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Perth.com goes for $200,000

26 November 2007

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The domain Perth.com was recently sold for $200,000. Moniker had a sale of city and country domains. By owning a city or country dot com, you are eligible to join Associated Cities. An organization that actively promotes geo-targetted domain names. It will be interesting to see who the new owners are and what they do [...]

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Just spent a chunk of money

1 November 2007

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I just spent a chunk of money on a domain. The seller approached me and it seemed like a good deal. The problem is I am already busy with my Beijing site and maintaining all of my other sites. I just know that if I passed up on the opportunity, I would regret it later. [...]

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Profiting from keyword phrases – playing domain lotto

31 October 2007

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I was listening to another excellent domain podcast on webmasterradio and one of the guests told a great story. An advertising company was doing a huge campaign for GMH based around the phrase “keys to victory”. They were already well into preparing for the launch of the campaign when they realized no one had bothered [...]

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The battle over .la

12 July 2007

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I am currently in Laos at the moment. My homepage is set to Google.com and when I open my browser, I am redirected to Google.la. I noticed a few businesses using the .la extension, but most were opting for a .com I had an idea to do something like hostels.jp for Laos so looked into [...]

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The Battle for Sex.com

4 July 2007

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I listened to Monte Cahn interview Kieren McCarthy last night. Kieren is a UK based freelance writer focusing on the domain industry. He wrote a book simply titled “Sex.com”. As titillating as it sounds, the book is about how the original owner of sex.com lost the domain and spent the next 10 plus years trying [...]

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My premium domain purchase and competition announcement

15 June 2007

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Last year I wrote about purchasing a premium domain. The domain I bought was australiaforum.com and I paid $2,500 for the domain. The domain was initially listed at Buy Domains for over $4000. If you compare it with some of the other sales on DnJournal, I think it was a good buy. I think chinaforum.com [...]

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Tips for buying a domain that has already been registered

24 May 2007

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You have come up with the perfect name for your website, you go to register it only to find it is already taken. You could go with the .net, .org or .us, but it is never going to be like having the .com. You open a web browser, type in the domain and you get [...]

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Someone is interested in one of my domain

23 May 2007

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I received an email from someone interested in purchasing a domain I bought last year. I had kind of forgotten about the domain, as own at least 100 domains and haven’t gotten around to building a site yet. They have a business using the country extension of the domain and want to buy the .com. [...]

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Daily Domainer – leading source of the latest domain news

31 March 2007

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Disclosure: The following is a paid review. If I have access to the internet, I will generally try and accept all reviews that I receive. A review on this blog costs just $60. I am happy that Daily Domainer has asked me to review their site. As regular readers of this blog will know, I [...]

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Second highest .mobi sale

17 January 2007

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DNJournal has just reported the second highest .mobi sale. The domain Sportsbook.mobi was sold for $129,800. The highest .mobi domain, flowers.mobi was sold for $200,000. The domain was originally purchased for just $30. Technorati Tags: mobi

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