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Sedo To Hold Travel Domain Auction

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | No Comments »

Sedo has announced it will hold a Travel and Geographical domain-themed auction from 9 a.m. EST on March 5, 2010 to 9 a.m. EST on March 12, 2010. Domain names like Belgium.com, Algeria.com, Angola.com, Bangladesh.com, Cameroon.com, Denmark.net, Mali.com, Morocco.com, Nepal.com, PuertoRico.com, Scotland.com, Sweden.com are just some of the domain names that will be presented in [...]

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The Importance And Rise In Value Of ccTlds – Geotargeting

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

A lot of people do not realize this but for a while now Google has been taking into account a website’s domain extension and the brower’s location when displaying search results. As a result of this, if you search for “sport” when accessing Google’s UK search page (Google.co.uk) you will get 10 UK based result [...]

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ShadyUrl – The Opposite Of A Clean Url

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

Spam sucks. I know it, you know it. We all do. It’s bad for business, and being associated with spam in any way can hurt your business too. We tend to associate weird urls with spam – mainly because weird urls usually take us to weird content that can screw with our PC – viruses, [...]

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Wimp.no – Some People Just Don’t Get It

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

According to TechCrunch, Norwegian tech companies Aspiro and Platekompaniet are launching a music streaming service for Norwegian users. The service “is launching with streaming deals with over 20 content providers for over 6.5 million songs, including the four major record companies and a number of smaller independent partners. These include Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI, [...]

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“Super” Domain Sale Bonanza

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | 2 Comments »

Sedo – the online domain marketplace – has seen a number of domain sales with the “super” prefix in the last few days. Firstly, the domains supermechanics.com, superpainters.com, and superelectricians.com sold for $10,000 US each, while superbrains.com sold for $2,388 US and supergreen.com went for $2,550 USD. These sales have now been followed by superplumbing.com [...]

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PleaseRobMe.com – Is The Danger Real?

Posted on February 19th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

A lot of big sites have featured PleaseRobMe.com – the mock website that shows the dangers of Tweeting out FourSquare physical locations – in the last few days (Techcrunch, Gawker, Mashable just to name a few). The website, which is basically a glorified Twitter search page for @foursquare status updates, highlights locations of people who [...]

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Some Nice Names On SnapNames Right Now

Posted on February 19th, 2010 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | No Comments »

The following domain names are either listed for sale on SnapNames, are in auction or are about to drop and can be back-ordered with SnapNames. They are directly linked to the bid screen. fastvacations.com simple.net snappyshirts.com cakeworld.com auctionfeed.com socialology.com ifemales.com audiocookbook.com latestbooks.com crazyporn.com ciku.com Good luck!

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thisiswhyyourefat.com – An Ode to “junk food porn”

Posted on February 19th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

I ran into an interesting website today – thisiswhyyourefat.com featuring food “where dreams become heart attacks”. The website with the interesting domain name (they also own thisiswhyyouarefat.com) is seen as a commentary on North American dietary habits and/or a celebration of the deliciously bad. Either way, the authors of the site (and the book that’s [...]

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Drop.com.au Records Record Sale

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Back in November 2009 we featured an Australian dropcatching service – drop.com.au – that was ran by Dark Blue Sea (famous for Fabulous.com and FabulousDomains.com). A past record purchase via drop.com.au was for the domain name printing.com.au for a AUD 9221.00, but a few days ago this record was broken as bids in the auction [...]

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Estibot Releases Free Domain Development Guide

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Esa, the owner of estibot.com, just announced on his blog that he has finished writing his 40 page domain development guide, which you can download for free from his server. Esa states that the ebook is a guide to “monetizing domain names through development” and covers both beginner and advanced strategies, keyword analysis, domain name [...]

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