Danny and Ed go back to basics today and talk about how anyone can make this domaining thing work, even a couple of drummers, as long as you follow a few basic rules.
Aftermarket.com published a video today promoting their domain name aftermarket services. What do you think? How long do you think until someone registers the sample domain used in the video, IAmTheDonutKing.com?
Sedo had published a video as well that explains the value of premium domain names.
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Hi everyone and Happy New Year for 2012!
2011 was a very quite time for this blog / podcast due to other projects that I needed to focus on.
2012 will be a very different story as I am very pleased to announce that I have partnered up with Danny Batelic from www.tradingwebsitesblog.com & www.dominiche.com and also the Dominiche Podcast that Danny co-hosts with Ed Dale from Challenge.co
Danny has had great success with developing and flipping websites over the past few years, so not only will we be talking about domain names but also what is involved in developing out your domains to sell on platforms such as Flippa.com
The podcast will now be once a week and run for approx 30 mins or so. We will also have every month an industry expert guest on the show that either Danny or myself will interview. To revisit some of my past interviews with the top domain experts on the planet, please visit my interview archives here www.ozdomainer.com/category/domain-names-podcasts/
So please feel free to suggest any topics that you would like to see covered over the next 12 months and we will do our best to cover them for you.
Thanks for your time and we look forward to bringing you a great podcast in 2012.
Cheers
Ed & Danny
Here is a piece about Marc from his website -
He is the entrepreneur’s entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. He has founded, built up and sold over $100 million in businesses – starting with only a $5,000 car loan.
He is well known for his record sale of the domain name Business.com for $7.5 million which landed him in the Guiness Book of World RecordsTM as the most expensive domain name ever sold. Business.com was sold again in 2008 for $345 Million which landed Ostrofsky another windfall.
Marc says, “If you can click a mouse, you can make money on the internet.”
I hope you enjoy the podcast.
If you have not yet visited Michael Cyger’s website DomainSherpa.com, then I would recommend that it is well worth your time. Michael’s website is new to the domain blogging world and brings a very fresh approach to the space. He has done some great video podcast interviews with some of the top people in the domain industry.
Check out his latest interview with Frank Schilling where Frank discusses his new domain parking and monetization service www.InternetTraffic.com Keep up the great work Michael.
successful in picking up the domain name Optometrist.com.au from the drops this week.
This is a major win for this business that is a smaller company competing against the larger ones such as OPSM, Spec Savers etc. As it happens, it appears that Spec Savers were the previous owners of Optometrist.com.au.
So congrats to the folks over at The Eye Practice.
At dinner with friends the other night, one asked why he had never seen emicons used in domain names considering their popularity in messaging. Think about it… Sacred Heart Hospital could use a heart symbol, Seattle Mariners could use a sad-face, etc. After losing them in explanation of ASCII-Punycode translation and IDN’s, I decided the quick way out of the conversation was that they could not be used very easily by most users and left it at that. It sparked my curiosity, though. What “symbols” were registered domain names and set out to find out.
What is an IDN Domain Name?
An Internationalized Domain Name is an Internet Domain Name or web address that is represented by local language characters. Most domain names are written using the 26 letter Latin/English alphabets and numbers – this coding is called ASCII. However, IDN allows for the use of non-ASCII characters in domain names. For example, here is the IDN for Starbucks Korea: http://xn--oy2b35ckwhba574atvuzkc.com/. IDNs enable domain names in non-ASCII characters, helping to improve the functionality and accessibility of the Internet. IDNs empower companies to maintain a single brand identity in many scripts and more Web users can navigate the Internet in their preferred script.
What Happens When an IDN Domain Name is Registered?
Most domain name registrars have a special page for International Domain Name (IDN) registration.
When an IDN is registered, the foreign characters are encoded in Punycode using a number of algorithms. Punycode is an ASCII version for the IDN, allowing it to resolve with the current Internet system. An example of Punycode domains can be identified by the “xn—” beginning (see section below with the symbol IDNs we listed).
One important thing to note is that you have to choose the language of the domain name and you cannot mix languages/scripts within a domain name.
Mixing scripts in a single domain is not allowed due to security problems where the letters in one script look very much like the letters form another. For example, if someone is able to create exampl℮.com (that final “℮” is the estimated symbol, not “e”) they could convince people to visit their site rather than example.com
, which can lead to a number of issues including brand and trade mark issues. For more detail on the security implications, see Unicode Security Mechanisms: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39.
What are Symbol IDN Domain Names?
These are real domains that someone could use for a website, and they’d be very cool to feature on business cards and collateral (though you’d have to instruct people how to get to the domains!)
We looked at the IDNS for COM/NET/ORG/INFO/BIZ/US and found a list of 10,386 domains which are a single ‘character’. Here is a sampling of some of the most fun symbol IDNs we came across:
࿊.com “xn--3gd.com”
♞.net “xn--85h.net”
☂.com “xn--m3h.com” (this one is SO Seattle!)
☎.com “xn--y3h.com”
☼.net “xn--94h.net”
☠.net “xn--h4h.net”
☮.com “xn--v4h.com”
࿉.net “xn--2gd.net”
✂.com “xn--xbi.com”
☺.com “xn--74h.com”
✿.net “xn--odi.net”
♫.com “xn--m6h.com”
⇔.net “xn--17g.net”
℞.net “xn--u2g.net”
♡.com “xn--c6h.com”
✌.com “xn--7bi.com”
☃.net “xn--n3h.net”
✎.com “xn--9bi.com”
✆.com “xn--1bi.com”
✈.com “xn--3bi.com”
Happy Friday!
Funny of course, but as Rick said, this is a game changer, and as clear as it gets.
Original from movie:
If you have not herd of Flippa.com yet then come out of your cave and have a listen to what they have to offer. They are one of the biggest website sales marketplaces on the web at the moment and are getting very good results for their customers.
I have not used Flippa as yet but will be listing a few of my sites for sale there shortly.
If you have been contemplating listing a website for sale on Flippa.com but have yet to do so, it would normally cost you US$19 to list a website with them.
Andrew has kindly organized a discount code for OzDomainer Podcast listeners which will give you 15 credits towards your first listing so you will only have to pay the balance of US$4. Just use the discount code “ozdom1” to claim your 15 free credits.
If you have already used Flippa.com in the past please feel free to leave a comment on how you went and what website / domain you listed or sold on Flippa.
I hope you enjoy the podcast.