Sedo’s Premium Generic .CO Auction, which starts on February 10th and runs for a full week following GoDaddy’s much-hyped Superbowl XLV commercial, has received a lot of interest from domain investors. So much, in fact, that a rep for the company told me today that they’re already planning a second auction (for which the dates [...] Continue reading →

Photo credit: sxc.hu Happy New Year! 2011 has gotten off to a great start for me, and I hope it’s going well for everyone else, too. One of the awesome things about the last few weeks is that I’ve been able to connect with a couple of local domain investors. Washington, D.C., [...] Continue reading →

Black Friday is known as the biggest shopping day for department stores, Cyber Monday—today, November 29—is the second-most profitable day for online retailers. According to the Detroit News, it is outranked only by December 15th, the last day that online stores are able to guarantee shipping by Christmas. For domain investors and developers, this means [...] Continue reading →

Happy post-Thanksgiving everyone. I just posted the link to my domain sale on Twitter and want to share it with my blog readers, as well. Right now it’s just posted at Namepros: Huge Blowout Sale of 114 Domains. Check it out – prices start at $8 and there are some VERY high CPC ($40!!) names [...] Continue reading →

I’m sitting in the JetBlue terminal of the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. I was visiting home this week, which is always a nice chance to catch up with family members I only see a couple of times a year. It also allowed me to break out of my routine, and reflect on this year. Without going [...] Continue reading →

According to a post by Lori Anne Wardi on coauctions.co, .CO Internet S.A.S. administered a total of 2500 auctions for names that were applied for during the Landrush phase of .CO registration. While most of the auctions were completed successfully, 156 were closed, either because high bidders failed to pay, or forgot to log in [...] Continue reading →

I haven’t been blogging much in the past few weeks, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been around. I spend more time than I care to admit looking up names on DomainTools, and scanning the lists at Namejet and GoDaddy’s TDNAM. I’d say about 40% of the names I buy come from aftermarket sites like [...] Continue reading →