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 […]
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.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 […]
Continue ReadingWill the small domainer be overwhelmed
Obviously the biggest domain story of 2011 is that ICANN has finally approved their new gTLD program. Now it will be some time before any new tld hits the market, most likely 2014. The exception to this is .xxx which got approved on its own. ICM registry, the .XXX registry, has announced the preliminary timeline […]
Continue ReadingIf you can’t get into InternetTraffic.com maybe you should think of a new plan
Everyone in the domaining world knows about its latest parking platform. InternetTraffic.com started by Frank Schilling is off to a great start. Why wouldn't it be ? Frank is both smart and a good guy who can be trusted. The requirements to join, leave out the majority of domainers. Its a private company that's his […]
Continue ReadingSydney Morning Herald : Domain Wars
The SMH did a story on how competing governments might want a new Gtld. AusRegistry, the organisation that is managing applications for the new domains for this country, said the NSW Premier's Office has "confirmed strong interest" in buying the .sydney domain. "It is possible that two cities with the same name may apply for […]
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