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: Joel Ohman

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  • Case Study Friday: Computer.asia
    Joel Ohman December 4, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    This week’s Case Study Friday features a great one word domain ending in an alternate TLD: Computer.asia. This computer site was submitted by Chris so let’s see if we can all give him some feedback on what he was done with the site so far and hopefully also give him some tips for improv...
  • My Guest Post for a Personal Finance Blog on Domain Name Investing
    Joel Ohman December 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Many domainers talk about the need to educate “end users” and further the domain name industry by telling people about the value of domain names. Now is your chance to chime in with some comments on a guest post that I just got published on the popular personal finance blog FinancialSamu...
  • Who Owns the Best Domaining Domain out of all of the Domaining Blogs?
    Joel Ohman December 1, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    If you take Domaining.com out of the mix then who do you think has the absolute best domaining related domain name out of all of our list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs? Here are some of my favorites (talking purely about their domain names and not their actual websites): DomainNameNews.com – ...
  • How BankRate.com Juices Up Page Views: Bank Rate Advertisers Beware
    Joel Ohman November 28, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    It’s common for large content rich sites to implement measures to increase page views and decrease bounce rate but BankRate.com appears to be taking this philosophy to a whole new level. The reason that most sites want to increase page views is of course to theoretically better engage visitors...
  • Case Study Friday: SimpleBabyNecessities.com
    Joel Ohman November 27, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    This week’s Case Study Friday features a baby cribs website submitted by Greg who is one of our readers: SimpleBabyNecessities.com. (Notice the juicy anchor text for the above link that I am giving the site because A. I think its a well done and trustworthy site about baby cribs and B. Maybe ...
  • Demand Media on the Importance of Domain Names
    Joel Ohman November 26, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! This will be short and sweet. I recently posted about Demand Media and as a new RSS subscriber of their corporate blog (and a big fan of theirs all around) I wanted to just point you to a great little post of theirs titled “What Do Domains Have to do w...
  • Wanna Make Money Blogging? Chances Are – You Won’t :)
    Joel Ohman November 25, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    If you think that you can make money blogging by just working a few hours a day in your underwear while the cash just starts to pour in then guess what? You guessed it – it ain’t gonna happen. “Wait! Wait!” you say. “I realize it takes a lot of work. I am going to work...
  • What Was the Best Deal in the LuxuryNames 11/18-11/24 Domain Auction?
    Joel Ohman November 24, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Now is the time where we can all be armchair quarterbacks and look back over the LuxuryNames.com domain name auction that just completed today and decide who came away with the best deal. Of course, I actually bid and won a few names that I am very happy with so I can be a “real quarterback&#...
  • Submit Your Site to be Reviewed for Case Study Friday!
    Joel Ohman November 20, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Are you developing a website and want to get some feedback from John and me and all of the Domain Superstar members? In previous posts in our Case Study Friday series we reviewed a couple of sites that John and I have been working on although our goal is to review many different sites from either Do...
  • 3 Ingredients for a Psychologically Powerful Domain Name/Business Name
    Joel Ohman November 18, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    When you first heard the product name “Viagra” then what came to your mind? If you are like most then the name brought to mind images of strength and life and maybe even a flowing waterfall because of its close association with the familiar name “Niagara” as in “Niagar...
  • Demand Media: Books They Read, Business Model, and Why You Should Care
    Joel Ohman November 17, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Ever since Demand Media was profiled in a recent article in Wired Magazine titled “The Answer Factory” (if you have not read this article then set aside 10 minutes and READ IT NOW - then come back here and finish reading this post of course ) I have been extremely interested in learning...
  • Top Picks for the LuxuryNames.com Domain Name Auction (November 18-24)
    Joel Ohman November 16, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    One of the things I like the most about the upcoming LuxuryNames.com domain name auction to be held at SnapNames.com from 11/18/09 to 11/24/09 is that according to the list I have reviewed 80% of the reserve prices are less than $1,500 AND the focus of the auction is strictly on .com, .net, and .org...
  • WordPress Coming Soon Plugin: Why I Love It (and You Should Too)
    Joel Ohman November 13, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    The WordPress Coming Soon Plugin by CSSJockey.com is one of the niftiest little WP plugins that I have come across in quite some time and although it is very simple and elegant I think that you will love what it can do for you just as much as I do. I actually just stumbled across this plugin just a...
  • Top 100 Domaining Blogs: Fully Sortable by Alexa, Compete, Twitter Followers, etc.
    Joel Ohman November 6, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    One of the sweetest things about our new list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs is that the list is fully sortable by all of the column headers. This means that although the default list is sorted by Alexa rank you can also click on different columns to see which domain name blog has the most backlinks...
  • NEW!!! Top 100 Domaining Blogs: Where Do You Stack Up?
    Joel Ohman November 5, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Are you one of the top 100 domaining bloggers? Do you want to see where you stack up against your fellow domain name bloggers in terms of Alexa rank, Compete rank, # of Twitter followers, PR, # of backlinks, and more? Maybe you just want an easy place to scour the rankings and find interesting new d...
  • How Much Money Can You Make With $5 and 2 Hours?
    Joel Ohman November 4, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    I will be the first to tell you that I rarely take the time to watch video posts but I just took 6 minutes and 11 seconds to watch the following video and I am extremely glad that I did. Check out this video from the entrepreneur boot camp of Tina Seelig during the Stanford Technology Venture Progra...
  • Business Owner to SEO to Domainer vs Domainer to SEO to Business Owner
    Joel Ohman November 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    “Business Owner to SEO to Domainer vs Domainer to SEO to Business Owner” Wow, if this title doesn’t confuse you then please immediately submit a guest post so that I can replace your post with this one… Just kidding! Alan Dunn had written a post earlier about Ad.ly that had ...
  • What is the Best Domain Name Investment You Have Ever Made?
    Joel Ohman October 28, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    What is the absolute best domain investment that you have ever made? Come on, I know that all of us get the urge to brag about some of the great deals that we have gotten or how we were smart enough to spot a money making trend years in advance or how we were able to grab a great domain and immedia...
  • Type In Traffic Finder 2.0: Premium Domains, Geo Targeting, and More!
    Joel Ohman October 26, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    A few days ago John posted that we had just released the new exact match capability to the Type In Traffic Finder and as of tonight we have also added some additional exciting new features. Here is a breakdown of the new features (and then I will show some screenshots detailing what some of the feat...
  • Is Domaining.com Worth $3,000,000?
    Joel Ohman October 22, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Domaining.com is one of my favorite sites and I visit the site on a daily basis. If you have visited the site recently you most likely saw that Francois has the Domaining.com domain name listed for sale at a buy now price of $3,000,000 (the price does not include the website but Francois has mention...
  • 200 Keyword Domain Names for Sale
    Joel Ohman October 19, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Here is a list of 200 keyword domain names that are for sale. Some of them are very nice category killer 1 and 2 word generic keyword domain names that would be ideal for developing. I started to go through and add pricing for each but honestly I didn’t really feel like going through each of t...
  • Case Study Friday: CreditCardChaser.com
    Joel Ohman October 16, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Since it seems all the rage for domainers to talk about web development and SEO - with “talk” being the key word I thought it might be a fun thing to do to dedicate Fridays (or at least most Fridays) to do case studies of different development and SEO projects that either John or I hav...
  • Is GoDaddy Ripping Off Our Geo Domain Name Tool?
    Joel Ohman October 14, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    If you have been a fan of our domain name tools for a while now then you are probably very familiar with our geo domain name tool. In fact, you have likely been using this tool for months. It now appears that GoDaddy is launching a tool in the near future that will be live on geo.godaddy.com and geo...
  • Insure.com Sale: Some Domainer’s Just Don’t Get It
    Joel Ohman October 11, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    There has been some discussion lately in the domaining world whether the sale of Insure.com was a “pure” domain name sale. Contrary to published information, it seems that many domainers are insisting that the $16 million paid was strictly for the Insure.com domain name. Now, whether th...
  • Think that BOA.com is Owned by Bank of America? Think Again…
    Joel Ohman September 30, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    It would only seem natural that Bank of America, the largest bank in the US according to assets, would own the domain name BankofAmerica.com - and of course they do BUT it would seem like a no-brainer that a company as big and as well known as BOA would also own the domain name BOA.com. Buuut do the...