I find it interesting to check out the owners and uses of holiday and event domains, such as today’s Mother’s Day. Following are some of the top search phrases, their owners, and their uses. MothersDay.com 165,000 searches per month, per SEMRush.com Owner: Privacy Protected, per DomainTools.com Use: Parked MothersDayPoems.com 40,500 searches Owner: Frank Schilling’s Name [...]

I recognized a few names in DNJournal’s sales charts in recent weeks, and dug through my emails to see how they had been listed previously in the domain sales newsletters. Season.com Sales Price: $47,000 via Domain Holdings Asking Price: $90,000 in the Media Options newsletter 4/18/12 Bosnia.com Sales Price: $100,000 via Domain Advisors Asking Prices [...]

I received a bunch of pictures after the ‘Marketing Fail‘ post re: QR codes vs domains. I thought a billboard was the worst place you could have thrown a QR code. Boy was I wrong. Here are a few more pictures where a domain name would have done a better job conveying a message than [...]

I was driving through a new town recently and nearly spit out my coffee when I encountered a billboard that was dominated by a QR code. Uhhh……don’t you think a domain name might have been a little better on the memorability factor? This was a roughly 40 mph road too…..not Times Square, or a pedestrian [...]

Thanks to my prior commercial real estate days, I’m still subscribed to a bunch of related newsletters. A recent headline caught my eye, “Auction.com Sells $424M in Multifamily Assets” As a refresher, Auction.com sold for $1.7 million in 2009, which put it at #4 of that year’s DNJournal sales charts. It was sold to an [...]

I’ve gotta say that I like the GoDaddy NameMatch recommendation emails that I receive regularly. In a world with a steady stream of spam emails peddling crap domain names, GoDaddy’s e-mails are nicely done, and don’t come off to me as a spammy burden. The main reason the emails don’t come off as spammy is [...]