It’s a new year and I’m back (well almost) from taking a break since Christmas. Blogging is in my blood so I thought that it would be worthwhile reflecting for a moment on my last post about the charity that supports children that are HIV positive that my wife and......

I posted a list of 56 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...

Off the topics of domains, but a thought I wrtie about a trend I’m seeing around the US, which may effect everyone of you in the NEAR future, is paying to use previously free interstate highways. In Miami a month ago, the state took the two left lanes of I-95 and blocked them off, restricting ...

Online dating website Match.com is going the free-way: In addition to its paid service, it has launched a free online dating service under the domain name DownToEarth.com. Apparently, it became too difficult to compete with the many free dating sites on the Internet, especially with the widely popul...

“You don’t get rich digging for gold… You get rich selling the shovels”. Isn’t that a great quote which could be applied, almost without exception, to the new domain name extensions we’ve seen over the past few years? Someone is getting very rich off of them ̵...

C = Character. When seen in a domain name listing, the number of C’s refers to the number of characters in a domain name. In the domain name industry, the term Character refers to either a Letter of the English alphabet (A-Z) or a Number (0-9). A domain with many characters may have both many lett...

I’m currently in the process of making a few changes to www.LLLL.com to make it easier to quickly browse through the content. Most of my posts tend to be quite long and I cover a wide variety of topics from week to week, so this will hopefully allow you to browse over the content more [...]...

I think it’s always great to set up goals at the beginning of the year. I had some resolutions for 2008, which I think I did a pretty damn great job at following through with. The only difference between now and then is: more domains, more experience, more connections, more of… uh, prett...

There is a new list of 56 expired domains at DNXpert Free Expired Domain Lists The following 46 expired domains were posted in the free forum in the last list:   pinkseed.com hypnogenie.com perfectlaptopbags.com ebayalarms.com tantratowels.com cravejolt.com fashionskyline.com ornamentcatalogs.co...

An interesting article in Time Magazine describes using smart phones as well as Nintendo DS to display recipes. According to the author, the advantages include much smaller footprint than a cookbook when counter space is at a premium. It got me thinking about other applications that would be useful ...

A definite must read from DomainNameNews: Domain Name Scam Warning : Pumping and Dumping Domains As always, think before you buy! Great work, Adam. Very interesting read. Ultra-”Super”-Summary: People that pay for traffic and list their domains on Godaddy auctions to get higher prices. ...

Looking through my recruitment and employment domains again this evening, I stumbled upon a pair of names I bought in the after market a few years back - www.personalbodyguard.com and www.personalbodyguards.com.It was two years ago since I last looked at development, my thoughts at the time beiong t...

This is a new year. Fact. How prepared are you now? How much more prepared are you than last year? I usually do not post on Saturdays but last night I heard this story about two farmers who prayed for rain and I felt it was important and timely enough for me to not wait till [...]...

In a fashion reminiscent of investment pump and dump scams, domain sellers list domain names for sale and pump cheap traffic to the names to make them look appealing and then dump the names on unsuspecting buyers.  These scammers list domains for sale on domain aftermarkets that advertise the infla...

Superfoods! - on The Food Channel"Açai fruit – becoming known as a super-duper food. One of the most powerful, most nutritious of all foods"- The Food ChannelAcai Juice: "is touted as possessing greater quantities of those sought after substances than another – pomegranate. Both have been dub...

Net Applications released updated global browser market share numbers today, indicating that Internet Explorer is losing users at an accelerated pace. The browser’s share dropped from 69.77% in November to 68.15% in December. Firefox gained more than half a point and ended up at 21.34%, Safari ap...

Posted below are a few of my favorite quotes. Not all of them are by people who would identify themselves as being domainers, however all are applicable to domaining. Feel free to post any others you like. 1. “Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity eve...

The minimum wholesale is a concept that comes up quite a bit when we talk about short domains, but how relevant is it really to the large majority of short domains? It’s important to consider how many LLL.coms and LLLL.coms would actually qualify as “minimum wholesale” in quality. ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, published it’s annual report, The report puts a bright face on what ICANN calls the “organization’s achievements and progress during 2008″ The report highlights the three major initiatives ICANN has undertaken th...

Here are some “Top Domain Sales Of All Time“* (this list has been updated since the first time it has been posted) Sex.com - Sold for: $14 million on January 19th, 2006 Fund.com - $9,999,950 - Sold in 2008 Porn.com - Sold for $9,000,000 sometime in 2007 (Update: OR $9,500,000 — T...

  I saw a very interesting post by Frankie over at SkyDomains.com yesterday. He had previously posted about minisites he was developing, but soon decided his efforts would be better served by focusing on one or two larger sites. One of these is Vowels.Me – basically it’s a marketpla...

For the most part, domains don’t sell well in bulk and short domains are no exception to this, as this eBay auction which inspired this post will show. The strategy in buying bulk aftermarket domains often makes sense — you can probably negotiate a better price, you may feel that lower q...

Back to my portfolio cleaning exercise, this morning's little sales page project was www.dental-insurance.co.uk, a nice generic, hyphenated key word domain name with an instantly apparent market.Some people criticise hyphenated names, but I must say that mine have always performed very well and I do...

I remember I posted a “Domainers Resolutions” post for 2008. Did I succeed? Let’s see! (Here’s a link with my descriptions about what I was focusing and what the titles mean). 1. Acquire - CHECK! Definitely acquired more names I “wanted” through 2008. I didn’...

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. This task is super super simple. Task 2: Make a post about the contest on your blog along with the prize sponsor list. This is worth 10...