Anyone who still thinks there is no money to be made in the domain business unless you acquired the domain names years ago, needs to look no further than Dotmedia.com, a company run by a 22 year old in China. His first sale was flipping, iblog.net, a domain he picked up for $10 for $500. Fast forward a couple of years later to July of this year, when he acquired the following 14 NNN.com … [Read more...]
What’s The Most Famous Domain You Used To Own?
Over the years many of us have sold hundreds even thousands of domain names, some of which have went on to become major or quite famous sites. The question for a sleep Saturday morning in the dead of August is which domain did you used to own which has become a major or famous site? This is not what is your best or highest sale, dollar figures are irreverent. Its what domain did you used … [Read more...]
Investors.com Covers The Domain Name Resale Market: “Domain Name Owners Are Multimillion-Dollar Companies” But Still Call Us Cybersquatters
An article yesterday about the domain name business appeared in Investors Business Daily which uses the domain Investors.com. Its amazing how clueless major publications are still when it comes to domains. The article focused around new businesses trying to obtain domains on the secondary market in this case a company called BlueGrass, which seemed to obtain the .com., .net and .org version … [Read more...]
If We Did This We Would Get Sued: BlackBerry Grabs Blackpad.com
According to MobileCrunch.com, the company that makes Blackberry phones Research In Motion or Rimm for short, just purchased the domain Blackpad.com for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet. The devise of course will complete with Apple's iPad. "According to registration records, RIM purchased BlackPad.com just days ago." The domain is being administered by one of those trademark … [Read more...]
Google Picks Enom & Godaddy As Exclusive Domain Registrar Partners In Its Apps Program?
If you are a web developer and want to start selling Google apps, and don't already have a domain name, Google is going to prompt you to register your domain, using one of two partners; You have the choice of using Enom or Godaddy.com. I'm not sure where I have ever read that Google entered into an exclusive arrangement with any domain registrar but it looks like they have done … [Read more...]
The Next BIG Thing Is 3D: Who Owns Best Domains? (Hint: Its not Me, Frank, Kevin Or Even Rick )
I sure blew this one. But at least I'm not alone. The next big thing is going to be 3D. 3D was the talk of the Consumers Electronic Show in Vegas in January. 3d Tv's are already on sale and the World Cup was broadcast by Directv in 3D. ESPN is launching its own 3D channel any day now on Directv. Yup its going to be huge and I missed to boat completely. However it doesn't look … [Read more...]
Job.Com Says 50% Of Its Visitors Come From Direct Navigation (Type In Traffic)
The owner and CEO of Job.com, Brian Alden, was interviewed by Fredericksburg.com, and a couple of very interesting items came to light. For one the owner says that 50% of the 8 million monthly visitors come to the site simply by them typing the domain into the browser. Good old direct navigation which the search engines want us to believe is all but dead. "About half of the site's roughly … [Read more...]