Pool Skim for Monday Sept. 27th

Deleting from the list today is a smattering of numericals and other domains. The name salad starts off with 1carrot.com and then progresses from there. This and 1dollarclick.com could bring some lettuce. The name 1nightnparis.com could be a bed and breakfast portal. 1stcollect.com could be a royalty site. 2010posters.com could be walled up.

The series 2012nflmockdraft.com through 1016nflmockdraft.com are dropping at Pool.com. A huge series of 24-7 names also drop. The domain 2minutecall.com could have staying power. The nom 3amtexts.com could have digital appeal. A series of 411- names also drop at Pool.com today. More at Pool.com.

Epik Auctions Nets $47K in Name Auction

The Epik.com Developer’s Conference Auction was held today, and for a first event showing the Epik.com event is off to a respectable start.The auction sum was almost $48K in total for eleven domain names. The big tipoff moneychanger was $17,500 for ComputerTips.com. Pillows.net had a soft landing at $16,000. TacticalKnife.net cut up at $3,000. Next up was Beachbags.net. for a respectable chunk of change for a dot-net, bagged at $2500.

Then Camcorder-Microphones, long but useful, was picked up by a $2,000 bid. BeerCoolers.net iced out at $1500. Exercise mat.net was rolled up at $1,200. KidsChairs.net sat down for $1250. CottonThread.com was strung up at $1100. ClothingRack.net racked up about $1,000, followed by DVDStand.com which stood for a thrifty $700.

The Epik Developer’s Conference in Seattle continues, flavored by strategic speakers marketing their domain and site development profit models. While some domain market watchers speculated this was a poor showing, some industry veterans commented that “for an initial event auction to turn close to $48K is more than a modest success”. Epik.com’s 1st conference continues through today.

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?

Signing the New Domain Language Trend?

The education of sign language interpreters has boomed due to the proliferation of careers and degrees, as well as the online education possibilities of physically handicapped people using sign language as their primary language for learning and reading. Could .-sign be the new portal tld for sign language enabled content and websites?

The age of the Internet and its real estate land grab for geographic and primary purpose business and concept TLDs has come and is still evolving. It stands to reason that with language development happening in online hegemony areas like Asia and Russia, other alphabets and keyboards to assist might not be far behind. Videos and short translated abstracts of text and web content might be a valuable niche for domainers to invest in.

With video, audio, and text content sites streaming content of every kind in every format all over the web, how long until a massive movement to the online delivery of sign language translations and translated sign language content is here? Physically challenged users the world over using sign language speak one universal language. That’s a demographic no domainer can ignore.

Likely codes and letter series for signing and sign language sites are the American Sign Language (ASL), Pidgin Sign Language (PSE), and Sign Exact English (SEE) terms. Translated materials, services, and websites could prove intriguing and sticky to many global SEO enabled data researchers. For web entrepreneurs, selling directories of sign language enabled sites, as well as directories for products and materials to utilize signing could pay off downstream.

Selling Domain Names

This section of the Guide assumes that you’ve familiarized yourself with what domain name is (if you’re just a beginner, you’ll want to read the “What is a Domain Name?” section.)

Did you purchase one or serveral domain names, and are now trying to resell your domain name? Are you wondering what you should do now?
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