Second Internet Gold Rush

February 15, 2010 by admin

Get your coveralls, shovels and pans because we are headed to the next domain gold rush. You might laugh and think, "The are no more claims." And... well... You'd be wrong!

The down economy has definitely hit PPC revenues and auctions, but for the savvy investor "there is GOLD in them thar' hills". I have bee watching the drop lists and can't believe my eyes at the great names that are dropping. Now of course you probably won't be snagging the best names unless you are ready compete with the likes of NameJet and Pool, but you can grab them in the pre-release and pending delete auction market.

LATEST NEWS

UI.com, BS.com, ER.com, JG.com and WV.com all to be in T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin Auction August 25th

Latona’s has just added ui.com, bs.com, er.com, jg.com and wv.com to the auction inventory at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin this August 24th – 25th. Each of these names will be available for sale to the highest bidder on the 25th of August. For more information about the domain, the auction, the trade show or funding options, please contact us.
August 18, 2010 by Rick Latona

A Hump Day This And That From DotWeekly

Things have been a little slow for me between developing on a couple of my new domain purchases so this has taken some time away from my normal "digging" to come up with stories to write but here are some things that grabbed my eye and thought you may find interesting. MSN.com called Zappos Tony Hsieh [...]
August 18, 2010 by Jamie Zoch

Jeff Kupietzky’s 5 Myths of the Domain Name Industry

Oversee.net CEO dispels five myths in the domain name industry. Today at DOMAINfest in New York, Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky tried to dispel 5 myths about the domain name industry. 1. The PPC Market is Dead -Oversee.net now has 1 million domain names. -28% rise in visitors year-to-date on their portfolio -15% increase in revenue [...]
August 18, 2010 by Andrew Allemann

Moniker Brokers Tshirt.com and Variants for $1.265m USD

According to a spokesperson of Oversee.net their subsidiary Moniker.com has successfully brokered TShirt.com, t-shirt.com, t-shirts.com, tee-shirts.com and tees.com for $1.265 million. The buyer is Costumes Galore, Inc. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer: .com/.net domains only $7.98/yr! Specializing in .kr domains $40/yr Get expired / deleting domains $14.98/yr fixed price
August 18, 2010 by Frank Michlick

HAVE YOU READ?

City in The Box vs. My Custom Sites

After posting an article highlighting some news Fred Mercaldo shared with me, there were a number of questions from readers asking about Burbank.com and Lowell.com, two of my websites built on different platforms. I want to address some of those questions, which may be helpful in your geodomain development endeavors. Burbank.com and Lowell.com were both originally [...]
August 17, 2010 by Elliot

Is Your SSL Certificate Working Properly?

Doing some research today, I ran into two websites with SSL certificate errors and both were because of two different reasons. Since I ran into two of them, I thought it may be a good idea to write it about it because the errors often are similar to what happens with domain names. SSL Certificates are [...]
August 17, 2010 by Jamie Zoch

Domain Registrars Called Out for Black Hat Design Patterns

An interesting new visual library is making the rounds today and a lot of big business websites are being called out for unethical design tactics. DarkPatterns.org has been created to introduce the public
August 17, 2010 by Mark Fulton

HIGHLIGHTED

Live Current Media Revenues and Losses Shrink

Perfume.com owner announces revenue and earnings for first half of 2010. Live Current Media, who’s primary business is now running Perfume.com, announced shrinking revenue numbers for the second quarter 2010. But its losses also shrunk. For Q2 the company grossed $696,376 in revenue, down 59% from last year. For the first half of the year, [...]
August 17, 2010 by Andrew Allemann

Go Daddy Marches Toward $1 Billion

Domain name registrar will get close to $1 billion in cash flow this year. The juggernaut continues its onward march. The world’s largest domain name registrar, which manages four times as many domains as the second largest registrar, is quickly narrowing in on a billion dollars in annual cash flow. This year Go Daddy’s forecast [...]
August 17, 2010 by Andrew Allemann