I wanted to blog about me not blogging.  Doesn’t that make sense, lol.

Actually I am now in West Palm Beach with Bruce Marler of BruceMarler.com.  Originally we came here to negotiate some deals and discuss a couple domain transactions but our meeting was canceled. Everything works out for a reason though. Instead we are going to hang out, have some fun and do some networking while we are here. In fact I have an extremely business schedule ahead of me.

Tonight – I have been invited to talk on Domain Masters radio show by Victor Pitts of Moniker at 7pm. We will be discussing domain monetization beyond pay per click. Make sure to listen in.

Thursday – I will be visiting Moniker’s office to do some networking and take pictures for you guys. Later in the night we are having a South Florida domainer meetup. If you are in the area please drop by. Visit SouthFloridaDomainers.com for the details.

Friday – Bruce and I will be video chatting live on Bido.com at 1pm. Chime in with us at Bido.com, I am going to announce one of my new Geo projects during the chat.

I’ll try to blog here and there if I have time but nothing like I usually do. Don’t worry, I’ll make up for it next week with an interview with Bruce, my visits to Moniker and Bido and more.

Last week I wrote about buying my first .us domain name. After losing a Bido auction for SuicideHelp.org which sold for $207 I hand registered the .us version. As promised I would create a mini-site to help those that may be suicidal.

My future plans are to do some SEO work and continue adding articles maybe once or twice per month. I may also solicit people to submit their real world suicide stories via text or video. At this point I have no plans of monetizing the site in any way.

So what do you think? I know the header is a shocker. That’s the goal, want to get the point across.

Bido.com announced some changes to their auction system. Sahar posted the changes to his blog Conceptualist.com yesterday.

List of changes:

1. You can comment on expert commentaries
2. You can submit up to 100 names for consideration compared to the 10 allowed before
3. You can submit adult domains
4. Experts can vote on submitted domains
5. Starting Monday there will be multiple auctions running per day (Bido does not run weekend auctions)
6. Each listed item has its own item chat as well as a global chat for all to participate.

Here is a screen shot of the submitted names page that Bido experts will be allowed to select from. As of right now there are about 280 names to vote on. This number will increase substantially very soon. The current setup is to click through the pages and select the ones you like. I talked to Sahar today and they are looking to improve this setup. With adding that many more names to vote from, there is a need for a system with categories. We will see how this progresses. I know for myself, I will not have the time to sort through thousands of names to vote on domain names.

I read Andrew’s article of DomainNameWire.com about the changes and liked what he said about comments “Previously, you could only give a ‘thumbs up’ to an expert commentary about a domain name. Now you can leave a full comment, either reaffirming or disagreeing with the expert’s analysis. This will make the comments more fluid, and many of these experts will learn what it’s like to be a blogger”. I asked Sahar about this and there will be no moderation for these comments. I take that back, he said as long as they are professional they can be negative or positive.

In talks with Sahar today he hinted of some additional changes next month. He would not give me any details but to say the following, “We have another big release coming next month, it’s already built but we didn’t want to overwhelm the market with new stuff” and “Soon we will have more than a domain channel”. Now I can’t speak for Bido, but I’m going to assume they will allow the sale of fully developed sites and services, guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In the mean time if you’d like to submit your domain name for auction do so here.

No video this week. Sorry guys, Elizabeth is on spring break but will be back for next Friday’s video. I did do the podcast which is at the bottom of this post. For those who haven’t had a chance to listen well here you go. The intro is funny!

Links:

• AfterMarket.com
• Win A Flip Ultra Camcorder

If you did not catch last week’s video you can check it out here.

 

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In no particular order, thank you:

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