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Elliot's Blog
Afternic Sells Close to a Half Million in Domain Names Last Week
I just received the weekly sales report from Afternic, and the company closed over $460,000 in publicly reported sales last week. The highest value sale was DoubleYourBusiness.com for $22,500. Interestingly, the highest value non .com sale was NewYor...
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Afternic Sells Close to a Half Million in Domain Names Last Week
I just received the weekly sales report from Afternic, and the company closed over $460,000 in publicly reported sales last week. The highest value sale was DoubleYourBusiness.com for $22,500. Interestingly, the highest value non .com sale was NewYor...
Discussion
February 8, 2011, 5:58 pm
Elliot's Blog
Building Torah.com
I’ve finally decided to try and tackle the Torah.com project, which I had put off for 2+ years. My fear has been that I couldn’t do the site justice, and no matter what I build on it, the content will offend certain people with different ...
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Building Torah.com
I’ve finally decided to try and tackle the Torah.com project, which I had put off for 2+ years. My fear has been that I couldn’t do the site justice, and no matter what I build on it, the content will offend certain people with different ...
Discussion
February 8, 2011, 4:20 pm
Elliot's Blog
When a Domain Broker Won’t Work For You, Broker Your Own Domain Name
I get a fair amount of email from people asking me to broker domain names for them. I don’t generally broker domain names unless I absolutely know someone who would be interested, so I usually send the people to read my Domain Broker list...
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When a Domain Broker Won’t Work For You, Broker Your Own Domain Name
I get a fair amount of email from people asking me to broker domain names for them. I don’t generally broker domain names unless I absolutely know someone who would be interested, so I usually send the people to read my Domain Broker list...
Discussion
February 8, 2011, 1:39 pm
Elliot's Blog
$7.77 for New .COM and .CO Domain Name Registrations at Name.com
I just got word that Name.com is offering a special price on .COM and .CO domain registrations. The company is charging just $7.77 per new registration from now until February 12, 2011. I haven’t seen a better .CO price anywhere else. Nam...
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$7.77 for New .COM and .CO Domain Name Registrations at Name.com
I just got word that Name.com is offering a special price on .COM and .CO domain registrations. The company is charging just $7.77 per new registration from now until February 12, 2011. I haven’t seen a better .CO price anywhere else. Nam...
Discussion
February 7, 2011, 9:35 pm
Elliot's Blog
Perform Due Diligence: Contact Previous Domain Owner
Every domain investor should do some due diligence when purchasing a domain name. Generally, this entails a Whois lookup at a site like DomainTools, and it should also involve a Whois History search. If something looks funky in the Whois records, the...
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Perform Due Diligence: Contact Previous Domain Owner
Every domain investor should do some due diligence when purchasing a domain name. Generally, this entails a Whois lookup at a site like DomainTools, and it should also involve a Whois History search. If something looks funky in the Whois records, the...
Discussion
February 7, 2011, 3:51 pm
Elliot's Blog
Did GoDaddy Turn Off Premium Listings During the Super Bowl?
For domain investors who list their domain names with Go Daddy’s Premium Listing program, the Super Bowl commercial was expected to possibly bring a big bump to sales. With massive amounts of website traffic, premium listings should have receiv...
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Did GoDaddy Turn Off Premium Listings During the Super Bowl?
For domain investors who list their domain names with Go Daddy’s Premium Listing program, the Super Bowl commercial was expected to possibly bring a big bump to sales. With massive amounts of website traffic, premium listings should have receiv...
Discussion
February 7, 2011, 11:18 am
Elliot's Blog
GoDaddy .CO Girl Revealed in Super Bowl Commercial: I Was Right!
During the Super Bowl this evening, the long awaited and highly speculated Go Daddy .CO girl was finally revealed. In case you haven’t seen the Super Bowl commercial now exclusively on the Go Daddy website, the .CO Girl is Joan Rivers. So, how ...
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GoDaddy .CO Girl Revealed in Super Bowl Commercial: I Was Right!
During the Super Bowl this evening, the long awaited and highly speculated Go Daddy .CO girl was finally revealed. In case you haven’t seen the Super Bowl commercial now exclusively on the Go Daddy website, the .CO Girl is Joan Rivers. So, how ...
Discussion
February 6, 2011, 5:58 pm
Elliot's Blog
DomainFest Trend: Business Development
With parking revenue down across the board in the last couple of years, many people have taken steps to create different revenue streams with their domain names. While at DomainFest, I learned about a number of new ventures started by domain industry...
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DomainFest Trend: Business Development
With parking revenue down across the board in the last couple of years, many people have taken steps to create different revenue streams with their domain names. While at DomainFest, I learned about a number of new ventures started by domain industry...
Discussion
February 6, 2011, 1:29 pm
Elliot's Blog
Overstock WILL Rebrand as O.CO
Not to beat a dead horse about this, but it appears that Overstock will completely overhaul its company branding, and will be known throughout the world simply as O.CO. It doesn’t look like the company will be called Overstock anymore, at...
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Overstock WILL Rebrand as O.CO
Not to beat a dead horse about this, but it appears that Overstock will completely overhaul its company branding, and will be known throughout the world simply as O.CO. It doesn’t look like the company will be called Overstock anymore, at...
Discussion
February 6, 2011, 10:04 am
Elliot's Blog
A Shot Across the Bows to Domain Squatters
During the past couple of days, a number of domain registrars have reduced their prices for .CO domain names, likely in anticipation of the boost .CO domain names will receive after its exposure in its Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial. Businesses and c...
Discussion
A Shot Across the Bows to Domain Squatters
During the past couple of days, a number of domain registrars have reduced their prices for .CO domain names, likely in anticipation of the boost .CO domain names will receive after its exposure in its Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial. Businesses and c...
Discussion
February 5, 2011, 8:42 pm
