Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker , was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company we...

Live Current Media sells domain name and lays off 38% of staff. Live Current Media (OTCBB: LIVC.ob) today announced the sale of a domain name for gross proceeds of 500,000 CAD, or approximately $400,000 USD. Based on information including whois record changes, Domain Name Wire believes the domain ...

The DomainFest Global 2009 extended silent auction ends today at 3:15pm EST and features over 1,400 domains with starting bids of just $300, over 3,000 domains starting at $1,000 or less. Premium names such as drink.com, weblog.com and celebs.com are included in the auction, which features many diff...

This week’s Sedo sales report features some of the strongest domains of the year with approximately $600,000 USD in total sales. The top 10 sales of the week were all .com domains: NoHotel(s).com for $60,000 USD YOG.com for $29,500 USD RTTV.com for $22,500 USD Fired.com for $20,600 USD EasyWe...

When you attempt to sell a domain name, you are generally in a weaker position than when someone sends you an unsolicited email to buy a domain name. In the first situation, you are trying sell a domain name on your terms, and you need to find a buyer who can meet them. In [...] Related posts:Art...

(image source) Where we are today Job cuts are all over the map so I thought I should write a word or two about it, for some who are looking for a job, know someone who is looking for a job, or simply want to increase their income level, or more importantly, their value in the marketplace. Real wor...

Good Morning Folks!!  Let's give them Seattle. You heard it right. You heard it here first! This is no joke. Well kinda. Let's give them Seattle. They are "Sleepless" in Seattle anyway, so let's give Seattle to China. See I figure the value of Seattle would pay off the debt we owe to Ch...

Escrow.com President Brandon Abbey discusses Escrow.com and the challenges of starting an escrow company. Big ticket domainers — and even smaller ones who want safe domain transfers — often turn to Escrow.com for domain name escrow services. The company was founded in 1999 by Fidelity ...

The dot TV domain extension is taking off. We have sold quite a few dot TV domain names in the last few months to end users. The most recent sales went for $x,xxx. Our test auction last month for a .tv domain name closed at $1,050 with 24 bids. We are now running a dot TV domain [...]...

Morning folks!!How often do you test and experiment and change parking companies or other ways to monetize with the traffic you have? Do you just leave your traffic at the same place month after month? Maybe even year after year. Show me someone who does not test and I will show you someone that i...

If you are a late night browser, or live on the Eastern side of the globe (where it was early morning) then you may have noticed that our website was temporarily down late night Wednesday night (US Time). This was a planned upgrade of our website as we were transferring our website to new servers, a...

I have another list for ya.  I’m a fan of lists, even biased lists (not that unbiased lists exist, right?).  But my main problem with lists are putting them across a ton of pages.  Forbes does this.  I can’t stand it! This list is brought to you by Popular Mechanics, who also puts on...

~ The domain package of MajorFights.com, MajorFight.com with the .net, .org and .info of each and the hyphen version  of each the plural and singular versions were sold for $2,500 USD by NamePro’s member Rhinoz. I spoke with Mark a little bit and ask him what approach he took to selling t...

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What's on TV? Connections to Internet - The Boston GlobeConverging Media... Watch Boston.com Internet TV Video (Click headline)Top 10 Speculative Internet TV Domain Names:InternetConnectedTv.com InternetConnectedTvs.com InternetEnabledTv.comWebEnhancedTv.comWebOverTelevision.comInternetVODTv.comInte...

Morgan Linton has just announced the 2nd video installment of his Domaining Power Course. In an earlier post, Morgan says, “We are in a niche market. Ask a random person on the street if they know what ‘Domaining’ is and 999 out of 1000 times - they won’t know.” This re...

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AaronGoldman.net is a search engine marketer by day and a URL (domain name) critic by night.  Today, Aaron sat down and gave his opinion on all of the domain names which appeared in this years Superbowl commercials.  If you visited Domaining.com it looked a little something like this… And t...

Today I released the second installment in my new Domaining Power Course on YouTube. I got some great responses to my first video and am looking forward to sharing more of my experience with new domainers. I am still fighting with YouTube's 10-minute maximum and had to cut-out most of the opening i...

Welcome to the 2009 edition of SuperURLs. This year advertisers shelled out $3 million for their 30 seconds of glory during the big game. But did they get all their bang for their buck with prominently displayed URLs? By and large, the answer was a resounding no. Some didn't even include URLs at all...

No-one knows how to milk a SuperBowl ad for everything it's worth than the Grand-URL Daddy of them all. For the second year in a row, GoDaddy used the female form to drive traffic directly to its site. And it made sure to keep its URL visible throughout most of the commercial. Presentation included ...

At the other end of the spectrum is Bridgestone who, for the second year in a row, buried their URL in alllowercase at the bottom of the screen for the last 2 seconds of the spot. They may as well have not included it at all. With nothing more than a glance, the best someone will be able to make out...

The only thing worse than an alllowercase URL buried at the bottom of the screen for the last 2 seconds of the ad is an alllowercase URL buried at the bottom of the screen for the last 2 seconds of the ad with a slash. All Cargill creates here is confusion....

The only thing worse than an alllowercase URL buried at the bottom of the screen for the last 2 seconds of the ad with a slash is an alllowercase Movie URL buried at the bottom of the screen for the last 2 seconds of the ad with dubs and a non-dot-com. (Am I reminding anyone of that CareerBuilder ad...

alllowercase does not need to be the kiss of death, though. Here GE shows that some alternating fonts and prominent shelf, er... screen space can make all the difference in the world. All it takes is a little, ahem... URLmagination....