 | Update on Mini Site & Launch of New Site
Although I’ve heard Google doesn’t allow publishers to provide Adsense stats, I wanted to give an update on FuelAssistance.com, the site that was built for me by my friend Bradley at Site Graduate. I launched the site a few weeks ago, and I blogged about it in a “5 With… Bradley Epstein.”
So far, the sit...
 | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 13:22 |
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 | Its Just Google, Stupid!
Hey folks, it’s me! [whoopee goes the crowd]
With the office being so quiet (and dark and cold and wet and miserable and lonely) at the moment, what with everyone off sunnying themselves down under, I thought Id come back to my old (and somewhat neglected) blog and bring you up to speed with some goings
| | Julia Mackenzie - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 15:15 |
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| Portland.com is Launched
Skip Hoagland and his team have announced the launch of Portland.com, a geowebste geared toward resident and visitors of Portland, Oregon. Portland.com is a part of GeoDomains New Media family of Companies, which includes other great geowebsites such as Atlanta.com, BuenosAires.com, HiltonHead.com, and MyrtleBeach.com.
Press Release:...
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 10:26 |
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 | Resume.com Hurting the Economy
I was just reading an article by David Carter on how he builds his websites on the back of businesses. The blog starts off discussing how there is “a big credit squeeze that we all know about and that in itself presents a great opportunity for those individuals and businesses that can take advantage.”
From there
| | Green Taxi - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:21 |
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 | Foundit.com: A Great Use of a Domain is Launched
A couple of years ago I leased the domain foundit.com, with an option to buy to a startup.
Since then the buyer has been hard at work and today they announced the completion of their lost and found site for all things, from your camera to your laptop to your blackberry and much more.
Another great example
| | The Domains - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:38 |
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 | Writing High-Quality Content For Your Flip
When creating a website for your flip it is important to provide content that your readers are looking for. How do you know what your readers are looking for? The answer may be closer than you think. The best thing to do before writing your content is to take a step back and put yourself in your visitor's shoes. How does a visitor g...
| | Domain Flipper - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 22:1 |
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 | Vibrators.com - The $1,000,000 Sale: Part I
A little less then two weeks ago, the deal was finalized. PriveCo Inc. purchased the domain name, Vibrators.com, for $1,000,000. It has been reported that PriveCo made a $200,000 down payment on the domain name, and plans to pay the rest of the money over a short period of time at an 8% interest rate.
PriveCo
| | DNUnderground - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:51 |
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 | Ron James from NamePros Talks Web Development
It was great to see Ron at TRAFFIC DownUnder. Here are a few key points from his presentation on website development.
Development Goals
Add value to your domain name property
Earn more revenue than you would by parking
SEO / Increase traffic
Establish a legitimate use - reduce the threat of UDRP
Independence from Google and Yahoo
C...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:39 |
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 | Bank Buys 3 Character Domain Name for $50,000
Sale of ABL.com headlines sales week at Sedo .
Fresh off a million dollar sales week, domain broker Sedo is keeping the momentum alive despite not completing any six figure transactions over the past week.
The top sale for the week was ABL.com for $50,000. The seller was ABL Research, Inc. of Duluth,
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 10:11 |
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| Ryan Steel From aeiou.com Talks Search Engine Optimization
Here are some of the key points:
What It Takes To Succeed In The Search Engines
Unique content
Onsite optimisation
Link building
What Domains Should Be Developed For The Search Engines?
Base keywords
Age of domain
Availability of traffic
Existing back links
Scaling From 10 to 10,000 Domains
You should have a “roll your o...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:59 |
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 | What Do ICANN CEO Paul Twomey, Fire Dancers and Koala Bears Have in Common?
They were all featured on the Tuesday schedule at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference in Australia! We have photos and highlights from Dr. Twomey's keynote address, a panel on Australia's rapidly growing .au ccTLD and a dinner party that featured fire dancers and koala bears!
| DNJournal - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 16:2 |
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 | GotMail.com, GoVote.com - Snap Highlights
Some more highlights for domains available right now at Snapnames. As with prior lists many of the domains below already have multiple bidders while some are private sales.
Learn More? Simply click on the name to view reserves, auction dates, bidders and/or place an order.
govote.com
musicstorage.com
babywebcam.com
wealthbuilders.com...
| | Newfound Names - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:21 |
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| Big Three Registrars Ask Feds for Bailout
A comical look at the state of our economy (satire).
[As CEOs of the "big three" auto manufacturers in the U.S. go hat-in-hand to the federal government today, I thought I'd take a humorous look at what may happen if the biggest three registrars ran into trouble.]
Representatives of the “big three” domain name registrars ...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 14:10 |
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| Chris Disspain on Monetization - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Chris started off by correcting some statements made by previous speakers (ouch). He didn’t have any slides prepared and thanked a number of people, including an individual that persuaded him to come to the conference as he wasn’t going to attend. In my view it was probably not the best start to a presentation to
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 2:21 |
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| CitiBank: Display Advertising is Declining Faster Than Anyone Expected
According to Citibank analyst Mark Mahaney, Display advertising is declining faster than expected and marketers are holding back on spending in 2009 because of growing economic uncertainty analyst.
Mahaney suggested that the online ad market is in worse shape than previously imagined.
“October spending in display saw a sharp de...
| | The Domains - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:28 |
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| John Berryhill on Domain Legal Issues - D2S1 - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
John needs no introduction. Here are the key messages from his speech:
Names added and subsequently deleted during the 5 day AGP declined from 17.6M in June 2008 to 2.8M in July 2008. Of the 2.8M AGP deletes in July, approx 2.6M were subject to the registrar-level transaction fee defined by the provision.
On the UDRP side
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 19:30 |
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| Global Warming May Be Hazardous to Your Domain Names
Country code domain names carry risks. Here are a couple examples.
Sure is pretty. Until the water rises.
This headline isn’t a joke. Here’s how global warming and subsequent rising ocean waters could doom a domain name extension.
Last night I read an article in The Economist about the Maldives, an island nation planning ...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 15:30 |
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| GoDaddy Increases Default Registration Period to 5 Years
Be careful as you click through checkout on GoDaddy .
If you’re used to quickly clicking through the GoDaddy checkout process to register domains, be warned: the default registration period has changed to 5 years. The graphic below shows the default when I tried to register the domain RegisteringDomainsForMultipleYears.com.
Mo...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 12:17 |
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| Craig Rowe from WhyPark Talks About Domain Content
Craig Rowe is the President of WhyPark and is speaking on the topic of “Content is King”.
Benefits Of Content Development
Creates a theme for search engines
Acquired unsolicited inbound links and proactively build new links
Provides a good user experience leading to return visits
What To Consider Before Developing
Wha...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:24 |
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 | Sedo weekly sales up to November 17
Here is this week’s sales list from Sedo. There are a few repeats from what was reported last week, but still some very impressive results. Three letter domains led the way with abl.com selling for 50,000 USD and giw.com selling for 13,500 EUR, a couple rarely reported ccTLDs made the list with lekarze.pl at 14,000
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 15:16 |
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| Howard Neu - UDRP & WIPO Unveiled - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Howard needs no introduction, he is the co-founder of TRAFFIC conferences along with Rick Schwartz. Before launching into the speech, Howard commented that TRAFFIC will be working on a “Code of Standards” for domainers with a launch date of April 2009. Interesting…..
UDRP
Is there evidence of bad faith?
Demonstrati...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 0:37 |
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| Registrar sues auDA for deleting domain name
Domain Directors, an associated company of Instra Corporation, an auDA (Australian Domain Name Administrator) and ICANN accredited registrar, yesterday commenced legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland against auDA, the Australian domain name policy and regulatory body.
Last week, auDA unilaterally cancelled Domain Direc...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 23:2 |
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 | GuyInYourPants.com - A Sequel To GirlInYourShirt.com?
People are quick these days. Following in the recent short-term success of GirlInYourShirt.com, a guy called Jon has come up with a bit of a parody called GuyInYourPants.com.
The about page shows how much work has been put into this project:
This site is the result of years of research, intensive meetings with venture capitalists and...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 18:13 |
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| Divyank Turkhia - Owning Your Own Registrar - D2S1 - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Divyank Turkhia is the President Directi. The presentation is quite fast paced, so I’ll try to keep up with the most valuable information.
What’s the wholesale price including ICANN fees?
.com $7.06
.net $5.18
.org $6.95
.biz $6.62
.info $6.95
.name $6.20
Registrar Landscape
75% of all registrars have < 5000 domai...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 19:11 |
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 | Reposition Your eBusiness - Website Rebranding
As we continue to read the doom and gloom economic reports, we can all sit, cry, shiver and hope for the best, or take decisive actions.
The race is not for the swift, but for those who can endure it to the end.
Perhaps it’s time to take an analytical look at your business to see if
| | eBusinessDomains - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 9:3 |
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| Sean Stafford on Data Mining - D2S1 - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Sean Stafford is the author of DomainGraduate and CEO, Elvate LLC.
Key points:
Data mining is crucial.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time at the PC
Find keywords from your portfolio (that people search on). Add a .com and run it through whois.
Use google adwords.
Buying From Others
If buying from a Domainer, ask for screenshots
V...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 18:32 |
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 | DotWeekly.com upgrading servers tonight
I have a nice story that I worked on most of today and was hoping to get it up yet but It looks like that will not happen yet today as I am waiting for a couple replies back.
DotWeekly.com will be undergoing a server upgrade tonight from about 8-10 PM PDT. DotWeekly will be down
| | DotWeekly - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 18:25 |
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| Kellie Peterson - Domain Metrics - D2S1 - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Kellie is the Director of Marketing & Operations, Name.com. She launched right into her slides with a very softly spoken voice.
What Metrics Matter To You
Are you a monetizer?
Are you a flipper?
Are you a developer?
Are you a premium domain investor?
When Buying
This is what should matter to you:
Traffic
Revenue
Traffic Origi...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 18:51 |
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| Adrian Kinderis, MD of AusRegistry - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
AusRegistry was co-founded in 2001. Since then its had substantial growth:
1 million .au names in November 2007
1 million .com.au names in June 2008
Currently 1.25+ million .au names
Average 25% annual growth
Adrian talked a LOT (in fact too much) about AusRegistry, explained some auDA policy around domain name monetization. For e...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 2:2 |
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| Mega Domaining Essentials Contest Additional Task #3
As promised on November 1 when the Mega Domaining Essentials contest was launched here at DNXpert, we will come up with a set of easy tasks that will allow you to get extra points on the random entry points tracking page and increase your chances of winning a prize in the random draw to be held on November 30, 2008.
Today we reveal t...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 10:21 |
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| Erhan Karabardak from CooperMills Lawyers - Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
Erhan introduced ICANN, auDA, IP Australia and other bodies before getting into their respective functions.
Issues With Regulation
Most legal actions are initiated by small business
Time taken to litigate can be a number of years
Key questions in seeking judicial review of auDA’s decisions:
auDA claims its not subject to ...
| | Domainer Income - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 1:34 |
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| TRAFFIC Down Under Charity Auction accepting pre-bids
Tomorrow’s ICA Charity Auction is will be taking pre-bids via email now. Email your details including domain and max bid to ICAAuction@trafficdownunder.com. The 10 domains being auctioned on Wednesday 19th of November at 3:30am EST (6:30pm local time) are listed after the jump.
LanzaroteCanaryIslands.com - Kevin J. Sinclair
C...
| | Domain Name News - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 12:12 |
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| Netcom.CM Launches 2nd Level Registrations
As predicted here at DNXpert.com earlier, NETCOM.cm Sarl, the official registry in charge of the Country Code Top level Domains of The Republic of Cameroon, launched second level .cm domain name registrations on Friday.
Mr Moustapha Saya Kaigama, president of NETCOM.cm says, “This is a very exciting time for us, and a big dream come ...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 5:36 |
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