Domain Appraisals Domain Appraisals are primarily selling tools to help market the domains to the end consumer, as well as to help companies like NameMedia (owner of BuyDomains) low-ball domain sellers.  They aren’t likely to impress anyone with experience or success within the industry.  For the price of the appraisal, one could register several new [...]

I recently came upon a blog post on another domain blog in which domain parking-alternative company WhyPark (a Parked.com company) was recommended as a mechanism for monetizing domain names.  A year and a half ago, this may have seemed like good advice.  However, as someone who has been a client of WhyPark since shortly after [...]

This post began as a response I received in the comments section of the recent post about the sale of the premium domain name TheMedicalSupplyStore.com. Jaime from DotWeekly.com took exception to my use of the term “premium” in describing the post about the medical supply store domain. Jaime’s comment read: Just because a domain makes [...]

The following originated as a portion of a conversation between myself and a representative from Parked.com, the domain parking firm that recently acquired domain development company WhyPark (WhyPark.com). The representative had contacted me roughly a week before news of the sale broke, in an effort to persuade me to give Parked.com’s domain parking service a [...]

Follow-up story: Analysis of the WhyPark-Parked Acquisition 50 Days Post-Sale BREAKING NEWS: What may be perhaps the biggest news story involving domain names all year broke this morning, Tuesday April 28, 2009. Domain name development company WhyPark.com has been purchased by domain name parking provider Parked.com. WhyPark is a domain development company that was founded [...]