Monthly Archives: May 2006

Mon 8th May 2006
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Yahoo ads to get an upgrade - Yahoo Search Marketing (also known as Overture to the domain community) is getting an upgrade. The upgrade is long overdue to compete with Google. Overture invented the pay-per-click search market but in this case being second to market was a benefit for Google. Google was able to learn from Overture’s (then GoTo.com) mistakes to create a more flexible system. Yahoo and Google feed most paid parking programs. Yahoo feeds programs like GoldKey and newcomer Parked.com. ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC auction nets $2M - The live domain name auction at the TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas last week resulted in over $2M in doman name sales. Among the big winners was a groundbreaking .net sale of Sex.net for $450,000. CD.com sold for $275,000 and POS.com for $250,000. POS has many possible uses; one of the big ones is Point of Sale systems, a very competitive retail market. These domain sales have not yet been completed, but you can expect them to show up in DNJournal’s weekly sales ... read more ...
 
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Only assume with what we can lose - An article about a student who blew his tuition money on domain speculation is an important reminder to people entering the domain industry. Recent articles in Business 2.0 and The Wall Street Journal make it seem easy to make a quick buck in the domain name market. Experienced domainers know this isn’t the case. You have to be smart these days and make good deals to see a good return on investment. Just tell that to Shi Kaisheng, a Chengdu college student who ... read more ...
Thu 4th May 2006
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ValuableNames.com Review - The ValuableNames.com domain service is expensive but worth the price. Yesterday I reviewed NameSpy, an expiring domain service that I don’t think is worth the $39.95 monthly fee. So you might be surprised that today I’m going to recommend a domain service that costs a whopping $699 a month! ValuableNames helps you find great domain names that are currently registered but underused. The current owners of these domains might not understand the full value of the ... read more ...
Wed 3rd May 2006
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Review of NameSpy - Active domainers are familiar with dozens of expired domain tools. In this entry I review NameSpy. We all know that expired domains are an important part of any domain portfolio. Many expired domains come with existing link popularity, have been registered for years, and get traffic from day one. Most domainers are familiar with services you can use to find good expiring domains. Many of these are paid subscription services, including a newcomer called NameSpy. NameSpy ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo is wrong aim for Typo-Squatting Critics - Yahoo has been sued for placing ads on typo-squatting ads, but Yahoo is the wrong target. The Washington Post is reporting about a lawsuit against Yahoo for placing text ads in adware and on typo domains. More than likely Yahoo is unaware that its ads are being syndicated in adware. These ads are probably displayed in full-screen pop-ups that publishers are sending through adware against Yahoo’s wishes. I have a clear opinion on the topic of typo domains and Yahoo. ... read more ...
Tue 2nd May 2006
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TrafficClub RPM hits $58 - My paid parking results with TrafficClub hit $58 per 1,000 views in April. I’m the first to point out that no one domain parking solution is perfect for a domain portfolio. ParkQuick.com, which writes an entry monthly at DomainNameWire, does an excellent job reviewing the top choices. At Domain Roundtable last month I had dinner with the team from DomainSponsor, which is highly regarded in the parking space. Then there’s NameDrive, which has managed to capture ... read more ...
 
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80% Payouts from Parking Dots, Matt Bentley Interview - Things have been a little slow in the lull between the Domain Roundtable conference and the TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas. Changes are afoot in the domain industry, and some of the changes at Sedo and Parking Dots are highlighted in the latest issue of Domain Parking News. Parking Dots was an exception to an April slowdown in parking revenue based on the numbers that I reviewed. It seems like Google-based services were hit harder than Overture-based services. ... read more ...
 
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Conversation with Dot VN - Dot VN, registration provider of Viatnamese .vn domain names, is going public. I met Gary Thompson, Director at Dot VN, at Domain Roundtable a couple weeks ago in Seattle. Because relatively few are familiar with the company, I thought it worthwhile to get the 411 from Thompson. DNW: .Vn is not as well known as some other ccTLDs. Please tell us a bit about the history of .Vn and your company. Dot VN, Inc. is an International Corporation, with offices located in ... read more ...
Mon 1st May 2006
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Wall Street Journal – eNom bought, Domain Parking - Monday’s Wall Street Journal has yet another domain name article. I just finished writing a post about a domain name parking article in Business 2.0. I opened up the Marketplace section of The Wall Street Journal and what did I see…another article about domain parking. This one is also about adding content and juicing up domain parking pages. It discusses FlashGames.com, a parking page that generates $150,000 a year. (Anyone notice that it’s basically a ... read more ...
 
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Business 2.0 on SmartName - The May 2006 issue of Business 2.0 has an article called “Tricking Out Those Parked Domains”. The article (page 152) is about making parked domain names look more like real web pages. It features Ari Goldberger’s SmartName parking service and quotes PPCIncome’s Howard Hoffman. (Goldberger is a prominent domain name attorney who runs Esqwire.com.) I can’t find the article online yet, but it will likely be syndicated over the next couple weeks. A quick ... read more ...