Posts tagged domaining

Domain News Roundup

Oct 27th

Posted by mediawizard in Domain Names

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a. Funniest domain blog on the planet – Domain Gang – nothing is real, everything is funny and the writer seems to be on the good stuff. Hats off, good job. Nice racy style, lots of fun reading.

b. Sedo’s $50 commission is the new minimum commission. The rules for selling at a flat 10% are that the domain must be parked there for min. 32 days plus it must be listed at a fixed price. We have most of our domains there as ‘make offer’, a lot of them are priced, but that doesn’t make them ‘fixed price’ as per Sedo.

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The Different Types of Domainers

Apr 10th

Posted by mediawizard in Domain Names

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There are quite a few approaches to domains and domaining that domainers take. Its like the stock market or real estate market to a certain extent, everyone has their own strategy and most of them pay well for their proponents. I’ve pretty much seen most of the types and will try and enumerate them to enable you to follow what you’d rather be doing.

The Investor These are the sharpest of them all. Buy good quality when prices are low, hold long term, sell high. These guys hold onto assets, maybe even develop them, ensure that they’re hot and in demand when More >

The LLLL.com Conundrum

Apr 4th

Posted by mediawizard in Domain Names

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I’ve been watching the LLLL.com or four letter .com scenario, fairly closely, for the longest of times. I started using DomainTools (or whois.sc as it was known then) to harvest these lists for a while in 2006. In fact, thats what got me interested in domaining in the first place. Well that and the fact that our programs were churning out domains that were nice seo-wise but terrible viz brand value, but thats another story.

In the beginning, around middle of 2006, there were hundreds of LLLL.com available for hand regs, even then though, single words were gone, so were More >

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