Archive for October, 2009

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My Last Domainer Musing. New Season. New Priorities.

It’s Saturday again!!
Over the past few weeks or months, to be more accurate, my blogging efforts have been reduced to these weekly domainer musings. These musings started in the summer with me wanting to just offload a few thoughts and then going to bask in all the fun that London has to offer.
Then as the work [...]



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Are You Losing Website Traffic Running a Promotion?

I had wrote the other day about McDonald’s® and the Monopoly® promotion which they run every year. 5 Years ago they changed with times and brought the game "online".
After looking into what McDonald’s does and uses to run the promotion, I think I see a big flaw.
The company Promotions.com is the company who handles the [...]


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Godaddy.com MVP SuperParty Contest

Godaddy.com is offering up a contest which just started yesterday (10-30-2009) and will end January 8, 2010.
The contest is being called the "MVP SuperParty"
The prizes are a 55" LG LCD HDTV ($2,600), Home Theater System ($915) and a $250 American Express gift card. The total retail value of the prizes offered in the nearly 2 [...]


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This will change the World of Internet

Here at Seoul 36th ICANN Meeting, ICANN Board has just approved to Launch “IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program”.
Application Period for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program is going to be start on 16th Nov.
The new rules for IDN Script are as follows:
1. the string must be a minimum of two characters long (U-label),
2. characters are counted [...]


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ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet

Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board.
“The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was [...]


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SnapNames.com Down For Maintenance?

I tried visiting Snapnames.com several times this morning and I was getting a server error and the page would not load. I just tried again and now get a screen from Oversee.net that states SnapNames is down for Scheduled Maintenance.

If this really is "Scheduled Maintenance", the person who scheduled is should be Fired! Who runs [...]


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List #298 of Available Domain Names

Friday List from FreshAvails.com
There are some very good domain name options available in our list today. Plenty of opportunities to take advantage of and build a successful business. Let us know your thoughts. Admin@FreshAvails.com Happy hunting and Cheers.
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PlayAtMcd.com Monopoly At McDonalds

Here is one of those domain names used in marketing that makes you scratch your head. Last night (I think during the World Series) McDonalds® played a commercial for it’s Monopoly® game they are offering currently and you can play it online.
What did McDonalds use to attract people so they could easily remember the address [...]


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DotWeekly.com Comments Fixed AGAIN!

I am sorry to those who have tried to post a comment on DotWeekly.com today or last night and it didn’t work.
This is now fixed.
I am not 100% sure on what the problem was, but it forced me into doing a bunch of changes on the back end with upgrades, fixing plugins etc.
Special thank you [...]


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Extremely Affordable Domains & Websites For Sale

DNUnderground.com is holding a small, quick and affordable domain and website sale. To buy a domain name or website, comment saying which domain name or website you’d like, and email advertising@dnunderground.com (or contact us through our contact us form). Assume no traffic or revenue for the websites. Payment is required upfront.
WorldBroadway.com - $105 - An [...]


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Profits and Commissions During Domain Auctions

I was thinking yesterday who the real winners are during live domain auction events and in some cases, it’s the auction service who is the real winner.
Consider these couple of things.
Domainers seem to sell domain names within the domaining circle. This is not good, but it happens a lot. A lot of the domains in [...]


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TinyChat.com: Live Chat Room & Web Cam Chat

When I see a cool online tool, I like to let you know about it and TinyChat.com is a cool tool! Yesterday, Adam Strong of DomainNameNews.com and Andrew of DomainNameWire.com hosted a live chat during the Moniker auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. with TinyChat embedded directly on DNN.com .
TinyChat.com offers web cam chat, which allows you to [...]


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Moniker Traffic New York Auction Results

In the last Moniker live auction to be held at a T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference for the considerable future, Moniker have come up with some good sales – although not as good as Rick Latona’s auction yesterday.
The biggest sale at the Moniker event was multivitamins.com at a figure $45,000.
Other notable sales were originals.com at $37,500, raspberry.com at [...]


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List #297 of Available Domain Names

Welcome to FreshAvails.com!
We have a new list of names with keyword and brandable opportunites throughout. Act quickly to get your first choice of name and use some of the coupon codes we outlined earlier to bring your cost down. Please let us know if you have any comments or want to ask us a [...]


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5 Essential Tools for Domain Owners

These are my top 5 recommendations for essential domaining tools that any domain owner MUST have in their arsenal. They are all extremely cool and allow domain portfolio owners by making information available extremely easily.
1. FreshDrop
One of my favourite tools for finding domains about to drop as well as available domains. It provides sortable lists [...]


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Domain Speculation: Reseller Value Just Doesn’t Exist in the Long Run

It’s funny when I see the same domain name listed on the forums about 7 times in a given year by different sellers. People talk about purchasing a name and then flipping it to a reseller for reseller value, but is there really such thing as reseller value? What exactly is reseller value? Well, I [...]


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3 Good Reasons To Attend DomainFest 2010

Well I guess some would say 6 reasons:

~ You can also party at the Playboy Mansion where you will likely see a lot of women like above from a past DomainFest show. You can help Jenny McCarthy’s Generation Rescue Foundation, with the party only available to DomainFest attendees.
~ Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh is the Keynote [...]


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Indian Domain Names Sales Report



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Promote Your Auction Domain Name Listings

One in the crowd!
This is what your domain name is when you submit it to a live domain auction or any domain auction really. One in the crowd. Unless your domain is one of the headliners due to it being an amazing domain name, the rest kind of are just "in the list". Your domain [...]


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Email Fail! Need Help? Sorry, Out of Office

This isn’t that big of a deal but I couldn’t resist posting it because I thought it was funny as hell and is also not very professional!
Moniker rep John M fires off what I would consider a preset email before today’s auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. offering any assistance I would need about a specific domain, proxy [...]