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I’ve been keeping an eye on the domainFEST site, as I’m contemplating going, and attempting to get three domains accepted to the live auction.

I noticed a new company on their site, though. One I hadn’t heard about, listed as a sponsor.

The company is called WebMoney.

“hmm, intriguing”, I thought. The image on the site wasn’t clickable, so I typed the domain into the address bar.

w-e-b-m-o-n-e-y.com

here’s the site I’m taken to:

confused, I re-checked that I didn’t fat finger it. I didn’t. The domain simply re-directs to webmoney.jp.

Confused again, I thought, “Would an Asian business advertise on an English speaking site?” Probably not. The logo’s are different too, so that’s throwing me off as well..

They’re advertising at a domaining conference, though, so they clearly understand the rules of buying domains. Generic domains obviously, but specifically domains that match business names.

As I searched in Google to answer my question, I uttered a quiet, ‘ooooof’, when their site came up in the listings.

their domain ain’t webmoney.com

it’s wmtransfer.com (whatever that means - I guess web money transfer)

oh, I guess they registered webmoneytransfer.com

oooooof. nope. parked godaddy page.

oye, these guys have got a lot to learn.

Wasn’t sure if Pool would get any recognition of this online, so I felt obligated to make a note of it here..

This was Pool.com’s Xmas email this year..

Incredibly creative, and I hope they give a raise to whoever suggested, wrote, and developed it..

They break down the 13 Days of a Merry Domainer Christmas… and those are:

(12) thousand uniques a day

(11) Wins in Auction

(10) Times the Revenue

(9) VIP Parties

(8) Developed Sites

(7) Figure Deals

(6) Trips to Vegas

(5) Pool Wine Totes

(4) Hawaiian Shirts

(3) Domainer Conferences

(2) Many Late Nights

(1) Beach Front Pad in the Caymans

(0) Lame @ss Offers

thanks for a great 2007 Holiday greeting Pool !

hope everyone has a nice relaxing holiday weekend..

many thanks to Mitch O’Connell for this killer glitter graphic..

I just completed the transfer of a domain name within GoDaddy, thought I’d share the process (which was extremely easy)

In specifics, I bought a .com, and the original registrant’s registrar was GoDaddy. I luckily have an account at GoDaddy as well, so I decided to simply move the domain from his account to mine. A process I assumed would be as intricate a few transfers I’ve done before.

Happily, I was very wrong. In reality, the process takes all of 15 - 20 minutes. That’s it.

And in comparison to moving a domain from registrar to registrar (Moniker to GoDaddy, say), where the requestor has to initiate the transfer, within GoDaddy, when you move from account to account, the current owner initiates the transfer.

Here are the steps below: (In my case, these are the instructions I had to communicate to the second party)

1. Login
2. Within MyProducts, Click Manage Domains
3. Select the domain to be transfered and click Account Change
4. In the New Registrant area, fill in the all new owners info (name, address, phone, all that jazz)
5. IMPORTANT - Be especially careful when entering the email address, as that’s where GoDaddy will forward the Transaction ID and Security Code for transfer. If the address is fat fingered, and accidentally forwarded to an incorrect party, realize they’ll be holding the keys to your domain name, and’ll have the ability to accept transfer into their own GoDaddy account (if they have one).
6. Agree to the terms in the Domain Name Change Registrant Agreement
7. GoDaddy’ll then list all services that will be cancelled once the domain is removed. No biggie, click Continue.
8. And I think the final step is clicking ‘OK’

The registrant accepting the transfer will then receive an email, subject line reading “Change of Registrant Pending“, and reading:

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CHANGE OF REGISTRANT PENDING
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Dear Peter Askew,

The registrant of the following domain name(s):

PURPLEPEOPLEEATERS.COM

has initiated a process by which you will become the registrant of the
domain name(s).

IMPORTANT: You must complete all of the steps below before the domain
can become active in your account.

————————————————————-
You may be asked to log in to your account. To safely log in:

1. Go to the GoDaddy.com home page and select “My Account.”

2. Create an account if you do not already have one, or enter your
log in name (or customer number) and password. Then, click “Secure
Login.”

3. Select “Pending Account Changes” located in the “My Account”
box.

4. Select “Accept Domains” (upper right-hand corner), then provide
the following information:

Transaction ID: 9999999
Security Code: XXXXXXXXX

5. After you enter the Transaction ID and Security Code, please
proceed through the shopping cart to complete the free transaction.

If the Change of Account is not completed within 10 days, the
transaction ID and the security code will expire.
————————————————————-

If for any reason this information is incorrect or you feel this change
of registrant request was made in error, please contact us within 15
days at mailto:undo@godaddy.com.

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com

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Copyright 2007 GoDaddy.com. All rights reserved.

Once the receiving registrant plugs in the Transaction ID and Security Code within ‘Accept Domains’, and completes the free transaction, GoDaddy will begin processing the move. In my case, it took less than 10 minutes.

The receiving registrant will then receive the confirmation email from GoDaddy, like below:

Dear Valued GoDaddy.com(R) Customer:

The registration of the following domain name(s) has been successfully
transferred to you:

PURPLEPEOPLEEATERS.COM

Now’s the time to make sure all the information associated with this
domain is accurate and up to date.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please log in to your GoDaddy.com account to view or change your domain
details:

1. Go to the GoDaddy.com home page and select “My Account.”

2. Enter your log in name (or customer number) and password, then
click “Secure Login.”

You will then be taken to the Account Manager, where you may manage
your products and services.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you have forgotten your password, select the “retrieve my password”
link on the log in page.

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AUTO-RENEW YOUR DOMAIN(S) NOW!

When you modify your option to Auto-Renew, you won’t have to do it
yourself when your domain(s) are about to expire.

1. On the Manage Domains page, select the domain(s) you wish to
modify using the checkboxes.

2. Click “Auto Renew.” If you selected multiple domains, be sure
to enable the fields with the link on the right.

3. Select “Automatic Renewal Enabled” so that your domains will
automatically renew.
======================================================

So once again, welcome and congratulations on a successful transfer of
domain registration.

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com

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Copyright 2007 GoDaddy.com. All rights reserved.

That’s it, really - outside of jumping in your account to verify the name is safe and sound.

Hope that helps..

just a quick shout out to the owners of mullet.com

I was performing some quick domain “type-in” stream of consciousness (I’ll explain later)..and came across their site..

where they’ve adeptly placed a fitting image..

which is:

if you’ve got it, flaunt it. Which they’ve done quite well.

and for that, they’ll get some link love from me : )

(and yes, linklove.com is taken already, I just checked)

Over the past coupla years, I’ve bid on *alot* of domains at auction. A majority I lose, I’ll admit it.

I do step back, after a month or so, and think.. “sun of a gun, I should have just ponied up the cash and bought it”.

Here’s a quick sampling of the domains I’ve been in auctions for, and have chickened out. (Live and learn)

trixie.com
sold for $9,655
some hooker (pardon my french), or strip joint - at some point - would have paid me double for it.

lakeguide.com
sold for $1,461
could have easily built a lake reference guide for the US.. then AdSense’d it.

westgeorgia.com
sold for $3,455
Was a total moron on this one. I live in GA. There’s a college in W GA. Should own this one right now.
(kevin ham won it, btw)

kimballs.com
sold for $2,395
just a nice generic domain name. The current owner has it for sale at BuyDomains for $26K

computercamp.com
sold for $15,500
computer camp? c’mon. A slam dunk of a domain to own. Every kid from now own’ll probably be going to computer camps in the summer. I bid this one up to around $10K, then bailed. Was a bad idea in hindsight.

else.com
sold for $8,200
A 4 letter .com. And one that acually spells something. I shoulda been throwing money around like Yosemite Sam throwing money on the fireplace to keep warm.

sexybastard.com
sold for $61
just so I could make my homepage: iama.sexybastard.com

futoncovers.com
sold for $7,210
still mad I didn’t beat out Kevin Ham on this one..

golfclubreview.com
sold for $55,350
I bid up to $10K on this one, and was surprised to see it go as high as it did. I wanted it, but honestly, that price was waaay to high.

du.org
sold for $28,500
I didn’t even bid, which is sad. Now, looking back, I shoulda had an investor behind me to acquire this one.

kobebeef.com
sold for $5,725
I shake my head on this one. An entire, very profitbale business could have been built around this…oye.

lawyersearch.com
sold for $22,261
the cpc for lawyers terms in ppc is insane. This one would have churned cash. Idiot me didn’t buy it.

iteam.com
sold for $10,650
every news channel in the US has an undercover iTeam it seems. me=Dumb.

iab.com
sold for $67,250
cheap selling price in my opinion. Run a quick search on google for ‘iab’, see how many companies come up. Those’ll be the companies who’ll want to buy that name 2 or 3 years from now … for about 10x that price.

rubberneck.com
sold for $3,076
I simply wanted this cause there’s a lot of rubbernecking drivers here in the ATL.

tuxshop.com
sold for $9,100
the tuxedo rental business is big. This could have been my entrance into that field.

eclass.com
sold for $31,000
at some point in time, all classes are gonna be held online.. why couldn’t they be held here?

sundaybrunch.com
sold for $12,025
I envisioned a sunday brunch directory listing site. Now it’s parked.

yeah, I do beat myself up on the ones I’ve lost.. but it’s only to teach myself to identify the domains of value when they appear in the future.

And it’s seemed to help, as I’ve made some pretty darn good grabs here as of late.

Cash reserves were my main hindrance back in those days, and - Lord willing - I’m making strides now where, if a domain comes up I want, price won’t be an issue.