A couple of weeks ago I watched an ESPN show about car auctions. During the program there was a nice old car on the auction block. The high bid was $30K. They put the BIN at $39K. The high bidder kept asking the auctioneer, “what’s real money”, “what’s real money”. […]

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I finally signed up for GoDaddy’s Domain Discount Club. I don’t know why I didn’t do this years ago. We currently have 67 domains over at GoDaddy. After paying for the yearly club fee, I will save at least $130 per year. If I move my other domains to GoDaddy the savings […]

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Tonight I was watching the Super Bowl and playing on the internet at the same time, of course. Lately, I’ve been watching the action in the LLLL.com arena. The prices of these domains are going through the roof. There seem to be 30 or more LLLL.com’s at SEDO with bids above their […]

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A few days ago Pool.com caught a three letter domain that I was interested in. Since I’m used to bidding on ebay, I waited to the last minute to place a bid. Unfortunately for me, the Pool system adds 5 minutes to the auction end time if the price changes. This gave […]

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It is that time again. Time to come up with resolutions that will only last a month.
My main resolution is to kick the Diet Coke habit again. I’m going to do Steve Pavlina’s 30 day trial. That should be easy enough…
In other news, I read this interesting post from Zed Shaw […]

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Recently I added my three letter dot com to my Sedo portfolio. Within a week or two, I received my first offer for the domain.
My three letter dot com is weak. Two of the letters are Z and Q, if that gives you a clue. According to the 3character.com Price Guide, the […]

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I have close to 100 domains but have never sold one before.
That changed last week when I sold my first domain through Sedo! (Actually, the transfer is still in progress, but Sedo has the money.)
The week before I received an offer on a .mobi I bought one year ago. The buyer actually wanted […]

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Yesterday on ebay I saw an LLL.org go for a VERY low price. ZXQ.org sold for $152.50. I don’t think 3 letter combinations getting any worse than that. The ones I have come close.

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Here’s a useful service somone pointed out to me today DailyDomainDrop.com.
Each weekday, they sift through thousands of recently dropped domains and narrow it down to the 50 to 100 most valuable ones.
The standard plan has no monthly fee. But a $5 honor payment fee* is required per registered name.
The premium plan costs $60 per […]

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Recently I bought a couple of domains and they were pushed to my Godaddy account.
The sellers entered dummy contact information when pushing the domains to my account.
Make sure to update the contact information ASAP, or you will be at risk of losing your domains.

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