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 [...]

   Post title comes courtesy of some European banker friends of mine… They sound like Henry Kissinger when they talk   It was the thought that rushed through my head after reading the domain related story linked below. It’s an IPO color piece re: Name Media’s offering. I enjoy reading domain related stories viewed through fresh eyes: http://www.xconomy.com/2007/11/26/let-your-fingers-do-the-crossing-direct-navigation-companies-heat-up/ Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land gets the crispest quote [...]

 Aaron Wall has written an excellent guide to SEO for bloggers..  This guy really knows what he’s doing.  I don’t run my blog for revenue but many  folks do sell advertising on their blogs and if you’re one of those people looking to increase traffic then Aaron’s guide is a must read.. Excellent little tidbits in [...]

   “”Hi, No one will ever own a 100% of anything on the Internet…unless you, me, and everyone else in the world are nothing more than ‘lambs’…aka…sheep. Lots of really,really,really…smart people here…so I do not think anyone here is a lamb or sheep at heart…far from it. The fact Google owns 63.whatever of search right [...]

There are two ways to get liquidity from domain names..  If you have a good search-term style domain with type-in traffic, you can sell that traffic (like owning a cow and selling the milk) or you can sell the name itself (sell the cow). In the final analysis all investors want to know they have [...]

http://brontemedia.com/2007/11/23/how-much-domainers-earn/ This blogger does some digging.  Not all domain portfolios are created equally of course.  And earnings can be swung in many directions based on overhead (staff, salaries, fixed costs, offices) and implementation (PPC, CPA, revenue shares with upstream ) I have a friends with smaller >10000 name portfolios who make $314.28 per name per [...]

Mike Maddaloni goes to Germany and confirms the widespread use of .de and of dashes in German domain names.  No surprise here.. .DE has long been big for speakers of the German language and dashes are common in German language/publishing. http://www.thehotiron.com/index.php/site/observations_of_german_domain_names/ ..  What I did find surprising were that many of the URL’s were structured to be [...]

http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/content/view/319/1/ Josh says: On a side note, Michael has not gotten a speeding ticket yet in his R32. ***FS***  I predict it takes a while for that ticket    Seasonal names exhibit the characteristic Michael speaks to.. We have a huge set of Christmas names that begin to spike as the holiday approaches.

http://blog.snipperoo.com/2007/11/death-of-the-do.html   Summary:  A guy who could have bought billions of dollars worth of domain real estate by applying his foresight (but didn’t) now declares “domain names dead” and hypothesizes that we will abandon domain names in favor of Rube Goldberg inspired Universal Search Locators (USLs) which will take over as the foundational elements of the web..  While I could [...]

More questioning of Facebook Ads.  Legal issues. http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9817421-36.html