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Domain Renewal Group stop annoying me please!
Jan 17th
So been a online marketer, I own a few domain names, well more then a few it is well over 100 these days.
Now the thing I have noticed recently is that every time I have a domain about to expire I get a letter in the mail from a company called Domain Renewal Group! I only get letters in the mail if it is a bill from an old school company or some one is sending me a check or a Christmas Card.
The funny thing with Domain Renewal Group is that they do not just charge me the same price my current registrar is charging for me to even consider switching my domains they charge say 7 TIMES the price, crazy isn’t it a domain which costs me $7 a year they charge $70, I do not know who would be silly enough to fall for this, it is a big scam.
Now I did a bit of a search online and found people around the world are not happy about this company Domain Renewal Group, some example:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1040704
http://www.netregistry.com.au/support/articles/warning-domain-renewal-mail-scam-from-domain-renewal-group-in-the-us
I guess the people these guys target about businesses who have an IT company buy a domain then they part ways, they get the letter and think wow we better re new this domain, not knowing any better! Well that is the story in the Whirlpool thread.
But the thing is if you want to stop these letters coming the way around it is that you need to pay for private who is data ! If you own many domains it may not be worth it, such as myself, but it is the sure fire way to stop these letters in the mail.
To me this is a waste of paper, the letter usually ends up like this:
Domain Renewal Group SCAM
So please Domain Renewal Group stop annoying me!
Investmentproperty.com.au sells for over $125,000!
Sep 15th
Well today we saw a fantastic sale in the Australian domain market. With the domain imvestment property.com.au exchanging hands for over $125,000. For me this is good news as i have been involved with .com.au domains for over 6 years.
I was asked before the sale went to auction. I estimated around 15k boy how wrong i was, but it shows what can happen when you have several end users bidding on a domain the price can suddenly skyrocket.
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US Government takes down Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker Websites!
Apr 16th
Any one who has dealt with the online poker world would have noticed the domain name news today that the following domain had been taken down for allowing the flow of billions of illigal dollars via online money laundering.
United States departnment of Justice document on this case can be viewed online here – http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/scheinbergetalindictmentpr.pdf
The websites which have been taken down are as follows -
* absolutepoker.com
* pokerstars.com
* fulltiltpoker.com
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CARSALES.COM LIMITED Buys Auto.com.au for $5800
Apr 14th
AUTO.com.au
Today we have seen the sale of the domain name www.Auto.com.au to one of the biggest brands in Australia CARSALES.COM LIMITED.
Whilst the name itself is not highly searched in Australia with 1,300 exact match queries, Car Sales has snapped it up.
Earlier this week we saw the sale of Marketing.com.au for over 13k+, No doubt Australian domain names are hot properties at the moment.
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Charlie Sheen Gets back his Domain name charliesheen.com
Mar 13th
For any one who has been following the Charlie Sheen developments over the last few weeks, you be be well aware that Charlie Sheen is building a strong following via social media channels. He built 1 million followers on Twitter in 1 day, He is building strength via uStream and other website where thousands to millions of users want to know what he is saying and in the blogasphere he is going crazy.
In the middle of all this I was wondering why is Charlie Sheen building up a social presence on Twitter and other websites which he does not technically own, I decided to check out Charliesheen.com and see who owned it to my dismay it was pulling up a 404 error page. I instantly did a who is check which allows me to see who owns the domain name, some company called Alberta Hot Rods owns the domain for many years interesting.
Yesterday I saw Charlie put up a tweet, saying he had taken his domain back from the Troll, now he owns it because if you visit charliesheen.com you see his website come up –
charliesheen.com domain name
Charlie is Winning once again taking the domain from Albert Hot Rods and now owning it, I am sure he can make his personal brand via social media even stronger now with a domain name to divert all this traffic back too.
poker.com.au domain sells for $100,000
Jan 6th
I just noticed on DN Journal that the domain name poker.com.au has sold for over $100,000, it shows that the Australian domain name market is really heating up at the moment.
the sale was reported on http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm, this is really good news for the australian domain name market with Hardware.com.au selling for $33,333 recently and other domain names like YES.com.au also taking huge offers. One would argue that now is the time to invest into generic .com.au domain names, the only problem is the huge blocks AUDA has on .com.au domains and the restraints it places on them which turns away overseas investment instantly.
Dot TV domains information and Promo
Sep 4th
Dot Tv
Ok so for any one who does not know I am a big time domain buyer and seller, I have purchased well over 100 domains over the years, mostly just for fun yet over the past years it has been more for business.
One costly event for all domain’s is renewing domain names each year, If you own 50 domains in your portfolio you are looking at paying around $10 each domain so its a $500 cost. Some domains such as Dot TV are more expensive, the benefit of buying a Dot TV domain is that you will able to purchase keyword rich terms for SEO which will probably alreayd be taken in other TLDs, The only downside to buying a DOT TV domain is that they are $40 a year to renew, I thought this was too high so I went and sourced out a cheaper deal the following code copy and use it when renewing dot TV’s saved me $15 per TV so its a high saving per domain, please note this was workign on the 4th of sept so it may now not be working with Godaddy – Promo code is: GDBBREN8..
promo deal TV godaddy domain
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