28 Symptoms of a Serious Crisis in Domaining We all know things are different now in this industry than they were a year ago. I’d like to present to you 28 symptoms of what I believe is a very serious crisis facing us all. Almost everyone I speak to is feeling these things. And if you’re feeling them yourself, the likely culprit is that you’re still hanging on to a lot of...
Domaining.com - 9 hr 24 min ago
Latest Domaining News
Domain Stocks Pummeled Domain name related companies get pummeled on Wall Street.
Google’s 52 week stock performance(from Yahoo.com)
The stock market is in a free fall, and domain stocks are no exception.
Shares of Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) dropped 12.5% yesterday to close at $8.28. At one point it dropped to $7.75. It’s down 27.5% since the begi...
Domain Name Wire - 31 min ago
When The 'Domain King' Speaks Domainers Listen... What about the Rest of the World? Wake Up! Legendary domain investor, Rick Schwartz aka the "Domain King", reveals online success secrets. A must read for anyone doing business online. Learn how to change your business on the Internet by applying the domaining secrets you are about to discover... Read here about the Domain King's Secret Weapon! Click Here!
Inside Domaining - 50 min ago
New .Info Policy Announced Afilias, a global provider of registry services, announced today a new registration policy that will go into effect on November 6, 2008, which prohibits registrants from using .info domain names for “abusive behavior”
Abusive Behavior includes, but is not limited to: phishing, e-mail spam and other types
The Domains - 1 hr 53 min ago
BankRate Throwing Cash Around
BankRate Inc made a few surprising purchases lately, paying millions of dollars for small one man sites.
First was CreditCardGuide.com, a site that provides credit-card comparisons. According to compete.com it receives close to 200K monthly visitors from US. Still hard to imagine the site revenues being able to justify the $32 milli...
Domain Magnate - 2 hr 29 min ago
How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
Seemingly this is a genuine sale.
One Man And His Blog
PaidContent has reported that a WP blog called Bankaholic has just been acquired by BankRate For Up To $15 Million.
Bankaholic has a staff of 1 (Johns Wu) and John will seemingly remain on at the blog.
If this price is true its an amazing sale for Mr
URL Academy - 2 hr 34 min ago
Introducing AQDN.com - Affordable Quality Domain Names Marketplace AQDN.com is a new marketplace featuring high quality .COM domain names at affordable reseller pricing recently launched by Mark Fulton of DotSauce.com.
The folks at AQDN.com strive to “provide web developers, domainers, businesses and individuals the best quality domain names at reasonable prices” and looking at the selec...
DnExpert - 4 hr 1 min ago
22 Year Old Sells His 2 Year Old Blog For $15 Million Johns Wu, 22, is one happy blogger today. He has sold his 2 year old banking blog, Bankaholic.com for $12.4 million to Bankrate. They have agreed to pay Johns an additional $2.5 million if the site performs well over the next 12 months. This sale is indeed confirmed by an official press release from Bankrate, Inc.
Dot Sauce - 4 hr 55 min ago
Hand picked Available domain name list Here is something that I do not do very often. A hand picked available domain name list. Not a huge list but several good domains that are worth taking a look at. All domains were available at posting, so if you register one please post it here so others do not waste time looking for
DotWeekly - 4 hr 57 min ago
Branding vs Branding vs Domainer Morning Folks!!What if I told you that this single post can make you a millionaire many times over? Well it will if you read carefully and fully get your head around this simple message. That's exactly what can happen. I have made a lot of posts in my time, but none are more important than the one you are about to read. So close the ...
Rick Schwartz - 5 hr 26 min ago
Build Traffic Via Forum Posting You can drive hundreds of targeted visitors to your website by participating in forums frequented by members interested in your niche.
In order to get targeted traffic from forums you need to participate in forums that let you include a link to your website in their forum signature line. For example, the DNXpert Domain Forum allows ...
DnExpert - 6 hr 35 min ago
Part 7 - domainers under the magnifying glass Here is the list of the previous articles in this series on the domain industry:
Part 1 - Domain Industry and Valuations (index.php/20080728452/MyBlog/Domain-Industry-and-Valuations-Part-1.html)
Part 2 - The domain bubble (index.php/20080818456/MyBlog/Part-2-The-domain-bubble.html)
Part 3 - What caused the domain bubble? (index.php/...
Michael Gilmour - 11 hr 4 min ago
RSS.com Domain Name set for $750,000 USD Sale Sedo, the leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings (Torex(TM)) to oversee the sale of rss.com.
With the development of the Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has emerged as the industry standard term which describes the delivery of automated news...
DnExpert - 11 hr 36 min ago
"Half A Million And A Guaranteed Movie" I’m not exactly sure how many of my readers watch the HBO series “Entourage“, but last nights episode just glued itself into my thoughts for the title of this article: “Half a million and a guaranteed movie”.
Let me give you the scenario behind the quote: Two writers write a movie script
fka200 - 12 hr 0 min ago
Monday, October 6, 2008
Mojave Experiment (.com) Microsoft's latest call-to-action domain for the new Vista TV campaign. Just don't try to go there on Safari :)
The Frager factor - 12 hr 38 min ago
Everyone Gets It (.com) -- Now that means Microsoft too! As we first reported here months ago, Microsoft is on a roll having recently acquired over 30,000 domain names including this latest call-to-action gem Everybody Gets It (.com) being used in Microsoft Dynamics Banner Ads being seen throughout the web, as part of a new LIVE SEARCH strategy that inlcudes house-ppc-style landing pages a...
The Frager factor - 13 hr 56 min ago
Senate Reform (.com) FOR SALE--Contact
Senate Reform (.com) speaks directly to the desire for the governmental change and reform that Americans want Washington to deliver.
This is a great traffic-pulling generic domain name for a site where individuals would be invited to submit questions on issues, comment on blogs, cast straw votes, respond ...
The Frager factor - 14 hr 10 min ago
What to do with your domains during a recession? During difficult financial times, taking a hard look at your portfolio is a prudent thing to do. What can you do to recession-proof your portfolio? I already touched on strategies that are recession proof such as targeting the wealthy using premiumization.
Website development
Website development is another way to bolster your portfol...
Predictive Domaining - 14 hr 27 min ago
Bargain (.com) From adversity comes opportunity. Here are some stocks that are very cheap and will be around long after this crisis:
Ford at $3.50
GM at 8.50
Motorola at $6
Apple at $88
GE at $20
Yahoo at $15
EMC at $10
CBS at $12
The Frager factor - 14 hr 31 min ago
Calling All Domainers and Web Developers We have been acquiring great domains related to all aspects of the “domain name” business for almost 10 years.
There is no way we can develop all these domains in to full fledged businesses quickly, so we are inviting other domainers and web developers with a proven track record to help us develop these domains. We are ....
Blog Sold For $12.4 Million Bankrate, Inc. has purchased Bankaholic.com for $12.4 million with up to an additional $2.5 million earn-out payment available if the blog reaches certain performance points in the next 12 months.
The seller, John Wu has been blogging about the banking industry on Bankaholic.com since July of 2006. He started the blog at only 20 yea...
DNKitchen - 15 hr 10 min ago
78 Expired Domains I posted a list of 78 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum.
Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past and future free lists.
If you want to...
DnExpert - 15 hr 37 min ago
Part Two: So What is a Click Really Worth? With apologies for stealing Mike’s title, I wanted to show another example of the great point he made (and one that many others have also been saying). The main reason why I am developing some of my websites is because I want to generate the most revenue per visitor. I believe there are 4 levels
Elliot Silver - 16 hr 52 min ago
.OM Registry Contract Awarded Qinetics, a registry solution provider in Malaysia, announced on Sunday that they have been awarded the contract to manage as consultants to develop policy and procedures for the .OM ccTLD for the country of Oman. The entire company press release can be read at the end of the post.
The ccTLD .OM is one of three
Domain Name News - 16 hr 58 min ago
Which Country Will Host the Best Domain Conference Domain Convergence, the first Canadian domain conference of its kind, is currently being held in Niagara Falls, Ontario October 6-8.
Over the years, most domain conferences were in America, in very famous cities. This seems likely to change in the future. Poland just had their very own Meet Domainers conference, which was staged in C...
