Escrow.com’s Domain Concierge Service Helped Close an Acquisition

May 03 2017

In early 2016, Escrow.com launched their Domain Concierge service, but I had never used it until recently, when the seller of a domain I was trying to acquire specifically requested it. The seller was ...

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The Values Of Other TLDS Versus Dot Com According to Sedo’s IDNX

Dec 12 2012

We’re all looking for help in pricing domains. While there is no science, there is data and the best data comes from Sedo. Other than Godaddy, they sell more aftermarket domains than anyone and ...

Congratulations to Domainsville

Aug 18 2012

No they haven’t hit any milestones or won any major awards, what Abdu Tarabichi and Domainsville have done is stick around. Something that many sites haven’t done over the years. I ...

No More Late “OutBid!” Emails If You Use Godaddy’s SMS Feature

Mar 19 2012

Paul Nicks was nice enough to chime in the other day and point out that Godaddy DOES offer SMS notifications for several different things including Outbid notices. These will be received considerably ...

Sedo Gives You The Referrers and Keywords That Brought You Traffic: Are You Using It?

Jan 04 2012

Other than the declining return in parking revenue, one of the major issues with parking domains has always been lack of traffic data. While you get to see how many uniques, clicks, and origin of the ...

A Couple of Tools I Like: ViewDNS.info, BustAName and ReverseInternet

Dec 27 2011

There are a ton of tools and websites I use every day and today I wanted to discuss a few I use daily. I could talk about the number one tool, DomainTools all day, but there are others that are useful ...

Ever Wanted to See Easily See Google Results With Your Personalized Results Removed? You Can With This Plugin

Dec 08 2011

If you’re like me, you’re always using Google to look up items but half the results are biased based on Google’s personalization. Most of the time I don’t want that. I want to ...

DomainTools Giving Wayback Machine (Archive.org) a Competitor with Screenshots.com

Dec 06 2011

If you want information about a domain, anyone who’s been in this business for any amount of time knows that your homework is done through DomainTools. Now DomainTools has introduced another ...

Free Domaining Tool From Domain Espionage

Sep 15 2011

For those of you that don’t know about this tool from Domain Espionage, it will literally save you several seconds per day. Doesn’t sound like a lot? Well trust me they are some of the most ...

Registrars Don’t Want You to Do It But If You Do You’ll Save Money

Sep 02 2011

This post is certainly not sponsored by any registrars because if you follow it you WILL save money. We all do it. Register or buy a name on a whim. One that has a value of exactly zero dollars. ...

FlipFilter: The Best Tool I’ve Found Yet for Analyzing, Finding, and Buying Websites

Aug 09 2011

It came from an email out of the blue. I did a post on what multiples to use when valuating a site and I received an email from Justin from a site called FlipFilter.com. Justin said he could give me ...

Finding How Many People Checked the Whois On Your Godaddy Domains: A Visual Step by Step Guide

Jun 04 2011

If you have a Godaddy account you can create and download a report on how many people checked the whois on domains you owned. You can do it both current month and last month. I’ve posted this ...

GoDaddy VIP Program: If You Have Over 300 Domains and They Get Stolen, You Deserve It

May 12 2011

GoDaddy VIP I’ve read a lot of articles over the last few months about domains being stolen at Godaddy. Names that didn’t have to be lost if the owners had made a little effort. If you ...

5 Free Tools the Domain Blogs Use to Find “Breaking News”

Apr 25 2011

People often wonder how domain and tech sites/blogs find information for their stories. Obviously many of the stories on the big boy websites, Domain Name News, ElliotsBlog, and The Domains, come from ...

A Domain Forum Translation Guide for Newbies

Apr 04 2011

Domain forums are a great place to talk domains but many people don’t understand the meaning behind all the responses in the threads and posts. I’ve decided to put together a guide to help ...