To celebrate Fathers day here in England and an upcoming 60th birthday, we are giving some love to the old timers with a new retro design!
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Archive for June, 2009
Nomzo goes Retro!
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Yahoo offloads Contests.com for $380,000
Friday, June 19th, 2009Yahoo sold the domain name Contests.com via DomainTools live auction for a $380,000. In comparison to the recently multi-million dollar sales of Candy.com and Toys.com, $380K seems cheap! But thinking about it, contests.com has limited commercial appeal. How will the new owners develop and make money? It will also send a good deal of traffic to contest.com.
Overall, taking things at face value, without knowledge of development plans, this looks like Yahoo got the best of this deal. That’s a first in a few years!
Capturing the generic
Friday, June 19th, 2009Congratulations to Peter Newsome of Ingenuity Hosting Pty Ltd who recently purchased BrisbaneHosting.com from Nomzo.
Ingenuity Hosting are a web hosting company based in Brisbane, Australia. This acquisition opens up many doors for the present and future of their business. Firstly, upfront and most evidently, high quality type-in traffic leads to new clients from day 1. They trumped the competition by buying the domain and with development can position their existing website at the top of search engines. Thirdly, there is also the option to rebrand in future.
Overall, a very smart buy.
We look forward to helping more people get the best domain name for their business.
Two BIG .co.uk sales
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009OnlineCasino.co.uk and HorseRacing.co.uk sold for £100,000 a piece!
According to the domain owner both were sold via Sedo to the same buyer. Price-wise, if these are developed properly, they could both turn out to be excellent acquisitions.
Source: Acorn Domains
What’s in it for me?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Whilst browsing a popular internet forum this morning I came across a post titled “WTB – (example).com for $5″. Now, the original poster with all sincerity believed that the owner of the domain would be viewing the forum. It’s unlikely but I guess it’s a possibility. Then he wrote the maximum he was prepared to pay was $5 
His logic was obviously flawed. The registration fee for a .com is $7-10 per year, depending on which is your preferred register. We use mostly Fabulous.com.
Now, why would someone when contacted out-of-the-blue want to sell for a loss? There is no incentive there. Regardless of (example).com being a great domain, it could be a 100-character domain and the owner still has no motivation to sell for a loss.
If you reverse this thought process it can be effectively applied in selling domains to end-users. What benefits will the end-user receive by purchasing my domain?
Go through them. But don’t overdo it, and don’t make ridiculous claims, like ‘buying this domain will get you to #1 spot in Google by tomorrow’. If the prospective buyer has an exisiting website with a long domain name, and you are attempting to sell a shorter domain, mention the additional offline marketing benefits that the shorter domain can bring. That it would look much better and improve conversions with shortdomain.com on your business cards, magazine advertisements, billboards etc.
