Rick Latona
- You just can’t make this stuff up. Our shinny new hotel was raided yesterday
So yesterday I blogged about finding this Oasis of a hotel actually called The Oasis. It’s a brand new and very comfortable resort outside the city of Montgomery. The plan was to take a day off from cycling and work and rest our legs. I didn’t even leave my hotel room until after our auction ended [...]… - LongIsland.com reserve lowered to $350,000
There has been a lot of interest and action on this name so I thought the seller lowering his reserve to $350,000 deserved its own blog post. Please note that there are some stipulations at this price. If you are interested, contact us for details.… - Good things can happen to good people. Lost in the woods, we found an Oasis
There’s an app for that. Right? Well, as a loyal iPhone fan I’ve been navigating mine and David’s journey to New Orleans with my smart phone. Between the map app and an app from mapmyride.com everything had been going smooth…. until today. What I’ve been doing is using the map app and having it set to [...]… - Sweet Home Alabama - Three days down
So David and I have now completed three days of the cycling trip from Atlanta to New Orleans for Domainer Mardigras. Yesterday was so brutal that I’m just now getting this post up, and we still have to ride another 50 miles today to Montgomery. Thankfully, the weather will be terrible tomorrow. That means we can sit [...]… - Extended Auction Closes Thursday at 1 pm EST - Financing available on nearly all names
Our extended auction closes at 1 pm EST on Thursday. That’s 19:00 central European time or 10:00 am on the west coast of the States. Financing is available. If you need help buying a name, just ask. We’ll do whatever we can to help put the deal together. The auction is located at www.proxibid.com/ricklatona. You can download the [...]… - Who knew that north Georgia to the coast was all uphill?
Either I’ve been riding a bike for two days or David snuck into my room last night. I feel like I’ve been sitting on the curved handle of an umbrella for a week straight. Today while we surely lost altitude, regardless of my post title, it felt like an endless climb. Every time we went downhill, [...]… - I ride for domains, I ride for clean water but mostly, I ride for me
Sunday morning David Clements and I went on a bicycle ride. Our journey will take us from Atlanta to New Orleans for Domainer Mardigras. While that may not sound like a lot to those of you in peak physical condition, it’s a heck of a journey for two middle-aged, over-weight guys like us. Keep in mind, we [...]… - Extended T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas Auction is Live and Open for Bidding
The extended auction is now live and open for bidding. To view and bid on the names, please visit proxibid.com/ricklatona. Due to DomainFest and other events, we have decided to run this extended auction longer than normal to ensure that everyone can have time to view the inventory and get their bids in. The auction will end [...]… - AUCTION PAUSED - WILL RESTART TOMORROW MORNING ON NEW PLATFORM
Due to technical difficulties, I’ve made the difficult decision to pause the auction and restart it tomorrow on Proxibid.com/ricklatona. The new time will be 10:00 am Pacific on Saturday morning. That’s 1:00 pm on the East Coast or 19:00 central European time. After hundreds of hours of testing our system, it broke. I don’t know what [...]… - T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction is live and open for pre-bidding
I’m proud to announce that the Latona’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction is now live for pre-bidding. The live auction will be Friday, January 22 starting at 4:00pm PST and running until around 7:00pm PST. The extended auction will run from Saturday, January 23 to Thursday, January 28. Please visit Latonas.com and register if you haven’t [...]…
Domain Name News
- Google Ad Gets Lots of Love and Godaddy Jumps the Shark with Super Bowl Ads
Now that the Super Bowl game’s “Brand Bowl” is finished, the polls and opinions are popping up everywhere. This year there seems to be a lot more reactions and buzz bubbling on the internet, more so than in year’s past, thanks in part to social media sites. Who had the cleverest ads? Who was the funniest? [...]… - AfternicDLS Sales for the Previous Two Weeks
Buydomains and AfterNIC have once again shared their recent sales over the last two weeks with DNN. The top sale in the fortnight was boating.com with $250,000. In total the company sold and brokered sales of 810 domains for a total of $1,480,207.98 making the average sales price $1,827.42. See the full list after the jump .COM [...]… - Silent Las Vegas Targeted TRAFFIC Auction Results
Disappointing Results, Despite $370,000 Sale Even though the interest in the Silent Domain Auction after the Targeted TRAFFIC conference by Rick Latona could not generate much interest, it appears it produced at least one noteworthy sale, with LongIsland.com selling for $370,000 USD. However only 9 out of the 600 listed domains sold according to the results [...]… - AshleyMadison.com Will Not Go Public For Now
As reported earlier, Avid Media Media Inc. (parent company of sites such as AshleyMadison.com) was planning to go public and use part of the raised funds to purchase Moxy Media. According to an article published by Reuters on Feb 1st, the deal is put on hold for now due to lack of interest from the [...]… - Silent DomainFEST and TRAFFIC Auctions Ends Today
Today is your last day to place bids in the silent auctions for the Targeted TRAFFIC Las Vegas and DomainFEST conferences. The DomainFEST Silent Auction, run bei Moniker/SnapNames ends at 12:15pm PST (3:15pm EST) and the Rick Latona Silent Auction for TRAFFIC ends at 10am PST (1pm EST). (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & [...]… - Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the .COM gTLD
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the .COM gTLD with a Policy Forum and Gala and has also set up a website with a timeline of the development of .COM. The first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15th, 1985 and is today owned by domain investor Aron Meystedt. In order [...]… - Domain Auction Submission for Domainer Mardi Gras is Today
The deadline to submit domains for the Live & Extended Auction for Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 is tonight, so if you would like to list some of your domains there, submit them today at SnapNames/Moniker. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement WE BUY DOMAINS. We are interested in acquiring your premium domains – find out more.… - Sedo Weekly Sales Charts, designer.co.uk sold for 76,300 GBP
This weeks Sedo domains sales report is lead by the sale of designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP (appx. $121,500 USD) followed by lundi.fr (Monday in French) for $50,000 EUR (appx. $69,000 USD) Also worth noting is the highest gTLD sale of ComTech.com for $60,000 to a German electronics retailer. The domain name now redirects to their [...]… - NBA Star Chris Bosh Now Owns 800 “Cybersquatted” Domain Names
Guest contributor Zak Muscovitch is a domain name lawyer, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been practicing domain name law for over ten years. Go to http://www.DNattorney.com and http://www.muscovitch.com. This time he follows up on a case we reported on earlier, where Chris Bosh won his own domain name, ChrisBosh.com along with 800 additional [...]… - Estibot Launches v2.0 with New Tools
Estibot announced yesterday that a new version of the site (Estibot 2.0) was launched. Aside from a new domain valuation algorithm, the site also features a number of new tools: Parse domains into keywords, detect domain language, convert IDN domains, create lists of available domain names based on keywords, generate a list of prospects [...]…
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Frank Schilling
- Domain Names, New and Old – Everybody Sells
What does a guy who is well known for “not selling domains” know about selling domain names? Well I might just know a thing or two. As the title of this post states: Everybody sells. It doesn’t matter whether you’re selling cars, homes, financial instruments, religion.. everyone sells something. Some of us are hard-sell : [...]… - What Happens in Vegas .. Happens Everywhere
I just spent a few days in Vegas at the TRAFFIC convention.. man that town will chew you up and spit you out if you let it. The night I left town Josh sent me this link which focuses on an interesting observation. While $4+ million worth of domain names just sold at the Las Vegas TRAFFIC [...]… - My Kingdom for An Eyeball
What a world we live in.. and what a great deal a man (or woman) can learn in a month away from the blog-sphere.. Deals announced, partnerships strategized and all roads lead to the ability to reach our fellow-man. I’ve been traveling for family issues (nothing serious folks) over the past month – I’ve been [...]…
Whizzbang's Blog
- The Difference Between and ‘a’ and an ‘e’
Every now and then I completely put my foot firmly in my mouth and this time is no exception. I just recently sent out an email announcing the sneak preview of the new whizzbangsblog (viewed at michaelgilmour.com (http://www.michaelgilmour.com/)) that will go live on the 13th July and this email was...… - Sneak Preview of New Whizzbangsblog
I'm really excited to announce that stage one of a major upgrade to whizzbangsblog.com is just about completed. You can get a sneak preview of the site at michaelgilmour.com (http://www.michaelgilmour.com/) and I would appreciate any feedback that you may have on how it can be improved prior to the site...… - Part 6 – Developing Domains, creating user value...
Over the last couple of months I’ve been reporting on my journey into the world of development for Downwind.com.au. I’ve continued developing the site and adding features that I hoped would add value to a pilot’s experience so ultimately they would tell their friends about it and also return themselves....… - Saturday Musings – Whizzbangsblog overhaul
For the past few months I’ve been getting increasingly aware that Whizzbangsblog really needed a complete overhaul. The current format and structure has been great for the past few years but I felt that it was about time that I got stuck into it and upgraded to new versions of...… - The PPC Industry
About 12 months ago I remember hearing from a number of domainers that the domain industry is essentially protected from the Global Financial Crisis. I really couldn’t understand that thinking as ultimately any PPC income is dependent upon Google and Yahoo and they in turn depend upon advertisers. The recent...…
The Domain Columnist
- Why end users will never buy your domain names.
Because end users are developers and don’t care for your domains and don’t really want them (and also because content is king, and they know)! What they have is a concept in mind, not a domain name. They’d rather find something pretty close to a popular generic term they had in mind that gets their [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist Why end users will never buy your domain names.… - A little development goes a long way with WordPress
Case in point 1: EnergySuperpower.com Take a generic term domain that’s been dropped repeatedly by others, set up WP, and publish links to relevant articles from the daily Google alerts I subscribe to. Currently shows up #2 search result in Yahoo for the term, and on the front page of Google also, only beaten out by [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist A little development goes a long way with WordPress… - UnemploymentMeter.com domain development case study, monetizing the economic downturn
If you’ve followed anything I’ve written here so far, you probably know that I am huge on development. Part of the reason is the fact that I don’t own many “PREMIUM” domains that would generate serious parking revenue, but we all gotta start somewhere and work with what we’ve got, right? Ron Jackson of the DN [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist UnemploymentMeter.com domain development case study, monetizing the economic downturn… - USniper expiring domain auction service
Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they’ve been working on called USniper.com USniper.com is a FREE service that allows you to automatically place bids on expiring domain names at the time you designate. You choose the price, and you choose the bid time, allowing you to stop worrying and being [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist USniper expiring domain auction service… - A new development underway
UnemploymentMeter.com has just launched. Over the last couple months, I kept trying to come up with the right idea for an economy-focused blog (for obvious reasons), and I think I have finally zoomed in on the topic that I can commit to developing. Got a nice WP skin set up for it, decent page structure, [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist A new development underway… - Clerical Fundraising… and DOMAINING!
Thought this would be an interesting story to share. A couple of New York Times articles about the reintroduction of INDULGENCES caught my attention recently. Not because I’m a church going person you see, but because I happened to register the names IndulgenceCredits.com and IndulgenceCredit.com last September (think Al Gore). Here are the news links: For Catholics, [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist Clerical Fundraising… and DOMAINING!… - Registering .co.uk domain names from abroad, possible trademark issues
Being the curious little domainer that I am, I like to stay abreast of all of the world’s happenings as much as possible, especially during these uncertain times. My favorite source of mainstream news is the online version of UK’s Telegraph newspaper. Being a college student, the following story caught my attention today: National intern [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist Registering .co.uk domain names from abroad, possible trademark issues… - The Joy of Development…
Long time no post again, eh? So I recently launched a couple of projects about things that interest me. I’m sure most would agree that the subject matter plays an important role in the long-term viability and success of any web development project. That is why I generally try to work on websites that are [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist The Joy of Development…… - When you have nothing but lemons…
Back to development directions… There is never a shortage of demand for information. Especially in times of trouble, social and economic unrest. Hence, these are precisely the topics people will search for most as they browse the internet. This trend should make things like unemployment and bankruptcy especially popular with the web surfing masses. My [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist When you have nothing but lemons…… - Example of non-commercial mini-site development
Funny how development seems SO EASY when you do it “just for fun”… Had to create a little website for a school related project coming up in January, and came up with this: RussianSkiing.com Some friends and I go up north to ski every MLK weekend. Decided to get more people involved this year by creating [...]Post from: The Domain Columnist Example of non-commercial mini-site development…
Rick Schwartz
- A Life Changing Thought? You decide.
Morning Folks!! Sometimes a simple phrase says more than a book of words. I heard something today that would fall into that category. A complete recipe from beginning to end and it is basic and simple. Anything is a possibility All you have to do is open the door Create the opportunity And move forward. Have a GREAT Day! Rick Schwartz… - How Doctors Almost Killed My Mother as She Fights for Her Life.
Morning Folks!! I had to leave Las Vegas TRAFFIC early as my mother was near death. Death induced by doctors that DON’T CARE and a system that may or may not work. When it works, and it usually does, it is as good as it gets, but when it does not work, it is a nightmare. So I send my mother and her girlfriend on 1 or 2 cruises each year since 1997 when my dad died. They are the “Golden Girls” and this would have been #27. Each cruise they go on they get special treatment because they have … - What a difference a year makes. Obama gets STUNNING Message?
Morning Folks!! In business we are all salesmen. If we own or operate a business you are a salesmen. Now there are good salesmen and bad ones. Ones that know how to close a sale and get a result and those that can’t. One year ago today was possibly the most historic day any of us will live to see and I blogged about it. A young, energetic black president taking the oath of office. From slavery to the presidency. We have a lot to be proud of. But as salesmen by trade this has to be the worst sa… - My First T.R.A.F.F.I.C. as an Attendee and I Can't Wait! Here's Why!
Morning Folks!! This will be the first time I am attending TRAFFIC as an attendee. No more getting in 5 days early to prepare for the show. No printing badges and preparing registration. No getting all types of last minute emergency emails. No floorplans, diagrams, setup or breakdown. No pressure to perform. Just a few relaxing days in Las Vegas with the brightest guys on earth and their families. I am looking forward to having free time and meetings with productive outcomes. One of the things I… - Bite Me and I will Bite Back.
Morning Folks!! Tia Wood made an interesting blog post about me and how I operate the other day. She articulated things I never could and then I did my best to follow up with the following comment. I am sure the folks the post is intended for won't give it a second thought. They do, one at a time. Not in mass. But for the umpteenth time over too many years to count I will try and explain how I see things. "If I drive a Ferrari and a guy has a 15 year old junker, I will share my story of how I go… - Foreclosing on Foreclosure.com Part 2. Bankruptcy Foreseen? You Decide!
Morning Folks!! My year started very interesting. I was stunned last week when Adam Strong advised me on New Years Day that Foreclosure.com parent company had declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just a week earlier. I read the story in the South Florida Biz Journal with my jaw hanging down. Man, did I dodge a bullet! Then another article appeared today in a second publication Inman.com with more juicy details and some history and a couple pending lawsuits. BIG lawsuits. What jumped out at me the most…
Daily Domainer
- Toys.com sells for $5.1 million in heated domain auction
Toys ‘R’ Us is the lucky winner of Toys.com. The domain was bought by the toy store chain in a heated phone auction that took place earlier today at the final bid of $5.1 million. DirectNavigation blogged live from the auction here. According to Domain Name Wire, the following bidders participated in the auction: 1-800-Diapers Toys ‘R’ [...]… - LLL.com Domains Reach New Low
The following no-reserve domain auctions just ended on Sedo's most recent Greatdomains auction: KXV.com - $3,000 KFQ.com - $3,000 KQH.com - $3,000 KBQ.com - $3,100 SJQ.com - $3,300 JXV.com - $3,600 SOL.com attracted 13 bids, the highest being 15,500 euros, but the reserve was not met. COP.com attracted 3 bids, the highest being $20,500, but the reserve was not met either. According to [...]… - Security Alert from Sedo
Sedo just sent out the following security alert: We have been informed that due to a security problem at one of our competitors a list of their customer data including plaintext passwords is currently circulating on the web including relevant hacker forums. Our Security and Compliance Team has found several of our own customers matching the publicly [...]… - Fly.com sells for $1.76 million
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below. Fly.com leads the list with an amazing $1,760,000 sale. The domain was brokered by Sedo and bought by TravelZoo, a publicly listed company. TravelZoo plans to use the domain to launch a travel search engine later this month. Brian Clark, senior vice president and [...]… - In 2008, Premium Domain Values Dropped By 11% While End User Sales & Development Increased By 76.42%
Premium domain names continue to be an outstanding investment. This is nothing new to domain investors, and despite a recent slowdown in the reseller market, the actual numbers confirm that the end user market remains strong. Looking at DNJournal's List of Top 100 Reported Sales of 2006, 2007 and 2008, the top 100 median sales [...]… - 2008: A Year That All Domainers Will Remember
2008 was a very unique year in the domaining industry. The popularity of domaining continued to rise even as prices dropped. Increasing numbers of end users noticed the value of domains as well and there were quite a few astonishing sales reported throughout the year. At the same time, domain parking came to a virtual [...]… - "If Only I Had Been Around in 2008"
The word is out: The domaining bubble has finally burst. Many domainers are short on cash and prices are falling across the board. What created the bubble, how did it end, and is there a way to profit from the slowing economy and financial crisis? The Components of a Seductive Bubble A significant percentage of the domaining [...]… - Kredit.de sells for $1.17 million
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below. Kredit.de (German for "credit" or "loan") leads the list with an amazing $1,169,175 sale. The domain was bought by Unister GmbH of Leipzig, Germany, a company which also owns Geld.de ("money") and Auto.de. Other noteworthy sales include: LOTO.com for $91,331 (LOTO is both a typo of, [...]… - LowFare.com Leads Domain Sales Charts
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below. LowFare.com leads the list with an amazing $365,000 sale, closely followed by Banners.com, which sold for $360,000. Both domains sold on Sedo. Alice.com was acquired by Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire in a private transaction. They will use the domain for their coming online [...]… - The Latest Domain Statistics
VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its quarterly Domain Industry Brief, providing us with an update on the latest domain statistics. By the end of June 2008, there were more than 168 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 22% over the preceding 12 month period. In terms of registrations, .com [...]…
DotSauce Magazine
- Poll: What is the most difficult challenge you face as a domainer?
I thought this would be an interesting question to see what you might be interested in learning more about. There are numerous resources and tools available that make…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Poll: What is the most difficult challenge you face as a domainer?… - 42 Handpicked Expired Domains Available for Registration
I’ve recently dived back into some domain research after much too long of a break and have chosen a select 42 quality .COM domain names that have recently…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.42 Handpicked Expired Domains Available for Registration… - 12 Great Places to Score Web Development and Design Freebies
Everybody loves a good freebie! I’ve rounded up some of my favorite places to find quality graphics, code and other useful tools and services here. Dive in and…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.12 Great Places to Score Web Development and Design Freebies… - VigLink To Provide Seamless Affiliate Earnings to Bloggers and Beyond
This new link monetization company launched just days ago with venture capital backing from Google. VigLink aims to provide affiliate earnings to bloggers by automatically detecting outbound links…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.VigLink To Provide Seamless Affiliate Earnings to Bloggers and Beyond… - Starting a Business in 2010
A few days ago, I was in the middle of working on a presentation for an offline audience using the uber-cool Prezi web based software. I was very curious…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Starting a Business in 2010… - New Usability Tool Provides Valuable Feedback for Website Owners
Usabilla, a usability testing startup, launched earlier this month and congratulations are in order, as they have already been featured on Mashable. While there are many popular and effective…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.New Usability Tool Provides Valuable Feedback for Website Owners… - Wibiya Blog Toolbar Upgraded and Opened to Public
I have been enthusiastically beta testing the Wibiya toolbar here on DotSauce for several months. I’m happy to inform you that registration is now open to any blogger…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Wibiya Blog Toolbar Upgraded and Opened to Public… - Industry Challenge: Sparking Innovation in Domaining and Web Development
I recently added the 144th entry to the Twitter application directory on my site, TweetSocial.com, a Twitter forum community. The shear amount of useful applications I’ve seen in…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Industry Challenge: Sparking Innovation in Domaining and Web Development… - Google Personalized Search Results Now Live for Everyone
This past weekend, Google went live with personalized search results for all users. Whether logged in or logged out, results will be customized based on search history. Many search…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Google Personalized Search Results Now Live for Everyone… - What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Choosing Domain Names
Let’s get it out of the way right off, so that nobody gets confused, Hollywood is terrible at choosing domain names. However, they are generally pretty awesome at…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.What Hollywood Can Teach Us About Choosing Domain Names…