SkyDomains

This is the guy who took classified ads to a whole new level with .us domains. In most cases he ranked  number one for his search term in Google or at least top 5.  I discovered this guy when I toyed with the idea of developing petclassifieds.org. He owns petclassifieds.us and was number one then with a very successful classified network. Why he is now rebranding all his sites beats me. The must shocking part of it all is (more…)

This is a quick update from yesterdays post, “When someone develops a site on a typo of your domain”. I am going to follow the advice of some of my readers and even my friends offline. Ironically the guy upped his offer by 700% to a wooping $40.  What I have come to realize is that a lot of people especially in developing countries are still in the dark when it comes to domain secondary market. While at first glance, his offers have looked like insults but they were actually not intended to be. Some reasoning behind such asinine offers could be attributed to the fact that they figure if you bought the domain for say 10 bucks then at 40 bucks you have made 300% profit. Crazy but true.

I have politely told the individual to expect his emails being ignored henceforth if he continues with lowball offers. Do I think my domain is important to him? the answer is a resounding (more…)

It is happening to me. I used to think stuff like this was unthinkable. I have a domain name which has to do with Classified service in a particular country. Recently I started getting some unusual traffic from this domain. Nothing spectacular but more than usual. At this same time I received a $5 offer for the domain, I replied and told the guy to get serious. I did a research on this domain and realized that somebody (same $5 guy) has built a website that has http:/www.xxxxx/GoodDomainClassifieds.com as its url but (more…)

This is by no means a review of Bing.com. Far from that. However this is a mini post about how I currently feel about Bing.com. This morning I decided to briefly test drive the Microsoft search platform called Bing.com. At first I was kinda pleasantly surprised about the layout which to me was somewhat unusual.
I wanted to know how Bing will conduct its search. After All I am a domainer and a webmaster. It is always a good thing to know on which side ones bread is buttered. I was not immediately concerned about how Bing may change the world,  bring global peace or feed the hungry– far from that, all I wanted to know was how Bing might affect my bottom line. (more…)