Fixed price listings at Sedo: It doesn’t work for me

By using the Sedo marketplace as a seller, I'm always after maximizing my sales revenue. The recent announcement by Sedo that fixed price listings will enjoy the old 10% fee is not an incentive for me to switch over from "make an offer" listings for my domain portfolio. Perhaps if Sedo lowered … [Read more...]

A fistful of GoDaddy dollars

It finally happened: the legendary Bob Parsons will no longer be in charge of the company he founded, GoDaddy.com Not many seem to like GoDaddy for practices of the past. And yet, the biggest domain registrar in the world with 40 million domains seems to have found the Holy Grail of domaining: … [Read more...]

Goodbye, phone jack cable

Remember the good old dial-up days? The truth is, I've been using one form or another of cable Internet access since 1999 and never looked back. Back then it was Media One, a Jacksonville, FL cable and Internet access provider that offered 1 Mbps Internet access. My employer of that time, an … [Read more...]

Finally, Firefox gets its sh1t together!

Pardon the Sunday rant but the truth is, I was just about to change my default browser to Opera. Miraculously, Firefox - the browser of choice for millions - fixed a series of underlying glitches with its latest 5.0 release. The "feature" that drove me nuts interacted with Gmail and other web … [Read more...]

Social.com – How I saved the owner’s $2.6 million property

It's good to hear when people become successful overnight; that's the type of satisfaction that can be shared. Financial success through domaining is yet another way to display one's entrepreneurial achievements and the recent sale of Social.com for $2.6 million is one such case. Five years … [Read more...]