Offers.com officially launched this week. A great domain, perfectly matched with an application. What makes this story so interesting is that the developer is also a domainer and used both of his skills to launch the site. Steve Schaffer, is the Founder & CEO of Vertive, Inc., a Leader in Performance Marketing & the creator and developer of Offers.com. Steve was good enough to … [Read more...]
The “4 Hour Work Week” Blog On The Value Of Buying A Great Domain & How To Do It
James Siminoff, a self proclaimed serial entrepreneur, published a guest post on the best selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss blog, entitled How To Buy Domain Names Like A Pro. The blog is widely read with over 183,000 month visitors according to compete.com. Since many non-domainers will be reading this post (the post already has 40 comments) and since one of them maybe … [Read more...]
Steps to Register a .MX (Mexico) Domain
We thank, Juan Enrique Sánchez, President of NameAction.com for the following explanation on the roll out of the new .MX (Mexico) country code domain. Pre-Registration Period: Only those who have registered the domain under .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX, or .GOB.MX before MARCH 1ST 2009. Example: If you have registered store.com.mx you will be able to register … [Read more...]
Domaining To Do Good: We Give & We Get: ThatsNotCool.com Launched
We were very proud to be part of a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign, designed to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and take steps to prevent it. As part of this national campaign, a site was launched today, using one of our domain names, thatsnotcool.com, by the Advertising Council, in partnership with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the Department of Justice’s … [Read more...]
IREIT/NameJet Proves Domains Are Liquid Assets
The sell of of IREIT domains continues over at NameJet.com this week. What's lost in the story is the fact that this strategy by IREIT to sell their domains in this fashion, all starting at a $69 reserve is that domain names are in fact a Liquid investment. The debate has raged for quite a while are domains liquid assets, that is can they be sold and turned into cash quickly if they need to … [Read more...]
VeriSign: Domain Registrations and Renewals Rates Down: Price Increase to Come?
According to VeriSign's Earnings call report for the 4th quater of 2008, new domain registrations (.com's & .net's) were down 15% in the 4th quarter of 2008 compared to the 4th quarter of 2007. In 2008 there were 6.3 million new domain name registrations, compared with 7.5 million names during 4Q 07. There are a lot in interesting information in the report including these … [Read more...]
Is it a Buyers Market For Domains?
An article in econsultancy.com, today claims that its a buyers market for domains. Citing what it calls "the economic downturn and a growing overall trend of declining revenue for parked' domains" the article concludes that its a great time t buy a domain from even major players like BuyDomains.com The article cites a report in In December, DomainNameWire that BuyDomains was offering … [Read more...]