Featured Auctions in Elmundo

Last week there was much talk of the Spanish domain auction, organized by SEDO and that is taking place these days (ends in 3 days). In this auction I am interested in a couple of domains, we will see as just, and also sell a afiliados.com, domain I bought at an auction for 4 years and have no plans to develop. It is a good domain name ideal for affiliate companies and advertising. The reserve price, as discussed in Elmundo is between 25,000 and 50.000Eur. At the auction there are other big names like descargas.com, gay.es or moviles.net can read about it in this brief interview with EFE in Elmundo

Tags: affiliate , afiliados.com , clipping , domains , Press , auction

With Yago Arbeloa Time Marketing Cope

I leave here the link to listen to the recording of the program last Wednesday Time Marketing of Barcelona Cope in the many of you know that I work every Wednesday, the program is presented by Luca dell'Oro , marketing expert and founder of Consulting and Gina LDO Palau and this time we talk to Yago Arbeloa , Director General of Sync . This time we talk about domain names and Iago, as registrar of ICANN and Red.es gave us his vision. This is a topic that we will get these weeks with the next Congress Domains , with the next auction of domains in Spanish SEDO and sales in recent weeks. Incidentally, if you wish it were any particular subject or to invite someone special to one of these on the air Wednesday, I'd love to know. If so leave me a comment or send me an email and I promise to study, propose and manage SEEMS LIKE THE RECORDING FAILURE COPE HERE I HAVE UPLOADED TB ALTERNATIVELY :

Tags: congress domains , cope , domains , page Palau , marketing hours , luca dell gold , Yago Arbeloa

A Spanish Ad.com sold at 1.4 million dollars

It is one of the big domain name sales year internationally and has already been published, the sale was made in Monikers Traffic Conference in Silicon Valley. The conference sold domains for $ 2 million, 1.4 of which were for Ad.com What many people may not know is that this sale has made ​​a Spanish, Marcos Guillen. And the buyer, although in this case is secondary, Divyank Turakhia CEO of Skenzo a domain parking company. Mark is an entrepreneur of the ICT sector since prehistoric times. Founder of ISP Internet Ran , I remember I met him (possibly not remember reading this and you refresh your memory) back in 1997, I had veitipocos years and had several websites, one with a lot of traffic then a discharge of freeware programs that is still online. For life's coincidences hired a hosting service in Ran Internet . They were only a few months, but I remember him bursting server traffic, and let me offline domain. I called and told them everything and put it reluctantly ... so again and again as the dog and cat. They were only a few months and a very early point around 1997 or 1998. I remember that Mark did not put the phone and I wearied me, I grabbed a taxi and planted to literally "give up the ass" in their offices in a building of the Colon in Madrid. I still remember the face of all freaked the first time that neither wide nor pancho after hanging up the phone and discuss with me planted there and knocked on the door and sat next to the PC in the non-stop drumming. At that time, and fully functioning web-based recruitment and management, and I did not expect that if I caught the phone I literally planted there and chase them grilled. Ah! That time . I think Mark soon realized that I could get, despite my age, to be heavies heavies heavies you customers. In fact at that time did not have many more resources than these, to the boring. Ue ELQ now fights with these things and gives pain in the ass is many years ago Jaume Riutort. The situation obviously hard enough, I find another ISP very quickly and, at last able to rest me, at least a few years until we meet again in the Domain Forum Congress. In those initial years Marcos and some partners had made some good domains (profesionales.com, aparejador.com, fontanero.com etc) and a jewel Ad.com. There are few or no 2-letter domain market, but are much more difficult to see that a ticket 500EUR, but domain name above 2 letters mean something generic like Ad (ad in English) and are science fiction. I think Mark will be a few days in Madrid and have been in chat about various topics, I have wanted to congratulate you personally. This is possibly the most expensive domain name has sold a Spanish. If any other Carlos Blanco , who has a photographic memory for this maybe I can remember. Congratulations Mark.

Tags: ad.com , congress domains , domains , frameworks Guillen , moniker , ran online , traffic

Speaking Expanding Domain

A few days ago the newspaper Expansion published an extensive story on the market for Internet domain names. Titled "Who has a domain has a treasure," Miriam Prieto reviews the market potential domains. To make this comprehensive report more than one page, the author contacted us Yago Arbeloa , Carlos Blanco , Ivan Diaz Street ( SEDO ) and myself. I think they meet several visions of how they are and how things work. Iago says that it has devalued the price of 3-letter domains became worth 6.000Eur and are quoted in half, Carlos estimates that the market has fallen by 30-40%, and I commented that rarely seen in Spain sales of more than 15,000 Eur (of course not mean they do not exist, but are rarer than 1 year). For me the issue of domains is a matter almost of collecting, but it starts to not be a vital priority. Always insist that these interviews our final aim is to develop, but if it ever a good deal and we have no imminent development we sell. In 2009, we have been closing the tap investment and this has been one of the first, but the first to close. In the last 6 months we have invested 88% less than the same period last year and I think I can say we had a better chance of buying and domains that have offered to a value 50-75% lower than asking us makes one year. The situation has all logic, against a backdrop of liquidity needs, prices plummet as even domains for which 1 year 100.000Eur asked today for half that price are not finding buyers, not that not worth, is that money under the mattress is reassuring. A domain does not become a necessary good, quite the contrary a future investment, and in times of need for liquidity is not normal if you start developing for attempting to "place" and reverse investment. At this time, and more than one will agree with what I say, it is quite difficult. From here you can read the online version of the story Expansion

Tags: domains , premium domains , expansion , market domains , Press

Interview Actibva

This is an extensive interview I conducted Alejandro Nieto González , editor of The Blog Salmon to Actibva few days ago. It comes to innovation, investing in domains and projects, entrepreneurs and technology in Spain and so on.

You can read the full entrevita here: " A real estate investors and domainers speculative, it has caught the train "

Tags: Actibva , alejandro grandson , domainers , domains , Entrepreneurs , speculation , investment

Movement Week quotes domains ...

We took a month a bit frantic motion of domains. Although they rarely sell any and what I like is to increase the portfolio with generic domains that can be developed in the future, in these weeks I have finished selling some that I thought had no nearby development as anuncios.pro , coctel.net carta.info or 6,000 Euros for a total of approx. But what most caught my attention is to some buying opportunities, especially in auctions that have appeared backorders. In the last 3 days I have fished interesting domains as cultura.info (for $ 81US), mercados.info (60US $) and negocio.info ($ 230US) ... very little money. It is most significant that it was so little money - but in 2 of the auctions were only 2 people, and the other was I the only one. Now that's really funny. In recent years SnapNames auctions, pool or namejet, were filled with people, bidders and curious and it was really difficult to buy bargains. I see some of that audience has disappeared and this has led me to record these 3 domains to those who see the imminent possibility of creating content. I really like. Info, as my initial approach in order of preference, which was something like: 1 -. com 2 -. is 3 -. net 4 -. org and. info 5 -. mobi I finished moving to a scenario type 1 -. Com 2 -. 3-4. Net. Info 5 -. Tv To me. Mobi no longer exist, as I said once I think is a bluff on which fell at first. The. Org . eu, three quarters of the same, and. info crawling positions and value them almost as. net. Register cultura.info for less $ 81US I think just a joke, a bargain, I see it to create cultural content, and negocio.info mercado.info also have a very clear development potential. Just mention that I paid for 1 year musica.info about 5,000 Euros and the price ratio of each other is just funny. Not if every time there is less money for the sector of the domains or people get tired of the auctions. But if they go out buying opportunities like this week I'll be happy, and will take, whether or not crisis, to buy and save what you can, that surely will shoot them to create projects in the coming years.

Tags: . com , . is , . eu , . info , . mobi , . net , . org , . pro , cultura.info , domains , mercado.info , negocio.info

The sale of pisos.com and pisos.net or migration starts from paper to internet

Last week, as commented Domisfera , Escoté Sergio and Carlos Blanco has been sold and pisos.net pisos.com at 400,000 € The buyer of pisos.com is Vocento , which has spent € 250,000 on a very good buy. Pisos.net has Anuntis been acquired for € 150,000 through the platform SEDO shopping Both seem very reasonable for online publishers, but what is most interesting about this movement is that it matches me coincidentially ¿? with the closure by Anuntis of the Segundamano . Why has ended segundamano? In my opinion no, on Internet forums and blogs talking about some closure, I think we should see it as a logical evolution, as the Spain's top dance companies in the publishing industry by betting on a formula 100% digital and dynamic, I bet you are the first in a list that in 2009-2010, and the crisis will be enlarged. I am not an alarmist thinking disappears physical release of publications, but will do so in many cases. El Pais, El Mundo, newspapers, magazines coated quality fashion photography ... always be there. But surely migrate to 100% online models hundreds of journals, with sales of 30,000 copies per month and higher advertising revenues which the role is not supported, and of those, in Spain there are hundreds. Some of these publishers, and I think 2 very specific, have begun to migrate and there are already aware that they do not know to do and have years of disadvantage and their logical evolution is to buy blog networks, with the know-how and publications such as marches, which inject gas and power in a parallel phase of digital living leave the physical environment and look at their advertisers, which is ultimately the key. That will be another dance has begun, although we will still take months to see any significance operation running.

Tags: Blogs , domains , pisos.com , pisos.net , Networking Blogs , sedo

Vida.com and investment domains

More or less since December, and much to my regret, as we have a very broad portfolio I see that the market for domain names is cleaned, relaxed and self-regulating as the global economic situation cools. Does that domains that will cease to be a good investment? I think not, if I understand what he means is that an investment will be much more selective. We have about 1,300 domains, many of them highly selected. Com. Net. Info or. Is 1 only word in which "we have to do something." But over the years we have been buying 2 domains without being generic words. Com, or 1 single word but without much real meaning or domains in other TLDs Premium not like. Tv. Mobi or. Pro and every time I think only some of them have not earned renewal. usually do not sell domains, are like a collection of cards in which occasionally sell some to invest in others. This month we offer 2 domains auctioned after " dominio.tv "and" anuncios.pro ", the latter currently on auction at Sedo here following a bid of $ 1500US. Why are we selling these domains, where tenders have been so good from our economic point of view?. The explanation is varied, "dominio.tv" renewal fee is $ 500 and had no plans to do anything with it, ie has cost us in the last 2 years $ 1000, made no sense to keep it standing. "Anuncios.pro" we did not have anything planned, especially because even if I wanted to throw something sorted soon (I love the area) to another domain that I prefer to have reserved " anuncio.net "Investing in domains has changed a lot in this 2008 , the standard of backorders in Spain in recent years, rarely appear. I do not remember when was the last time the alarm sounded because the mobile was a few minutes to close an auction that interested me, I think we really have been in the industry in recent years, we have too many and only opportunities to improve qualitatively our portfolio, and these opportunities have migrated to private deals or through platforms like SEDO sale or Afternic, but rarely at auction. One of those rare auction takes place now. NameJet auction at the moment the domain " vida.com "in a private auction ¿? in which there are 209 bidders. 2 days left to sell the domain, which certainly got the look that will end in an American investor, and bids are already at $ 8,100. The domain I think it's great and there are things that could be done with ... but unfortunately not be in our plans to make them immediately, so do not think it makes sense to eventually buy. Still, we are arguing intensely internally.

Tags: . com , . info , . net , . pro , anuncio.net , anuncios.pro , dominio.tv , domains , investment , vida.com

Recognizing errors: goodbye to. Mobi

I remember the occasion of the last Forum Domains my perception of the domains . mobi was not bad, is they saw no future. Following the congress began to look more in detail my position as an investor open. Mobi. I remember I started doing the next day to see that some users demene.com who followed my remarks by questioning that will assess streaming. mobi Since then validated with some domainers and investors have come to the conclusion (if it is true , months cost me) that are a real bluff mobi snake summer that I've swallowed and that cost me more than necessary.

The. Mobi typein no, there is little developed, they have more sense than hiring a mobile.dominio.com and all his business card is that of large companies that supported them. This technological support was enough to convince ago 2 years. Today, especially seeing the circus auctions. Mobi Sedo picture and skill has made ​​all this DotMobi frankly I have no desire to continue buying and investing in this TLD We have some good domains bought on release, and auctions and private transactions from now, if they sell them deals without much problem and exceptions will not buy more domains. mobi I think it's important when you are holding something in public, listening to other people are saying the issue, assess new views and if at the time you think you made ​​a mistake and was wrong to approach the publicly recognize and explain its change of position.

Tags: . mobi , Demene , domains , Investment , Mobile

Buy or not to buy "programa.com", that is the question

A few days ago concluded unsuccessfully auction programa.com through SEDO. The reserve price was not covered. Last Friday in an internal meeting we were discussing the possibility of trying to purchase this domain name. But the story begins more or less a year. decided to buy the domain name programas.com in November 2007 by $ 60,000 (approx . 47,000 euros to the change of date) with the intention of developing it as a portal for downloading programs. 2 months later we received an offer and after some internal debate decided to sell the domain for $ 193,000 (135,000 euros to change), less commissions, a gain of about 74,000 Euros in 2 months or so and said Carlos Blanco on his blog. The sale of programas.com entered the top of the domains in Most Expensive Sales in Spanish. I really gave somewhat worth selling, but the capital gain in 2 months was really interesting and we found it difficult to relinquish it. The first thing I did after selling programas.com is to invest, and I think with a certain amount of luck and intelligently, a small part of the capital gain on the purchase of other 2 domains where we could launch the project as an alternative software download we are preparing. Thus, in this way, we bought in the following weeks 2 generic alternatives to our website software, and bought, I think a good price: archivos.com by $ 6,000 (about 4,500 euros) and programas.info by $ 1,000 (about 650 euros). We are working for many months in the database download portal and we intend to launch in the coming months, after completing the program (I hope you are online by 2009).

Well, when we saw that went on sale programa.com doubt and met in the office to assess whether we should buy it. The domain went on sale on SEDO auction and then also I had been offered by the owner by email in a similar figure, somewhat higher, to that once acquired programas.com. In the meeting we had, as usual various sensitivities on the one hand Alberto was in favor of buying, Monica said that market timing was not the same as 1 year and had to be careful with spending and investment (by the way: true!), James was a lot of money .... As you can see reviews for all tastes. I tried to reason to buy from the point of view of the launch of our website downloads in www.archivos.com . First, I think that the big sales and big operations domains have cooled, possibly by economic fears stemming from the crisis in recent months. We note especially pronounced fall since December 2007. In addition to me there is much difference between "programas.com" and "programa.com" I think the "S" of plural mark far beyond the capabilities of the service and that's very important. In fact, to launch a portal of its kind ever think of 1) descargas.com 2) programas.com 3) archivos.com not at that level would value the unique, and for that reason, to see that we have a domain portfolio that we can use for this project in a more clear, I decided on Friday declined the offer to purchase at least for now and at least in those quantities. What do you think about it?, do you think I was wrong?, you see more programa.com appropriate that archivos.com? I love to hear your opinions.

Tags: archivos.com , downloads , domains , premium domains , Investment , premium , programa.com , programas.com , programas.info

Active Networking Interview forumdominios

This is the brief interview in June last occasion of the Congress Forum Domains kind of made ​​me Maria Ortegon for Active Networking and published on his blog yesterday. The interview was before the panel of investment in domains in which I was pleased to participate with Carlos Blanco of ITNet Group and Marcos Sainz de RioVentures who moderated by Javier Ruiz, Domisfera

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Domain shopping opportunities in the summer months

Summer is always something unpredictable, and it also happens in the buying and selling domain names. Personally buying and selling domains, observed for months, particularly I would say that since December, a huge drop in bids and closed operations, even as I said some months ago, the presence of non-payment . The recent months, in Spanish, just highlight the operation Sevilla.com purchase , which I found a better buy than sell for $ 102.000US. It is true that more and more operations are closed on major private, non-public or communicated, but it is also true that it has seen a huge decline, possibly motivated by the current economic situation, investment domains. In this month August I've been offered three different portfolios of domains, some with over 2,000 domains in Spanish. What does that mean? No doubt that there are domainers trying to go out of business, and I think it is bad time for that. Never interested me buy a large number of domains, but on the contrary, I was worried that they are quality generic in fact the only logic of these volumes is profitable parked domains, and we always have done badly. What if I want is to buy premium domains, generic words that may serve to create brand to generate medium term thematic content, which is why for example does buy some dates nuevastecnologias.com likely pay a premium on the real value of domain, but I thought it would be worth the effort, for in the not too distant launch a publication on new technologies and the Internet. In summer I like to be especially attentive to the forums, vacations do that if an opportunity emerges, this has reduced visibility so if you act fast you can be good buys. This summer it has been at times, for example a few days in a post demene.com, Raquel she released dozens of generic domains. com some at a very reasonable price. Diego, which continues daily Demene was attentive and bought some domains that are not evil and that without being the best that we can be helpful to create things in the future. Were susurralo.com , conocerlo.com , horterada.com , preparativo.com , puntuacion.com , especula.com we acquired in total for 410 €, which gives an average of less than symbolic 70EUR each. that I like are puntuacion.com and preparativo.com. Possibly a purchase at that price would not have been another month of the year because someone always had bid upwards in all or some of them. Opportunities are rarely seen in times to be moved and try to find and exploit. Indeed, it has put Rachel on Ebay auction which for me is the best domain: empresas.com , if anyone is interested to scratch his pocket, the reserve € 100,000 of the wing ... but the domain is magnificent.

Inversion.tv

Tells me a few days ago Diego, one of my coworkers at the auction forum demene.com a domain name that could interest us: inversion.tv We are mulling over the medium term do several blogs of investment issues, economy and finance and I found interesting, so we've bought, and I also believe that a good price, about 300 €. Domains. tv are like an endless cycle of ups and downs in value. The truth is we have had good and bad experiences with them. I bet on them for everything that is created especially audiovisual content. Today we have many, but if we have some good tv domains, as foros.tv , fotos.tv , correo.tv , servers.tv and trucos.tv . In all these domains we only use for some time foros.tv. The rest of these domains are studying options and alliances to put in use. We also had another of those mentioned. Tv which was sold in 4500 € a few months ago. I think there are still good opportunities to buy in the TLD at good prices. In fact I think the share price vs popularity. Tv is the TLD where acquire a better price generic words in Spanish right now, after a couple of years of relentless rise in the value of domains. info. For the price of the. Tv up and stabilize upward have had to overcome many difficulties. The first with the hoax that the possible disappearance of the island of Tuvalu, which come from. Tv, could lose sense this TLD and make disappear. TV, the second and more serious, frightening release just over 14 months of premium tv domains that Enom has conducted, in which the prices of "annual rent" are often ridiculous figures that can reach 10.000US / year for some premium domains. These difficulties have made this type of domain name, despite being valued, do not break more upside to not be sufficiently developed, in fact rarely see one. Tv with a heavy investment in development behind, let alone in Spanish.

Tags: domains , generic , investment , tv

Some days I have some luck

The truth is that there is less day-hey - when it seems that one is fortunate to face. Leo days ago, on July 2, in Loogic about a service, which I find very interesting called atasco.org . This is a mobile application to check for bottlenecks in the different communities in Spain before you travel. The service itself have not tried it, and really do not know if well developed or not, but it was a great idea.

Some days the chances knocking on your door, and I, who think little chance, I think there may be a business opportunity and work behind them. It turns out that among the thousands of domain names that we like and we monitor regularly to capture and portfolio, we have atascos.com and the same day I read the post Loogic, coincidences of life, I received an email We caught without eating or drinking for 79US $ www.atascos.com. The price is a bargain, it all happen the same day that we read of www.atasco.org a chance and even greater chance to happen without knowing I was going to expire-rare, as we usually monitor it and was not in our forecasts, and even rarer that nobody else was prepared with the backorder so we have been awarded directly without going, as would undoubtedly common in a private auction, where surely that domain name could have been above the 3000 €. This week at our usual meeting Status, we assess options for future development in the domain. Any ideas?

Tags: atasco.com , atascos.com , backorders , domains

And why. It?

Muchas personas me han preguntado el motivo por el que he elegido un dominio .es para mi blog. El motivo es simple; durante años pensé que no abriría un blog personal, por lo que nunca sentí la necesidad de registrar alejandrosuarez.com, que sin duda hubiera sido la primera opción. Hace 1 año, dudé por primera vez y quise hacerlo. El dominio www.alejandrosuarez.com estaba ya registrado y mirando el whois vi que estaba a nombre de un tocayo, que aparentemente tiene una Agencia de Seguros en Venezuela. Le contacté e intente comprarlo, pero no fue posible. No me lo quiso vender e hizo muy bien; yo hubiera hecho lo mismo. Imagino que es la vieja fabula del cazador cazado. Al menos con el .es no me ha pasado lo mismo y si lo registré en su día. De hecho también registré alejandro.es en la liberalización de dominios .es, pero más tarde deseché su uso, por lo que lo vendí el pasado mes de diciembre al recibir una oferta de 4.000€ por él.

Tags: .com , .es , alejandro suarez , dominios