Happens Every Day: Guy Buys Two Domains From Me on Sedo for $1400 and Lets Them Expire

Things like this don't surprise me any more but I still have to shake my head. I was doing my daily run through of the expiring auctions at Godaddy and noticed two domains that looked familiar. Wuby and Vuby.com. They were two names that I sold at auction to the same person on Sedo in 2010.   Evidently he lost track of his purchases and forgot to renew them at which Godaddy takes over and puts them up for auction. I actually could care less that they expired except for one thing. Vuby.com sold for more than twice what I sold it for.     Nobody likes to see names the... Read More »

Trying To Take What I Know About Landing Pages and Use It to Create a Billboard

Usually its the opposite. A brick and mortar guy takes what he knows about advertising and tries to use it to create an online marketing campaign. But I have it backwards. While I am no master of the landing page, a little trial and error and one Tim Ash DomainFest seminar and I'm better than I used to be. You have one goal, a clear and concise message that gets them to take a certain action. To much flash and you have sensory overload. Too much clutter and they don't navigate the site in the way you desire. You get a few seconds to get it right and if you don't, they simply leave. I think billboards ar... Read More »

Here are a Few of My Recent Domain Purchases

I was hand registering a domain name last night and realized I hadn't shared any of my recent domain purchases.  As I stated earlier I'm starting to concentrate on buying names for resale or plant and landscape names. I haven't purchased any high priced names if only because I haven't found a name and a price that fit my needs.  In the meantime here are a few names I've purchased recently. LiriopeSpicata.com  I hand registered this for 10 years using the $2.95 a year special.  I sell and purchase 10-15K of these plants a year.  Bare root prices for this have doubled over the last year and I thin... Read More »

You Know Why You Can’t Find An Available Dot Com? Because 100 Million of Them are Already Taken

According to DomainTools.com , there are now over 100 million dot com domains under registration with Verisign.  Currently the dot com tld add 22,000 new registrations per day and as of yesterday there were 99,837,548 domains shown taken using DNS lookup.  Add in the 2.1 million .com domain names in either Redemption or Pending Delete status and the 400,000 "dark domain" or domains that don't resolve and you've surpassed the 100 million mark.   More great news for those of us that own premium dot com and more great info from DomainTools.  Take a look below at the complete report DomainTools Estimat... Read More »