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SmorePages.com Upgrades Domain To Smore.com For $27K
by Jamie Zoch on Feb.04, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: SmorePages.com is likely a website you have not heard of but they just did a domain name upgrade and dropped the "pages" from their domain name and have converted to simply Smore.com . Smore Pages purchased the domain name Smore.com at Sedo.com for $21,000 EUR, which converts to about $27K USD. I checked out Smore
Box.com Acquires Box.org, Completes Sweep
by Jamie Zoch on Feb.03, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I had broke the story that Box.com had been acquired in late September 2011 and the domain name was purchased by the rapidly growing company Box.net. Fast forward to December 22, 2011 and I had announced that Box.net was officially changing its "name" to simply "Box" but also changing its main domain name from Box.net
EnjoyBetter.com Time Warner Cable Superbowl Ad Blunder
by Jamie Zoch on Feb.02, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Time Warner Cable® is getting ready for the big game on Sunday, by getting the matching domain name to the marketing message they will be having during the Superbowl ads. Enjoy Better! But will Dish Network get "free" business from the Superbowl ad Time Warner is going to run? Well, first….TWC obtained EnjoyBetter….
ICE Seizes Hundreds More Domains (Full List)
by Jamie Zoch on Feb.02, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: ICE has seized hundreds more domain names prior to the 2012 Super Bowl. 307 "websites" were seized in this latest round, with 16 sites being "streaming" sites. The remaining sites were selling counterfeit merchandise. You can read more about the details of the bust on NetworkWorld.com but I will focus on the domain na…
See What Domains Are Selling At Sedo Before Others
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.29, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Here is a little tip and trick that I use for different services to get a "behind the scenes" look at domain name transactions. Today I will talk about the process I use to monitor domain names that are selling at Sedo.com before many people even know about them selling! What you will need A
An Article About Domain Names
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.28, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Well, the title says it all! This article is going to be about domain names, just a little bit of different things floating around in my head that I didn’t want to write about in single articles. Juice.com which is owned by Marksmen (or may be brokered by them, but I’m not sure why whois
Coca Cola Was $20K Buyer Of BattleForEverything.com Domain
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.26, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: Back in November 2011 I shared a very interesting story about turning an $800 offer into a $20,000 domain name sale. The domain name in the story was BattleForEverything.com. At the time when I was helping Ryan out, I had fully thought that NBC was the interested party in the domain name, because they registered
ExpiredDomains.com Hits Expired Domain Auction
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.25, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: 13 year old domain name ExpiredDomains.com has, well expired and is on public domain auction! View Auction Expired domains are some of the most popular for domain name investors, so clearly this domain has some major potential. According to some data provided with the expired domain auction, the domain already has some built in traff…
Google Sending Wrong Domain Message
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.25, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: If you were to do a search on Google.com for google keyword tool, which is a pretty popular search term… I was pretty surprised to see two domain names that contain the trademarked word "google" and they rank in the top 5 for the search term! GoogleKeywordTool.com ranks in the natural #3 position. IMO, the
DotWeekly Discoveries: Domains Acquired By Larger Companies
by Jamie Zoch on Jan.22, 2012, under News
DotWeekly: I haven’t been posting much lately as I have been under the weather. I am having some kind of heart issues, but hopefully with all the tests they have run last week, they (doctors) can discover something. Speaking of discovering, I haven’t done a DotWeekly Discoveries for sometime now, so on a day when the