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Domain Flipping & Adam Dicker make Forbes Magazine!

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Donald Aquilano

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Nice thread Tony....It's about time that business publications started taking the domain business seriously IMO
 

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It's now all but impossible to register a new two-, three- or even four-letter dot-com domain at registrars like GoDaddy.

make that impossible no matter what registrar :)
 

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A nice read, and Adam mentioned right at the end, and that is the first thing readers will remember!
 

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Congrats, Adam!

I've leased a domain to the president of Spain....Dicker says the Spanish premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero rented his domain, zp.com, and used it as the homepage for last spring's presidential campaign. Maybe it helped. Rodriquez Zapatero was re-elected. Notes Dicker, "And he paid a good buck."

:eek:
 

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Congrats Adam :)

Who's this McDonald kid though, is he on the forums?
 

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bout time forbes gets in on the action. Money Mag has be writing about domains for a while now.

Congrats Adam!
 

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Looks like the McDonald fellow exaggerated a bit :p - he's been a member since 05 and it looks like QSD.com sold a few grand cheaper than mentioned - still not bad though, congrats on Forbes.
 

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Congrats Adam :)

Who's this McDonald kid though, is he on the forums?


Congrats to Tony too for posting the link to this great article

Steven appears to use the nick karter9977
 

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Actually, I had my face on the cover of Forbes.

Of course, it was one of those fake magazine covers (my wife is on a Playboy cover).

But I think that ranks me of greater importance than Adam, huh?
 

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Actually, I had my face on the cover of Forbes.

Of course, it was one of those fake magazine covers (my wife is on a Playboy cover).

But I think that ranks me of greater importance than Adam, huh?

Definitely not you, but maybe your wife! :cheers:


:smilewinkgrin:
 

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Watch out for the ride. All pricing will going up starting tomorrow.

Buy today and make money next week.
 

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I hope DNForum can get many potential members, readers out of this article. Adam, do you see boost in traffic?
 

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forbes said:
Appraising a domain is an inexact science. Johnson says Sedo has developed formulas that take into account the length of a domain (shorter is better), its inherent traffic (the number of visitors who type it directly into a Web browser) and the selling price of similar domains.

There's also a hierarchy in the value of domains based on the popularity of the suffix, or "extension," that follows the name. For example, a ".com" domain name is generally more valuable than ".org" or ".net," which in turn fetch more than newer ".info" or ".us." domains.

:D


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Although Jackson says he's having his best year yet for three-letter ".us" names, he sells them for a relatively modest $1,000 each. But that's not too shabby, considering he bought the domains for $8 apiece.

LLL.us at $1k? not too bad..
 

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I guess Adam doesn't have any comments for us here....saves his quotes for Forbes...:)
 

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I'm sure he'll make a comment:)
 
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