What does a guy who is well known for “not selling domains” know about selling domain names? Well I might just know a thing or two. As the title of this post states: Everybody sells. It doesn’t matter whether you’re selling cars, homes, financial instruments, religion.. everyone sells something. Some of us are hard-sell : [...]
Elliot blogs about the 3 letter .com realm. http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/12/10/b-king-on-three-letter-com-sales/ ***FS*** There are only 17,576 3 letters in .com .. This piece probably explains which a have gotten scores of spam sales offers for my three letter and 3 number domains over the past few days. Google reduces the importance of sub domains in it’s ranking [...]
Everyone is Doing It http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/12/07/everybodys-doing-it/ ***FS*** Investing in domain names that is Domain Valuations : Chris Stewart Domain Value (DV)=Traffic Value (TV)+Brand Value (BV)+Utility Value (UV)+Discretionary Value (DiV) : Part 1 http://marketforlemons.com/?p=5 Via.com sells for 157,000. (scroll down.) http://www.domainstate.com/showthread.php3?s=bf857a50211d7889c72645f54b38beb6&threadid=84867 Great name to build on. Good price for buyer (fully valued for name-investor), esp if they [...]
Invest.com bid up to 431k at Auction auction is still live. 4 hours to go, as of 10 a.m. EST. Friday, Dec 6, 07 Reserve is 200,000 – 499,999. http://www.greatdomains.com/auction/auction_detail.php?language=us&auction_id=21998&tracked=&partnerid=32392 ***FS*** Great name.. This is fully valued from a wildcat-return investor’s perspective. Which domain extensions have increased in value the fastest. Between 2004 – 2007. [...]
Domains Down Under Melbourne.com sells for 700k. Brisbane.com sells for 100k. http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm These are excellent geographical names.. I like cities with “i” in front of them too. Less organic traffic but cheaper and more brandable Other notable sales: TheNightBeforeChristmas.com $2,600 BabyBoomers.net $5,000 LuxuryHomes.org $1,775 Cannabis.co.uk $9,743 Dun and Bradstreet buy AllBusiness.com website for 55 million. [...]
But Danno writes: ””Four More For Wednsday: 1.New DNS Technology Flags Bad Guys Before They Act http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=140407&WT.svl=news1_2 2.Elysium Internet Agrees to Acquire Additional Domain Assets and Direct Navigation Technology Platform http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0335573.htm 3.Nevada Courts rule Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre not Subject to Examination http://www.point-spreads.com/industry/120307-nevada-courts-rule-bodog-founder-calvin-ayre-not-subject-to-examin.html 4.Is Google Now Too Big To Handle Anything? http://gawker.com/news/when-google-attacks/is-google-now-too-big-to-handle-anything-329614.php “”
Police the Minority, Ignore Bigger Problem http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=8738 ***FS*** Out-law.com means well but can’t see the forest for the trees here. An IP “expert” proposes a “Domain police force” to tackle cybersquatting. Yeah.. that will stop all that stolen traffic.. sure it will bub. Most “traffic” that gets incorrectly plumbed or stolen on the internet, does [...]
Which tld should bite the dust? http://www.domainersgazette.com/the-dot-what-tld-deathmatch/ ***FS*** Domainer’s Gazette runs a refreshing poll .. Should serve as excellent guidance to newbies. Parking Transparency Whizzbang sets out a roadmap for Standards and Transparency for parking companies. ***FS*** I think true transparency is a pipedream absent some kind of leverage on the upstreams. Nothing begets nothing [...]
Tia Wood asks: “”Frank, after looking at a thread at DNF titled “Why Domains cost what they do…Your Reasoning?”, I don’t feel anyone has hit the nail on the head. To me, why domains cost the what they do has largely to do with reverse branding: the ability to reverse brand a word for a company [...]
Half the planet has cell phone plans. 3.3 billion of them. How long before half of those people have full browsing on their phones? Pretty quick, i imagine. http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29172095 ***FS*** edge, bluetooth, .mobi, gsm123.. this all bullshit. I’m an early adopter of almost all useful things tech and I predict mobile browsing (in the lean [...]