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110 Expired domain names
2008-04-02 23:39:00 Today I put together a list of 110 expired domain names for my newsletter subscribers. Because you are not subscribed, you only get to see a select sample of that list. All is not lost though, you can subscribed by using the form in the top right corner. It’s free. I recommend you use one of the ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
Lowest rates on the market for new .mobi domain registrations
2008-04-01 23:07:00 Getting back to domaining business following April 1st fun, Moniker have announced a great .mobi promotion. Up until April 24th 2008, Moniker have announced they have cut .mobi registration prices by 44% as compared to competitor rates. Until 24th April 2008 you can purchase .mobi domain names for as low as $8.19. So, if you are after ... More About: Market , Domain , Mobi , Rates
DNXpert.com Domain News Blog sells for $1,000,000
2008-04-01 13:02:00 Having touted the sale of my blog to a few worthy punters over the past few days, I am pleased to announce the sale of the famous DNXpert.com Domain Name News blog at a wonderful $1,000,000 US to an anonymous buyer. As you all are aware DNXpert.com has been a leading light in the domain name ... More About: Blog
DNXpert.com Domain News Blog sells for $1,000,000
2008-04-01 13:02:00 Having touted the sale of my blog to a few worthy punters over the past few days, I am pleased to announce the sale of the famous DNXpert.com Domain Name News blog at a wonderful $1,000,000 US to an anonymous buyer. As you all are aware DNXpert.com has been a leading light in the domain name ... More About: Blog
ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
2008-04-01 12:53:00 The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the internet will be powered down for one hour on Tuesday at 12pm, British Summer Time. ICANN, the body responsible for maintaining the registry of domain names and IP addresses, announced on Tuesday that it would effectively turn off the internet in order to gauge the ecological impact ... More About: Internet , Shut , Hour , Icann
Scotland seeks its own ccTld
2008-03-31 01:03:00 THE Scottish National party is to take its campaign for independence into cyberspace by seeking to change the endings of all websites based in the country, from ?.co.uk? to ?.sco?. Alex Salmond, the first minister, is to lodge a formal request with the American-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is responsible for ... More About: Scotland
105 expired domain names
2008-03-30 03:27:00 Today is my birth day :). I am officially 27. I thought I would treat my newsletter subscribers with a special list of expired domain names. I believe you will agree with me that this is one of the best lists of expired domain names I have ever provided. Because you are not a newsletter subscriber you ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
First Domain Sold Via Fusu
2008-03-28 23:59:00 A domain listed on the Domain Stock Exchange (Fusu.com) was sold, bringing its shareholders a significant return for their investment. KPY.com was listed on Exchange during the public Beta cycle with a value of $5,000 and found 14 investors buying 45% of the domain. In the trading, the market value of the domain rose to $5,800. The ... More About: Sold
EuroDNS really screwed up the .ASIA Go Live kick off - I am so PISSED OFF!!
2008-03-27 17:52:00 What a bummer! The .ASIA Go Live kicked off yesterday and I, like thousands of other domainers, tried to get my hands on some cool generic .asia domain names via EuroDNS. I went with some 15 dictionary words which I thought were the most valuable as a taster before I continue with more registrations. I tried ... More About: Asia , Pissed , Screwed , Kick
.Asia Go Live kicks off: Millions of High Value Domains Still available on
2008-03-26 15:57:00 Hong Kong, 26 March 2008 ? DotAsia Organisation announces Go Live of the ?.Asia? registry, signifying the start of first-come-first-served registrations, allowing anyone around the world to get their .Asia domain instantaneously. ?With over 10 million domains registered in China alone and over 150 million worldwide, the potential for .Asia is only now starting to be ... More About: Domains , High , Millions
104 Expired Domain Names
2008-03-25 03:59:00 I hope you had a happy Easter. Today I sent my newsletter subscribers another list of expired domain names. Because you are not subscribed you only get to see a sample of that list. All is not lost though, you can subscribe for future mailings for free by using the form in the top right corner ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
More and more domainers are turning to WhyPark for parking
2008-03-25 00:29:00 Talking to people from the industry it seems more and more people are turning to unconventional parking providers like WhyPark these days. I blogged recently about the all Yahoo based parking providers including Parked.com abitrage ban - which basically means that if your domain has traffic coming from sources other then search engine or direct type ... More About: Parking
10 million .cn domain names
2008-03-24 21:15:00 CNNic, the Chinese .cn domain name registry have announced they have passed the 10 million domain registrations mark in January 2008. While other countries take pride in reaching 7 figures, China is strongly striding towards being the leading nation in terms of ccTld registrations. Only Germany with their .de ccTld have reached 10 million registrations in ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Million , Names
Smithers.com sells for $11,660
2008-03-24 04:36:00 For some of us, reading Smithers.com makes us immediately think of Waylon Smithers - the personal assistant and self proclaimed best friend of Mr Burns in the Simpsons. If you however do a bit more research you will find out that Smithers is actually a town in British Columbia, Canada with a population of some 5000+ ...
.LT domain names now accessible via IPv6
2008-03-23 20:40:00 DomReg.lt - the registry of the Lithuanian .lt ccTld have informed us that since March 9th 2008 the .lt domain names are accessible via the IPv6 protocol. This was one of the .lt domain registry’s DNS infrastructure upgrade plans and allows access to internet users and internet service providers who are using or want to start ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
Wordze Easter Special - $30 off usual membership fee!
2008-03-21 21:31:00 If you are looking for the perfect keyword research tool, then you should look no further then Wordze. Wordze is an all-encompassing keyword research service offering an awesome array of tools that cater for all your keyword research needs. Wordze is a leader in keyword research and if you have had any experience with placing adwords ... More About: Easter , Special , Membership
The reason why Rick Schwartz is selling Widgets.com and has stopped bloggin
2008-03-21 17:42:00 My previous post points to an ebay auction of Rick Schwartz ’s domain name Widgets .com at ebay. At the end of the post I ask The reason Rick wants to cash out? Who knows, perhaps he is testing the waters for some of his bigger names? Perhaps he is raising cash for another project? Or he might know ... More About: Selling , Reason
Rick Schwartz lists Widgets.com on Ebay
2008-03-21 15:24:00 Rick Schwartz listed Widgets .com on Ebay yesterday and the bidding has already reached $60,000. He has a reserve in place and I am pretty sure this will go over $500,000 if it sells at all. I love the four sentence sales text: Widgets.com the #1 generic domain name for sale and looking for an end user to ... More About: Rick , Lists
107 expired domain names
2008-03-21 15:09:00 I have put together another list of expired domain names for my newsletter subscribers. This time there were 107 domain names on the list. Because you are not subscribed, you only get to see a sample of that list. If you wish to get the full list in the future, make sure you subscribe to my ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
How To Generate Keywords For Your Adwords Campaign
2008-03-21 13:39:00 A little bit offtopic, but I was putting up some adwords campaigns for my domain name ebook today and I used a really cool tool from Google for the first time. You know how when you create a keyword campaign it takes ages for you to try and figure out all the keywords you need to ... More About: Campaign , Adwords , Keywords
Dotster easter sale - 25% of all domain names
2008-03-20 22:29:00 I just got an email from a Dotster contact telling me Dotster is holding an Easter holiday domain promotion. Today through March 25th, take advantage of 25% savings on COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ, and US domain registrations. If you’re a serious business owner, now is a great time to protect your online brand by adding ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Sale , Names
Dot Tk domains now commercial free
2008-03-20 10:20:00 Dot TK, the registry for .TK Internet domain names, today announced the launch of Dot TK 3.0 - a new version of Dot TK without any mandatory commercial advertisements. Dot TK is the world’s leading provider of free domain names. Dot TK domains are often used to rename long and hard to remember URLs into ... More About: Commercial , Free , Domains
DomainGraduate - educational domain investing guidebook
2008-03-19 00:47:00 DomainGraduate, the leading educational domain name investing guidebook, has announced a new toolkit for ?Domain Graduates? by bundling a number of value-added services from Sedo, DomainResearchTool, DnFolio.com, and others into the DomainGraduate offering. DomainGraduate is an ebook, audio book, toolkit, and educational venue where individuals learn the particulars regarding investing in domain names. The domain ... More About: Domain , Educational , Investing
Live LLLL.com auction on March 22nd at Namepros.com
2008-03-19 00:39:00 If you own some LLLL.com domain names or if you want to grab some good ones as an investment, you should head on over to NamePros.com forum where they are holding a live LLLL.com auction on the 22nd March 2008. The auction is initiated by NamePros member Ty who has acquired the live chatroom from NamePros ... More About: Auction , Live
100+ expired domain names
2008-03-19 00:29:00 Well, it is time again for another expired domain list compiled by dnxpert.com. I sent my newsletter subscribers the complete list of some 105 expired domain names already - if you want a first shot at the best names you should subscribe to my newsletter using the form in the top right corner - it’s FREE. Since ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Names
German-speaking sites have chance to win 18,000 Euro
2008-03-18 22:16:00 If you own a German speaking website you are in luck. The global domain name registry Affilias in media-cooperation with INTERNET WORLD Business and addresses .INFO domain owners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland is holding a contest for the best German-speaking websites. From March 17 to May 25 owners of German-speaking .info-websites can apply for the ... More About: Euro , Chance , Sites , Speaking
How to check if your website is really down
2008-03-17 10:15:00 Sometimes you try and access your blog / website and you get a “Server not found” error in your browser. This does not automatically mean that your website is down. It could simply mean that your ISP is having problems reaching the website. There are ways you can determine what is going on: 1. Ping - a ... More About: Website , Check
Casino.de sells for ?400,000
2008-03-17 09:48:00 Danish internet company Balslev Media have reported they have purchased the domain name casino.de for a reported ?400,000. “The value of the domain consists of several things; first of all it?s the perfect brand name ? it?s short and it describes exactly what we do. Furthermore, many people will find our Web site even if they ... More About: Casino
.ASIA landrush applications stats revealed
2008-03-16 19:38:00 The DotAsia organization has announced they have had over 473,633 applications for .asia domain names in the landrush period. An amazing 45,697 domain names received more then one application and immediately was pushed into an auction. Buy.asia received over 400 applications! You can see the complete list of multiple applications here. More About: Applications , Stats
Tucows reveals domain portfolio
More articles from this author:2008-03-16 19:35:00 Tucows have revealed they posses over 150,000 domain names in their portfolio. In addition to their 39,000 surnames which they use for their recently launched Personal Names Service which allows users to register email addresses such as amy@smith.net and websites like amy.smith.net, they also posses 22,000 brandable domain names, 1000 real domaining gems and some 88,000 ... More About: Portfolio , Domain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



