I have reduced the price tag of my dictionary domain by over 90 percent discount at BargainDomains.com

I have already listed a few domains at BargainDomains.com and it is a great site for domainers to list their domains. Now I decided to list one of my one word dictionary domain name. The domain name is www.Cessation.com (also a website) and it is appraised at $322,000 by Valuate.com . I have attached the screen snapshot of the valuation or domain appraisal below. I have set the price for my domain www.Cessation.com (also website) at $30,000 with more than 90 % discount.

Some stats regarding the keyword “Cessation”.

Google results = over 10 million search results.

Google PHRASE search around 450,000 times per month for the keyw0rd.

Google EXACT search over 40,000 times per month for the keyword “Cessation”.

I have put the screen snapshot of the domain appraisal for the domain, Cessation.com below.

Dot Tel Celebrates One Year Birthday

There are so many reasons why .tel,  launched by TelNic a year ago is the tld of choice. Top of the list is the verbal interplay with telephone and tele-links. Any new brand can register at .Tel and make sure their customers know the route to accessing the service or what type of service it’s for.

Metal.com Nabs $165K at Sedo

Among the tasty picks at Sedo this week was a big dollar auction bid securing the commodity name Metal.com. Metal.com rang in at $165,00 a nice return by any estimator. Another big dollar sale was Stockprices.com at the same auction source. Zaire’s Furniture.co.za changed hands for $33,000, a respectable price for a non-tld country code name. Flashy fashion name Mo.De (German) cost its lucky bidder over $21K. Domain shoppers were hungry this week, even dot-net FuneralHome.net nabbed $30K.

Typo Squat Big Biz, Says Google

Domain experts estimate almost $500 million in typo derived revenue. Highlighting the problem is the 57% estimated to include PPC ads. This does not square with posted rules & regulations governing online usage of copyrights. A claim of concern is the following:

According to the report, typosquatters reg more names targeting co.s in sectors with high PPC prices. If PPC funding is encouraging typosquatting,   PPC payments are keeping them cycling on. Do Google’s payments put the system in motion? Domainers know squatters register domains exactly in anticipation of getting paid by Google. And Google knows where it’s showing ads.

Food for thought.

.CO domains are coming, imagine Business.co , Money.co , Domains.co

There was a news regarding the .CO domain launch schedule. CO domain extension represents Columbian and the domain launch would start in April, 2010.

Imagine domains like Business.co, Domains.co, Money.co, Website.co, Hosting.co, Celebrities.co, News.co . They look nice and very much similar to .com domains.

“Local Sunrise” would start from April 1, 2010 until April 20, 2010.

Then “Global Sunrise” would begin at April 26, 2010 and it would end on June 10, 2010.

“Landrush” would be from June 21, 2010 until July 13, 2010.

“General Availability” would start on July 20, 2010 from when people would be able to register at normal rate on first come, first served basis.

1. Local Sunrise (April 1 – April 20):

This phase is for Columbian trademark holders with exact match domain names registered prior to July 30, 2008. This allows companies with Columbian trademarks to apply for their desired domain or domains and secure their trademarks. Matching domains will go to auction.

2. Global Sunrise (April 26 – June 10):

This phase is for trademark holders with exact match domain names registered prior to July 30, 2008. This allows companies to apply for their desired domain or domains and secure their trademarks. Matching domains will go to auction.

3. Landrush (June 21 – July 13):

Landrush takes place from the end of June through mid-July, and will be open to anyone interested in registering domain names of high commercial value. Any interest in matching domains will go to auction.

4. General Availability (July 20):

Once the Global Sunrise and Landrush processes are complete, .CO domains will become available to anyone in the world through participating registrars. Except where otherwise reserved by the .CO Registry or earmarked for premium auctions, .CO domains will be available to the public based on the chronological order of registrations on a first come, first served basis.

Above is from OpenSRS .com page.

Chile Name Market Shakes Up

The serious earthquake in Chile has seen a dramatic rise in domain name purchases in the last 24 hours since the earthquake in that country. Perhaps catching those who hesitated buying Haiti names too long, the Chile relief effort and search engine tornado is happening now. Those owning Chile names and geo related domains might auction them now for highest potential value.

Sun / Oracle to Enter Domain/Hosting Industry

Word on the wires is that the new compendium of Oracle after swallowing Sun is giving birth to a great new brainchild. This new bonanza is a crashing spear into the world of domaining; A new domain name registrar and hosting company that will blow the socks off current market leaders (rhymes with Schmoe-daddy).  Sparcstations off the forward bow!

No name has been chosen by Sun/Oracle yet, but super secret teams in Cupertino and Mountain View are already clashing over turf. The technical entity will not be in violation of any super secret hosting or redundancy agreements because the new spinoff corporate entity will be a separate company. Sweet! The domainer’s mouth waters at the possible debut deals offered….

Domainers in the know and technical cognoscienti scoff that nobody can toppled the Danica-fronted Big Daddy.  But hosting service watchers have heeded the firestorm of complaints that “Schmoe-daddy” customers have. Buying the registrar is the nice part, some domainer running an ICANN-powered fruit stand will make a tidy bundle.

(from Domainowl.com)

Rollingstone.com Gets NetSolled

The active magazine with the avante garde approach to rock music and intrepid journalism may be missing their domain name. According to the WHOIS their name is paid up until 2011. So why has the RollingStone.com website become a Network Solutions domain parking page? Those one million viewers a month may have click elsewhere for a while. A word to the wise, a lost 404 opportunity is a lost squeeze.

DomainGang.com Hacked?

Well, unless you enjoy flat Times New Roman displays of the DomainGang site cgi-bin, the game is afoot over at the DomainGang.com website. First there was the cgi-bin file, then the blank white screen. The Twitter page for the blog site has comments allegedly by the admin regaridng the domain password getting stolen. Has our favorite snarky Domaining site been hacked? Is nothing sacred?

Pool’s Got Character: Two of them!

Pool.com will be auctioning over 300 2-character .biz domains. The auction closes on February 18^th, so get yourself a great domain today. Since everyone in the world can remember two characters, domain names never have been more global in reach. Nab a character or two soon!

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