Anonymous or eponymous? Domain offers with a signature

Domain offers that arrive with a full name and contact information are definitely the best; they allow me to get a full grasp of who the other party is, and what they want. It gives me the opportunity to potentially get on the phone and negotiate a sale, quickly and painlessly. Anonymous … [Read more...]

Moniker: All is quiet on the domain transfer front

Whenever I acquire domains, I usually transfer them from their 'random' registrar to my primary one, Fabulous, as soon as possible. Sometimes, though, I forget and the domains remain with their respective registrar until it's time for renewal. Last week, I initiated the transfer of a few … [Read more...]

Bummer. The machine that serves this file is down. We’re working on it.

I use Archive.org a lot, to view the status of web sites years ago. It's an invaluable and free service. The stress should go on "free", however more often than ever I find this free service to be unavailable. This statement comes up often, recently, when trying to view snapshots from 2002 or … [Read more...]

Get in control of your domain assets

I keep stating how Sedo pulled the rug from under themselves, with the thoughtless implementation of SedoMLS. They did it by treating the entire domain inventory - our domain assets - as trivial listings with a bargain sticker price. These listings were then being peddled on the GoDaddy TDNAM, on … [Read more...]

Success: Flushing TDNAM via SedoMLS

Unless you were in a stupor lately, you could not have missed my recent post about how I ditched Sedo - and not just for a single reason. In that post that generated more than 1500 unique views, I explained why I left Sedo after 8 years of being faithful to a "cheating mistress." At least, … [Read more...]