Archives for the Category: The Industry

Why the Domain Market is Like the Stock Market

We’ve all heard the saying, “Buy Low, Sell High” before. It’s amazing how this concept applies to so many businesses. Probably more associated than anything with this statement is the famous Stock Market where a person buys stocks for a lower price than they will sell for. However, we must apply this to something else: [...]

Google (GOOG): The Downhill Streak Continues and the Domaining Lesson Learned

Google’s stock continues on a steady downfall in a consistent pattern. About one year ago, on December 10 of 2007, Google was trading at $718.42. Since then, it’s trading price has steadily dropped all the way down to $257.44 as of today. So Google’s stock has worked its way down about $450 per share in [...]

Twitter: The Best in the Social Networking AND Social Bookmarking Industry

A couple of weeks ago, as I was completing a domain transaction with a client I work with frequently, he asked me if I had a “Twitter”. At the time, I didn’t know about Twitter.com, so I thought my client was crazy at first. And trust me when I say that it got a good [...]

Vibrators.com – The $1,000,000 Sale: Part I

A little less then two weeks ago, the deal was finalized. PriveCo Inc. purchased the domain name, Vibrators.com, for $1,000,000. It has been reported that PriveCo made a $200,000 down payment on the domain name, and plans to pay the rest of the money over a short period of time at an 8% interest rate. [...]

Moniker Recognizes DNUnderground and Teaches a Lesson

One thing that I really like and highly respect is when the big players in a business look and take care of the smaller people. And that’s the recognition DNUnderground got from the CEO/Founder of Moniker when we posted an article on DNUnderground a couple of days ago about our disappointment about not getting a [...]

The Psychiatric Ways of eBay and Domains

Psychology is a very interesting topic not normally discussed within the domaining community, when the fact is that psychology is really a part of everyday domaining.  In this article I will be discussing about domain psycology on eBay, and strategies people use when selling their domains to attract buyers to their listing, and possibly bid. [...]

Kentucky Seizes Gambling Sites Domains

A lot of the internet gaming industry is not very happy with Kentucky, as they have tried to seize 141 domain names from online gambling sites. They sort of succeeded as of about 2 weeks ago when a Franklin County Circuit judge in Kentucky declared the order that gave the Commonwealth of Kentucky the power [...]

Domains: A Good or Bad Investment for the Long Term Future

I used to have the belief that domains would be a great investment for the future. My thoughts were that if 10-12 year old domains are so valuable now, just imagine how valuable they will be in the future. And that’s probably a pretty common belief amongst people in the domain industry. A few nights [...]

DOMAINfest Global Open for Submissions

Everyone is getting really excited for the upcoming DomainFEST event, coming up this January 28-30. This year the event will be taking place in Hollywood, California. DomainFEST always features a live domain auction within it’s event, which this year, will happen on Thursday, January 29. DomainFEST has just opened itself up for submissions, so you [...]

Domain Convergence Conference Holding Live Domain Auction

Domain Convergence, a well-known domain-industry conference, announced that they will be featuring a premium Live Auction at the conference this year for the first time in conference history. All submissions are in, due to the deadline that was set for yesterday, and we are still awaiting to see the catalog of domains to be auctioned [...]

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