Hello there. ICANN approved .xxx domain names around this period of time last year, with ICM Registry Inc., run by British businessperson Stuart Lawley. According to the news, ICM was planning to sell this TLD domain names for as much as whooping USD60 a year!:eek:

Well, with the estimated market value of around USD12 billions for adult related sites, I wonder how many adult website and/or company would actually move from the .com or regular TLD domain names to the .xxx TLD ?

So far has anyone notice about any .xxx domains? Or it "died" off somewhere??:p

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Update (11/08/06) :-
I just found out that the TLD ".xxx" has been rejected by ICANN few months back. Some of the opposing votes of "xxx" creation were ICANN Chairman Vint Cert and CEO Paul Twomey.
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Hi everyone,
I was following the July first week domain sales thru dnjournal. The top dollar sales went to :-
1. CD.com - $277,750 . Transacted via Moniker/Traffic Live Auction.
2. PrizeFight.com - $105,556 . Transacted viz Afternic .

Actually I was pretty surprise to see that CD.com went for "that" amount. Seems very low compare to all those big bucks sales in early days, which could have got over millions of dollar. So I wonder, has the general value for domains been sliding down? There is not much of craze in this virtual property compare to early days?

Hi everyone. Would like to get some view of yours pertaining to which particular category of domain names that you invested the most? I mean, in general, which type of domain names that you find most popular and hot :-
1. General
2. Software
3. Poker
4. Adult
5. Gambling
6. Webmaster
7. Forum
8. Business
9. Finance
10. General Investment
11. Property
12. Currency
13. Insurance
14. Stock
15. Healthcare
16. Technology Based
17. any suggestion?

Thanks for sharing.

Hi, I need some help here. Anyone have any idea as to how to reach a live person in Commision Junction? Or something like contact email address for "Live Support" person in Commission Junction? I want to ask for further details about their affilate program...etc. Maybe thinking of their seller program or sort.

Well, their automated system don't seems to get me any progress. I wonder is it "managed" by a robot or just automated machine for "standard" reply.:mad:

Hi everyone. I just wonder those domain players as to where they sell their domain portfolio? AT the famous SEDO, Afternic? or any other places as long it rack good price eg forum or private sales arrangement?

Any particular marketplace that you find the sales potential work best for you?

zzwm.com

I just renewed the domain too. Please post your offers.

Hi, I recently come across this particular parking service - whypark.com . COmpare to others, they provide contents to your domain and sort of making it a site. Sitemap is also included for each of your domain as they will develop the domain and build a site up.

The best part is that all the revenue generated by your domain/site are 100% keep by you! Yup, as claimed, their system is compatible with adsense, YPN, clickbank, text link sales. But the concern is that member will need to pay a fee of $99.95 for every 100 sites/domains.

So has anyone tried this service?

The bulk of people use .com domains. The bulk of users go to a .com address first when trying to find a website. Has anyone had any success squatting on the other related domains hoping to get traffic?

I could understand if someone had a .net address and you grabbed the .com, but to see it the other way around, almost nobody will accidently type in .net for a .com, and the other tlds will NEVER be typed in at all.

So is there any value for this?

Hello fellows! Ok, most of the time we either used "auto-renewal" feature in our domain registrar panel to secure our portfolio when it comes near to expiry. Apart from these, we also pay attention to some of the near expiry domains that we are eyeing for a while.

So, what do you guys use in tracking and getting updated on those expired domain or near expiry date? Like a few years back, Washington Post had "forgotten" about their renewal bill and the new broke out :- "Overdue domain registration bill stops e-mail access to Washington Post" which was posted in computerworld.com .

I wonder how they actually solved it??:p . By the way, what kind of effective tools that you guys use in order to catch those expired domain? I tried godaddy service, but wasn't really satisfied as the domain that I back-ordered was frequently not been successfully owned.:mad:

Ok guys, I have this crazy thing happen to me last week. I remembered that one of my domain was paked at namedrive.com . And I lefted it unattended for about 2months time. Then one fine day I was just checking how's it went, how's the landing page like ...etc.

To my surprise, when I type in the url into my browser, I arrive at a landing page which was not the "usual" nor "familiar" page to me! It wasn't my "supposed to be" landing page! I checked back my domain registrar, yup the domain is still mine, registered under my name, and then I check my namedrive account. Pheeww, it is still there!

Fortunate enough for me, that I contacted the parking company to look into it, and try to solve it for me. Well, after which, my "domain" back to waht it supposed to be:o ! But I do not know how long it has been "not" my landing page! and thinking about the possible PPC revenue lossese...

So I am very PUZZLED!! How on earth this could happen ??:eek: I learn from somewhere that it is called "DNS" hijacking or something like that. Anyone has such bad experience before?