid back ShareThis
| | YGrab - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 14:55 |
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| Turn Up The Radio and Turn Up The Profits
If your domain was said over the radio, would everyone that heard it be able to spell it out? With over 100 million domain names currently registered, it is becoming increasingly important to focus on the memorability and pronounceability of the domain name in question.
The radio or phone test is a quick way to test...
| | ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:6 |
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| NamePros.com Live Domain Name auction Thursday
It’s time again for another Live Domain Auction at NamePros.com . NamePros holds Live domain name auctions in it’s chat room about every two weeks or so and it’s nearly time again! Thursday 10-16 at 6 PM EDT. You can visit the auction list here and Pre-bidding is NOW open.
The auction list is growing by
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 8:0 |
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 | IP Firm Auctioning Cold.com
Patnent Kinetics, an east coast IP firm, announced today via PRnewswire the auctioning of the domain name Cold.com. The domain name has a minimum bid price of $1million.
The press release describes Patent Kinetics as “an Intellectual Property strategy, evaluation, and brokerage company specializing in patents, trademarks, copy...
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 15:59 |
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 | Cyberlaw Update: Google sued for allowing typo-squatting
Of course Google profits from millions of typo-squatting websites from Google's Adsense advertising program. But are they liable for trademark infringement or contributory trademark infringement? The Lawyers in the Vulcan Golf, LLC v. Google Inc. class action lawsuit alleging the...
| | Domain Dispute - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 9:7 |
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 | Australia In November?
The lure of November's TRAFFIC show in Australia was almost irresistible to me. I came close to booking it, but pulled back because when I visit (hopefully in 2009), I want to take the family and have a proper family holiday. I came close. Afterall, a trip to TRAFFIC is tax deductable and there aren't that many opportunities for dom...
| David Carter - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 8:10 |
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| Help The Industry: Submit A Domains For The ICA TRAFFIC DownUnder Auction
As part of the TRAFFIC DownUnder show next month, there will be a special domain auction with all proceeds being contributed to the ICA.
These domains are to be auctioned with no reserve at the conference Gala Dinner on the 19th of November.
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a grass roots organization formed to ensure domai...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 10:37 |
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 | TRAFFIC DownUnder less than a month away!
TRAFFIC DownUnder is fast approaching and what a conference it's shaping up to be! It looks like Fabulous is pulling out all the stops to put on not only the most fantastic business conference but also what looks like to be the most entertaining.
According to a recent press release,...
| | Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 4:30 |
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| 58 Expired Domains
I posted a list of 58 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 - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 21:16 |
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| With Your Parent's Permission...Why?
Today I was surfing through the channels and came across a surprising statement on the Disney Channel channel: with your parent’s permission… I couldn’t understand why Disney Channel would have to put up the disclaimer for parent’s permission. It’s not like Disney Channel was forcing children to go to th...
| | DNUnderground - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 19:11 |
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| Kentucky Decision Due Tomorrow
A Franklin County Circuit Judge is still on schedule to render his decision in a controversial case whereby the Kentucky commonwealth is looking to seize some 141 Internet gambling domain names.
Judge Thomas Wingate of the Franklin Circuit Courtroom ruled last Tuesday that until he finalizes his decision, the commonwealth must leave ...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 12:19 |
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| Silent Auction bidding for DomainConvergence/Fusu ends tomorrow
The silent auction portion of the DomainConvergence/Fusu auction ends tomorrow. With a total of 113 bids for the 39 domains, 10 of them have already reached their reserve listing price. See the domains with their current bids after the jump.
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CanadaTrademarks.net
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USD 120.00
USD 0.00
2008-10-15 1...
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:0 |
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| WSJ.Com: Google Working on Settlement With Justice on Yahoo Deal
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are in talks with the Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement.
Although the settlement negotiations are at an early stage investigators are continuing to build a lawsuit to block the deal, worried it would give G...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 15:58 |
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