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Sedo’s next .mobi auction begins today, November 28th!
Highly anticipated .mobi domain names with low reserves will assure the success of this upcoming auction. If the previous .mobi auction at Sedo is any indication, with Taxi.mobi reaching $75,000 and Dating.mobi selling for $73,000, expectations of this upcoming event are high.
Below you can find a sample list of highly anticipated domains and their reserve prices; for a complete list click here…
Astrology.mobi < $5,000 Beer.mobi $5,000-$20,000 Careers.mobi $5,000-$20,000 Flower.mobi < $5,000 (Flowers.mobi sold for $200,000) (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Sedo is hosting a premium auction event for top Benelux domains including dames.nl, podcast.nl and lcd.nl. What’s so interesting about .nl domains? .nl is the third biggest ccTLD in Europe (after .de and .co.uk) with more than 2.500.000 registered domains. Check out the list below to see the list of domains with their respective translations. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web CHARLESTON, SC - The San Diego Union-Tribune has purchased the domain name WeAreSanDiego.com from the Charleston based company WeAre, LLC d/b/a IamDomainNames.com. It plans to use the name to promote business and tourism after the recent devastation caused by fires. Its entertainment guide will now be called WeAreSanDiego.com. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web In today’s ultra-competitive world of online marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is life or death. SEO improves the ability of Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo!, to recognize and find your Web site. Studies show that over 75 percent of Web users find Web sites using search engines. If a search engine can’t find your Web site, neither can customers. Business owners beware. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Saint Nick has a very busy holiday schedule this season. In addition to working overtime to prepare his yearly haul for those who have been more nice than naughty, he’s apparently also made time to put his domain name up for bid on domain auction house GreatDomains.com. According to Saint Nick, he’s been so busy that he just hasn’t had time to do much with the URL himself. So, he’s hoping that whoever buys SaintNick.com will put it to good use for all the good boys and girls. The auction begins on November 29th and ends on December 6th, which falls right on Saint Nicholas Day. Those who would like to make a bid for Saint Nick’s URL should visit SaintNick.com on November 29th. Source: Submission to DomainNews.com by Dustin Zahrt - November 26, 2007 Share This by email or social web ePresenceSolutions.com hosting plans now include direct access to Google’s Webmaster Tools through the Hosting Control Panel. With Google Webmaster Tools, ePresenceSolutions.com users are now able to see how Google views their site, diagnose problems and share information with Google in order to improve their site’s visibility in search results. This service provides a free and easy way for web site owners to manage and improve traffic to their site. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web In today’s ultra-competitive world of online marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is life or death. SEO improves the ability of Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo!, to recognize and find your Web site. Studies show that over 75 percent of Web users find Web sites using search engines. If a search engine can’t find your Web site, neither can customers. Business owners beware. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Network Solutions releases white paper, “PPC vs. SEO – Friends or Foes?”, explaining the benefits of utilizing both PPC and SEO services to drive Web site traffic. When it comes to which form of search engine marketing is most effective, the argument between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click advertising (PPC) can become as passionate and heated as a political debate. If a business owner is new to search engine marketing, it is easy to get overwhelmed and lost in the sea of opinions on both sides. With Network Solutions® new white paper, “PPC vs. SEO –Friends or Foes?,” business owners will discover the benefits to both solutions in driving traffic to their Web sites. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web ClintonExposed.com has been listed for sale on eBay. Well, my first impression is does anyone really care? But then, there are Republicans out there in the US, and probably some Democrats, who take it as their goal in life to muckrake, tell lies, fibs and distort the truth. So who knows, maybe someone out there thinks this is a great domain name. There is a news release for the announcement below that calls this one of the “hottest” domain names. Yawn. Wake me up when the sale is completed! (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Sedo has announced that following the success of the first Premium .mobi auction, a second will commence on November 28. This auction will again feature another 100 domains from dotMobi’s Premium Names list which is a compilation of commonly used words and phrases which dotMobi has set aside for equitable allocation as an alternative to the traditional “first come, first serve” domain registration procedure. This auction will feature the best travel and dating names .mobi has to offer, such as hotels.mobi, cars.mobi, date.mobi, and love.mobi. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Sedo currently have a number of generic CO.UK domain names up for auction focussing on the Christmas and New Year festivities coming up. Christmas.co.uk, christmasgifts.co.uk, christmashampers.co.uk, christmasday.co.uk and newyearseve.co.uk are among those that are currently up for auction, concluding on November 27. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Sedo have published a short paper that looks at total website optimisation, looking above and beyond keyword selection. “When optimizing a portfolio, many domainers centre their attention exclusively on the advertising keyword. While advertising keyword selection is paramount to maximizing a domain’s earning potential, there are several other optimization areas that deserve attention and can add an extra boost to a portfolio’s overall performance,” the paper says. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web TORONTO - Tucows Inc. (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today officially launched its domain parking programs that will share over $1 million in revenues with Tucows resellers over the next 12 months. The two programs, Parked Pages Program and Expired Domains Program, offer additional sources of revenue to resellers, including a slice of the growing domain name re-sale market through a share of Tucows Premium Domains service sales revenues. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Sedo GmbH, the worldwide largest online trading platform for domain names and one of the market leaders in domain parking has a unique presence in the European Benelux region. They have announced that via their Dutch Deso.nl website, they will be auctioning off some premium Dutch domain names on 23-11-2007, at 17.00 hours (5pm Dutch time). Amongst others, premium domains such as dames.nl, vaderdag.nl, lcd.nl, podcast.nl, veiling.nl will be offered at that time. The auction will begin on Friday 23 November, 17.00 CET and will end on November 30th, at 17.00 CET. A list of domains to be auctioned can be found below… (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Cambridge, Mass., – On November 29, 2007, GreatDomains will launch another Premium Auction Event in their series of live auctions powered by Sedo. This auction will combine their November and December auctions, which would normally fall on holidays, to bring you one large selection of premium .COM and .NET domain names. (Read more…) Share This by email or social web Next Page »