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Namejet has several Prime Hyphenated domains up for auction, Speaker-Phones.com, Storage-Bins.com, More

"Hyphen"Several hyphenated dotcom domain names are up for grabs at NameJet and some of the names are prime domain names like Ethernet-Cards.com, Lawn-Maintenance.com, Speaker-Phones.com, and many more.

Other notable hyphenated names up for auction:

Bath-Fixtures.com
Cincinnati-Hotels.com
Duffel-Bags.com
Merchandise-Bags.com
Postal-Scales.com
Storage-Bins.com

The backorder due date for the above names is today by 8 PM PST.

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Domaining is a Buyer’s Market, even for hand-registered names

"Dogs Playing poker"Many individuals and organizations still hand-register domain names. We still do, and with the market favoring the buyer, we’re finding more and more domain names deleting and not being registered again. In the past few days we’ve hand-registered several names, including several poker terms that had been registered for years, that deleted then became available.

We know these names aren’t great and in a buyer’s market, it will take much longer to sell, but we have plans for these names like many of the names we purchase on the aftermarket. Just because a name is available for hand-registration in 2009, doesn’t mean it has no potential for opportunity. It just means you need to do a little more research.

Sample Hand-Registration Purchases in the Past Week

LimitGame.com
SidePots.com
ExposedCard.com
TheGutShot.com
ThePreFlop.com
ThePokerTell.com
PuppyObedienceClass.com
FathersDayCandy.com
TexasHoldemCashgame.com
TexasHoldemCashgames.com

Make sure to check out the Aftermarket sites like NameJet and SnapNames on a regular basis for deals.

The domaining market like other markets will slowly but surely get back to a Seller’s market in the near future.

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.ME domains might not be for you – but for Social Networking? FRIEND.ME sells for $21,000 on NameJet

Facebook.ME domains are raking in some cash on NameJet.  FRIEND.ME sold today on NameJet for $21,000.  Host.me pulled in $15,200 yesterday.  In recent days, many .ME domains have sold on NameJet during their .ME premium auction that started on September 25th. 

With Facebook being an effective marketing tool and one of the top social networking websites in the world – a popular term among it’s users is “Friend Me”. 

Who knows what the new owner will have in store for the name – but captilazing on the popularity of Facebook – this domain could go far.

Tweet.me, Follow.me, and other Social Networking Phrases

Remember the sale of Tweet.me for $11,000? That sale sparked discussion among domainers.  The Tweet.me website is online.  The owner launched a Twitter related t-shirt website.

Follow.me is owned by Domain.me, and re-directs to their Premium .me website.  According to the .ME registry:

Due to popularity, a list of Premium Names (PDF, and text file) have been held back by the Registry and are not currently available for registration. The Registry will release these premium domain names through various channels and processes in the future.

Other Notable .ME Sales

Date.me – $70,000

Cloud.me – $22,500

Teach.me – $20,100

Buy.me – $17,500

Marry.me – $12,000

Show.me – $10,000

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Every domainer wants to make it rich, how did Eric Borgos get millions? Bored.com, Dumb.com and more

Cheap Flowers

With pay-per-click revenue from 9,000+ domains like Orgasms.com and Inventing.com, 200+ websites like Dumb.com and Adoptme.com, and sales of names like Taboo.net and sales of websites like Bored.com – Eric Borgos has figured out how to make money and a living online.

How did Eric Borgos get rich online?

Even though Eric has made millions, he’s not sure about the answer.  But one thing’s for sure, he didn’t want to keep working for other people, and decided he could do things on the internet on his own.  According to Eric’s blog:

 Because I run my own Internet company, I often get asked the best way to make money online. Oddly enough, I have no good answer for that question. I was able to be successful mostly because I got in on the ground floor (back in 1995). I started by creating web pages for small businesses for $50-$100 each, plus I offered hosting for them. so I decided it was not worth the time and effort to convince people to create websites, just for the small amount of money I would make from it…

After a few years of being a web designer and web host, I saw all the sales my clients were getting from the pages I made for them and I decided I would be better off creating sites for myself instead. By then I had built up a portfolio of several hundred domain names, all of which were sitting there unused, so I decided to develop them.”

Registering Domain Names, and getting them on the drop

How did Eric get Bored.com – the name he ultimately developed and turned into a multi-million dollar sale?  He got it on the drop. 

Network Solutions used to take the domains back around 4am-5am (Eastern Time) each morning, so I would make sure to get up by then and frantically keep typing in my list of domains one by one to try to buy them. That is how I bought Bored.com. I would also sometimes find good domains that nobody ever registered before…

Developing websites from his domain names, entire networks of them

Eric learned early on that web development was key.  Listing links to relevant sites run by other people on Bored.com – Eric decided to build up his own network of sites and send traffic from his Bored.com hub, to his own sites – growing his own network and revenue.  Eventually, Bored.com was pulling in revenue of $35,000 / month, and traffic was growing to other sites. 

As the Internet grew in the early 2000’s, so did the number of visitors to Bored.com, and I was able to run ads from major ad networks such as DoubleClick. That increased income significantly, and I decided that instead of linking to other sites and giving them all the free traffic and ad income, I would be better off creating my own sites to link to instead.

Trying new ideas

Eric is completely honest about his success and his failures.  But most importantly, he writes on his blog, to try new ideas. 

…other than sites that were related to Bored.com, almost none of the sites I created or bought in the past few years made any significant money. This might be my fault, in that I didn’t promote them well, but I think it is much harder to get a good site noticed nowadays. That is not to say that there is not money to be made online though, because of course there are plenty of people who recently started sites that became successful. The good thing though that is is much easier, faster, and cheaper to start a website than it used to be. It is certainly worth trying any ideas you have, because you never know what will catch on.

List of sites

Alot of Eric’s sites receive thousands and thousands of visitors.  If you take a look at them, you might be surprised how simple some of them appear to look, but the niche they fill and the interest they draw, is no surprise.  Sites like CheapFlowers.com are businesses, not just content. 

Here’s a look at some of Eric’s sites.

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Rebranding effort of our Domain site from LittleDevilMedia.com to Fusible.com is complete

little devilThe rebranding of Little Devil Media into Fusible.com is complete.  There was no major updates to the old Little Devil Media design, except the logo, web address, and name. 

Now we can have a stronger focus on our domain brand long-term.

Because Little Devil Media isn’t the best brand to use to launch new ventures like Tweetups.com, we used Fusible.com – a name we acquired a couple years ago.  Throughout our network of sites we still have more changes to make, but we worked overnight to complete the rebranding effort. 

Our twitter account was also rebranded to @FusibleNetwork.  The domain FusibleNetwork.com re-directs here.

What got us thinking?

When Rick Latona announced he was considering rebranding all of his companies under CyberSpace.com, he created quite a stir – but it also made us aware that we needed to change our brand.  The Cyberspace.com discussion has reached over 80 comments, from readers to veteran domainers.

Thanks to Domaining.com for updating our feed and logo.