Skimming the Pool for Sunday May 2

The value of typo traffic quickly comes to the fore when the Pool list deleting domains surface for sale today. Two different flashplayer names, fiashplayer.com and flahsplayer.com come up for sale. Collegeholidays.com makes a spirited entry into the domain name frenzy. Skinplay.com is an obvious adult domain name. Docofnutrition.com and ecoessentials.com make excellent niche market directory of portal site names.

Gasdallas.com makes an excellent geo name and a possible gas price reference site. yet even a geo based zip site for the lowest gas price around Dallas is in addition to a natural gas site. Texas is a trillion dollar state revenue compendium of over 5 natural resources, including methane and natural gas. HotelDesigns.com would be a fascinating site for .pdfs and architectural schematics of famous hotels.

Warcraftguild.com is an exciting name for World of Warcraft and niche computer game players. Shorty domain zxc.us also comes up for bidding in the droplist at Pool.com today. Financecareers.com as a domain would make an excellent job and education portal including online education possibilities. Tilers.com is either a dominoes master community or a home and garden resource and retail consumer platform. Linkdin.com is the final typo attraction in the Pool deleting drops today.

Amsterdam.org sells for $25K

Who says geo names are dead? Who says .orgs have no development potential? Who says Europe isn’t seizing domains by the throat? Witness this latest domain name buy from a savvy domainer. Five figures makes a tidy return for the former stepchild of the domain market, the dot-org TLD.

Pooling New Names…

Here’s the pick of the lister at Pool for Monday September 28. The top of the trees for the latest Pool list is TahoeTrails.net, a great travel and geo name. A new name is DevilTube.com could be a satanic take on youtube.com. LawsuitFunding.net could be an amazing directory or startup enterprise. 2q2.com leads the small character names derby.

Jerusalem.com sells for $.75 million US

The domain name Jerusalem.com was purchased by Michael Weiss for $750,000 from a California-based owner. The new Jerusalem.com website was launched on Tuesday afternoon from Jerusalem, and the site offers everything from tourist information (hotels, restaurants, attractions…etc) to real estate listings and information about the holy land of Jerusalem, Israel.

The Jerusalem site has content that people of all religions should find interesting. Industry player Weiss launched the Jerusalem website with “Start-up Jerusalem”, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the city of Jerusalem. Weiss is a co-founder of Scoop.co.il, a Hebrew news site, which launched in 2006.