The post was guest blogged by Andrew Knibbe from Flippa.com. Interesting read especially from someone from Flippa. Taken from the article : It’s not difficult to see the parallels between this and the current state of the domain investment industry – where owners are discovering their portfolios can’t generate real cashflow and have little prospect […]
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FairWinds Partners unveils new domain service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ – FairWinds Partners, the leading domain name analysis and advisory firm, is pleased to announce the debut of its newest service, FairWinds Intelligence. Intelligence is a patent-pending, revolutionary new domain name infringement and management technology. Bundled with FairWinds' expertise and managed services, Intelligence provides a comprehensive technological solution that identifies, […]
Continue ReadingDN Forum to add increased security measures
Adam Dicker posted a couple days ago that DN Forum is upping their security. Adam posted: All NEW users will be required to be phone and address verified – This will be part of the new user registration process and is being custom built for us. Only email addresses that will be allowed to be […]
Continue ReadingThe wholesale domain market, that’s what sucks
With all the talk this week about whether or not the auction at Traffic sucked, the focus imo should be on the wholesale domain market. Over the past few years the market has come down on all kinds of domains. Three letter .info,biz and .us are down substantially. There were buyers for these type of […]
Continue Reading.com dictates the pace
The auction for questionauthority.com closed yesterday on Go Daddy for $1000. The domain is 14 years old and Go Daddy estimates no traffic. There were 26 bids among 5 bidders. The domain questionauthority.net is listed for sale on Go Daddy for $1,888. It seems like that price will have to come down with the .com […]
Continue Reading196 .coms sold on DN Journal this past week
A week in the life of .com sales. This past week there were 196 .com sales. They totalled $1,246,597. So with over 97 million .com regged that is not a lot of turnover. Something to think about when you own a large portfolio of not top quality .com domains. You are not going to move […]
Continue ReadingTablet users spend more time on the Internet
Steve Smith from Online Media Daily, wrote a piece about tablet users and their Internet usage. (Post where we linked to is no longer working. From the article: >According to research from Knowledge Networks, tablet-owning consumers on average spend 48% more time each day with the Internet — 4 hours and 19 minutes across platforms […]
Continue ReadingBe careful you are not investing in a fad
A little while back there were several domain wanted threads for deals or daily deal type domains. Well it now seems like daily deals are becoming to fall out of vogue. The Atlantic did a story yesterday on how people are sick of the sites. Excerpt: There was a daily deal sites bubble. Too many […]
Continue ReadingDomain blogs by Alexa ranking: TheDomains.com leads the way
Quick look at the current Alexa ratings for Domain Blogs. Alexa Traffic Rank A measure of a sites popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to a site and pageviews over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Updated Daily […]
Continue ReadingEvan Williams lists five reasons why domains are getting less important
Evan Williams is one of the founders of Twitter. He also co-founded Pyra Labs, the creator of Blogger. He listed five reasons why domains are getting less important. 1) Google There was as time when you knew your friend’s and family member’s phone numbers. There may have been a time when you knew the addresses […]
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