CreditCard.net.au Sells For $15,001

Today CreditCard.net.au sold at auction for a record AU$15,001 – the highest reported amount paid for a .net.au domain.

Before today’s sale, the highest sales of .net.au domains were Mortgage.net.au which sold for $13,500 and Webdesign.net which sold for $10,000, both on Netfleet (http://www.netfleet.com.au).

If you’re interested in tracking the latest domain name sales, be sure to sign up for free Domainer Income account (https://www.domainerincome.com/domain-sales/)

Get In Quick – com/net/org Domains For $5.99

This is so unbelievably cheap, I just had to post it. It’s sooo cheap, I’m giving serious thought to transferring part of our portfolio (at another registrar) over to Namecheap.

Right now, you can buy any new .com, .net, and .org domain name for a super low price of $5.99 (which includes ICANN fees)!

This offer ends in a few days, so remember the promo code “savebig” and click here to take advantage of this opportunity while it lasts.

Half a Million Registrations For .CO

I have to admit, I’m impressed. Over half a million .co domains have been registered in just the two months since the public launch of the .co extension.

Check out this article for more information on how .co is doing (it’s also going strong in the after market…).

What Not To Do In Local Search

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Congratulations, you are now #1 on Yahoo Local for your main keyword!

Domainer Income TV Episode 2 – This Is BIG !

This episode is HUGE – both in content and length! It’s one of the longest episodes we have recorded (29 mins), and its so big we had to split it up into two parts – just to fit on YouTube.

For the second half of the video click here. If you use an iPhone or iPad, subscribe to our domaining channel on iTunes and you can download the entire episode.

Episode 2 is jam packed full of wisdom from two experienced domain investors that are known the world over. I’m talking about Michael and David Castello.

I know you will want to watch this episode straight away, but I’d strongly encourage you to get a pen and paper, because you will be taking down a LOT of notes. I also have no doubt, that many people who are new to domaining and buying / selling web sites will have a new perspective on the industry after watching this episode.

Please feel free to leave a comment and let us know what you learned from it.

GoDaddy For Sale

Breaking news: it looks like GoDaddy is selling itself in a private auction. Apparently, the sale could fetch $1 billion. Now, that’s a lot of money for a domain name… er, domain name company.

So why is Go Daddy selling out? We don’t know, but for the full scoop (so far) check out the article Go Daddy For Sale, Anyone Got $1 Billion For GoDaddy.com? at Internet marketing blog, Kikabink News.

New TV Show For Domain Investment – Episode 1 [HD Video]

It give us great pleasure to announce the very first episode of Domainer Income TV.

The show is unlike anything you have seen before. Its run by professional domain investors who are raising standards and are bringing a new level of education and transparency to the marketplace.

Given the scale of tv series, the show will be run on its own dedicated site at http://www.DomainerIncome.TV (yes, we are putting a .TV domain to good use).

Domainer Income TV could not have happened without our team who worked tirelessly to put this together, especially Tristan on Pre Production, Aaron on Post Production, the musical genius of Sebastian our Composer and Eric with our great Set Design.

Most of all we would like to thank all the people who will appear in the series and those behind the scenes that made the interviews possible. All of these people have given up their valuable time to help educate and grow, the domain investment industry.

Episode 1

Our first guest is Oversee CEO and President Jeff Kupietzky. Oversee owns over 950,000 domain names making it one of the largest owners of Internet Real Estate in the world.

Mobile Support

For those on mobile devices, we have FULL browser support for:

* iPhone/iPod Touch / iPad
* Andriod
* Touch-Based Blackberry
* Nokia S60 series and above

If you have any of these devices, you are going to love the new site – it has been designed and optimized especially for mobile browsing! So head on over to Domainer Income TV and check it out!

Sedo: “Unintended Consequence” For Traffic Aggregators

A few minutes ago we heard back from Sedo in relation to our story yesterday. As such we are posting their feedback in full below:

“We can confirm that Google is one of Sedo’s advertising partners, but cannot confirm that they are the source of the change.“

When asked about the effect of the decision on traffic aggregators, Sedo responded:

“As an unintended consequence, it might make things a little more complicated for traffic aggregators.  However, with these changes, it’s a great time for customers to re-evaluate things to make sure aggregators add value for them.  Some may opt for a stronger focus on increasing the domain sales portion (alongside their parking revenue).“

So what do you think? Is this a measure to:

1. Shut out aggregators, or at least make things more difficult for them?

2. Get “quality traffic” to their parking pages?

3. Reduce click fraud (thanks to Acro for the comment yesterday).

What are your thoughts on this? Post a comment and let us know!

Sedo Flags Possible Changes In Advertising Provisions

Early this morning I received an email from Sedo regarding possible changes to the way their “primary advertising provider” monetizes Sedo parking pages.

I’m going to take a wild guess here (I could be wrong) and say that “primary advertising provider” is code for Google, although Sedo does not mention the name of their “primary advertising provider” anywhere in the email.

Here is a brief extract:

“Based on current discussions it is possible that our ad provider will cease its provision of advertising to URL-parked pages and in consequence only support DNS parked domains.

This step is considered by the online advertising provider in response to advertiser feedback and would affect all URL-parking customers at all parking companies worldwide that share this advertising provider.

This change could happen in the near future (potentially as early as the fourth quarter of 2010) and we wanted you to have this information in advance to take into account for your internal planning.“

What’s The Issue?

Let me cut through the spin and give you some context:

1. Traffic aggregators such as Park Logic, KeyRPM & Above use URL forwarding (amongst other techniques) to send traffic to multiple parking companies. URL forwarding allows them to quickly point the domain somewhere else, and therefore identify who is paying the most for a particular keyword. This is essentially an arbitrage opportunity. The problem for both the advertisers and parking companies, is that it makes their traffic numbers (and therefore their revenue line) less predictable.

2. There is certainly “no love lost” between parking companies, traffic aggregators and ad companies like Google. Yahoo. All of them take a slice of the parking pie!

What Does This Mean For Me?

Given the current environment, its a bit of a strange strategy for a “primary advertising provider” to undertake. It seems like its a demand, eg: “you are either with us or against us”.

Here is the bottom line, if you use traffic aggregators, you better make sure they support changing DNS (nameservers), so that you can still use parking companies that rely on the Google advertising feed (such as Sedo). For those that use KeyRPM or Park Logic, you are fine (they support changing nameservers) and I confirmed this with both companies today.

For the record, I have tried to contact Sedo for a comment and will update this post if/when I hear back.

Great Sales At DOMAINfest

Its 1:07am and I’m looking through our domain sales database. What really stands out this week is the great prices at DOMAINfest New York. There were some REALLY good sales there!

Take newyorkapartments.com for $65k. That is a bargain! For those interested in search, it gets 90,500 exact match searches at $2.39 a click! When you factor in all the variations and long tail keywords, I can see that one being a goldmine. Develop it, sell it to a realestate agent – the options are endless.

There are so many other sales to choose from, check out the results and see for yourself!