Does Domain Development Help Domain Value?

Assuming a minisite page and ad content is targeted to the domain keywords I don’t believe a minisite will be an overall negative. With that said, a site will also likely not increase the domain value. However, a benefit to the minisite is your domain can slowly grow its traffic thanks to SEO work but a parked page will not.

As far as domain revenue goes, a parked page should perform better but that assumes the domain get the same traffic numbers and the parked page also gets organic and typein traffic. If not, site development is much better. As a side note, we have never had an end-use (a non-domainer) potential domain buyer ever ask about its website, revenue or traffic stats. Even if we offered to give that information the buyers did not want to look at it. It appears only domainers and resellers ask those kind of questions.

A major negative and significant issue with potential sales of developed websites (even a very small site i.e. 1 or 2 pages) is when a potential domain buyer goes to the URL and sees an active website he may assume since it is a site it’s likely not for sale (but it sometimes is for sale). Therefore, the possible buyer (end-users in particular) may think why bother inquiring, and quickly exit the web-page to go looking for a different domain, or try hand registering an alternative extension, or going with a slight name variation.

For those working on developing all their names thinking development will help sales, this may come as a surprise. Stephen Douglas earlier had said “Maybe, the “DOMAIN FOR SALE” link needs to be double-sized and bold!. Oh no, now you got me paranoid! Thanks a lot, David.”

However, there is still a problem Stephen because an obvious Domain Name For Sale announcement can make the visitor a bit uncomfortable seeing it and also may be an overall negative regarding potential PPC clicks too (and have an even greater impact on any product sales a site may be hoping to get).

Some Domain Industry Players are Not Doing Well

Well known and veteran domainer Sahar Sarid’s Conceptualist.com website looks like it’s gone. The Conceptualist.com website owned by “Sahar Sarid” for a long tme recently became a simple DomainSponsor.com parking page but as of today it no longer resolves at all. That’s not too surprising overall since there seems to be a somewhat significant down-sizing or shakeout taking place in the industry.

Various industry firms, forums, domain meeting venues, auctions and individual domainers have left the business, are not doing well, or have domain-name related websites which are less successful and active vs a few years ago.

It’s probably mostly the result of large declines in pay-per-click advertising revenues, reduced market liquidity, the economy, combined with market saturation and too many participants (including lots of new players) competing and trying to grab their own piece of the pie.

Here is a link to an interesting 2007 article about Sahar Sarid, a DNJurnal.com Cover-Story.

Overstock.com is rebranding itself as O.CO

Found this on the Overstock.com website this morning. It’s also Super Bowl Sunday, so perhaps not just a coincidence since the .CO extension domain names will be strongly marketed in today’s Super Bowl commercials, making Overstock.com’s announcement real good timing in that regard.

“Shopping at Overstock.com internationally is about to get easier with the O.co domain. Since the company acquired the O.co domain name in July 2010, Overstock.com has been simpler to access by mobile Internet users. Now, to minimize confusion and hassle while translating the word “Overstock” into other languages, Overstock.com is rebranding internationally and will be known as O.co as of Jan. 2011. This guide will address any concerns you may have about Overstock.com’s new domain.

Q. Why will Overstock.com be known as O.co internationally?

A. In July 2010, .co domain names became available for general purchase, and Overstock.com acquired the O.co domain name in order to reinforce the “O” of the Overstock brand and capture customers’ attention with a short, memorable web address. The short .co domain will also solve translation issues and allow Overstock.com to create a universal logo, brand and web domain name that will be recognizable internationally…”

Click the Overtstock.com® woman on the couch picture below to visit the new O.co® website:

In 1994 Katie Couric Didn’t Know About Internet

Back in 1994 people like Katie Couric had a hard time understanding or explaining what the Internet was!

Paris Hilton is on new Drooping Eye website

Some celebrities have drooping eye condition like the best known celebity with drooping eye, Paris Hilton, for example. It has been said that Paris Hilton’s eye drooping was a side-effect caused by botched eyelid cosmetic surgery.

A drooping eyelid can stay about the same, become worse over time, or come and go in severity. It can be on one-side, or effecting both the eyes. When drooping is one-sided it’s easy to detect by comparing it to the non-drooping eye. Drooping eye is harder to to detect when both eyes are drooping, or if there’s only a small eye droop.

A drooping eye can make you look tired and unattractive. Drooping eyelids are either there from birth or develop later in life. Drooping eye is not a cause for panic, but you should ask your doctor about possible treatment and cure.

Drooping eyes and eyelid-droop can be caused by misc factors, including strokes (which is what many people think of as its cause when they see someone with drooping eye condition), cosmetic face or eyelid surgery (more common than you would think, ask Paris Hilton about drooping eye), horner syndrome, reduced muscle control from normal aging, out-of-control diabetes, myasthenia gravis, brain tumors or cancers affecting the facial nerves and muscles, or be there at birth due to genetics.

Click-Here to read droopingeye and more about Paris Hilton’s appearance

Importance of Owning Your Desired Domain

Domain names are extremely popular as far as owning a website with that name, and its potential use as a business presence, marketing venue, e-commerce site, blog, email address and for information and product marketing. Obviously, there is only one exact name which is truly your most desired domain name available or for-sale, making it unique.

You probably realize the high value of owning a good domain and you surely don’t want someone else using “your desired domain name” and getting visitors looking for the domain keywords, the exact search term, or its URL, which visitors could have gone to your website, right? Why in the world permit another potential buyer to acquire your most desired available domain-name of interest and allow competitors to get site visitors going to their site, which visits you could have received instead?

There are a number of businesses and people with interest in also buying and developing your most desired domain, with some potential domain name users being quite well known both on-the-web and in the offline world too, including individuals and small, mid-size and large business owners in various businesses.

For a real-time internet-search to see “your desired domain name” and its search-engine and web-page popularity of the exact search-term, please do a Google search and search on the keywords (wrapped in quotes for exact search-term results) of your desired domain name (using spaces between words), consisting of your desired domain name (but without entering the domain name extension, i.e. .com .org etc).

As a side-note, it’s sometimes interesting to view the Google results when you combine the words without any spaces between the keywords. The results will be much lower vs using spaces but nevertheless it may be informative, especially if the number of search returns for the words without spaces are considerable.

Read about your most desired domain name

Wellness and Health should be a 2011 goal

Regular walking and other low intensity exercise is excellent for ongoing Wellness and Health, Fitness, Dieting & Weight-loss, plus Longevity & just plain Feeling Good. Get health-care, disease symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cures from America’s Health Site & Wellness Organization.

Make Health and Wellness your personal health goal for the year 2011 and beyond.

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Many Famous Men Are 33rd Degree Freemasons

Been researching Freemasonry lately. One of the most interesting things about becoming a free mason is freemasons saying “a man should never enter freemason fraternity in anticipation of making business connections or for any other sort of professional or monetary gain. If he does, he will be badly disappointed. Instead, he will find a group of like-minded men, who are willing to treat him as a brother and share in a deep and rewarding fellowship with him.

He will find true friends and life-long companions. We expect men who petition for freemason membership to be good but not necessarily perfect men. We know all men have limitations and weaknesses. The freemason symbol pictured below is mysterious to the public as far as what it means and its origin.

Making money and businenss connection is definately not welcome by freemasons. Instead, they say a primary purpose of Freemasonry is the ongoing development of the Mason as an ethical, honest, moral, caring, sincere and charitable man, learning about his own potential as a human being and developing his intellectual and spiritual character.

We just finished a small website about the 33rd degree mason level which I believe is the highest level possible.

Some very famous men have or are freemssona (mostly 33rd degree masons) including: Bill Clinton (Senior Demolay; Newt Gingrich, 33rd Degree Freemason; Bob Dole, 33rd Degree Freemason; Jack Kemp, 33rd Degree Freemason; Storm Thurmond; 33rd Degree Freemason, Colin Powell, 33rd Degree Freemason; U.S. Secretary of State; Jesse Helms, 33rd Degree Freemason; Barry Goldwater, 33rd Degree Freemason; W.D. Gann, 33rd Degree Freemason, Famous Stocks & Commodities Trader; Al Gore, Freemason; and many US Presidents including: George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush

33rd Degree Mason

Naturopathic Medicine About Body’s Healing Ability

We have just developed a new (small) website regarding Naturopathic Medical School and natural medicine, alternative medicine source regarding natural healing resources and the body’s amazing ability to heal itself.

The philosophical and methodological basis of naturopathy medicine principles are sometimes in somewhat of a conflict with traditional medicine, many traditional doctor’s and medical viewpoints.

For example, many naturopathic practitioners are non-vaccine and non-prescription drug based believers, a result of the natural healing philosophy, which shaped the profession from its beginnings.

Negativity by Paying Domain Broker Upfront Money

Sometimes domain name and website owners may wish to hire a domain brokerage to sell their names or websites. I can give you some good advice (gained via my personal hands-on experience) about that, including a warning about paying any upfront fees to the broker.

Keep in mind, once the domain-broker has your money a good degree of the incentive to work hard and sell your domain or website may be lost since the broker already has his/her money, regardless of the name selling or not selling.

One more potential negative occurrence is the once friendly relationship you had with the broker may quicky go away if there are any business or personal issues involved. That can easily happen as a result of the broker already having your paid in advance monies so he may decline to issue a refund if you are later unhappy with his work and perfomance.

More information about why you should never even think about paying a fee in advance to a broker (which we published over a year ago) as part of a post about the category defining premium domain names LiveApp.com plus LiveApps.com both being available for purchase, located here: About Domain Broker and Live App domains for sale .

A good article about domain brokers was recently published in Elliotsblog.com in which Elliot lists domain name brokers. I know several of the same domainers/brokers and can suggest the following domain brokers, which Elliot listed in his post:

• BigTicketDomains.com – Kevin Leto
• DifferentInvestments.com – Justin Godfrey
• DomainBroker.com – Rob Sequin
• DomainsForMedia.com – Eric Rice
• MediaOptions.com – Andrew Roesner
• NameConnect.com – John Daly

By the way, Webtrading also offers a domain brokerage service (mosty for our own websites but the brokerage service can also be used to buy domains belonging to other parties), which you can learn more about by clicking-on the image below. In addition, any comments you may have about selling domains and websites, or regarding domain brokers will be appreciated.

Domain Name News & Domain Blog Aggregator

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By visiting DomainingRoulette.com you can quickly view and read the most current headlines and blog articles. As far as we know, DomainingRoulette.com is the only domain name blog and news aggregator without any advertising on its pages. That way the visitor experience is a good one and is unblurred by distracting or confusing marketing and advertising.

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Eyebrow Serums Help Women with Beauty Issues

Women are very concerned about their eyebrows, eyelashes and facial wrinkles, including crows-feet. As a result women of all ages are looking for good eye serums and in particular for eyebrow serums and other beauty and anti-wrinkle products. Our new eyebrow serum web site can help with these important skin and beauty issues.

A number of women who care a lot about having beautiful skin and a younger overall look seem to neglect the eyebrows and eyelids, instead concentrating attention on skin and face smoothing, dark spots, wrinkles, face contouring, skin sag, sagging face and discolored skin areas seen near sometimes puffy looking eyes.

These women also tend toward using eyelash growth serum, which continuing use can sometimes make women look older vs their real age, instead it’s best if they use quality eye creams based on their most important treatment areas. Eyebrow creams, botanical oils, eye serum, skin lotion and skin gels can also improve the health and appearance of their eye areas, eyebrows and wrinkles.

For more information about eyebrow and facial beauty, please visit EyebrowSerum.com or click-on the picture below…

Easily Bruised Skin Causes & Treatment Options

Skin changes and bruising are among the most visible signs of aging. Other evidence of increasing age includes face sagging skin and unwanted (especially by women) easily noticeable dark skin spots and facial wrinkles. Skin changes over the years are closely related to genetics, environment, nutrition and other factors.

The most significant factor for skin damage and easy bruising is sun exposure (with aspirin and blood thinners also being major contributing factors). This can be seen by comparing areas of your body that have regular sun exposure with areas that are protected from sunlight. Natural pigments provide some protection against sun-caused skin damage, with blue-eyed, blond or red headed, and fair-skinned people show more skin changes and skin damage vs people with darker, more heavily pigmented skin.

Changes in the skin tissues reduce the skin’s strength and skin elasticity, which is much more obvious in a body’s sun exposed areas. Skin elastosis causes leathery, weather-beaten skin appearance common to construction workers, farmers, sailors, and others who spend lots of time outdoors.

Blood vessels near the skins surface may become fragile, which leads to skin bruising, which is basically a result of bleeding under the skin. Glands make less oil as you age. Men experience a comparative minor decrease in oil and mostly after age 80. However, women gradually produce less oil beginning at a much younger age, usually by their late 40′s or early 50s). Reduced natural oils can make it harder to keep the skin moist, resulting in dry skin and itchiness.

For more information about skin health and easily bruised skin. please visit EasilyBruised.com or click-on the picture below…

About Green Couches & Ancient Sea Creatures

There are a couple things we have been wondering about regarding both ancient sea creatures and green couches so I posted this on a third partiy site but it was immediatey automatically rejected by the blog as being spam (which it is not) so am posting it here since some readers may find it interesting.

Since at the time we were in the process of purchasing the domain name GreenCouches.com we were doing research about green couches so this was mainly about “Green Couches” which were discussed on that web site.

We asked if the term green couches refers to both the color of the couch and in addition, it being manufactured from non-toxic materials? Also, can a non-toxic couch be called a “green couch” if it’s a different color such as tan or brown for example, or is it usually in-fact green in color?

Another subject of interest is wanting to learn about is what was unique about that website as far as the design goes since it was said the site is somehow similar to ancient sea creatures which have spiral shapes? That was regarding the interesting sea creature picture and the statement: “a fossil of ammonite, an extinct ancient sea creature, which is often used as an “index fossil” to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.

How does a website possibly embody the basic shape of the spiral, a growth pattern used throughout nature because it allows the organism to grow at a constant rate without having to change shape (as does the structure upon which this that site was built)?

Do any readers of DavidGreen.com blog have any thoughts about how the spiral natural shape of the ancient sea creature fossils (pictured below) could somehow be related to making good websites?

Green Couches & Eco-Friendly Furniture: 7-11-10

Today is July 11, 2010, or 7-11-10 which is an extremely lucky date what with the 7-11 good luck aspect, combined with the year ending in 10 and 10 considered to be the best possible natural number.

To celebrate 7-11-10 we have made a new website about green couches, green chairs and other green furniture and home furnishings, which are not necessarily always green in color. A green couch and other green furniture is also environmentally friendly, green friendly, eco-friendly and nature friendly. Buying green-friendly home products helps the planet and also promotes the use of green sources of energy.

Green-friendly and eco-friendly home furnishings may be a green color but can also be done in other colors in addition to green, and preferably made from green-friendly and non-toxic furniture manufacturing methods.

GreenCouches.com would greatly appreciate any relevant feedback or comments you may have about green couches, green chairs or any other green-friendly home products which we could also add to the website since we are looking for green home products and green freindly furniture opinions to expand the new site, which you can visit by going to GreenCouches.com now by clicking the picture below:

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