As a large domain portfolio owner I get lots of offers and lots of spam. Most the spam I can get rid of by marking it Junk and all future emails that follow will go to the junk file. I don't take moving someone to Junk lightly as I expect once I place them in that folder they will have no further access to me and I to them. So apart from obvious spam and phishing I don't assume anything … [Read more...]
Alexander Schubert Of .Gay “The Only Good Domainer Is A Dead Domainer”
If you have attended any TRAFFIC conferences or Domainfest conferences you have probably have run into Alexander Schubert who was a self admitted domainer from 1997-2004. Alexander was one of the first who went to ICANN and asked for what has become the new gTLD program to be opened when he was petitioning … [Read more...]
Forbes: Spend a Few Thousand Dollars On A Domain, Not A Fortune
Forbes.com just published a piece entitled "Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup" which basically tells its readers its Ok to spend a few thousand of dollars on a domain but there isn't a need to spend a fortune buying one from Kevin Ham or Frank Schilling: "I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your … [Read more...]
InteLend.com Hits The Market With $20 Million To Lend On Domain Names
Intelend.com is a relatively new company in the domain space and considers itself a digital pawn shop that makes loans just holding domain names as collateral again the loan. Loan are made to either give cash to domain owner or to help domainers with financing in the acquisition of new domain names. I had a chance to speak with Matt Collins last week a principal in InteLend.com about its … [Read more...]
Architelos Marks Successful 2nd Year, Hits $2 Million in Sales & Launches NameSentry™
According to a press release out this morning, Architelos, Inc. a consulting and software company concentrated in the new gTLD space, announced it completion of its second year of business, "earning over $1.7 million in revenue and booking sales of over $2 million dollars in consulting and software service fees in 2012". Its interesting to note that while Architelos is just one company to … [Read more...]
The New HuntingMoon.com Is Live: What’s New & What’s Not
The new HuntingMoon.com site is now live and running. We reached out to the owners of HuntingMoon.com which is best known for the brokerage, sale and auction of high profile and dollar adult domains to see what's up with the new version. For one the commission rate has dropped from 15% to 10% in addition there is a lot of social interrogation in the new version. Huntingmoon.com is also … [Read more...]
Flippa Opens Up Voting For The 1st Annual Flippie Awards
Flippa.com, has just opened voting for the first annual Flippie Awards, by honoring some of the best sites sold in 2012. Nominated websites were chosen from over 29,000 websites and domains that were sold on Flippa.com in 2012. The Flippie Committee chose sites based on the level of interest they attracted from website buyers, as well as quality factors such as monetization, content and … [Read more...]