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So what’s out there in domain land that is dropping today?

• imadden.com - No Google data to report, but Madden is big.  Watch out for the TM.
• toyotas.org - Toyota fan site.
• campgood.com - 1.5 vol, .89 ACPC, 2.39 max CPC, 4 - 8 CPD
• easytoss.com - .5 vol, .96 ACPC, 1.65 MCPC, 0 CPD
• verranda.com - 1.5 vol, .63 ACPC, 1.38 MCPC, 3 - 4 CPD
• colorglue.com - 1 vol, 1.29 ACPC, 3.73 MCPC, 1 CPD
• shirtmail.com - 1 vol, .61 ACPC, 1.28 MCPC, 1 - 3 CPD

VOL - Google’s volume estimate
ACPC - Avergage cost per click
MCPC - Max cost per click
CPD - Clicks per day
TM - Trademark

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Man oh man, my Google Reader is quiet. Well, the problem is specifically with my Domaining folder.

Mr. Frank Schilling is on vacation and I am not sure I like it. I am going to have to count on Adam, Jay, Sahar, Ron, Frank, and Elliot to pick up the slack and help me get through this mess.

Frank, I miss you already man. Have a great vacation. I’ll read you when you get back.

In the meantime, check out Ron Jackson’s story on Frank over at DNJournal.

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OK, I admit it. I am a direct navigator. I’m one of the people that the domaining industry loves to serve. Heck, that’s one of the reasons I know this game works. If I do it, then there must be others.

Well the point in me telling you any of this is because I was trying to go to DNForum tonight and was clearly unsuccessful on my first attempt. I typed dnforums in the URL bar and then hit CTRL + Enter (that fills in the http://www. and .com for those of you who don’t know). I was then presented with a parked domain owned by Adam Dicker. Adam appears to have figured out the domain game and he is playing it against one of our own.

Now I don’t know how much traffic Adam is pulling down from this endeavor, but I welcome Adam’s comments if he is so inclined to give them. I’m guessing he is going to keep that little number to himself. Anyway, for those of you who want to see some of this stuff in action just take a look at Adam’s site. The rest of you should head on over to DNForum like me.

Here’s a link for those of you who prefer to keep your fingers on your mouse.

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Wow!  I just looked through 10+ pages of domain name listings on eBay and only found a couple names that were worth owning and at the same time reasonably priced.

Take a look at these eBay listings yourself.

I guess it is like anything; you have to put in the time and effort to find the diamonds in the rough.  Let me tell you though, it is rough over there on eBay.

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I have a slight beef to pick with NameJet, so I thought I would go ahead and air my grievance here.

I tried backordering newyorkburgers.com before I took off for lunch because it was dropping today.  I got it in my backorder queue, locked my machine, and headed off for a Kansas City burger and fries (oh the irony). 

When I got back from lunch I expected to see one of two things.  One, I was the proud new owner of newyorkburgers.com.  Two, I was now a participant in an auction for newyorkburgers.com.  To my surprise I found out that neither of the two scenarios came true.  What’s up with that?

Does anyone out there in the domain world know what went wrong?  This same thing happened with NameJet last month and I am getting a little frustrated. 

Is NameJet not catching the drop? 

Am I missing something with the NameJet service?

I never have these problems with SnapNames. 

Update: It turns out I jumped the gun a little.  The name was picked up by NameJet and I am now in on an auction.  My apologies to NameJet for my lack of patience.  I just don’t like to be left wondering.

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I know it is too late now for this list, but here it is anyway.  It is a random selection of what was available on NameJet.  You will see it is heavy with “a” terms.  I jumped around the rest of the list due to time constraints.  Here you go.

• 1800guns.com
• affluentcouples.com
• alienrecovery.com
• amateurbloggers.com
• americancribs.com
• americansportfisher.com
• anyfarm.com
• applejuic.com
• arkansasloanrates.com
• athleticinstinct.com
• autocaddevelopers.com
• newyorkburgers.com - I tried to get this one, but NameJet screwed up the drop.  Not sure what the problem is, but I didn’t win the name and I am not part of an auction.  Hmmm…
• tomsbait.com - There are several Tom’s Bait shops around the country.  Buy the name and call a Tom.
• twowayroad.com
• usd357.com

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I read on Marketing Pilgrim that Google will be resetting a domain name’s built up equity within the search engine rankings when a domain name expires.  This is an attempt to keep SEOs and domainers from gaming their ranking system by picking up valuable deleting domains.

My take is that just grabbing a domain for existing equity is a short-term play.  You knew they are going to downgrade these types of sites eventually and now they have come out and admitted it.  The good news is that now you can go back to focusing on good generic names that are dropping and you can disregard random names that offer little or no type-in probability.

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