Archive for February 4th, 2010

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 you have been developing domains for any length of time, you probably have come across techniques designed to game Google or other search engines. There is a constant... »

With the ccTLD market on an upward trajectory, dropcatching service Drop.com.au has joined the growing competition for expiring Australian domains. They are claiming a high success rate too - landing 82% of the .au domains they have gone after, including gems like Printing.com.au and MotorHomes.com.au. »

Apparently Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com decided to add tech blog feeds to his website today. The result of the decision was that Domaining.com was briefly filled with non-domain related news articles. This made it difficult for domain investors to quickly find their favorite domain news and blog articles, and people publicly complained in blogs,... »

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By now you have probably seen the donation button and the useless feeds on Domaining.com. I have come to the conclusion that people need to get over it and accept it or not. There are many bloggers and website owners that do the same thing, even though they make 10 fold what their average... »

To start off the day Domaining.com had at least five new blog feeds that I could see, Mashable, TechCrunch, Engadget, BusinessInsider and ReadWriteWeb. These five websites took over 95% of the showing feeds. They have professional writers that write several times per day. Out of 20 feeds on the first page of Domaining.com, I’d... »

Following “What Sells On Bido?” blog post a couple of days ago, I Just got off the phone with one of our buyers (as well as a partner in the Bido Guarantee Program) and he indicated his group is looking to expand their domain portfolio and in the next 60 days focus on the... »

The extended auction for domainferst closes at 3:15 EST today on SnapNames.com One of our picks from the live auction is back up again for sale today, Klimt.com. At Sotheby’s yesterday, while the $104.3 million sale of Alberto Giacometti’s “L’homme qui marche 1 (Walking Man 1)” made news as being the most expensive artwork ever... »

Domaining.com is a site that I visit on a daily basis to review all things about the domain name industry. These sites displayed on Domaining.com are 99% solely about domaining directly and include news, auctions, domain tips and pretty much all things Domaining. Francois the owner of Domaining.com has been known to play around with... »

The extended TRAFFIC auction which was held by RickLatona.com just closed with $378,900 in sales. LongIsland.com sold for $370K after the reserve was lowered just hours before the auction closed. The other sales from the auction: Imply.com $4,000 JusticeDepartment.com $1,800 CuteTops.com $1,100 Ocnn.com  $1,000 defensiveback.com $400 etaxreturn.com $300 php.mx $300 »