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• Domain Names I Recently Sold – Part 2
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• The Risks of Buying a Company
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• Web Hosting Sucks
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• Fake Passwords
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• How A Domain Sale Works
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• Are Website Makeovers Worth It?
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• FindInfo.com – My Human Powered Search Engine
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• The Psychology of a Multi-Million Dollar Sale (Bored.com)
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• How to Get Rich Online
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• Big Domain Name Development
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• Domain Name Development
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• Making Money With Domain Name Parking
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• Partnerships
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• Dominatrix.com to be auctioned off at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin on August 25th
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• I still don’t understand why .eu names don’t do better.
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• Im Headed To Domainer Mardi Gras!
  Road Trip!!! Check items to pack: Guitar Digital Camcorder Laptop Marketing Collateral Appetite for…
• Picks for DomainFest 2010 Extended Online Auction
  During the course of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C live auction and the DomainFest live and no/low reserve aucti…

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trenddomaining.com

• One Year Anniversary!
  Welp, I would have included this with my post earlier today, but I only realized it a few moments ag…
• Could This Be The End?
  It’s been a while. I’ll be moving into my new house in 2 weeks. This, among other things, has be…
• Mistrust In Banks Will Lead To People Borrowing From… Each Other
  P2P Lending, otherwise known as person-to-person lending, people-to-people lending, peer-to-peer len…
• Make Way For Green Collar Jobs
  As the Going Green Train picks up more and more steam, new domaining opportunities are presenting th…
• Is Wikipedia Among Your Domaining Tools?
  So, my wife and I are about halfway done with building a house.  We’re having one built just outs…
• The Most, And Least, Affordable Cities To Live In
  The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index recently released some interesting info.  The page h…
• 20 Small Business Trends For 2009
  Small Business Trends recently published loads of trends for 2009.  This is not my most favorite of…
• Materials Of The Future: Magnetic Ink, Stone Paper And More
  I have another list for ya.  I’m a fan of lists, even biased lists (not that unbiased lists exist…
• Copenhagen Is The Next Kyoto
  Americans don’t really know about the Kyoto Protocol, as the U.S. isn’t a part of it.  Well, te…
• The Top Internet Cities And The $6 Billion Broadband Stimulus
  According to Forbes, Seattle is the new Internet King, replacing two-time winner Atlanta.  Recently…

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ebusinessdomains.com

• How To Have Clean Markup In Website Development?
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is the senior Web Consulta…
• Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXol…
• 5 Design Delusions That Can Take Toll On Your Website!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is the senior web consulta…
• 3 SEO Mistakes That Can Spell Doom For Your E-Commerce Websites
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi works as the senior web co…
• 5 Hot Design Tips To Tweak Your E-Commerce Website!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is the managing senior web…

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dnsnews.me

• Org Registry (PIR) CEO Resigns
  Alexa Raad has announced that she will be leaving PIR at the end of next month to "seek new challeng…
• Eurid Report Shows Registrants Prefer Local Registrars
  Eurid, the registry operator for .eu, have released a report in relation to how registrants register…
• TRAFFIC Dublin Auction List Published
  The full list of domains that are going under the hammer at TRAFFIC Dublin was released before the w…
• Get Independent Domain Statistics - For Free!
  Some ideas are so incredibly simple, yet they solve a very obvious problem.One such problem is domai…
• Nominet Publish Summary and Analysis of Short Domain Consultation
  Nominet, the registry operator for co.uk, have published the summary and analysis report on their re…
• Demand Media (eNom) Files for IPO
  Demand Media, which owns eNom, has started the process of an IPO. As part of that process the compan…
• IEDR Adds New Board Member and Issues More Figures
  I've been sitting on this "news" for a while, as I waiting on the registry to announce it .. Fergal…
• More Competition in New TLDs
  GMO Registry, which is part of the GMO Internet group, has been pushing dotShop, but it now appears…
• Are ICANN Senior Staff Getting A Payrise?
  At the ICANN meeting in Brussels one of the topics that came up for discussion both during the publi…
• DNS.be Announces New Operations Manager
  DNS.be, the registry operator for .be, has announced that Chris Peetermans has been appointed as its…

• New Logo - Good ? Bad?
  Since switching domains over I've been planning on a complete revamp of this site's look and feel. T…
• CENTR Is Hiring
  CENTR has announced an open position in its Brussels office. The role is being advertised as a part-…
• Happy Birthday .uk!
  2010 is the year that .com celebrates 25 years, but it's also the year the .uk marks a quarter of a…
• DotCo Launch - Over 90 Thousand Names in 15 Minutes!
  DotCo, which is the ccTLD for Colombia, is opening up to general public registration today.According…
• ICANN's Ombudsman In The News Again
  DomainNameWire has a story about Frank Fowlie, ICANN's ombudsman, being in the news again. Fowlie at…

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dyatloff.com

• Why end users will never buy your domain names.
  Because end users are developers and don’t care for your domains and don’t really want them (and…
• A little development goes a long way with WordPress
  Case in point 1: EnergySuperpower.com Take a generic term domain that’s been dropped repeatedly by…
• UnemploymentMeter.com domain development case study, monetizing the economic downturn
  If you’ve followed anything I’ve written here so far, you probably know that I am huge on develo…
• USniper expiring domain auction service
  Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they’ve been working on called USniper.c…
• A new development underway
  UnemploymentMeter.com has just launched. Over the last couple months, I kept trying to come up with…
• Clerical Fundraising… and DOMAINING!
  Thought this would be an interesting story to share. A couple of New York Times articles about the r…
• Registering .co.uk domain names from abroad, possible trademark issues
  Being the curious little domainer that I am, I like to stay abreast of all of the world’s happenin…
• The Joy of Development…
  Long time no post again, eh? So I recently launched a couple of projects about things that interest…
• When you have nothing but lemons…
  Back to development directions… There is never a shortage of demand for information. Especially in…
• Example of non-commercial mini-site development
  Funny how development seems SO EASY when you do it “just for fun”… Had to create a little webs…

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predictivedomaining.com

• Gaming Google
  I was particularly intrigued that Business Week listed a company set up to game the search engines a…
• Encouraging good anchor text for inbound links
  How many times do you get an incoming link using your website name? To succeed with a website these…
• Entertainment websites SEO trick?
  An SEO (search engine optimization) manta that still seems to be doing the rounds, was to put a keyw…
• Cross-linking your own websites
  Cross-linking your own websites is an issue that comes up quite a lot. It seems logical to cross-lin…
• My favorite development tools are set to merge
  I missed the announcement earlier this year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging. The le…
• Fixing out of date software
  What have you done to secure your websites? One of the common suggestions is to hide the version num…
• Hostelworld.com sold to US firm
  A short sweet post. These are the kind of stories that keep everyone going. A lot of hard work final…
• A word from the wise
  I attended an advisory board meeting yesterday and it reminded me that we all need some independent…
• Outrunning the lion
  You may have heard the joke about two men faced by a hungry lion. One starts putting on running shoe…
• Don’t forget about multimedia
  With so many computers connected through fast Internet connections, multimedia is having a major imp…

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isitmeoriseveryoneelsestupid.com

• Domaining is as about as much fun as watching some obscure cable channel at 4am
  Is it just me or does the whole “domaining” industry – if i can call it that – nowadays just…
• Yahoo Search Marketing Gets Tough
  Or so it seems. I’ve been tracking this for the past few weeks, a little cynical that what I was h…
• US.com and UK.com Domains Feel A Microsoft Wrath
  Havent blogged for a while but I thought this newsworthy enough to come out of my self imposed exile…
• Oasis.co.uk – Overturned On Appeal.
  In one of the most remarkable domain disputes ever seen (certainly for the UK name space), the domai…
• Vulgar and Offensive.. How one CEO took to treating his staff like dummies
  I’m not sure if any of you guys have been following the story of CEO Mark Hurd over at HP  .. ? T…
• Gotta love the hypocrisy
  Seemingly well regarded PCWorld.com writer David Coursey gets mixed up about cybersquatters, ahem do…
• Some Chemisty.. A minor interlude in proceedings
  Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It’s from a question given to students in a Univ…
• How One Brand Is Raising Visitor Awareness Of Typo Traffic
  Albeit in a tongue in cheek way. UK Price comparison site comparethemarket.com has been running adve…
• Cybersquatting.. Sometimes I Just Don’t Get It…
  Last week, my boss spent the evening in London with some prominent domainers – and by all accounts…
• The Finest Names… Ermm, wasted?
  Ok, just a short post.. I intend to compile a top ten of the best domain names (that I want, of cour…

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domainsuccess.com

• Free Sample: Howard Neu Bares All
  As co-founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C, son of a Cantor, singer, musician, actor, former mayor and pioneerin…
• Free Taste Test: Saviour A Power Lunch With Danny Pryor and Morgan Linton
  Great Power Lunch last week with Morgan Linton and special guest Danny Pryor. This was one of our be…
• Power Lunch With Colin Pape
  Recently appearing on DomainSuccess.com’s March Power Lunch program, Colin Pape is the Founder and…
• George Pickering: Who Said It Was Too Late To Buy Great dotCOMs?
  Starting in 2005, buying his first domain (agents.net) from Michael Mann for $2500.00, recent Domain…
• When Gilmour & Sequin Speak– Others Listen
  When Michael Gilmour with Australia’s Park Logic and Rob Sequin of Cape Cod, Mass., discuss domain…
• Andrew Warner: Doing Better By Doing Good
  Andrew Warner, when in his 20s, used credit cards and ingenuity to create an internet business with…
• Mike “Zappy” Zapolin: Create Value and Wealth Will Follow
  “Create value and wealth will follow.” Michael “Zappy” Zapolin didn’t coin this phrase, bu…
• Enrico Schaefer: “Protecting Domain Assets”
  Countless would-be entrepreneurs are trying to hit it big in the domain space. Problem is, most are…
• Bruce Turkel: “Putting Heads In Beds”
  Bruce Turkel has spent 25 year in the advertising business. And this marketing communications pionee…
• Rick Schwartz: Go Where The Money Is
  One phrase most deftly describes Rick Schwartz: Go Where the Money Is. The 800 King-turned Domain Ki…

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domainerincome.com

• New TV Show For Domain Investment – Episode 1 [HD Video]
  It give us great pleasure to announce the very first episode of Domainer Income TV. The show is unli…
• Sedo: “Unintended Consequence” For Traffic Aggregators
  A few minutes ago we heard back from Sedo in relation to our story yesterday. As such we are posting…
• Sedo Flags Possible Changes In Advertising Provisions
  Early this morning I received an email from Sedo regarding possible changes to the way their “prim…
• Great Sales At DOMAINfest
  Its 1:07am and I’m looking through our domain sales database. What really stands out this week is…
• Facebook Places: A Goldmine For Geo, ccTLDs & Developers
  A few hours ago Facebook announced “Places”. This enables you to learn about where your friends…
• Law Targets People Posing As Local Businesses
  The phrase “local search” has been on the tongues of many web site developers, domainers and Int…
• Simon Johnson Appointed To auDA Names Policy Panel
  A few minutes ago we received confirmation from auDA that Simon Johnson had been appointed to the Na…
• DNSSEC – A False Sense Of Security?
  Its just been announced that Australia will plan to deploy DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) in .au.…
• Domainer Income To Launch Domain Investment TV Show
  The big news is that next week we will be launching our new show on domain name investment – Domai…
• Demand Media Files For IPO – Isn’t Profitable… Yet
  Demand Media’s IPO prospectus indicates the company isn’t yet profitable. In 2009 Demand Media m…

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directnavigation.com

• Twitter to expand usage of T.co
  Changes at Twitter is another good sign for the .co tld. Per twitter’s email that I received: “t…
• Devisen.De at 55930 EUR Leads Sedo’s Weekly Sales
  Last week Sedo kept busy. The highest domains bought were devisen.de @ 55930EUR and magazyny.pl 3300…
• Own a 1 Letter CCTLD For As Low AS $1,000
  Rick Latona is having an auction that has 25 letter .GL’s which ech name starting at just $1,000.…
• Domainfest Extended Auction Shows Actual Reserves
  The Domainfest extended auction ends on Wednesday. It includes domains that were for sale in the liv…
• One of The Most Amusing Domain Offers That I Have Ever Received
  I am currently wrapping a long vacation. We traveled to Boston, Ireland and the Adirondicks. This we…
• The Best Domain Auction In Years To Be In NY on August 18th
  I think this is the first public auction in years that has attracted the quality of domain names lis…
• 363.com Leading .com Sales at Sedo – 41,000 USD
  Slow week due to the july 4th holiday here in the US. For some reason, safetysupplies.com @ 29000 US…
• Domain Value To BE Discussed On CNBC at 2:40 EST Today
  “The Call” which is a popular CNBC show will have Jeff Kupietzky on today speaking about domain…
• Vertical Axis VS The University of Texas For TexasSports.org -Let’s See Who Won
  I just finished reading the decision for the UDRP involving Vertical Axis Inc (VA) vs. , The Univers…
• Sedo Weekly Sales Include Videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 each
  Sedo Weekly Sales Include Videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 each. Videodating.com at…