After speaking with a few people today it was clear that many people might have no idea Rick Latona has an extended auction going on SEPERATE of Moniker’s extended auction outside of clicking on the banner of domaining.com
I spoke with a half a dozen good buyers today and 3 of them (50%) assumed all the [...]

Shoemoney had a good article about a new service which matches advertisers with popular tweeters. For those of you don’t know Ad.Ly – is the new service matching advertisers (including many A+ clients like NBC, Universal and Microsoft with tweeters.
According to Ad.Ly’s website the service works as simple as you can imagine
“Ad.ly automatically sends 1 [...]

For newbies and math geeks alike here is an oldie but goodie link to some very interesting stats about the number of domains registered years after year. Quite amazing to see where we are today, what opportunities were missed just a few years ago and more.
Enjoy…
http://zooknic.com/Domains/counts.html

I have little desire to blog these days but every now and then a sale is published and I say to myself – seriously, who  sold that name at such a crazy give-away price or (probably more times) who is the crazy person who just paid XXXXXX for that name. Not a day goes by [...]

A .info sells for 1 million dollars.
Amazing story where the buyer wanted the name for 3 years from the seller and only now both finally agreed on a price. With a seller having the cohonas to hold out and the buyer having persistence to get what he wanted.
Is this a true story?
No.  but it’s a [...]

At first read you may think this is a joke of a question but its actually quite serious since from what I can see we have such an incredible amount of dumb people in this industry.
With that statement made, its worthy to note there are (without question) some incredibly smart, talented and professional people but [...]

For some time now I thought it was just me and since we are not a big fan of GoDaddy with all the ads and upsells everywhere you look I’ve been ok with letting it ride. However yesterday during the course of conversation with a few investors it came to my attention it’s not just [...]

Some good names are coming up for auction including a bunch FINANCE and LEGAL DUI domains such as DallasduiLawyer.com, LoanRefinance.net and more. Check out some of our top picks below:
loanrefinance.net
tokyovacations.com
dallasduilawyer.com
passportphoto.com
datingblog.com
newyorkcityduilawyer.com
dallasduilawyers.com
sanantoniomortgages.com
pdasoftware.com
discoversouthkorea.com
monster-trucks.com
cheapcarloan.org
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Enjoy

$3 million later and Candy.com is live. The site is practically perfect and has incorporated everything from bulk candy to retro candy (you know, the sweet candy we all can not believe we are actually old enough to consider retro)
Its not very often domains sell and re-appear with sites which look as good as this. [...]

In a follow up to yesterday’s article about learning how to search better and not follow the herd when it comes to domain auctions the SnapNames summers auction is providing a great example of how people simply do not look for names that are available as “Buy it Now” and care more about bidding in [...]