When you receive an offer for one of your domains, you are likely to make a counter offer in order to get the best possible price. They will reply with another offer and so on.
The hard part is not to make the counter offer, but to decide when to stop talking.
Expand your portfolio
Sooner or later, you will have more than one domain name in your portfolio, especially if you plan to make a living out of it.
The question is to decide on how to expand it. There are several approaches:
Remember to renew your domain names…
or be prepared for a lot of grief!
If you let your domain expire it becomes available for other domainers to purchase. If another domainer purchases your domain you will no longer have access to that particular domain name.
Unfortunately we see this happen every single day, someone trying to get back a domain that they let expire or failed to renew in time, in some cases it can be from years ago.
How much would you pay to own Toys.com?
We all know that a domain name is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it, but what if they are willing to pay over $5 million?
Toys.com was sold through Bankruptcy Auction for $5.1 million dollars in March this year. This places Toys.com at the number one spot in dnjournal.com’s highest reported domain sales, so far, for 2009.
The toys store Toy ‘R’ Us purchased the domain name knowing that it had a constant flow of traffic, perfect for their brands. The domain now provides links to Toy ‘R’ Us brands: Babies ‘R’ Us, eToys.com, Baby Universe.com and Toy ‘R’ Us.
Sedo Reports Strong Q3 Domain Sales – 5.5% Increase
According to Sedo’s newly released Domain Market Study, Q3 domain sales increase 5.5% over Q2. Respectfully, Sedo represented 75% of the top 20 public domain …
Yahoo Gives Out SYNDICATION Rights to DDC!
Just received an email from Yahoo effectively advising that they have given Syndication of their Search Feeds the GREEN light.
Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Service) is a great Open Search API, where the goal of BOSS is simple: “to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.” Source http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
Yahoo have removed the daily caps, removed all the other restrictions that were with the original Yahoo Search APIs. Well Done Yahoo… that sure is one way to get a lot of third party tools using Yahoo search, aka greater search share for Yahoo.
The Interesting part was that Yahoo emailed advising to sign up via their 1st Yahoo! Search BOSS syndication partner DDC.com. Here is a copy of the email received:
The Future of Domains
As dot com domains become more scarce, the value of generic domain
names rapidly climbs; many shorter generic domains selling for several
million US dollars.
I often wonder if this value increase will continue at this rate, or
if, as new TLD’s (top-level domains) are created, the focus on dot
com’s will decrease.
But, what if domain names become obsolete?
SnapNames Employee was also bidding on many auctions!!!
Just received an email from SnapNames that they discovered an Employee under a fake alias was BETWEEN 2005 and 2007 bidding on many of the SnapNames domain drops and using internal system to see the max bids and win good domains, and also the same time also bidding up the prices.
I don’t know about you but we have always had that nagging feeling that our max bids always seems to just stop at the very top and this would explain some of these. There are a few user accounts that were active in 2005 and 2007 that I recall that won some great name… Anyone care to guess which user handle it was?
In compensation, SnapNames are offering credits or cash refunds to all accounts affected by this which shows great customer service. The full email is below.
How much is a domain worth ?
“How much is it worth ?” This is a recurrent question from people new to the domain aftermarket and the answer is not very straightforward.
There are some basic rules such as the shorter the better or a .com is worth more than a .net but to know how much you can get when selling a domain is very difficult.
Above.com receives “Best New Monetizing Solution” award at T.R.A.F.F.I.C Global Conference in NYC
We are proud and honored to be the recipient of the “Best New Monetizing Solution” award presented October 28, 2009 at T.R.A.F.F.I.C in NYC. Why this …
