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DNForum Adds New Category $20 Dropping

Posted in DNForum, Opinions on July 7th, 2008 by Michael – 3 Comments

DNForum Adds New Category for dropping soon domains, for a fixed price of $20.

I think it’s a great idea and I just listed a few of mines there to try it out.

Domainers deal with renewals on a weekly basis and it’s frequently a hard decision to either renew or let it go. It can be quite disturbing to see a domain you forgot to renew end up selling for 4 figures on an expired auction, but these things happen.

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Be-free-of-maybe.eu

Posted in Funny, Opinions on June 23rd, 2008 by Michael – 2 Comments

Here is a little something I picked up in the Prague airport.

Must be one of the most ridiculous domains I’ve seen in a while, but hey if it works for them.

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Click on the image to enlarge it: Be-free-of-maybe.eu, UniCredit Group

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What Makes a domain Sellable

Posted in Articles, Blogs, How to Sell, Opinions, Tips on May 29th, 2008 by Michael – Be the first to comment

An interesting series of posts by Rick here:

What makes a domain sellable?
What makes a domain sellable part 2
What makes a domain sellable, part 3
What makes a domain sellable, part 4

Some good tips there and I can agree with most. Domains with clear and obvious use are much easier to sell. They are however harder to find at good prices.

Short domains may have less possible development ideas, but they are a great collectible item which value will only go up.

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Recent LLLL.com Sales Compilation – 5

Posted in AfterNic, Auctions, Lists, LLLL.com, NameJet, Opinions, Pool, Sedo, SnapNames on May 26th, 2008 by Michael – 1 Comment

Here is the fifth monthly Recent LLLL.com Sales compilation. LLLL.com’s are the most frequently traded domaining commodity on all forums and auctions and it’s thus crucial to be up to date with the quickly changing prices.

The list includes last 3-5 days of sales on different venues based on TDVR database and NP sales thread.

CVCV.com’s and 3 letter repeating LLLL.com’s remain the most wanted among 4L’s.  Minimum price for  quad premiums is about $325, while without  F and H they usually go up to $350-400 and more.

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aavp.com $184
gdcv.com $79
GGXG.com $254
vvnv.com $214
xtwe.com $33
yfqp.com $33
yqcu.com $33
yzve.com $33
ayiu.com $81
bonm.com $365
bskm.com $85
cxbu.com $31
Hily.com $1,050
jifa.com $3,200
lzxp.com $40
mzdk.com $40
oyxt.com $36
rurw.com $84
sivy.com $60 read more »

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Time to Buy Mars Domains

Posted in News, Opinions on May 26th, 2008 by Michael – 3 Comments

NASA successful landing on Mars should draw more attention to the Red Planet and it’s a good time to grab some decent Mars related domains if you haven’t yet..

Despite the success of NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity missions, directors remained anxious Sunday over the first-ever landing of a probe near Mars’ north pole to find signs of life.

“I do not feel confident. But in my heart I’m an optimist, and I think this is going to be a very successful mission,” said principal investigator Peter Smith, an optical scientist with the University of Arizona. “The thrill of victory is so much more exciting than the agony of defeat.”  Forex brokers

The Mars Phoenix Lander was wrapping up its 296-day, 422 million-mile journey Sunday, with about a 50-50 chance of a successful touchdown on the arctic plains of the Red Planet, NASA officials said. read more »

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Don’t Sell LLLL.com’s on Sedo!

Posted in LLLL.com, Opinions, Sedo on May 20th, 2008 by Michael – 4 Comments

Don’t sell quad premium 4l.com’s and quad premium 4l.com’s with 3 repeating letters on Sedo! Strangely enough the prices on sedo no reserve auctions for these don’t reach near the levels that people  are ready to pay for them on domaining forums.

That said, it’s true sedo has some good deals lately, if you’re planning to grab a few good LLLL.com’s go buy some there.

A quick comparison: DDDB.com is now taking offers on DNF, as of now the highest offer is $1500, a few similar and even domains ended considerably lower on sedo:

SSSA.com $1,108.00 05/02/2008 Sedo
dddf.com $905.00 04/23/2008 Sedo

read more »

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100 Days of Blogging

Posted in Blogs, Opinions on May 19th, 2008 by Michael – 4 Comments

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It’s been 100 days of blogging on DomainMagnate.com today, since then I posted 166 posts and here are the most popular ones:

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What Buffet Recommends

Posted in Opinions, Tips on May 6th, 2008 by Michael – 1 Comment

I recently stumbled upon shoemoney.com blog and found an interesting post about Berkshire Hathaway weekend meeting, featuring some of the legendary investor’s insights:

Religion – He is agnostic. A true agnostic. He just does not know and neither do I.

Investing – investing in what you know and understand. Diversification is for the idiot investor – I can’t agree with this more. read more »

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Interview With DomainBits by DomainMagnate

Posted in Articles, Interviews, Opinions, Tips on April 30th, 2008 by Michael – 6 Comments

DomainMagnate.com presents an interview with Jeff from DomainBits.com

Details about yourself, occupation, age, location.
Hi Michael! Thanks for the interview. I’m in my late 30s, and live in Ottawa, Canada, with my wife and 4-year old son. My wife and I work together from home – on domaining as well as marketing and running our websites. I also write the blog DomainBits and write for DomainNews. I really like domaining as I like to do things my way, and domaining has no paths that you need to follow – you create your own path and your own success. Staying in my pyjamas all day, being around for my son when he’s not in school, and making good money are all good perks too!

What is your primary focus, e.g. generics, country tlds, short domains etc?
I think that for people who are newer to the industry, there are lots of good opportunities in ccTLDs. These domains are much cheaper than .com domains, and there is solid end user money coming into these extensions to ensure that they continue to do well in the long haul and are not simply speculative bubbles.

So, I concentrate on ccTLDs. I particularly concentrate on UK, Canadian and Indian domains. I’ve found .uk is a particularly strong ccTLD, and my .uk domains do well in terms of type-in traffic and end user offers. I’m in Canada, so I understand the local business climate well, and so I invest in .ca for that reason. I like .in and .co.in for the long term, as India is a huge market whose primary language is English and where there is still going to be a large movement to the internet by both consumers and businesses. read more »

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Frequency Analysis of Top LLLL.com Sales

Posted in Lists, LLLL.com, Opinions on April 29th, 2008 by Michael – 2 Comments

Letter quality brings up heated discussions every time on domaining forums and that’s not surprising since this is one of the top indicators for LLLL.com pricing.

In this post I’ve done some frequency analysis on the 200 top LLLL.com sales from last 4 months. These are all the reported sales above $2000 so it should shed more light on the subject.

As expected ‘q’ is the worst letter, but so is ‘j’ and ‘z’ is very close. The 4 premium vowels are the more popular letters and together make up almost 1/3 of all letters used there, so you better have one of them if you want your LLLL.com domain to sell for $2k+ .. can’t argue with the numbers ;)

And the results are..

a 9.25%
o 8.75%
e 7.00%
i 6.50%
s 6.13%
n 5.38%
m 5.00% read more »

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