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My Rule Is Something You Can Spell

Jason Calacanis & Steve Huffman
Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmonk was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discu…

JustGloves.com, JustLamps.com, JustPillows.com, JustSheets.com… JUST STUPID.com

When I started in domains I was too late for the generic one-worders so I moved to what I thought would be the “second best names.” I bought up a bunch of department names (the only one of which I kept being ShoeDepartment.com, one of the few categorie…

I Should Ask For $5 Thousand – My Favorite Domain Story Ever

John Reese photo by Ralph Zuranski
Unfortunately I don’t know which podcast this clip came from. There’s no intro or outro, it’s from an interview I stumbled upon through a search for John Reese after I heard about the $million dollar launch of …

DOMAINfest 2010 NYC Results $1.8M in Sales – updated

Thanks to Frank at DomainNameNews here are the Official Results for DOMAINfest 2010 NYC, which show 17 domains sold for a total of $1,801,900.
Names not sold in the live auction are now being offered in an extended silent auction which ends Wednesday,…

Domain Names I Recently Sold – August 2010 Update

Here are some domain names I recently sold:
BuyBirdhouses.com – $5,000
SkinWrinkles.com – $5,000
DatingService.net – $7,000
CheapFlightsNow.com – $1,000
GetGlasses.com – $4,000
Thugsta.com – $750
LivePayments.com – $1,000
Audioaddicts.com…

EXCLUSIVE: Demand Media Lost dotTV Franchise; That's Why Names Are Dropping Like Flies

For the longest time Demand Media had the exclusive right to sell premium domains. Now you can buy these names from Name.com and others. Perhaps that’s why there was an omission in the Demand Media S-1 disclosure- that is the bullishness on their dotTV…

MediaOptions Brokers Pizza.net Sale

The original registrant of Pizza.net (registered since 1995) has parted with the one word gem.  We won’t know the size of the sale as it will remain private under NDA.  Brokering company, MediaOptions feels that the sale may be one of the top fiv…

Domain Names Podcast Episode 21 with Simon Johnson from DomainerIncome.com

Simon Johnson – DomainerIncome.com In this episode of Domain Names Podcast I talk with Simon Johnson from DomainerIncome.com Domainer Income Simon has a huge amount of experience in the domain industry and has been flying low under the radar so far, bu…

DomainExpert.com Sells for $15k+

I noticed this morning in my Domain Closing Auctions report that DomainExpert.com was up for auction via SEDO…..
After checking out the auction listing, I decided that it would be worth $2k to purchase DomainExpert.com; the auction was to end around …

Domain Names Podcast Episode 20 with David Lye, Netfleet.com.au

Today I interviewed David Lye, CEO of Netfleet.com.au Australia’s largest domain name aftermarket with over 30,000 domains up for sale on its website.
I believe that the .AU market has huge potential and with the help of sites like Netfleet.com.au…