Domaining.com through the years: A Screenshots.com tribute

Popular domain news aggregator, Domaining.com, is currently down, due to unforeseen circumstances. While we all hope that Francois Carrillo will bring his virtual baby back up soon, it's interesting seeing how much Domaining.com has changed, since its launch in 2007. Here's a timeline, … [Read more...]

Does your domain broker know what you’re doing in private?

After reading the tweets of a domain broker and seeing that the domain was also listed on Sedo, I decided to run a little experiment. The asking price for this generic domain, which forwards to a corporate, fully functional website, was in the low 200's - as listed by the domain broker. So I … [Read more...]

Sedo pays fast

As I said in the past, Sedo pays fast. How fast, depends on your willingness to participate in the seller/buyer exchange. If you fail to respond to messages regarding a transaction, or if you do not take the initiative to inform the transaction manager about completing that action, chances are … [Read more...]

Reminder: If you use it for free, you are the product

Time and again, the users of free online products and services cry 'foul' the moment their favorite gizmo is acquired by an 800-lbs industry gorilla. The news about Facebook buying photo-sharing app and web site, Instagram, for a billion dollars in cash and stock was met by frustration by … [Read more...]

Nobody at Google knows what’s going on with parking issues

As I've been testing a handful of domains at VooDoo.com, a situation with one particular domain - MetaSurf.com - turned up. Simply put, while traffic is minimal, 50% of the time that I tested for optimization purposes, no ads showed up, unlike in the past, according to snapshots captured by … [Read more...]