With PPC declining you will be seeing more and more domains dropping as small and large domain holder shed dead weight from their portfolios. Its a great time to pick up inventory, but there is a ton of stuff, which is just a waste of money. Not that there isn't great advice our there to decide what makes a domain worth buying and holding The "Domain King", Rick Schwartz in a recent post … [Read more...]
CNET Asks: Do Domains Matter Anymore?
CNET.com published an article tonight entitled "Do URL's matter Anymore?" My favorite quote from the article is: "Perhaps there are those generic words that people absent-mindedly type, perhaps just out of boredom. I don't know, URLs like kitchen.com. Or music.com. But could this still be a significant number? How many people really do bother to type URLs these days?"" The author … [Read more...]
No Record Setters, But We Close Over $100K In Sales In June
We all love to hear about all those six and seven figure domain sales of one word category killer domains. But there is a whole other market out there for end user buyers of two three and four word domains, and its a pretty busy marketplace. We just finished up out best month of the year, in June, selling 16 domains for a total of $110K in sales. We also turned down well over 100 offers … [Read more...]
Should Yahoo’s Flickr.com Buy Flicker.com?
Flickr.com is of course the huge photo sharing site owned by Yahoo. However, Yahoo does not own the .com for the proper spelling of the word, which is Flicker.com Flicker.com, in a pretty rare move, recently posted it traffic stats on its home page along with click through rates and the stats are pretty impressive. According to Flicker.com "by the numbers", they receive: Unique … [Read more...]
Warning: A Brazen Phising Attack Underway Aimed at GoDaddy.com Account Holders
Just to warn everyone, there is a phishing attacked underway, aimed at Godaddy.com account holders. I received over 100 e-mail overnight purporting to be from Godaddy.com seeking you to log in to your account, however the link in the e-mail goes the domain cyber-edge.com which is unrelated to Godaddy.com. I consider this a a brazen attack, because the domain used in the phishing e-mail is … [Read more...]
The Power of A Great Blog: A Year Without a Post, SevenMile.com Still Gets Serious Traffic
Well its been well over a year since Frank Schilling made his last post on this blog sevenmile.com. However, his blog is still getting serious traffic and referring a ton of traffic to this blog, thedomains.com I was looking over the stats for thedomains.com the other day and its hard to believe how powerful Frank's blog continues to be. Over the last 90 days, sevenmile.com was the second … [Read more...]
Bing.com: Paid Clicks Up 8%
The number of times people clicked on ads listed next to Microsoft's search results jumped about 8% in the week since the Bing.com was launched. "If this share lift holds we can expect advertisers to allocate additional budget to Microsoft over the coming months," said Efficient Frontier Inc., which helps advertisers place text ads on top search engines. Efficient Frontier, in a blog post on … [Read more...]