Domain Magnate

The most popular thread on dnforum currently is this one: Domainers are Losers

As usually the dumbest threads get the highest exposure, but naturally there are also a couple good points raised in the thread. The OP intended that most people joining the industry don’t succeed that well, and this is probably right, same way as in any other business. Many domainers mentioned their successes as well in the posts.

Some interesting posts worth mentioning: read more »

Dickinson.com For Sale

Bin is set to $24k for this gem and I’m currently considering offers on dnforum and here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinson

NetSol
Expiration Date: 2009-03-24
Creation Date: 1995-03-23

9 Cities and Counties in US
Dozens of famous people, including Emily Dickinson

28 Million results in google
180/day searches on wordtracker, 3025 searches for “Emily Dickinson”

Family names can be extremely expensive, Branson.com sold for $1,6 million two years ago.

I’m putting one of my top 4 letter domain for sale:

Hace.com

- Amazing 4 letter domain, CVCV
- 275 Million google results! (for comparison thin.com recently sold for $200k and it has less than 200M results in google)
- Large number of different acronyms and meanings

Bin $25,000
Also considering offers in the low $xx,xxx range
You can contact me at contact @ this domain
Registered till 2010 in Fabulous
Payment only through escrow.com, or bank wire, buyer pays fees.

Also posted on DNF and NP

New cool high for CVCV.com domains, mope.com recently reached $9k on sedo

It’s a top cvcv with a million google results, but nowhere as good as dato.com, which we sold for $9k!

According to the recently published stats by hitwise (first posted here), Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending April 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.28, 6.26 and 4.17 percent respectively. The remaining 45 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.40 percent of U.S. searches.

Hitwise data is based on the sample of 10 million US Internet users.  christianity read more »

Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other Internet reference sites in search of better answers

Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals.

Besides Dictionary.com, Ask is picking up Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Terms of the deal, set to be announced Thursday, aren’t being disclosed. read more »

DATO.com

- 70 Million google results
- Means “Data” in Spanish – one of the most valuable keywords
- DataRecovery.com recently sold for $1.7 MILLION!
- VINO.com was on GreatDomains auction last month and bidding went up to $66K

Bid here

Perfect domain for any IT related company in a Spanish speaking country and one of the best CVCV.com’s around!

DATO means Data in Spanish, but to the hundreds of possible endusers around the world, DATO is so much more than a Spanish dictionary word. Can you say 80 million + Google results? How about literally hundreds of daily Wordtracker results which include the word “dato” in them?

DataRecovery.com recently sold for $1.7 MILLION dollars! Spanish is the MOST POPULAR foreign language in the United States and ranks THIRD Worldwide in Internet users.

We ask you this… What would Data.com go for? Pause. Think about that for a sec…
Then tell me how Dato.com isn’t one of not only the greatest spanish generics auctioned this year, but one of the greatest generics period. Worldwide Internet penetration continues to increase… This is a domain which will forever have value, forever be recognize as a Tier 1 Spanish domain, and continue to increase in value for many, many years to come.

Need I really say more? If I haven’t sold you on DATO yet, I don’t think you’ve been listening — or you clearly don’t understand THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY IN THIS CENTURY, which is premium foreign language domain names.

DATO is an incredibly strong CVCV that flows off the tongue like any True CVCV should. DATO is being offered to you with NO RESERVE. In short, this domain WILL SELL, regardless of what’s offered. Arguably The Strongest CVCV offered on Sedo EVER.

Compare this to VINO (wine in Italian) which received offers of $60,000 and DID NOT MEET THE RESERVE. We’re giving you a once in a lifetime chance to pick up a Tier 1 premium for pennies on the dollar… There might never be an opportunity like this again!

Compare to domains like:

POPA.com sold on Sedo $15000+
ZOYO.om sold on Sedo 6000EUR ($9000+)

… and I think you’ll feel as confident as me in saying that this is a 6 figure domain any day of the week to a Spanish enduser.

Thi came as surprise..

according to a letter from Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang.

But Yahoo demanded at least $53 billion, or $37 per share, according to Ballmer. That would have been nearly double Yahoo’s stock price of $19.18 at the time Microsoft first made its bid a little over three months ago.

“Clearly a deal is not to be,” Ballmer wrote.

A spokeswoman for Sunnyvale-based Yahoo didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. read more »

I was just checking the recent sales of cvcv.com at tdvr.com and noticed a strange thing.

Both sold on sedo, same week, almost same letters and similar quality, yet such a big difference in price, why?

“Fehu” has 162K results in google and there is a developed site over at fehu.org, with alexa below 1 million, so it has some traffic. It also seems to have some mystical meaning, but that can hardly contribute much to a reseller price. read more »

The Monthly GreatDomains Closed with pizza.com fetching 2.6M today – would be interesting to see who bought it once the whois changes – if it does, for all we know about sedo it could’ve been a hoax. Iinspired by this domain’s sale price Pizza.info has now been put up for sale at Sedo as well. Bidding is currently at $1,050.

Accesories.com – a typo, with high number of google results sold for $7700

Fela.com ended at $6700 – not bad premium cvcv.com prices are on the rise and they are the new LLL.com now.

VYI.com ended at $8k.

DRT.com ended at only $21K, needless to say the reserve wasn’t met.