Another Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: How Getting 15K For Pepe.com May Have Hurt a Little
I don’t know the seller of Pepe.com and I don’t know what they paid for it…but I do know human nature. When you sell something to someone and they immediately turn it around for a huge profit, you kick yourself. You don’t really care that you didn’t have the contacts, the ability, or even the [...]
ICANN Decides Kenya is Safe Enough
I’ve been pretty hard on ICANN over the last few years only because I just don’t feel they look out for anyone but themselves. To prove they don’t look out for anyone, they’ve decided that Nairobi Kenya would make a nice venue for their latest meeting. According to Rod Beckstrom “Security is a concern for [...]
Proof There is No Regulation In Domaining: YourSiteCan.be
I’ve received a lot of deceiving emails and letters in my years of domaining but this is the first actual site that has drawn my ire. YourSiteCan.be (not going to give link) is a site that sells “information” regarding the registrations of new TLDs. The problem, you can make up your own TLD. Any TLD. [...]
MousePath Turns Into Internet Art Sensation
A few days ago I did an article about Mouse Path. Over the last few days I’ve realized that this little program has quite a following. The beauty of it is its simplicity. A mouse tracker that records the movements of your mouse through line drawings and circles. Rather than use it as a tool, [...]
10 Different Ways to Make an Extra 20K Domaining
I don’t domain for a full time job. I can’t make enough (not even close) to what I make in the “real” world. My family has had our business since 1865 and I absolutely love what I do and if I don’t say myself, I’m quite good at it. But I also [...]
Creative Comment Spamming By “Rashid Mahmood” and Domain-Clearinghouse
We’ve all seen the bots and the comment spammers visit our sites. They seem to be getting more and more creative and are getting tougher to stop. One of the latest spammer goes by the comment name “Rashid Mahmood” and all his links lead to Domain-Clearinghouse. I’m actually quite impressed with the way it works [...]
The Problem With Moving TRAFFIC Auction to the Next Morning Summed Up in One Photo
I think this photo pretty much summed up the problem of the TRAFFIC auction moving to early the next morning. A morning after the last night of going out for most conference attendees in Vegas. To the rest of the world 10 o’clock is not that early but in Vegas it’s like having it at [...]
And the First iPad Domain Name Sells for………..
The first iPad domain iPad.de is about to go off at auction over at Sedo and so far the price is a little over $7000 with about 20 hrs to go. The owners , DomainFactory of Germany are pretty experienced domain owners with 314,000 names in their portfolio so they knew the time [...]
WordPress Theme Designer Goes Missing and Her Domain Is Fetching Huge Money
Becca Wei of Hong Kong was a hit in the world of Wordpress Themes. With Themes like Ocadia and Almost Spring, she made simple and clean themes that people seemed to like. Her site Beccary received thousands of uniques per month and had over 8000 links. Then in June 2007 she she decided to [...]
In 1999 Good Domains Were Impossible to Find
At least that’s what Mark Gibbs thought in an article written in 1999 for Network World. It’s easy to look back and laugh…..so I did. I figure I wasn’t smart enough to buy generic domains back then so I like to look back and read articles about “domaining” (not a word back then) from the [...]
