Those "boutique" country code domain names - .BE, .BZ, .CC, LA - even though the registration fees are higher, it's hard to say "no" when you stumble across a juicy, premium keyword, sitting there all by its lonesome, little self, in some unregistered cctld (country code top level domain) … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC NY Silent Auction – Lessons Learned
The New York TRAFFIC event for domain names is over, the live auction having produced a record of over 10 million dollars in domain sales. I'm going to leave coverage of the live auction results to the big domain sites and instead focus on the silent auction - the results were equally interesting … [Read more...]
Detecting Spoofed (False) Page Rank (its not as easy as you think)!
For a long time, one of my pet peeves has been people who buy and sell domains based on tool bar page rank. First of all, Google doesn't rank domains, they rank pages. That's why they call it "Page rank". There is no such thing as a "PR5 domain", it's a domain URL which resolves to a page with a … [Read more...]