Doom and Gloom and a Pot of Gold Morning Folks, In the past couple weeks I have tried to articulate the perils we face. I believe this is where we are at. It took me a long time to figure it out. I think things can get dramatically worse and if another attack were to come it would be economically devastating. But the one thing I keep coming back to, if I had ONE ass...
Rick Schwartz - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 7:45
Drop Catching Script Yesterday I showed you how to create a bulk availability checker using the power of WHOIS. Today I’d like to follow that up with another interesting use of your new found WHOIS knowledge: catching drops. Before you get too excited, no… this script will not allow you to compete with NameJet, SnapNames, or Pool. But
DNMedia - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 18:34
The Decline of Ad Spending and the Rise of SmartPhones (and Why Those Disruptive Forces Will Affe... A new survey of top media and advertising execs says the decline of ad spending and the rise of smartphones are the most disruptive forces in media today. The decimation of old media through bankruptcies and closures was a close third. As a domain owner, we'll tell you why all of this matters to you.
DNJournal - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 17:11
Domain Development for what... For who?! I see a lot of people every day trying to develop out their domains into some sort of functional websites... That is really great, but ask yourself first "for what" ??? What for are you developing? I guess the answer is in order to make more money obviously by teaming up directly with affiliates, selling advertising to companies who ...
WannaDevelop.com - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 18:4
Goldberger on Toys.com Team, eToys.com Buyer Remains Mystery Follow up to yesterday’s auction story.
I spent several hours yesterday reading through bankruptcy documents before breaking the news about a major domain name auction in Delaware on February 4. Since then I’ve read more documents to try to piece together the major winners at the auction.
The two high profile winners R...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 10:18
NamePros: Will A Major Corporation Sell You One Of Their Premium Domains?
Via NamePros:
Brendan writes:
So I was thinking of new domains for a project I want to start and I thought of one that I really really liked and I typed it into my browser…and to my surprise, it redirected to Yahoo. I don’t really see why Yahoo wants this domain..so if I were to contact them about purchasing it, do you...
Conceptualist - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 0:58
Good Snaps I just spent some time searching through SnapNames to find some good drops and good auctions now that the DomainFest auctions have all closed. Some of these are private BIN auctions, while most are dropping names captured by Snap.
AgingWorkshop.com
AlisoViejoJobs.com
BabySitterStore.com
BookcasesWorld.com
BrandAids.com
CarriageWorld....
Elliot Silver - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 14:15
A Domain Name is Great… BUT Having the category defining domain name for your field or industry can put you many steps ahead of your competitors, but in order to have a successful business, you need more than just the domain name. A solid business plan is important for any company who wishes to do business on their category defining
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Elliot Silver - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 11:48
Domain Success Presents Skip Hoagland's Plan For World Geo Domain Domination REGISTER HEREHow did Skip Hoagland owner of over 2000 great generic domains like Fishing.com, Atlanta.com, MyrtleBeach.com, HiltonHead.com and Buenos Aires.com and OutdoorFurniture.com find the holy grail that everyone else has been looking for? Join us online on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 8PM EST as Skip Hoagland, CEO of Domain...
The Frager factor - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 9:1
Some Chemisty.. A minor interlude in proceedings Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It’s from a question given to students in a University of Washington mid term paper Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? One students answer: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
Julia Mackenzie - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 20:14
VeriSign: Domain Registrations and Renewals Rates Down: Price Increase to Come? According to VeriSign’s Earnings call report for the 4th quater of 2008, new domain registrations were down 15% in the 4th quarter of 2008 compared to the 4th quarter of 2007.
In 2008 there were 6.3 million new domain name registrations, compared with 7.5 million names during 4Q 07.
There are a lot in interesting information ...
The Domains - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 10:8
Arena.com Owner Wins Domain Name Arbitration Panel finds Arena Swimwear’s arguments unconvincing.
Sometimes I see a domain name dispute and wonder what the heck the complainant was thinking. When I saw that the one word generic domain name Arena.com was in dispute, I scratched my head. First of all, I’d never heard of the complainant. Second, you better have
Domain Name Wire - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 15:28
Have you got an exit strategy? So you have built up a portfolio of domain names and you have even started to develop some of them. You are generating some income and are excited about your blossoming business. But do you realize the decisions you are making today will affect the growth and ultimate outcome of your business endeavor? Tying a
Predictive Domaining - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 17:23
Live Web Site Analytics If you think Google Analytics is cool, prepare to be blown away. I heard about this great new analytics software called Woopra about a year ago, and I decided to give it a test drive. It is a must-have if you’re into tracking your traffic because you can see who is visiting your site in
DNMedia - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 8:56
Domain Industry Giant Marchex Goes Mobile? Marchex Adds Mobile Device Pages The mobile Web is growing fast... so what does a publicly traded domain company- Marchex, do to adapt with its hundreds of thousands of domain names in their massive domain portfolio? By the way, where is Yun Ye these days?Source: NWInnovation.com
Inside Domaining - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 21:39
LuckyMan.com Domain Name goes back on the auction block Back in November 08 I had wrote about the expired domain name auction of LuckyMan.com . At that time the domain was expired and at auction at Afternic.com . The reason I had wrote about it, was I thought the "proxy bid" of the high bidder was being shown by mistake and I didn’t think
DotWeekly - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 9:4
Google Killers? There's Still Room for Google Killers, Study Says NEW YORK It may seem like Google always has been the search engine of choice. There was a time, though, when AltaVista, Lycos and Yahoo ruled the roost in the late-1990s, only to see Google blow past them. A new survey by Forrester Research concludes that such a turnabout could happe...
Inside Domaining - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 18:39
§.com IDN sold for $7,282 §.com Section sign IDN has been sold for 7,282 USD on Sedo Auction
The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code.
IDN News - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 23:0
Web TV: Microsoft Leading the Way It’s only a matter of time before our computers and televisions are completely integrated into a single unit, allowing us to surf online, watch television shows, and do work all from the same unit. The lead story on CNN at the moment is about Web Television and how the Internet is slowly becoming a source
Elliot Silver - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 13:8
DRT Updated to 2.1.0 Today~Bugs If you use the DRT software, for now I would NOT upgrade to the new 2.1.0 version that was released today. I am have nothing but problems with the newest version.
Basically, what the software is scanning, is NOT matching what I selected in the tool. In return, it’s as slow as a turtle and not
DotWeekly - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 12:0
Top 10 Advertisers in the USA January - September 2008 Rank Parent Company Total Ad Dollars Spent* 1. PROCTER & GAMBLE CO $2,342.3 2. GENERAL MOTORS CORP $1,659.6 3. AT&T INC $1,317.6 4. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC $1,125.6 5. TOYOTA MOTOR CORP $1,194.1 6. FORD MOTOR CO $1,112.9 7.JOHNSON & JOHNSON $1,059.1 8. TIME WARNER INC $878.2 9. GENERAL ELECTRI...
Inside Domaining - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 0:29
Some Chemisty.. A minor interlude in proceedings Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It’s from a question given to students in a University of Washington mid term paper Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? One students answer: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
Julia Mackenzie - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 20:14
Live Web Site Analytics If you think Google Analytics is cool, prepare to be blown away. I heard about this great new analytics software called Woopra about a year ago, and I decided to give it a test drive. It is a must-have if you’re into tracking your traffic because you can see who is visiting your site in
DNMedia - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 9:56
The Decline of Ad Spending and the Rise of SmartPhones (and Why Those Disruptive Forces Will Affe... A new survey of top media and advertising execs says the decline of ad spending and the rise of smartphones are the most disruptive forces in media today. The decimation of old media through bankruptcies and closures was a close third. As a domain owner, we'll tell you why all of this matters to you.
DNJournal - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 17:11
Ventes Sedo - Semaine 5 Voici la liste des ventes de noms de domaine sur Sedo pour la semaine 5.
Rien de bien fameux là-dedans, tant sur le plan des “grosses ventes” que celui des pièces de qualité exceptionnelle. En effet, c’est la paire nohotels.com et nohotel.com qui tient la corde avec 60.000 USD. Ce qui fait virtuellement 30.000 USD p...
Blogodomaines.com - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 2:6
Some Chemisty.. A minor interlude in proceedings Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It’s from a question given to students in a University of Washington mid term paper Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? One students answer: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
Julia Mackenzie - Friday, February 6, 2009 - 20:14
