Is SEO Dead? Micah Baldwin Says There Is a Better Way to Build Traffic "If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years" according to Lijit Networks exec Micah Baldwin. A lot of domain owners who want to develop their names have been thinking about SEO but on his LearnToDuck.com blog Baldwin says there is a better way to go.
DNJournal - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 18:24
Vibrators.com Sells for $1 Million Domain Name News received word today that PriveCo Inc has purchased Vibrators.com for $1 Million. The Michigan based company has been running the website at Vibrators.com since 2002. PriveCo runs several other e-commerce websites focusing on the sale of items which people often prefer to buy in privacy via the internet. Some of Priv...
Domain Name News - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 14:52
Conflicts between customers and registrars There has been a debate raging around the fact that many registrars are taking advantage of the commercial opportunity to acquire domains from their own customers in what can be viewed as unethical behaviour.
I believe that many registrars are potentially in conflict with their own customers over the resale...
Michael Gilmour - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 19:34
Telnic: A $35 Million Investment Gone Away Luck seems to be running out for investors in .tel registry. And it hasn’t even launched yet.
A new top level domain, .tel, is getting ready to rollout in the first part of next year. The registry behind the domain — Telnic — has raised a stunning $35 million in outside capital before even
Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 15:17
Grand Names Kicks it Up A Notch With New Advisors Grand Names, the Web's original alternative domain brokerage and marketplace, announces the appointment of three new members to its Advisory Board, replacing other advisors who have recently left the organization. Joining the Board immediately will be Leland Hardy, Bruce Turkel and Jay Berkowitz.
These heavy hitters from the worlds...
The Frager factor - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 13:55
Is NameJet.com Now The Most Effective Platform for Domain Sales? Could Namejet.com be the most effective sales platform for domains?
This was suggested by one of the readers to this blog earlier today.
After weeks of strong domain sales on NameJet, a case be made that NameJet.com is fast becoming the most effective platform for high priced domain sales.
Today a very good domain, BikeHelmets.com, a...
The Domains - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 17:40
Domain Names You Never Got Around To Developing I’ve registered hundreds of domain names over the past few years. Each time, before clicking “Complete Purchase,†I made a point to think about every individual name, how it would be developed into a website with a specific purpose, how it could be profitable, how it would benefit an existing company or launch a st...
DotSauce Magazine - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 17:33
Domain Purchase From an Unlikely Market About 2 weeks ago, I was working on my garage to move my home office so that I can make room for the new baby and all that comes with her. Well I seem to have bitten off more than I can chew. I had never done drywall before but here I am hanging walls
Charlie in the Domain Factory While some domainers are busy clashing over marketplaces, I am going to start a domain price war.
We are offering Grand deals on our Quality premium domains.
As we shift gear and focus on domain development we will be putting domainers and entrepreneurs in our domain factory to pick, choose and grab any domain they wish, for
eBusinessDomains - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 9:12
The GodDaughters ASS (.com) Must taste pretty good seeing how many of you feel the need to kiss it. A t the end of the day honesty, integrity and values rule. The end of the organized crime formerly known as domaining is coming to an end. Judgement day is here and there will be no question as to who bet on the wrong horse.
The Frager factor - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 20:53
PriveCo Buys Vibrators.com For $1,000,000! Why Did They Buy A Domain Name For A Million Dollars?
There was a press release accompanying this but upon further investigation I have concluded that no transaction has taken place - most like an SEO viral distribution attempt.
Until proven otherwise, this news item will remain in this form.
DnExpert - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:51
Rock Group Wants ThirdEyeBlind.net Alternative rock group files UDRP to get domain name ahead of new album release.
Rock group Third Eye Blind has filed a UDRP claim to get the domain name ThirdEyeBlind.net. The claim was filed by lead vocalist Stephan Jenkins’ production company. Third Eye Blind’s official web site is the short and simple 3eb.com.
So why...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 13:19
Sites you have to see. New weekly feature! Every day I seem to do a lot of web wondering and am always looking for new and useful sites to help me in my business and for entertainment. So I thought I'd share on a weekly basis the top 3-5 I come across.
Name Cake - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 5:10
Barclays: DownGrades Google Stating: Search Environment Has Materially Deteriorated Barclays Capital cut its fourth-quarter revenue estimates on Google and lowered its price target on the stock.
Analyst Douglas Anmuth said the recent industry checks and data points suggest the search environment has deteriorated, perhaps materially, in fourth quarter.
He cut his price target on the stock by $52 to $490, but maintain...
The Domains - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:16
Thought Convergence is Converging the Domain Ecosystem Domain company Thought Convergence putting together all the pieces of a domain name ecosystem.
There are lots of companies playing one or two angles of the domain name business: sales, monetization, registration, etc. Thought Convergence, however, is making a play to own the entire life of the domain from research to registration al...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:8
Tucows Reports Slight Loss in Q3 Domain registrar fights currency fluctuations; down economy.
Tucows (AMEX: TCX) reported a third quarter loss of $71,000 today.
Despite a difficult environment, our third quarter revenue growth was driven by the strong performance of our OpenSRS Wholesale Services, primarily domain registration,” said Elliot Noss, President a...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 17:50
kredit.de sells for 1,13 million USD Sedo just announced the highest selling .DE sale with kredit.de (”credit”) selling for 892,500 Euro (=1,134,867 USD). The new owner of the domain is Unister GmbH from Leipzig, Germany, which operates portals such as geld.de (money), auto.de (cars) and preisvergleich.de (price comparison).
Up to now the 3 top published .DE...
Domain Name News - Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:49
Deutsche Bank Sets GM's Stock Price Target To Zero Certainly off the topic of domains, but when I see something in the financial world, I have never seen before I have to report it.
Today Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache issued a new price target on shares of GM.
His new “target price†for GM shares: zero.
Is SEO Dead? Micah Baldwin Says There Is a Better Way to Build Traffic "If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years" according to Lijit Networks exec Micah Baldwin. A lot of domain owners who want to develop their names have been thinking about SEO but on his LearnToDuck.com blog Baldwin says there is a better way to go.
