This is the first of a series of interviews with different domainers intended to let everyone express their views, opinions and share their experience.
I think it will be interesting for most domainers to see how their fellows are doing. If you’d like to get interviewed feel free to contact. Domainers with all levels of experience will be given an equal chance here. read more »
A short sales report here on recent premium LLLL.com sales above $1k from last 10 days:
Aido.com $6,000.00 03/26/2008 Afternic
pcga.com $6,750.00 03/26/2008 Sedo
foqa.com $1,301.00 03/24/2008 NameJet
HIQI.com $1,055.00 03/22/2008 SnapNames
JAPS.com $8,200.00 03/22/2008 NameJet
ogit.com $1,038.00 03/22/2008 TDNAM
cozu.com $1,801.00 03/21/2008 Sedo
gmix.com $1,850.00 03/21/2008 Sedo
wuge.com $1,050.00 03/21/2008 Sedo read more »
Here is one auction to watch closely on eBay
iSearch.com – can it be the next search engine by Apple, or another major web-portal? Either way in the right auction, like the next moniker Traffic, it can fetch 6 figures.
So lets see how much eBay users have to offer. As of now highest offer is little over $40K with 2 hours remaining. My guess is it won’t hit the reserve..
Update: auction ended at $60K. This is truly one of these domains that their price depends largely on how and where you sell them. I’m sure we’ll see this name again this year making big news in the top sales 
Another great story by Ron from dnjournal:
Born to Run: How Oversee.net Co-Founder and CEO Lawrence Ng Built a $200 Million Company Before His 30th Birthday
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
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 »
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 »
Moniker.com Brokers Sale of Bored.com for US $4.5 Million
Moniker, an Oversee.net company and the leading provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced that it has successfully brokered the sale of Bored.com for US $4 million and an associated portfolio of 170 websites for US $500,000.
Bored.com was established in 1997 and today provides more than two million visitors a month with solutions to the age-old question of what to do when you are bored. The site serves as a portal linking to leading sites in music, humor, gaming, quizzes & trivia, and more.
The sales agreement includes several assets associated with continuing the current business model. The site will remain operational under its new owner, JW Media. Other online properties currently being developed by JW Media include BuyShoes.com and Campout.com. read more »