Ray on September 16th, 2007

There were some great prices paid for UK domain names in the auction at the Domain Focus Conference in London on 7th September 2007. A total of 21 sales on the day totaled nearly £180,000 ($360,000).
In my opinion the best bargains were Employment.co.uk for £17,000 ($34,000) and PublicRelations.co.uk for £8,500 ($17,000). Two nice generics at [...]

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Ray on September 9th, 2007

VeriSign recently released its Domain Name Industry Brief for August 2007. VeriSign is the registry operator for .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names and is involved ‘digital infrastructure’ products.
Their report makes very interesting reading for domainers and for those interested in the development of the internet, more generally. It provides some interesting statistics about domain [...]

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This is the first part of a two part article that looks a variety of techniques that should be used when estimating the value of a domain name.
Part one of this two part article is a basic introduction to the need for effective domain name valuation. Part two looks at the concepts, tools and resources available to [...]

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