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Dot Weekly wants to hear from you |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Since you are the one that reads DotWeekly.com I would like to hear from you! I want the good and the bad and even the ugly. I want to hear what you want!
I would like to hear things like the following:
Do you like DotWeekly.com’s site design? Does it even matter?
Have you used (clicked) any of [...]
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2009 Domain Name Wire Survey Opens |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Fourth annual survey open for participation.
Domain Name Wire has just opened the response period for its 4th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. The survey collects domain name industry feedback on the state of the industry, service providers including domain registrars and domain parking companies, and opinions on domain name issues.
This year’s survey includes new [...]
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Domaining.com Sells ItalianRestaurants.com for $17,000 |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Domain is first “big” sale at popular Domaining.com web site.
About a month after launching its domain name marketplace, domain news aggregator Domaining.com has sold ItalianRestaurants.com for $17,000.
The site charges a listing fee and commission for all domain name sales, and the rates were recently reduced. Listing fees start at $5 for domains under $250 [...]
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ItalianRestaurants.com Sells For $17,000 On Domaining.com |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Less than one month (and a few dozen sales) after Domaining.com started to list featured domains on their site and newsletter they have announce a major sale.
They have confirmed that ItalianRestaurants.com has been sold for $17,000 - Domaining.com’s first sale of a premium name sale at over $10k. May there be many more to come.
Prior to the sale the owner had put up the following description for the domain name:
“Italian food is the most popular in the world (pizza, pasta, ... READ MORE
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Ben Jerry’s Launches “Yes Pecan!”
Ice Cream Maker Partners with Common Cause to Celebrate Americans Uniting for Positive Change
BURLINGTON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vermont ice cream company, Ben Jerry’s, is wasting no time ringing in the leadership changes in Washington, D.C., by renaming its butter pecan flavor “Yes Pecan” in its Scoop Shops for the month of January, honoring the uniting
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Basket.com and MySoccer.com total up $138K + at Sedo |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Basket.com brought in a unique price of $88,888 and MySoccer.com brought in $50,000 at Sedo.com . Crunchy.com was reported sold for $6,000 and FitStart.com brought in $3,350 as well.
Basket.com, according to Whois.sc was purchased by Megaraptor Limited which is located in Hong Kong. As many know, 8 is a very lucky number in that area [...]
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Goodbye DNKitchen.com and Hello ChefPatrick.com |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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SURPRISE!
DNKitchen.com is no more. As you can see I created a completely new site with a new look and feel to it. Most of you already know me as Chef Patrick so this should be an extremely easy transition. Plus don’t worry, all the old links and feeds will continue to work.
I created this [...]
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The domain world has a long way to go |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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An already famous book was wrote last year by David Kesmodel titled The Domain Game. Sometimes that title speaks volumes if you really think about it.
Selling anything is like a big game. It’s just how professional you are playing this game and how educated.
Domaining isn’t a game to me but I think many think it [...]
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Adsense optimization - surprising results |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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I have read before about optimizing your AdSense ads including position, color etc and read the stories of big success mostly on the AdSense website. I always passed it off as not being terribly important to the bottom line but when redesigning one of my websites recently, I decided to play with the position. The [...]
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A Bright Spot in the Current Recession: Marketers Plan to Spend Big on Content Creation This Year |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Despite the recession many marketers are planning to increase their spending in several areas online. Content creation will be one of the big winners in 2009 as advertisers invest in their own content for use on social media platforms, blogs and microsites, as well as in newsletters, email campaigns and online video.
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Nielson Releases Search Data For November |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Nielson Research released its November search share ratings by provider today.
The research shows that Google Year to Year growth was almost 22% while Yahoo search was down 1.5% and Microsoft Search was down almost 17%, here are the full results
Provider [...]
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JournalSpace.com Domain Name For Sale After Ex-Employee Deletes Harddrives |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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JournalSpace.com was a blogging platform along with the many others available on the web but not any longer thanks to an ex-employee and no backups.
Recently, all the data on the company’s harddisks disappeared and attempts to retrieve the data were in vein as someone had overwritten the disk - according to DriveSavers.
It appears an employee who was looking after JournalSpace’s IT sabotaged the harddrives just before leaving the company - reportedly he was fired for stealing from the firm.
With no ... READ MORE
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Register.com’s Customer Service Lie |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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J.D. Power should reconsider Register.com’s call center award.
Domain name registrar Register.com likes to tout its J.D. Power and Associates call center certification. Perhaps their call center representatives are friendly, but the company’s policies make it difficult to get trivial things done.
If you’ve ever had a domain at register.com, you know they require you to [...]
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Dough! Mrs. Fields Loses 1800cookies.com Case |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Cookie and gift seller loses arbitration for domain 1800cookies.com.
Cookie and gift company Mrs. Fields has lost an arbitration case at National Arbitration Forum for the domain name 1800cookies.com. Mrs. Fields has a trademark for 1-800-Cookies, which is its primary phone number for ordering. It also uses the web address 800cookies.com. But the [...]
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Cease and Desist Shopping (.com) |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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The $50,000 T-Shirt from Zappos that comes with a filled RX for shopaholism.
Zappos.com today announces the offering of a limited edition “Cease and Desist” service and t-shirt designed exclusively for Zappos.com and available at http://www.zappos.com/50k
The rare collector’s item comes with a hefty price tag of $50,000 and a guarantee by Zappos to permanently disable a significant other’s
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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I’ve come to notice that many domain companies are run by professional business people rather than domainers. This isn’t really a bad thing, as I sometimes wish I had a CEO to guide me, but it seems that many of these companies want to distance themselves as far from domainers as possible. Some of these [...]
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Branded Entertainment Domain Heavy (.com) Serving up American Pie |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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American Pie's 'Stifler' Co-Anchors Heavy.com Sports Show
The Stifler -- er, Mr. Scott
Seann William Scott — better known as Steve Stifler of the raunchy '90s comedy American Pie — joins male entertainment site Heavy.com as co-host of The Burly Sports Show, a weekly round-up of all things sporting.
"This goes beyond a sponsorship," boasted CEO Simon Assaad of Heavy.com (via MediaPost). "What we
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FOX News: Scientists confirm Major Solar Storms in 2012 |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Click on 2012 tag below for the rest of it..... starting to become too much too dispute
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ICANN Advertises to the Mainstream, Update on New TLDs |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Ad in The Economist likely the first of many.
As I finished the Christmas Double Issue of The Economist, I flipped through the final pages of ads and was surprised to see this:
Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) promised to do mainstream marketing for the launch of new top level domains, and this is [...]
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Mystery Domain Auction Shuts Down |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Mystery Domain Auction has shut down.
After just 4 short days, John Motson has shut down his controversial Mystery Domain Auction site, according to a blog post on his site. Apparently Motson was worried about both legal issues and technical problems toward the end of the auction. I would be somewhat surprised if PayPal [...]
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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It seems that the Domaining Revolution has ended. For those of you not familiar with the MysteryDomainAuction.com story please read here.
This is directly from John Motson…
“Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers and some NamePros members about the legality of an all-pay auction in the US where [...]
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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It seems that the Domaining Revolution has ended. For those of you not familiar with the MysteryDomainAuction.com story please read here.
This is directly from John Motson…
“Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers and some NamePros members about the legality of an all-pay auction in the US where [...]
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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It seems that the Domaining Revolution has ended. For those of you not familiar with the MysteryDomainAuction.com story please read here.
This is directly from John Motson…
“Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers and some NamePros members about the legality of an all-pay auction in the US where [...]
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Domaining.com update to fee based site |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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The owner has posted a recent update from my last post about Domaining.com charging for it’s service. Here is the status of Domaining.com for it’s members and future members. The following is from Francois:
"Well I think this time I definitively got the point as now Domaining.com is FREE:
No need to register to read headlines!
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The membership [...]
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2009 Predictions From Various Domainers That You Can’t Live Without! |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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I had an idea to get the opinions of a bunch of domainers on what they feel were solid upcoming trends for 2009. Unfortunately, there didn#8217;t seem to be much interest in participating, as only 11 of 29 replied. To those 11, many thanks and I appreciate your time. To the other 18#8230; party poopers!
Anyways, [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrendDomaining/~4/503358053" height="1" width="1"/
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