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Constant Renewal Notifications

Michael — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:21:25 +0000

The biggest problem of having a portfolio of over 3,000 domains is of course the renewals, but not only the decision what to renew and what to drop is tricky, but the most annoying part is the constant renewal emails. Some registrars like to send multiple emails for each domain which creates huge amounts of emails in my inbox. I’m getting these on a weekly basis and usually tend to ignore.

Every month or so I login to my main registrar accounts and renew the domains which are to expire. Not a well organized process yet, but I don’t like to use auto-renewals and I usually renew the top domains for a couple years upfront.

There is software like dnzoom that helps automate this stuff, which is sensible for large portfolios, however giving all your registrar passwords to one site seems a little too much for me, besides it’s not really something you can’t manage manually.

Naturally sometimes I forget to renew good names and lose them..

How do you manage renewals?

Property.com Sold By Rick Shwartz

Michael — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:33:18 +0000

Rick Shwartz, aka the domain king, recently announced his sale of Property.com to Foreclosure.com.

The sale is obviously marked as one of the highest in the domain industry, however the price wasn’t made public.. for all we know it could $500k.. or $1M, or $5M. Or $10M, as many domainers would expect.

Dnjournal has the full cover

All Other blogs reported the news: (more…)

Recent Big Sales

Michael — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35:13 +0000

A few top sales recently:
Revolution.org Sells for $120,000 by Sedo in one of the top .org sales so far.
GoPlay.com - $26,300 On NameJet. Namejet is becoming the new snapnames! Generic .com names fetch top prices at NJ.
Contrary.com $10,363

MOOT.com for $45K on Sedo

NamePros is Down Again

Michael — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:23:19 +0000

Namepros is having some technical difficulties and the forum is not working currently. This happens very frequently lately, which is getting quite annoying. They should get a new server, or something.

I got a bunch of pm notifications by email and I can’t view them.

More Stolen Domains

Michael — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:59:18 +0000

Another scammer popped up in dnforum and tried to sell a few 3 and 4 letter domains:

It’s was xandomains, Yang Xin from Shanghai, who is now banned on dnf.

Among the stolen names are:
ZRU.com
LNTH.COM
LTGP.COM
TDBF.COM
ANIL.com
0L9.COM
ENCD.COM
KFAL.COM
FYUP.COM
UNWB.COM
More info here and here

Available GEO Domains For Grabs

Michael — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:45:26 +0000

Here is a list of available names I recently checked:

BinghamCanyonCopperMine.com
BlackCanyonofTheGunnisonNationalMonument.com
CanyonDeChellyNationalMonument.com
CasaGrandeRuinsNationalMonument.com
ChacoCultureNationalHistoricalPark.com
ChimneyRockNationalHistoricSite.com
ColonialWilliamsburgHistoricArea.com
CumberlandGapNationalHistoricalPark.com
FlorissantFossilBedsNationalMonument.com
GlenCanyonNationalRecreationArea.com
GrandStaircaseEscalanteNationalMonument.com
GreatSandDunesNationalParkandPreserve.com
HavasupaiIndianReservation.com
KennedySpaceCenterandCapeCanaveralAirStation.com
LittleBighornBattlefieldNationalMonument.com
MedicineBowMountains.com (more…)

Adsense Pays Well on GEO

Michael — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:06:56 +0000

Since I’ve started developing my US city domains I’ve been positively surprised by the adsense clicks.

In general my average adsense clicks are between $0.20-0.30 through out my sites, but the US city names had many clicks in the $0.5-$1 range. The traffic is as targeted as you can get and it’s easy to understand why advertisers would be willing to spend more, but these are relatively small cities, so the number of advertisers is quite limited.

These clicks are definitely nothing compared to what one could earn by attracting direct advertisers. I just read on dnjournal that PalmSprings.com earns over a million dollars a year only from the homepage! This definitely shows the potential in geo domains and pretty clear plan: get a top city domain, make some site and make it rank well in google, find advertisers to purchase banners for some annual fee. (more…)

GeoDomain Expo by Dnjournal

Michael — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:56:27 +0000

Dnjournal has an interesting story today about the recent GeoDomain conference.

Highly recommended to all geo domain owners. Among the contest nomination for top developed city domains were such gems as:

Vegas.com
Richmond.com
Hawaii.com
Branson.com (more…)

LLL.ca and NNN.ca Names For Sale

Michael — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:37:55 +0000

I’m reducing my .ca portfolio and selling some 3 letter and 3 number names at very attractive prices.

Having some of these in your portfolio is a must for any Canadian domainer. The LLL.ca were all registered last year and since then the prices have been growing steadily. Canadian domains can only be registered by Canadian residents.

First person to post sold gets the name/s, payment expected within 24 hours.

See the 3 letter/3 number list below: (more…)

SS.tv Sold for $21500

Michael — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:07:26 +0000

SS.tv appears listed in sedo recent sales for $21500.

Reminds about the story with SS.com, which was previously reported to have been sold for a hefty amount, but the sale didn’t go through.

Either way it’s a pretty decent amount for a .tv domain.

There were also some nice hyphenated sales:

sugar-bear.com $788
ice-rink.com $840
organic-spices.com $825
venetian-blinds.com $900