Domain/Website Resale Markets Are Depressed

A domain name forum menber asked about more than unusual numbers of non-forum threads and posts lately and was wodnering why that seems to be taking place? My answer is maybe it appears that way because the domain name/website resale market appears to be declining big time and since so few are successfully selling (with the notable exception of the many which somehow almost magically sell in the DNjorunal.com sale reports each week for surprising prices) forum members have little to do all day except pass time with the non-domain related posts.

An example of how hard it is to sell at forums these days I was checking yesterday and see a majority of believed dubious or marginal value names I let expire (and got zero responses on via the Forums, or thru the Whois contact information and at other venues such as my Websites) were in fact puchased by others at places such as Snapnames.com, for example, and at for high prices vs the small amounts I would have quickly taken for them (even though I rarely offer names or websites for sale). I also see BuyDomains.com ended up getting many of my cancelled names. Really odd the marginal names appear to rarely sell at forums and via for-sale-listings at auction websites for a fraction of the prices many domain sellers would have accepted. Anyone know why?

Pros & Cons of using a Foreign Domain Registrar

Domain name registrar and parking provider Fabulous is a top-notch choice and industry leader with excellent prices, benefits and great support. However, the liability avoidance reason mentioned by Rick at Rick Latona’s site for using a non-US based registrar such as Fabulous.com seems to be a double-edge sword in that I have been told by a well known domain attorney that it could be a big negative. The reason it can become a major issue is apparently due to the dispute rules the plaintiff can file a lawsuit either where the registrant lives *or* where the registrar is located. If they know you are in the US and the registrar is in Australia (in the case of Fabulous.com) and they are a large corporation they may have a law firm or business presence (possibly an office) in AU where they could file suit there instead of in the US thus making you travel all the way down-under to AU for court appearances and also a need for you to hire an AU IP Attorney at high cost.

It’s Always Tough Giving a Buy Price or Sale Price

One of the the most frustrating things about the domain name and website business is that in the normal course of business (even if the name or its website is not listed for sale) there will be occasional unsolicited offers to buy your domains and/or websites but most everyone has great reluctance to make the first move regarding a sales price.

In all likelihood, the typical great reluctance by both buyers and sellers to name an agreeable price results in the large majority of web site or domain-name potential transactions failing.

A prospecive buyer does not want to give a specific offer because of two reasons:

1. The prospective buyer is thinking the offer may be more than sellers expected price so seller will accept it right away and he would pay more than was needed.

2. Conversely, buyer is thinking his proposed price is too low so seller may act negative and not respond at all or else act insulted replying with a sky high price of say $50,000 for a domain he really would normally sell for $5,000 or less as an example.

A potential seller does not want to give the buyer a specific buy-it-now price due to two reasons (this is especially applicable if the buyers full identity is not known):

1. Seller may be thinking the accepable buy price is lower than what buyer was really willing to pay. Thus buyer will accept the price and domain or website would get sold for less than its potential price.

2. If proposed buy price is perceived as too high by the potential buyer it may turn buyer negative and buyer will nt reply at all. That would be unfortunate since seller may in reality accept much less than the quoted high price but never has a chance to negotiate the price since buyer already walked away or went on to an alternative name for sale or a newly registered domain.

Not really sure what solutions there may be to this ongoing problem, which in-effect stands in the way of a great number of sales. Anyone know a way to avoid this?

Achieving Success at 9 AM thanks to 09 09 09

Today was a very special date being 09 09 09 but to make it even more unique I am able to add one more 09 (AM) to make it 09 09 09 09 which is real cool (in more than just the interesting numerology way).

I wished real hard for personal success today starting at 9 AM and that praying for business and personal success actually happened with a great achievement and victory this morning, which I can’t go into detail about at this time (but will do so when more appropriate).

Anyone else have something good happen today 090909?

Animal Slaughter Houses are Extremely Disturbing

The cruelty involved at the animal slaughter houses (such as involving chicks, eggs and chickens) is really hard to stomach and highly disturbing unless you have a very cold heart and are probably a non-caring kind of person. My question is how in the world can people work there and do that stuff all day?

After watching this very upsetting and cruel egg production video you may very well decide to become a vegan and big supporter of the cruelty to animals movement.

Personally, I was never a big eater of eggs but did occasionally have an omelette but after viewing the sickening video would never eat another egg, ever, and would probably throw-up if I had even a bite. In fact, I am ready to vomit right now just thinking about eating chicken (which meat I don’t eat anyway), eggs, french toast, pancakes and including all egg products.

Warning: This hidden-camera video is graphical (children should not watch it without parents consent).

More Website Visits by Updating Page & DNS

A member of one of the forums has posted about how her website traffic and revenue spiked-up without obvious reason. There has been talk on that board about that subject and conjecture by the members where they believe changes to web site content and also possibly changing the nameservers may be responsible for a sudden and unexplained traffic/revenue spike.

The jury is out on that issue however assuming it’s valid it seems like someone could develop a script which automatically substitutes the index page on a regular basis (i.e. weekly schedule)? It appears that could be accomplished based on two different home-page versions with diverse content in the folder (i.e. index1.html & index2.html) and proceeds to rename one or the other index.html. In addition, the proposed script could also access the domain registration account and modify the nameservers on the same schedule (i.e. alternating between NS1. Example1.com & NS1.Example2.com).

Every ‘X’ number of days (i.e. weekly) the script could rename the index pages on a rotating schedule. Next it automatically goes into the domain registration account and change the nameservers too on the same rotating schedule. It would seem like a fairly easy script to have programmed and implemented.

Do Regular Changes to a Website Improve Traffic?

A member of one of the forums has posted about how her traffic and revenue had recently spiked-up without obvious reason. There has been talk on that board about that subject and conjecture by the members where they believe changes to website content and possibly changing the nameservers too may be responsible for sudden and unexplained traffic/revenue spikes.

The jury is out on that issue however assuming that is valid it would seem like someone could develop a script which automatically substitutes the index page on a regular basis (i.e. weekly schedule)? It appears that could be accomplished based on two different home-page versions with diverse content in the folder (i.e. index1.html & index2.html) and proceeds to rename one or the other index.html. In addition, the script could access the domain registration account and modify the nameservers on the same schedule (i.e. alternating between NS1. Example1.com & NS1.Example2.com).

Every ‘X’ number of days (i.e. weekly) the script could rename the index pages on a rotating basis.  Next the script automatically goes into the domain registration account and change the nameservers too on the same rotating schedule. It would seem like a fairly easy script to have programmed and implemented but who knows for sure? The end-results would certainly be interesting and the search engine and traffic improvement theory may or may not be proven valid and could turn-out to be little more than urban legend.

Announcing 2 More New Websites Now Developed

We are announcing a few more websites which are now online. One of the new sites is a domain name we just obtained and revolves around daytrading of stocks, commodities and futures with the keywords in the URL working nicely since financial market traders are obviously always looking for the Best Daytrading Software The web site has its own free custom newsletter subscription link and a cool RSS Feed capacity plus some customized content. Go here: Best Daytrading Software…

Another site we are announcing is Commodity Daytrading This is actually a very old domain name we have owned since Dec 12 1999 which is almost like a light year as far as the fast moving Internet goes. For almost 10-years the domain name was used mostly as a forwarding domain which redirected to one of our other trading sites.

Recently we realized the great power of the two financial keywords (Commodity and Daytrading) so we developed the web site ouselves and will be adding more and more features and content to it as time goes by. Please pay a visit here to Commodity Daytrading where you can also get a free online corn market trading method which you possibly can use to make money with by trading the method.

The new site already ranks #3 in Google for the words “Commodity Day Trading” and ranks #1 for “CommodityDaytrading” with an extremely strong #6 ranking based on a staggering high 13-million results for Commodity Daytrading used without the tight requirements of using quotes. Here are the Google results

It Sure Seems Difficult to Get Affiliate Referrals

Here is a transcript of a recent live chat session with a well known domain name firm who offers developed sites either free or for a monthly fee and has what sounds like a lucrative affiliate program. For the benefit of those who don’t know, an affiliate program is where you get commission based on the income of the person you referred. The affiliate income you receive comes from the company and not out of the revenue of the referrals account (according to the terms of all ther affiliate program agreements I have seen).

Support: Hi, how may I help you today?

Me: Hi, regarding your affiliate referral program. I have HEAVILY marketed it with probably 100’s of forum posts and our affiliate link being on each post in the signature area, plus marketed it in my Blog too which gets good and relevant traffic but no affiliates are reported by you under me from all that time, work and energy I put into it.

Me: Are you sure your 90-day Cookie which identifies those who clicked the link for the next 3-months is really working?

Support: Yes, as far as I know. I can double check yours. Ok, please hold. Ok, I see your referral link is working fine. But I noticed that not all of your websites have the “develop your domains” affiliate link placeholder on the site.

Me: Right, because it detracts from the web site in my opinion.

Support: And you are using the correct referral link which is this number (example 12356789)?

Me: Yes, that number is accurate.

Me: No one could have possibly marketed your affiliate program more than myself recently what with 100s of forum board posts and many other posts including website blog articles but not even 1 sale from all that time, work and energy! My one and only affiliate was from personal level marketing I did with a close friend.

Me: What a complete waste of my time this has been. I will not be offering the affiliate code in blogs and forums anymore since it is an exercise in futility ASSUMING the COOKIE really is working for 90-days.

Support: Well, it could take some time for you to see the results

Me: Why?

Support: It would be difficult to predict any kind of average time

Me: If someone wants to sign up for an account why would they delay?

Support: Well, all new sign ups do need to go through an approval process

Me: But that takes a few days and I have been marketing your affiliate program for a much longer time (about 2-months) so that it makes no sense (to not even get one referral with all that effort).

As a side note I can say I did not market this affiliate program for only monetary purposes as I sincerely felt these sites were excellent and had great potential and in fact still feel that way today. That is a reason I marketed the affiliate program as much as I did since I felt other domain investors could also use this web site development service well. However, with that said, any revenues from the affilliate program would have been most welcome, especially in view of substantial declines in my other income sources.

The hard to believe poor results affiliate code was immediately removed in my signature lines at the 3 forums and I stopped the marketing of their service (at least from the affiliate aspect) since this entire affair and this support chat made little sense to me. Unfortunately, I suspect non-crediting (for whatever reason) of affiliate referrals may be more common than you would expect.

Why Technical Support May Not Understand Issues

Have you ever called an internet-based company for technical support only to have the tech support person be unable to resolve the issue as a result of being unable to personally duplicate the probem you are encountering?

More often than you would think a reason the technical support dept has trouble personally duplicating the problem you are seeing is because they are either not actually using the program on the web like you are or else are using a different operating system, browser or even using a Mac computer instead of the PC compatible you are likely using.

For example, instead of the same program as used by most customers being installed or running on the technicians computer they often use a different setup. Such as an internal, proprietary or server-based setup, which is sometimes working from an admin control panel instead of how you use and run the program.

At other times, the technician may be using a less commonly used internet browser such as Firefox, instead of using the much more popular and much more commonly used Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser. Since the functionality, appearance, setups, screens, compatibility, memory use and potential browser bugs could be diverse the problems you are having may not be experienced by the technical support person you are talking to.

As an example, here is a saved live chat session I had today with the technical support department of a web development program I am using to semi-automatically generate multi-page websites. The company and persons name is not given in the chat log

Me: Hi, whenever I go to a 3rd party web site which has an RSS Feed my IE 7 or IE 8 RSS Feed icon turns orange color to let me know the web site has an RSS feed running on it but with all my sites with you that does not happen?

Technician: Hmm, can you clarify a bit? There is an Orange button? That sounds like RSS syndication. Such as in this example.com website, which has the RSS syndication actve…

Me: Right, exactly like your example, my IE bar has an RSS Icon which is always grayed out even though my sites are using your platform and do in-fact have my RSS Feedburner code installed (which by the way is working well). Why does the RSS icon not turn orange color as it does with 3rd party sites which have RSS activated?

Technician: What version of Internet Explorer are you running?

Me: With both IE7 and IE8 the icon does not turn orange color as it should.

Technician: So for the example site I just showed you, it’s grey?

Me: Right, the IE bar icon (found next to home page button) stays grey with or without RSS running on the site. However, it’s always orange colored icon on 3rd party sites with RSS activated.

Technician: I am not sure why, I would need to look further into the situation, but it may be because the sites are using the platform, and there are some limitations.

Me: OK but look at your own Internet Explore Toolbar which RSS icon is located next to your IE home-page icon (at least there on my screen) to see what I mean.

Technician: I don’t use Internet Explorer. I’m on a Mac, so IE doesn’t work.

Me: You using a Mac is indeed an issue alright. Since the overwhelming majority of the public uses Internet Explorer and most do not have or even heard of Firefox, and is exactly why I only use Internet Explorer. In my opinion anyone in tech supt should also be using IE since that is what the vast majority of the the public is using so by using the same typical setup you can give better client support that way. Sorry if you do not like me saying this but you really should use what most of your customers are using, IMO.

Technician: Most of our team is using a PC platform.

Me: Not sure what that means?

Technician: I don’t do any developing so it is a non-issue for me. I can look further into your situation with our development team. Would you like me to email you an update?

Me: Was not referring to developing as this issue is about surfing the web and looking at the IE Toolbar which most people have installed having absolutely nothing to do with development so I have no idea why you are talking about development but thanks anyway for your time.

Technician: OK, I do like Firefox, you should try it. Thanks for your notification on this issue. Bye for now.

Me: No thanks. Bye.

P.S. After all that discussion and time spent on it the issue was not resolved, in large part because tech support did not see or able to duplicate the same problem on their screen. Isn’t that ridiculous!

New Website LondonOilExchange is Now Online

Today we completed one more new web site based on Whypark technology, which we feel is an informative website regarding a good deal of helpful content in combination with cool features such as a free oil exchange commodities futures related newsletter and a regularly updated with fresh content blog-based RSS feed, plus other nice benefits normally only seen in large and costly websites.

Please visit London Oil Exchange to see the new mini-website which looks to be very good quality. Keep in mind sites such as this money-making potential site can be put online with free hosting for basically little or no cost (a small monthly fee applies for unlimited custom domains and premium features).

We did not spend hours or even days working in this site (as you may have expected), instead it took took about 10-minutes time to make this good looking new web site from start to finish. Over time, website traffic and revenue should slowly build-up thanks to the new content-rich web site being developed and live on-the-web. Additional search engine optimization (SEO) work will help the new site get listed even better in the search engines.

Go-to the link to establish your own free Whypark account and get on the road to making great looking multi-page sites like LondonOilExchange using this website development company…

Be sure to visit the LondonOilExchange.com web site by going-here: LondonOilExchange

Start Making-Money Online with a Good Website

We have now completed out latest health related website based on Whypark which we feel is an excellent new site as far as helpful content goes combined with beneficial features such as a free newsletter and RSS feed in addition to other interesting functionality.

Please visit Arteries Tour to view the completed minisite which website quality I believe you will appreciate a lot, especially if you know this potential money-making new web site was both designed and hosted basically free of cost (except for a small monthly fee which allows for unlimited numbers of sites both small and large sites). Keep in mind it only took about 1-hour to make the cool ArteriesTour web site from start to finish.

Go-here to open a free WhyPark acct and start making some great looking multi-page websites like ArteriesTour.com Free Website Development

Be sure to visit the artery tour site Arteries Tour

How to Get Crisp, Hot & Healthy French Fries

Here is a little known food secret I have been using for years involving french-fry ordering at fast-food restaurants. We have all ordered fries only to have them arrive warn (rarely hot) and somewhat wilted and looking and tasting far from freshly cooked.

The secret is when you place your order always ask for unsalted fries. Since fast-food french-fries are prepared in large batches, are pre-salted and sit under a keep-warm lamp for sometimes a long time they will need to make your unsalted order fresh because they do not have already pre-cooked unsalted fries.

These are the benefits: Served hot, not warm or worse yet lukewarm. Freshly cooked and non-wilted. No salt added also means healthier eating (but if you like salt they have packages of salt you can add yourself). A reduced sodium diet is one of the health goals of our new health generation. Less time sitting around the restaurant kitchen also means less time for your food to possibly attract airborne bacteria and germs.

A minor negative to this fast food secret is you will need to wait a few extra minutes as your custom-ordered french fries are cooked. You can use that extra time to relax and help live a non-rushed lifestyle, which has other great health benefits and helps deal with stress.

Fox News TV Anchors’ Surprising Poor Knowledge

I always find it amazing how dumb some people in the media appear to be. You would think to be able to achieve a position as a TV co-anchor on a major city (the 5th largest city in the U.S.) TV News channel that person would require better than average general intelligence plus more than average knowledge of current events and recent world history.

Was watching Fox News (Channel 10) and the three news anchors were discussing nuclear weapons and guessing which nations have the most nuclear bombs since North Korea and their long-range missile testing was in the news this week. The two obvious answers of course are either the U.S. or Russia, with China probably 3rd on the short list. However, news desk co-anchor Alexis DelChiaro volunteered in her opinion it was North Korea who had the most. How unknowledgable can Alexis be!

How stupid is that answer from a Fox News co-anchor? How did Alexis manage to get that excellent job in the first place? So many smart people are unemployed due to the economy but “Alexis DelChiaro” is somehow a Fox news anchor. She must have impressed someone a lot during the interview. Look at her incredible good looks in the photo below to help understand why. This only reinforces the dumb blonde stereotype. As a side-note, Alexis DelChiaro’s husband is Sean Marshall, a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs

N Korea is in the media a lot because of their recent nuclear weapons pursuit and in fact they have very few nuclear bombs (estimated at no more than one ot two) and even then it is not verified but merely assumed they may have a few at most (if they even have any at all). That compares to many 1000s both Russia and ther U.S. each have going back more than 60 years.

This is her bio from the Fox News 10 website: “FOX 10 AZAM Anchor. Alexis DelChiaro is a member of the FOX 10 morning team, co-anchoring “FOX 10 Arizona Morning” weekdays from 5am to 9am and “FOX 10 News @ Noon.” “I am so happy to be here in the Valley. It’s a pleasure to help you start your day,””said Alexis. Alexis brings a wealth of experience with her to the Valley; she’s been a news anchor, a weather anchor, reporter, sports reporter and news producer. She joins FOX 10 with years of experience in Yuma, Arizona and Santa Barbara, California. A graduate of the University of California in Santa Barbara, Alexis majored in communications and minored in Spanish. She actively volunteers her time to many Valley charities including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Alexis enjoys trying out new restaurants, traveling to see friends and family, and spending time with her two dogs.” Copyright by Fox 10 News.

One more nice Nanny (Au Pair) I met in-person

It seems I have a talent for meeting Au Pairs (also known as a Nanny). Over the past several years I have met a number of them from places such as Lithuania, Sweden and France. I usually end-up meeting them wherever there is water, such as swimming pools and water fountains, where they hang-out with the kids. I love all Au Pairs and Nannies who always impress me as very nice, friendly, sweet, well spoken and educated.

Today I was at Kierland Commons Mall sitting by the fountain and had the luck of meeting another really nice “nanny” named Annette. She was from Gilbert AZ and one of the nicest, most pleasant and educated persons I had the pleasure of talking to, if only for a short time.

If Annette wants to join my Facebook page (icon on right sde of this page about half way down) she may see information and photos of the French Au Pair who joined my FB page after seeing her at the pool a few times last summer, and stay in touch wth myself. Laurie is back in Paris now but I suspect will be returning to the U.S. one day as she said how much she liked America.

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