Category: News

There are most certainly some good Domain Deals to be had all over the place – on the drop, deleting and available again, even at Auction.

The GreatDomains auction has a little over a day left, and the prices haven’t got too high on a lot of the good names.

Not good news for the sellers if the bids don’t spike up by tomorrow, but for buyers, GREAT NEWS.

Sample Bids (as of 10/21/2009 – Updated 03:26 AM ET)

Promiscuous.com – $1,250
SoftMusic.com – $540
Rebounds.com – $495
Galoshes.com – $2,300

To track the auction and see the full list of names, visit www.greatdomains.com

Seasonal domains like BlackFriday.com don’t see a spike in traffic until a certain time of year.

Last year, BlackFriday.com (Parked) saw a SPIKE of over 1.3 million visitors. Now the Category-killer domain is developed and shows up on Page 1 of Google – can you imagine the online traffic it’s going to see this year?

Back in July, BlackFriday.com had over 2,000 visitors and has been experiencing an increase in traffic as BlackFriday approaches.

You think that’s impressive? Let’s look at BlackFriday.info last year.

BlackFriday.info had over 4 million visits and in September is already over 50,000.

This Holiday season should be a battle between Dotcom and Dotinfo for Black Friday. At this rate – Kevin Ham’s dotcom doesn’t look like it’s going to gain any more ranking in the Search Engines, but there’s still a lot of time left. Even though Dotinfo is on top right now, now that the Dotcom is developed – it should be even more interesting to see if it dethrones BlackFriday.info from the top spot.

Kevin Ham has big plans for his category-killer domain name Spanish.com. The Dotcom Mogul has been working on developing several of his category-killers.

BlackFriday.com is now on Page 1 of Google, Vancouver.com is getting ready for the Olympics, and his Gospel Media Network which includes names like Religion.com and God.com is in development.

What’s next?

Though most of Kevin Ham’s domain names remain parked, Reinvent has been busy developing.  If you take a look at BlackFriday.com on any given day, you’ll notice change.  Same with Vancouver.com. But with Spanish.com – Reinvent will reach a MASSIVE audience and MASSIVE success with a single category-killer.

Wondering about other category-killer Language names?

Chinese.com – parked
English.com – blank page
German.com – parked
French.com – parked
Hindi.com – parked
Italian.com – parked
Russian.com – parked

Ron Sheridan who made news recently after purchasing RSS.com from Sedo for $125,000 has already launched an online survey to help find out from visitors what they would like to see from RSS.com.

Responding to the survey is simple.  It’s streamlined, so it’s basic point and click and when you reach the end of the survey, you can enter your name, email and comments.

This is a great way to develop a domain, especially if you want to launch a website with features that users want and need.  It can definitely help identify which areas of development to focus and how to prioritize requirements.

Unless you’re an expert in a niche you’re trying to develop, this seems like a great way to learn where the market is going.