Just crossing the Sedo.com wire, might just be one of the best domain name buys of 2013; 3-D.com just sold for $5,000 There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term "3-d" with the hyphen. While we typically don't love hyphenated domain names, in this case, the term 3d is often used and referred to in commerce as 3-d. Without the hyphen the term "3d" returns 691,000,000 … [Read more...]
Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question dealt with expired domains with penalties from Google Hello I purchased a new domain name last month. When I'm searching on Google, I can't … [Read more...]
Stat Porn
Domainers like stats and here are some of an adult nature but also may help with domains, ppc campaigns and running your adult website. PornHub.com took a look back at 2013 and while we are not going to get into the more risque stats, there were some that dealt with the numbers behind porn, the shift from the desktop to mobile and the most and least popular days. The numbers are pretty big … [Read more...]
Apple Makes A Nice Catch
9to5Mac.com did an article that they believed Apple acquired Evernote competitor Catch, Apple later confirmed to Allthings D that they did indeed acquire Catch and then the company was closed down. That was reported in TechCrunch in July. Catch.com was registered in 1996. With all the talk of the app and it being shutdown, it seems everyone has overlooked the value of a five letter, generic … [Read more...]
88888.com Sold For $245K; 888888888888888888888888.com Is Dropping Tomorrow
The domain name 88888.com was sold for $245,000 just a few weeks ago by Name Administration. At the time we chatted about how the number 8 was super lucky in Chinese Culture so what could be better than five 8's? How about 24 eight's in a row. The domain name 888888888888888888888888.com is dropping tomorrow as is already on the Namejet.com 50 most back ordered list for tomorrow for … [Read more...]
Jennifer Wolfe: “Your .Com Won’t Be Worth Much Anymore”
Jennifer Wolfe is a digital strategy advisor and executive leader. She is nationally accredited in public relations and the Co-author of Brand Rewired and Domain Names Rewired. She runs a blog at Wolfedomain.com. On Friday Jennifer wrote a post entitled Dot Com Bubble (pt.2). I wanted to first find and read part 1, that post looks to have been written July 16, 2013 under the title of "New … [Read more...]
The Evolution of Domain Names
Euro DNS put together this infographic taking a look at the "Evolution of Domain Names" … [Read more...]