Sedo is in the middle of another premium dot Mobi domain auction, running through November 7th. Some of the names on auction are fetching impressive bids: the bidding for hotel.mobi stands at $28,536, and adult.mobi is at $19,500.
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Whether you’re buying and selling stocks, options, futures or domain names, the biggest mistake is to make decisions based on greed and fear.
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I love DNJournal’s detailed profiles of major players in the domain name business, telling how they got started and how they made it big. Today I re-read Sahar Sarid’s story for the third time. I’m also big fan of his blog, TheConceptualist.com. I learn something from it every day. So I went back and read his story again, because I am in need of some encouragement…
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A recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology analyzed the tactics people use when negotiating, and how well buyers and sellers feel that they negotiated once the deal is done. The study contains some interesting lessons for domain name professionals and anyone else who deals with products with negotiable prices. It turns out that most people don’t bargain very well, and don’t get the best possible price, whether they are buying or selling.
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I received a domain name renewal notice today from a company supposedly based in Brussels, Belgium. I did not spot it right away as a vicious phishing scam because I own many domains at many different registrars, and I don’t always remember where each particular domain is hosted. So I clicked on the link to renew my domain name (I won’t make that mistake again). I found myself at a renewal page of a company called Domain Renewal that was charging $79.95 for a one year renewal. I was stunned. Almost $80 for a one year renewal? That’s 10 times what I pay at top registrars like Moniker.com and GoDaddy.com!
But there’s more to it than just a costly transfer scam.
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When I first got into the domain name business almost two years ago, I began accumulating domains rapidly. Many were hand registrations. I registered assorted typos of popular websites, celebrity names, and future technologies that might one day be viable (like QuantomComputer.com, a typo of “quantum computer”, which is a theoretical technology that might one day exist).
If I had it to do over, by the way, I would not register the typos. Some of them infringe on other companies’ trademarks. Most are not profitable and the resale value is limited. Instead I would take all the money I spent on 300 typos, and instead buy one or two good generic dot coms with traffic.
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