The domain name Battl.com is up for auction at Sedo. See the auction page here:

Battle.com auction page

Battl.com gets good traffic on the order of 100 to 200 visitors per month (I just moved it to Sedo a few days ago, so the traffic stats on Sedo don’t yet reflect this). The domain name is also profitable.

This domain is perfect for a MMRPG website (online role playing games), a brand name, live rap battles, song and dance contests, guitar battles, robot wars, and so much more. It’s a fantastic brand name for sports gear or actions toys.

The auction ends in four days, so place your bid now. Happy bidding and good luck.

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The domain name BAAE.com is up for auction with the low starting price of $150.

UPDATE: The Domain has been sold for $180. Someone got a real deal! Check back for other auctions.

Click here to bid:

http://tiny.cc/gqcdb

BAAE.com is a premium 4-letter domain name (LLLL.com) with a dot com extension. A Google search for BAAE produces 392,000 results. The acronym BAAE stands for many things, including:

• British Army Antarctic Expedition
• British Airways Avionic Engineering
• Bachelor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Basic and Applied Ecology
• Bay Area Automotive Enthusiasts
• Bay Area Adventures & Events
• Bachelor of Art in Art Education
• Brighton Adult Alternative Education

and many more. So as you can see BAAE is a natural letter combination that is easy to remember, easy to create an organization name, and many possible buyers. The domain name receives steady type-in traffic (50 to 70 uniques per month) and is highly marketable. The geographical breakdown is about 47.3% traffic from North America and 47.5% from Europe, so these are people with money in their pockets, easy to market to.

Clicks on Sedo pay quite well. I got a $9.76 payout on a single click once! That’s one of the highest payouts I have ever received on a single Sedo click.

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I have 42 .in domain names that I am offering sale as a portfolio. These are premium generic domains. All of them were just recently renewed for another year. All serious offers will be considered. Please make an offer if you are interested.

The domains are:

labcoats.in
synagogue.in
inspect.in
evalue.in
footdoctor.in
beachhotel.in
notarization.in
eardoctor.in
propertyauction.in
discountbroker.in
sportsdoctor.in
judaism.in
appreciate.in
islamicbanks.in
islamicfinance.in
hindulife.in
hindumatch.in
hajjservices.in
hinduparty.in
hindunewspaper.in
islamicfinder.in
namaz.in (namaz means “prayer” in Urdu, which is the dominant language among India’s almost 200 million Muslims)
salat.in (another word for prayer)
hadith.in (hadith are the narrations of the Prophet Muhammad)
hindunames.in
prophetmuhammad.in
purefoods.in
islamicnames.in
indiandesign.in
sikhbabynames.in
floodinsurance.in
muslimnames.in
jainbabynames.in
hindubabynames.in
purefood.in
plasticsurgeons.in
nationalnews.in
muslimbabynames.in
healthplans.in
petsupplies.in
hinducalendar.in
realestateoffice.in

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In a stunner of a development, Snapnames has discovered that one of their employees has been secretly bidding on domain names for the last four years. The employee set up a Snapnames account under a fake name and bid on domain names.

The company says in their press release that this affected only a small percentage of auctions. How much exactly is that small percentage? They go on to say:

• Bidding affected approximately five percent of total SnapNames auctions since 2005, most of which occurred between 2005 and 2007.
• The incremental revenue from the bidding represented approximately one percent of SnapNames’ auction revenue since 2005.

Five percent of all auctions since 2005? That’s huge! One percent of total auction revenue coming from one fraudulent employee? Again, that’s huge!

I have many questions about this.

1. How could this have happened? I am quite frankly shocked that this could have gone on for so long undetected. Even now it appears that the employee will retain the domain names he/she purchased.
2. How could an employee come up with the funds to purchase 1% (in revenue) of all domains? Is he independently wealthy? Or did he have a backer who colluded in this fraud and benefited from it? Maybe he was even secretly employed by someone else.
3. In their announcement, Snapnames says they have created new controls and procedures to prevent this from happening again, including, “Specific domain name registration policies for employees.” What? You mean you didn’t already have specific domain name registration policies for employees in place?
4. Does this represent a breach of the law in any way? Can this employee be prosecuted?

Snapnames will be offering a rebate to anyone who participated in an affected auction, amounting to with 5.22% interest (the highest applicable federal rate during the affected time period), to affected customers for the difference between the prices they actually paid and the prices they would have paid, had the employee not bid in the auctions.

I am curious how they will calculate this. It’s not as straightforward as it seems. Sometimes the level of activity in an auction acts as an X-factor that draws in other bidders. But this can be hard to quantify.

This is a bad development for Snapnames. Domain name discussion forums have always been rife with speculation about the presence of company “shills” in auctions. Of course that’s not what this is, since this employee acted independently and against company policy. Still, it will only feed those sorts of rumors.

I like the Snapnames system and I’ve acquired many domains through them. I expect I will be contacted regarding this rebate. I sincerely hope that Snapnames continues to address this issue openly and decisively and comes out of it stronger and wiser as a company.

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I’ve been working on building a membership base for my Hapkido website, http://www.HapkidoNet.com. Hapkido is a Korean martial art that is a mix of hard and soft, with joint locks and circular movements, but also hard strikes. It’s got high Google rankings for “Hapkido network” and “Hapkido forum”, but so far I’ve had trouble building a membership base. 220 is not bad, but my goal is 1,000 by the end of the year. Ads on forums have notoriously low CTRs, so it will take a combination of high traffic and diverse revenue streams to make a significant profit.

VenezuelaReport.com is an online magazine/blog about life in Venezuela. I’m working on adding a discussion forum to it. The site is already ranked in the first page of Google results for the keywords “Venezuela report” and “life in Venezuela.” The domain and website are available for sale, so if you are interested, contact me.

My house in Panama is for sale, so I made use of a nice domain I had sitting around - CasaPanama.com - to build a website to showcase the house. That’s one good thing about buying reams of domain names in areas that interest you: whenever you need a good domain name for a project, there it is.

I happen to own Greenport.org - Greenport is a “historic village” and summer getaway on Long Island, New York. Rather than waste such a promising domain name on parking, I thought I would develop it into a resource and guide for the town of Greenport. I’ll be doing that soon.

I also plan to build a website about developing solar energy technologies. That field is already big and will only get bigger. I own several relevant domains and it’s just a matter of choosing one, doing the work, and doing the research.

More and more, however, I’m realizing that it would be more profitable to build an online application. Blogs are fun and inexpensive to build, but the real traffic magnets are useful interactive applications that allow people to do something. I know this is rather an obvious point, but I think many domainers miss it. I have some ideas in this area but it’s too soon to share them. I’ll keep you posted.

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Happy new year and may this year bring you continued health, increased wealth and blessings in all areas of your lives.

I read recently on TheConceptualist.com that Bido.com domain name auctions will be returning soon. I will definitely have to submit some of my better domain names for inclusion.

The auction of PuntaPacifica.com went reasonably well, with the domain selling for $4,000.

I own a few good geo names with .org and .net extensions, and I’ve been thinking of developing these.

My social network for martial artists, HapkidoNet.com, is progressing nicely. Thank you to those who helped me choose the best domain name for that site.

My new year’s advice to my readers: keep your head up, breathe deep, and discover the sources of your own strength.

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PuntaPacifica.com is up for auction at Sedo right now. Punta Pacifica (“Pacific Point” in Spanish) is the newest and most expensive neighborhood in Panama City, Panama, which itelf is a bustling and fast growing metropolis with a mixture of skyscrapers and charming old architecture, perched on the famous Panama Canal.

Click here for the Sedo auction:

http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?language=e&auction_id=44912&tracked=&partnerid=14460

The domain name has already received a bid of $1,000 but is worth much more. At this moment several skyscrapers are going up in the oceanfront neighborhood of Punta Pacifica with condo prices as high as a million dollars; many more buildings are in the planning stages. This is quite simply the most exciting, exclusive growing neighborhood in all of Latin America.

This domain name would be excellent for a developer or real estate agent. For domainers or speculators, consider parking the domain (it gets traffic and earns steady parking revenue) or working out a commission arrangement with a developer or real estate agent. The commission from a single condo sale could be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

This is a superb geo domain at a rock bottom price. The auction is running so place your bid now!

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I’m offering five strong domain names for sale at low prices. The domains are:

1. Bilateralism.com – $400. Great price for a one-word dot com! Bilateralism is anything that affects two parties of or groups. It’s most often used to describe political relations or treaties between two countries. This would be an excellent domain name for a political blog, or websites focusing on such subjects as American-Russian relations, or the relationship between the West and Islam.
2. MexicoForum.net – $300. This domain speaks for itself. Easy to remember, and to the point.
3. InternetQuote.org -$200. Good domain for a website providing insurance quotes, for example.
4. BankingWeb.org – $200. Great for any banking-related subject.
5. RichFast.net – $250. Short and sweet. Excellent domain for a website about making money.

Please email your offer to domainerpro@gmail.com. You could also make an offer through the Sedo page for each domain name, but be aware that I will probably send it to auction. You may end up being the high bidder, or may not.

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A few months ago I was browsing some of the domains coming up for auction at NameJet and I had the idea to see what sorts of common people’s names – I mean the names are common, not the people – might be dropping. I looked at several names and ran Google searches on them, studied the results, and considered their search popularity.

I ended up back ordering a handful of names, and won several at the minimum bid of $69 each. These included AprilWilliams.com, LauraVega.com, and MattGreene.com. I thought I might contact some of the people with those names and try to sell them the domains. As it turned out I got busy with other things, but only a few months later I received an offer for AprilWilliams.com through Sedo, and sold it for $500.

If you’ve been trying to acquire generic domains at auction and getting outbid, you might try some real “names”. If they’re common enough there’s sure to be a market and a steady trickle of traffic, and at the moment there’s not a lot of competition for these domains.

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