Apologies to all readers for my hiatus…..some of this has been being too busy and some because I only want to write real relevent things:) ! Before proceeding, a heads up on a major domain announcement/sale coming from me soon. Also, I was excited to see Poker.orgsell for seven figures. Now, Poker is a unique category and space and TLD’s other than dotcom do have more value due to the online gaming laws. The other night I saw yet another in an endless strong of dotcom generic names on a prime time TV ad. The ad was awful but it was an ad for Colombian coffee and the domain was whatsbehindthebest.com. I can say we confidence that every single domain at SimpleDomains is more intuitive than that one yet there it was, PRIME TIME. i will say this every blog, every day. More and more generic words and phrases are being used by established brands to properly drive branding and traffic. Investing in domains is still so early, and all of our domains are priced for buyers to make better returns on resale than most other investments I can imagine. Back at ya sooner next time.
I am Back
Posted March 8, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: coffee, colombian, poker, TV | Categories: Domain Wisdom | No Comments
Super Bowl Ads and DOMAIN NAMES
Posted February 8, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: domains, Go Daddy, Google, Super Bowl | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom | 1 Comment
What a GREAT Super Bowl for Domain Names, domain awareness, and domain owners. First, Google’s Ad, which was the best done Super Bowl ad in my lifetime. It’s intuitiveness and understated approach was all it needed to be. Amazing that they have come so far that the ad they aired sufficed. Yes , it is the case that STILL so many of the people running large brands, corporations, and ad agencies have zero understanding of how search and the Internet works and how critical category generic dotcom domain names are to search engine performance, optimization,as well as repeat visitation and conversion (with apologies to the folks at places like Monster.com, J&J, P&G, Glaxo, and other Fortune 100 companies that “get it”). Google’s Super Bowl add subtly helped us all by bringing search even more into the minds of marketers and business people worldwide.
Secondly, GO DADDY. We must continuously shout out to Bob Parsons for both giving us some Soft Porn, a nakedish Danica Patrick, but more importantly, putting the 2 words DOMAIN NAMES in front of billions of people 2 times on the biggest global stage of the year.
We are early folks, and Google and GO DADDY are doing things to help us all.
Recent SimpleDomains.com domain sales
Posted January 22, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: | Categories: SimpleDomains.com Recent Sales | No Comments
As we build our recent sales area for this site,we will use the blog area to report some of our recent domain sales.
BuzzNetwork.com $6,500
CarOwner.com $10,000
Yet Another PrimeTime dotcom domain name
Posted January 15, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: healthcare reform, TV | Categories: Domain Wisdom | 1 Comment
For what seems like a nightly occurrence, yet another generic dotcom domain name appeared on prime time TV last night. This one was RethinkReform.com, a website about rethinking healthcare reform. And these are just the domains I am happening to see. There are obviously others and I welcome comments with more examples. Again, all of the SimpleDomains.com names are possible future prime time tv domains at arbitrageable prices.
TheMoreYouKnow.com
Posted January 11, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: Dateline, Diabetes, Health, NBC, TheMoreYouKnow.com | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom | No Comments
First of all, thank you for all your positive comments on the blog posts of recent. I am still on a roll, and yet again, last night, saw another use of a generic dotcom domain (.COM only!) by a large corporation on Prime Time TV. As I tried to do anything but watch Football and recover from the Patriots season coming to a crashing halt, I was watching the 2 hour Dateline special on the XMAS day airline incident. NBC advertised their public service site TheMoreYouKnow.com several times during the program (this is a site for consumers about health), and once again, saw the power of generic domain name phrases being used in prime time media. We have so many of these at SimpleDomains.com, and at prices that allow for our customers to achieve a better ROI in resale than you could in any other investment vehicle.
Taco Bell’s prime time domain use
Posted January 8, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: domainers, Taco Bell | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom, domain sales | No Comments
The other day, wrote about how Dominoe’s used PizzaTurnaround.com on its new prime time TV ads. Now, only 2 days later, Taco Bell is doing the same. All over the BCS Championship last night was Taco Bell’s ads for its Drive Thru Diet, with the domain DriveThruDiet.com. Another big advertiser beanding the .COM and using a combination of generic words in a domain on Prime Time TV. Expect we will see more and more of it. Which is why, our prices on SimpleDomains.com are incredible value. Our average domain resale is $19,070. We have much better names than DriveThruDiet.com that will sell for $100,000++. I do not believe there is a better investment or ROI than buying names on SimpleDomains.com and waiting to resell them to end users. We are proving it every day but to domainers, are selling at prices that give domainers the opportunity to resell at 3x or much more.
Dominoe’s New Ads
Posted January 4, 2010 by Andrew MillerTagged As: domain, Dominoes, pizza | Categories: Domain Wisdom | 2 Comments
As I was watching the NFL games yesterday, I picked up on a very cool domain usage. Dominoes entire ad campaign is about their all new pizza, saying it was time for a total redo (sauce,etc). The domain for this in the ads is Pizzaturnaround.com. Hopefully, corporate America takes notice on this brilliant application of a domain name.
DNJOURNAL.com State of the Industry
Posted December 24, 2009 by Andrew MillerTagged As: dnjournal.com | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom, domain sales | 6 Comments
I just wrote my answers to Ron Jackson’s questions for his fabulous, annual state of the domain industry feature story every January. I have as much respect for Ron and DNJOURNAL as anyone in this industry so i will not post my thoughts until after Ron has the chance to publish them but believe i will have some very insightful points to make in this issue. Stay tuned. Merry Xmas all.
Check out Andrew Miller’s interview with Ed Keay-Smith (OzDomainer.com) via Skype
Posted December 17, 2009 by Sarah PerryTagged As: Interview, Skype | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom | No Comments
Click on the link below to listen to Andrew Miller’s full interview (via Skype) with Ed Keay-Smith, Editor of OzDomainer.com:
Date of Interview: Wednesday, December 12th, 2009
OzDomainer
Posted December 16, 2009 by Andrew MillerTagged As: ozdomainer | Categories: Domain News, Domain Wisdom, domain sales | No Comments
I just did an interview/podcast with Ed Keay-Smith from Ozdomainer.com. Ed runs a fabulous domain site and is a tremendous interiewer. Look for my podcast sometime early next week. I will opine more about it at that time.