Archive for May, 2009
Slogan contest is over, and the winner is…
by Francois Carrillo on May.31, 2009, under News
PremiumDomains.com: The PremiumDomains.com slogan contest finished Sunday. And the winner is… Click the link to read more!
Thought Convergence and Name Intelligence
by Michael Gilmour on May.31, 2009, under News
Michael Gilmour: For the past few weeks I’ve been reading about all the machinations between Thought Convergence and Name Intelligence. Who’s right and who is wrong and the number of varied opinions varies from insightful to the completely bazaar.
It’s almost like a days of our lives is unfolding in front of our…
The Future of T.R.A.F.F.I.C…….Your Response Appreciated
by Rick Schwartz on May.31, 2009, under News
Rick Schwartz: Morning Folks!! Yesterday I sent the following email out to the TRAFFIC mailing list. I decided to post it here as well. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. has always been the show for domainers by domainers. The method behind the madness when we created TRAFFIC was to bring folks together that knew each other but had never met each other. Some had done…
Flashback 2001: End User Letter Reply
by The Frager factor on May.31, 2009, under News
The Frager factor: Note: I have hundreds of these….Domains: BoysDepartment. FurnitureDepartment. GirlsDepartment. Shoedepartment.Pitched to JC Penney April 2001.Their response: My name is Ben Cooper and I am in the Business Development group at JCPenney.com. I received your letter from Vanessa Castagna’s office. First, thank you for your interest in …
Flashback 2005: Domain Sales Slowdown
by The Frager factor on May.31, 2009, under News
The Frager factor: From the vaults and guest blogger Dr. T who is finally launching his empire on 9/09/09.”Perhaps what some of you are noticing is a slowdown in larger deals between “domainers” or a slowdown in “quality domains” being sold for reseller prices.Last year I sold 1 domain to an end-user for 6 figures. You won’t ever read about it on DNJ a…
“E” Is For End User
by The Frager factor on May.31, 2009, under News
The Frager factor: Easter.com –> HallmarkElection.com –> AccentureEconomy.com –> MoodysElizabeth.com –> Liz ClaiborneExhibitor.com –> Spectrum Corp.Effort.com –> ReMaxExtensions.com –> Hair ProfessionalsEating.com –> GLADEducate.com –> Sylvan LearningEve.com –> SephoraEmployer.com –> The People GroupEasy.com –> Easy GroupExpensive.com –> G…
Bido.com Pick of the Week 6/1/09-6/5/09
by Ross on May.31, 2009, under News
YGrab: Alright this week we have a bunch of one word domains along with a mixed bag of TLDs. In my opinion even though these are one word domains i think it is going to be pretty slow as far as the sales go this week. There is nothing that just jumps out and screams “pick
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Nothing to Hide (.co.uk)– Warning: Contains Nudity
by The Frager factor on May.31, 2009, under News
The Frager factor: Re: nothing-to-hide.co.uk/ An example of what a skincare domain can do. In their own words “elave commissioned this risqué eye-catching method of communicating the serious message that elave has no worrying chemicals in its formulations and therefore ‘nothing to hide’. ” For the web it just shows that in an age of video and broadband…
Trademark Group Pushes Rapid Domain Takedown Scheme
by Andrew Allemann on May.31, 2009, under News
Domain Name Wire: Group submits final report to ICANN.
Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), an ad hoc group put together to represent trademark interests in the launch of new top level domains, has issued its final report (pdf). The report will be discussed at ICANN’s next meeting in Sydney.
The part that seems most relevant to domain inves…
How Popularity Influences Popularity
by Reece on May.31, 2009, under News
LLLL.com: I was reading a post on Lightspeed Ventures (a popular venture capital blog) recently about how being popular has been found to make you more popular.
In one study of over 12,000 volunteers, researches manipulated what they claimed were the top selling songs and worst selling songs — it surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly)…