Most people believe that you simply need a name and a bit of time to make money when investing in domain names.
This is usually not the best way to make money.
Reverse domain hijacking
Domain hijacking is the process of transferring ownership of a domain name without the permission of the registrant (domain owner). This is usually done by hacking into their registrar account or tricking them into giving away their password, by pretending to be their registrar.
Reverse domain hijacking is where someone tries to claim the rights to a domain and use legal threats or UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy) action to have a domain transferred to them from the current owner who also has full right to own and the same domain.
Class Action Suit Filed Against Oversee
A Miami lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against domain name auction site SnapNames.com, after the company announced that a former employee was bidding against potential customers in domain name auctions.
Attorney Santiago Cueto filed the lawsuit Monday in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court on behalf of his brother, Carlos Cueto, and others who participated in SnapNames.com’s online auctions. The lawsuit alleges that a former vice president at SnapNames.com secretly bid on tens of thousands of domain name auctions over the past four years, leading to falsely inflated prices.
Type in Traffic
Type in traffic is an example of direct navigation; it is defined as a visitor entering a keyword into the address bar of the web browser and then adding ‘.com’ or ‘.net’ (or any other code) to the end.
Internet users may choose to ‘type in’ their chosen term instead of following a hyperlink or searching the term via a search engine. For example if you wanted to purchase a mobile phone you may type ‘mobilephone.com’ into your address bar instead of searching a search engine for a ‘mobile phone’.
To sell or not to sell
When you receive an offer for one of your domains, you are likely to make a counter offer in order to get the best possible price. They will reply with another offer and so on.
The hard part is not to make the counter offer, but to decide when to stop talking.
Expand your portfolio
Sooner or later, you will have more than one domain name in your portfolio, especially if you plan to make a living out of it.
The question is to decide on how to expand it. There are several approaches:
Remember to renew your domain names…
or be prepared for a lot of grief!
If you let your domain expire it becomes available for other domainers to purchase. If another domainer purchases your domain you will no longer have access to that particular domain name.
Unfortunately we see this happen every single day, someone trying to get back a domain that they let expire or failed to renew in time, in some cases it can be from years ago.
How much would you pay to own Toys.com?
We all know that a domain name is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay for it, but what if they are willing to pay over $5 million?
Toys.com was sold through Bankruptcy Auction for $5.1 million dollars in March this year. This places Toys.com at the number one spot in dnjournal.com’s highest reported domain sales, so far, for 2009.
The toys store Toy ‘R’ Us purchased the domain name knowing that it had a constant flow of traffic, perfect for their brands. The domain now provides links to Toy ‘R’ Us brands: Babies ‘R’ Us, eToys.com, Baby Universe.com and Toy ‘R’ Us.
Sedo Reports Strong Q3 Domain Sales – 5.5% Increase
According to Sedo’s newly released Domain Market Study, Q3 domain sales increase 5.5% over Q2. Respectfully, Sedo represented 75% of the top 20 public domain …
Yahoo Gives Out SYNDICATION Rights to DDC!
Just received an email from Yahoo effectively advising that they have given Syndication of their Search Feeds the GREEN light.
Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Service) is a great Open Search API, where the goal of BOSS is simple: “to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.” Source http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
Yahoo have removed the daily caps, removed all the other restrictions that were with the original Yahoo Search APIs. Well Done Yahoo… that sure is one way to get a lot of third party tools using Yahoo search, aka greater search share for Yahoo.
The Interesting part was that Yahoo emailed advising to sign up via their 1st Yahoo! Search BOSS syndication partner DDC.com. Here is a copy of the email received:
