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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...
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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
The Domains
8 Facts About Choosing The Right Domain Name from the Huffington Post
In an article titled “8 Facts About Choosing The Right Domain Name” Bradley Glonka used the words domainer and cybersquatter interchangeably, “In some cases, you may discover that the domain name you want is owned by someone called ...
Discussion
8 Facts About Choosing The Right Domain Name from the Huffington Post
In an article titled “8 Facts About Choosing The Right Domain Name” Bradley Glonka used the words domainer and cybersquatter interchangeably, “In some cases, you may discover that the domain name you want is owned by someone called ...
Discussion
April 5, 2015, 11:38 am
Domain Shane
Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: Blow.com, NGSN.com, 3ET.com, SAT.cn, More
Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DNJournal. 1. Gab.com for $200,002 You can see their simple placeholder below, and the owner is under privacy protection. Alexa rank near 15 million. 2. YouPay.com for...
Discussion
Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: Blow.com, NGSN.com, 3ET.com, SAT.cn, More
Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DNJournal. 1. Gab.com for $200,002 You can see their simple placeholder below, and the owner is under privacy protection. Alexa rank near 15 million. 2. YouPay.com for...
Discussion
April 4, 2015, 10:03 pm
The Domains
NYPost.com: “Gotham’s ‘.nyc’ is fastest growing city domain on Internet”
Josh Kosman wrote a an article on Friday night with regards to .NYC and the rest of the new city gtlds. Kosman used data from Domain Punch that stipulated that 72,000 freebies should not be included in the totals for .Berlin, so with that technicalit...
Discussion
NYPost.com: “Gotham’s ‘.nyc’ is fastest growing city domain on Internet”
Josh Kosman wrote a an article on Friday night with regards to .NYC and the rest of the new city gtlds. Kosman used data from Domain Punch that stipulated that 72,000 freebies should not be included in the totals for .Berlin, so with that technicalit...
Discussion
April 4, 2015, 11:32 am
The Domains
Registrar Promo Leads to 10,000 Paid .Link Registrations Per Frank Schilling Tweet
Frank Schilling tweeted out late tonight that there were 10,000 new .link registrations added as the result of a registrar promo. One registrar ran a .LINK promo today and more than 10,000 paid registrations were added to the zone. .LINK will become ...
Discussion
Registrar Promo Leads to 10,000 Paid .Link Registrations Per Frank Schilling Tweet
Frank Schilling tweeted out late tonight that there were 10,000 new .link registrations added as the result of a registrar promo. One registrar ran a .LINK promo today and more than 10,000 paid registrations were added to the zone. .LINK will become ...
Discussion
April 4, 2015, 5:40 am
