Posted on 04 January 2012
Francois, owner of Domaining.com, has organized a special domain name sales newsletter that will benefit sellers and bloggers. The idea is for the blogging community to promote January 9th’s Domaining.com newsletter, giving it more eyes for sellers and increase newsletter reach. In addition to the blogger circuit the newsletter will be broadcast on two popular domaining forums, DNForum.com and DomainState.com for even more exposure.
What’s in it for the bloggers?
We will get paid a share of any sales commissions generated from Monday, January 9th’s newsletter. I decided to have any of my individual profits donated to Elliot Silver’s Ronald McDonald House fundraising efforts. On a side note, I have to say Elliot Silver, John Ferber and Craig Rowe have been big influences on my own personal charity work in the last couple of years.
What’s in it for the sellers?
Monday’s newsletter is getting a lot of extra exposure because of this promotion. Bottom line, more people looking at it means a higher chance you have to sell something.
So go ahead, submit your domain name for the newsletter before tomorrow’s deadline. Visit cax.com/submit/newsletter/ and submit one domain name, only one. Good luck!
Posted on 07 October 2011
Ok no, Netflix.com did not forget to renew its domain name, but this is funny. Still, within the humor are several important messages.
- Don’t forget to renew (auto renew) your valuable domain names.
- Buy easy to spell and pronounce domain names, nothing too tricky.
- Secure your developed brand by purchasing available typos.
Watch the entire clip, it’s funny. If you just want to see the part about Netflix.com forgetting to renew it’s domain name, skip to the 1:01 minute mark.
Posted on 04 October 2011
The news of .XXX sponsoring a powerboat broke late last week, so I am a little late to posting. Although late, I think it’s great news. Any chance of getting the word out about domain names is awesome and this is certainly a BIG way to do it!
This is now the second boat that .XXX has sponsored within 30 days. In mid-September ICM Registry sponsored our industry’s only conference on a cruise-ship, DNCruise.
Either later this week or early next I plan on posting my two cents about .XXX. In the mean time, here is the press release direct from ICM Registry released on September 30th.
.XXX RACING TO MAKE ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE AT OFF SHORE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN KEY WEST, NOV. 11-13
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain (TLD) announced today that it is entering world class powerboat racing with world champion driver Mike Seebold to compete at this year’s Off Shore World Championships in Key West, Florida.
Seebold and the team will be unveiling the all new race boat at TRAFFIC, the domain investment conference in Ft Lauderdale on Oct. 15-16th, where guests and some surprised beach goers will get a chance to see the Miss .XXX powerboat blast along the coastline for a few test runs.
“We are extremely pleased to have a champion of Mike’s caliber join the .XXX Racing team and we look forward to lots of success with the .XXX Powerboat Team both on and off the water”, states ICM Registry Sales Director, Vaughn Liley.
“We are excited to be part of the .XXX team and were going to make them very proud in Key West as we go for the World Championship”, stated champion powerboat racer, Mike Seebold.
.XXX puts internet users in control of the content they wish to view or avoid, the .XXX indicates to the consumer that the website is likely to contain adult material, so they can now make an informed decision, whether to select or avoid. For more information about .xxx please visit www.about.xxx
Posted on 20 June 2011
Disney purchased ClubPenguin.com in August of 2007 for $700 million, $350 million cash and potentially another $350 million based on performance goals. At the time of purchase ClubPenguin.com had more than 12 million members with roughly 700,000 of them paying $57.95 per year. Do the math, that is over $40 million per year in revenue.
You would think with this kind of revenue Disney would have renewed their domain name for ten plus years and or set it up on auto renewal. Instead, on June 13th the domain name expired and today the website went down. The website has been down for over 8 hours!
By tomorrow Disney will have the domain name renewed and millions of children will be playing their favorite game again, but I am sure some Disney executive is getting ripped a new one for this muck up!
Lesson of the day for all of us, renew your domain names on time, in advance or setup auto renewal.
Below is a screen capture of the expired page, going to Network Solutions.
For more information on this story visit CBSnews.com.
*Update* It appears the domain name has now been renewed until 2020. The website, at least for me, is still down.
Posted on 26 March 2011
So what’s the big secret, we all already know that John Ferber is a millionaire from creating and then selling his Advertising.com business to Time Warner in 2004 for just shy of $500 million. You can read more about that story on ElliotsBlog.com. The secret here, or at least until Secret Millionaire airs tomorrow night, is that John is one of the nicest, down to earth, generous guys I know. You know what, I’m going to add brave to that list. His show was filmed in Los Angeles, California, an area called Skid Row. From what I’ve seen and read Skid Row is in a very run-down part of downtown Los Angeles with a large impoverished population and a high crime rate. In fact, Skid Row has one of the largest populations of homeless people in the United States.
Guessing based on previous Secret Millionaire shows John will be giving at least $100,000 of his own money to a few lucky charities or individuals.
John not only leaves the show with a big heart, but street cred! 
John is having a special viewing party tomorrow night in South Florida. My wife and I both will be in attendance to support fellow domainer and friend John and his charity. If you can make it come, and even if you can’t, donate! John is only asking that attendees pledge $20 on MicroGiving.com, another site John founded and another way for him to give back. I know this will be very inspiring for many of us see and can’t wait to watch the show tomorrow. Awesome job John!!
Pictured above is John Ferber and girlfriend Jenna Wehner aboard last year’s DNCruise.
I almost forgot, John has been generous enough to lend out his South Florida mansion for next week’s Domainer Meetup. Visit SFDomainers.com for more information.
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