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 system.
Excerpt: “As eBay [...]
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 are going to develop. Via [...]
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. http://www.domainbits.com/increase-value All the data: [...]
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.
http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-structures-ownership/4974051-1.html
***FS*** Everyone’s moving to a greater online presence… rating agencies included. [...]
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 so at [...]
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 tho, so kudos to MG [...]
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 instead [...]
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 forward shopping [...]