http://www.domainmagnate.com Making Money in Domaining The Safe Way Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:21:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/24/constant-renewal-notifications/ 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 ... http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/24/propertycom-sold-by-rick-shwartz/ 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 http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/22/recent-big-sales/ 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. http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/22/namepros-is-down-again/ 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  http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/22/more-stolen-domains/ 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 http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/22/available-geo-domains-for-grabs/ 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 ... http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/21/adsense-pays-well-on-geo/ 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 http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/21/geodomain-expo-by-dnjournal/ 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 ... http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/20/lllca-and-nnnca-names-for-sale/ 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 ... http://www.domainmagnate.com/2008/07/19/sstv-sold-for-21500/