Archive for August, 2008

Domainer’s Fantasy Football

Believe it or not there is such a league.  $20 buy-in and commished by NameBio.  I’ll have to keep you updated on how that goes.  Pretty competitive league and should be fun to play-in.  I told someone I was in a Domain Name Fantasy Football League and they just started laughing.  An Internet world and [...]

RegisterMatrix Went Above and Beyond

I just wanted to note a good example of customer service from a domain registrar that they didn’t have to do.  I had an issue during one of my payments to RegisterMatrix.  I emailed RM and got an immediate response.  After a few emails, the problem was resolved, but only because RM put in the [...]

Popular Non-Dot com Sites

Looking at this quick SEO Domain Extension research, you can see that 79% of websites on the first page of popular Google searches yield .com websites.  As a fun project I wanted to make a list of some of the more well-known sites at other domain extensions.  This vary in weight and scope, but each [...]

Fielding Offers

I have a basketful of domains for sale over at the NamePros make an offer section.  Most are from Godaddy but there are a few .ws names from name.com.  I’m not looking to turn a big profit, just testing the market - seeing what I can get monetarily or in trade value from interested parties.  [...]

Every Domainer Should Read This

There is a thread on NamePros with a great look into the insider’s frame of mine for the domain name market. If you’re thinking about becoming a domainer, read this domain name advice. I’ll go ahead and jot down my own answers to the informal survey.
1. What were your best mistakes? By that [...]

82,246 .coms Domains Registered

Do you know in what span of time that came in?
Yesterday!
Unreal.  I didn’t know the count had gotten that high.  You can find mind boggling numbers like this at RegisteredLookup.com.  It’s a very cool site but too overwhelming to be casually useful.  However, if you want to see what domains were specifically registered on a [...]

Blog Domains Are All The Rage

No, I’m not talking about the Wordpress and Blogspot subdomains. I’m referring to the keyword + blog domains. The mass media has finally caught up and now blogs are being mentioned all over the place.  As a result, the last but most important horse - the general public - is finally about to [...]

Google Rejected by Vacuum Cleaner

Hilco Knol, owner of Knol.com which represents his shop that sells vacuum cleaners and the like sent a reported xx,xxx offer from Google apacking. I don’t blame the guy. This is your family name that you have secured since 2002. Moreover, it represents your livlihood and now Google wants it because they [...]