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Domainer Arrested For Blackmail

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Police arrested a man in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday at a construction company office on the charge of domain name blackmail. Huynh Chi Hieu, 24, was caught red-handed receiving VND30 million (US$1,860) from the Hoa Sen Group, also known as the Lotus Steel Sheet Company (LSSC), at its office on Ly Tu Trong [...]

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Orlando Traffic East: GasPrices.com Sells for $225,000

Posted on May 24th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

Andrew of DomainNameWire.com was live on site at the Orlando Traffic East conference during the Moniker auction and he reports some interesting domain sales: GasPrices.com sells for $225,000 Susan.com $50,000 Grass.com $70,000 InsuranceRates.com $225,000 Sagittarius.com $33,500 Athlete.com $122,000 Track.com $92,500 TVschedule.com $17,000 SpecialOffer.com $35,000 Ow.com $120,000 Closings.com $25,000 Maybe.com $40,000 ComputerParts.com $80,000 BlueRay.com $30,000 Rainbow.com [...]

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Cars.com takes on truck market with acquisition of PickupTrucks.com

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

Cars.com announced recently it is expanding its automotive offering to cater for truck buyers and advertisers with its acquisition of PickupTrucks.com, an authoritative web source for pickup truck news and information. PickupTrucks.com was launched in 1995, by Mike Levine – a renowned truck writer and site editor. PickupTrucks.com delivers unbiased content, tools and information exclusively [...]

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ParkingSpots.com – parking of a different kind

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Before you rush to register and try and park your domain name at this little beauty, let me tell you that this site caters for parking of a different kind. Or, looking at it from the point of a view of a normal, non-domainer person, ParkingSpots.com allows people to rent car parking spots across the [...]

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America.com goes on auction

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Recently I blogged about America.com going on auction. Well, the time for auction has come with the mother of all Geo domains being auctioned off on sedo right now. The auction started yesterday and will end on the 29 May 2008. The Botson Globe is even predicting this domain sale could top the 12 million [...]

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Another quality web contest

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

As you are all aware I launched a big contest a couple of days ago, but it’s not the only contest around at this moment. My friend John Cow is holding a doozy of his own – the cowpetition. There are $3,000 worth of prizes to be won including a $100 from DealDotCom, copies of [...]

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22/05/2008 Free List Of 137 Expired Domains

Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by admin in Expired Domains | No Comments »

I posted a list of 137 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to register on the FREE forum. If you want to learn more about domaining and how I find these [...]

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Contest Additional Task #1 – Digg Your Way To Success

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 39 Comments »

This additional task is to help you earn additional points in the greatest domaining and blogging contest ever. If you haven’t entered the contest yet, you still have a great chance – you can win $9,000 worth of cash and prizes and you know that you gotta be in it to win it. Today I [...]

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Domain-me.com – Scam or Stupidity?

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

As you all know I reported about the new .me domain extension en masse in the past and the extension launched recently. Interestingly, today I did a search on Google checking for “register me domain” (without the quotation marks) and the website domain-me.com appeared as the third result of the search. Ok, so it’s some [...]

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American Idol winner’s domain names

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

Seems like finally famous or famous-to-be people are starting to think ahead when it comes to domain names and what they mean in terms of their overall marketing plan. The American Idol winner is to be announced within the next few hours and the winner will be chosen between David Archuleta and David Cook. A [...]

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