The recently concluded TRAFFIC (in New York) conference had their domain auction, with the total proceeds exceeding $11,000,000. The two notable giants were creditcheck.com for 3 million (which I do agree with) and seniors.com for 1.8 million (which I don’t agree with). There were some other interesting domains that didn’t sell (Scotland.com was priced at [...]
iBegin Source has been a learning experience that has opened my eyes a lot – sales cycle, perceived value, etc etc. We’ve had a lot of experience with doing small sales (< $500) – eg ForumTemplates (in the last 22 minutes the site has had five sales at $17.00 each). Automated processes, quick and detailed [...]
I was talking to my hosting provider (we have a rack there), and we were talking about marketing and finding customers. He had mentioned this to me over a year ago, and was talking about how difficult the law was making it to boost his wifi signal beyond a certain area. I was confused – [...]
My recent posts have included one about Google opening up the directions API, and about Loki and its geo-location systems. The next flood is open APIs – everything is opening up, and while it is exciting, it is also a bit overwhelming. Beyond the above two (all great fits for iBegin), we have Garmin releasing [...]
This post is about making money from domain names. The reality is that domain parking is not only here, it is going to grow (and evolve). With companies that have some serious money behind them [100 million+] (eg GeoSign, DemandMedia, iReit, etc), domaining isn’t going to go away. I’ve never been impressed by parked pages. [...]
I said I would come back to this. We released iBegin Weather on May 10. The site isn’t amazing. It isn’t ground-breaking. What it is is useful. It is clean, fast loading, and gets the damn point across (the weather) with a minimal of intrusions and confusion. I’ll do a comparison with other websites another [...]
Between the BlogFlux/BlogTopSites merger and a stomach bug, I haven’t been able to get much done. And yet – while I wasn’t doing much directly, the system itself was working flawlessly. The best example: widgets. Lots of talk these days about how awesome super fantastic widgets are. Yet very little of that talk has been [...]
In my previous post on ForumTemplates.com hitting the 100,000 download mark, I also mentioned how it wasn’t getting any search engine love, even with all the links. Stefan Juhl and I had a little chit-chat going on in the comments, where Google does recognize 3000 pages, but thinks only 42 are unique enough to mention. [...]
Some of our divisions are quite quiet, just slogging along, making money without making a peep. Case in point: Forum Templates. It just crossed the 100,000 downloads mark yesterday. It employs two people full time. This incidentally is the one site Google gives no love to. Just filed a reinclusion request, I think it is [...]
Pretty simple. Matt complains about selling text links through WordPress to game search engines (he focuses on templates, but you know the gist of it). He does this on a blog that has the following links: * Donate your car * Online payday loans * Payday Loans * myspace layouts * Free web directory * [...]