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Monthly Archives: August 2009

“…and they will cycle in a boulevard of broken dreams to come.”

Monday, August 31, 2009

That’s a quote from a recent Frank Schilling interview at PlayingTheAngles.com. The context is: FRANK: Well, the sellers aren’t going around now and saying the metrics don’t work, I’ll just lower my price. That’s just not happening. We’ve gone from 10X to 100X on the sell side. There are no big buyers anymore. But it [...]

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Cat Scanners – CatScanners.com

Friday, August 28, 2009

For sale or lease. Domain name only. CatScanners.com. These things are expensive! Great deal for a vendor. Google search: 607,000 for cat scanners, 66,500 for “cat scanners”.

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Footer Maker FooterMaker.com

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Taking a tip from Eric Borgos, who in our interview talked about keeping a list of projects handy so that whenever he met a new web developer, he could run the projects pass them to see if their skill set perfectly matched an idea. He’d found that when he could match a developer’s skill set [...]

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Opt Out of Domain Helper, DNS Assistance, Open Guide and other DNS Hijacking ‘Services’.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

A post on TheDomains last week reminded me of how much I hate that Verizon DNS hijacks my typos to take me to their “DNS Assistance” page full of ads. When it first started happening in 2007 I got Verizon Online support on the phone and, maybe because it was so early, they didn’t know [...]

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No Ads, No Clicks, No Revenue? What Business Model?

Monday, August 10, 2009

Something Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix.com said on a This Week In Startups episode got this started. He stated that Content was worth $.08 to every $1. of Search. Thanks to the magic of Twitter, a DomainNoob like myself, was able to follow-up with Chris directly for details. He pointed me to research (here and [...]

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Feel Good Movie Of The Year FeelGoodMovieOfTheYear.com

Sunday, August 9, 2009

For sale or lease. Domain name only. FeelGoodMovieOfTheYear.com So you’re marketing a new major motion picture, but the problem is that the title, which the director insists upon, is absolutely impossible to remember. What to do? You’re in luck! For a few $k you can own FeelGoodMovieOfTheYear.com. Perfect, easy-to-remember URL for your heart-warming film. People [...]

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“The First Man Gets The Oyster…

Sunday, August 2, 2009

the second man gets the shell.” Andrew Carnegie. Today marks the 4th year anniversary of My Trip To Domainland. 4 years ago I concluded a four figure deal on a domain name I’d owned for years. I bought it for a vanity video site where I planned to host my collection of off-beat backstage band [...]

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