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  • Another Distraction Another Dollar
    David Carter December 28, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    I woke up early this morning with an idea in my head.Though I've often discussed how I got started in doing the stuff I do, I've never really put anything together that explains everything and shows how it can be done.I've wanted to, but I suppose I've had a nagging doubt that people wouldn't be tha...
  • Reverse User Name Hijackings Next?
    Adam Strong December 28, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Days after our post that social media user names are becoming more like domain names, an issue over a Twitter user name has piqued the interest of an internet heavy-weight.  According to a seesmic post from Kevin Rose, creator of Digg.com,  Social media company Room214 has requested that the user,...
  • SocialDN.com Domaining Contest: Task 1
    admin December 28, 2008 | 7 Comments7 Comments  Comments
    Alright if you have not been up to date on the SocialDN.com Domaining Contest go ahead and check it out. Get yourself signed up and participate in this great event. Alright this is a simple task that has 2 parts. First Part: Digg the CONTEST! Here is the link to digg Second Part: Stumble the SocialD...
  • J.O.B. = Just Over Broke
    LLLL.com December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    That certainly seems to be the case for most people. Regardless of whether domaining becomes a full time activity or something that gives you a little bit of extra income, that little bit of extra income just may allow you to do what you want with your life. How many people take a job more [...]...
  • An Insider’s Guide to Namepros
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    By:  The MediaWizard’s Blog | mwzd.com Namepros is the biggest and most popular Domain and Web Forum on the planet. It is a fantastic resource for domainers, web developers, web hosts, designers, seo specialist and anyone else connected with domains and web development. It is an essential sto...
  • New Addition To The Site
    Scott December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Recently I sat and pondered whether I should update my Wordpress version to the new 2.7.  I was sitting at 2.5.2 (I think) and never had the balls to update it.  I’ve done some small tweaks here and there and was sure that updating would either delete them or completely mess up the site. So ...
  • Proxy Promotion: Top Sites - Are They Effective?
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    For every person that tells me top sites are a worthless, non-effective form of proxy promotion, there will always be another person to tell me the complete opposite that top sites are a solid, effective form of proxy promotion. Promoting your proxies through top sites is the most debated method of ...
  • Expired Domain List
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    A new list of 47 expired domains are available in the free forum at DNXpert Free Expired Domain List The following 60 expired domains were posted in the free forum in the last list: sockslave.com teamlocations.com exteriorfengshui.com europeanjails.com creationtrading.com bighitidea.com ukraine...
  • Expired Domain Names available
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Recently dropped Indian domain names available to reg radial.in directoryenquiries.in midwife.in regret.in midwifery.in ebattery.in 6pm.in ecyber.in xavier.in ehot.in emachine.in egambling.in edrug.in estreet.in ewww.in erajasthan.in eresort.in eherbal.in escripts.in ipac.in ebeauty.in esupply.in e...
  • Launching Domain Name Portfolio Site: ImpactDomains.com – I.D. for your Business
    DNBlogger December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    After months of hardwork and organizing the information, we have finally launched our premier domain name market place site ImpactDomains.com Impact-Domains is a multi-purpose domain portfolio presentation website dealing in domain purchases, domain sales, domain leasing, domain development, etc. He...
  • GoDaddy To Sponsor RotoHog Facebook Game
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    RotoHog.com, a fantasy sports operator and developer for major brands, has convinced GoDaddy.com to sponsor a new Pro Football Playoff Fantasy Football Game on Facebook. With the aid of the added exposure from the sponsorships, RotoHog hopes to boost its contestant signup rate. “This sponsors...
  • Amazon Has it’s “Best Ever” Shopping Season
    MHB December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Although overall Retail sales during the shopping were down 5.5%, Amazon called its 2008 holiday shopping season “the best ever”. Amazon.com today announced the 2008 holiday season finished as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15, which ...
  • Appraisals, valuations and other such quack stuff
    David Carter December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    The domain blogs seem full of posts about valuations lately and I'm pleased to say that there's quite a lot of optimism about, in amongst the normal doom and gloom.For years I have been advising people to steer clear of domain valuation services and I am going to repeat my advice now, while the subj...
  • Domain Name Portfolio
    admin December 27, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Domain Name Portfolio is a FREE PHP and MySQL based application to help domain owners better organize their portfolio. It allows you to list your domains with their expiry, registrar, price, status, and category. Also allows visitors to your portfolio to contact you about a given domain. Domain Name...
  • Think it’s too late to start Domaining? Think again.
    Morgan Linton December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    I can't tell you how many people have said to me, "I wish I got started in the beginning, I'd be rich by now!" What I try to remind new Domainers is that this is the beginning! I started Domaining in early 2007 and started my company in October of the same year. In just one year I've seen...
  • Thank you Santa for the gift I wanted most
    RickLatona.com December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    I’ve often been quoted saying that what I do for a living is answer emails. It’s really all I do during the day and somehow, through this process, multiple companies are run. In fact, I have little time for anything else. I answer emails at traffic lights, at 2 a.m. in the morning and of...
  • LIPS - the worst website I have ever seen
    Barry December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Today is St. Stephen’s day for me so this will be short and sweet or at least funny. I came across this website which is one of the funniest and useless commercial websites I have seen. LIPS has to do with lumber which will only be understood when you click on the link. They also have [...]...
  • Link Directory - LinksKhoj.com
    admin December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Your Search Ends Here….As The Name Says Links Khoj Which Means Search Links.. Submit Your Site And Search The Site’s You Would Like to Exchange Links with. To Improve Your Sites Statistics And In Turn Your Revenue. Go Now to : Links Khoj ...
  • The Location and Dates for the 2009 GeoDomain Expo Have Been Announced
    The geodomain industry's premier event will be moving to the West Coast in 2009 for a spring time conference that will close the weekend before the next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference opens in Silicon Valley. This will allow California visitors to take in two major events in the same week....
  • iPhone/iTouch Accounts For a Bigger % of Internet Traffic Than Chrome?
    MHB December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    The Silcon Valley Insider, (the blog) is reporting that  5% of the traffic to its site on Christmas from the  Apple iPhone or the iPod touch browser. According to Google analytics, visits to the blog accounted for more than 5% of visits to the blog on Christmas day. Specifically, 3.22% of their vi...
  • 60 Expired Domains
    admin December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    I posted a list of 60 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum. Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past an...
  • Boxing Day Domains
    A December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    Boxing day may not be celebrated in the US but there are still many deals to be found online for domainers. Check out SnapNames buy it now auctions and you may be surprised what deals are out there. Some good names for great prices are listed below. AtlantaVacationDeals.com $21 AsiaFlightInsurance.c...
  • 8 Domain Name Blogs in My RSS Reader
    Andrew December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    A look at domain name blogs I read frequently. Earlier this year I published a list of blogs that I subscribe to. That list has changed somewhat over the year because some blogs have disappeared and others emerged. I generally subscribe to a domain blog’s RSS feed if I find it insightful. A...
  • How .Gov Domain Names Work
    Andrew December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    .Gov domain names are highly restricted domains. Here’s how they work. Yes, it’s a slow newsweek. Save for a $33 million cybersquatting judgment and NameMedia pulling its IPO, not much goes on in a holiday week. So here’s another post I saved for a slow newsweek like this. Ea...
  • NY Times: Online and Print Ad Revenue Down
    MHB December 26, 2008 | Comments Off  Comments
    The New York Times Company, announced today that total revenues for the company had fallen 13.9% in November compared with a year ago. Ad revenues were down 20.9%. Most worrisome: Internet revenues, long seen as the potential salvation for the company’s future as more of the world’s news...