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  • nam.es 15:49 on February 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , domainfest, pearlearrings, sold   

    PearlEarrings.com sale finalized 

    Today I finally received my $42,500 for PearlEarrings.com that was sold during domainfest live auction.

    I wish new owner good luck with it, I consider it a good investment. As it is a popular jewelry product, fees from referral sales are pretty high and it is a decent search volume as well.

    I was surprised mensjewelry.com didn’t sell at it’s low xxx,xxx reserve though. Since it’s ~1,000,000 combined exact search volume for [men's jewelry] and [mens jewelry]. That’s a lot. And it converts really well even with the low amount of traffic it is getting now, since SEO didn’t pump in it yet.

    The one thing is a fact. People are starting to pay high money for domains that can earn money(besides stupid parking type-ins).

     

    • Francois 16:30 on February 22, 2010 Permalink

      Nice sale, congrats Algis.
      You have talent to locate names having a strong sell interest.
      Continue that way.

    • Chef Patrick 18:34 on February 22, 2010 Permalink

      Congrats on your sale Algis. You’re doing an awesome job!

  • nam.es 14:05 on February 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: advices, questions, upcoming videos   

    Need some REAL information and advice? Ask now! 

    Hey friends, since the last video in June 2009 I received TONS of emails(no shit). And people had many questions regarding different aspects of domaining, development, sales, negotiations, how to buy a domain from non-domainer, etc. etc.

    So what I come up with is this. Post a comment under this thread including the subject that you are interested in. And I will group them up in videos and will give you answers based on my expertise.

    Sounds good? Fair offer for you, free advices are never bad. ;-)

     

  • nam.es 23:27 on February 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: domain forum, domainboardroom.com   

    Nice private domain forum, people inside are friendly. Really. 

    If you are a bit more into domaining then just a noobie – check out this private forum: DomainBoardroom

     

  • nam.es 23:16 on February 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: layout change, small update, text   

    Changing the layout. More news to come. 

    Considering that most of the time I don’t have 60+ minutes to tell about something. I decided to change the blog layout. So I can have fresh content a bit more frequently.

    That doesn’t mean that videos are not coming though. I will try to get new video up and running soon. Have few important things to share.

    Stay tuned. ;-)

     

  • nam.es 22:50 on June 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: development, domain, mass development   

    Video 5 – Domain development 

    What is the meaning of domain development? I am sharing my thoughts on what development really is and what you need to avoid when you start thinking about domain development. Don’t forget to follow me on twitter!

     

    • Perelman 11:10 on July 6, 2009 Permalink

      The post is right and good, but seems like nobody understood it – there are no comments :)

    • Amateur 15:27 on July 17, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks for posts. Can you tell us where I can sell domain http://www.afsas.com – African SAS? And how many this domain can cost?

    • wones 16:09 on July 24, 2009 Permalink

      Great video blog!

  • nam.es 19:19 on June 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: idns, international domain names, opinion, video   

    Video 4 – International domain names 

    Today you will hear my opinion on International domain names(IDNs). More appraisal tips are coming later this week I think. Purchased HardDrives.com yesterday. :-)

     

    • Bruce 20:07 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Algis,

      It’s sanbio from Bido.com chat. Want to see a list of my names? email me at domains@dnaffiliates.com

    • Walt 20:44 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Good videos and congrats on your purchase of HardDrives.com. Do you share the how much you bought it for? :-)

    • tee1 23:40 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Awesome that you recommend buying idn.fr. where I can register hôtel.fr?

    • nam.es 23:55 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      idn.fr, idn.ru and many others that actually make sense are not available for registration. What I meant when I said about .fr is that they would actually make sense. Local language IDN .cctld of same country.

    • Phio 00:15 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Hi,

      I’m not going to try to convince you that IDNs are going to be the next great thing to hit the internet. Perhaps Google’s Wave is or some new kind of facebook. I do think that IDNs will be big in the next few years based on my own research. What I am finding now is that End-Users are beginning to be interested in IDNs, not just domainers. I recently completed a sale of a Middle Eastern IDN which I am very happy about. We have seen IDNs move up to another level in the past 2 months. This is evident based on the number of IDNs being registered in their ‘home’ countries. Also, Google, Yandex, Baidu etc statistics are showing that many keyword and GEO searches are doubling within the year, and that people are searching extensively in their native tongues. These are not typos…users generally know what they are searching for.

      Also, the number of English speakers using the internet and the number of non-English speakers using the internet is about equal at this time (2009) Within a year or so the non-English speakers will surpass the English speakers by many millions. In fact, Chinese Internet users passed up American usage in 2008.

      That being said, IDNs do have a ways to go for many languages. Each language is different as you mentioned, and IDN.de is a great investment. Really it all depends on the language.

      Phio
      ps. you can click on my name to see an Arabic IDN minisite. =)

    • nam.es 09:43 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Hi Phio,

      see the main idea is not to tell people that LOCAL searches do not exist. It is to make their heads understand that owning russian IDN .com doesn’t mean ANY significant advantage over any other extension. IDN.ru could be great, IDN.IDN will be good. ruIDN.com – nope. It is just the attitude of Russian people and their habbits. They don’t need it and they don’t use it. Look at wordstat.yandex.ru and find any huge keywords with .com next to them. Now do the same with .ru, and now do the same with .ru in russian language. You can clearly see .com is nowhere near. And the fact that you have IDN .com will not help you to get quick into yandex top1 for your keywords. This is facts.

      I have nothing about investing in IDNs, I just want people to actually put some thought in it. It was like 5 years or more since Russian IDN .com’s – so where is it? :-)

    • Perelman 10:53 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Could you share how much you paid for harddrives.com?

    • Phio 11:12 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Yes I agree IDN.ru would be great, and if it were not for .ru, I wouldn’t be able to reg Russian IDNs with as much certainty. Although I do make mistakes because I wasn’t born in Russia.
      There was a guy on another forum about a year ago who was saying the same thing you are saying…at the same time he was regging ruIDN.com ’s like crazy. Luckily I just kept on regging what I could. His being a Russian native definately has it’s advantages when it comes to registering IDNs. And when IDN.IDN does come for Russia, it will be fantastic.
      As far as Yandex goes. I submitted an IDN a few months back, and it was indexed in a couple of days, just looked for it but can’t remember, so I just submitted смайлик.com to Yandex, so maybe we can check back in a week. http://Xn–80aqcfdd8a.com

      Anyways, luckily we all have our own niche and it keeps the world turning.

      Phio

    • nam.es 11:17 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Phio,

      I did not say they will not be indexed. I said they will not be given any priority. Which renders owning ruIDN.com giving no advantage over owning any other ruIDN.cctld – that is my opinion.

      Also please don’t forget this is just my opinion. I don’t want to start a holywar.

      What I am saying is:
      1) if you go IDN, go local CCTLD or IDN.IDN
      2) do not spend much for names like IDN.com
      3) be sure to learn market and language difference, since be can be significantly different from what you get used to with other domains and extensions. e.g. the fact that .com rules the world doesn’t mean .com rules ruIDN. and so on.
      4) do what you think is right. you could be right after all or not. :-)

    • Phio 11:51 on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      :-) Yeah, the last conversation I had like this I ended up owing Pizza and beer!

    • Bill 14:59 on June 13, 2009 Permalink

      There are a LOT of Russian speakers, and local Russian addresses showing in the who.is for Russian idn.com and idn.net. It is speculated that there will be much politics and government control in awarding many idn.idn, and most certainly many names (especially City and various geo domains will be blocked for government use like has happened with .cn and .jp) making .com the main choice to build a site on. That is why idn Moscow.com is so valuable.

      It is also in the works that .com will become .com (idn) if you are familiar with Verisign proposal for DNAME (or some variant of aliasing). Most people will agree that idn.cctld are good choices, but many (especially Chinese domainers) will tell you very strongly that they believe idn.com will be “king” for idn domains in their language. As big as the internet is in Russia, I think that idn.ком will find a nice niche, especially with browsers that default to .com for type ins. JMO.

    • nam.es 17:12 on June 14, 2009 Permalink

      Bill, I don’t know much about chinaIDN.com – I never said my opinion on it. I just expressed my opinion on ruIDN.com that makes no sense, especially at ridiculously high prices.

    • hsnv 20:54 on June 18, 2009 Permalink

      that’s true

  • nam.es 01:27 on June 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , traffic amsterdam   

    Video 3 – Traffic Amsterdam opinion 

    Today I decided to share my opinion on 10k+ sales from Traffic Amsterdam. Probably nothing fresh and new for the crowd. More reviews coming soon in next videos on names, don’t miss them! And don’t be shy to comment.

     

    • Jan 14:26 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you for your review of the auctions in Amsterdam.

    • Brian 22:49 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Can it have a simple point form note which can let users follow your idea more easy?

    • Chrisjr 23:51 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Great start on your video blog. I am American but enjoy your perspective as a non US investor. Looking forward to the next one!

    • Play 00:28 on June 8, 2009 Permalink

      Nice name for a blog; nam.es

    • Soji 18:44 on June 9, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks for your help, not many will offer such help. Am very grateful. Please keep it up and remember we are still wait for part 2 of the domain appraisal tips

  • nam.es 12:35 on June 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: domain appraisal,   

    Video 2 – Appraisal (part 1) 

    Today I will explain few things about my appraisal methods. Talking about my 4 grades of appraisals on domain names. 1) exact searches(both local and global) and value ratios, 2) size of domain(amount of keywords), 3) brandability and 4) extension. More information coming soon in next videos on names, don’t miss them! And don’t be shy to comment.

     

    • Jan 14:40 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you for your advices. Very usefull

    • Mike Reinhart 20:34 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Would you have any interest in purchasing this domain name Skydiamond.com?

    • nam.es 20:37 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Mike, no thank you. I am only interested in exact keyword domain names that have at least 5,000 exact searches in google.com

    • Perelman 12:23 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Are you interested in .com only? Or .net and .org as well?

    • nam.es 12:49 on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Perelman,

      99% .com’s – sometimes I do exceptions, but in a very rare manner.

      + I do not believe in .net’s future at all.

    • Mike Reinhart 14:05 on June 16, 2009 Permalink

      Strange you feel that way about .net I have a lot of .nets that are making over 4K a month

    • nam.es 14:34 on June 16, 2009 Permalink

      Mike, in video I did mention generic’s .net and that I feel price on generic’s .net is not going up for some. Not that .net can not bring revenue. :-)

    • Dietmar Stefitz 01:32 on July 22, 2009 Permalink

      Congratulation to your nice VideoBlog!

      I am surely following you in the future.

    • Vishal 20:21 on September 15, 2009 Permalink

      Hi,

      Your blog is just wonderful for people who are new to domaining like me.
      My domain name pirellimodels.com is very generic according to my knowledge. How much you appraise my domain?

      Thanks

  • nam.es 17:38 on May 31, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , who is nam.es owner   

    Video 1 – The beginning 

    Hello! Finally I decided to create a video blog and spread the word to the world. In this video I will talk about myself. Part of that will include my name, family and work experience. I also reveal a little bit information about what’s coming next. Enjoy names video blog and feel free to comment!

     

    • hsnv 01:55 on June 3, 2009 Permalink

      Nice start, keep so… :)

    • Brian 12:36 on June 5, 2009 Permalink

      Good site! go ahead ;)

    • algis 16:15 on June 6, 2009 Permalink

      Thank you.

    • John 03:39 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      Hi,
      just found your blog…looking forward to watching your upcoming videos.

      btw…I like the wordpress themes you use on Islandvacations & PearlEarings. Did you create them yourself? Or are these templates – if so, mind sharing where you found them?

      cheers
      John

    • IrishDomainer 15:50 on June 7, 2009 Permalink

      I like the no bullshit approach mate.. and great to see a non US domainer speaking from experience. I will be watching with keen interest. Keep up the good work.

    • Reece Berg 23:36 on June 15, 2009 Permalink

      I just got around to checking out your video blog — great first video! I have to agree with IrishDomainer — it’s a welcomed change and it’s nice to see more people video blogging. Now if I had 1/2 the skill behind the camera you do, I’d make one too.

      Wishing you all the best and looking forward to checking out the other videos :)

    • Andrew Laws 00:01 on July 8, 2009 Permalink

      Great job, I really appreciate the time you’ve put into this to help out domainers. I’ll check back frequently.

    • Brad Pit 18:11 on December 18, 2009 Permalink

      Great Job. Just Go Ahead.

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