The GreatDomains auction kicks off today at 12:00 PM EST time and runs through October 22nd. There are over 75 submissions including ChocolateBars.com and ClassicRock.net. You can check out the full list of names over at GreatDomains.
ChocolateBars.com has the highest reserve range among the names on the list – 25,000 – 49,999 $US. It gets an Exact Global Monthly Search Volume just over 20,000. ChocolateBar.com is a developed website that offers Organic and All-Natural milk chocolate and the site receives nearly 10,000 visitors a month.
Professional Poker player Dutch Boyd made Poker news when he won a WSOP Bracelet, and made Domain news last year when the owners of PokerHost.com unsuccessfully tried to take his domain name PokerHost.net through WIPO.
Not only is he the second youngest law school graduate ever, a Pro Poker player, but he’s also a part-time domainer – registering hundreds of Poker-related domain names years ago when the popularity of poker was emerging. Dutch not only blogs about his Poker exploits, but he also blogs about domaining, highlighting several of his domain name projects on the right sidebar of his website.
Dutch is also on Twitter @jacknames and plans on attending Traffic Vegas according to his latest tweet.
Dutch Boyd originally re-directed PokerHost.net to his personal blog during the WIPO panel, but now PokerHost.net is developed. It’s uncertain if Dutch ultimately sold PokerHost.net or if he developed the website since it’s privacy protected, but he’s been busy developing several of his Poker names and even has plans of launching his own Domain Portfolio website called JackNames.com. According to a note posted on JackNames.com back in August, construction of the domain site is in progress.
The Domain name Luck.com has managed to sell for a whopping $675,000 on Afternic. The domain name originally registered in 1998 had a variety of landing pages. Originally a website for an Outerbanks vacation rental, the owner was considering offers for the name as low as $50,000 back in 2002 according to Archive.org.
Instead of letting the name go for alot less, the owner finally got a highly lucrative payday.
Other Notable “Luck” Domain Sales
Luckys.com sold for $36,000 on GreatDomains in 2007 (parked)
LuckyStar.com sold for $30,000 on Afternic in 2007 (parked)
LuckyGame.com sold for $4,614 on Sedo in 2008 (online casino)
Luckyman.com sold for $3,675 on Afternic in 2008 (gimmick site)
LuckyClub.com sold for $2,909 on Sedo in 2008 (doesn’t resolve)
LuckyVoice.com sold for $2,000 on NameJet in 2008 (Karaoke club)
Plans for Luck.com?
It doesn’t appear the name has changed hands yet, but it’s anyone’s guess what’s in store for the name. Chances are with that kind of investment, an online casino may be in the works (similiar to Lucky.com).
With about fifty days to go until Black Friday, competition online among the variety of “Black Friday” websites is fierce. There are a lot companies gunning for the top spot in the Search Engines, but DotINFO still leads the way in Google with http://www.blackfriday.info/.
Considered by many to be a weak extension, BlackFriday.info has proven otherwise that anything is possible. Kevin Ham’s Reinvent Media, continues to enhance BlackFriday.com – adding a countdown clock, creating a Facebook page, and much more.
Dotcom has been on the Page 1 of Google for weeks now, but hasn’t seen much movement beyond their current position. But going from a parked page and no placement in the search engines, to Page 1, shows how owning the dotcom can be a big pay-off.
BlackFriday.info, how’d they do it
How did BlackFriday.info get to the top spot in the Search Engines? Was it because they developed the name before any of the other top-level extensions got their website online? That can certainly help, but one thing that probably helped BlackFriday.info in past years was leaking Black Friday ads online and creating a feeding frenzy with internet deal-seekers.
The dotcom is going to have to rise to to top of the search engines the good-old fashioned way – not by leaking ads, but with a well-developed website and a killer extension. The story below is from 2007.
BlackFriday.Info Leaks Dozens of Black Friday Shopping Ads
BlackFriday.Info has done the unthinkable and leaked the Black Friday ads for some of the biggest retailers in the United States. You are not going to have to wait for the ads to come out in the papers next week for the biggest shopping day of the year.
Traditionally, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year. Many shoppers will get up at extremely odd hours in the morning so that they can be the first in line to snatch up the deals that can only be found on Black BlackFriday.Info Leaks Dozens of Black Friday Shopping Ads Friday.
These shoppers will also be the first in line to grab the Sunday paper the weekend before Black Friday so that they can plan their shopping routes so that they can take advantage of as many deals as they can. BlackFriday.Info has done what it can to alleviate some of that advance planning.
Currently, BlackFriday.Info has the Black Friday ads for Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Kmart, Toys R Us, Walmart, Old Navy, Sears, Macy’s, and many more. While the ads do not include pictures, they do include the products and the prices that will be offered for Black Friday. There are over fifty-seven ads listed for major stores across the United States…
You can check out the complete story way back from 2007.
Legenday domainer Scott Day’s portfolio ranges from Watermelon.com to FantasyFootball.com, and Shops.com to Haunted.com. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for this Domain investor.
Scott Day Doesn’t Rely on Parking, He Knows Development
Unlike a lot of the prime real estate on the internet that sits undeveloped, Scott Day has been developing his category-killer names for years – long before the downturn in the PPC economy.
Scott Day’s development company Digimedia – turns his domain names into “places people want to go.”
Digimedia offers prime examples of how a large portfolio of names can be developed – each into it’s own business.
Scott’s incredible “fantasy” sports websites are more than just content – they have Staff, offer advertising, receive hundreds of thousands of visitors, and are part of killer-network of developed sites that Scott Day also owns: FantasyBaseball.com, FantasyHockey.com, FantasyFootball.com, FantasyRacing.com, Draft.com, FantasyBasketball.com, FantasyPlanet.com and more.
Scott Day runs Digimedia - that includes properties like Chairs.com, Joke.com, Cards.com and more
Scott is also featured in David Kesmodel’s book The Domain Game – a great read for those new and old to the domaining industry.
And for those who want to learn more about the backgrounds of some of the most successful domainers in the industry, it’s a chance to see how they did it.
The Product Description on Amazon even highlights Scott Day: “Learn how an Oklahoma watermelon farmer wound up owning some of the world’s most valuable Web addresses, from recipes.com to chairs.com…”
Frank Schilling Writes about Scott Day
In a past story by Frank Schilling on his blog Seven Mile, Frank talks about Scott as a visionary in the industry.
Recipes.com, Webhosting.com, GrandCayman.com .. If the value of Internet based businesses were judged on the reach, resonance and drawing power of their domain names alone (as many value domain investors believe they should be), Scott’s portfolio would be a billion dollar enterprise. The man is a Marine, a decent human being… and his portfolio of names is pure Gold.
Well, catching up with Scott at the last TRAFFIC conference reminded me to check out some of his less known, less traveled sites and let me tell you folks.. Scott is showing us all that the future of parked pages are virtually indiscernible from fully developed websites.
Check out the full story by Frank Schilling on Frank’s Seven Mile blog.
About Digimedia
Founded in 1997, DIGIMEDIA owns and operates a portfolio of powerful, common, generic domain names and corresponding web sites. Our domains and websites are located by internet users via type-in navigation to their browser’s address bar. This form of direct-navigation has been found to contain some of the purest, most highly qualified web site traffic possible. DIGIMEDIA provides simple and inventive enhancements to help each visitor quickly find the information, product or service they needs..
DIGIMEDIA’s goal is to build each of our web sites into great web businesses that solve visitors’ problems and to complete various interwoven networks of related sites. Sites are currently at various levels of development: from advertising gateways (recipes.com) to full-blown content sites (fantasyfootball.com). We continually review and adjust our sites to make sure they are relevant, simple and most importantly, helpful.
As Internet usage continues to grow and multiply, premium quality type-in traffic will continue to increase. At the same time, DIGIMEDIA will begin to utilize effective no-cost and low-cost marketing using search engines and simple viral campaigns to amass additional quality traffic and increase usage of our sites.
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The GreatDomains auction kicks off today at 12:00 PM EST time and runs through October 22nd. There are over 75 submissions including ChocolateBars.com and ClassicRock.net. You can check out the full list of names over at GreatDomains.
