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Today, March 24 – 2010, the domain business on the internet is back again. The Hottest News on the internet, TV and news today is that the Windows Phone 7 Domain Name is on sale at 7 Million Dollars on the eBay website.

The bidding starts at 1 Million US dollars and will end on March. The buy it now price is 7 Million Dollars. This is one of the best domain names sale on eBay at a high price. This is the hottest news today on the internet and will hit the Microsoft’s head office pretty soon this week. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs should be watching this 7 Million US dollars worth domain name which is listed on eBay’s website.

Today on eBay.com, a domain name is on sale for the Windows Phone 7 product. The “buy it now” price is 7 Million US dollars and the bidding starts at 1 Million US dollars. The upcoming revolutionary phone from Microsoft called Windows Phone 7 has a website that is too long. Microsoft never thought that someone would come up with a pretty short, sweet and easy domain name for it’s upcoming phone.

The domain name is WinPh7.com and once again Microsoft failed to choose a perfect and short name for it’s product. The link to eBay’s listing for this 7 Million dollar domain name is http://tinyurl.com/y8zqm88

All we have to do is wait and watch to see who will own the domain name for what price. It is good to see the domain business coming up. In the mean time, retweet this news, update it on your facebook, watch the bid and tell the story to your friends. Spread the word.

Hey guys,
Is apache all I need to do this? I dont want to create a full fledge website. I just need a place to store all my images to link to for my html auction descriptions. During Apache’s setup, it asks me for Network domain, server name, and admin’s email address, but I have no clue what to put in these fields.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx

When do you think is the best day/time of day to start/end a domain name listing on eBay?

I want to list some domain names on eBay. What day of the week do you think is best to start and to end the auction? Also, for what duration?
If you have a suggestion, please share the reasoning behind it. Thanks.

I would like to make a profit on the internet. I found out that you can use Godaddy.com to create a domain name and then sell it in a auction. I was just wondering if someone would know more about this or know someone that has done this. Did it bring positive results or not.

E-bay is the largest online platform that brings together the sellers and the buyers offering the best solutions to both of them. You are able to make free online auctions at ebay. Making success and profit at ebay is not a miracle. Ebay is much systematic and follows a procedural approach. Here are some of the steps to excel ebay and auctions on the free online auction arena. These steps to excel ebay and auctions are helpful for all business, small or large.

The first and most important step for success on this free online auction site is to know what to sell. This means identifying your core expertise. To identify your core competency, follow these easy steps.

Conduct a research of the marketplace and the competition to learn about the salability and profitability of the product that you wish to sell online.

Test the market with a limited number of products offering first to determine the taste and requirement of people in the online domain.

Long-term ebay success comes with products and services that sell well and sell repeatedly, thus creating an online brand image for themselves.

Few other important steps to success in the free online auctions include,

It is important to develop a set of reviews and a quick online reputation strategy of your product for people who use the service.

The product displayed in the ebay auction should have a strong visual appeal on the Internet. A good presentation of your products and services on this free online auction is important.

Effective customer service plays a vital role in the success of your products in the free online auction. Customer Service includes both sales and after sales services to the customers.

You may find various other targeted eBay and auctions support services, which must be considered as consultation from people who have been regularly using targeted eBay and auctions with ebay.

Be open to experimentations and launch your product with a strong marketing strategy to move at par with the cutthroat competition in the free online auction domain.

With these steps suggested, you are sure to excel at ebay, creating a strong an online image of your products and services on the free online auction domain.

First…answer this question:

“Do you look at other people’s feedback ratings?”

You probably answered yes…

So here’s my idea -

“Whenever you leave feedback, put your website URL in the feedback Comment”

If you don’t have a website, no problem, see below for details.

I have only seen this done once! – Me.

It’s so easy and EVERYONE looks at feedback ratings before they bid.

So, the idea would be to try and leave feedback for users that get a lot of traffic…

How? – check out eBay pulse and look at some of the highest watched items and try bidding on one of them.

After, you bid and win, leave your feedback with your website URL in your feedback comment.

For example,

You can see how the domain will *jump-out* at the reader.

Also, when you leave feedback for your auction sales, do the same.

Now.., if you don’t have a website, here’s a quick trick on how to direct that traffic to your about me page.

…then, in your NameCheap.com account, for help visit www.auction-entrepreneur-kit-com you can set your new domain to redirect to your eBay about me page…here’s how:

Click the ‘view’ link beside ‘Number of domains in your account’
Click your new domain name
Click URL Forwarding under the Host Management section on the left
Enter your about me page URL in both textboxes and click Save Changes
Viola…you now own a domain that redirects to your about me page!
And make sure you place your new domain name in all your feedback comments.

Ok…now that you know how to get some extra free traffic by using eBay’s feedback comments, answer this question:

“Do you want to know how to turn that extra FREE traffic into cash?”

Yes/No? – Well, I’m going to tell you anyways… There are a few things you can do…here are 2:

Place your auction links on your About Me page so that your new visitors can get to your auctions. Place a newsletter signup form in your About Me page as well as in your auction pages and collect leads. Then market to those leads over and over again. I think the second idea is the most powerful…although it takes a little work on your part.

The quick`n`dirty way is to use, can visit www.auction-extreme-package.com to manage your leads and use their capture web form generator to capture your lead’s name and email address.

BUT, there are certain rules you must obey in order to collect client information from your auctions pages as well as you about me page.

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Analyzing eBay completed listing of domain sales for last two weeks in $1-$1000 price range.
The main difficulty is to determine if the actual sales are real, especially at the high end of the range. In fact, the very first reported sale $999 for “Google Nexus One Premier Domain Pack” (the title itself scares me away, suggesting the bad names with trademark violation) is not valid, as this “super domain pack” gets relisted with $350 price tag.  However, the next  “official” sale, make you realize that  “Google Pack” is not that bad… How about biloud123456789.com selling for $799? You do not need to be an eBay or domainer expert to say: “ain’t real “, without wasting the time by checking out  whois history data.   There are many amusing sales in ebay “domain names” category.  Sometimes I think that if you’re starting as a domainer, you just need to check out eBay’s completed at the high range $100+, to learn what domain names should not be bought.

 
Back to Earth: let’s categorize what domains names are selling, or pretending to be sold on eBay

Celebrity names: see my previous blog entry on ebay’s domain name sales
Trademark names: a lot of iPad.com sales for last two weeks  on Apple news
3-4 letter names: many of not all sales records in this category can be trusted
One dictionary word names: for example RABID.net this week for $260, very rare on Ebay
Two-three dictionary word names:  BillPaymentCenter.com $114
IDN Names: names containing localized non-English characters ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name  for better explanation ), very rare
Really bad names, no one is going to look at, not only type in the address bar of a web browser.  You can take biloud123456789.com as an example.  Unfortunately, the volume of the names in this category is much higher than all other categories combined

A small comment for Trademark name lovers who are hoping to make a quick buck of well-known names: do you know what happened to forbes.ru and some Apple related domains about a month ago? No need to click on the link, just read the titles: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/forbes-gets-300000-from-cybersquatter/397561.html Forbes Gets $300,000 From Cybersquatter, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704421.html Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop

Do you think spending $50-$400 on a domain name containing iPad\iPod is a good investment?  Use your own judgment, but I personally would stick to generic names.

In general terms, eBay market place for domains today is a bit twisted reflection of large specific domain name markets.  Yes, I believe, you can make a sale on eBay faster; more patience and additional investments (buying feature listings, appraisals, etc ) are needed when working on a sale with Sedo, AftreNic and GoDaddy auctions.  The common side effect of a quick sale is that the price which you get for your domain might be much lower than you expected.  If you’re ready to accept this, work with good names, do your research: keyword tools, domain history, past sales for similar names, existing in-links, Google ranking, etc. and you will do just fine with the domain sales on any market place.

Expired domains since my last posting, hope these are still available:
Establishedwebsite.com
macaroni.com
analystlabs.com
artworkdomain.com
temporaryarea.com
dealsexpert.com
sketchmaps.com
sportsecret.com
This is the one which makes me smile at first, though the name may not be as bad as it seems at the first sight: toiletdesigner.com

I had the winning auction on ebay which was 30 dollars. Now the guy is saying that he never put the domain up for sale and sent me my money back. I live in IN and he lives in TX. What can I do ?

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