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How would you like to own a domain valued at $43K for less than $1,000? The domain Clippoo.com is at auction at GoDaddy.com. Godaddy values the domain at  $42,657. According to Godaddy, the domain is projected to receive over 70,000 visitors a month. Apart from the traffic the domain receives accor...

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I’ve seen similar names selling for four figures recently, so I thought I would list two similar geographic insurance domain names for sale. The asking price is $625/each, but I will sell the pair for $925. The two domain names I am selling are: SantaFeCarInsurance.com WestPalmBeachHealthInsur...

Last month we told you about a major domain hijacking incident in which more than a dozen names were stolen from industry pioneer Warren Weitzman's account at eNom. The stolen domains are back where they belong now and both Weitzman and eNom tell us how the thief (at least temporarily) made off wit...

At BrowserForTheBetter.com, for every download of Internet Explorer 8 from the site, they will donate 8 meals to Feeding America. On top of that, during Hunger Action month, they will DOUBLE the donation for people upgrading from Internet Explorer 6! AWESOME! BUT–does anyone use Internet Explo...

Live Current sells Call.com domain name for seven figures. Live Current Media has sold the domain name Call.com for $1.1 million through domain brokerage Sedo. The domain has a storied history. Live Current, when it was known as Communicate.com, sold the domain name as part of a package including...

A busy month for domain news. August is usually a slow news month. But not this year, at least in the domain business. Domain Name Wire once again topped 100k page views on site (and at least as much through RSS). Here are the top five stories according to page views, as well as the top clicks. 1...

Over the weekend we published a post asking, now that the NameJet.com .cm auctions were underway,  how much Sex.cm would sell for. At the time we published the post, the high bid on the domain sex.cm was $12K. As of 2pm EST, Monday August 31st, with just less than 24 hours to go, the domain has a h...

I personally don’t own many domain names that end in Blog.com or News.com, but I think they have considerable value. Just about every industry, hobby, sport, country, city….etc has a blogger or news source that covers the segment. Many people perform searches for “topic blog,”...

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As of late i have been picking up more and more .org and .net domain names. Not only have i been picking them up i have been able to flip some as well for great prices. You may be saying what the hell do you want a .net or .org for? Well there are two reasons why i have been taking them: 1) Hardly a...

The first round of new domains have been published for sale on my domain marketplace, AQDN.com! Subscribers received an automated email alert yesterday when the new domain inventory was listed for sale. You can also follow @AQDN on Twitter for even more instant updates. Making Room For New Invento...

Although I believe a great domain name can help catapult a company’s website over others in search engine rankings, I believe the content on the site is as important when a person develops it. Owning Lowell.com and having the Lowell Spinners section at Lowell.com/lowell-spinners.php probably h...

ICANN posts job listing for VP of Government Affairs. When then-ICANN CEO Paul Twomey got grilled by Congress in June, I wondered how ICANN didn’t think to do a bit of lobbying before the hearing. ICANN spends a little money on lobbying, but not much. Now that it’s clear the organizati...

SexTV.com sells for $97,500 through Sedo. Breakdown of the stats. Google results: 4,100,000 (not listed on the first five pages) Google page rank: 2 Compete.com traffic: unique 4,945 - total visits 5,258 Alexa rank: 198,501 Now before we assume this was sold just for the domain name I don’t th...

I told my wife last night that my friend Morgan Linton of Domainvestors.tv is going to attempt something that, to my knowledge, has never been done before, which is to get a domain related TV show on air. My wife looked at me and said, “Who would watch that?”. I admit, I raised my hand [...

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This week’s comic strip was inspired by the most recent delays to the new domain name extension .cm. I believe this is now the third delay. Click on the comic strip to enlarge. Have an idea for my next comic strip? I’d love to hear it. Please post a comment or send me a message through ...

UPDATE - THIS AUCTION HAS ENDED - TOP 5 SALES LISTED AT THE BOTTOM Today LiveDomainAuctioneers.com is holding their second live online auction today at 3pm PST, 6pm EST. Their first auction held on August 16th ended with 75 domain names selling for a total of $1,113. Some of the domain names in the ...

Company’s portfolio still profitable, but challenges abound. Dark Blue Sea has reported its annual results for the period ending June, and it isn’t pretty. The company reported profits plunged 74.38% to only $695,955 AUD for the year. This is well below the company’s guidance just...

Sedo.com just announced it will be holding a special online auction for one character .biz domains. The auction starts on September 23rd, 2009 at 12pm EST and closes on September 30, 2009 at 12pm EST. The question now becomes, what will these domains sell for? .Biz domains has not sold well in the d...

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One more example of the .com truism. From Florida this weekend comes another example of why you should never, ever, ever* use anything but .com for an important web site, such as your main business web site. A Florida High School, Pace High School, operates the web site PaceHighSchool.net. But some...