It appears the owners of Dog.com and Fish.com have purchased Farm.com. The dog may have a new farm... An astute reader emailed me yesterday saying that Afternic showed the sale of Farm.com for $200,000 on its "Recent Sales" page. By the time I ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Farm.com sells
· Domain SalesThe rising tide of alternative TLDs
· Domain SalesThe sale of Camping.info for $28,100 is one example of the rising tide of alternative domain names. Many of the domain name industry's big players sware they'll only touch .com domain names. But as .com domain values skyrocket they are bringing the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Dotster $.50 domains Wednesday
· Domain RegistrarsDomain Name Wire has learned that Dotster's second happy hour will offer domains for 50 cents. That's even better than the last offer of $1. The first 1,000 people will receive a coupon for a $.50 .com, .net, or .org domain. This is different from ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
New Dotster happy hour Wednesday!
· Domain RegistrarsDotster is holding another "domain happy hour" this Wednesday. [UPDATE: See this new post. I have learned that domains will cost only $.50, but there are limits. There is also confusion about the time.Read more.] Details of the promotion are not ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
TDNAM testing extended auctions
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsGoDaddy's TDNAM service is testing auto-extensions of domain name auctions. This is one of the features I requested in my post on November 3 (see GoDaddy's Domain Name Aftermarket adds features). Certain domain auctions will automatically extend for 5 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Big day at Afternic
· Domain Sales6 domains close at Afternic today, and a bunch more close tomorrow. Are any of them good values? Afternic's "Closing Soon" category is sometimes short on domains, but today is an exception. 6 domains will be sold to the highest bidder today and ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
TrafficClub February Results
· ServicesFebruary was a short month, but the TrafficClub parking service gave me one of my best months yet. As I do every month, here are my updated results with TrafficClub's paid domain parking service. TrafficClub split tests your domains across several ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Rapid domain development with XSitePro
· ServicesMake more money from your domain name portfolio. Everyone knows that domain parking is just the first stage of monetizing domain names. It takes one minute to park a domain name. But revenue to parked domains is limited. Traffic to your domains ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
How you can help fight Verisign’s latest deal
· Policy & LawThe settlement between ICANN and Verisign, approved by ICANN just this week, will mean higher prices on .com domains. How can you fight this settlement? Now that ICANN has approved the deal, the arrangement must be approved by the Department of ... Continue Reading2 Comments
People’s Daily new article about Chinese domains
· Policy & LawChina's People's Daily has released a story including a denial by China's Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). CNNIC, the registry of .CN ccTLD, released a statement about the story originally reported by People's Daily that China was breaking ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment