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Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Palin As President (.US)- LOL

Even if this was meant to mock her, it could be by her intention. She is a master of getting things spread virally and then getting FREE media when they discuss it on the news. You MUST click on the sofa, the desk pedestal and everywhere else for a truly entertaining presentation and example of what...

The Frager Factor | 30 Jul 2010 | 4:16 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Lawyer Spends Large; Loses Big— Can't He Afford A Domain To Go With His Rolls and Private Plane?

I returned to FLL and found these wall Muriel ads for the first time (actually the first time they have used the space around the conveyors for advertising. A great idea because you have captive eyes. Perhaps that's why the luggage is always late lately?But this lawyer, who has expensive TV ads on j...

The Frager Factor | 30 Jul 2010 | 1:55 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Did You Know Sedo.com Is A Public Company? Our Domain Parking Stock Index Updated: Sedo.com is In, Dark Blue Sea is Out

We just updated our Domain Parking StockIndex tracking the prices of public companies. We dropped Dark Blue Sea which was bought out, and went private earlier this year, and added Sedo.com (Sedo Holdings) which is traded on the Xetra, part of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Shares of ...

The Domains | 30 Jul 2010 | 12:45 pm CDT

Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing

IHG Fought to Control Domain Names But Parks Two of Their Own Generics

A while back, I wrote about Intercontinental Hotel Group’s massive UDRP filing for 1,529 domain names that they believe infringed on some of their hotel brands. They ended up winning a large majority of the domain names in this filing, and the few domain names that I checked smartly forward to...

Elliot's Blog | 30 Jul 2010 | 12:36 pm CDT

Rick Schwartz
The Domain King

Domain Industry Expanding But Domainers are Shrinking. Here's Why. Here's the Fix.

Morning Folks!The Domain Industry is expanding by leaps and bounds. It is expanding to every corner of the world and every corner of every industry and business. With 500 new TLD’s it will likely change the face of domaining in a way few have thought about or imagined. And while the Industry is e...

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King" | 30 Jul 2010 | 7:58 am CDT

Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal

Who Are They? Now We Know! Readers Help Us Match Names With Industry Faces

In my last Lowdown post I asked readers to help us identify some people in our massive industry photo archives that I did not have names for. I started the quest with a shot of two lovely ladies. As I expected, our readers came through like champs! En route to getting the IDs I needed I also had an...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 29 Jul 2010 | 8:55 pm CDT

Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing

Steps to Building Out Bahamas.co

Just a quick evening post to let you know where I am at with the development of Bahamas.co and the steps I’ve taken so far. I want to show you how development doesn’t have to be time consuming. 1) Posted a coming soon page on Bahamas.co and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. It...

Elliot's Blog | 29 Jul 2010 | 7:04 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

The Trademark Typo Linkdin.com Sells For 22K at SnapNames.com

The trademark typo domain, Linkdin.com just sold on SnapNames.com today for $22,000. $22K There were 50 people in the auction but there were 10 active bidders (bidders that put in a bid above the minimum). Its amazing in this day and age there are so many people willing to pay this ...

The Domains | 29 Jul 2010 | 3:16 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

My Day Job: Frager Creative Team Rebrands Hawaii's MC&A: It Doesn't Look Like WordPress But It Is

"Hi Owen, Yes, we are receiving the leads from the website in our info mailbox. Thanks for everything; the site looks great. Aloha" ~~MIKE FUKUMOTO -Senior Vice President / Chief Information OfficerMC&A was a Frager Group partner and one of the the first clients when we formed the world's first ...

The Frager Factor | 29 Jul 2010 | 2:30 pm CDT

Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing

Rick Schwartz Floating TRAFFIC Without Sponsors Idea

I received an email from Rick Schwartz this morning with the subject, “BIG News from T.R.A.F.F.I.C.” and I immediately read the email. Rick and Howard are expecting a big show in Florida in October (I am not surprised about this), and they are already discussing the format of TRAFFIC i...

Elliot's Blog | 29 Jul 2010 | 11:54 am CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Quick Poll: Which Domain Priced $500K-$1M WIll Sell At DomainFest?

I just ended the week long poll I was running on which domain you thought would sell at the live domain name auction at Domainfest, which will be held in New York on August 18th, of those domain names with a reserve price range of $250K-$500K . The package of domains including Tshi...

The Domains | 29 Jul 2010 | 11:53 am CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Fortune.com: “Google: The Search Party Is Over”

A new post by Fortune.com, entitled Google: The Search Party Is Over” is an interesting read especially for domainers who do any significant domain parking. The article which in large part discusses the business operations of Google says about search: That there is a real sh...

The Domains | 29 Jul 2010 | 9:40 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

I Got Gordon (.com), Rick Schwartz and $1 Million Estimate

I was watching the local news and I heard a commercial voice over- "Attention Mesothelioma and asbestos-related lung cancer patients: If you've been wronged you have rights. And you are entitled to compensation. Weitz & Luxenberg is a personal injury law firm that has recovered millions of doll...

The Frager Factor | 29 Jul 2010 | 12:54 am CDT

Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal

Sedo On Fire: They Sweep All But Two Entries on DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart

Sedo makes a consistently strong showing on our weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart but the company outdid themselves this week, turning in the best showing by anyone EVER on our all-extension leader board. Sedo's sales blitzkrieg gave them 18 of the 20 chart positions, including all of the first 13 pl...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 28 Jul 2010 | 8:06 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

A Peak Into My Day Job: Frager Creative Team Helps Rebrand The Forrest Solutions Group

"Owen - I finally have a moment to say - Well done my friend, the end product is absolutely fantastic and getting rave responses - just so great to see how all your work and efforts came to fruition and we have soooooo much to be proud of . From me to you - Great great job and look forward to seein...

The Frager Factor | 28 Jul 2010 | 8:00 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

If We Did This We Would Get Sued: BlackBerry Grabs Blackpad.com

According to MobileCrunch.com, the company that makes Blackberry phones Research In Motion or Rimm for short, just purchased the domain Blackpad.com for their long-rumored BlackBerry tablet. The devise of course will complete with Apple’s iPad. “According to registra...

The Domains | 28 Jul 2010 | 5:01 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Oversee.net Share Price Is Falling Like A Rock

We wrote about some insiders at Oversee.net were offering shares in the company for sale on SharesPost.com back in may of this year for $7.35 a share. Today a new seller hit the Sharespost site, offering 5,500-20,000 shares for sale for only $4.97 a share. For Oversee a sale of a bl...

The Domains | 28 Jul 2010 | 4:24 pm CDT

Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing

DomainMarketplace.com Launched by Internet REIT

I haven’t heard anything from or about Internet REIT in a while, but I received an email this afternoon from Lisa Box who is Vice President of Sales for iREIT. Lisa wrote to let me know about the launch of DomainMarketplace.com, a website that has iREIT-owned domain names for sale: I hope this...

Elliot's Blog | 28 Jul 2010 | 3:14 pm CDT

Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing

Why Don’t Some Startups Use Their Domain Name to Brand Their Company?

I don’t get it. I was reading another article on TechCrunch yesterday about a startup company whose brand name is different than the domain name that is being used by the company. I understand that many “cool” domain names aren’t available in the .com, but in my opinion, the ...

Elliot's Blog | 28 Jul 2010 | 1:44 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

George Pickering is Bullish on Dot CO- 2PM ONLY 2 SEATS Left!!

After reading here that Jon Kimball had secure the dot CO of his home town, George Pickering got busy protecting his best revenue generators: Local Experts .CO regs: TwinCities.CO, HamptonRoads.CO, NorthernVirginia.CO, Charlottesville.CO, DiscJockey.CO, and DiscJockeys.CO.George's Local Experts acq...

The Frager Factor | 28 Jul 2010 | 12:16 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

ASK.COM Starts Asking Its Users To Answer Search Requests

Ask.com has begun testing a new service that lets users of its search engine submit questions to other Ask.com users According to Doug Leeds, President of Ask.com, the new “Ask the Community” feature allows the search engine to provide specific answers to a greater porti...

The Domains | 28 Jul 2010 | 9:40 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Frager Creative Team Helps Rebrand The Forrest Solutions Group

"Owen - I finally have a moment to say - Well done my friend, the end product is absolutely fantastic and getting rave responses - just so great to see how all your work and efforts came to fruition and we have soooooo much to be proud of . From me to you - Great great job and look forward to seein...

The Frager Factor | 27 Jul 2010 | 11:55 pm CDT

Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal

Who Are They? Help Match Unidentified Domainers With Their Photos

Over the years I have taken thousands of photos of domainers at industry events around the world. I noticed in going through our massive photo archive recently that we have hundreds of photos of people whose names I don't have. I would like to change that and hope you can help. Also today, more news...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 27 Jul 2010 | 6:59 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

NameJet.com Starts 1st Public .Co Domain Auction

Namejet.com just announced the “”First Aftermarket names available for Public Auction” “These auctions are going on right now and since they are Public anyone can bid, but hurry they are scheduled to close on Friday July 30th.” The list follows, here ...

The Domains | 27 Jul 2010 | 1:44 pm CDT

Sahar Sarid
Conceptualist

Mountain Village At Dusk (Part I)

In life, some things you do will work, and some will not. Failure though is not an option when you continue to expand your horizons....

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid | 27 Jul 2010 | 12:39 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Mike Mann Announces The Sale Of Flying.Co, For $3,500: Is This The 1st Reported Aftermarket .Co Sale After General Registration Opened?

Mike Mann announced the sale of a .Co domain he owned, Flying.co for $3,500 on Facebook. This could be the first reported .Co aftermarket sale since general registration opened for .Co domains last week. We posted last week that Mike Mann has many of the top generic .CO domains for ...

The Domains | 27 Jul 2010 | 12:20 pm CDT

Michael Berkens
The Domains

Yahoo Japan Switches To Google

Yahoo Japan just signed a deal to use Google’s search engine rather than Microsoft’s Bing. Daniel Alegre, vice president of Google’s Asia Pacific and Japan operations, said in a post on Google Japan blog, “Yahoo Japan will use Google search results and ...

The Domains | 27 Jul 2010 | 10:09 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Jon Kimball is Bullish on Geo-Centric Dot Co Domains

Jon Kimball registered a few #dotco county names: Loudoun.Co (this VA county is the wealthiest per capita in the US & 4th fastest growing) probably bestOther #dotco county domains: PrinceWilliam.Co (http://j.mp/cKwwyn), Forsyth.Co (Ga. & NC), Chatham.Co and city ChapelHill.Co ...

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 9:10 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Disposal (.com)

Via @jonkimball - Big "we get it" for Allied Waste Services. Add them to the list:401k.com (Fidelity) AcidReflux.com (AstraZeneca) Acne.com (Guthy-Renker) ADHD.com (Eli Lilly) Allergy.com (Sanofi-Aventis) AllergyRelief.com (Schering-Plough) Aluminum.com (Alcoa) AlzheimersDisease.com (Novartis) Ammun...

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 9:06 pm CDT

Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal

Castello Brothers to Deliver Keynote Speech in Spain & Kamila Sekiewicz Settles In At NameDrive

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The Castello Brothers will join Sedo's Tim Schumacher as keynote speakers at next month's Domaining III conference in Spain, NameDrive has a new Director of Business Development and, after 40 shows, Owen Frager will hang up his Domain Success microphone Wednesd...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:25 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Visitors, Revenue, Way Up on ShoeDepartment.com

We normally have about 500 visitors a day with 1500-3500 at peak holiday season. Thanks to the pr campaign (Santa in July) all over TV and our own Back To School promotions here's what's happened during this vacation week, even peaking on the weekend2010-07-25 7722010-07-24 677 2010-07-23 6712010-07...

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 11:39 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Backed By Multi-Million $ TV Campaign Can Fly.com Take Off

Saw a spot last night in NY market (haven't seen it in Florida market) which got my attention because it uses the same puppets as Barry Diller's Hotels.com commercial.) Obviously their intent is to link the two sites. But who needs to go to two sites or a generic domain when all the airlines and hot...

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 11:26 am CDT

Rick Schwartz
The Domain King

Pigeon Shit Logo Now Ready for Distribution. Get one Here for Free

Afternoon Folks!Folks are DROWNING in Pigeon Shit. They can't pay the renewals, nobody wants them, wtf would you call it?? I am NOT riduculing anyone that has their domains and does not sit there and complain. My POINT is that if you have something that has proved worthless and nobody wants ...

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King" | 26 Jul 2010 | 11:22 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Big-Ticket (.com)

For Sale:Generic keyword branded DOTCOM domain ideal for selling of big ticket items or direct-to-domain streaming of auctions, theater, sports, movies, branded entertainment and concerts. As well as credit card and social network's members-only priority seating at designer showroom sales and other ...

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 11:00 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Comments Closed To Anonymous Pests

Due to unfortunate circumstances and a drain on my time I just don't have, you will now need a Google account to log in to make comments....

The Frager Factor | 26 Jul 2010 | 10:57 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Killer Apps For iPone- Add Yours

10 killer Mac apps via MAC DAILY NEWSSaturday, July 24, 2010 - 12:52 PM EDT"Web apps are the future, but there's still a lot of great software to be downloaded and installed," Thomas Claburn reports for InformationWeek. "We picked ten worthy Mac applications, that are tops here and now."10 killer Ma...

The Frager Factor | 25 Jul 2010 | 7:58 pm CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Attention Pigeon Shitters: Here's Proof That Rick Schwartz is Right

George Pickering appeared on DomainSuccess.com and shared his story. This is proof positive that domain success is NOT a matter of luck or being at the right place at the right timeGeorge Pickering: Who Said It Was Too Late To Buy Great dotCOMs?Starting in 2005, buying his first domain (agents.net) ...

The Frager Factor | 25 Jul 2010 | 5:34 pm CDT

Rick Schwartz
The Domain King

From the Sunday Funnies......I Took this PATHETIC Picture Today.

Morning Folks!Let's define chutzpah. I am still shaking my head but it also gave me one hell of a laugh. I took this just minutes ago coming back from breakfast. So I can testify to the authenticity. This is the type picture you see on Leno or the Nightly News. Maybe it will go viral. Enjoy! �...

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King" | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:25 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

All-Time Record Month: Sunshine And Google's Got Your Back

Due to back to school and Christmas (and our sale image in the template) in July we are seeing Christmas-like traffic on ShoeDepartment.com. PPC via Google feed is paying 30% more than Yahoo feed.I feel like happy times are here again and to those who made offers crying that the revenue is way down ...

The Frager Factor | 25 Jul 2010 | 12:10 am CDT

Owen Frager
The Frager Factor

Let's Play Who Will Pay The Most For These Domains

Along with ActofKindess.com, here are my favorites from over 100 inquiries/offers at DomainNameSales.com. Would you know who the best prospects for these names are and how to find them. Let's start with Google. Who is advertising and who is the category killer brand that should own it? Here are a fe...

The Frager Factor | 23 Jul 2010 | 7:35 pm CDT

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