February 1st, 2008 Posted in Site News
Welcome to DNDough.com, your guide for making money with domains. Our guide is written for the beginner, so if you’re new to domains, you have come to the right place. We just finished integrating the new site into WordPress for the new blog format. The tools section will also be redone with loads of useful domain and seo-related tools. Thanks for visiting!
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February 13th, 2008 Posted in Domain Sales
Every week DNJournal posts a weekly sales report of all the highest confirmed domain sales during that week. All domain sales are verified by Ron Jackson, the editor, before being published. The list can be quite large sometimes and I thought I’d pick out just a few of the notable sales for each week.
Bookmarks.com - $300k - With all the buzz around these “social bookmarking” sites nowadays, this seemed like a good buy, despite the seemingly high price tag. Sites such as Del.icio.us and Stumble Upon have shown that they can attract tons of visitors to a well-developed social bookmarking system.
Cobwebs.com - $5k - I’m not sure what exactly this could be used for but it seems like a great price for a one word noun .com domain. There are a lot of possibilities with this one.
WebDevelopment.net - $2k - Even though this one is a .net, this seems like a total steal to me. I’m sure some web development company would love to get their hands on a name like this.
Video.us - $18k - I feel bad for the person who paid $75k for this domain just a few months ago, and let it expire.
That’s about it, check out the full list of domain sales and commentary at DNJournal’s weekly domain sales. Archives are also available here.
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February 6th, 2008 Posted in Domain Sales
I just saw this sale on the Sedo homepage today and found it quite humorous. Not sure how the buyer is going to use this one. I wonder how long it will take to recoup the investment? Hopefully less than 3000 days.
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February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Domain News, Domain Parking, ICANN
Just a few days ago, the ICANN board passed the following motion to put an end to domain tasting, “THEREFORE, the Board resolves to encourage ICANN’s budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee.”
For those who don’t know what domain tasting is, it is the practice of registering a domain, parking it, testing it for traffic, and deleting it for a full refund within a 5 day “grace-period” if the domain doesn’t generate enough. Various registrars have tasted and dropped millions upon millions of domain names, keeping only the good ones. More information is available at this Wikipedia article.
This decision by ICANN comes right after Google announced they would no longer serve ads on domains less than 5 days old, in an effort to discourage domain tasting. All of this recent action against domain tasting arguably has been sparked by Network Solutions stealing domain ideas, when they automatically registered any domain searched at their site in order to “reserve” it for the customer.
All in all I’m very glad ICANN finally took action, better late than never. An ICANN study revealed that 95% of domain registrations during the month of January 2007 were accounted for by just 10 organizations. This totals up to 45,450,897 out of 47,824,131 discarded domains. These practices were truly getting out of control.
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