Author: Elliot
(January 4, 2010)
Elliot Silver: When trying to buy a domain name from a person or company in private, I frequently come across private registrations. I usually use the Whois history tool to see if there was an email address previously on file. I concurrently visit the website to see if there is contact information on the page.
Oftentimes people or
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(January 3, 2010)
Elliot Silver: One of the reasons I first got into domain names was because of the connection between my master’s degree in Direct & Interactive Marketing and generic domain names. Owning a generic domain name makes the job of a direct marketer much easier, especially when the marketing campaign is done via television or radio. With an
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(January 2, 2010)
Elliot Silver: Although networking with other domain investors is high up on the list of reasons to attend a domain conference, in my opinion, there is one primary reason. Attending a domain conference gives you the opportunity to meet your sales representatives and managers for the companies with whom you do your domain business.
Whether your busi...
(January 2, 2010)
Elliot Silver: Is it really Saturday already? It feels a bit like the movie Groundhog Day with the past few days off. Anyhow, here are some of my random, rambling, somewhat coherent (hopefully) thoughts this Saturday morning following the New Year’s festivities.
(Ironically enough, I accidentally hit post late Friday night when I wrote this...
(January 1, 2010)
Elliot Silver: A friend of mine emailed me early this afternoon to let me know that Google updated the Page Rank of my website to PR5. Apparently, Google updated the PR for many websites some time in the last 24 hours or so. The meaning and impact of a website’s PageRank is debated, but a PR5 is
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(January 1, 2010)
Elliot Silver: It’s the time of year that people make their new years resolutions. I don’t generally make any personal resolutions, but I do think about things I would like to accomplish for my business, so I thought I would share a few of those with you.
Learn about affiliate marketing – Many of my sites have pretty
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(December 31, 2009)
Elliot Silver: I spent some time with someone who mentioned that his company filed for a strategic bankruptcy in the past year. Although I have recently come to know this person and his family pretty well in just the past two years, I had known of his company since I was a kid because of his company’s
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(December 30, 2009)
Elliot Silver: During the past year, a few people have mentioned that they received emails from other bidders competing on domain auctions, although primarily involving drop auctions. The competing bidders reached out in an attempt to thwart their bidding, to keep their own acquisition cost down. Judging by the fact that I was told about this, it&#...
(December 28, 2009)
Elliot Silver: I recently bought a domain name from a company who hadn’t touched its domain name since the late 1990s. At the time, they were using Earthlink for Internet service, and the Registrant Contact was listed as Earthlink, while the Administrative Contact was their company contact information. The domain name was registered at Networ...
(December 28, 2009)
Elliot Silver: In an article I wrote about Vino.com yesterday, I mentioned that it was a category killer domain name and a couple of people commented that it wasn’t. Just like in the National Football League, I am doing an instant replay review, and the call is overturned. Vino.com doesn’t really meet the definition of a category
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