I saw a TV commercial earlier this week for Debt.com and I thought “hey great use of a generic, the guys behind that company really GET IT!” Even though their pitch of “getting into debt was not your fault” is laughable, it still looked like someone was going to get lots of TRUST from visitors [...] Continue reading →

Everyone talks about generic domains being the best, buy generic domains if you can afford it, generic domains get more type in traffic, blah blah blah. Let’s consider for a moment that the true value of a generic domain is one thing and one thing only - TRUST. Search Engines Ask anyone who has done [...] Continue reading →

Verisign's latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, covering the 4th quarter of 2008, is now out and it showed another big jump in worldwide domain registrations from the previous year. Total registrations in all extensions rose 16% to 177 million, with country codes rising even faster - up 22% to 71.1 million. We take a [...] Continue reading →

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com.The report is headlined by the second biggest domain sale reported so far this year, one that weighed in at over $380,000.Our new all extension Top 20 Chart includes 14 .coms, four country code domains and a pair of .nets. [...] Continue reading →

Final preparations are underway for the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference that opens in New Orleans Thursday at 5pm (U.S. Central Time). Aftermarket.com, who will stage a live domain auction at the show Saturday afternoon, just posted their catalog for the event - one that reflects a strategy to emphasize quality over quantity. [...] Continue reading →

Ahhhh! There are development opportunities out there every day. NewYorkStrip.com is a perfect example. It is for sale for in the low 4 figures. Looking at google, it gets about 50,000 searches per month for the exact key phrase and there are plenty of long tail terms for it too. The monetisation options are [...] Continue reading →

New research shows there is a great opportunity for domain owners to profit from a huge untapped pool of small business end users. Only 44% of the small businesses surveyed have websites. The rest are completely missing the 63% of consumers who check the web first when looking for local products & services. [...] Continue reading →