While less popular with dot tv domains, the practice of domain name drop catching is becoming very popular.

You might have seen yesterday’s story about Google’s actions to prevent domainers from exploiting its Google Adsense program (domain tasting).

Well, today, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced the release of a study concerning the practice of a few domainers called drop-catching. 

According to the study, “CADNA’s study, which tracked 17,000 randomly selected Dot-ORG, Dot-COM and Dot-NET domain names after their scheduled expiration on September 18th, 2007, found that 100% of the Dot-COM and Dot-NET domains were…

I am fascinated by the sheer amount of knowledge required to buy a domain, to setup and host that domain on its own dedicated server, to build and host a website, to generate content that draws traffic from search engines, and to produce a monthly income stream with that domain and website.  If you thought that was all you needed to know to be successful and make a decent amount of money, then you are dead wrong.

You might be able to eek out a couple bucks a day at best, but smarter Internet dogs are feeding on the bulk of traffic related to your strongest keywords and enjoying the free revenue that comes from every last visitor sent from from search engines at no cost. 

If you want to leverage the playing field and start eating the lunch of your .com competitors instead of letting them eat your lunch, then you should become a student of SEO to attract the largest stream of free search engine traffic to your .tv site (or your domain from another extension)…

Bodis is on the verge of losing my business since the company cannot seem to get its act together with respect to those honest domainers using their system.  Bodis took the parking industry by storm by being the first to market a 100% revenue share parking program that most domainers with a decent portfolio could belong to.

Bodis was the first to do this and initial reports from domainers were very positive (including my own).  But like all good things that must come to an end, Bodis has as well…

When I left a career that virtually guaranteed my future on June 2nd, 2006, my friends, colleagues, and family thought I was crazy to jump ship, giving up my current income, to pursue something risky, unproven, and requiring lots of labor and capital.  My partner and I had started the company a full 9 months before I left that career to put all my effort and hard work into a company that was expected to generate income for my pockets not some guy I worked for.  The wrinkle was that the company was not currently profitable, required more capital infusions from us, and LACKED A WRITTEN BUSINESS PLAN…

You will have to click to READ ON to read this entry because I wanted to preface the entry with this message:

If you think you own a domain name particularly suited to a niche market, then please contact me AFTER you have read the blog entry on the next page.  I have a unique opportunity I would like to share with you if your domain name meets that criteria and you are interested in developing that name.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Isn’t .tv well suited for this purpose if we are talking about Internet video? 

Estibot.com, a site that values your domain based on 30+ characteristics of the domain name.  The valuation is based on comparing those characteristics with a database of previously reported domain sales.  The site clearly acknowledges that an automated valuation tool such as Estibot is never completely reliable, but that one should use the site as a starting point for researching and evaluating domain names…

Is Bob seeking to associate GoDaddy with the .tv extension?

Bob initially slashed the price of .tv domain names to $19.99 per year, a price seen only once before when eNom sought to increase the number of .tv registrations (eNom’s parent company is Demand Media, which is responsible for the marketing of the .tv extension and Channelme.tv).  As I reported yesterday…

According to Richard Rosenblatt:

Demand Media has sold more than twice as many .tv domains in the last three months than VeriSign sold all of last year.

This is the statement he made at HostingCon 2007, according to thewhire.com.

Richard explained his vision of giving people what they want and bundling it with a .tv domain name: