Mike Berkens of TheDomains has been writing in recent days about Mike Mann and his domain portfolio listed for sale on his website at DomainMarket.com. The DomainMarket.com portfolio, includes names such as Angola.com, Tasty.com, Favorites.com, SportsDrinks.com, and literally thousands of other great domains. But .com names aren’t the only gems listed. Mike Mann’s portfolio also [...]
While the .co domain is literally only days old, Flipping.co has been posting sales of .co on the aftermarket already. To date, the .CO registry has sold over 360,000 web addresses with no signs of slowing down. And that means a lot of speculators are looking for a platform to “flip” their domains. Flipping refers [...]
If you’ve been following the news headlines today, you’ve probably seen all the news on the possibility of legalizing online gambling in the U.S. SO what does that mean for you, if you’ve invested in gambling domains? Gambling operators need land to build on, and what better land to build on than well known phrases [...]
Bill Kara’s Hallpass Media has all the ingredients of a successful entertainment network. Great domain names, great development, great content, and great design. Casual Gaming wiz Bill Kara has a winning formula when it comes to developing domain names, and he certainly had some successes in his career — so if you’re wondering whatever happened to [...]
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While the amount of the price tag for PunchBowl.com sold by Rick Schwartz is undisclosed, it is almost certain that the final sales price is a multiple 6 figure deal plus other considerations. Multiple 6 figure deal + other considerations likely means some sort of long term deal that includes a one time payment and recurring [...]
Reinvent.com, the corporate web site of Domain Guru Kevin Ham, has reinvented itself. The company that has steadily been expanding it’s presence on the web by developing its portfolio of domains such as BlackFriday.com, Vancouver.com, and GoodNews.com - is now focused on expanding its team and ideas. The company is growing, both online and offline. With [...]
On July 11, Mike Berkens ran a story about who owns the best 3D domain names, in which Mike refers to 3D being the “Next BIG Thing”. The article got us thinking: who owns the best Twitter domain names? Twitter has done extensive work towards making phrases popular such as “Tweet” and “Unfollow”. And while [...]
Oprah Winfrey's own moniker, OprahWinfrey.co is up for auction at Sedo. Oprah's official web site runs on Oprah.com. The OprahWinfrey.com web address doesn't even resolve.
Many of the .co domain names registered in the last week were web addresses purchased by speculators in the quest for quick profits.
The .co domain, which reportedly has over 366,000 domains registered to date, could prove to be lucrative.
No matter your opinion of the domain, everyone from Twitter to Mike Mann to Francois Carrillo have walked away with .co domains.
.Co domains, like any new domain, are deemed by many to be risky, but that hasn’t stopped the swarm of speculators, who are quickly turning profits on websites like Flipping.co and Sedo.
The .co has only been available a short time after being released to the general public on July 20th, but Sedo and Flipping.co both have several current auctions with active bidding.
Active .co Auctions
Yesterday, I wrote about Flipping.co and the website’s active .CO auctions. Now here’s a look at active .co Sedo auctions that have recently appeared online.
car-insurance.co – current bid $1,200 USD
touchscreens.co – current bid $2,500 USD
oprahwinfrey.co – current bid $500 USD
sugarcane.co – current bid $187 USD
While these few names represent an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of thousands of domain names registered, the .co domain could revitalize sales for new domain investors who weren’t part of the .com landrush, which has had numerous rags-to-riches stories since the nineties.
The phrase "Outdoor Fountains" has an exact monthly search volume of 74,000 searches according to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
The domain name OutdoorFountains.com has received 1 bid at GreatDomains for $22,000.
While $22,000 may sound like a lot of money to plunk down for some investors, it’s not a lot of money for the sole bidder who could very well be a company selling outdoor fountains as a product —- a company looking to get a competitive edge in the search engines. Not to mention, a memorable domain name.
The $22,000 bid met the seller’s reserve price. So now the name is in public auction for the next 4 days.
The $22,000 bid, is also well below Valuate.com’s appraisal – which puts the name at $100,000.
Next Navigation Pty Ltd, a web development and online sales company, based in Australia owns the domain. The company also owns names like Salaries.com.
Sedo could be continuing another strong week of sales. Last week the company owned nearly every spot in the DN Journal Top 20 chart, including the top spot with 029.com selling for $110,000.
Notable “Outdoor” sales
Outdoor domain name sales have done okay over the years. Overall, there have been very few publicly reported sales according to NameBio, but the sales are listed demostrate strong interest in “Outdoor” domains as Product domains. Previous sales include:
OutdoorWear.com - $18,819
OutdoorChaircushions.com – $4,400
OutdoorCarpets.com – $3,300
OutdoorLCD.com – $1,100
Outdoorfurniturecushion.com – $1,000
Sedo, the company hired by Escom to sell the domain sex.com, may be unable to attract a buyer willing to pay millions for a domain with a history of problems. Despite Sedo's success in the aftermarket.
Hundreds of stories have been written about Sex.com, and Sedo the company responsible for selling the domain has been doing most of the writing lately in an attempt to attract buyers.
But even with Sedo working all its’ angles, prospective buyers don’t find seem to find the domain attractive at the $14 million price tag - or the rumored asking price that is much, much higher.
The owners are facing the heat to reap some type of return on the name after Escom the company that owns the domain had an Involuntary Chapter 11 filed against them in in March — and they’re likely expecting Sedo to pull off a miracle.
Sedo has been marketing the domain name aggressively on their website, with a number of articles pitching the benefit.
Here are some links to the Sedo articles:
Learn how to seduce new business
Sex.com: “King Tut” of the Internet?
Will Sex.com’s long sordid history, prove to be too much for Sedo to sell?
After founding, then selling BuyDomains - Mike Mann launched DomainMarket in 2007, a domain name marketplace that lists thousands of amazing domain names. In 2010, the list of domains has been expanded to include .co
Mike Berkens of TheDomains has been writing in recent days about Mike Mann and his domain portfolio listed for sale on his website at DomainMarket.com.
The DomainMarket.com portfolio, includes names such as Angola.com, Tasty.com, Favorites.com, SportsDrinks.com, and literally thousands of other great domains.
But .com names aren’t the only gems listed.
Mike Mann’s portfolio also includes the new country-code top-level domain that became available to the general public just last week: .co.
The .CO Domain King
In one of those stories posted on TheDomains about Mike Mann, Mike Berkens highlighted some of Mike Mann’s .co domains that he listed for sale on his Facebook page – including category-killers like Health.co for – $175,000 and Advertising.co for – $150,000.
But the handful of names mentioned in the story are really just scratching the surface of a very good .CO portfolio. If you browse the DomainMarket.com website, you’ll find Mike Mann owns well over 100 of the best .co premium domain names.
And by the looks of it, Mike Mann could very well be considered the .CO Domain King.
When you look at his inventory, you’ll be amazed at the .co domains he was able to acquire, ranging from Oil.co at – $350,000 down to Bonsai.co listed for – $2,000.
Here’s the list of .co domains for sale at DomainMarket.
Oil.co – $350,000
Advertising.co – $200,000
Business.co – $200,000
Money.co – $200,000
Shopping.co – $200,000
Health.co – $175,000
Computers.co – $125,000
Bank.co – $100,000
Clothing.co – $100,000
CreditCards.co – $100,000
Finance.co – $100,000
Gas.co – $100,000
Gold.co – $100,000
Luxury.co – $100,000
Training.co – $100,000
Art.co – $80,000
Boats.co – $75,000
Doctors.co – $75,000
News.co – $75,000
Football.co – $60,000
Time.co – $60,000
Cameras.co – $50,000
Fitness.co – $50,000
Fun.co – $50,000
Office.co – $50,000
Party.co – $50,000
Electronics.co – $40,000
Mobile.co – $40,000
Lingerie.co – $30,000
Shoes.co – $30,000
Cruise.co – $25,000
Jewelry.co – $25,000
SKI.co – $25,000
DisabilityInsurance.co – $3,000
Bonsai.co – $2,000
DigitalCameras.co
FilmCameras.co
SportStraining.co
Accessories.co
Antiques.co
Appliances.co
Auctions.co
Automotive.co
Bath.co
Bed.co
Biking.co
Boating.co
Brakes.co
Candles.co
Cigar.co
CigarStore.co
Classical.co
ClassicalMusic.co
Condos.co
CurrencyExchange.co
Dance.co
Desktops.co
Disability.co
Downloads.co
Driving.co
Drugstore.co
DvdPlayers.co
Entertainment.co
Exercise.co
ExerciseVideo.co
FlowerShops.co
Gardening.co
Girls.co
GunShops.co
Handbags.co
Hybrid.co
Investing.co
Jazz.co
JazzMusic.co
LatinMusic.co
Linens.co
LiquorStore.co
Luggage.co
Makeup.co
Men.co
According to Wikipedia, "Dress-up is a game played mainly by children. It involves dressing up, usually to impersonate someone or something, like an animal or character in a fairy tale. The type of clothes they dress up in often resembles who they are trying to be, either adults' clothing or special play clothes designed specifically for dress-up like feather boas and jewelry."
More domain sales news in the Casual Gaming niche.
On top of announcing earlier that Bill Kara’s Hallpass Media will be launching is biggest name to date with Dressup.com, GreatDomains is reporting that DressupGamesforGirls.com sold for $15,000.
The keywords “dress up games for girls”, has an exact global monthly search volume of nearly 700,000 searches.
Unfortunately, NameBio doesn’t have a lot of information on past sales with the keywords “Dressup”, but in 2008, DollDressup.com sold for $45,000. Nokta domains, the same company that sold CookingGames.com for $350,000 brokered the sale.
Are there any Dressup Games Domains available?
You can plow through every variation in the universe of the keyword dressup games, and chances are you’ll find the .com already registered.
We found a few names available, nothing really that interesting, but here’s a sample.
DollDressupGamesforGirls.com
CoolDressupGamesforGirls.com
DressingupGamesforKids.com
DressupGamesforFun.com
DressupGamesforToddlers.com
DressupGamesforPreschoolers.com
According to Compete, the domain name Dressup.com receives as many as 60,000 unique visitors per month, and it's not even a website yet.
The year is 2010, dress up games have changed and evolved compared to a decade ago. The graphics and game play of the animated dress-up games have dramatically improved from the 90s. Websites update and add new games close to every week to month. Before websites would require registration to play these games, but nowadays most of them are free. Dress-up websites can help children and anyone that play with their color coordination and imagination. To parents and some teachers these websites can be considered a waste of time but imagination is crucial to a child’s growth and development. Many children play dress up because they show interest in what they want to be when they finally grow up. With the increase of internet use having games and websites that contain dress-up game content will provide assistance for their growth.
Elliot Silver's grass-roots marketing efforts, include running a logo design contest at 99designs
Already marketed by well-established online companies like GoDaddy (www.x.co) and Twitter (www.t.co), there is no doubt that the .co registry has done a better job marketing the domain to companies and individuals than any previous country-code top level domain.
What sets apart .CO from other internet domain registries is they have created an outstanding marketing campaign that relies on ambitious web developers to promote the domain.
Instead of paying huge lump sums of cash in expanding their already expansive marketing campaign, the .CO registry simply granted premium domain names to their .COFounders.
But it’s not Twitter and GoDaddy that will help build the popularity of the domain, it’s the grass roots investors like Elliot Silver, a successful domain investor, who recently announced he would be building and launching Bahamas.co as part of the .CO Founders program.
What .co is saying?
The .co company website regularly includes news stories about its domain – including those of Elliot Silver who has been writing about the development of Bahamas.co. The current home page links to Elliot’s blog which includes a story titled Don’t buy .CO’s for Typo’s.
Elliot’s tweets even made the company’s website recently.
Unlike most companies and individuals, that were granted a premium .co domain free-of-charge, Elliot is chronicling the development of Bahamas.co. Here’s a look at his latest post:
Just a quick evening post to let you know where I am at with the development of Bahamas.co and the steps I’ve taken so far. I want to show you how development doesn’t have to be time consuming.
1) Posted a coming soon page on Bahamas.co and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. It’s nothing fancy, but I figured that I might as well put up a placeholder for now. As you can see, it’s already been indexed in Google.
2) Held a logo design contest on 99Designs. I invited some designers I thought did quality work, and others participated as well. Hey – why don’t you take a minute and vote for your favorite logo?
3) Found a few templates I like on ThemeForest.net, which will be modified and customized to my liking. I don’t have much time to get the site live, so the custom option is going to have to wait. I plan to have a travel search function eventually, but for now a template is going to have to suffice.
To keep updated on the latest development with Bahamas.co, visit http://www.elliotsblog.com/.
You can see a list of other .co websites participating in the .CO Founders Program here.
American Idol season 9 which aired its Finale in May, helped send plenty of type-in traffic to the domain name Idol.com. Each season the show sends thousands of visitors to the category-killing domain name
Earlier this month, Sedo GreatDomains reported the sale of Idol.com for 120,000 Euro (which converts to about $155,000 USD).
The website, which has no affiliation with the popular T.V. Show American Idol, has plans to launch an online video contest and reality TV platform.
As one of the single most popular shows on TV, idol.com should enjoy a lot of type in traffic from fans looking for the American Idol website, which is hosted at www.AmericanIdol.com.
Idol.com has a video posted, that features a slide presentation describing its plans. The social gaming aspect could be one of its biggest draws.
According to the splash page that is now online, key features of the site will include:
Support HTML 5 and Flash video player
High Quality video viewing and interactive experience
Social game to become top critics on idol.com
Social network community to track your favorite stars
A place for entertainers to host, advertise and monetize their video contents
A place for organizers to host a contest or reality show and monetize on the videos
The company which runs Idol.com, Genie Capital, has picked a great domain for branding its newest venture and with American Idol, social gaming and networking on a tear, the site is headed to be the next startup idol.
Cure.co tops the active auctions at Flipping.co, with 2 bidders and the high bid currently at $380
While the .co domain is literally only days old, Flipping.co has been posting sales of .co on the aftermarket already. To date, the .CO registry has sold over 360,000 web addresses with no signs of slowing down.
And that means a lot of speculators are looking for a platform to “flip” their domains. Flipping refers to the investment strategy by domain investors, of buying and reselling domain names quickly.
Flipping.co Backed my Major Player in the Domain Industry
Francois Carrillo, the operator of Flipping.co and other domain marketplace properties like Catchy.com, has put together another aggressive marketing plan advertising Flipping.co on third-party websites and on websites within the Domaining network including Domaining.com, the popular domain blog aggregator that receives thousands of visitors per month.
The domain Flipping.co was registered July 20, 2010, and launched shortly afterwards, giving domain investors who have been speculating on the new domain an opportunity to quickly turn a profit.
The .CO registry granted several premium domain names early on to people and companies who applied to be a .COFounder, a program that requires the owner to develop the name within 30 days. Although Flipping.co was registered during the landrush, it surely has been one of the most notable developments in the .CO landscape.
.CO Domain Sales
While .co is still in its early days, a number of .co domains have already sold through the Flipping.co web site, and more are in active auctions like Tos.co with 4 bidders and a high bid of $300.
Other .co domains in active auctions include:
StAugustine.co
Rere.co
Nao.co
Entertaining.co
Carcinoma.co
RockyMountains.co
Geb.co
Xip.co
Showing signs that .co can penetrate the domain aftermarket, .co domains could be commanding much higher prices in the months ahead. And Francois Carrillo’s Flipping.co has established its as a major contender in the .co aftermarket.
Online Gambling could get a boost in the U.S., raising prices of domain names dealing with gambling
If you’ve been following the news headlines today, you’ve probably seen all the news on the possibility of legalizing online gambling in the U.S.
SO what does that mean for you, if you’ve invested in gambling domains?
Gambling operators need land to build on, and what better land to build on than well known phrases or sayings in the gambling world?
If you’ve been holding on to your gambling domains for the right offer to come along, it could be sooner than later, as the Gambling Domain industry could be showing even more signs of picking up in a blockbuster year of gambling domain sales (Remember, Poker.org selling for $1,000,000?).
2010 Could Be the Year for Gambling Domains
2010 already has several gambling domains in the Top 10 domain sales of the year, with slots.com sitting at the top at $5.5MM. Now the second half of 2010 could see many more top gambling domain sales.
Here’s an excerpt from The Washington Post that discusses more about gambling online.
Congress is thinking about making it legal to play online gambling games like poker.
The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill on Wednesday under which Internet gambling operators could get licenses authorizing them to take bets from people in the U.S. If it becomes a law, it would overturn a federal ban on the payments of Americans who gamble online.
However, the bill would continue to prohibit betting on sports, which accounts for millions of dollars in online gambling activity.
The Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act passed out of the committee by a 41-to-22 vote. Now the committee can send the bill to the House for consideration, where it could be considered in September at the earliest.
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