SedoPro announced this week some new get-togethers for their SedoPro members, In the past SedoPro held annual "Partner Forums" in resort locations. Their new strategy seems to include multiple shorter events, the first coming up in late August at Sedo's U.S. headquarter's in Boston. Boston - August 31 - September 1 Seoul, Korea - September 10... Continue Reading →
Domain Parking – Who’s Left?
The air seems to be leaking out of the domain development balloon as domain owners discover just how much work domain development is. It's not enough to develop a domain, you then have to maintain it. That means, at a minimum, keeping WordPress up to date and continuing to add new content. Multiply that times... Continue Reading →
Epik plans a Monster Conference
The Edgewater HotelI could have just as easily said that Monster plans an Epik conference. Venture Capitalist and Internet entrepreneur Rob Monster is working to build a platform that supplants domain parking. His Epik platform primarily uses tools from EvoLanding to create a semantic web of sites that feed traffic into one another. He recently announced the first... Continue Reading →
NameMedia’s AfterNIC Gets New Portfolio Manager
Domain marketplace Afternic announced on June 29th that they have implemented a new portfolio manager to make it easier for domain owners to manage their domains at the company. According to the press release: “Afternic Portfolio Manager provides our customers the ability reconcile their inventory in a single request, while providing instantaneous add, edit, and remove domain... Continue Reading →
TrafficZ fixes Domain Manager Problem
TrafficZ notified users yesterday that they fixed the problems with their backend that domainers use to manage their domains. I received emails on June 10th stating that they were having network issues stemming from our hosting company. This will not affect revenue in any way. All parking pages are currently functional; however, use of the... Continue Reading →
Summer thoughts
Internet traffic tends to slow down for the summer. Most of us are spending more time outdoors and less time in front of our computers. Here are some other trends that are a bit worrisome.Two million iPads sold. The iPad will undoubtedly have an effect on the domain industry. With Apple's recent announcement of 2... Continue Reading →
The King of BP Type-ins
Rick Schwartz has provided evidence that you can still hand register type-in domains that get traffic. See this post at RicksBlog. Aside from the moral issues of profiting from a natural disaster, and the TM issues of using the BP trademark in a domain, what lessons can be learned here? People use the Internet to... Continue Reading →
Time to renew your Domain Names
Verisign has announced a domain price increase effective July 1 - and your registrar is also increasing its prices. The registration, renewal and transfer fee for .COM domains will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and the .NET annual fees will be increased from $4.23 to $4.65 If you can afford it, renew as many your domains... Continue Reading →
WhyPark teamed with AdSense
WhyPark and AdSense can be a powerful combination. You may recall that there was a period where some domains that used WhyPark were banned from Google's AdSense program. WhyPark scrambled to develop their own ad network, which was greatly strengthened when they were bought by domain parking powerhouse Parked. My domains that were with WhyPark... Continue Reading →
GoDaddy Hosting Compromised
If you have sites hosted with GoDaddy you should probably check on them. There are numerous reports of GoDaddy sites being attacked with malicious code injected in the sites. At first it appeared to be a WordPress vulnerability, but Joomla and other sites are also being attacked. You can read first-hand accounts at NamePros and... Continue Reading →
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