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Elliot's Blog
Domain Sales Up For Fifth Consecutive Month
From my personal experience and from what I have been hearing from colleagues, the domain name sales aftermarket is on a tear, and it has been performing very well for the last several months. Although I don’t generally report sales, my company...
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Domain Sales Up For Fifth Consecutive Month
From my personal experience and from what I have been hearing from colleagues, the domain name sales aftermarket is on a tear, and it has been performing very well for the last several months. Although I don’t generally report sales, my company...
Discussion
April 11, 2012, 11:52 am
Elliot's Blog
Why CSN Stores is Rebranding & Moving Away from Descriptive Domain Names
CSN Stores (now known as Wayfair) is a company that knows quite a bit about descriptive domain names. The company runs a number of businesses on domain names like Bedrooms.com, BedroomFurniture.com, Luggage.com, Upholstery.com, Strollers.com, an...
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Why CSN Stores is Rebranding & Moving Away from Descriptive Domain Names
CSN Stores (now known as Wayfair) is a company that knows quite a bit about descriptive domain names. The company runs a number of businesses on domain names like Bedrooms.com, BedroomFurniture.com, Luggage.com, Upholstery.com, Strollers.com, an...
Discussion
April 10, 2012, 3:14 pm
Elliot's Blog
Ask for References
Many of my end user acquisitions and sales are the result of unsolicited inquiries. I don’t know about you, but when I receive an interesting email from someone I don’t know and never heard of before, I have my guard up more than I would ...
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Ask for References
Many of my end user acquisitions and sales are the result of unsolicited inquiries. I don’t know about you, but when I receive an interesting email from someone I don’t know and never heard of before, I have my guard up more than I would ...
Discussion
April 10, 2012, 11:32 am
Elliot's Blog
Guest Post: Fred Mercaldo GeoDomain Sector Update
This is a guest post from Fred Mercaldo discussing some happenings in the geodomain space, as well as providing an update on his latest development project, FrenchRiviera.com, a domain name I sold a couple of years ago. Fred entered the geo domain bu...
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Guest Post: Fred Mercaldo GeoDomain Sector Update
This is a guest post from Fred Mercaldo discussing some happenings in the geodomain space, as well as providing an update on his latest development project, FrenchRiviera.com, a domain name I sold a couple of years ago. Fred entered the geo domain bu...
Discussion
April 9, 2012, 2:35 pm
Elliot's Blog
Great Introductory Auction at Brannans
When I saw the list of domain names up for auction at Brannans.com, a recently launched domain brokerage and auction house founded by brothers Toby and David Clements, I was impressed. Frankly, I doubt the best names are going to sell at their reserv...
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Great Introductory Auction at Brannans
When I saw the list of domain names up for auction at Brannans.com, a recently launched domain brokerage and auction house founded by brothers Toby and David Clements, I was impressed. Frankly, I doubt the best names are going to sell at their reserv...
Discussion
April 9, 2012, 12:07 pm
Elliot's Blog
Re-Launched Company Website and Logo
This week, I re-launched my corporate website on TopNotchDomains.com. I don’t really love my company name anymore because, but it’s a pain in the neck to change it, and it really isn’t worth the hassle of making any type of legal ch...
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Re-Launched Company Website and Logo
This week, I re-launched my corporate website on TopNotchDomains.com. I don’t really love my company name anymore because, but it’s a pain in the neck to change it, and it really isn’t worth the hassle of making any type of legal ch...
Discussion
April 8, 2012, 12:09 pm
Elliot's Blog
Help Jeffrey Reynolds Raise Funds for LICADD
This is a guest post from my friend and domain industry colleague Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, the President/CEO of Precision Marketing Solutions, a New York-based marketing and e-commerce company that operates websites in a wide variety of markets includin...
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Help Jeffrey Reynolds Raise Funds for LICADD
This is a guest post from my friend and domain industry colleague Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, the President/CEO of Precision Marketing Solutions, a New York-based marketing and e-commerce company that operates websites in a wide variety of markets includin...
Discussion
April 7, 2012, 11:05 am
Elliot's Blog
Newburyport.com Sold to Local Realtor
I don’t generally disclose my domain sales publicly, but I want to tell you about a recent domain sale of mine. I sold Newburyport.com to one of the highest producing real estate agents in the region, Robert Bentley, of RE/MAX on the River. New...
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Newburyport.com Sold to Local Realtor
I don’t generally disclose my domain sales publicly, but I want to tell you about a recent domain sale of mine. I sold Newburyport.com to one of the highest producing real estate agents in the region, Robert Bentley, of RE/MAX on the River. New...
Discussion
April 6, 2012, 10:42 am
Elliot's Blog
Domain Name Industry Affiliate Programs
There are many people who invest in domain names that are involved in affiliate marketing. I’ve never been very good at making money with affiliate programs, but there are plenty of people who make a living off of revenue from affiliate program...
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Domain Name Industry Affiliate Programs
There are many people who invest in domain names that are involved in affiliate marketing. I’ve never been very good at making money with affiliate programs, but there are plenty of people who make a living off of revenue from affiliate program...
Discussion
April 5, 2012, 1:30 pm
Elliot's Blog
Sedari Thought Piece “Feared by the Bad, loved by the Good: Robin Hood”
The following is a “a sketch-style article on the allocation method recently announced by ICANN for allocating the processing order of applications for new domain names” written and distributed by Sedari, a gTLD consulting firm. The eccen...
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Sedari Thought Piece “Feared by the Bad, loved by the Good: Robin Hood”
The following is a “a sketch-style article on the allocation method recently announced by ICANN for allocating the processing order of applications for new domain names” written and distributed by Sedari, a gTLD consulting firm. The eccen...
Discussion
April 5, 2012, 11:30 am
