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Domain Highlighting
At a glance, the most visible change with IE8 is Domain Highlighting. Internet Explorer 8 will automatically highlight what it considers to be the owning domain of whatever site you're currently viewing. This helps users identify the real site they're on when a website attempts to deceive them. The screen shot below shows how IE8's Domain Highlighting can help users spot these attacks:
Quoted from Wikipedia, "In economics, supply and demand describe market relations between prospective sellers and buyers of a good."? This often used financial model name is a powerful thing indeed.
What is it that makes a domain sell and how do we set the price? With my new role in the domain market place, I think about these questions more often than not.
Sometimes I send out one of my Daily Emails and I'll get 10 takers on the same domain. Naturally, I stay true to the cause and sell it to the first person that replied, at the price I put in my email.
Other times I put a name out there and nobody wants it. So, I lower the price. Then I lower it again. Then again. Again. It still doesn't sell. Why? Is it because Aquaphobia.com isn't worth 2800 dollars or just because nobody on my mailing list wants the name. I have to think it is because no one wants to buy it. There is no demand for it.
This was a question posed to me by Jeff Schneider, a fellow domainer and a member of Rick's Board, the other day in response to a post I wrote.
At the time I told him that was a great question deserving of a post to answer.There are of course many reasons why a domainer would sell their names at a TRAFFIC auction or a Domainfest, snapnames.com auction.
These live auction which are a part of domain trade shows are very good venues to liquidate domains and turn them into cash.
These venue sell millions of dollars in domains in just a few hours. The prices achieved at these live auction events have traditional been better than one's at purely online auctions conducted by sedo.com, greatdomains.com, afternic.com and godaddy.com.
We certainly can't speak for all domainers and the multitude of reasons people have for submitting domains into show auctions.
We can only give you our reasons.
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