In today’s Lowdown at DNJournal.com we have news from 4 different domain conferences; DOMAINfest Global, the next Southern California Domainers meetup, Domaining Europe and Traffic 2012. Plus, Lana Del Rey, the new music industry sensation with domain industry roots, appears on national TV tomorrow night.
Savvy domain investors have been aware of the concept and benefits of using keywords in their domain names for SEO purposes since the beginning. The rest of the world has started to catch on in recent years.
While doing some freelance projects for my New Year website development special, I couldn’t help but notice a trend that comes up in almost every site; keyword domains. Clients are either interested in finding a great keyword domain or already have one ready to go.
Leading SEOs and even Google’s Matt Cutts have confirmed that keywords in domain names offer benefits to search rankings. The benefits have been observed by many and even thought to be too much by some.
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You probably heard about the sale of Marijuana.com (including both the domain name & the popular forum built on it) last November in a deal reportedly worth $4.2 million. What you haven’t heard is that the deal was made possible by a service provided by Escrow.com that is helping fuel more sales at the high end of the market.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It covers the first week of 2012 sales. The New Year got off to a good start with a million dollar sale reported along with two 6-figure sales that we are the first to report. One of those is a big Canadian ccTLD sale.
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Inside Braden Pollock and Patrick Ruddell’s new partnership in ScienceFiction.com. Plus, ICANN leaders to answer questions tomorrow about the controversial new gTLD program that opens Thursday and a new brokerage agreement is announced by Sedo and the .CO Registry.