So the most exciting thing to mention this week is that google wrote to me to tell me that I needed to verify my google adsense account and they would pay me the grand sum of $54.06. Whats more every month I will now recieve a payment from google - exciting stuff! It's great to think a business worth many billions of pounds is paying me! So of course I will need to do something grand with this money (about £20 in sterling) realistically it will probably go on beer, however I will have a think and see if I can get something a bit more symbolic.......any ideas appreciated - maybe another name :)
I also have some major news to report about my domain name purchases for this week..........................wait for it..........................wait......................this week I bought.............NOTHING! Yes probably the first week ever that I have not bought a domain name, so does this mean that I am scaling back operations or giving up?! Well no I thought it would be good to sit back and take stock of my portfolio. I am also getting frustrated that my first 3/4 names that I bought seem to be my cash cows, and constantly get traffic however many of my newer names do not seem to be featuring yet, depsite content and submitting them to search engines - so I am going to have to scratch my head about this a bit.
A quick mention of the activity on the domain name markets, well last week a site called IReport.com was sold to CNN for $750,000 dollars, some of the other interesting sales recorded included Chefuniforms.com for $65,000. And Featuring.com solf for $15,000 dollars (who pays that for chef uniforms??). So activity seems to remain high despite the credit crunch hitting the biggest market (the US).
Finally I wanted to mention two forums I have been using to learn more, and get appraisals these are NamePros.com and domainstate.com great ways to learn about the market, and find out if you are doing things right of wrong. Now can someone go feed my fish on IpodSongs.co.uk - Thanks
Oh one last mention, it seems that loads of people have been adding the BuytheMap blog to their favourites list (I can spy on this) and every week the blog is getting more and more popular - a bit of self promotion never hurt anyone!
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