DomainMarketplace.com Launched by Internet REIT

I haven’t heard anything from or about Internet REIT in a while, but I received an email this afternoon from Lisa Box who is Vice President of Sales for iREIT. Lisa wrote to let me know about the launch of DomainMarketplace.com , a website that has iREIT-owned domain names for sale: I hope this email finds you well.  I wanted to let you know we have recently…

Why Don’t Some Startups Use Their Domain Name to Brand Their Company?

I don’t get it. I was reading another article on TechCrunch yesterday about a startup company whose brand name is different than the domain name that is being used by the company. I understand that many “cool” domain names aren’t available in the .com, but in my opinion, the company should use another domain name that matches their brand, even if that means coming up …

Learn About Epik & Rob Monster in Today’s Webcast

Rob Monster is one of the most approachable people in the domain space, and I think his company has a good business model that may work for some domain investors. Epik just launched BumperProtectors.com this morning for my company, and as I promised, I will keep you apprised of the results in a future post. For now though, I would like to remind you that Rob …

The ULTIMATE LIST for MONETIZATION

I’m on this run posting about development purely because it really kicks me when I see so many wasted domains with parking pages and the general lack of any real SEO / Monetization presence at industry conferences. My personal opinion is DomainSponsor, NameDrive, SmartName and all these companies should be entitled to one booth and be banned from speaking but hey, someone has to got pay for the free drinks I suppose. There is nothing wrong with parking a…

NameJet.com Starts 1st Public .Co Domain Auction

Namejet.com just announced the  “”First Aftermarket names available for Public Auction” “These auctions are going on right now and since they are Public anyone can bid, but hurry they are scheduled to close on Friday July 30th.” The list follows, here is the direct link to the domains . Bidding starts at $69. Interestingly all of these domains seems to be owned by one person,  so they are not registry owned domains or…