Category: Domain Discoveries

I was following the “Amazon Phone” story for likely different reasons than most… you learn things by watching and researching! I was watching how they played the domain strategy for the new Fire Phone! Could the “name of the phone” been discovered earlier? Features? How are they “hiding” what they are doing? Services used?

The simple answer is yes, from leaks of information internally, manufactures etc. the news did come out early but many features were revealed when Amazon announced … Read the rest

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Here is part 2 of a “live” domain metrics study I am doing in an effort to find metrics that will help “find good domains” or if there really is one! Here is part 1 if you missed it. Part 1 I looked at $10 1 bid domains at GoDaddy to see if I could find a rhyme or reason behind the backorders.

Today, I am looking at a smaller amount of recently reported domain name sales that took place … Read the rest

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It was reported by several sites like Mashable.com and Flippa.com that the website and domain name Retweet.com sold for $250,000 on Flippa in early 2010.

A short 4 years later(not in tech life, but you get my point) and the domain name Retweet.com has expired and is currently (6/17/2014) on expired domain name auction at GoDaddy Auctions!

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At time of posting this article, the current bidding is up to $8,600 and this will greatly increase tomorrow (June 18, 2014) … Read the rest

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As many of you know, I like to dig into stuff! I like to look at things from a lot of different angles. Sometimes this leads to discoveries that are uncommon and another approach to look for thing. When the topic is Domain Names, there are many metrics to consider, but is there a “set” that would help me find “the good ones”?

Well, as the title states, this is part 1 of a small series of studies and I … Read the rest

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