A few days ago I posted a blog on my number one rule to avoid failure in the domain industry is not to piss your money away. Today on Godaddy.com, there are 4 typos for the site, ToonTown.com on the expired auction block with a total high bid price of almost $4K with almost 3 days to go. The domains are: TooTown.com tooontown.com tontown.com toontowm.com The total estimated … [Read more...]
Whether You Park Your Domains Or Not, You Better Hope Parking Stays Around
Over the last few weeks, I have written several post involving, directly or indirectly, domain parking. All the comments I received to these posts can be categorized into three camps. One group basically says; we don't park our domains, parking is dead get over it. The second group basically says; develop your domains, parking is dead. The third group basically says, parking is off 50% … [Read more...]
Broadway Blog: No One Will Buy BroadwayShows.com At The TRAFFIC Auction
It's always interesting to see how a non-domainer views of a category killer domain in their industry. The self entitled Broadway Blog, had less than kind thoughts about one of the domains up for sale at the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction, BroadwayShows.com. Considering the blog describes itself as writing about: "Broadway news and gossip about all the Broadway Shows currently appearing on … [Read more...]
Why The Yahoo Class Action Settlement Is Bad News For Domainers
DirectNavigation.com wrote today about a notice that went out to anyone who advertised with Yahoo or the its prior service GoTo.com, on its PPC program(s) anytime from May 1, 2000 until September 22, 2009. That's a lot of advertisers. The class action arose out of a suit by advertisers against Yahoo, alleging that Yahoo: """breached its contract with its customers by allowing Yahoo! ads … [Read more...]
Bloggers Need To Respect Domain Buyers Privacy Requests
Bloggers, including myself, love to write about domain sales especially those in the six and seven figures. Reader love to read stories on the big money sales. There is nothing wrong with that, except where the buyer of the domain specifically doesn't want the publicity That takes us to one of the six figure domains that was sold by BuyDomains.com/Afternic.com, last week that has been … [Read more...]
Google: Ad Recession Is Over
The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt said today, that the worst of the advertising recession is over and Google started to see signs of a recovery in May and June. Schmidt said that the largest U.S. Internet search engine has increased its hiring and investment in anticipation of a recovery. "The worst is behind us," he said. "We're clearly seeing aspects of recovery, not just in the U.S. but … [Read more...]
NameMedia Launches “Domainer’s Advantage” Knowledge Center For Domainers
NameMedia today announced the launch of Domainer’s Advantage, an interactive knowledge center for domain investors located at Afternic.com. The newly launched service, called Domainer’s Advantage, offers domain investors a comprehensive knowledge center including: Real time domain industry news feed: Stay informed of the latest industry news Weekly domain … [Read more...]