Building Online Sucess
By: Mike Awada. India is one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most promising economies in the world. With a population of 1.17 billion people, global businesses have been shifting their time, focus and resources to this one time British colony for years. The Indian population is known for being focused, hard-working and intelligent; leading to [...]
Read More »By: Mike A. If you haven’t heard the amazing news today, scientists have discovered how to tap into electrical signals in the brain, and decode these signals into words. “By looking only at maps of electrical activity in the human brain, scientists were able to tell which words a person was listening to. The discovery [...]
Read More »Sedo.com is hosting another Premium .ME auction featuring 178 more previously unreleased domains. The auction will start next Thursday, February 2nd and ends February 9th. There are a variety of top one word .ME names in the auction including hotel.me, coffee.me, camp.me and many more. Below are my picks from the upcoming auction which include [...]
Read More »In retaliation to the fed shutdown of the multi-million dollar pirated content site MegaUpload.com, the group of ‘hacktivists’ known collectively as ‘Anonymous’ had at some point today, taken down two of the most visited sites on the net. UniversalMusic.com with a worldwide Alexa traffic rank of 32K and CBS.com with a rank of 1k. Earlier [...]
Read More »By: Mike A. Break out the Vodka, Peach Schnapps, and OJ, we’re having a party. SexOnTheBeach.com sold for $15,000 American Dollars on Sedo this week, prompting the seller to buy drinks for everyone in the house. For that kind of change, you can even hire a team of professional excavators to remove the sand from your crack afterwards. [...]
Read More »By: Mike A. I’ve received numerous phony domain inquiries over my career as a domainer. It’s generally pretty obvious when someone is pulling your leg and wasting your time. Typos and odd requests are often a dead giveaway. Why do people do this? Trying to trick people into sending them personal information or wiring them [...]
Read More »We’ve just received an email (below) from Craig Rowe, founder of WhyPark.com that explains to clients how WhyPark, the company that introduced ‘Domain Apps’ has rebranded to DomainApps.com. Currently, WhyPark.com re-directs to DomainApps.com. I am very fond of the domain apps feature WhyPark implemented and I think this is a smart move to rebrand this monetization [...]
Read More »By Mike A. It’s been an interesting month in the industry, with some big sales reported, and nice names some slipping under the radar. Although this edition will be about some .com sales, it’s great to see the influx of ccTLD’s that are showing up in the weekly top sales. I think this is a [...]
Read More »I had an opportunity to chat with Mike Mann on the phone last week and discuss domain investing and some of his projects in an interview style which I have published below. In case you are not already familiar with Mike, he is a serial entrepreneur and domain investor based out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. [...]
Read More »Authored by Mike A. No one can say for sure what the future of .XXX is. Mike Law spoke interestingly about how ICM is cashing in on the necessity of protecting your brand; especially from those taking it to the extreme and overthinking the kind of names they’ll need to protect. This type of thinking [...]
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