Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Sell your development-grade domains at the September 16 Epik-Moniker Live Auction The countdown to the September 16 Live Auction event in Seattle has started. The auction slots are filling quickly for the Moniker-Epik joint auction exclusively focused on Development-grade domain names and live websites. Submit your listings for consideration. Epik.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 15:48 No Pigeon Droppings for Mike Mann – Sells Flying.co According to an announcement by domainer entrepreneur Mike Mann – author of the motivational book “Make millions and make change“ – his first sale of a premium dot co domain is a reality. This has to be a record sale in terms of timing; after all, the .CO Registry opened its gates only a week DomainGang.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 22:19 Names I’ve Recently Purchased As I’ve done in the past, I want to share several of my recent domain purchases. The intent isn’t to show-off or sell these domain names, but rather to give you an idea of what types of names I have been buying. As you can see, I am still buying city/town .com domain names and Related posts:What Domain Names Have You S... Elliot Silver - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 14:53 Screw you! – Says savvy company to Domainer in an offer letter The recent launch of .CO as a global – albeit national – TLD has created a new breed of domain registrants: those with tight budgets. Gone are the days that domainers could go around asking for the sky when offering a .com to a small, medium or even large corporation. Bob Button, a domain investor DomainGang.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 1:20 How A Group Buying Site With A Valuation Over $1 Billion, Bought Its Domain for Just $250K: Group... If your not familiar with Groupon.com, its a group buying site that sends “you coupons, discount and deals” from merchants. Its one of the group buying sites that the domain blog Fusible.com often writes about. TechCrunch.com,  back in April of this year declared the company had a valuation of $1.35 Billion dollars. Today... The Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:37 ccTLD Sales Go Mostly Under The Radar The Domaining world is .COM-centric – and with good reason, .COM is the undisputed king. However sometimes I think some great ccTLD sales can get overshadowed hiding the opportunity that could exist in some already proven ccTLD markets. While I buy most of my domains specifically for development it’s nice to see some of m... MorganLinton.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 23:22 Pigeon Shit Logo Now Ready for Distribution. Get one Here for Free Afternoon Folks! Folks are DROWNING in Pigeon Shit. They can't pay the renewals, nobody wants them, wtf would you call it?? I am NOT riduculing anyone that has their domains and does not sit there and complain. My POINT is that if you have something that has proved worthless and nobody wants and you have no ideas for, it is OKAY to j... Rick Schwartz - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:22 Castello Brothers to Deliver Keynote Speech in Spain & Kamila Sekiewicz Settles In At NameDrive Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The Castello Brothers will join Sedo's Tim Schumacher as keynote speakers at next month's Domaining III conference in Spain, NameDrive has a new Director of Business Development and, after 40 shows, Owen Frager will hang up his Domain Success microphone Wednesday. DNJournal - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 16:25 $1 Million Expired Domain Sales a Month At GoDaddy? GoDaddy.com runs its very own expired domain name auctions "in-house" and sells the expired domain names of its customers. (A to Z info about expired domain process at GoDaddy.com) The vast majority of domain name registrars sell the expired domain names of its customers, so this is not something new. What are the chances of ... DotWeekly - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 9:24 Visitors, Revenue, Way Up on ShoeDepartment.com We normally have about 500 visitors a day with 1500-3500 at peak holiday season. Thanks to the pr campaign (Santa in July) all over TV and our own Back To School promotions here's what's happened during this vacation week, even peaking on the weekend2010-07-25 7722010-07-24 677 2010-07-23 6712010-07-22 511 2010-07-21542 ... The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 15:0 Predictions: Which .co domain will be the biggest success story of 2010? Overstock.com announced last week it purchased the domain name O.co from the .CO Domain Registry for a whopping $350,000.  While news of o.CO is certainly a notable sale, the transaction was brokered directly by the registry.  But in a year of blockbuster domain sales — could a .CO domain hand-registered by a speculator during ... Fusible.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 22:34 Putting the final nail to the .TEL .COffin When the .TEL TLD came out of the ICANN stables it was supposed to be a revolutionary new method of establishing a new identity online. Adding to the launch hoopla was the infamous Ben.tel video depicting two hormone-laden Brits fighting for the attention of an uptown blonde – all while riding an intercity train. The DomainGang.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 9:53 Getting squeezed sucks… So what to do? But you know, it happens to everybody, sooner than later. Rarely anything good lasts too long. This is what has been happening the past few years in the domain industry… Big time. The bigger players, such as registrars and veteran domainers with money up the ass have been squeezing the little guys right out. Crying or DomainStryker.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 14:30 Monday’s Daily Dropping Domains Hope everyone had a nice weekend, I finally did.  Didn’t have to work on Sunday for the first time in a month.  Took the family to the County Fair and had a few lemon shakeups, deep fried stuff, and some funnel cakes.   Good thing I had a nice 25 mile bike beforehand.  I saved a Related posts:Monday Morning Daily 7 Links Mon... DomainShane.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 4:33 WebVisible.com: Average Small Business Spent $2,231 On PPC in Q2 2010 According to a new report by the internet firm WebVisible (www.webvisible.com), says that the average small business advertiser spent $2,231 on search advertising in Q2 2010, up 1.4% from Q1 2010 and 159% over over Q2 2009. The most popular advertiser categories in Q2 2010 were attorneys, general contractors and dentists.  Air condit... The Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:16 Think the Domain Renewal Scam is Bad? Check out MediaNetCom. Company will help me protect my trademark by listing it on its low traffic web site for $1,117.00. One of the more frustrating and misleading domain name shenanigans is the fake renewal notice. This notice, often sent via postal mail and disguised as an invoice, gets unsuspecting businesses to pay to renew their domain name. Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:28 .Biz Was the Most Popular Billboard Domain on a Recent Car Trip Stretch of I-70 is a big promo for .biz domain name. This past weekend I took my daughter to St. Louis to visit her great-grandfather. We flew into St. Louis, and then drove 75 minutes along I-70 to his house. You may be surprised by the domain name I saw most often on billboards on Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 10:9 Available generic .com domain names; register the domains I find the following available generic .com domains and I have checked their availability just before the time of blogging this post. These available generic .com domains may be sold up to x,xxx to the right end user. Some of them are also brandable domains and when I check with Valuate, they are valued at DomainNameReview.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 8:16 How the Right Domain Name Helps with Link Building One of the core skill sets for any Internet marketer who call themselves an “SEO” is of course link building. Domain names can play an important part in any link building campaign. There are lots of different ways to build links to a newly developed website but one truth that I have long suspected and Domain Superstar - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:30 Using Go Daddy equals “bad faith” registration Registered a domain name with Go Daddy recently? Unless you’ve updated your name server settings, you’ve automatically committed a “bad faith” registration. At least, that’s the conclusion I’m drawing from a couple of recent clueless UDRP decisions. The most recent example is the case of Churchill ... DomainIncite.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 10:41 Recent .ca Sales and End of Provincial Extensions? DomainReport.ca I thought I'd do a Monday morning post on some of the recent activity in the .ca market. DNJournal posted their weekly sales report last week, and .ca domains filled two of the top four spots on overall sales (for all extensions). Those sales were: Poker.ca - $400,000 US PW.ca - $60,000 US Also liste... Dot CA Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:44 RandomActsOfKindness.org Banks $25,000 Domain Sale The domain name RandomActsOfKindness.org has been sold at Sedo.com for $25,000 USD. Foundation For Better Life was the buyer according to whois records. The domain name was first registered in August of 2002. Foundation For Better Life currently uses ForBetterLife.org for the email address in whois records but that domain name forwar... DotWeekly - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:48 Want to See My 5 Letter Dot Coms? If you’re looking to make money in domaining then I would agree, 5 letter dot coms are not the way to go.  That being said, the world is an ever growing place and there are plenty of companies and organizations looking for names.  I’ve always felt that the shorter the domain, the easier it is Related posts:Anyone Else ... DomainShane.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:32 Google’s Global Search Share Declines According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Google’s share of the global online search market fell to 69.7% in the second quarter from 71.1% in the first quarter. Baidu the largest search engine in China, now has a global share nearly as large as that of Microsoft  and Yahoo .  The report shows that Baidu’s global The Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 10:10 Stalemate reached on new TLD ownership rules An ICANN working group tasked with deciding whether domain name registrars should be able to apply to run new top-level domains has failed to reach a consensus. For the last several months, the Vertical Integration working group has been debating, in essence, the competitive ground rules of the new TLD market, addressing questions su... DomainIncite.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 5:36 Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do! Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a professional web development company that offers a full range of web design services along with SEO & internet promotion service. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and eBusinessDomains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:5 Moniker Auction at Epik Conference Rob Monster and his Epik team will be holding its first Developer Conference in Seattle September 15-17, 2010. You can learn more about the conference on the Epik website. I haven’t decided if I am going to attend, but it looks like it will be a good conference for people who have been developing, and Related posts:Learn Ab... Elliot Silver - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:27 Yes, .co domains are subject to the UDRP I’ve been getting a fair bit of search traffic over the last few days from people evidently wondering whether .co domain names are subject to the same UDRP rules as .com, so I thought I’d answer the question directly. Yes, they are. For avoidance of doubt, I’ve just talked to .CO Internet’s director of marketi... DomainIncite.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 14:29 Who was the mystery buyer behind Slots.ca for $207,000: Could it be Calvin Ayre? Earlier this month, the gambling domain name Slots.ca was snapped up for $206,906 at Moniker by a myster buyer.  The sale of Slots.com which was acquired by Calvin Ayre, created serious buzz, both in Domain Industry cirles and Gambling circles. I haven’t been able to confirm whether Calvin Ayre’s company Bodog was the mys... Fusible.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:19 Jon Kimball is Bullish on Geo-Centric Dot Co Domains Jon Kimball registered a few #dotco county names: Loudoun.Co (this VA county is the wealthiest per capita in the US & 4th fastest growing) probably bestOther #dotco county domains: PrinceWilliam.Co ( Forsyth.Co (Ga. & NC), Chatham.Co and city ChapelHill.Co The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 22:14 Dutch Boyd, Poker Player, Domainer Dutch Boyd is a professional poker player and a “part-time” domainer as he describes on his blog, DutchBoyd.com.  He has won 2 WSOP bracelets and has some other interesting facts on his resume.  Dutch has a bit of a roller coaster of a past with some highs and lows.  Coming off his latest WSOP and Related posts:Condom.... SullysBlog..com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:34 Tria Beauty is an Online Stunner Tria Beauty was described as one of the hottest brands of the year by the publication, Advertising Age. Tria has marketed itself exceptionally well, having been featured in top magazines including Elle, O, InStyle, People, Good Housekeeping, Allure, Maire Claire and WWD. Why is Tria Beauty such a marketing star? Because it thinks out... IDNBlog.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 23:14 Backed By Multi-Million $ TV Campaign Can Fly.com Take Off Saw a spot last night in NY market (haven't seen it in Florida market) which got my attention because it uses the same puppets as Barry Diller's Hotels.com commercial.) Obviously their intent is to link the two sites. But who needs to go to two sites or a generic domain when all the airlines and hotels I care about email me offers di... The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:37 Comments Closed To Anonymous Pests Due to unfortunate circumstances and a drain on my time I just don't have, you will now need a Google account to log in to make comments. The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:59 After 3,000 Emails, No Consensus on Registry-Registrar Separation Still no general consensus on registry-registrar separation for new TLDs. With names such as RACK+, “Free Trade”, and CAM3, you can be excused for confusing proposals for registry-registrar separation on new TLDs with exotic subprime mortgage bonds or off-balance sheet Enron subsidiaries. But these are names of three of t... Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:28 GM Holden Wins Domains What makes this interesting is that its not just some dodgy cybersquatter who is registering domains, its a car servicing company! They decided to register holdenplatinumservice.com.au, holdenservice.net.au and servicingholden.com.au. You can guess what happens next Holden claims the domains are misleading and deceptive and WIPO find... Domainer Income - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:58 Chef Patrick’s Big Announcemenet Chef Patrick – captain of the upcoming DNCruise – will be making a Big Announcement today. We are not permitted to share it with you, so keep your eyes on Chef’s blog at ChefPatrick.com and on twitter @chefpatrick DomainGang.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 11:55 Big-Ticket (.com) For Sale:Generic keyword branded DOTCOM domain ideal for selling of big ticket items or direct-to-domain streaming of auctions, theater, sports, movies, branded entertainment and concerts. As well as credit card and social network's members-only priority seating at designer showroom sales and other events like THIS. or THIS.Can also ... The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:2 Fairwinds Reduces Assumption of CPC on TypoSquatting Sites, But Still $2.03 Fairwinds updates faulty report, but it’s still laughable. Last month FairWinds Partners, the group behind CADNA, released a report suggesting that typosquatting costs the 250 most visited web sites $327 million a year. I immediately smelled something fishy about the biggest underlying assumption in the report: the average cost... Domain Name Wire - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:11 Disposal (.com) Via @jonkimball - Big "we get it" for Allied Waste Services. Add them to the list:401k.com (Fidelity) AcidReflux.com (AstraZeneca) Acne.com (Guthy-Renker) ADHD.com (Eli Lilly) Allergy.com (Sanofi-Aventis) AllergyRelief.com (Schering-Plough) Aluminum.com (Alcoa) AlzheimersDisease.com (Novartis) Ammunition.com (Winchester) Animal.com (... The Frager factor - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 22:8 FuelingGood.com Radio Ad From Citgo I normally cover "TV Ads" and the domain names used, good or bad and generally my thoughts on them. Well, today is a little different as the ad comes in the form of a radio ad spot from Citgo® using the term FuelingGood.com for the domain name. I always express the importance of your domain name DotWeekly - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:15 Groupon uses trademark to acquire Groupon.com The startup interview blog Mixergy recently had a clip from an interview with the group coupon service Groupon and how Groupon acquired the Groupon.com domain. The U.S. based company started out operating on a subdomain but decided they wanted to purchase Groupon.com from the owner, a U.K.-based individual.   Their initial contact wi... KeepingItRural.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 23:11 Recent .ca Sales and End of Provincial Extensions? DomainReport.ca I thought I'd do a Monday morning post on some of the recent activity in the .ca market. DNJournal posted their weekly sales report last week, and .ca domains filled two of the top four spots on overall sales (for all extensions). Those sales were: Poker.ca - $400,000 US PW.ca - $60,000 US Also liste... Dot CA Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:44 Recent .ca Sales and End of Provincial Extensions? DomainReport.ca I thought I'd do a Monday morning post on some of the recent activity in the .ca market. DNJournal posted their weekly sales report last week, and .ca domains filled two of the top four spots on overall sales (for all extensions). Those sales were: Poker.ca - $400,000 US PW.ca - $60,000 US Also liste... Dot CA Domains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:44 Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do! Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a professional web development company that offers a full range of web design services along with SEO & internet promotion service. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and eBusinessDomains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:5 BargainDomains.com, Flipping.CO, … It’s now possible to place a bid under the reserve. BargainDomains.com, Flipping.CO and soon PremiumDomains.com and Catchy.com: Until now the domain owner used to fix the reserve price of a listed domain and it was not possible to potential buyers to place a bid under this reserve price. The problem was the reserve price was often too high, as a result domains of interest didn’t DomainWare.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 18:30 Pigeon Shit Logo Now Ready for Distribution. Get one Here for Free Afternoon Folks! Folks are DROWNING in Pigeon Shit. They can't pay the renewals, nobody wants them, wtf would you call it?? I am NOT riduculing anyone that has their domains and does not sit there and complain. My POINT is that if you have something that has proved worthless and nobody wants and you have no ideas for, it is OKAY to j... Rick Schwartz - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:22 Tria Beauty is an Online Stunner Tria Beauty was described as one of the hottest brands of the year by the publication, Advertising Age. Tria has marketed itself exceptionally well, having been featured in top magazines including Elle, O, InStyle, People, Good Housekeeping, Allure, Maire Claire and WWD. Why is Tria Beauty such a marketing star? Because it thinks out... IDNBlog.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 23:14 Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do! Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a professional web development company that offers a full range of web design services along with SEO & internet promotion service. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and eBusinessDomains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:5 How the Right Domain Name Helps with Link Building One of the core skill sets for any Internet marketer who call themselves an “SEO” is of course link building. Domain names can play an important part in any link building campaign. There are lots of different ways to build links to a newly developed website but one truth that I have long suspected and Domain Superstar - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 13:30 Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do! Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a professional web development company that offers a full range of web design services along with SEO & internet promotion service. He has over 10 years of experience in the industry and eBusinessDomains - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 20:5 Getting squeezed sucks… So what to do? But you know, it happens to everybody, sooner than later. Rarely anything good lasts too long. This is what has been happening the past few years in the domain industry… Big time. The bigger players, such as registrars and veteran domainers with money up the ass have been squeezing the little guys right out. Crying or DomainStryker.com - Monday, July 26, 2010 - 14:30 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.