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In this post: Look deep into domain name statistics. Presenting stats visually helps to understand the numbers ··· You can always learn from the masters – get the information on how to better manage your portfolio and actually make some domain sales ··· GEO Domain Expo 2009 is over – how did they fare? ··· [...]

Shows.com is among the many premiums to be auctioned at TRAFFIC Silicon Valley. The most important thing is, there is no reserve, so the market can fully decide its value.
I offer a free domain development + SEO Super package ($136 value) to whoever gets closest in their prediction of the final sale price. Deadline for [...]

Visitors do not read your entries. They scan them. Visitors don’t look at ads. They are banner blind. They don’t even look at any real content that looks like an ad, even if it’s inside the main content element. These are all proven facts. Yet many bloggers and webmasters disregard these facts completely. So – [...]

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman’s voice said: “What the hell are you doing with your life?
-Demetri Martin
The airplane you see in the header image of this blog is a Cessna 152. It’s a classic single-engine trainer, a little gem of an airplane that has made the [...]

It might be that I’m just a bonehead, but I can’t get my head around the Snapnames user interface. Every time I visit the site I get discouraged because either I can’t find what I’m looking for, or I can’t find a way to download the lists I need. Snapnames.com is the legendary site for [...]

Google recently launched Adsense for Domains, allowing domain owners to park their names directly with Google, thus avoiding the ‘middle man’, i.e. the parking company. Whether this results in increased revenue share for the domainer is unclear as Google do not reveal their cut. Logic says it shouldn’t hurt the domainer’s revenue share.
I have long [...]

I saw this post on Jamie’s blog DotWeekly.com, and got inspired to write a tool for him that would save time and enhance his domaining workflow a little bit.
He explained how he used excel and notepad to turn search terms into domain names. Not a bad method, but with this new tool it’s fully automated [...]