That's a cool obsession, I should say. He could buy classic ruined cars and after he rebuilded it, feature it in the internet like on autopartswarehouse.com. Those write ups I've read on this blog has their own stories.

Not connected to the article - but I've noticed there is a lot of stale news on the front page (most recent is 6 days old). I understand the need for advertising but not sure putting it up top-left in place of the upcoming list is very sensible. Having links on the front page to the upcoming stories is going to increase clicks to them - which seem to be what is needed if the front page is not moving fast enough.

This is a good site though, I wouldn't want to see it die like so many other social sites. 'll try and make more time here myself.

I see the price of CheapFlightSearch.com is now reduced to $30,000 from $88,000. Am definitely keeping an eye on this one...

@BrentW

That's not the whole picture though. You are right, .edu domain is just an extension in Google's eyes, there is no special "edu bonus" for the domain. However many .edu domains *happen* to be authority domains, they are usually old (domain creation-date), with many aged links from trusted sources. That's just a typical link profile for an .edu and why they are so attractive normally.

Of course a .com, .net or .mobi could have built up exactly the same link profile. In that respect .edu is nothing special.   

Ebay has a bit of a self-destructive tendency to go out of its way to make life miserable for sellers.  For several years I sold various products on Ebay.  The one consistent theme that was present regardless of the line of product was a lot of unnecessary migraines.

You see, Ebay's self-policing "community" has figured out that Ebay likes to hire low-wage employees to handle customer relations, including those who review "reported" listings.  They get what they pay for.  Sellers long ago figured out that these people by-and-large can't even spell, much less distinguish between a listing that violates TOS and one that does not.  It is extremely easy for just about anyone to get a competitors rule-abiding listing removed, with no compensation for the seller, who had to pay for the listing.

In addition, in order to object or appeal to these moderators' shenanigans, one must wait on hold for 30 minutes to an hour for the privilege of speaking with a half-baked, fully incompetent customer disservice representative who is usually either unable or unwilling to do anything to resolve the problem anyway.  I don't know how much these people get paid --- the fact that they are paid is bad enough in and of itself --- but I doubt their time is worth the amount of money I am losing while I wait on hold for the privilege of being frustrated and utterly disgusted. The goal is clearly to get the customer to "just give up", and stop trying to waste the time of Ebay's precious imbeciles. 

I guess they based the price partly on the whopping aftermarket success of 'dot name'.

They're a bit too pricey for me....

This domain must be a bargain for $88,000 (its asking price).

But will the correct buyer really be scouring eBay for a premium name?

Pretty cool tool! Good luck...

 

http://www.goomz.com

Just because a site is a .edu, does not mean it gets special attention from Google.

Good news for small local business. Bad news for national or global companies.

Good clip.

Here is the Google video version:

Oops - see below

Pizza.net Sold

$1,150,000.00

sigh... I could only dream of doing the same... for now... LOL

Congrats! I can't see the dnxpert.com link though... it seems offline.

I see this trend doing better in the long run. Humans are visual creatures and they tend to remember things like searching for keywords like “spare parts” instead typing-in spareparts.com. Plus a good incentive to do a search is familiarity with use of search engines with would give people several search engine results instead of one url giving them limited options. Search engines are great take-off points.

I blogged about predictivedomaing.com a few days ago too! Found it very informative.

Cheers!

This is amazing! Well done and congrats on the sale! This goes to show that if you developed a domain name and properly market it, you are on your way to millionairedom.

Cheers!

Al

Fantastic concept and a great method for sorting the wheat from the chaff on eBay.

For Sure ;)

Definitely worth while reading for domainers who want to develop their domains.

What are the most sought after letters, and what 3 letter or 3 character domain names have the most value -- for example, I would imagine that Consonant-Vowel-Vowel-Consonant domains or CVCV domains would be more valuable. But what letters have more value, and what is the order of most valuable to least? Is there a chart somewhere?

This method would take way to long to find good domains. There are better ways. I would write about it, but we can't give out all our secrets right away eh? :)