Domain Magnate

Moniker released the list of domains to be auctioned in the next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West.

As usually there are many premiums and valuable names, like:

BJ.com, Fiesta.com, indian.com, meds.com, Offer.com, LOOK.com, WINDOW.COM, wife.com, Dance.com, Invest.net, PenisEnlargment.com, digitalphotos.com

and a few lower quality names, like: heartworms.com, B2BOMBER.COM, NewYorkCheesecake.com, FactChecking.com, CHECKAPPROVAL.COM

Check more here

Edited:

Some people complained that they didn’t like my blog theme so I tried a few other themes. But then I quickly realized they are all crap and I got to miss the previous one.

I love gold (big surprise there eh ) and it is awesome, so get used to it! At least until I find a really good designer to build me a new custom theme and logo.

P.S.: if you are a designer, don’t contact me unless you think you are really good! Send a few examples.

Now it’s official

ALL NNNNN.com Have Been Registered

The registrations rates were crazy in the past few days, even higher than with LLLL.com

Lets see how the prices rise now and how fast we can get to a minimum of $20-$25 for NNNNN.com. If there will be enough trading activity going then probably within a few weeks!

I’m going to start a priceguide on NNNNN.com’s soon.

See the historical countdown here

This is a complete guide on domain scammers that shows how to recognize and avoid scammers while trading domains.

There are several popular scamming schemes:

1. Scammer sells stolen domains

How it works:

Scammer trying to sell quickly a stolen domain for a bargain price.

A domain can be stolen by hacking into the a email address associated with it – like yahoo, or hotmail; or by means of social engineering, e.g. if a scammer contacts the registrar support and pretends to be the owner of the domain who forgot the password. Stealing passwords is also possible through keyloggers and trojans installed on the domain owner’s computer.

How to avoid having a domain stolen?

- don’t use free email addresses in your domain contact details. Most people still do this and it puts their valuable domain assets as higher risk. Instead use an email address from your own domain.
- install and run an antivirus and antispyware software, update it frequently and run scans. Here is a good guide on cleaning your computer from spyware and viruses.
- always use strong passwords, random letters and numbers that are near each other on the keyboard. Use different passwords for everything and a password manager to keep track of them. Roboform is recommended. Change the passwords once in a while.
- keep your whois contacts and registrar information up to date read more »

Yes it’s happening! For all the non believers, recent count shows only 1829 NNNN.com’s available only. The buyout is very close and it might happen within a few hours to a few days. After that it will be hard to find NNNNN.com’s at reg fee..

Half of the remaining NNNNN.com are starting with 0 and many contain 4.

Already sales are picking up. Here is a recent sale of NNNNN.com which appears to be a ZIP code for $40 on DP.

update: 982 remaining:


02037.com
02039.com
02057.com
02069.com
02075.com
02076.com
02079.com
02087.com
02091.com
02097.com
02219.com
02231.com
02253.com
02257.com
02263.com read more »

Yeah time passes by quickly. Would you believe it’s been a whole week since DomainMagnate.com was launched?

After one week the blog is averaging over 300 unique visitors per day and growing rapidly. I have big plans for this blog. Many cool things will come out soon.

Unlike many others I’ve been late to the domaining game. Domains with traffic and ppc income were/are too expensive and premium generics are unaffordable. The new players have to use new ways to succeed in domaining: finding bargain deals, following the buyouts and selling.

But there are still fortunes to be made and domaining seems to be living the new boom now, especially inspired by the super high prices of premium generics and quick rise in prices of short domains after big buyouts. Many consider this strategy very risky and it truly is, but the rewards are well worth the risk in this case.

So far most posts of the blog covered the buyouts, because it is the best way to make money in domaining now. How else can you get 1000% in 4 months, other than buying LLLL.com’s?

After the current NNNNN.com buyout we won’t see that many buyouts as in the last months so if you haven’t yet, go and buy some NNNNN.com today.

Change Your Domain Details Right After Buying

We all buy and sell domains on a daily basis and frequently the domains are not updated after the purchase. Buyer forgets or puts off changing the new owner information, or dns, thus still allowing the previous owner to earn the parking revenue. As strange as it may sound, but this situation is very common and frequently even leads to conflicts and losses, for example then a domainer realizes he doesn’t control the domain he purchased because he didn’t change the whois and the domain expired.

Always take this as a rule: right after you buy a domain first thing you do is change contact details (some registrars don’t do that for you automatically after the push, like Dotster, for example), change dns and add the domain to your parking accounts and to your domains list. Keep tracks of all your purchases and sales.

Do it now, thank me later

Marchex reports: $37 Million for The Fourth Quarter of 2007

Fourth Quarter 2007 Consolidated Financial Results:

• Revenue was $37.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to $32.6 million for the same period of 2006.
• GAAP net loss applicable to common stockholders was $774,000 for the fourth quarter of 2007 or $0.02 loss per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net income applicable to common stockholders of $5.0 million or $0.01 loss per diluted share for the same period of 2006. The GAAP diluted EPS calculation in 2006 excludes the effect of the non-cash non-recurring discount on preferred stock redemption of $5.8 million, net of dividends on the redeemed preferred shares of $197,000. The fourth quarter 2007 results included non-cash stock-based compensation expense recorded under the fair value method of $2.1 million, compared to non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $2.6 million for the same period in 2006. read more »

DNJournal reported today a bunch of new high $$ sales, among them 173.com which sold for an astonishing $302,790 through Moniker! Big news for numeric domains.

Other significant sales: read more »

NNNNN.com’s are running out by 2K registrations per day and around 6K are remaining right now.

Here is a list of better quality NNNNN.com’s that don’t have . All 5N’s with ’0′ at the end are already registered and ’0′ in other places, other than the last digit, is considered not good.

Download the list here

Also all NNNNN’s starting with 1,2 and 9 have been wiped out.
Please note that ’4′ is considered a bad digit as it supposedly brings bad luck in Chinese culture, but adding other digits, like 5,6,7 depending on the number might neutralize that effect. From that point it’s getting too complicated to be covered here, but you’re welcome to read up on numerology, thanks for the link to replic8te.

For me an easy way to get higher quality NNNNN’s is by simply checking google results for the number. Here are number of google results for the first 100 NNNNN’s from the list, sorted:

41758 154,000
41691 156,000
41679 236,000
41892 364,000
41738 365,000
41783 365,000
41857 365,000 read more »