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Domain contracts at SEDO worth nothing

November 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm » Comments (4)

It’s about time, that the real serious Domain Business gets together and pushes a good alternative to our current market leader. SEDO has turned into a bazaar for unserious buyers and sellers that are harming our Domain Business. Alone these two experiences I have had this year probably talk for many other similar domain deals.

A Domain Sale

In May…



Interview with Rick Schwartz

October 6th, 2008 at 11:58 pm » Comments (2)

Rick Schwartz, owner of one of the most valuable domain portfolios around is already a living legend in the domain business. Rick was one of the first pioneers to foresee the value of generic domains at a time where most people didn't even know what Internet was all about. Also known as Domain King or Webfather, Ricks activities for…



Wild West Domains violates ICANN Transfer Policy

January 30th, 2008 at 2:19 am » Comments (22)

What Wild West Domains (WildWestDomains.com), a Godaddy reseller, is doing makes no sense at all and is clearly infringing the rules and regulations set by the ICANN. Just imagine the following situation:

You register a domain whatever.com a few months ago. Obviously you enter all your data including your present address and whatever else is required to complete…



Ground.com is online

October 4th, 2007 at 11:16 pm » Comments (3)

One of our main keyword domains, is now developed and online. Ground.com with it’s 100 visitors daily is certainly a domain worth development. It may look a little poor at the moment, but our texters are working on further content to be added in the next few days. The content is based on subjects covering 40 common keyword…



Negative Marketing

September 29th, 2007 at 4:34 pm » Comments (2)

Looking up domains with all sorts of search terms related to marketing, I just discovered this site on the web: negative-marketing.com

How can it be possible, that someone offers this kind of service publicly? Not quite openly as I find, since there is no clue as to who is behind this service. The whois record shows that…



Tia Wood

September 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 pm » Comments (3)

Tia Wood serves as a private web designer for some of the world's top domain investors. She is a novelist, domain investor, web designer, college student, Christian and mother. Needless to say, a very busy individual.

With 26 years of age and and birthday on April Fools Day Tia is  a proud mother of a seven year old…



Domain Smalltalk by Richard Martin

July 2nd, 2007 at 2:22 am » Comments (3)

Well, many people have asked me why I don’t have my own blog. It’s sort of "What? you don’t have a blog" or "Everybody has a Blog".

My standard answer: Why would I need a blog?; Who would bee interested in what I write?; I do enough writing in all sorts of forums related to domains, so why a blog?…