Domino’s Using the Domain ThinkOven.com For New Ad Campaign

February 20, 2012

Yesterday while watching the Knicks – Mavericks game (I had to see what all this Jeremy Lin hype was about for myself), I caught a commercial for Domino’s Pizza which ended with a plug for the domain ThinkOven.com The domain name forwards to an app on Domino’s Facebook fan page.  The campaign, who’s tagline is [...]

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What Are Domainers Buying On the Forums – A Quick Survey

February 19, 2012

This is an informal survey I conducted this morning based on the Domains Wanted sections of two popular domainer forums: DNForum and NamePros. Going through the first 3 pages on each forum, I made notes on the types of domains that domainers were looking for, counting only results from threads that were started in 2012. [...]

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How To Locate a Buyer’s Contact Info For Domains You’ve Sold On Sedo, Regardless Of Privacy

February 18, 2012

If you’ve sold a domain name through Sedo, after the transaction has closed, or in the event it has been canceled, (as happened to me in December after I accepted an offer on one of my domains and the buyer subsequently failed to make payment) you will be able to view the signed Domain Sales [...]

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Travel and Tourism Companies in Singapore Aren’t That Hungry For New Business

February 17, 2012

At least, that’s the impression I get, based on recent experience. I own a generic tourism-related domain of the form KeywordSingapore.com.  The domain gets some type-in traffic, and I have it forwarding to a For Sale landing-page, but as sometimes happens, instead of getting an inquiry on the domain for sale, I will get an [...]

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Update To Yesterday’s Post On LincolnPark.com. I Made a Mistake Citing the Wrong Inbound Link Data

February 16, 2012

A quick correction to yesterday’s post on LincolnPark.com.  Regarding the inbound link data from OpenSiteExplorer.org – I was wrong.  There are actually 13 inbound links, not one. There is a single link only to the http:// (which I referred to yesterday), and 12 links from 9 domains to the www. From a look at the [...]

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Toby Clements Dedicates New Section of Popular Domain Newsletter to Value Oriented Domains

February 16, 2012

Yesterday domain broker Toby Clements revealed a new section to his popular daily domain newsletter, highlighting what he calls Value Oriented Domains. In Toby’s words, these are domains which have either, High CPC, Alexa Ranking, Generic Keyword Strength, are DMOZ Listed or all of the Above.  All domains in this section are set to a [...]

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LincolnPark.com – the City, Not the Band – Closing at Auction Tomorrow on SnapNames

February 15, 2012

The 2012 DomainFest Global extended online auction is ending tomorrow at SnapNames.com.   One auction that caught my eye, which has not met reserve yet, is LincolnPark.com. Lincoln Park is actually the name of several boroughs, neighborhoods and parks across the United States. When I see the words Lincoln Park, I tend to think of Lincoln [...]

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GE Owns Several Domains of Fictional Websites Referenced On Television Shows of Subsidiary NBC

February 15, 2012

Yesterday I wrote about my curious finding that General Electric Company owns the domain PokerFastlane.com. Still struggling to find some connection between the two, my next step was to sleuth Google for some answers.  A search for the domain PokerFastlane.com revealed numerous hits referencing a quote from another television show called 30 Rock.  Here was [...]

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Is General Electric Getting Into The Online Poker Business?

February 14, 2012

One of the company’s curious domain holdings would have you wonder … I’m not sure where exactly this story begins, so let’s start with PokerFastlane.com.  The domain’s registrant is none other than General Electric Company (GE).    Registrant: General Electric Company Domain Administrator 3135 Easton Turnpike Fairfield, CT 06828-0001 US Email: domain.admin@ge.com Registrar Name….: CORPORATE [...]

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