Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Mini Sites are Thriving I have to hand it to Rick, he is great a putting a spin on something and making it seem new.  In the case of AEIOU v2 though, it was something that had to be done.  Every time he called his product a mini site, he was just helping to strengthen our brand.  One of DNMedia - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 1:59 Mini Sites are Mighty Powerful MiniSites.com is proud to announce the addition of free forums to every package.  The main reason we chose WordPress as the CMS for our mini sites is the incredible power of the platform.  It has a massive community of developers creating exciting plugins that allow you to take your mini site to the next level DNMedia - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 14:5 What I’ve learned about Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu Sometimes you don’t really get to know someone until you’ve done battle with them. In the case of Rick and Howard, my perception of them has changed forever. For instance, Rick Schwartz talks often on his blog and on message boards about how he doesn’t want to work. He goes on and on about it so Rick Latona - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:47 ccTLDs Sweep the Top Three Spots on DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart Country code fans have three more reasons to party down this week. ccTLDs, including the biggest country code sale of the year at $266,000, swept the first three positions on DN Journal's new all-extension Top 20 sales chart. All three ccTLDs smashed the six-figure barrier as did the 4th ranked .com domain. DNJournal - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 20:34 I expected more from Property.com At one of the sessions at TRAFFIC New York 2008, Brad Geisen and Rick Schwartz talked about the sale of Property.com and how it was a perfect fit. If you missed the announcement, please read Rick’s press release. I’ve got to admit that the sale to Foreclosure.com sounded like a perfect fit. I was looking Too Many Secrets - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 11:2 Domain Inquiries Over the Phone On occasion, I will get a phone call from someone who wants to buy a domain name I own. While I do think making a phone call is far better for domain buyers to get in touch with a domain owner, I would recommend that domain owners work out their deals online in emails rather Related posts:Make a Good Offer A lot of domain owners h... Elliot Silver - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:52 Can Rick Latona Save TRAFFIC Conference? Latona will add needed spark to domain conference franchise. TRAFFIC was the first big domain name industry conference. It was also the first to do many innovative things, such as offer a compelling live domain auction. But lately its star has faded. Attendance is down, and don’t just blame the economy. When Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 11:22 How to Enjoy a Recession and come out of it with lots of Prizes! Morning Folks!! We are getting to the “Fun part” of the recession. The fun part is when folks just finally give up. They capitulate. It’s a given. Human nature wires folks to give up. Few persevere and see things through. I learned early on in life that looking back I would give up just before success was at hand. That’s what most pe... Rick Schwartz - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 7:32 DRT Premium Domain Auction Going on Now The DRT Auction includes Tvo.com, Larger.com, Nosejobs.com, Multivitamins.com, Primers.com, NewRochelle.com, FootballHats.com, Elaina.com, Superbody.com, Prophylactic.com, HolidayGreeting.com and more! Over 260 names, ending Wednesday, June 23th. Enter your proxy bids now. Domaining.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 2:1 Hotel Research Company Wins STR.com Domain Name Company wins three letter domain name through arbitration. Smith Travel Research, Inc, which provides hotel benchmarking services, has won the three letter domain name STR.com at arbitration. In the decision by a National Arbitration Forum panelist, the respondent was found to have registered the domain in bad faith and have no legit... Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 14:49 The Power of A Great Blog: A Year Without a Post, SevenMile.com Still Gets Serious Traffic Well its been well over a year since Frank Schilling made his last post on this blog sevenmile.com. However, his blog is still getting serious traffic and referring a ton of traffic to this blog, thedomains.com I was looking over the stats for thedomains.com the other day and its hard to believe how powerful Frank’s blog contin... The Domains - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 9:18 What’s the value of a domain nobody wants to buy? What is an asset worth if no-one wants to buy? That’s the title of a post I read on Reuter’s DealZone blog today. I don’t want to comment on that specific article here, but the title triggered an interesting question about a phenomenon one can observe in the domain industry every day: Overpricing, or at least, Copyr... Dominik Mueller - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 19:11 We've Soft Launched One of Our First Major Websites: StudentLoanCenter.com We haven't made a big marketing push yet to Banks or Issuers, but we've soft launched the Student Loan Center site so we can work on SEO and uploading content. We acquired StudentLoanCenter.com on the domain aftermarket last year and even the type-in traffic is over a thousand visitors each month. If you're a domainer or webmaster an... Fusible.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 11:30 Bido.com Review, Plus Other Selling Options Reviewed I wanted to provide a little review of Bido.com as I had just used them selling 9U.net recently. I will take you from start to finish and I think you will be impressed! Bido.com is a 1 a day, domain name auction service that offers a couple different "pricing" options for selling. It is free to DotWeekly - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 13:0 Busy @ Work! Don’t let anyone tells you differently, times are challenging, the strong will survive, and many shall perish. To give you an idea what one to do these days to create a better future, the scope of urgency, action, here are few things I’m working on these days: 1. New bido release, multiple auctions & more First and f... Conceptualist - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 9:50 When Google knows your name Today is Friday and I usually like to end the week on a lighter note. Nothing serious so if you do not have 3 minutes right away to read this post, you can always come back to it.  I won’t be mad. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. That is the Sky Domains - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 17:50 Javascript Libraries - Adding polish to your site the easy way The more web development I do, the more I’m grateful for the plethora of amazing Javascript libraries out there. It’s never been simpler to add advanced front-end functionality like drag-and-drop, animations, or sortable, paginated, searchable tables (like those used in our Type-In Traffic Finder, for instance). Here̵... Domain Superstar - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 22:13 Change, Change, Change I think everyone around the industry is kind of running around trying to generate new ways to make money with their web properties. We have seen this in every way possible from mini-sites all the way to cookie stuffing. Yes it gets down and dirty sometimes for people but i am not one to judge. Related posts:5 Ways on How to Make M... YGrab - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 0:10 Facebook and Domaining With the introduction of Facebook user names last week it seems that more and more Domainers are embracing the Facebook community. I have had more friend requests from other Domainers in the past week than in all of 2009. While Twitter is a great way to communicate Facebook offers a bit more versatility and networking MorganLinton.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 21:22 Domain News Episode 19 No video this week, sorry guys. Instead I’m giving you the news via podcast. ChefPatrick.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 14:28 Aftermarket.com Keeps Rolling After Yahoo’s Contests.com Sale Although the main focus was directly on Yahoo! and the sale of their domain Contests.com which they submitted and sold this week for $380,000 in the DRT2009 live domain name auction, I think Aftermarket.com and the business partnership with DomainConsultant.com need a big pat on the back as well! The news broke After the live auction... DotWeekly - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 8:44 Yahoo sells Contests.com to National A-1 for $380,000 On Tuesday, the domain name Contests.com was sold for $380,000 in the Aftermarket.com live domain auction held at the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington, DC. It was sold by Yahoo, and went to National A-1, a well-known buyer of generic domain names. Some bloggers and domain investors have already commented on the auction̵... Dominik Mueller - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 7:46 CelebrityGossip.tv Up For Sale, Again. Brokering Through Sedo We've been selling several domain names recently and have sold several in the past couple weeks, both through Private Transactions and also through Rick Latona's newsletter. We've reduced the price on CelebrityGossip.tv to $1,500 and moved it to Sedo a week ago. It receives thousands of uniques... Fusible.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 17:20 Smart Changes Coming to Bido Bido is making a couple smart changes to its auction platform in an upcoming release. First, Bido will start offering multiple auctions per day. It’s unclear how these will take place, but it could be several at the same time or one per hour (or half hour) throughout the day. Second, expert users will now be Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:38 Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz Win Domain Names Celebrities win domain names through arbitration. As a follow up to Domain Name Wire’s earlier stories, both Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz have won their respective domain names through arbitration proceedings. Actor and comedian Jim Carrey filed his case in April with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain n... Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:14 I love WhyPark... sometimes I used my handy little spreadsheet to register a couple of CityName+Insurance.com names today. Sure, they weren't major cities, but Corvallis and Cedar Falls are by no means insignificant. But that's not what this post is about. One reason why I decided to register them, despite their apparent lack of value according to Estibot is th... UtterDomain - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 6:24 You Can Be The One (.com) Pfizer's new TV campaign for Alzheimer's hope Eisai "You Can Be The One." The premise of the TV spot leading to landing page: "You're not sure what it is, but something isn't right. You may be noticing changes you've never seen. You or your loved one may be repeating or forgetting things, getting irritated easily, or are having troub... The Frager factor - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 21:50 Give Priority To Domain Names In Your Branding Strategies How much priority do you give domain names when writing your business plan? You have brainstormed the niches, short listed your findings, and now have selected what kind of ebusiness you want to invest in. You have given careful though about the look and feel of the website, have some ideas for your branding approach and have eBusinessDomains - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 11:11 New homepage and NDX Market functionality Hello everyone, After a first month in which over 50 domains of various TLDs with prices ranging from a $10 to $4,000 were sold on NDX Market, we have now released our new homepage with NDX Market at the forefront. We are also delighted to announce our partnership with BuyDomains and Dotcom Agency, two of the industry’s NameDrive - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 11:6 ND Weekly #88 Hi everybody, Welcome to the news roundup. This week ICANN flexes its collective muscles while Mexico unleashes .mx (to the max!). There’s also news of a new Google tool that might prove useful to any webmasters out there, much speculation (including some about Yahoo, who have been rather invisible in the news recently) and NameDrive - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:54 Domain Roundtable auction – now even Larger.com! Our apologies, but this pun was simply too good to pass up: the Domain Roundtable extended auction is now Larger(.com) than ever! We’ve added more than a hundred domains to a catalog that now contains over 275 choice domains, including Larger.com, DesignerCases.com, Tvo.com, Moon.travel and more. Quite a few already have bids... Domaintools.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 18:32 We've Soft Launched One of Our First Big Sites: StudentLoanCenter.com We haven't made a big marketing push yet to Banks or Issuers, but we've soft launched the Student Loan Centersite so we can work on SEO and uploading content. We acquired StudentLoanCenter.com on the domain aftermarket last year and even the type-in traffic is over a thousand visitors each month. If you're a domaineror webmaster and ... Fusible.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:30 Domain Roundtable auction – now even Larger.com! Our apologies, but this pun was simply too good to pass up: the Domain Roundtable extended auction is now Larger(.com) than ever! We’ve added more than a hundred domains to a catalog that now contains over 275 choice domains, including Larger.com, DesignerCases.com, Tvo.com, Moon.travel and more. Quite a few already have bids... Domaintools.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 18:32 Mini Sites are Thriving I have to hand it to Rick, he is great a putting a spin on something and making it seem new.  In the case of AEIOU v2 though, it was something that had to be done.  Every time he called his product a mini site, he was just helping to strengthen our brand.  One of DNMedia - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 1:59 ccTLDs Sweep the Top Three Spots on DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart Country code fans have three more reasons to party down this week. ccTLDs, including the biggest country code sale of the year at $266,000, swept the first three positions on DN Journal's new all-extension Top 20 sales chart. All three ccTLDs smashed the six-figure barrier as did the 4th ranked .com domain. DNJournal - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 20:34 Domain Roundtable auction – now even Larger.com! Our apologies, but this pun was simply too good to pass up: the Domain Roundtable extended auction is now Larger(.com) than ever! We’ve added more than a hundred domains to a catalog that now contains over 275 choice domains, including Larger.com, DesignerCases.com, Tvo.com, Moon.travel and more. Quite a few already have bids... Domaintools.com - Friday, June 19, 2009 - 18:32 Domaining.com - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Domainers.org - A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |  F  |  G  |  H  |  I  |  J  |  K  |  L  |  M  |  N  |  O  |  P  |  Q  |  R  |  S  |  T  |  U  |  V  |  W  |  X  |  Y  |  Z THANKS to DomainTools Whois for helping us promote the domain industry and Estibot.com for domain valuation technology.