A couple months back WordStream released their most expensive keywords in AdWords for 2017. The first thing I noticed was prices were down, I have written many posts on these expensive keywords. We usually see things that are $200 - $300 a click. Now to be fair that wasn't data gathered by WordStream. The 2016 post I wrote looked at data from EmpiricalProof and SemRush. Take a look you will see … [Read more...]
Interesting discussion on domain names
It's always interesting to me to see domain names get discussed by non domainers. Most of the times there is only 1 or 2 comments on a website outside the industry. There was an interesting Reddit thread that has quite a lively discussion. There were more pro domaining comments than I expected, vs the usual all domainers are squatters. There were plenty of squatter comments and thoughts on … [Read more...]
Milestone reached – 10,000 posts
A couple milestones reached today, I turned 50 and TheDomains.com has reached 10,000 published posts. TheDomains.com first post was published on December 4, 2007. Since then Mike Berkens set out to discuss all things domaining, from advising people to help protect their domains by joining the ICA, to giving his take on the new gtld program before and after it launched. Hot takes on ICANN and … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by EnergyOutlet.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and EnergyOutlet.com just edged out Human.Ai for the top spot. EnergyOutlet.com sold for $47,000 while Human.AI sold for $45,000. Labs related names have been popular over the last few years and SkunkLabs.com hit it out of the park at $19,888. Mike Mann was the seller of the name. Air.one sold for 2,500 GBP representing the only new gtld sale for the … [Read more...]
Not everyone agrees with GoDaddy’s decision and Google has a lot of work ahead
One of the more prominent domain stories to be discussed in the mainstream has been the game of hot potato being played with The Daily Stormer domain and website. GoDaddy hosted the site and finally made the decision to tell the registrant to transfer their domain out. The Verge reported: Just hours after being dropped by GoDaddy, prominent white nationalist publication The Daily Stormer … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz wants to buy your Crypto names
Rick Schwartz seems to be really interested in crypto, he is now looking to buy some crypto related names on Twitter. He started out up to $500 but raised it to $1,500. Ok, let's raise the offer to $1500. Must be .com. 2 words or less. — Rick Schwartz ? (@DomainKing) August 15, 2017 Yesterday Rick Tweeted the following: #Domains have hit critical mass AND saturation point. #bitcoin … [Read more...]
Reality Star forgets to secure domains now dealing with a squatter
Anyone who watches the hit tv show Pawn Stars will be familiar with Chumlee (Austin Lee Russell). Well it seems Chumlee is in the candy business but did not secure the domain names for his business. TMZ posted a story this morning about the owner of chumleescandy.com and chumleescandyontheblvd.com admitting that he regged the domains in order to sell them to Chumlee. From the article: Keys … [Read more...]