Is FreshDrop a joke?

I was at the FreshDrop website but when I looked at the domain sales at Ebay, it was just funny to see domains like google.com for sale at $1,500, Game.com for sale at $10, car.com for sale at $1 etc…

When I clicked to buy “Toy.com” for $10, hoping to see an IDN , I found out that it was only “TarotCardGame.com ” and not an IDN related to “toy.com”.

What is happening with FreshDrop ? Are they making jokes or what? I think FreshDrop needs to address this.

Country Code Apps Niche Opportunity

Ask not what your country code TLD domain name can do for you, but ask rather what you can do to enhance the value of country code domain property. Setting up global real estate under a foreign country domain name TLD takes pizzazz and killer apps. But who will provide the next universal domaining tools for the huge market of domainers who have lots of ccTLD  real estate in their portfolio but no way to launch it?

Deleting Domains for Pool 01/05/10

Pool has some intriguing name values popping up in the deleting domains sector for Tuesday January 5th, 2010. You never know what somebody forgot to renew.  The domains 1810.net, buggy.info, and cly.mobi are top small character domains. Forexplace.com is a hot niche name. Burg.com has serious global appeal for a geo site. Cuk.mobi and 1656.com round out the Pool list.

Sports Name Fiesta in 2010

Look for sports TLD domination this year, says an insider. Sports domains in 2010 will become more valuable as with all quality, generic domains.  With more and more people/companies  understanding the need for a converging quality domain, the solidifying effort to increase their brand and online presence becomes more efficient. Sports fulfills the need for fresh dynamic content and a solid audience searching daily for new results.

If there are sports domains that include year numerals in the domain name, those domains have a shorter ’shelf life’ of value.  But promotion can make the years matter.  Witness the success of all the Nostradamus 2010 domain search result traffic. Hybrids of key niches, like gaming and sports, take place with a site like www.Gamingwizz.com.

This insider goes on to say “Obviously, the shorter, commerce related, and easiest to remember/type are the top names to go after.  The best thing with sports is the amount of fans around the world with so many different sports and teams.  All in all, there is pretty good potential in 2010 for sports niche domains.”

Translation Pages Hot

The big news in domain development these days is converting active native language pages to another language for a given country code or demographic. Witness a certain expert domainer branching out into translation services for exiting websites to coordinate dual language site releases.  This new service offered by WhiteBark Innovations for website translations can serve up those country code websites domainers are now looking to build.

Top 10 Domainer Christmas Gifts

What do Domainers Want? TeenDomainer says: A Gift Card to a Domain Registrar (Godaddy.com), A Year of Hosting, Custom Twitter Background, Wordpress Thesis Theme , Tickets to Traffic, Domainer Mardi Gras, or Domainfest, Membership to Premium Wordpress Themes,  Domains For Dummies,  The Domain Game Book, and  Estibot Tools are the preferred gifts of the webmaster and domainer set. Don’t forget the  Vistaprint Business Cards.

Domain Name Knowledge Base

A new domainer resource has sprung to life in the North Carolina domain growing fields. The Domain Name Knowledge Base, at DNKB.org , chronicles a body of articles, question, queries, explanations, and ideas about domain names and domain name development. “The free service also provides information on various topics relating to successful management of domains, including securing, selling, marketing, acquiring, parking and assessing the market value of domains,” Abdu Tarabichi said.

Read more at DnJournal.com’s article.

ICANN Wrestles Character Alphabets

ICANN is developing Web addresses that can be written in other languages. Suffix, such as the “com” after the dot, must be typed in Roman letters. The suffix known as a TLD on the Internet  expressed in 17 other alphabets. ICANN directors and advisors meet in Seoul this week to wrestle technical issues. Characters look the same but mean something different, which is particularly difficult with Chinese, the language that may someday be one of the most heavily used for Internet addresses.

2Go Media Acquires Mass Name Portfolio

2Go Media, the company known for online real estate marketing strategies, today announced it has acquired the largest real estate domain name portfolio in the world, all within the .travel Top Level Domain. Each domain name is comprised of the top searched real estate keywords for more than 7,500 cities throughout the United States.

Appraisal Niche a Hot Domain Target

How many domain shopping days do you have before Christmas? Santa could bring a new niche your way. When domainers check their drop lists and check them twice, appraisal names are hot now. The domain aftermarket and new country code TLD development can make a generic name in a foreign tongue a golden opportunity.

Many successful domainers have debated the relative value of appraisal sites and appraisal engines to qualify bidding and list prices for domain names. Could there be appraisal domain gold in your portfolio?

But Estibot.com and Alexa.com are only some of the appraisal name sites that domainers regularly tap to quantify rankings and traffics. With a bevy of new country code sublevel TLD’s happening, a niche exists to tap foreign language and foreign character domains and appraisal traffic for fledgling domainers in other languages and English language appraisal clients looking for new resources.

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