BankRate Inc made a few surprising purchases lately, paying millions of dollars for small one man sites. First was CreditCardGuide.com, a site that provides credit-card comparisons. According to compete.com it receives close to 200K monthly visitors from US. Still hard to imagine the site revenues being able to justify the $32 million pricetag the company… Read more »
Anything.com has a great portfolio of top generic domains. Picked up from a post on conceptualist.com and urlacademy.com
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…. Read more »
New LLLL.com PriceGuide by Reece is out As can be seen, prices have stabilized and are no longer fluctuating significantly in either direction, which is a good indicator of a healthy market long term. Lately, there have been far more lower quality LLLL.com sales than there have been higher quality LLLL.com sales, so I’ve been… Read more »
It’s been 100 days of blogging on DomainMagnate.com today, since then I posted 166 posts and here are the most popular ones: Chess.com – How a Premium Domain Should Be Used Why LLLL.com Domains Will Grow in Price Top .in Domains Owners AARR.com, DDRR.com, Bulg.com, NNPP.com, Slov.com, OOOM.com, Lidy.com, RonF.com, Xosi.com and many more at… Read more »
A recent interview with Rick Schwartz posted over at Search Feature: Mike Dammann: How did you get the idea to start the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Conference and Expos and how close are you to the search engine industry? Rick Schwartz: It started as a 12 person get together at my home. When 35 wanted to come… Read more »
A great post from Lord: This is My True Story There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside… Read more »
Hey all, If you haven’t noticed I’ve been adding and testing some wordpress plugins and additions to the blog. So far added: Related posts plugin to show related posts under each post with excerpt Show Top Commentators – to show top visitors of the blog that left most comments this month Subscribe to comments –… Read more »
Interesting and informative post by Sahar over at conceptualist.com: Looking at our top domain names, here are some patterns we may all learn something from: 1. One or two word generic (descriptive) domain names, all .com Self explanatory. 2. Traffic is usually strong and/or constant. Massive traffic on some of the single word domains (hundreds… Read more »
Conceptualist reports that Via Texada’s press release (PDF): TEXADA Software Inc. (TSX Venture: TXS), premier provider of equipment rental and mobile asset management software, today announced that it has sold the ownership of one of its Internet addresses for $400,000.