Its been pointed out to me that Oversee.net, which owns its own parking platform at DomainSponsor.com, is parking at least some of its company owned domains at HitFarm.com. If you check out the following domains for example you will see they are all owned by "OS Portfolio Holdings, LLC Care of Oversee Domain Management, LLC", listing as admin contact of admin@overseedomainmanagement.com, with … [Read more...]
A Look Inside The 100,000+ Domain Portfolio That Mike Mann Lists For Sale At DomainMarket.com
It looks like after selling off BuyDomains.com to NameMedia, Mike Mann has built another portfolio in excess of 100,000 domain names, which are registered under the name "Domain Admin" or Domain Asset Holdings both showing a Potomac, Maryland Address. These domains are listed on the site, DomainMarket.com which is registered to "Domain Admin" in Rockville, Maryland. Mike Mann wrote on his … [Read more...]
Afternic Launches the “Portfolio Manager” Inventory Management Tool; In Beta Sales Increased 20%
NameMedia today announced the launch of Afternic Portfolio Manager a new, easy-to-use domain distribution and inventory management tool for large portfolio owners to sell their names through the industry’s largest domain marketplace at AfternicDLS. Afternic Portfolio Manager is available immediately at no cost. “Afternic Portfolio Manager provides our customers the ability reconcile their … [Read more...]
Google Testing CPA Ads: Is This The Start Of The Switch From PPC
According to Investors.com, Google testing a CPA ads system. CPA stands for Cost Per Action, a service in which advertisers pay for ads they run on Google's network only when a consumer takes "action." Action means that the consumer makes a purchase or fills out a form or some sort of registration on an advertiser's Web site. According to the story, Google uses "software and various … [Read more...]
.XXX Lawley & Godaddy’s Parsons On Fox Business Channel Tonight As Domains Take The Spotlight
I learned that both Stuart Lawley from the ICM Registry, who got tentative approval for .XXX last week and none other than Bob Parsons from Godaddy.com will be on the same program tonight on the Fox Business Channel at 8PM EST. They both will appearing separately on a new program called "Money Rocks" Fox Business Channel can be seen on channel 359 on Directv and I assume many cable networks … [Read more...]
Domaining & Time Zones: It’s Better To Be Early Than Late
In the past two months I've had the opportunity to be in a time zone 2 hours earlier than EST and in Europe which is 6 hours later than EST and I have to say without a doubt its better to be early than late. Actually I enjoyed being a couple of hours behind EST. I would get up at 8am local time which was 10am EST and worked until noon or 2pm EST, and got most of my work done. However In … [Read more...]
NeuStar’s Alternative DNS Service Is Blocking Parked Domains
Quite a few people are using alternative DNS services, like Google DNS (I use Google DNS) to navigate the internet. However as pointed out by one reader to TheDomains.com, one of the alternative DNS services is now blocking parked pages. Most troubling the service, dnsadvantage.com is owned by Neustar, which provides registry services for .biz, .us, kids.us, .cn, .tw, .travel, .tel … [Read more...]