Have acquired InsuranceComparison.com

I acquired the domain, InsuranceComparison.com recently and it took me nearly one month to close this deal. I have sold a few insurance domains and I like that niche.

I am planning to develop this domain, InsuranceComparison.com into a business website but it would need extensive project to do such a website, I believe. Do you recommend/know any business website developer who could create an insurance comparison website?

I am thinking of using subdomains such as

Car.InsuranceComparison.com, Health.InsuranceComparison.com, Pet.InsuranceComparison.com
Home.InsuranceComparison.com
Travel.InsuranceComparison.com
Life.InsuranceComparison.com

etc…

What do you think of such subdomain creation? Would you suggest creating directories instead of subdomains?

Entrepreneur Magazine Slips Up

Blog worthy blog applications don’t reach millions of downloads an hour by accident. WordPress has thousands of sites just for free template downloads, because so many people use WordPress it has created a WordPress accessory traffic market. Many online domainers can feel confident they can easily develop a name from a WordPress typo or other related site, just due to the constant global end user churn in WordPress blog site development.

Anyone using the blog engines and CMS managers knows that pretty sites are a result of design, templates, plugins, taste, content and more. To illustrate the case with one clueless website client is an eye opener. Scores of Joomla users (like myself) are very happy with the results we get. No mention in the article of the Joomla polls, sponsor tools, banner and ad plug and play, or news flash and other nifty publishing tools are made.

The article lists Posterous.com as a leading CMS which I had never heard of and never used. WordPress and TypePad were listed as thought they were competitors of equal rank, a fact every blogger knows is false. WordPress is global because it is plug and play and very SEO capable. Drupal is a horribly unwieldy and the best successor to Joomla, DotNetNuke, is not even mentioned. To say that Joomla is on a “power par” with Drupal is laughingly uninformed. Except this is Entrepreneur magazine.

more at

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Domain Market Update

The recent six figure domain sales have given rise to the hopes of many a aftermarket domainer in these troubled economic times. Whereas some domainers may see a shrinking buyer’s market, other experts disagree. Noted domain bloggers have been consistently commenting on the healthy resale market and auction robustness catching the domainer headlines of late.

The legitimate monetary revenues derived from domaining have not shrunk so much as sharply diversified into more competitive markets. Domain development and domain resale via auction sales seem as healthy as they were in pre-recession late 2008. Furthermore, shifts in the domain marketplace, such as the closing of Bido and the auction privileges extended by certain registrars to some auction sites, symbolize not the expiration but the maturation of the domain market.

Domain sales across all TLD’s can still be savored, but the bonanza market of the initial land grab is past over with. Career domainers with specialized long game interests and savvy marketing skills can promote their chosen domain sale with an optimum chance of ultimate domain profit from resale. Choosing development options, hosting accounts, parking page and template versiosn as well as direct domain marketing to possible buyers brings the steady domain money home.

Going to develop one of my domains, Cameraman.com

I acquired www.Cameraman.com a few months ago and I had had some offers but a serious offer in xx,xxx fell through. I haven’t put this domain for sale at the domain forums for a while. Since I had the xx,xxx offer, there were low balling offers which I declined.

Now I decided to develop this domain, www.Cameraman.com as a directory type website for Cameramen around the world. I would like advice from people regarding the website development. I want it to be professionally developed rather than using some stereo typed directory script. I would appreciate if you know any good professional developers who have develop well established business directories or any professional looking directory scripts.

Godaddy Boots .CN Namesells

Concerned about new Chinese data collection policies, Go Daddy announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow customers to sign up for new .CN domain names. While .CN management is currently intact, Americana and global customers may ultimately vended to a third party if GoDaddy washes it hands of .CN altogether. China’s surveillance and monitoring of the Internet activities of its citizens has unsettled many human rights legislators and internet business operators.

As China changes the internet model, so may they also see declines in international traffic and online profit taking opportunities from Western consumers. The domain registrar follows recent reporting of rejection of Google data management policies inside the Asian meganation. The curtailing of sales of  .CN domain names spells the end of the open book playing field for internet domainers.

L.A. Ordinance Cuts Internet Taxes

The age of the internet business just got more affordable. As many Southern Californians know, the Santa Monica corridor is full of dot-coms working hard to stay afloat in the new recession. Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa signed a measure to cut business taxes for Internet-based firms, many of which last year saw their tax rate jump from the lowest in the city to the highest.

Villaraigosa signed the ordinance at the Westside Internet firm Shopzilla. Many dotcoms threatened to move if tax issues were not addressed. Under the new classification, dotcoms were placed in the “business and professions” category, which has a tax rate of $5.07 per $1,000 of gross receipts. Godo to keep in mind when starting up an American dotcom.

Low x,xxx to a million dollar sucessful web hosting business?

I was looking through domain sale history in the past and I found some interesting domain sales because the end users have developed the domains into multimillion dollar businesses.

I am a bit “hosting” keyword orientated and therefore was looking at the “hosting” keyword domain sales in the past. I found out that the domain which was sold at Afternic in 2007 became a successful web hosting business. It was the domain JustHost.com, which has now become recognised web hosting provider. JustHost.com domain was reportedly sold for $1,300 at Afternic in December, 2007. I think it would NOW be regarded as a multimillion dollar business because of its status as an established web hosting provider. When I checked its Alexa ranking , it was around 2,700 and they have grown quite a bit within just over 2 years if the domain sale report was right. The business head office is based in the UK and it also has headquarters in US and an office in Australia.

Most expensive .biz domains and domain name sales

I was looking at .biz domain sales in the past and there were some good domain sales.

I am surprised to see there are xx,xxx range domain sales for .biz extension.

Recently in November, 2009, there were a few one letter .biz domain sales in the range of xx,xxx.

I gather the following .biz domains were sold at fairly high prices in xx,xxx range.

e.biz sold for over $66,000

d.biz sold for over $26,000

m.biz sold for nearly $16,000

Mortgages.biz was sold for $15,000

Meningitis.biz sold for $15,000 (one of the surprising domain sales )

Car.biz sold for over $14,000

sport.biz sold for nearly $14,000

w.biz sold for $13,500

ImmobilienMakler.biz sold for over $13,000

Hermes.biz sold for $12,600

Cards.biz sold for nearly $12,000

foods.biz sold for over $11,000

loan.biz sold for over $11,000

Find.biz sold for nearly $11,000

u.biz sold for over $10,000

a.biz sold for over $10,000

x.biz sold for over $10,000

b.biz sold for over $10,000

moving.biz sold for nearly $10,000

OMG, OMG.com got Yahoo’d

So how come nobody has trademarked OMG yet? Yahoo will probably try. Active in the domain sector (propping up a cheap domain selling but expensive to renew Yahoo Small Business franchise) the search engine/email utility/all purpose map platform and more company has been buying and selling space the past few months.

But can they develop worth a darn? Yahoo is  the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last week for $80,000, according to Domain Name Wire.

A well-known gossip site moniker, OMG.com shows those picture of starlets on red carpets in Hollywood and talks breathlessly about people you never knew existed. And now it belongs to …Yahoo.

Of course, Yahoo has a history with domain names too big for the ‘Hoo britches. Yahoo sold off contests.com in June for $380,000 after sitting on it for many years. Could Yahoo be the big domains player sleeper after all?

more at techCrunch

Burfurcated Internet China

Those looking to do business in domaining in China can scratch their heads. Amid reports that the idn.mobi agreement and press conference  just took place in China and accomplished that idn.mobi registrations will be going live in a few weeks, the unknown horizons of Chinese business frontiers loom. Billions of Chinese consumers are lurking?

Domain and internet global commerce is welcome,  but at the same time, the Chinese government requires internet filters and standard ‘policing’ webware to govern its citizen’s Internet habits and World Wide Web use. Who will the Chinese domain name customers be? Who will be the end user market for Chinese domain name development?