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Sully's Blog
Opportunity is Everywhere
This is a road side sign I came across today. I am not kidding. Somebody is offering the opportunity to hold a lamb for $5.00. It’s possible this is the work of cowboy domainer Brian Null, but I’m quite a ways...
Discussion
Opportunity is Everywhere
This is a road side sign I came across today. I am not kidding. Somebody is offering the opportunity to hold a lamb for $5.00. It’s possible this is the work of cowboy domainer Brian Null, but I’m quite a ways...
Discussion
April 24, 2017, 11:59 am
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – Apr 24: DON’T Buy These Types of Domains…
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Wadsworth.com, VeryLocal.com, LSFA.com• An investor's portfolio is appraised: TurfPal.com, Te...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review – Apr 24: DON’T Buy These Types of Domains…
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Wadsworth.com, VeryLocal.com, LSFA.com• An investor's portfolio is appraised: TurfPal.com, Te...
Discussion
April 24, 2017, 7:02 am
The Domains
What do you got for $1,000 ?
We do these posts from time to time and they have been well received. A few weeks back we ran a post that allowed readers to post their best name and what they had for sale for $500 or less. A couple names sold from the post and after several names w...
Discussion
What do you got for $1,000 ?
We do these posts from time to time and they have been well received. A few weeks back we ran a post that allowed readers to post their best name and what they had for sale for $500 or less. A couple names sold from the post and after several names w...
Discussion
April 22, 2017, 12:16 am
The Domains
The good, the bad and the ugly – BrandBucket
“The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their po...
Discussion
The good, the bad and the ugly – BrandBucket
“The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their po...
Discussion
April 21, 2017, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Popular website stolen and held for ransom
Theif demanded $30,000 worth of bitcoin to return 411Mania.com domain name. 411Mania.com, a mixed martial arts, wrestling and entertainment website that gets seven million pageviews per month, was hijacked and held for ransom earlier this week. Accor...
Discussion
Popular website stolen and held for ransom
Theif demanded $30,000 worth of bitcoin to return 411Mania.com domain name. 411Mania.com, a mixed martial arts, wrestling and entertainment website that gets seven million pageviews per month, was hijacked and held for ransom earlier this week. Accor...
Discussion
April 21, 2017, 2:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gleissner continues fight with Apple, still applying for .com marks
After being ordered to pay Apple money, he files two Apple-related trademark applications in the U.S. I’ll say this about Michael Gleissner: he’s not afraid to pick fights with deep-pocketed companies. Just days after being ordered to pay...
Discussion
Gleissner continues fight with Apple, still applying for .com marks
After being ordered to pay Apple money, he files two Apple-related trademark applications in the U.S. I’ll say this about Michael Gleissner: he’s not afraid to pick fights with deep-pocketed companies. Just days after being ordered to pay...
Discussion
April 20, 2017, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Brand owners: please, hire a domain attorney
Inexperienced counsel can flub your case. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be a good thing. Every week, brand owners use the service to recover domain names that are clear cases of cybersquatting. I review UDRP decisions a...
Discussion
Brand owners: please, hire a domain attorney
Inexperienced counsel can flub your case. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be a good thing. Every week, brand owners use the service to recover domain names that are clear cases of cybersquatting. I review UDRP decisions a...
Discussion
April 20, 2017, 2:52 pm
Sully's Blog
Are we competitors?
While you can think of all domainers as competitors, I choose to think of us all as colleagues, working together. No two domains are exactly alike and therefore, there are no two domainers selling the exact same thing. It’s not a ma...
Discussion
Are we competitors?
While you can think of all domainers as competitors, I choose to think of us all as colleagues, working together. No two domains are exactly alike and therefore, there are no two domainers selling the exact same thing. It’s not a ma...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 8:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
More recent end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names purchased on Sedo by end users over the past week. This week’s end user sales list is a bit shorter than usual. Sedo had some nice sales, but many more than usual are still in escrow so I don’t know who owns the...
Discussion
More recent end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names purchased on Sedo by end users over the past week. This week’s end user sales list is a bit shorter than usual. Sedo had some nice sales, but many more than usual are still in escrow so I don’t know who owns the...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 5:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pirate Bay founder starts Whois Proxy service
For those times you really, really need to be private. Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has launched a new Whois Proxy service at Njal.la. The Njalla site explains that the founders believe other whois privacy services are lacking, so they created this...
Discussion
Pirate Bay founder starts Whois Proxy service
For those times you really, really need to be private. Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has launched a new Whois Proxy service at Njal.la. The Njalla site explains that the founders believe other whois privacy services are lacking, so they created this...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 4:59 pm
