Tweet The two-word, keyword domain SocialMedia.cc (KW = Social Media) is being auctioned off at Sedo, and as of the posting of this blog only one day remains until the auction ends. As is stands now, there has only been a single bid, and it was for €100 (Euro). I admit this is a bit [...]

Domain industry professionals, firearms dealers and sporting goods retailers have a rare opportunity this week to secure the rights to premium domain name BuyAmmoOnline.com for a fraction of its appraised value.

Tweet If you decide to buy a developed website, it pays to be very wary sellers who use 301 redirect scams to artificially inflate their site’s toolbar pagerank in hopes the buyer won’t know the difference between an established site and a worthless site that appears to have pagerank. When Buying Developed Websites, How Can [...]

Tweet I am please to announce on this the evening of the tenth of June, 2011, that the domain name PanaxGinseng.net has been sold in a private transaction. The two-word, keyword-rich, high-quality sub-premium domain name contains the exact term “panax ginseng”. Panax Ginseng is an herb (a root to be specific) that is commonly used [...]

Tweet As many as 170 people became ill in the days following the DOMAINFest Global Conference, which was held in Santa Monica, California from Feb. 1-3.  This according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which is investigating the mysterious illnesses. The conference wound up in grand fashion, culminating in a grandiose party/fundraiser [...]

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet As the calender year winds to a close, the domain industry appears to have weathered the financial storm that is the year 2010.  With just a few days remaining until the start of 2011, the industry has compiled a very impressive list of notable sales from the past twelve months. While some of the [...]

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet The domain name Guns.com has sold for a whopping $800,000 (U.S. Dollars). The sale of the premium, one-word domain name about guns was brokered by Moniker, according to DNJournal’s year-to-date sales reports. The enormous selling price makes Guns.com the fourth-highest sale of a domain name to occur in 2010. The others are (in descending [...]

Tweet Over the years since I first began doing web-related work, I’ve seen a dramatic increase in the buzz, chatter, and overall popularity of a subject with which I am intricately familiar. That subject is vitamin d3, a specific form of vitamin d that is superior in terms of its health benefits to other forms [...]