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I am only speaking for myself but I may be speaking for a lot of people…..Adam Dicker, you need to get rid of that video of the guy in the blue shirt from all your sites.  He is annoying and I’m pretty sure that Internet users absolutely do not pay attention to those types of videos.  On the contrary, a new user will automatically associate spam or marketing if that’s the first thing they see when you visit your site.

I stopped visiting DnfBlog because of it and for the first time I just saw it on DnForum.  I wasn’t logged in and all of of a sudden Mr. Blue Guy comes up and I shriek…”What the Hell is that guy doing over here and how did he escape the blog?”  There is absolutely no value to that thing in my opinion and a few others agree.  Look at the comments from a recent article by Morgan Linton.

“I stopped visiting because of that annoying “popup” guy”  -Alan

“Agreed, the popup was extremely annoying and made DNFBlog just a big promotion for DNForum”  -KD

“Agreed. Puranjay writes a nice article…(and the little guy in the corner was annoying”  -Bobby

“I agree with Alan–VERY annoying popup, representing everything that annoys me about the internet. It felt spammy. Why do advertisers think that users LOVE those ridiculous popups, pop-unders, slide-acrossers, etc.? I, too, stopped visiting when that “man” started yapping through my speakers. Perhaps that’s why DNFblog started losing traffic”  -MsDomainer

“Agreed about the flash pop-up, there are plug ins to disable it”  -Acro

“Some great articles and commentary but the pop-up has got to go…”  -Ian

“Wow, this pop-up guy really is getting a lot of feedback! Looks like nobody was a big fan of him but it does seem that like me, many people did like the articles!”  -Morgan Linton

“After the pop up guy started appearing i stopped visiting the site”  -John

And there were more but Adam should get the point.  There is no doubt he knows what he’s doing.  He has built a great forum.  But I can guarantee the Blue Guy has sent away more people that he has attracted or informed.  Shake the blue shirt guy’s hand, wish him well, and send him on his way.  New users will easily find out what your site is all about as long as it has fresh and unique content.  The forum has it, the blog…….well, it was on its way but now needs to be restored.  Start with a sound free site.

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I’ll write a better article later but I would never put my money into Facebook.  I think the stock will end up under the IPO price and can find 10 stocks that will perform better over the next year, two years, and 5 years.  You don’t buy stocks to be cool.  You buy stocks for growth.  You don’t grow your money by investing in a company that is trading at 100 times future earning with no mobile strategy.  I could be wrong but I haven’t been many times over the the long haul with my stocks.  Now on to why you came.  Today’s domain name picks.

OMCB.com 1995 domain with 4 good letters. Add that all up and you get close to $1000.

SelectiveGenetics.com 14 year old domain and cheap. Wrong or right, eventually people are going to pick the genes in their baby

AppraisalCenter.com As expected, going to go for a pretty good amount. Not too bad at this point but it’s early. 14 years old

LipstickCameras.comA product that people sell. Hardly any bidders. I would buy it but I really don’t feel like selling lipstick cameras right now

iWatcher.comPeople still love these Applish names

ExtendtheDot.comNot much value to the average person but you guys are special. Great name for people involved in the new tlds.

GiveMeABreak.com  I sure do need it.  The name, not the break.  I’m fine

BrightYellow.com 1998 domain that is memorable and cute.  Yes I said cute

Indica.com  The ultimate plant domain.  Aka marijuana.  I will own this…sorry

Frugal.org  Great name for a dot org.  My wife should own this name

Heyou.com   Chinese domain will do well but I see “Hey You!” when I see it

FortMyers.tv  I can guarantee it will be a bunch of old people on this tv station and it goes off the air at 9 pm

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On
the day
that
I began my trip to Spain to cover
last month’s Domaining
Europe 2012 conference in Valencia,
Simon Johnson sent me an email to
let me know about a new iPhone
app that Kikabink
International Pty Ltd. (a Melbourne,
Australia based company that Johnson
co-founded) had just released. With the
trip to Europe and the game of catch up
required after I got back I just now had
a chance to download the free app
that Simon wrote about. 

It is
definitely a useful tool that you are
going to want to add to your smartphone
arsenal. The app provides access to more
than 72,000 historical domain and
website sales (dating back more than 10
years), enabling you to review sales
prices and use that information to help
value other domain names that are
similar. Johnson said the app, simply
called Domain Sales, is the first
one in the world to provide sales data
on a wide range of TLDs including
mainstays .com, .org and .net
as well as ccTLDs like .de,
.co.uk,  com.au, .ca and
.us to name just a few. You can
filter for specific TLDs, domain age or
length and also set exclusions. 

Johnson
noted, “Business owners often have
difficulty finding domain names, as many
of them are already registered. As such
they have to buy domains on the aftermarket.
The issue then becomes, how much
should they pay? The Domain Sales
app solves that problem by providing
comparable sales. The real-estate
industry uses comparable sales to value
property and we believe Internet
real-estate is no different.”

Johnson
added, “The app provides sales from
major aftermarkets, auctions and private
sales and users can also get real-time
reports on what has just been
sold, where and for how much. We’re
really proud of what the Domain Sales
App can do. It really levels the playing
field. Now anyone can get the facts and
discover how much their domain or
website might be worth.” 

You can download
the app from Apple’s 

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On
the day
that
I began my trip to Spain to cover
last month’s Domaining
Europe 2012 conference in Valencia,
Simon Johnson sent me an email to
let me know about a new iPhone
app that Kikabink
International Pty Ltd. (a Melbourne,
Australia based company that Johnson
co-founded) had just released. With the
trip to Europe and the game of catch up
required after I got back I just now had
a chance to download the free app
that Simon wrote about. 

It is
definitely a useful tool that you are
going to want to add to your smartphone
arsenal. The app provides access to more
than 72,000 historical domain and
website sales (dating back more than 10
years), enabling you to review sales
prices and use that information to help
value other domain names that are
similar. Johnson said the app, simply
called Domain Sales, is the first
one in the world to provide sales data
on a wide range of TLDs including
mainstays .com, .org and .net
as well as ccTLDs like .de,
.co.uk,  com.au, .ca and
.us to name just a few. You can
filter for specific TLDs, domain age or
length and also set exclusions. 

Johnson
noted, “Business owners often have
difficulty finding domain names, as many
of them are already registered. As such
they have to buy domains on the aftermarket.
The issue then becomes, how much
should they pay? The Domain Sales
app solves that problem by providing
comparable sales. The real-estate
industry uses comparable sales to value
property and we believe Internet
real-estate is no different.”

Johnson
added, “The app provides sales from
major aftermarkets, auctions and private
sales and users can also get real-time
reports on what has just been
sold, where and for how much. We’re
really proud of what the Domain Sales
App can do. It really levels the playing
field. Now anyone can get the facts and
discover how much their domain or
website might be worth.” 

You can download
the app from Apple’s 

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On
the day
that
I began my trip to Spain to cover
last month’s Domaining
Europe 2012 conference in Valencia,
Simon Johnson sent me an email to
let me know about a new iPhone
app that Kikabink
International Pty Ltd. (a Melbourne,
Australia based company that Johnson
co-founded) had just released. With the
trip to Europe and the game of catch up
required after I got back I just now had
a chance to download the free app
that Simon wrote about. 

It is
definitely a useful tool that you are
going to want to add to your smartphone
arsenal. The app provides access to more
than 72,000 historical domain and
website sales (dating back more than 10
years), enabling you to review sales
prices and use that information to help
value other domain names that are
similar. Johnson said the app, simply
called Domain Sales, is the first
one in the world to provide sales data
on a wide range of TLDs including
mainstays .com, .org and .net
as well as ccTLDs like .de,
.co.uk,  com.au, .ca and
.us to name just a few. You can
filter for specific TLDs, domain age or
length and also set exclusions. 

Johnson
noted, “Business owners often have
difficulty finding domain names, as many
of them are already registered. As such
they have to buy domains on the aftermarket.
The issue then becomes, how much
should they pay? The Domain Sales
app solves that problem by providing
comparable sales. The real-estate
industry uses comparable sales to value
property and we believe Internet
real-estate is no different.”

Johnson
added, “The app provides sales from
major aftermarkets, auctions and private
sales and users can also get real-time
reports on what has just been
sold, where and for how much. We’re
really proud of what the Domain Sales
App can do. It really levels the playing
field. Now anyone can get the facts and
discover how much their domain or
website might be worth.” 

You can download
the app from Apple’s 

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Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week:

DomainLoan.com $8,200

StyleMaker.com $6,756

AdultWebsites.com $4,655

RainDance.com $4,402

3dWorld.com $4,311

Ktec.com $4,200

DraftingTable.com $3,800

foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800

7833.com $3,600

LandscapeCompany.com $3,121

washingtongolf.com $2,988

BeachLiving.com $2,300

PCNN.com $1,710

ThePosse.com $1,211

ideaology.com $1,112

iRow.com $1,010

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Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week:

DomainLoan.com $8,200

StyleMaker.com $6,756

AdultWebsites.com $4,655

RainDance.com $4,402

3dWorld.com $4,311

Ktec.com $4,200

DraftingTable.com $3,800

foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800

7833.com $3,600

LandscapeCompany.com $3,121

washingtongolf.com $2,988

BeachLiving.com $2,300

PCNN.com $1,710

ThePosse.com $1,211

ideaology.com $1,112

iRow.com $1,010

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Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week:

DomainLoan.com $8,200

StyleMaker.com $6,756

AdultWebsites.com $4,655

RainDance.com $4,402

3dWorld.com $4,311

Ktec.com $4,200

DraftingTable.com $3,800

foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800

7833.com $3,600

LandscapeCompany.com $3,121

washingtongolf.com $2,988

BeachLiving.com $2,300

PCNN.com $1,710

ThePosse.com $1,211

ideaology.com $1,112

iRow.com $1,010

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Congrats to Morgan for signing on another client.  I had an idea something was brewing at DomainFest and then I had another idea when someone told me that they were going to be working together.  Nice to see it announced.  I enjoy seeing two good people working together towards trying to reach goals. Speaking of goals, my goal was to sell $25K worth of names this month and I came up a bit shy but only because I am not going to close a few sales until June.  A record month and still plenty of time left.  Again, I’m buying NNNN.coms if you have any for sale.  Now here are today’s names.

HungerGame.com One of the biggest grossing movie series of all times is going for cheap. Its missing the S but huge market with two more movies coming.

EDSD.com The LLLL.coms continue to gain in price. This one is fetching a nice price but I think its still flippable even at this price

GameBoat.comGreat deal for a 9 year old name with two easy to spell words

iMeeting.com  Much better than GoToMeeting

MadFly.com  I feel like I already buy from this website  Only 2 bidders

Pushd.com  These types of names used to be all the rage.  Now, still can go for $500 to $1000

XWX.org  Cool looking LLL.org .  Not sure if cool looking makes it worth more though

FSSN.com  N for network is my second favorite to A for association

AllinFun.com  Great Flash game site name

CustomHeader.com   No bidders for this 12 year old name

90c.com  Good name to flip

BestSalsa.com

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Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion which will be the third largest IPO in U.S. history and the largest ever IPO by a U.S. technology company.

It will start trading tomorrow under the symbol:  FB

At $38 a share Facebook is valued at $104 Billion dollars.

At $38 Facebook will trade at more than 100x of earnings or PE

For comparison sake here are the some market caps PE of some other high tech companies based on today’s closing price:

Apple $495 Billion  PE 13

Microsoft $250 Billion  PE 11

Google $203 Billion PE 19

Yahoo $18 Billion   PE 17

Linked In $10 Billion  PE 718

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