Mike Cohen's Got A Secret. Let Me Take A Guess. When Mike mentioned that the very best brain drains from private forums would inform and inspire his secret revelation, I quickly recalled his infamous post made Monday Nov 21, 2005 at 2:48 AM. He was so excited he could barely sleep. This snippet from the way back machine gives you just a hint of how it started.The post contained ov...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 12:16
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 0:47
Marchex gives away free ad spots on some of their most high trafficked websites.. But why?! One of the companies I've been following closely over the years is Marchex, who does some pretty cool stuff with domain mass development. They own hundreds of thousands of unique sites and have a majority of them developed, directory style. The sites are filled with relevant business listings. So I noticed last week that they rolled ...
WannaDevelop.com - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 17:30
Did CNN just pay $1 million to a Twitter Squatter? A couple days ago, actor Ashton Kutcher stated his goal to beat CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. He promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if the Internet made it happen. Yesterday, CNN anchor Larry King fired back at Kutcher saying that one man couldn’t take down a whole network.What’s really interesting a...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 22:50
Got To Love This: Blogger Responds To C&D From Goldman Sachs By Filing Suit Against Them Last week, Goldman Sachs (GS) sent an Cease and Desist letter, demanding that blogger Mike Morgan take down his gripe site GoldmanSachs666.com, saying that the site violated Goldman’s intellectual property rights and that the domain constituted trademark infringement.
The “666″ in the domain’s refers to addr...
The Domains - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 9:58
TRAFFIC Silicon Valley Auctions Both Moniker and Rick Latona have released preliminary lists for live auctions that will take place during the TRAFFIC conference in Silicon Valley April 27-30. Below are the lists, with my favorites bolded. Unfortunately, I won’t be attending the auction, as I am traveling to Burbank for a few days right after the GeoDomain
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Elliot Silver - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:10
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DotWeekly - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 16:56
What Does Vint Cerf Think About New Top Level Domains? Father of the Internet thinks there needs be a solid rationale for adding new TLDs.
Domain investor George Kirikos recently found an article by Tim Berners-Lee, a key inventor of the World Wide Web, explaining his opposition to adding new top level domain names. It got me thinking, “what do other important people in the
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 13:35
Available Domain Names from April 15th Drop There's a nice selection of available domain names in today's dropped domains list. Leading the pack in search volume are: FreeProxySites.net with 18k, PromJewelry.net with 11k, DirtyTalkExamples.com and ScreenPrintingMachine.net with roughly 5k each.
The currency domains occupy the top spots for average PPC revenues. CurrencyTrading...
Bill Eisenmann - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 15:48
Financial Firm Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Arbitrator finds Versa Capital Management guilty of misusing UDRP proceedings.
Lately it seems that UDRP arbitration panels are ignoring the question of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH), which broadly defines when I company misuses or abuses the UDRP proceedings process. Panels aren’t required to consider RDNH, and many hav...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 16:40
Cuba Policy Changes Lead to Domain Name Opportunities Thawing relationship with United States may present opportunity.
Over the past few days I’ve read lots of news about the thawing relationship between the United States and Cuba. (President Obama relaxed restrictions on people traveling from the U.S. to Cuba and on remittances to Cuba.)
Every time I saw a headline for Cuba I tho...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:48
At 47 She's Never Been Married or Kissed and Lives With Pebbles (CNN) -- In the space of a few minutes and a few notes unemployed Scottish charity worker Susan Boyle won over 3,000 fans. In the space of a few days and YouTube she has grabbed the attention of millions.She didn't play or dress the part of a star on reality TV show "Britain's Got Talent" -- but within seconds of beginning to sing, t...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 15:32
Avoid Using a Crappy Domain Name We all see it daily. Somebody put’s there heart and soul into an online business. Spends a bunch of cash on building a website full of products or offering a service but uses a Crappy Domain Name!
So many things need to be in place to make it all happen but then you happen to forget
DotWeekly - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 10:2
Keynote Speaker @ TRAFFIC Announced: Scott Klososky
Via DNJournal:
The keynote speaker has been announced for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference coming up April 27-30 in Santa Clara, California. Scott Klososky, an expert on executive strategies for dominating with technology, was chosen to give the keynote address. Klososky, who has been growing technology companies for ...
Conceptualist - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 17:5
WSJ: Yahoo To Fire Hundreds More The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo, is preparing another significant round of job cuts.
According to the report, the cuts are likely to affect several hundred employees on top of 2,400 jobs cut last year.
The Domains - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 0:49
Bubbl (.us) In tonight's Domain Success webinar, branding expert Bruce Turkel will review this illustration above- a Mind Map that he presented tat the Illinois Governors Conference on Tourism A mind map is a visual diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Cr...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 19:26
What Would Barack Obama Do If He Was a GEO Domainer? How would Barack circumvent trademarks, local media and C&V operaratives to own the oportunity?Special guest Bruce Turkel will tell you LIVE tonight. And the answers will blow your mind. I promise you will never look at the way you approach the business of domaining the same again. JOIN US: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/93151...
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:59
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 18:56
dot .ca domain sales of past week DomainReport.ca - The DNJournal.com sales report is out this week, and there are two .ca sales to report. Most of the .ca sales of late have been taking place in forums or in the weekly TBR, but now there are a couple of other sales to report that I haven't seen until today. LocalWork.ca - $3,500 US at Sedo SmallBusinessLoan.ca - $1,...
Dot CA Domains - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 12:19
Rick Latona Auctions Releases Initial List of Domain Names For TRAFFIC 2009 - Still Accepting App... Rick Latona Auctions has announced the first half of its domain names for the upcoming live auction at TRAFFIC Silicon Valley, but has left several slots open for further submissions. Rick Latona is riding a recent wave of success — selling webcam.com for over $1,000,000 — and excited about what’s coming next.
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Domain Name News - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 7:30
The Frager factor - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 12:48
NetChoice Coalition urges ICANN to alias existing TLD’s to .IDN versions The NetChoice Coalition
Promoting Convenience, Choice, and Commerce on The Net
Steve DelBianco, Executive Director
1401 K St NW, Suite 502
Washington, DC 20005
202-420-7482
www.netchoice.org
13 April 2009
Dr. Paul Twomey, President
Mr. Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Submitte...
IDN News - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 6:57
Domain Roundtable Price Increases Tomorrow Tax day is last day for $795 admission.
You may be thinking more about taxes today than domain conferences, but take note that today is the last day for discounted admission to June’s Domain Roundtable conference.
I’ve gone to a lot of domain conferences over the years. One of the best with regards to meeting a
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 10:43
$250,000 Domain Tops New DN Journal Chart & ccTLDs Take 3 Spots in the Top Ten The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Last month Richard Gabriel sold Auction.com for $1.7 million in the year's third biggest domain sale to date. Gabriel is back on our weekly Top 20 chart this week, but this time as the buyer of the week’s most expensive domain.
DNJournal - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 8:39
GoDaddy Sued for Alleged Cybersquatting in Their Domain Parking Program GoDaddy is being sued for alleged cybersquatting in their domain parking program. Ubid, Inc. filed the suit in a U.S. District Court, asserting that GoDaddy is diverting Internet traffic to deceptive parked domains in violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
DNJournal - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 15:18
Here is WHY Domainers are getting SCREWED…Google and Yahoo pay for CORPSES! Morning Folks!! It's April 15th and maybe money counts more today than yesterday. So let me take a moment to tell each and every one of you reading this that has legit traffic is getting screwed and tattooed. Some of you don't even care. Maybe today you care just a tad more. After you read this you are going to be outraged. I really ...
Rick Schwartz - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 9:45
Marchex gives away free ad spots on some of their most high trafficked websites.. But why?! One of the companies I've been following closely over the years is Marchex, who does some pretty cool stuff with domain mass development. They own hundreds of thousands of unique sites and have a majority of them developed, directory style. The sites are filled with relevant business listings. So I noticed last week that they rolled ...
WannaDevelop.com - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 17:30
Keynote Speaker Named for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley The keynote speaker has been selected for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference coming up April 27-30 in Santa Clara, California. He is Scott Klososky, a man who has been growing technology companies for more than 20 years, including one he just sold for $115 million.
DNJournal - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 16:0
The Psychology of a Multi-Million Dollar Sale (Bored.com) In January 2008 I sold Bored.com and 170 related sites for $4.5 million. This represented over half of my company (I still have 200+ smaller sites and 9000 domain names), and the vast majority of my profits. Bored.com was easy to run, had 10 years of steady growth, and there was little risk that the
ImpulseCorp.com - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 13:6
The Psychology of a Multi-Million Dollar Sale (Bored.com) In January 2008 I sold Bored.com and 170 related sites for $4.5 million. This represented over half of my company (I still have 200+ smaller sites and 9000 domain names), and the vast majority of my profits. Bored.com was easy to run, had 10 years of steady growth, and there was little risk that the
ImpulseCorp.com - Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 13:6
