I was browsing the “recently sold” section on Afternic.com and they have been pushing out some nice five figure domain name sales lately! Domains always seem to amaze me, because one person can look at a domain sale and be like… wow, that was a nice sale, or I wouldn’t pay that much for “that” domain!

Here are just the “reported” five figure sales via Afternic for about the past two weeks.

BargainEnergy.com $13,250 (interesting sale and not a “bargain” … Read the rest

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Back in late January 2013 some rumors swirled that Dr. Oz would be releasing a magazine and was 90% close to inking a deal with Hearst Communications as reported by the NYPost.com …. well, Hearst Communications just registered several domain names that nearly seal the deal with the magazine deal!

Hearst Communications has registered the following domain names on June 5, 2013 according to whois records:

  • DoctorOzMag.com
  • Dr-OzMag.com
  • DrOzMag.com
  • TheDrOzMag.com
  • TheDr-OzMag.com
  • TheDoctorOzMag.com
  • TheOzMag.com

None of the domain name resolve to … Read the rest

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I have been parking domain names with SmartName.com for many years. It was never the best, but I did like several things they offered and that is why I used the service. What I liked the most was the way they displayed “for sale” messages ontop of the landing pages for domains you wished to offer for sale. It was custom and you really could put any text and link that text as you wished. I also liked the kickback … Read the rest

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