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Domain Name Wire
New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding
Pick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it’s fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number...
Discussion
New TLDs this week: .Flowers and .Wedding
Pick out your .flowers arrangement for the .wedding. Two top level domain names launch this week, and it’s fitting that they launch near the same time. Uniregistry launches .Flowers on Tuesday, April 7. You can pick these domains up at a number...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 1:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com’s winners and losers update
Rightside had a good December in terms of transfer gains. ICANN has published Verisign’s .com transaction report from December, giving us an idea of which domain name registrars are winning and losing customers through transfers. eNom had the b...
Discussion
.Com’s winners and losers update
Rightside had a good December in terms of transfer gains. ICANN has published Verisign’s .com transaction report from December, giving us an idea of which domain name registrars are winning and losing customers through transfers. eNom had the b...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 1:33 pm
The Domains
Do Domain Extensions Matter ? One study says if it is .Com, You Betcha
Website Magazine asked the question: “Do Domain Extensions Matter ?” They went on to cite a recent study from Interbrand that stated 94 percent of consumers correctly recalled .COM while only 7 percent correctly recalled a new domain exte...
Discussion
Do Domain Extensions Matter ? One study says if it is .Com, You Betcha
Website Magazine asked the question: “Do Domain Extensions Matter ?” They went on to cite a recent study from Interbrand that stated 94 percent of consumers correctly recalled .COM while only 7 percent correctly recalled a new domain exte...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 11:59 am
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Monday, April 6th, 2015
Seems Feedburner stopped sending out out the daily emails so I have decided to start using Aweber to get out the emails. It will start by sending out the daily lists and then everything we write during the day. So everyone will want to si...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Monday, April 6th, 2015
Seems Feedburner stopped sending out out the daily emails so I have decided to start using Aweber to get out the emails. It will start by sending out the daily lists and then everything we write during the day. So everyone will want to si...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 11:05 am
The Domains
Gail.com Gets 5,000 Hits Per Day, No Ads and Not For Sale
First names in .com are some of the more valuable virtual real estate out there online, Susan.com sold for $34,000 at the 2015 NamesCon auction. Justin showed the world his life on Justin.tv. Some use modified or less popular versions of a first name...
Discussion
Gail.com Gets 5,000 Hits Per Day, No Ads and Not For Sale
First names in .com are some of the more valuable virtual real estate out there online, Susan.com sold for $34,000 at the 2015 NamesCon auction. Justin showed the world his life on Justin.tv. Some use modified or less popular versions of a first name...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 9:28 am
DomainSherpa
How Frank Schilling Values Domain Names with AMR and ADT
Do you wonder how Frank Schilling prices domain names? What criteria he uses to value domains? And how much art versus science is involved?In this excerpt from a DomainSherpa Review, Frank Schilling discusses AMR (average monthly revenue) and ADT (av...
Discussion
How Frank Schilling Values Domain Names with AMR and ADT
Do you wonder how Frank Schilling prices domain names? What criteria he uses to value domains? And how much art versus science is involved?In this excerpt from a DomainSherpa Review, Frank Schilling discusses AMR (average monthly revenue) and ADT (av...
Discussion
April 6, 2015, 7:02 am
The Domains
$7,500 For Easter.Sucks + 3K A Year, Or EasterSucks.com For $8 A Year?
The new gTLD program was supposed to in part index the domain name by verticals, interests and geographical areas. They jury is still out on whether a photographer named John Smith would be better off with John Smith.Photography or JohnS...
Discussion
$7,500 For Easter.Sucks + 3K A Year, Or EasterSucks.com For $8 A Year?
The new gTLD program was supposed to in part index the domain name by verticals, interests and geographical areas. They jury is still out on whether a photographer named John Smith would be better off with John Smith.Photography or JohnS...
Discussion
April 5, 2015, 11:54 pm
Domain Shane
Domain Flips (XFU.com, HBHH.com) and Flops (DIYs.com, Disgust.com) from NameBio
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips XFU.com sold for 12,300 USD recently at Flippa, vs 8,600 USD in January at NameJet. Nearly a 30% return after commission in under three months&he...
Discussion
Domain Flips (XFU.com, HBHH.com) and Flops (DIYs.com, Disgust.com) from NameBio
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips XFU.com sold for 12,300 USD recently at Flippa, vs 8,600 USD in January at NameJet. Nearly a 30% return after commission in under three months&he...
Discussion
April 5, 2015, 7:49 pm
Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: VUM.com, Sadly.com Hit Reserve. LAA.com, WEE.com, MAJ.com, OYY.com, more
Reserve Met and Will Sell Sadly.com – One word .com’s do well. Sadly, I don’t have enough one word .com’s. VintageGaming.com – We had a ColecoVision when I was younger. VUM.com – Will be interesting to see how hig...
Discussion
Flippa – A Look Forward: VUM.com, Sadly.com Hit Reserve. LAA.com, WEE.com, MAJ.com, OYY.com, more
Reserve Met and Will Sell Sadly.com – One word .com’s do well. Sadly, I don’t have enough one word .com’s. VintageGaming.com – We had a ColecoVision when I was younger. VUM.com – Will be interesting to see how hig...
Discussion
April 5, 2015, 3:58 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Easter Sunday
Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates it. Unfortunately I have not figured out how to teach my plants to take the day off so I will be celebrating it with a family run, a family breakfast, watering plants at the nursery, and then hopef...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Easter Sunday
Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates it. Unfortunately I have not figured out how to teach my plants to take the day off so I will be celebrating it with a family run, a family breakfast, watering plants at the nursery, and then hopef...
Discussion
April 5, 2015, 1:53 pm
