- Orange County Adobe Photoshop Users
The Orange County Adobe Photoshop User Group has been created to help individuals of all skill levels learn and apply the different techniques used with the Adobe Photoshop application.
- KLIMT.com
KLIMT.com is next week on the Moniker Premium Domain auction 28.1.10 and will be the silent ART powerbooster there. if you want to buy a KLIMT painting minimum 20 mio USD. Gustav Klimt is one of the most famous artist worldwide. His painting “Adele” was sold for USD 135 million to Ronald Lauder and recently [...]
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- The Second Name.com Contest Winner Is…
Last week I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes. Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will ann…
- MusicVideos.com Sells For $250,000
While looking at Sedo.com today I noticed the sale of MusicVideos.com for $250,000. MusicVideos.com was previously owned by DNStination, Inc which pur…
- SocialDomainers.com – Sign Up For A Chance To Win One Of Three Apple iPads
During DOMAINfest in January I had an opportunity to chat with my friend Tony Kanakaris about a new project he was working on. After further developme…
- Seller Can Cover PayPal Fee (Not Mass Pay)
Earlier today an attendee for my upcoming conference, DNCruise.com, paid for their pass through PayPal. When I received the payment I noticed no fees…
- .CO Domain Extension Coming Soon And Your Chance To Get A Premium Name First
Press Release .CO Founders Program Launches to Engage Early Adopters, Proactively Develop Domain Extension MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– .CO Internet S.A…
- Guns.com Sells For $800,000
Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com just reported the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 by Moniker. I knew a deal was going to get done on this domain name. It w…
- Geek Perfume (Comic Strip)
Women, are you feeling left out? Is your domainer husband ignoring you? Fix that problem today, get this brand new perfume. Your man will be sure to p…
- My Own Conference – DNCruise
As many of you have already read on multiple blogs, I have launched my own domain industry conference which will be held on a cruise ship this coming…
- The First Name.com Contest Winner Is…
On Monday I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes. Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will ann…
- LuxuryNames.com Auction Closes In Two Hours
This auction has closed and the results are listed at the bottom of this post. LuxuryNames two day auction is coming to an end today at 3pm EST. So fa…
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- Root Orange Localized Domain Name Leasing
Domain blogs and domain news sites have recently written about a new domain name leasing company, Root Orange. Root Orange are offering a unique way…
- Poker.org For a Million and New .INFO Releases
Poker.org was just purchased for $1 million by PokerCompany.com (source DNJournal). Sedo is reported to have brokered the deal. Pure poker, casino, an…
- Corporations and the .BIZ Web Address
I have been writing for some time about the corporate world gaining increased awareness of the .biz (business) web space. The trend appears to be occu…
- Sedo Identifies .BIZ Sharp Rise
Sedo’s 2009 market study is out and summarizes sales data from all of last year. Sedo reported that their company comprised 64% of the top 100 domai…
- Flo.TV Live Mobile Personal Television
Just viewed during the first half of the Superbowl a commercial for a new service called FLO TV Live Mobile Personal Television. The official website…
- Real Estate Companies Do Business On .BIZ
Some time ago I noticed a mall complex in my home city of Greensboro, NC and a large road sign for the real estate firm handling the mall’s property…
- Dart.biz Using the Internet’s Official Business Address
I work in the healthcare industry as my primary profession. Domain names are my hobby. I was standing in the nursing station this week and noticed a…
- Domain Auctions – Get Educated
Domain name auctions occur throughout the year in various online formats, and less frequently in LIVE versions in which domain conference attendee…
- Lockheed Martin Using .INFO Extension
Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest defense contractor famous for manufacturing fighter jets, rockets, radar systems, and a wealth of high te…
- FOX Seattle Adds .BIZ Business Directory
The local FOX news TV affiliate in Seattle Washington, Q13 FOX, has created an online business directory at Q13fox.biz. The main station website is st…
- City Domain Names
City domain names and state domain names are among my favorite internet properties. Dan Pulcrano of Boulevards New Media hit the gold mine in the 1990…
- Domain Name Auctions
Within the past year, two distinctive companies have emerged who specialize in online domain name auctions. One is Latona’s Domain Brokerage & Aucti…
- Domain Names For Sale
There is a new link in the upper left corner of this site entitled “Domain Names For Sale“. Currently listed on this new page is a sampling of ou…
- Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010
2009 was a relatively good year for the domain name industry compared to the rest of the economy. Domainers still re-evaluated their portfolios and t…
- Domain Name Sales
Domain name sales have always driven widespread interest in the domain name industry. No one knows when the first domain sale occurred, but it foresh…
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- Viral Videos – OK Go
Most viral videos are just a one time thing for the person who created it, and much of the time going viral was not something they expected to happen…
- Bone of the Month Club
Many of my blog postings are stories about sites that I created. This one is about a site I wanted to start, but never did: BoneoftheMonth.com . I reg…
- Expanding Your Internet Business
In my previous posting, I talked about how it is hard for many websites to take things to the next level, in terms of increasing sales and profits. Mo…
- Taking Your Business to the Next Level
One of the biggest problems in running an Internet business seems to be in taking it to the next level. By that I mean that many sites eventually get…
- Big Domain Development – Part 2 (WatchMovies.com)
In one of my earlier postings I talked about how I had not had much success developing my domain names to get traffic from the search engines (to incr…
- Domain Names I Recently Sold – Part 2
Below is a list of some of the domain names that I have sold over the past few months. These are all domains I owned personally. A few sales were thro…
- The Risks of Buying a Company
I have bought around a hundred websites over the past few years, but I have never bought any companies, and here’s why. When you buy an entire compa…
- Viral Videos (The Story of “Pimp My Sleigh”)
A few years ago I decided to take a shot at creating a viral video, to get extra traffic to Bored.com (and maybe get mentioned on TV, put in a movie,…
- Sometimes Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
For many years I have had most of my 10,000 domain names “parked”, which means they basically just have ads and search engine type links on them.…
- Partnerships – Part 3
I am not a big fan of partnerships. I know many big companies (Apple, Google, etc.) have been built that way, but it has never worked out very well fo…
- Amazon Kindle Review
I am not much of a book reader, but I like to read the business books when I travel or am in the car. I was in the middle of buying some books on Amaz…
- Domain Names I Recently Sold
Here are some of domain names I sold over the past few months: Taboo.net – $15,000 NoPrivacy.com – $2,000 BigWallet.com – $1,000 AutoUnlimited.c…
- Mechanical Turk
Back in 2005 Amazon.com launched a website they call Mechanical Turk, which is basically a job posting board for small tasks that people can do from h…
- Domain Flipping
I rarely buy domain names anymore, but recently I bought GameTheory.com for $6901 at a Sedo.com auction. I bought it because I thought it was cheap an…
- Web Hosting Sucks
I have been running websites since 1995, and I can easily say the biggest headache I have had over the years is web hosting. For the first few years I…
- Fake Passwords
I have a webmaster secret that I will reveal here for the first time. As far as I know, I am the only webmaster to have ever done this. Here it is: Al…
- How I Bought A Flower Store
One of my crazier business ventures was buying a florist even though I had never owned a store before, never worked in a store before, and knew nothin…
- The Story of DigiCredit.com
In the late 1990s, virtual currency sites such as CyberCash.com and DigiCash.com were all the rage, where they offered alternative payment systems for…
- Business Books
Since I started my business in 1995 I have read very few books, maybe 3 or 4 at most. Instead I constantly read business magazines, online blogs and n…
- How A Domain Sale Works
You might be wondering how I sell a domain name. Most of the time, the buyer looks me up as the owner of the domain (using a service like betterwhois.…
- Are Website Makeovers Worth It?
Many people will probably disagree with what I am about to say, but I think people place too much value on giving a website a makeover. Obviously it i…
- FindInfo.com – My Human Powered Search Engine
I have owned the domain name FindInfo.com for many years, and have tried creating various search engines on it, but none of them have ever made any mo…
- 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…
- How to Get Rich Online
Because I run my own Internet company, I often get asked the best way to make money online. Oddly enough, I have no good answer for that question. I w…
- Big Domain Name Development
I have heard that some domain owners make a lot of money by taking one big domain, putting lots of content on it, and optimizing it to get listed well…
- Domain Name Development
I own over 9500 domains (see my list at NameShopping.com), and only around 500 of them are developed. The rest are parked, where I make money from ads…
- Free Web Hosting Sites
Free Web Hosting Sites Over the years I have bought several free web hosting sites, where users can create and host their own websites at no cost. It…
- Free Image Hosting Sites
I bought several image hosting sites 3 or 4 years ago, but I eventually ended up selling them for less than I paid. It is a huge hassle to run them. I…
- Making Money With Domain Name Parking
I own around 9,500 domain names, and 9,000 of them are parked (unused) and the other 500 I use for real sites (like CheapFlowers.com). Domain parking…
- Partnerships – Part 2
In my previous posting I talked about the partnership I was involved in to sell Adoptme plush toys. The toy company went out of business, and I ended…
- Partnerships
The subject today is partnerships. I have been involved in 3 partnerships (Cyberworx.com, FindRentals.com, and Adoptme.com) over my 13 year Internet c…
- Lockboxes
In my previous posting, I wrote about Virtual PO Boxes. Another similar handy service I use for my own business is a lockbox, which is something my ba…
- Virtual PO Box
I was looking to get a PO Box for one of my businesses, and I found an even better service that might interest anybody with a home business. A PO Box…
- How I Invented A Product and Got It Sold In Stores
In 2001 I created a virtual pet site at AdoptMe.com, where kids can adopt free virtual pets (dogs, cats, horses, fish, etc.) and learn the responsibil…
- Working From Home
No matter how big my company gets, I will never work in an office. I love working from home. No commute, no dressing up, no meetings. I started my com…
- Introduction
Hi, I would like to introduce myself. I am Eric, the owner Impulse communications, Inc. I run several hundred websites such as Dumb.com, CheapFlowers.…
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- Mount Kilimanjaro, Rick Latona Auctions, & TRAFFIC
Rick asked me to shoot out an update today. There are three things that I wanted to cover: 1) It is Day 3 of the Mount Kilimanjaro climb. Since th…
- Atlanta Domainers - Party at my office Thursday the 25th of this month
If you are in the Atlanta area, we are throwing a party at our office on Thursday the 25th of February and we would love for you to come. In fact, if…
- Why I rode a bicycle from Atlanta to New Orleans
After eleven days of rain, wind, cold, chasing dogs, shady casino adventures, cheap hotels and endless hills, David and I arrived in New Orleans for D…
- Latona’s to start selling watches. Why that is good news for domainers.
As I’ve said before, my ambitions in the domain industry start and stop with the auction company, loans and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. I have no intention of se…
- T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is now hiring German, Italian, French and Dutch salespeople
If you are a self-motivated individual with sales experience and a native speaker of German, Italian, French or Dutch, I’d like to make you an offer…
- You just can’t make this stuff up. Our shinny new hotel was raided yesterday
So yesterday I blogged about finding this Oasis of a hotel actually called The Oasis. It’s a brand new and very comfortable resort outside the city…
- LongIsland.com reserve lowered to $350,000
There has been a lot of interest and action on this name so I thought the seller lowering his reserve to $350,000 deserved its own blog post. Please n…
- Good things can happen to good people. Lost in the woods, we found an Oasis
There’s an app for that. Right? Well, as a loyal iPhone fan I’ve been navigating mine and David’s journey to New Orleans with my smart phone. Be…
- Sweet Home Alabama - Three days down
So David and I have now completed three days of the cycling trip from Atlanta to New Orleans for Domainer Mardigras. Yesterday was so brutal that I’…
- Extended Auction Closes Thursday at 1 pm EST - Financing available on nearly all names
Our extended auction closes at 1 pm EST on Thursday. That’s 19:00 central European time or 10:00 am on the west coast of the States. Financing is av…
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- 28% of one- & two-letter .DE domains grabbed by one company
Last Sunday I commented on DENIC releasing one- and two-letter domains as well as pure number domains, which were previously impossible to register. T…
- DENIC to make million-dollar domains available for the first time
DENIC, the registry of Germany’s .DE top-level domain, has announced that it is going to make one- and two-letter .DE domains available for registra…
- Economy may be recovering, says Google
Search engines have access to tons of valuable information, treasure troves full of clues to human behavior and what their millions of search engine u…
- Changes ahead for Yahoo domain parking partners
Yahoo Search Marketing to change its payout algorithms and stop doing business with some of its direct partners. Overall, lower revenues for Yahoo’s…
- SnapNames September Showcase Auction Results
Domain auction company SnapNames sells close to $47,000 worth of domains in its September online auction. MillionaireDating.com is the highest sale at…
- Length of domain registration important for SEO?
The question whether the length of domain registrations had an influence on search engine rankings or not has been around for a while. But so far none…
- Shopping.de sold for €1.96 million
According to a company press release (German), the domain name Shopping.de was sold for €1,960,000 (~$2,800,000) in 2008. The domain was purchased b…
- Swedish regulator wants the word “bank” to be banned from .SE domains
In a startling move, the Swedish regulator PTS apparently has declared that it wants to ban the term “bank” from all domain names registered under…
- Lufthansa, Burberry win Domain Names
I just received the newsletter including the latest WIPO decisions. Some prominent companies have won domain disputes again, including Deutsche Luftha…
- ICANN seeking input on Post-Expiration Domain Recovery
ICANN is asking for comments from the public on its post-expiration domain name recovery practices. These policies regulate to what extent and how it…
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- One Year Anniversary!
Welp, I would have included this with my post earlier today, but I only realized it a few moments ago. TrendDomaining.com made it to one year! Bar…
- Could This Be The End?
It’s been a while. I’ll be moving into my new house in 2 weeks. This, among other things, has been keeping me from blogging. About that. I’m not…
- Mistrust In Banks Will Lead To People Borrowing From… Each Other
P2P Lending, otherwise known as person-to-person lending, people-to-people lending, peer-to-peer lending and social lending, is not a new idea; it’s…
- Make Way For Green Collar Jobs
As the Going Green Train picks up more and more steam, new domaining opportunities are presenting themselves. And today, I have another list for you!…
- Is Wikipedia Among Your Domaining Tools?
So, my wife and I are about halfway done with building a house. We’re having one built just outside a booming suburb of Houston. It’s taken up…
- The Most, And Least, Affordable Cities To Live In
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index recently released some interesting info. The page has links to several excel documents that list the…
- 20 Small Business Trends For 2009
Small Business Trends recently published loads of trends for 2009. This is not my most favorite of sites, and I don’t particularly agree with many…
- Materials Of The Future: Magnetic Ink, Stone Paper And More
I have another list for ya. I’m a fan of lists, even biased lists (not that unbiased lists exist, right?). But my main problem with lists are pu…
- Copenhagen Is The Next Kyoto
Americans don’t really know about the Kyoto Protocol, as the U.S. isn’t a part of it. Well, technically we are; we just didn’t ratify it. So…
- The Top Internet Cities And The $6 Billion Broadband Stimulus
According to Forbes, Seattle is the new Internet King, replacing two-time winner Atlanta. Recently, Forbes published America’s Most Wired Cities,…
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- Nominet To Release 1 and 2 Character Domain Names
Nominet, the registry operator that manages *.uk, is planning on releasing both single and two character domain names. In common with a lot of other c…
- .org Revamp Website
PIR, the registry operator for .org, has relaunched their website. The new site is currently "beta", though that seems like an odd way to label a publ…
- ICANN Nairobi Kicks Off This Weekend - So What Is Cooking? .xxx , new TLDs and more
The ICANN meeting in Nairobi starts officially next Monday. However, as is normally the case, by the time Monday rolls around people will already have…
- SIDN Relaunch
SIDN, the registry operator for .nl (Netherlands) have launched their new site. The new look site gives the registry a complete visual facelift. You c…
- IE Domain Registry Makes Minor Change to Registration Process
The IEDR, which runs the registry for the .ie ccTLD, has announced an upcoming change to its registration processes.As of April 8th 2010 pending updat…
- Nominet EGM Results Are In
Image by blacknight via FlickrNominet held an EGM yesterday. The EGM was called to make changes to Nominet's constitution.Members voted overwhelmingly…
- XXX Saga Continues
Image via WikipediaSex and the internet.Put the two together and you are bound to find an interesting story.While the saga surrounding sex.com took a…
- The Registrar Contract For Humans
ICANN has published what it is calling "Non-Lawyers' Guide to the May 2009 Registrar Accreditation Agreement"The document attempts to explain the regi…
- NL Registry Introduces Phishing Alert Service
SIDN, the registry operator for .nl, has announced the introduction of a new service for its registrars. The new phishing alert service harnesses data…
- Afilias Acquires dotMobi
Afilias, which runs .info and provides registry services to a lot of other domains, has acquired the .mobi registry operator - mTLD Ltd.The acquisitio…
- ICANN Chief Tweets His Income
Image by blacknight via FlickrIn what could best be described as a surprising move, ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom, tweeted his salary details (pdf) to the…
- Colombian ccTLD Relaunch Now Underway
The relaunch of Colombia's ccTLD got underway within the last couple of hours and the new registry operator is already reporting several hundred domai…
- DNGlobe Loses ICANN Accreditation
Image via WikipediaICANN has terminated DNGlobe LLC's ICANN accreditation effective February 22 2010.In a letter to DNGlobe ICANN outlined why the reg…
- DomainPulse 2010
Domain Pulse, which is the biggest German speaking domain industry event of the year, kicks off in Lucerne, Switzerland on Monday.This year's event is…
- Keep Track of Domain Industry Events
Like so many other industries, the domain industry has a plethora of events every year. Keeping track of all to them can be a chore, so a site worth b…
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- Why end users will never buy your domain names.
Because end users are developers and don’t care for your domains and don’t really want them (and also because content is king, and they know)! Wha…
- A little development goes a long way with WordPress
Case in point 1: EnergySuperpower.com Take a generic term domain that’s been dropped repeatedly by others, set up WP, and publish links to relevant…
- UnemploymentMeter.com domain development case study, monetizing the economic downturn
If you’ve followed anything I’ve written here so far, you probably know that I am huge on development. Part of the reason is the fact that I don…
- USniper expiring domain auction service
Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they’ve been working on called USniper.com USniper.com is a FREE service that allows you t…
- A new development underway
UnemploymentMeter.com has just launched. Over the last couple months, I kept trying to come up with the right idea for an economy-focused blog (for ob…
- Clerical Fundraising… and DOMAINING!
Thought this would be an interesting story to share. A couple of New York Times articles about the reintroduction of INDULGENCES caught my attention r…
- Registering .co.uk domain names from abroad, possible trademark issues
Being the curious little domainer that I am, I like to stay abreast of all of the world’s happenings as much as possible, especially during these un…
- The Joy of Development…
Long time no post again, eh? So I recently launched a couple of projects about things that interest me. I’m sure most would agree that the subject m…
- When you have nothing but lemons…
Back to development directions… There is never a shortage of demand for information. Especially in times of trouble, social and economic unrest. Hen…
- Example of non-commercial mini-site development
Funny how development seems SO EASY when you do it “just for fun”… Had to create a little website for a school related project coming up in Janu…
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- Gaming Google
I was particularly intrigued that Business Week listed a company set up to game the search engines as one of their “Most promising startups”. If y…
- Encouraging good anchor text for inbound links
How many times do you get an incoming link using your website name? To succeed with a website these days, you must have plenty of good quality inbound…
- Entertainment websites SEO trick?
An SEO (search engine optimization) manta that still seems to be doing the rounds, was to put a keyword in a headline, in bold and in italics. I was a…
- Cross-linking your own websites
Cross-linking your own websites is an issue that comes up quite a lot. It seems logical to cross-link all the websites you own to spread the traffic a…
- My favorite development tools are set to merge
I missed the announcement earlier this year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging. The less well known multi-blog WP MU is my workhorse sup…
- Fixing out of date software
What have you done to secure your websites? One of the common suggestions is to hide the version number of your software. The argument goes that if yo…
- Hostelworld.com sold to US firm
A short sweet post. These are the kind of stories that keep everyone going. A lot of hard work finally paying off. Dublin-based company behind Hoste…
- A word from the wise
I attended an advisory board meeting yesterday and it reminded me that we all need some independent advice on our strategies and businesses, no matter…
- Outrunning the lion
You may have heard the joke about two men faced by a hungry lion. One starts putting on running shoes. The other says “Those shoes won’t help you…
- Don’t forget about multimedia
With so many computers connected through fast Internet connections, multimedia is having a major impact on Internet use. The co-founder and CEO of You…
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- Preview The New Blog
I've been putting the finishing touches to my new blog / site.My intention is to have the entire site, not just the blog, based on Wordpress, now that…
- Geocities Closing
Yahoo! announced recently that it is shutting it's Geocities hosting at the end of 2009 and asking users of this free hosting service to move to their…
- Freedom!
Most of my domain names are on automatic renewal. Having just looked throgh my .co.uk, I have marked another 83 names for automatic deletion once the…
- Domainers Cause Swine Flu [.com] Pandemic
I guess there are hundreds, if not thousands of speculators grabbing up any names with some reference to the current outbreak of Swine Flu.In fact, I…
- FindJobs.com at Moniker Auctions
I was looking through the auction listings for the next live domain auction at Moniker (see http://domainauctions.moniker.com/viewCatalog.php?id=199),…
- Dropping Domains
For several months now, I have been letting some of my domains drop. These are the lower quality hyphenated domains for which I will have no use mysel…
- Back Online
I just spent another week working away without a laptop. That's the second time I refused to take one and it's so good to get away from the technology…
- Double PPC Traffic By Using Generic Domains
My friend Edwin Hayward of http://www.memorabledomains.co.uk/ has conducted a study to demonstrate the value of generic domain names when marketing us…
- How Not To Enquire About A Domain Name
I get a few emails each week asking me whether certain of my domain names are for sale. The answer is usually no, though sometimes, I have been tempte…
- Attending Domain Shows
I was asked by reader of this blog if I could present a few tips about a domain conference for the first time.As I am not really the person to ask, si…
- Wordpress - The Easy Way
This blog is published using Blogger, probably the easiest blogging platform there is, but for ages now, I've wanted to learn more about Wordpress.Oth…
- Prospecting
I've been having some fun experimenting with a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system today.It's been a long time since I've picked up a teleph…
- Domain Renewal Invitations
Domain Renewal Group are at it again, sending out unsolicited domain expiration notices.I received a couple this morning.I don't know this outfit and…
- Who Turned The Traffic On?
It was an interesting day for me yesterday as the traffic for one of my domains suddenly went haywire following some nice search engine ranking on Mic…
- Turning Development Dreams Into Reality
How much longer can domainers ignore development?I have been playing at development to date, yet the sites I've turned into mini-businesses have done…
- Outsourcing Domain Development Revisited
Although I do most of my site development myself, using XSitePro2 or Dreamweaver, there are times when it's necessary to outsource.Today I have awarde…
- Personality Profile - what's that got to do with domains?
When I first bought the name personalityprofile.co.uk, it was because I had qualified to conduct personality profiling.I thought at the time that it w…
- Creating Service For £5.99
I've been working away today, so it was nice to get back from a day of travelling and immediately knock out another services web site.This one is http…
- Tele Selling A Web Concept Part 1
It's been a very long time since I've picked up a phone and cold called somebody, but today I thought I'd test the waters.As I am about to launch www.…
- Names Still Available
I registered a new domain name this morning. To be honest, I was very surprised that it was available, but that's domaining for you.The newest additio…
- Software Revisited
I've been putting a few more finishing touches to my windowquote site today and began thinking of ways to attract potential advertisers, which of cour…
- Where To Concentrate
One of the hardest things I find doing as a domainer is to concentrate on one thing at a time.There's always a name I could be doing something with, o…
- Adsense Revisited
It's been a while since I took any great notice of non-business domains, those I simply use for Adsense.Well, that's going to change this week.Yesterd…
- That's The Wonder of Wellies
Almost buried in yesterday's UK newspapers, the story of a lady who had worked at Woolworths for 18 years, starting out as a lowly Saturday girl.Clair…
- Oh No, It's The Pool Marketplace!
It's been a long time since I actually looked at any of the emails I get from Pool.com regarding drops and their domain marketplace, but tonight, I re…
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- Power Lunch With Colin Pape
Friday, March 12 at noon eastern: RESERVE NOW Join us for a very special Power Lunch on Friday March 12th at Noon eastern as we eavesdrop on a real-ti…
- George Pickering: Who Said It Was Too Late To Buy Great dotCOMs?
Starting in 2005, buying his first domain (agents.net) from Michael Mann for $2500.00, recent DomainSuccess.com webinar guest, George Pickering defied…
- When Gilmour & Sequin Speak– Others Listen
When Michael Gilmour with Australia’s Park Logic and Rob Sequin of Cape Cod, Mass., discuss domaining, sales and acquisition, and monetization, othe…
- Andrew Warner: Doing Better By Doing Good
Andrew Warner, when in his 20s, used credit cards and ingenuity to create an internet business with his younger brother. It started in with an idea an…
- Mike “Zappy” Zapolin: Create Value and Wealth Will Follow
“Create value and wealth will follow.” Michael “Zappy” Zapolin didn’t coin this phrase, but he has turned it into a business mantra that has…
- Enrico Schaefer: “Protecting Domain Assets”
Countless would-be entrepreneurs are trying to hit it big in the domain space. Problem is, most are amateurs who make “rookie mistakes,” run afoul…
- Bruce Turkel: “Putting Heads In Beds”
Bruce Turkel has spent 25 year in the advertising business. And this marketing communications pioneer “gets it” today as much as he did a generati…
- Rick Schwartz: Go Where The Money Is
One phrase most deftly describes Rick Schwartz: Go Where the Money Is. The 800 King-turned Domain King looks back on his grandfather, Brooklyn’s Hos…
- Mike Berkens: “Second-Best Name”
Michael Berkens doesn’t always seek out the “Best Name” for acquisition. Sometimes, the “Second-Best Name” makes an ideal target for registr…
- Mike Mann- Smart Branding, Passion & Charity
MANN: SMART BRANDING, PASSION & CHARITY CREATE DOMAIN SUCCESS Serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Mike Mann was smitten with domaining when he sold…
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- This freaked me out. “I Know You…Your Larry Fischer the Domainer”
We sit here in our little domain world thinking we live in a bubble. Most people outside of this world have no idea who we are or what we do. [...] Re…
- Sedo Weekly Sales led by Guagua.com at $100,000
Guagua.com led the weekly sales list at $100,000. Other notable sales include pepe.com @45k euro (congrats Francois), gastronomie.com @35k euro. some…
- Horoscopes.com -Is it really for sale?
Last week I received an email from a Paul Ginsburg. Some of you may know that name as it was listed back in 2003 as the owner of Horoscopes.com and [.…
- Using PPC For Success – Free Seminar
Search Engine Strategies is having a seminar next week entitled “Segment Your Way to PPC Success, Part 2 of 2″. according to the email : Experienc…
- Phishing Attack -Beware Of Fake GoDaddy.com Email
Beware. A very good phishing email is being sent out by some entity claiming to be Godaddy.com. The email is an exact copy of an email that Godaddy re…
- Do These Guys Deserve to Go To Jail?
The are many comparisons to the following story and domaining. It seems a company called Wiseguys Tickets Inc. figured out a way to beat Ticketmaster…
- Look Here to See and Discuss Sedo’s Current Weekly Sales Including Metal.com at 165k
Metal.com led the pack. lookup.com was a steal at $17,500. I also thought disabilityinsurance.org at – $750, stockprices.com – 60k, bigdaddy – 2…
- Dell owns Cloudcomputing.com, Is Cloud.com Worth 250K +
The has been much talk over the past year about cloud computing. The other day I typed in cloudcomputing.com just to see who owns it. Surprisingly som…
- This Week’s Sedo Sales Led by Thinkpoint.com at $25,000
Let’s take a look at the list from Sedo . Thinkpoint.com led it with a $25,000 sale. Underdog.co.uk went for approx. 23k USD. 2 3 letter .com’s we…
- HUGE Deals Will Be Happening Real Soon
My head is starting to spin. Is this 2007 or 2010? All the talk has been about lower ppc revenue, less money be earned by domainers and what else can…
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