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$17,600 Domain Name Coupons.info, Already Up and Running by Domain Name Addict Andrew Hazen

All Coupons DirectSurprising to some, the domain name Coupons.info recently sold through GreatDomains for $17,600.  The name was acquired by a company that knows a little bit about the domain name and online coupon business – AllCouponsDirect.com

All Coupons Direct not only owns and operates free coupon websites in a number of different categories, it’s also owned by Hazen Holdings, LLC – or better known as Andrew Hazen who runs Prime Visibility and regularly blogs at AndrewHazen.com.

While the domain name Coupons.info currently redirects to Allcouponsdirect.com, expect much bigger things with the .info domain from Andrew Hazen.  Andrew is an SEO expert and has been recognized on Fox Business and the A&E Biography Channel for a documentary on Google. 

Andrew also runs Prime Visibility, a search engine marketing company that employs more than 50 people and in both 2007 & 2008 made the INC List of Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S.

All Coupons Direct contains a network of free coupon websites from allbabydiapercoupons.com to allpizzacoupons.com – sites that collectively reach thousands and thousands of unique visitors per month.  Type in ‘cereal coupons’ into Google Search, and the top search result is none other than Andrew’s allcerealcoupons.om – a site which allows you to download and print free cereal coupons.

Andrew Hazen is a Domain Name Addict
 
In addition to all of Andrew’s businesses and ventures, he’s a domain name addict – words taken straight from his “About” page, and one of Andrew’s most recent projects is AllInternetIdeas.com where he educates people on the value of domain names. 

If you’d like to learn more about Andrew Hazen, visit his website http://www.andrewhazen.com/.  You can also follow him on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/AndrewHazen

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Owner of JerseyShore.com cashes in on domain name, and sells

Jersey Shore GirlsIn early January we wrote about the domain name JerseyShore.com and how the owner failed to cash in on the success of MTV’s Jersey Shore reality TV series, as a blank page served as the home page instead of a destination web site for the Jersey Shore. 

In January 2010, traffic to JerseyShore.com jumped to over 25,000 unique visitors according to Compete.com and now the domain has changed hands on March 28, 2010 to the owner of WildWood.com.

Ironically, the owner of WildWood.com left a comment back in January on our old Commenting system:

I am a big fan of Wildwood and the Jersey Shore. The southern Jersey Shore is a much different atmosphere then portrayed by the MTV show…

Details on the price are unknown, but you can guarantee this is a geo domain name worth owning with MTV pushing out free marketing for the web site. 

MTV has just started production on Season 2 of the popular reality show which will air this summer.

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One of the most recognized pages online Expires: PageNotFound.com

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One of the most recognized terms on the internet “Page Not Found” also known as HTTP 404 error has expired.  Registered since 1999, the domain name PageNotFound.com expired on February 24, 2010.  Though the keywords “Page Not Found” get a fairly low search volume (less than 1,500 searches locally) traffic to the URL averages nearly 1,000 unique visitors per month.

It might be difficult monetizing a domain name like this, but nonetheless, it’s attracting bids at NameJet. 24 bids already at the time of this story. The domain goes to auction April 1, 2010. 

Another domain name with the keyword “page” in its URL sold in 2009 for $50,000 on Afternic.  Ironically though, it averages about the same amount of traffic as the traffic to PageNotFound.com despite the $50,000 price tag.

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Yahoo! Continues Dumping their Domain Assets by Selling Domain Name ClassicGames.com for $25,000

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If ClassicGames.com was previously owned by Yahoo! as everything indicates, Yahoo! has been on a tear lately, selling off several of their domain name assets with the recent sales of MusicVideos.com, LookUp.com, and FreeComputers.com. They also made news when they sold contests.com last year. However, they did make a notable purchase: OMG.com for $80,000 for their Celebrity News web site.

In early January CookingGames.com sold for a whopping $350,000 to Hallpass Media. Sales petered off after that for “games” domains with ArcadeGames.org selling for $1,060 and ViewGames.com selling for $300 on Snapnames – that is, until today.

Sedo GreatDomains announced the sale of ClassicGames.com for $25,000.

Back in 1997, ClassicGames.com, was an internet game room, that featured multiplayer games online ranging from Chess to Freecell. But by 2000, the website ClassicGames.com was Yahoo! Games that offered games for kids. In 2005 was still Yahoo! Games.

Take a look at the screenshot on the left from 2005 via Archive.org. Around 2006, the site was no longer operational, and a message in the footer simply read, “For information regarding www.classicgames.com, please contact: [email protected]”.

Leap of Faith Financial Services Inc (http://www.loffs.com/) who own over 500 domain names, appear to be the new owners according to the Registrant records. The domain name gets over 60,000 searches globally.

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Another one bites the dust: Companies Going Out of Business let their Big-Money domains expire

PunchesOne of the largest Pharmacy and gift shops in Northern Michigan, who also got their hands on a good domain name back in the nineties, appears to be the latest “Going out of Business” victim, with a domain name that was allowed to expire, instead of being renewed. 

The domain name Punches.com expired March 16, 2010.  Going back to 1998, Punches Pharmacy Plus a local Michigan Pharmacy had a website online.  Earlier we wrote about AuctionDrop, a company that raised millions in the mid-2000s to build and market their business, only to shut their doors and let their domain name AuctionDrop.com expire.

Even though many companies go out of business for financial reasons, it’s surprising to see the company pull the plug on the domain name and not even renew it.  Or for that matter, anyone who previously worked at the company snatch up the name.

The domain name Punches.com already has 44 bids over at NameJet and it doesn’t even go to auction until April 20, 2010. While it’s not a category killer domain name, it’s got potential, especially for someone looking to cash in on Mixed Martial Arts. 

The domain, according to Valuate.com, appraises at $38,000.