Google Wants Your TV Names

There is a burgeoning hybrid opportunity for Google and TV domain names. The possibilities for names that Google can use, or that customers of home televisions with Google search capacity can see, opens up a new range for end users for websites, portals, and TV calendar listings. Names with “TV”,3D, set, “watch”, screen, home, channel, and other tech keywords are in demand.

Video plays a new role in ever more congruent SEO to domain name partnerships and value building online. Sites with “best of’ lists and video links will be fun home entertainment, family fun instead of programmed network shows stuffed with commercials. Websites composed of programmed TV viewing that families or niche watchers want can win the SEO wars. Nostalgia TV and cable viewing from video uploads and film segments has already made Hulu.com and Guba.com popular sites.

How does this change the business model for site development? Movie content makes search engine optimization the new driving force for website development. Articles and links to other TV based sites can also bring up the searchability quotient for these names and the sites behind them. Fansites becomes destination viewing with the new Google home TV site model. Your email list can start the home viewing wave and help get the word out.

This gives the SEO campaign for any TV name new legs. Given that entertainment is already a huge market for domainers and name auctions, and even deleting names and drop list auctions, domain developers should have at least one television name in the launch works with Google home-TV potential. Do fans want to blog or chat the shows while they watch? You bet they do. This is social TV networking.

Site managers and webmasters can formulate affiliate strategy to reach the home consumer. As home television and computer driven apps converge, a website with video and Google SEO matrices plugged in, wins. Because home viewers can surf your YouTube channel and maybe move on to your site if the spirit moves them. The webmaster without YouTube sinks in the SERP.

Chrome TV-searched visits to your site could be the elusive end user your sites has been waiting for. Google-owned YouTube connected sites will have a little more depth in the Google SEO than random video sites. All those domainers holding TV names and HDTV names and 3D names, as well as the Dot-TV extension of any relevant television or big screen tech name, there is a new focus for your end users and resale customer buyers.

Why Luxury Domains are Hot Now

The domain name market has seen some global upticks and none more rapid than the interest in luxury names of late. Why are luxury domains hot? Because the consumer markets that luxury brands are reaching out for are growing more broad. Because companies holding luxury labels have to vend goods to wring value from the brand. And with the new Internet shopper, the online domain is the gateway to tapping the luxury market consumer clicks.

Luxury brands are spending more money on advertising for more modest consumers and getting lean and mean for the bottom line.That means their ad spending online is up as well, a boon for webmasters and domainers. PPC and Adsense minded webmasters have long been searching for new markets in traffic and search engine referrals. For the good life, premium travel, fantasy living, celebrity lifestyle, and glamorous brands, the luxury market is here.

Witness the PPR brand Puma leading the sports pack of franchise brands with Usain Bolt, and Burberry refashioning its clothing line to the signature plaid. Shopping sites with keywords like top, grand, posh, gourmet, luxury and other luxury domain name root words are very brandable and very promotable at the present time. The Gilt Groupe (Gilt.com) got dual rounds of financing, not chump change in a global recession.

Luxury properties are being auctioned off to the lowest bidder as mortgage banks and finance companies flee long term structured debt on properties in densely for-sale neighborhoods. Attracting the luxury buyer, both from middle class and top tier demographics is more appealing and lucrative than ever before. Sites like Net-aporter cater to the designer savvy online shopper. These are the new affiliate sponsors.

Hedge funders like the Fortress group will be vending their luxury properties soon, and where will their brokers look for frugal shoppers with luxury tastes? At the sites savvy domainers have the skill to buy names for and make. As one expert domain in the retail sector says, “With the fall of the shopping mall and the rise of the online bargain hunter, any geo market right now should have its own luxury goods consignment shop.”

Christie’s Great Estates is a good example. The real estate market has always been a fast-moving domain name arena, but the current hybrid market for real estate in the luxury demographic at fire sale prices means floodgate traffic based on the quality of listings and the strategy webmasters employ getting new eyeballs arriving and sticky. Luxury hotel revivals like the Los Angeles mainstay Chateau Marmont and Miami’s Raleigh need sites to deliver customers from.

That mean domainers can craft communities of customers ready for bright ads. But credit card and hospitality niches are looking most hardily for visitors. Says the webmaster at www.luxury.org.uk, “Sites like Gilt.com, for frugal but posh shoppers looking for designer seconds, with an invitation-only user base, show premium consumer appeal”.

Luxury travel now is also so steeply discounted that advertisers are paying top affiliate rewards to populate their sites with banners and links. This is good news for webmasters with premium or luxury travel or hotel domains. For a development site project that is hot right now, luxury and its domain has never looked better.

Privacy Domains

One of the biggest markets for search and discover destinations at the end user level is the privacy or security domain. Security names for online Web activities and personal device integrity can explain or promote software products and elaborate on the concepts for laymen. Privacy for anonymous surfing and resistance to clickjacking and scripts is something everyone with a keyboard wants to know more about.

Privacy is a big money industry today, with several tiers of software companies competing for the big corporate and end user level dollars. The keywords are hacking terms like phish, bit, virus, macro, rootkit, and other words that signify the online threat of malware and file piracy. Affiliates for  revenue domains in the security or privacy niche can make domainers big money with upcoming new releases.

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.

Will I keep on making mistakes at Sedo? Today, I just started another low reserve auction AGAIN!!

I made a mistake a few weeks ago when I decided to try my luck by starting a very low reserve auction at Sedo. The domain name was WebcamPlace.com and the auction was started at $100. There was no more bid and I ended up selling the domain with a small loss.

Today, I have started a premium domain, low reserve auction at Sedo AGAIN!!! The domain name is PetInsuranceComparison.com and there are around 30,000 EXACT searches per month for the keywords and CPC (cost per click) is around $14 per click. I value the domain in xx,xxx range but I am trying my luck again. You may visit the Sedo domain auction here. I am not sure this time now because last time there were no more bids even at $100.

Let’s see. May visit the petinsurancecomparison.com auction here.

Business.tv auction finished now at $100,999!!!Finally bidder 7 and 9 finished bidding against each other.

There were many bids for the premium domain, Business.tv  and it just ended at $100,999. The auction was heated up by Bidder 7 and Bidder 9 at the Sedo domain auction for the purchase of the domain Business.tv .

You will read about some interesting facts regarding the bidding war for the domain later in this blog. The bidder 7 seemed very much determined to own the domain and he or she had knocked down other bidders on the way.

Business.tv is surely a very good domain and the bidder 7 started the bid at $11,000 knocking down bidder 6 whose highest bid was $10,500.

Then Bidder 7 got over bidder 8 with a bid of $26,555. After that, the bidder 7 had to compete with bidder 9 who initially bid up to $31,500. Then there was some bidding against each other between bidder 7 and bidder 10 who finally didn’t want to go over $44,500.

The bidder 9 came into the auction again and there was bidding ONLY from bidder 7 and bidder 9 for the domain afterwards. The bidding went all the way from $45,500 through to the final sale price of $100,999.

A nasty domain sale; Nasty.com sold for $200,000

It was a bit surprising to see the domain sale of Nasty.com for $200,000 and it surely was a fantastic domain sale for the domain seller. The domain sale was reported by Sedo domain marketplace. I am sure the domain is of a good quality but I am not very sure many would want to pay that range unless he or she is an end user.

There are many million search results for the keyword “Nasty ” in all search engines. There are around 165,000 EXACT searches per month for the keyword “Nasty” in Google. But there were only over 90,000 EXACT searches last month in Google.

It surely was a good payday for the domain seller.

Insure.asia domain auction , amazingly at around $25,000 with 3 days to go.

I have just noticed the domain auction of insure.asia at 18,500 Euros (nearly $25,000 or according to today’s exchange rate, around $24,792). The auction is ending in about 3 days time and it is at the Sedo domain auction. Currently there is only one bid and I think it is most likely from an end user.

I have a few .asia domains which I won at the sunrise auctions about 2 years back and I thought I had wasted my money.

I have .asia domains such as

Wallpapers.asia
Streaming.asia
Renovation.asia
Stationary.asia
Dart.asia
Bookmakers.asia,
Interpreter.asia
InternetCasinos.asia
ivideo.asia
Cellularphone.asia
Salad.asia
etc.asia
eCruise.asia etc…

I hope I could get some end user domain sales for some of my .asia domains.

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

.eu domain sold for xx,xxx range. Russia.eu sold for Euro 24,000 Euro

It was interesting to see Russia.eu sold for Euro 24,000 at Sedo domain marketplace recently and it was an interesting .eu domain sale.

It was equivalent to over $30,000 and it was very good sale and we believe it was sold to an end user.

May be it was related to the sale of Russia.com for US  $1.5 million dollars in December 2009.

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