Attracta SEO Disappears from Hostgator

In a startling, development, this Hostgator customer was surprised to see the much-touted Attracta SEO tool disappear from the Cpanel overnight. Two accounts are/were doing very well there.The space in the SEO tool area has a free consultation offer unrelated to Attracta. The space in the featured “Free SEO” tools section has something called Boostability. I don’t remember Boostability being there before.

No message from Hostgator, regarding this nor any announcement as to the destiny of the account profiles with said service,was in the Hostagtor Cpanel interface. No alert was nigh, pending, forthcoming or in existence. The Attracta site is still up. Any idea what happened to the profiles and the work completed for our domain and site SEO accounts? Bueller? Bueller?

Namepros.com Down 2nd Day in a Row

Vaunted domain name forum NamePros.com is now down for the second day in a row. Namepros.com is a fast moving forum and chat room for domainers and online developers. Information about the fate of this site is unavailable. While hacks and outages do occur for any site, the lack of maintenance notification is cause for concern.

A hacking attempt cannot be dismissed as a possibility. Many domain name professionals wonder if the site may have closed unexpectedly. Also unclear is the legal status of many active domain name deals and service agreements via that portal. NamePros.com was not in service all Labor Day and members expecting it to be back up today were greeted with the now-familiar error message or server timeout.

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.

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.

Bido to Shutter Domain Ramp

Popular upstart Bido.com is announcing a May 5 cutoff. The newfangled auction house snared many happening domainers with its enthusiastic style and upbeat marketing tempo. Many domainers grew comfortable vending their names at Bido.com and are now scratching their heads. While it may be the case that the Bido profit model couldn’t sustain the business enterprise in an extended downturn economy, the fact remains that customers are disappointed the  site/auction portal is going away.

Bido has been a popular portal for domains and many domainers new to the industry. The $1 reserve cut into Pool.com and other resellers of droplists and auctions due to high premiums for participation and domain wins in such auctions elsewhere. “Bido is ceasing operation as of May 5, 2010. All transactions and accounts will be gracefully finalized and closed.” The abrupt cutoff will lead new droplist traffic to existing Bido offers in the hopper, domainers start your droplist search scripts engines now.

Pool Skim for Tuesday May 4th 2010

The deletions list at Pool.com is churning the domain waters. Dot bizzers and dot orgers will have a field day. The enterprising possibilities inside these names hint at opportunities almost taken. NB: a rare thing, slim to none deletions in the .com and .net markets for tomorrow’s droplisting auctions. This does not including names tagged a premium names or continuing auctions. Daliart.info is an example of the best type of name. Notable also: Tutorfinders.com is a great directory or personnel site.

For this day mainly portfolio builders in .us and .info will have good results. Christianrealtors.info could be a huge untapped networking portal. The name governmentloans.info could spark huge seo based discoverability. A good day to shave bidding reserves and scan the next day’s auction unless specific tld involvement is already invested.

The dataIQ.org name could be an interesting club of data freaks. Cool-shop.org could a community of (ac/refrigerator) online vendors. Reallycool.biz might be a promotional business opportunity site.  Contentdone.biz could be a domainers finished text files clearinghouse.

I think some domains ending with “site” or “website” have significant values.

I like some domains ending with “site” or “website” at the end. I recently sold a “website.com” domain which I bought low xxx for mid x,xxx range. I respect the privacy of the domain buyer and therefore I would not mention the domain name.

Let’s look at a working website just as an example and we would choose the site JobSite.co.uk .

JobSite.co.uk is an employment website where people could find jobs or vacancies from different employers and recruitment agencies. They sponsor one of the UK premier league teams and I imagine it would cost them substantial amount of money, may be a few million pounds per year to sponsor the team.

Its Alexa Rank  is over 7,000 and in the UK, it is ranked 307. Compete.com Ranking is over 50,000.

I have a few “site” or “website” domains.

e.g.

CasinoSite.com

CasinoWebsite.com

ArticleWebsite.com

DirectoryWebsite.com and more. I really like first two domains and they are pretty good domains for development. I have got a few offers but would not sell them unless someone comes up with a pretty good offer. I have seen a few domains, with “site” or “website” at the end, sold in the range of xx,xxx. I would not be surprised to see such domain sales at much higher prices in near future.

CashUSA.com sold for $100,000

It was interesting to see the domain sale of  CashUSA.com for $100,000 and the domain sale was reported by Dnjournal.com. The domain sale was via AfternicDLS and it was registered first in 1997 and my impression was that it was sold to an end user.

When I researched more about “CashUSA” keyword, I found out that there are a few companies/sites related to the keyword “CashUSA”.

e.g. cashnetusa.com , instantcashusa.com, cashusaonline.com, getcashusa.net, cashusabaltimore.com, 500fastcashusa.com, autocashusa.com etc..

There are nearly 82,000 google results for “cashUSA” and over 36,000 for “Cash USA” keywords. There are 1,000 EXACT searches per month for the keyword “Cash USA” and CPC (cost per click) is around $6 per click.

I believe it was a really nice domain sale for the seller.

Happy New Year to you all

I just want to say “Happy New Year” to you all including the domainers.

I hope you have a prosperous year with your domaining business.

Have a great day

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