Although networking with other domain investors is high up on the list of reasons to attend a domain conference, in my opinion, there is one primary reason. Attending a domain conference gives you the opportunity to meet your sales representatives and managers for the companies with whom you do your...

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2009 is over and honestly, not soon enough. I’ll be the first to admit that 2009 was not my best financial year ever. 2009 is the year that I completely let go of physical real estate to focus on virtual real estate. This was not an easy decision, because I loved real estate. During the [...]...

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Part I, Part II, part III Been about two weeks since the introduction of the new release, and results are in. Below are triple digit sales for December 2009 (also included one in the four digits and one in five digits). If this is any indication, 2010 is sure to be exciting to the Bido community and...

Welcome to 2010. A new year and a new decade. What’s in store? Here are the greatest challenges I think we will face this year as an industry. Legal. The Kentucky domain seizure case is still ongoing and just a couple of weeks ago the Commonwealth said they are now going to add individuals and...

Live Current continues sales with Indonesia.com. On Thursday I wrote about the possible sale of Leisure.com by Live Current Media. It now appears the company has sold Indonesia.com as well. On December 30, 2009, the whois record for Indonesia showed Communicate.com as the owner (Communicate.com is...

(image source) The Domain industry: A little history is needed here. The domain industry is mostly comprised of domain name portfolio owners, those who buy and monetize domain names in various methods, from pay per click to affiliate marketing, lead generation, geo targeting, combination of all, an...

Is it really Saturday already?  It feels a bit like the movie Groundhog Day with the past few days off.  Anyhow, here are some of my random, rambling, somewhat coherent (hopefully) thoughts this Saturday morning following the New Year’s festivities. (Ironically enough, I accidentally hit pos...

My Favorite Blog Posts: With the end of another year brings reflection. Looking back at over 300 blog posts from 2009, I wanted to highlight some of my favorites. It was hard, but I narrowed it down to a baker’s dozen. How Do You Explain What We Do? 5 Tips For Selling Domain Names Developing ...

My first blog post of 2010 is a video. Using the webcam again for the weekly video, I actually like this format. Uploading directly to YouTube makes it quick, easy and no editing. Links: Live Current May Have Sold Leisure.com by DNW.com GoDaddy Raises Prices On Expired Firesale Domains by DotWeek...

A friend of mine emailed me early this afternoon to let me know that Google updated the Page Rank of my website to PR5.  Apparently, Google updated the PR for many websites some time in the last 24 hours or so. The meaning and impact of a website’s PageRank is debated, but a PR5 is better tha...

As per an article by the South Florida Business Journal, the parent company of Foreclosure.com, FFS Data, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganisation on December 23rd. The company cites $9.1 million in assets versus $27.5 of debt and $15.7 million income so far. Aside from Foreclosure.com, the company a...

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It’s the time of year that people make their new years resolutions. I don’t generally make any personal resolutions, but I do think about things I would like to accomplish for my business, so I thought I would share a few of those with you. Learn about affiliate marketing – Many o...

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A quick look back at 2009. 2010 is here. I’d like to put a few things into perspective from the past year. The stock market is up 35% this year. Did you invest any money at the end of 2008? Were you too scared? Perhaps you pulled out all of your money in fear? As has happened every time ...

Here’s wishing all of you a very Happy New Year 2010. I hope it brings you much health, joy and prosperity. And since its a brand new beginning, we’ve decided launch our services network HQ at MediaWiz.in and have created a service brand Emm Interactive for our media business. We look fo...