Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Moniker Discusses the Future of Domain Auctions Moniker looks forward to the next chapter in domain name auctions. Moniker put the live domain name auction on the map. So it was a surprise to many in the industry when T.R.A.F.F.I.C., host of many of Moniker’s live domain auctions over the past few years, announced that Rick Latona Auctions would be its only Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 13:33 DrugReform.com Launches - Provides A Voice to Both Sides of a Hot Issue In the midst of all the work that has been going into the launch of my larger venture in the background I have been working to get another project moving. Drug Reform is a hot social issue that most people have some opinion on. I had a few ideas on how I wanted to develop BruceMarler.com - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 23:17 CNET Asks: Do Domains Matter Anymore? CNET.com published an article tonight entitled “Do URL’s matter Anymore?” My favorite quote from the article is: “Perhaps there are those generic words that people absent-mindedly type, perhaps just out of boredom. I don’t know, URLs like kitchen.com. Or music.com. But could this still be a significant n... The Domains - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 20:41 A Half-Million Dollar .Com Sale & the Year's Biggest .Net Sale Top New DN Journal Chart After taking a breather last week, six-figure sales returned this week with a $500,000 blockbuster and a $100,000 sidekick. The non .com global TLDs, who have been eclipsed by the boom in ccTLD sales this year, also had something to celebrate thanks to the biggest .net sale so far in 2009. DNJournal - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 13:13 Reverse Osmosis: A Publicly Traded American Corporation Switches from .Com to .US A publicly traded American corporation has changed their name and moved from their .com website to the .us version of their new name. Here's why. Plus, NameJet announces they will be the exclusive auction provider for the .cm land rush and they're taking free pre-applications for domain names now. DNJournal - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 19:55 Bing’s Gain on Google Good for Domainers I’ve been reading many articles about Microsoft’s $80-$100 million marketing campaign and about how Bing’s search market share continues to grow. If this trend continues even when the marketing campaign ends, this could be very good news for generic .com domain investors. Based on a small sampling of searches I test... Elliot Silver - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 13:45 No Record Setters, But We Close Over $100K In Sales In June We all love to hear about all those six and seven figure domain sales of one word category killer domains. But there is a whole other market out there for end user buyers of two three and four word domains, and its a pretty busy marketplace. We just finished up out best month of the year, in The Domains - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 8:30 Help Candy.com By Suggesting a Sweet New Slogan! With the recent sale of Candy.com ™ and the up coming launch of the new Candy.com website, the owners are in need of a Sweet New Slogan! OK, the "sweet new slogan" was my doing, but really, they are having a slogan contest! Get your creative mind flowing and help Candy.com with it’s new slogan DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 16:45 A Creative Three-Way Domain Name Deal Pair strikes a creative deal to get recruiting domain names. I’ve written before about Harry Joiner and Jason Davis. Davis, who has one of the world’s finest collections of jobs.com domain names, sold CEOJobs.com to Joiner a couple months ago. The two have struck another deal, and it shows how a little creativity in Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:9 Top Domain Name News Stories of June 2009 A look back at the past month in domaining. Here are the top five news stories on Domain Name Wire in June, ranked by number of views. 1. VeriSign Gets Walloped in Court, .Com Domain Prices Could Fall - a court ruled that a case against VeriSign could go forward. If VeriSign ultimately loses, the cost Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 22:15 NameJet.com To Be Exclusive Clearing House For All .CM Domains NameJet has reached an agreement with the .cm registry to be the exclusive auction provider for the .CM  upcoming Landrush.  (their site should be updated shortly) NameJet will manage all the pre-order applications from the participating registrar partners through the registry. NameJet customers will be able to submit their applicati... The Domains - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 14:31 Moron Alert: Agency Robs Brinks of $120 Million to Secure BroadviewSecurity.com Domain "As part of the spinoff of Brink's Home Security Holdings from its parent company last fall, the company will change its name to Broadview Security. The moniker was created by Landor & Associates and will be unveiled tomorrow with a marketing campaign crafted by DraftFCB, Chicago."Just when you thought agencies and companies and name... The Frager factor - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 14:29 UPDATE: NameJet’s .CM Landrush System Is Live: URL & Pricing Info Here Namejet.com is now taking orders for .CM domains on its site. To place your backorders here is the direct link to the NameJet site: click here Pricing has also been announced. To be clear Namejet.com is NOT charging to place a backorder, however any domain which is registered, you will be charged $350 upon successful registration, in... The Domains - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 20:16 If You Develop a .org, Buy the .com To me, this is common sense, but to many outside of the domain industry, it might not necessarily be standard operating procedure. While developing my geodomains, I worked with a number of local non-profit organizations in order to add free listings to my websites. Oftentimes, the organizations have a website which uses a .org domain... Elliot Silver - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:48 Park Your Domains at CVS Pharmacy? Pharmacy uses variant of famous DomainSponsor slogan. I came across a funny tweet this morning by @superberg: “Oh no! Domain squatters have taken over CVS!” with a link to this picture: Apparently @superberg snapped this photo at a CVS pharmacy, and it reminded him of the slogan domain parking company DomainSponsor made ... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:36 Domain Auction, Parking, Buying, Selling, and Appraisal Site ALL IN ONE! Yes that is right there is a great domain auction, parking, buying, selling, and appraisals site on the block i had never heard of until recently. The site is called FoundDomain.com. It is a really cool domain site that offers quite a few great domain names for sale. Anyone can join and anyone can list Related posts:Day 6 7DBBD: C... YGrab - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 9:38 SEO Blogger: Free Keyword Suggestion Tool for Firefox Blogging is one of the most beneficial things a business or individual can do to increase exposure to their product or service. Many even consider blogging essential for successful presence on social networks. There are many ways you can enhance the…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Sponsored by FreshDrop - Powerful web ba... DotSauce Magazine - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 17:14 The Importance of Anchor Text in SEO The following article is a guest post by my friend and fellow domain blogger Morgan Linton of Domainvestors.tv. When developing a domain, good SEO can go a long way towards generating consistent traffic and revenue. While search engine algorithms are changing all the time, there has been one methodology that continues to dramatically... ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:52 Q&A: Domain Appraisal Value vs Real Value? The following is a Question and Answer with a DotWeekly.com reader. Q: Wondering if you have ever paid more for a domain name than it’s valuation on Estibot.com or other "valuation" services? A: The short answer would be Yes and No. You really should not put much, if any trust in domain valuation services to the DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 13:13 Get Your Domain Name Strategies Right For The Rest of 2009 We are now officially in the second half of the year. The 1st of July is the of the year time when I analyse my goals and objectives for the year to see how well things are going according to plan. This gives me a chance to set new objectives, make adjustments or even adapt to eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:53 Wordpress Contact Form Plugin: Contact Form 7 Since I have been building several new sites lately, one thing I have been in need of was a nice easy plugin for making a contact form on my contact us pages. I have found it in the form of Contact Form 7. This plugin makes it about as easy as one can get! No coding DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 9:38 Using Tweet in Your Domain Name Could Spell Trouble Is ‘Tweet’ fair game? In May the domain name Tweet.me sold for $11,505 at Sedo. At the time, I wrote: I’m a bit concerned about all of the services popping up that use variants of Twitter and Tweet in their names: could Twitter ever come after them for trademark infringement? Some developers referred me to Twitter’s... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:23 Mobile Marketing Insights: DotMobi Snubbed Again Marketing Sherpa discussed KEY Mobile Consumer Habits, Ad Standards, and More from AdTech. Not a single mention of the valiant mobile extension savior.Mobile marketing requires marketers to reconsider several factors when building campaigns. They include the technology’s advantages, limitations, and the audience’s browsing habits. As... The Frager factor - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 11:27 Translate.co.in Development Update As many of you know – I have been working hard this month developing Translate.co.in – a domain I recently won in an auction at Bido.com. I had originally set a goal of July 1st for completion of this project but it looks like it is going to take a bit longer. With development this MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 20:30 DomainMasters radio program tonight - David McGuire former reporter Washington Post discussing ICANN DomainMasters guest tonight (7/1/09) is David McGuire, a national expert on tech policy issues and regular guest of national broadcast outlets reviewing major take-aways from the recent ICANN meeting in Austrailia. Listen in at 7pm ET on Webmasterradio.fm. Victor Pitts - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 13:34 Know the history of a domain before jumping in Today i came across a traffic domain. The domain looked like a solid one for the below reasons. 1. It earned handsome revenue in the last one month. 2. There was enough traffic. 3. The domain was getting expired traffic. 4. The price was cheap. I have previously made a post about “Guidelines for buying traffic domains”. ... LazyDomaining.com - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:7 Welcome to the new improved Whizzbangsblog I'm really excited to announce that stage one of a major upgrade to whizzbangsblog.com is just about completed. Your feedback is invaluable over the next couple of weeks prior to the site going officially live. The official launch date will be Monday, 13th July 2009 and I'm really looking forward to it finally being released. There h... 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