The premium Twitter account @Domains has been released and already under new ownership.
With Twitter handles becoming important for use in every industry, the “@Domains” account was dormant for well over a year.
We inquired about that account in the summer of 2010 and Twitter’s response was that the account was not inactive at that time…
via Premium twitter account @Domains released to lucky new ownership | DomainGang.
Step 4: Making the changes to take control.
These fall into three areas – management, technical and financial.
1. Management
Create email addresses for all the emails that are in use at this domain.
Change the code for any free statistics such as Google Analytics.
Transfer control of the mailing list
Transfer control/ownership of software licenses
Sort out the agreements with merchants or drop-shippers
Offsite changes: If the seller referred to his product on his various web 2.0 profiles pages and other pages or sites he controls has he updated the references?
via Guest post: Transferring your new website | Flippa Blog | Buy & Sell Websites.
A domain name registrar was not liable for a form of trade mark infringement when a system it operates was used to redirect visitors from allegedly ‘cybersquatting’ web domain names to a pornographic website, a US court has ruled.10 Jan 2012
via Domain registrar not liable for cybersquatting, US court rules.
Also in 2009 I purchased the domain PoopBeGone.com for $10 on namepros. Over the 3 years which I owned the domain I received 8 emails about the name with a few leading to small offers that never amounted to anything.
Although the offers were small they did tell me that the name was worth something so I listed it on Godaddy’s Premium listings for $999. I list many of my names on their system that I think are suited for end users hoping that one day someone will type it in and buy it.
via 9990% Flip with Godaddy Premium Listings : Teen Domainer.
ES: What do you look for when you hand register domain names, and do you think there’s still money to be made today on hand registrations?
GK – Yes, I think there can be money made from hand registrations today. Domain names are still based on language and language is constantly changing enough to provide new words and phrases that all have the potential to be really valuable as domain names with a .com at the end of them.
Let me tell you why. From tomorrow, ICANN is offering “entrepreneurs, businesses, governments and communities around the world” a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to bid for their own internet suffix in place of the .com or .net at the end of a domain. The new suffixes – .wired, say, or .kernel – are called generic Top-Level Domains gTLDs, and according to ICANN they “pave the way for increased consumer choice by facilitating competition among registry service providers”.
All you need do is hand over an “evaluation fee” of a mere $185,000 for each suffix so .kernel and .thekernel would together be $370,000. The fee is fully non-refundable if you’re turned down, of course, and excludes your legal costs.
via It’s time to place the web in safer hands – David Rowan – The Kernel.
Steve’s most notable sales are Poker.in in 2007, which still holds the record for highest public .in domain sale at $60,000; and SixDegrees.org in 2005, bought by Kevin Bacon, who then co-founded the charity Six Degrees.
via DomainSherpa.com Due Diligence for Domain Names – With Steve Jones.
The “.com” has to be “gettable”. By “gettable”, I mean that it is either not registered yet — or, it is available for purchase at a price you’re willing to pay. Don’t play tricks with the domain name either — like including hyphens. Also, stay away from clever domain names like del.icio.us. The reason is simple: It’s not natural for people to type domains that way. (Note: Even del.icio.us eventually switched to the much easier domain, delicious.com).
The twitter handle has to be available. No tricks with numbers and underscores and stuff. You want the most natural, obvious twitter handle that matches your company name. This is not quite as hard as .com domain names — but getting harder every day.
The facebook page should be available: To test this, try visiting facebook.com/yourname and see if there’s something there. Or, do a search on Facebook and see what you find.
Most people hadn’t heard of Go Daddy before you ran an ad during the 2005 Super Bowl featuring a voluptuous woman who nearly loses her shirt before a Senate committee.
That’s all in your imagination. Just a strap pops, and she grabs it. The thing doesn’t even move four inches. It’s shot from a distance, and everything is blurred. We took advantage of everybody’s imagination, and it resonated. Our market share jumped nine points in one week.
So why isn’t everybody using well-endowed women to sell their products?
The Spanish call it huevos.
So now that you’ll be relinquishing the C.E.O. title, will you be taking it easy?
My job will pretty much continue as it has been, where I focus my time on marketing and our commercials. You know, brother, I failed the fifth grade, but I’m the guy that gets to pick Go Daddy girls.
Buying aged, two and three-word .COMs. Almost every single domain I purchased in 2012 was a .COM. The advice I got from my friends who have been selling domains for 10+ years was to focus on two and three word .COMs, so I did. My average price-per-domain went up and I did buy less domains each month than in 2010.
Calling End-Users On The Phone. I made a lot of phone calls last year and they translated into real sales much better than I had expected. I didn’t call a million people for each name but instead really tried to identify the 2-3 top people that would be the best fit for the name.
via What Worked And What Didn’t In 2011 – Part 2: Domain Sales | Morgan Linton.