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The Lowdown
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August 21, 2008 Post
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I
am clocking in late with today's Lowdown post
(one of the best things about being your own boss is you
can play hooky once in awhile without getting fired!). I
have only been able to get online for a few minutes over
the past 24 hours. Last night was my daughter's final
night at home before heading back to college for here
senior year so we all went out to dinner last night. After
we got back I snuck a quick peak at DomainNameNews.com's
live blogging of results from |
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Moniker's live auction
at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San
Jose which was still underway.
The final
results from that event were unfortunately
awful with just $15,950 in total sales according to
Moniker's site. An extended online auction in conjunction
with the event will continue through Thursday, August
28, but it doesn't look like the SEO crowd has much
interest in domain names (which could mean some bargains
will be available for the rest of you in the ongoing
online auction). The results from this auction were in
sharp contrast to what we saw in Moniker's last
live/online auction at the Internext Expo earlier
this month where $828,825 in total sales were
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Early
this morning it was off to the airport to get our
daughter on her way back to Philadelphia for
her final year at Penn (next year it's on to
medical school for four years - meaning I am going
to have to start selling a lot more
domain names!). Next, in an effort to help out the
anemic American auto industry it was on to a local
car dealership to buy our first new car in five
years. If you have been through that process you
know how quickly that can kill a whole day! |
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We finally closed the
deal and drove off the lot just in time to catch
Tampa's rush hour. A couple of hundred emails were
waiting when I got home so I have been whittling
those down and, for those of you still waiting, will
catch up with the rest Friday morning.
One note that was
waiting for me was Page
Howe and Marshall Gilliam's announcement
that they had taken over management of the GeoDomainList
sales newsletter founded by Jeff Kubarych of DNFolio.com.
The free GeoDomainList focuses on acquiring and
offering pure city geo domains for sale in .com and
other extensions, as well as place, region and
county names. The list also includes geo targeted
domains with a city or state name paired with a
service, profession or web application, as well as
brandable domains suitable for development and
end-user resale. I'll be signing up myself tomorrow
(as soon as I catch up with the rest of those
overdue emails!). |
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(Posted
August
21,
2008) |
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