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 [...]
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Super Bowl Ads and DOMAIN NAMES - Posted February 8, 2010
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 [...]
Recent SimpleDomains.com domain sales - Posted January 22, 2010
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
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 [...]
TheMoreYouKnow.com - Posted January 11, 2010
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 [...]
Taco Bell’s prime time domain use - Posted January 8, 2010
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 [...]
Dominoe’s New Ads - Posted January 4, 2010
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 [...]
DNJOURNAL.com State of the Industry - Posted December 24, 2009
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 [...]
OzDomainer - Posted December 16, 2009
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.
Good News for DotCOM - Posted December 14, 2009
I could not help myself this weekend. The weather was lousy and i found myself watching prime time TV, Football, and looking around while at the Patriots game. And, i saw millions of dollars of advertisig spend for .COM’s. NFL.com, Play60.com, ABCNEWS.COM, Chevy.com, etc. I looked hard for any other TLD over the few days [...]