Ray on September 30th, 2007

A few interesting ideas on making money with domain names have appeared lately, and I thought they might be of interest.
This article on Domain Name Consultant Dominik Mueller’s Blog has some interesting advice on becoming a successful domain name investor. Dominik’s advice is very good, and includes the following ideas…….

Register lots of domains – [...]

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Ray on September 29th, 2007

Wired broke the news yesterday that plans to charge for access to the .name whois registry raises a number of concerns, around the ability of security researchers to police the internet and could create ‘a haven for hackers who run internet scams’.
Global Name Registry (GNR) administers domain names ending in .name which are intended [...]

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The latest weekly reported sales on DNJournal.com  for the week ending 23rd Sept, ‘07 included a few interesting .co.uk sales.
Stationary.co.uk sold on Sedo.com for £17,000 ($34,230). This was the 5th highest reported sale of the week. (The top sale that week was Puss.com which sold for $71,458, which is in the region of £35,000.)
This was an interesting sale – a little [...]

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Ray on September 25th, 2007

I am always researching new or innovative ways of finding domain names. The problem is that finding decent domains is becoming harder and harder. All the ‘low hanging fruit’ is disappearing fast. This means we have to work a little smarter.
A while ago I found an interesting post here on Scott Jones Self Made Minds [...]

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Ray on September 20th, 2007

Afternic.com, the domain name sales web site owned by NameMedia Inc has recently redesigned its website. The new design is a lot clearer but regular visitors to the site will be dismayed to find that the sales listing was missing from the front page.
This was an exceptional facility as you could look at the sale prices achieved for [...]

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