http://insightdomain.com Insight into the Domaining Industry Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just literally stumbled across  a new blog aggregation service called Gurus.com which is covering the domain industry along with blogs of some other industries.  The site is using the Slogan; “one site, all the gurus” Of course most of you are familiar with Domaining.com and NameBee.com which have been serving ... http://www.thedomains.com/2010/03/10/im-a-guru-wait-until-you-see-who-owns-the-newest-blog-aggregator-gurus-com/ Did you know there’s an exclusive domain conference being held at The Palms resort in Las Vegas on March 22-23? The Domain Madness 2 conference is being run by DomainConsultant.com, and it sold out within a few days. Most of the attendees are domain investors who attended last year, and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElliotsBlog/~3/smBHMLD8tSc/exclusive-domain-conference-being-held-at-the-palms-on-march-22-23-8338 Late last week I purchased the Phpbay Pro eBay affiliate plugin for Wordpress and have been playing around with it the past several days. I built 3 sites and also installed the plugin on DotWeekly to play around with it here as well, so I wanted to share a little ... http://www.dotweekly.com/using-phpbay-pro-ebay-affiliate-plugin/ Talk about having some bad timing. The domain ChileEarthQuake.com dropped just 2 days after the 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile. Today the expired domain was auctioned off and sold on SnapNames.com While we always discourage people from registering domains that take advantage of any disasters we couldn’t help but notice the irony that this ... http://www.thedomains.com/2010/03/10/talk-about-bad-timing-chileearthquake-com-drops-just-days-after-the-quake/ Last week I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes. Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who will receive a $500 ... http://www.chefpatrick.com/the-second-name-com-contest-winner-is/ While looking at Sedo.com today I noticed the sale of MusicVideos.com for $250,000. MusicVideos.com was previously owned by DNStination, Inc which purchased the domain name from Yahoo, Inc mid to late 2009. DNStination either owns or has sold domains like iSlate.com, Me.com and Z1.com. The current whois information of MusicVideos.com ... http://www.chefpatrick.com/musicvideos-com-sells-for-250000/ I had a conversation a few days ago with someone in the legal department of a large company, and we discussed cybersquatting and the importance of buying potential typo domain names before a product launch, especially when the product is targeting children. In our conversation, I mentioned that I am a ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ElliotsBlog/~3/0dYazSBq3oo/differences-between-domain-investing-and-cybersquatting-37108 Here are a few nice expired domain name auctions that are currently running that are public and anybody can bid on! All domain names end at different times but are listed based on what is ending the earliest. Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction page for easy ... http://www.dotweekly.com/list-hot-expired-domain-name-actions/ Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names. Godaddy said it typically registers a million domain names per month. Godaddy also says they have a 50% market share of all active new domains registered in the world and is more than three times the size of ... http://www.thedomains.com/2010/03/10/godaddy-com-passes-40-million-domain-mark-has-50-market-share-of-all-new-domain-registrations/ During DOMAINfest in January I had an opportunity to chat with my friend Tony Kanakaris about a new project he was working on. After further development and beta testing Tony officially released SocialDomainers.com yesterday. In his own words Tony says… SocialDomainers.com is the Facebook for domainers, the place to meet local domainers ... http://www.chefpatrick.com/socialdomainers-com-sign-up-for-a-chance-to-win-one-of-three-apple-ipads/