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Some new domains in our Sustainability domain portfolio

by Fabian on 23/06/2010

The recent months have been very active in the domain market for us.

These are some of the domains we acquired included:

We decided to develop the SustainabilityReport.net domain into a proper website and park the other domains at Namedrive.

I am pretty sure we will purchase more interesting domains over the next few months so if you have a domain in the Sustainability/Green business area and you are looking to sell it please get in touch via our contact forum on the About page.

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The big question – What will Sex.com sell for?

by Fabian on 10/03/2010

Some of you might have heard that the domain Sex.com is for sale.

The opening bit will be $1 million so nothing to bad for a start. But the big question is whether it will be a record sale. I am not so sure that it will. After all we are in an economic crisis at the moment which does not help with regards to money being spend in vast amounts on a simple domain name.

Here are some interesting news items on the topic:

Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block – wired.com

Sex.com ‘to become most expensive domain name in history’ – telegraph.co.uk

Sex.com domain goes up for grabs – money.cnn.com

Place your bids for Sex.com - bizreport.com

So lets see how this bidding war will turn out. Everyone is watching…….

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The three most useful whois lookup websites

January 12, 2010

When you are in the domain business you need to have a good website where to lookup the whois information for a particular domain. This is how Wikipedia defines the whois of a domain if you want ot know what the whois information of a domain is. I am using the following websites whenever I [...]

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What are the best domain parking websites?

December 9, 2009

Domain parking is a great way to earn money from domains that you are looking to sell or can not find the time to develop. Here are the three of the best parking companies you can find: Sedo – Global reach for your domains. If you have a lot of domains and generate very good [...]

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Latest Domain Sales News from Sedo

November 28, 2009

Some interesting domain name sales news this month. These are the most interesting facts for the news item: “The last quarter has witnessed a 5.5 per cent increase on the number of domains changing hands on the Sedo marketplace, compared to Q2 2009 with a total of 9,928 domains changing hands for more than £14 [...]

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The .com TLD is King

November 25, 2009

There have been a lot of attempts to knock the .com domain extension from the number one spot in terms of registration numbers but no domain extension it seems like will ever be as popular as the .com. This view is supported by these latest stats below. These are the latest stats in terms of [...]

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Putting Domain Names up for Sale

November 19, 2009

This is the first real blog entry and I thought there would be a better topic then the question where to put a domain name for sale. When I started in the domain business about 7 years ago there where not many places where you where able to in a reliable way buy and sell [...]

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Welcome to DomainSpecialist.com

November 18, 2009

Welcome to the new website of the DomainSpecialist.com My name is Fabian Pattberg and I am running this blog. More about me here in the About page. More posts on domain name news and other interesting information will follow shortly. So stay tuned!