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 [...]
http://www.thedomains.com/2007/12/08/domains-are-cheap/
This piece deserves to be set apart from the Linkfest.. Berkins has that “oh-my-gosh” moment and realizes how cheap domain names are when viewed against overpriced pieces of modern-art. Art hangs on a wall and costs you money.. Domains activate on the Web and “make you money”. To be fair.. the art market is [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Guy.com
Sells for 1 million. 3 letter .com’s with good/great useable meaning are rare. Another compelling week for reported sales. .Net and .Org are the steady climbers. From: DN journal weekly domain sale reports.http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm
***FS*** I remember men.com selling for 1mm couple of years back.. Men.com is 100X better than Guy.com .. There’s the domain biz in a [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)
Floating/Anchored 5-700 feet offshore.. right in front of the Ritz Carlton here in Cayman.. I can see it right out my office window.. This is a seriously impressive ship. Second biggest yacht in the world (2nd biggest privately owned yacht, 6th overall if you count ‘royal’ yachts) Cost a rumored $200mm (back when the dollar was [...]
Godaddy
Go Daddy asks how to improve their signature auctions: Elliot puts his mind to work and posts up a three point plan. http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/11/27/godaddy-tell-us-how-to-improve-signature-auctions/
Domain Speculation Pointers.
http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/11/26/domain-speculation-pointers/
***FS*** Elliot goes into depth. Focus of this article is brand spanking new registrations. I thought all good names were already taken? Everything but new vernacular is gon gone [...]