BuyDomains first SEO webinar is back by popular demand.  If you missed it the first time around be sure you reserve a spot for the November 19th re-broadcast.

Please join us on November 19th for “SEO for Small Businesses.” We will also have a guest speaker, NameMedia’s own SEO Expert Christine Smith, who will give an in depth look at how everyday business owners and operators can improve their Search Engine Optimization.

There are many SEO tactics that can be used to ensure your site is successfully crawled, indexed, and positioned in the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. However, SEO strategies evolve with the technologies used to render web sites and certain fundamentals remain constant.
In this 30-minute interactive presentation you’ll learn:

∙ The relevancy and importance of targeting the right keywords
∙ Why page titles and meta data matter
∙ H-1 headers tags
∙ Domain & URL structure advice and tips
∙ Internal & External linking
∙ How Webmaster Tools can help your site
∙ Robots.txt file, sitemaps, 404 Error pages and beyond
∙ Tips on site structure for local search
∙ The importance of directory listings
∙ Content, content, content!

At the end of the session, you’ll have the opportunity to have your specific questions answered.
This event is free, but pre-registration is required. Sign up now.

*To show our appreciation – we are giving away 10 copies of “Advertise, Promote, and Market Your Business or Web Site” to 10 lucky attendees! Winners will be selected randomly from the actual attendee list at the end of the webinar and will be notified by email.

https://buydomains.webex.com/buydomains/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=661335294

We’ve posted before about the importance of pricing your listed names and responding quickly to offers on your unpriced domains. Proactively pricing your domains increases the likelihood they will sell.

Here’s one more reason why:

Investors constantly ask our sales team for lists of our best names. For example, sales might be asked for a list of our best Geo domains or our best domains that include a certain keyword or are about a theme or category (e.g. : “send me a list of your best real estate names”)

We want to include as many Expanded Promotion names as possible! Pricing your names helps us do just that. Why? Consider that we may send a list of over 1,000 domains. Expanded Promotion domains will be included. But in order to negotiate a price with the buyer, we need to know your Asking Price and Floor Price. This sets the parameters with which our sales team can include your domains in our larger sales.

Again, we’ll include the best names in the lists we show to buyers, regardless of whether they’re priced or not. But pricing increases the likelihood that it will ultimately be a part of the final sale. Consider a list which includes 500 Expanded Promotion domains. For each of the unpriced domains, we need to contact the seller and wait for pricing. Deals often move faster than we can wait for everyone’s pricing.

Don’t get overwhelmed by the task of pricing ALL of your names at once. Tackle it in manageable chunks. Start with your best listed names. Call your sales executive if you need help.

But get started in order to take advantage of this unique opportunity that only AfternicDLS Expanded Promotion can create for you.

Contact Jason Miner, VP of Sales, for more information about the advantages of listing your domains as Expanded Promotion on AfternicDLS. 781-839-2841 or jminer (a) namemedia.com

Definitions of the AfternicDLS pricing options can be found on our Add Listing Page by clicking “What is This?” underneath each option

This past Sunday, LeBron James could not get past Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics in the playoffs. But can he get past Michael Jordan? It’s a jump ball, because 23.com is available for purchase exclusively on Afternic. Who’s going to grab it?

While LeBron famously sports 23 as one the top basketball players in the world today, Jordan of course revolutionized basketball and sports marketing during his heyday as the most famous 23 of all.

Soccer player and fellow pitchman extraordinaire David Beckham could be in on the action. He’s worn #23 for both Real Madrid and for the L.A. Galaxy.

These are the three most famous “23”s, but there have been many sports stars who wore 23. Ryne Sandberg, the great second baseman, patrolled Wrigley Field in 23. Don Mattingly became “Mr. Yankee” in the 1980’s with number 23.

The number has historical significance before the 1980’s – way before. Psalm 23 is considered to be the most widely read psalm. You can even geek out to 23 – according to Wikipedia : “23 is the TCP/IP port used for telnet and is the default for the telnet command.”

According to NameBio and DNJournal, there have already been two high profile number domain sales this year. 770.com and 173.com both sold for more than $300,000. This will be the third.

Call Jason Miner today to discuss this rare opportunity. Call him at 781-839-2841 or email him at jminer (a) namemedia.com

Other high value names exclusively available on Afternic right now:

Color.com – http://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=color.com
Ticket.com – http://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=ticket.com
N1.com – http://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=N1.com
V9.com – http://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=V9.com
Fantasmas.com – (Spanish for ghost) – http://www.afternic.com/name.php?domain=Fantasmas.com

Noms de domaine à vendre sur sedo :

allobonus.com

jesuisfashion.com

legrandbetisier.com

lesrelous.com

madamefree.com

makingphone.com

mondialvip.com

ruesex.com

ruesexe.com

vousetesfree.com

Throughout March, Afternic & BuyDomains customers will have the opportunity to participate in a unique promotion, featuring one-word domain names never before offered.

For the month of March only, premium one word names will be offered at prices that will not be available as of April 1.

March Madness Specials launching today are:

1. DECIDE.COM. Own the single best Election Coverage or Comparison Shopping domain name in the world. Available exclusively through AfternicDLS and BuyDomains for $500,000
2. BLOOM.COM. Spring into action with Bloom.com. Uses for this name include flowers, plants or any “blooming” online business. Available exclusively through AfternicDLS and BuyDomains for $750,000

Be sure to check back here regularly, as more names will be added every few days until March 31st.

Interested buyers may contact Jason Miner at:

jminer (at) buydomains.com or 781 839 2841

Viva March Madness!

Pete Lamson
SVP & GM
NameMedia Marketplace Businesses

BuyDomains has recently acquired many new private portfolios consisting of tens of thousands of domain names. We’d like to celebrate the 29 days of February and an introduction to these new private portfolios with special incentives on these new domain names.

Call today to find out more:

1-866-277-3420 (Toll Free in the U.S.)
1-781-839-7997 (Worldwide)

BuyDomains.com is featured prominently in this video report on CNN Money via Fortune magazine about the domain name industry, specifically about selling domain names to businesses:

Shameless plug : this is just one more reason why you should select Expanded Promotion on your AfternicDLS listed domains for sale. All Expanded Promotion domains are listed on BuyDomains.com, which is NameMedia’s domain marketplace targeted to end-users. And by listing them on BuyDomains.com via Expanded Promotion, our industry-leading sales team will be selling for you.

More information can be found here or call us at (866) 284-4125 or (781) 839-7999

NameMedia is proud to offer Tune.com for sale on Afternic.

This short, memorable one-word domain will be a sterling addition to a savvy investor’s portfolio. At an asking price of $900,000, it is a great investment for development, parking, or resale.

Bid on this domain today on Afternic. Or you can purchase it immediately on BuyDomains.

Please call Jason Miner, VP Sales at (781) 839-2841 or at jminer (at) namemedia.com to inquire about tune.com or any of our other 2,000,000 domains listed on Afternic and BuyDomains.

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”
-Will Rogers

From time to time, we will post best practices for selling your domains on AfternicDLS. This post is about how you can increase sales by pricing your domains quickly in response to offers.

Every good sales person will tell you that the “warmer” the lead, the better. A lead starts getting “cold” immediately – just like a new car depreciates rapidly once you drive it off the dealer’s lot.

Responding quickly to offers demonstrates that you are serious and trustworthy. It also prevents the customer from finding alternative domains. In short, you interact with the customer when they are the most receptive to you.

Our sales team, which sells more premium domains than anyone in the world, always communicates with interested customers as soon as they possibly can. Take a look at BuyDomains.com to see this in action. We recently added “Live Chat” buttons to allow customers to instantly chat with our sales team. This is in addition to our toll-free phone numbers and price request form. And that’s why we put our phone numbers in Expanded Promotion listings on Afternic, too.

Your unpriced Expanded Promotion domains will be listed on BuyDomains as “Request Price”. This means that a BuyDomains customer – very likely to be an end-user who will pay a premium for the domain – submits a lead to your assigned sales executive either online or by phone. We then send you a request to price the domain via email.

Respond to these offers quickly! Treat a lead from BuyDomains just as you would an offer or private message on Afternic. The longer you take to price your domain, the less interest a customer will have. Even if you price the domain at a premium because you are inclined to hold on it, you should still price it quickly. This establishes credibility in the mind of the customer and engages them.

Purchase an appraisal if you need pricing help. We can expedite your appraisal if you have an offer waiting.

Call your sales executive if you have questions. We are here to help you monetize your domains.

Special offer on BuyDomains ONLY

Mention oct15offer07 by 10/31 and save! Phone only; previous orders excluded, one-word and brokered names excluded. Call 866-846-5099 (US) or 781-839-7901 (worldwide).

Three recent site enhancements to highlight:

1. Afternic.com – our new home page now includes a link to our Recent Sales. It’s directly under the “Sell Your Domains” button. Many customers asked us to include this on our home page again.

2. BuyDomains.com – you can now chat live directly with our team of domain experts from the BuyDomains home page and search results. This will allow you to IMMEDIATELY contact us with any questions about domains of interest. And as always, we also continue to be available by phone.

And don’t forget to set domain alerts to keep track of new domains of interest that come into our inventory. Just like Google Alerts.

BuyDomains : http://www.buydomains.com/alerts/alerts-manager.jsp

Afternic : https://www.afternic.com/watch.php

Dear Members,

It is with mixed emotions that I announce I am stepping down as GM of Afternic.com. Watching over this franchise from December, 2002 until now has been the best job I’ve ever had. However, I want to take a break, and I know that Afternic will continue to thrive under the incredible management team already in place.

Our members are already benefiting from NameMedia integration synergies: AfternicDLS + integration with the BuyDomains sales force, improved User Interface, and enhanced Appraisals are positive steps we have taken together in 2007.

Who would have thought we would see the day where Afternic Expanded Promotion names would be listed on Moniker?

And I’ll let you in on a secret: even bigger benefits are planned in the coming months, so keep your eyes open! I will miss being a part of the team launching the exciting new functionality planned for coming months—though I know I’ll benefit as an active AfternicDLS member.

I will also miss the Afternic team. I hope that I’ll be able to work with a team as talented, hard working, and friendly again someday.

Afternic members: you are the power users of the Internet and it has been a pleasure serving you. You gave Afternic a second chance in 2003 and have been loyal supporters of a thriving enterprise ever since. Thank you.

If you ever need any assistance, please feel free to reach out to our amazing customer service team via any of the normal channels (including the DiscussNames.com forum), or David Hauser at dhauser (at) namemedia.com

I look forward to watching Afternic continue to thrive and grow, and will continue participating as an enthusiastic member.

I will see you soon on the Discuss Names Forum!

Very best regards,
Roger Collins
GM
Afternic.com

Welcome to the AfternicDLS Blog. We hope this is the start of many great conversations.

Why did we start this blog? To better help our community use Afternic, our domain listing service AfternicDLS, BuyDomains, and the entire family of NameMedia properties. Many of our members had requested more frequent updates from us. And we hope to learn more about how to help you buy, sell, and park domains.

NameMedia had already achieved great success selling domains, primarily to small businesses, through BuyDomains.com, when Afternic joined the NameMedia family as 2006 drew to a close. We hoped to add this unique marketing prowess to Afternic and we launched AfternicDLS with this in mind. If you are already a member, you know that you can choose to promote your domains on Afternic’s distribution partners, including BuyDomains.com, by selecting “Expanded Promotion” on any of your listed domains. We’ve been very happy with the results – we recently found that Expanded Promotion domains are 10 times as likely to sell.

What does the future hold? We plan to add tons to AfternicDLS in the coming year. We are working on new ways to enable sellers to market their domains to large audiences of buyers. We’re also working on new portfolio management tools to make it easier to price, list, park and sell domains.

We’ll post announcements whenever we roll out a new enhancement. This blog will serve as a complement, not a replacement, to the rich conversations found in DiscussNames.com, our forum.

Looking forward to a fantastic close of the year and to an equally prosperous 2008!