Domain Strategies, Inc. is proud to present E-File.com for sale. E-File.com is a tremendous generic domain for the tax return and business filing industries. The US, State and Local governments all utilize and encourage some e-filing system for a wide variety of business, tax return and financial dealings. Click here to learn more about E-File.com and then contact us to discuss acquiring this property.
Domain Strategies, Inc. is proud to announce the representation of three premium domains for sale: DebitCard.com, Checking.com and CheckCard.com plus 8 additional domains listed below:
CheckCard.com
Checking.com
DebitCard.com
RetirementAccounts.com
RealEstateLending.com
InvestmentAccounts.com
HomeEquityLine.com
HomeEquity.com
CreditCardAccounts.com
CorporateBanking.com
CheckingAccounts.com
These domains are ultra-premium and compelling for the banking and financial services industry. More information coming via this blog, but if you have interest in the domains, please contact us to discuss.
Following on our recent announcement of our partnership and investment in IDNoptions, we ask the question, are you a proven or budding entrepreneur? Are you thinking about capturing the market of nearly 1.4 billion people in
In October, 2006 the world opened up for our industry. As Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), it finally enabled the non-English speaking/writing world to search the internet in its own language on its own terms. A year later ICAAN, the worldwide nonprofit organization that regulates the Internet’s domain name system, launched its campaign to provide internationalized country code top-level domains (those that don’t use Latin Characters) according to CNet News.com. Why is this important for the Domain industry? It opens up quite literally a world of possibility that renews what could be considered a maturing industry.
Since IDNs are a new to the industry, even the old measurements do not apply. One can not track pay per click advertising or traffic yet (think the
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I came across Eliot Silver’s blog today on his endeavor to build Lowell.com - a geodomain dedicated to all things in Lowell, Massachusetts (blog.lowell.com). I think it is a true expression of the steps and challenges inherent in creating a business that has both uniqueness and sustainability:
So far, Eliot is on the right track and I wish him good luck and two pieces of additional advice:
Good luck Eliot, we’re pulling for you!
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We’ve just added two very high quality two word generic domains to the Domain Strategies portfolio: CyberSpace.com and ConsumerWarranty.com. Both of these domains are available for development and have tremendous potential for building significant businesses.
Cyberspace.com is an excellent domain for social media, an internet development/marketing company, an internet related product or anything having to do with the internet.
ConsumerWarranty.com is a powerful generic two word domain focused on the consumer space. This domain can be used to sell aftermarket warranties or be used as a review and/or opinion site on which consumer warranties are worth getting.
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The news today of ICANN’s unanimous passing of a recommendation to the budget committe to remove an exclusion of registration fees for domains returned to the registrar during the Add Grace Period (AGP - Five Days) on top of Google’s announcement earlier this week to not monetize any domain if it is less than 5 days old (the exact span of the AGP) effectively means the death of the practice of Domain Tasting and Domain Kiting as we know it. While I won’t go into detail on what Domain Tasting is (you can get a full description here), I did want to think through what the repercussions to the domain industry might be.
Domain Tasting has evolved into a practice that requires a high level of investment in technology and knowledge to do it effectively. Think about the numbers involved to be successful in domain tasting:
Clearly this is an automated, technology and math intensive exercise executed by sophisticated organizations with direct access to the domain drops and registrars. By definition, this leaves out the small domainers who are trying to find domains at the retail level.
According to the Domain Tools blog, Domain Tasting rakes in ~$3 million per month in click fees for the big players. No small amount of money. So, what will be the effect?
The big companies with a significant position in Domain Tasting will either forgo the money from this practice (doubtful) OR get much smarter about evaluating the domain at the point of purchase. If you can predict the value of a domain in a parked state through instant keyword analysis vs relying on 4 or 5 days of actual traffic, domain tasting can still exist. The 5 day grace period is nothing more than a trial run for the long term value of the domain.
I believe this will put more value into the companies like Trellian that have a database of keyword traffic (Keyword Discovery tool) and an API to access that data. If the Keyword Discovery database can be scaled and accessed fast enough to provide instant analysis of the keywords in a parsed domains, there is no reason to believe that efficient Domain Buying at the bulk level can’t continue to happen. The registration fee makes it more expensive, but not impossible to do.
The other option is that the large domain management companies will create their own keyword database systems for understanding search and type-in value of parsed keyword domains. As long as larger, more sophisticated companies have first crack at dropped domains - regardless of whether they can get them for 5 days free or not - they will have first pick of the better domains.
This leaves out the smaller domainers who operate at the wholesale level or the end users who want to buy a domain at retail. There will just be more lower quality domains available on the market at anyone point in time (the domains that were returned). There is too much money in domain parking to let the passage of Domain Tasting effect their business models.
I may be totally off base here, but it seems like the death of domain tasting won’t have a major structural impact on the availability of dropped domains to a wider audience. The best domains that get dropped will continue to be scooped up by top tier wholesale domainers and the less attractive domains will be available to the rest of us a little bit sooner. If the goal is to allow a wider audience equal access to the entire spectrum of domains at drop (which would maximize the value the domains due to more competition) then there needs to be a structural adjustment with how the domains are allocated and assigned as they are dropped.
Thoughts?
We’ve just added 546 premium domains for sale and development to the Domain Strategies portfolio. These are all high quality domain names from a wide variety of categories. Some of the domains include:
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We are very excited to announce that DomainStrategies.com has entered into an agreement to merchandise WiFi.com on behalf of the domain owner. WiFi.com is a tremendous example of a high quality generic domain that can serve a number of business models including:
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