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 since [...]
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 and will [...]
By Alan on Nov 10, 2009 in Domain Development | 11 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 3, 2009 in Domain Development | 8 Comments
First let me say this is not a post about either Rick personally but it’s about the way of thought many domainers exercise in the current industry. The economic variables of today we are forced to work in will certainly bring opportunity to many domainers but this opportunity must be considered more than just buying [...]
By Alan on Jul 18, 2009 in Domain Development | 8 Comments
$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. [...]
By Alan on Apr 19, 2009 in Domain Development | 14 Comments
5 years is a long time in the world of technology but success is just as easy today as it was only five years ago. Get some decent domains, develop them and build content. This industry is not rocket science and thankfully so since many of you certainly would not pass the test but hey [...]
By Alan on Apr 11, 2009 in Domain Development | 10 Comments
Almost 18 months ago we sold the domain mortgagecalculator.net at SnapNames and as a developer I was hoping somebody would buy this to develop rather than park.
This domain is clearly one of the larger mortgage domains and although the mortgage and real estate business is what led me to having great success online the ultimate [...]
By Alan on Dec 16, 2008 in Domain Development | 1 Comment
First and foremost (for the 4 letter freaks out there) the value of this site has nothing to do with the domain. Nothing, nada, zilch. The value of the website and the traffic attached to the domain is a direct result of the owners work developing the content.
In simple words the domain xkcd.com was worthless [...]
By Alan on Dec 14, 2008 in Domain Development | 6 Comments
This article is going back to one of the reasons we started this blog. Newfound Names was chosen as a company name for two reasons. A love for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and a play on words for what every new acquisition means to us – a new found name. It has [...]
By Alan on Dec 13, 2008 in Domain Development | 3 Comments
Google. The six letters which continually shape the internet as we know it. Whether its reshuffling of organic search placements, random and unpredictable quality scores for Adwords advertisers, searchable email, billion dollar buyouts of companies that seem to vanish or an office complex we all envy (seriously, who would not want their company to have [...]