Do you have some thoughts you want to share with the domaining industry, but the closest you come to sharing is leaving comments on other domaining blogs?  Well now is your chance to have the blog others leave their comments on.  Keep reading to find out how you can win your very own domaining blog.

Arbel of ArbelArif.com and I have teamed up together to bring you this exciting contest. Actually, Arbel came up with this great idea and did the majority of the work, I’m just helping out and offering my coaching to one lucky winner.

I am excited about this contest because, as you all know, I love blogging and make good money from it.  Am I rich off of it? No.  I make a living and get to pay my bills every month. And you can too.

Here’s what you win:

• Domain name – DomainerBlog.org
• A customized Word Press blog
• Twitter ID – Twitter.com/DomainerBlog
• $100 coupon for a new account with Google adwords
• 1 hour of blog consulting time with me by phone if in the U.S.  If you’re outside of the U.S. you’ll get 1 hour of consulting via some sort of chat messaging service.

Here’s what you have to do:

• Enter a comment on DomainerBlog.org and explain in 100 words or less why you need/want to win.

OR

• Post a video link that is 3 minutes or less explaining why you need/want to win in the DomainerBlog.org comments section.

The contest will run 7 days, starting today, October 22^st, until October 29^th, 2009 at midnight. Then, Arbel and I will deliberate to choose a winner. That winner will be announced right here on my Friday news video, October 30^th. Please note, you don’t get extra points for doing a video, nor will you be penalized if you don’t do a video instead of just leaving a comment. It’s entirely up to you.

Rules:

1. Must be of at least 18 years of age
2. Must not own, operate or write for any other domainer blogs
3. Not allowed to sell the blog for at least 12 months

Click Here To Enter

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Sedo sells Software.co.uk for £150,000 which is approximately $248,549 US. Whois information shows the new owner as Software.com Holdings Pty Limited and redirects to Software.com. Kudos to Software.com for securing their brand!

Below is a break down of domain stats.

Software.co.uk $248,549
Google Results: 99,700,000 (does not show on the first page)
Google Page Rank: 3
Compete.com Traffic: no stats
Alexa Rank: 3,378,752

This is currently the top .co.uk sale of the year. Coming in second place would be a tie at 100,000 EUR / $165,000 US with OnlineCasino.co.uk and HorseRacing.co.uk. The top .co.uk sale of all time (reported) would be Cruses.co.uk for 734,618 EUR / $1,099,798 US.

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

Source: Sedo.com

*UPDATED price from EUR to Pounds*

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The big news of the week is Rick Latona shutting down AEIOU.com, because, and I quote, “The reality is there is no money in web design. It’s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and frankly, there are bigger fish to fry”. Rick is not the first one to walk away from mini-site development. SiteGraduate.com did the same either late last year or early this year, basically for the same reasons.

Although I don’t completely disagree with Rick, I’d still like to offer my services to the domain community.

Here are a handful of mini-site examples that my team has completed.

Pricing and what is included: (Content written in the United States)

$149 – WordPress install, theme, custom header, seo plugins, adsense, banners and 5 unique articles 250-300 words each.

$179 – Same as above with some minor link building and directory listings.

$299 – Same as above with an additional 11 articles. Use these articles to post one every month giving yourself a year of steady unique content.

For any orders of 10 or more I can offer a slight discount.

Honestly, I’m not trying to compete with any of the existing mini-site companies such as DomainMassDevelopment.com or MiniSites.com. If you are already using their services then please continue. I have not re-invented the wheel here. I strongly believe that I can put out a good looking, high quality content site that, with some work on your end, will do very well. When I say work on your end, I mean it. Content should be added at least once per month if not more often and you will have to work to sell ad space, links and so forth. If you need the help, I will be more than happy to teach you how to monetize your website.

One extra personal touch that I can offer is that if you are not familiar with WordPress, I can personally walk you through adding links and making minor additions to the mini-site. There is no need to pay me for a two minute change, I’d rather you be empowered to do it yourself.

If you are interested in my services please use the contact form to open communications. I look forward to earning your business.

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BuyDomains.com today announced the availability of premium domain names FlyFish.com and LargeMouth.com.

These category defining and key word rich domain names represent a unique opportunity for an online sporting goods retailer to capture the leading online destinations in the fish and game industry.

Ownership of an industry leading domain is also a cost-effective way to increase qualified online visitors while avoiding the expense of recurring pay per click online marketing costs.

A review of keyword searches on Yahoo!, Google and Bing renders nearly more than 340 million total search results:

• LargeMouth.com > 210,290,000 search results
• FlyFish.com > 130,759,000 search results

Comparable 2009 domain sales include Toys.com at $5.1 million, Candy.com at $3 million and Fly.com at $1.7 million.*

Interested parties should visit or call BuyDomains.com

• www.BuyDomains.com
• 1-866-820-2796 (toll free in the United States)
• +1 339-222-5131 (worldwide)

*Source: DNJournal.com

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Sedo just keeps on going and going, just like the energizer bunny. Today they announced the sale of Resumes.com for $400,000. The domain names whois information is listed as private. At this time we do not know who the buyer is.

Below is a break down of the domain stats.

Resumes.com $400,000
Google Results: 112,000,000 (does not show on the first page)
Google Page Rank: 5
Compete.com Traffic: 14,330 Unique and 14,693 Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 701,742

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

Source: DomainNameWire.com

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