Domain Industry

Online Marketing

2009-12-10T16:30:00Z

Its been a while since we last made entry in out blog. Since that time we also made some gradual changes. Simplus has always been selling domains. But now we are moving away from that as most of our domains are sold. Since the last year we have been focus on on line marketing of advertising space on several of our domains. We have three main website for advertising space. The main one is www.funnewyorkers.com which is a site with everything fun about New York & fun things to do. This is a directory foe business in the NY tri-state to list the site. Business can also suggest a new category. Also we have www.flyinganxiety.com which is a motivational site dedicated to helping people with their fear of flying. Flying anxiety has limited sponsor ad space for sited that are aviation, travel, self-help or motivational related. Simplus also introduce a website directory at www.simplusdirectory.com .
Look out new changes in the future.

.org's domains

2007-04-10T23:24:00Z

Although .com continues to dominate the domain landscape, .org has carved out itself a nice little niche. .Org has been able to establish this niche because it has a significantly better/cleaner image than .com due to its non-profit origins. These non-profit origins have translated into a great deal of TV time for this extension. I don't know how many times that I have been watching TV and saw a commercial or program saying something.org. It has actually gotten to the point where I don't know whether .org or .com gets more TV time these days.

What does that mean for domainers? It means that domainers have a viable substitute for .com in certain areas. These areas do not have to be completely void of making a profit, but some industries simply DO NOT work well .org at all. Sex domains, hostings, & gambling usually dont work well with .org's

ES

mobi

2007-03-27T20:07:00Z

Well it seems .mobi domains are doing well in sales since its intro last year. The amount of sales increase 40 percent. It would be interesting to see how well its does 3 years from now. Another interesting domain suffix that does surprisingly well is UK names. But, I wonder how will these Eu countries will manage using eu names & their indepedent country suffix. It would be interesting to see what impact that has as more names become part of the eu. Til next time.

ES

Domain Start Ups!

2007-03-07T15:54:00Z

For years now the primary options for domain monetization have been to park your names and rely on pay per click revenue, develop your names and run ads from networks like Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher (or sell space directly to advertisers) or to sell the domains for a profit. Leasing domains has also been an option but due to the intricacies of contract negotiations and the legwork required to match advertisers with appropriate domains, it is something that only a handful of domain owners have tried.

That may be about to change. Therehave been several companies starting to lease domains to other companies. One such company is Lease This LLC. I would expect more such companies to pop up in the industry.
Til next time..

ES

eu domains

2007-03-06T02:55:00Z

European businesses rushed to sign up for the new ".eu" Internet domain name, putting in 100,000 Web site applications by the end of its first day available, the group in charge of registering the requests said Thursday.

Businesses and public bodies were able to sign up for the new European Union Internet address starting Wednesday morning, and they did so with haste.

They filed 40,503 applications within the first 15 minutes of availability — hitting a top speed of 60 requests per second — according to the European Registry of Internet Domain Names, or EURid, the nonprofit organization in charge of handling requests. One thing to note is that purchasing eu domains are usually more expensive. Thats all to next time.

ES

Lets be real!

2007-03-05T03:34:00Z

Is it me, or am I witnessing a lot of players in the domain industry that are selling their domains far beyond the value of its worth. Well I could understand trying to make a profit off a domain, but some of the domains I research & noticed on the market I wouldn't give to my worst enemy. Some had no click ratio, traffic, or any value, but yet the owners were selling for unrealistic market value. Simplus was always set up to sell domains at fair market value. I think the entire industry would benefit if everyone was require to appraise domains before purchase, or resale. Besides, thats whats done with real estate. In a lot of ways domains are similar to real estate. I think if you think of it like that, you will benefit from the process. When I purchase a single domain, it could take me as long as a month. I use a special criteria to methodically look for that unique name. Ultimately consumers should do they're homework. Thats all til next time.

Eric Simmons

Domain Industry

2007-02-28T21:00:00Z

Simplus Technologies Group, LLC would like to welcome our clients to our first official blog entry. This is a wonderful edition to our site. The goal of this blog is to provide valuable industry insight to the Domain Industry. We hope you will voice your opinion to our discussion group.

Simplus has been around for our 3rd year anniversary, and we plan to be around for many more years to come. It was'nt always easy. We went thru a tuff road in our initial start up phase in 2004. We made some major changes to our business plan, & model. Since our last press release in July of 2006, we saw our company go through some great improvements. We made some modest sales. We plan to continue to work hard on improving our web site even further.

Meanwhile, this past year has seen some significant growth returns in the domain industry. As I write this, the TRAFFIC Convention is underway in Las Vegas. One of our top domains sportsncaa.com does exceptionally well during March Madness. However, what I'm predicting is that this will be a great year for .eu, & .de domains. I quess we will have to wait & see. Thats all for now. See ya next time.