By Alan on Jul 3, 2010 in Domain Development | 48 Comments
In only a few short years a $2 million dollar sale happens and changes you overnight. All the work put in was against your parents dreams to attain a higher education from some over rated and expensive school just to get a degree (in some entirely useless subject such as foreign art or gymnasium techniques) [...]
By Alan on Mar 20, 2010 in Domain Development | 39 Comments
Ask anyone using the Google Adwords program and you will quickly find many people building businesses around the success of their PPC campaigns however unlike how Rome wasn’t built in a day Google can crush you overnight. The latest change to the Google search results for mortgage related terms such as “mortgage rates”, “mortgage calculator”, [...]
By Alan on Mar 4, 2010 in Domain Sales | 28 Comments
Forget about sex.com – some of the most valuable domains in this world surround lead generation. Ask any developer and you will get the most common 5-10 categories as the most valuable. Insurance, Mortgage, Weight Loss, Finance, Debt and others. One of the biggest domains sought after by hordes of people over the years has [...]
By Alan on Jan 16, 2010 in Domain Sales | 11 Comments
Another domain which was developed but would probably see no more than a couple hundred in auction is ReliableRemodeler.com According to Quinstreet’s SEC filing “In February 2008, we acquired ReliableRemodeler.com, Inc., or ReliableRemodeler, an Oregon-based company specializing in online home renovation and contractor referrals for $17.5 million in cash and $8.0 million in non-interest-bearing, unsecured [...]
By Alan on Jan 16, 2010 in Domain Sales | 7 Comments
I love hearding stories about development especially with domains most domainers would never bid on. As the mammoth Quinstreet filed to go public more of thier purchases are now public. CardRatings.com – a site with just under 100,000 visitors a month (not an enormous amount of traffic by any measure) was sold for $10.2 million in [...]
By Alan on Nov 24, 2009 in Domain Development | 2 Comments
Every year people come up with great ideas to make money online which do not involve parking and these stories should inspire all. The million dollar home page was the original money maker and one that has tried to be repeated many times over (with no such luck) however with the advances in social media [...]
By Alan on Nov 22, 2009 in Random | 19 Comments
With online courses, full day seminars and formal certification to show potential employers these SEO guys certainly seem to know their stuff. Most of us would love to have a domain like seotraining.com as it is just a great name to show the world your seo expertise and build a platform for tens of thousands [...]
By Alan on Nov 19, 2009 in Domain Development | 7 Comments
I have way too many bookmarks so my way to find the Google Adwords tool is archaic (type it in the tool bar over and over every day) but today was worth the humor. # 2 sponsored link was … I will not even link to this site since it does not deserve a link [...]
By Alan on Nov 10, 2009 in Domain Development | 12 Comments
If you’re like I am and just have way too much to do then its easy to never follow up on good domains which were recently purchased and developed. Of course, a lot of sales are parked, more will never be developed and some will just sit with empty DNS for years to come but [...]
By Alan on Nov 4, 2009 in SnapNames | 6 Comments
Halverez has finally been outed – Oversee has stepped up to the plate and not only publicly acknowledged the fraud but taken steps to compensate auction participants and implement policies to prevent this in the future. First, let me say this breach was a breach at the highest level – both personally and professionally for [...]