So you’re not sure if there is real money going on in the domain market place. Here’s a list of domains that sold at the most recent Moniker live auction:

1. VintageAirplanes.com, $5,700, sold
2. StageRental.com, $5,600, pass
3. Toy.net, $26,000, sold
4. StockTrades.com, $25,000 sold
5. BondFund.com, $12,000 sold
6. IrishWhiskey.com, $8,000 sold
7. BakingSupplies.com, $12,000 sold
8. PrivateTutors.com, $16,000 sold
9. PrivatePilots.com, $20,000 sold
10. Historian.com, $25,000 sold
11. TechnologyFund.com, $10,000 sold
12. PinkRoses.com, $10,000 sold
13. VintageMotorcycles.com, $14,000 sold
14. Booksellers.com, sold $30,000
15. Houses.net, $75,000 sold
16. ComicBooks.com, $300,000 pass
17. Supplies.com, $200,000 pass
18. Breathalyzer.com, $70,000 pass
19. Invest.net, $50,000 pass
20. PX.net, $15,000 pass
21. Tightrope.com, $18,000 sold
22. Sale.mobi, $65,000 pass
23. AutoClassifieds.com, $135,000 pass
24. Six.com, $1,000,000 passm
25. Scotland.com, $3,000,000 pass

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Finding old contacts is just one of the many reasons I love the Internet. I was looking up some of my old bosses from when I was in the USAF and using the Internet to find people makes life so much easier than it was back in the 80s & early 90s.

Turns out one of my old bosses retired in Hawaii as a 3 star general and the other is now one of the directors at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Although I took a left turn after about 12 years in the USAF and jumped on the dot com bubble, sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if I stayed in for the whole shot. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret the decision I made, sometimes you ‘just wonder’ about things. Being able to do what I love, live where I want, schedule time off with my boss (me) is a nice thing.

I think what I miss most about my prior experiences in the military was working with some very interesting people in some very interesting places. The deployments to different parts of the world to be a ‘part of history’ instead of a spectator was also quite a rush.

Anyways, here’s some useful tools for those of you wanting to find old contacts.

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As per a post by Aaron Wall on his site threadwatch.org, it will be officially closing this Friday.  It’s a shame to see it go as it was often an interesting place to watch for breaking news in the SEO world.  It also came with an edge that some (myself included) found entertaining.

Aaron presents a list of reasons why he’s closing the doors on this project that one has to respect his openness for disclosing and in the end he wraps up the announcement with this:

“For a short while it will suck for some (including me) that this site ended, but hopefully it doing so will help create an opportunity for something better.

Cheers,
Aaron”

Cheers to you and thanks for an interesting site and always being a great source of information.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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Apparently sites in markets such as travel, media, entertainment, business and finance saw double-digit increases in traffic coming from search engines this past month (May 07) in comparison with the previous year.

Google searches accounted for more than 65 per cent of all searches last month according to hitwise, an online statistically gathering company. Yahoo! accounted for 20.89 per cent, while MSN accounted for 8.40 per cent and Ask.com accounted for 3.92 per cent.

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Do you ever think that working for yourself from home, living the internet dream is all cookies and cream?

Let me tell you, sure it’s great, but when you occasionally take on one too many clients you end up becoming one of your own worst bosses…forced overtime to get projects done is a reality.

You know the one thing though that makes it all worth while?  Enjoying what you do and being able to have a seriously flexible schedule most of the time.

That’s it for now, just wanted to take a break for a minute before getting back on the horse for another hour or two.

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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The other day I made mention of the domain registrar namecheap.com and that I suspected them of having a practice of quickly snapping domains into their system upon expiration. I recently received an email that cleared a few things up…and what I suspected originally, seems not to be the case these days.

Here are some screen caps on how to recover your domain in namecheap’s system if one of yours passes the expiration date. You still have “up to 29 days after expiration to renew at our regular pricing.” which comes directly from their CEO.

Once you log in, click on the ‘Reactivate Domains’ link:

Then click the checkbox for the domain or domains you need to renew, add to cart, and proceed through the checkout. That’s it…

type-atcha-later,

Sean

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Apparently local search is still a booming trend and it just makes sense doesn’t it? Especially in certain markets. If I’m buying a home locally I know I’d like to speak with someone in my backyard. Although I have bought a house from another state and I must say virtual tours and the Internet made life much easier in this task than I could imagine it would have been, say, in the 1970s.

Here’s a few statistics that ought to get you thinking about putting your business infront of the local search market:

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Ok, so during a nice long Memorial Day Weekend visiting family down in LA, the wife and I had to make the obligatory stop by Venice Beach. Since I’m rushed for time this week and catching up with a backlog of work I thought I’d share a few pics…

If you caught me eating some lunch from the Vegan fast food eatery “Good Karma” you might have been able to talk me into chatting about SEO & general Internet Marketing stuff. I do enjoy time away from the Internets but can almost always be sucked into shop talk. Why’s this? Simple — I completely enjoy what I do.

NOTE: This 100% Vegan eatery is located directly across from the Muscle Beach workout area on the boardwalk. The sweet potato fries & chipotle chicken sandwich rocked.

Ok, on with the rest of the pics:

Jim Morrison would be happy to know that Venice Beach, California hasn’t changed all that much over the years…there are still:

Swamis on skates playing guitar.

Amazing & humorous circus-style, tumbling / acrobatics shows on the boardwalk.

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but rather a quick post to express how the vibe of my week and business has been going lately.

This picture I took a good few years ago at one of my favorite locations, that at the time, was down at the end of the block from my casa. Click on it for the larger view without the text on it. Hope you enjoyed the quote as much as I did.

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Well tonight I took about 45min to cruise through JOOST. Overall I have to say I enjoyed it. The programming is quite a bit larger than I expected although some may consider still a tad limited in relation to today’s world of 900+ cable channels.

Now for the interface and quality. The JOOST interface was fairly intuitive although I did have trouble finding where to shut it off when I was done watching and at one point during a viewing of some Hawaii Big Surf program I got a small popup menu opened inadvertently that took me quite a while to get rid of as it didn’t have an easily identifiable ‘x’ in the top right corner.

The quality of video overall, in full screen on my system, was not that great but it also wasn’t horrible. Keep in mind my box, although roughly a year old, is by no means a high end video/gaming box. I’m sure my video card is ’so so.’ I have a gig of ram on this PC & the other regular jazz that comes with a HP box…I’ll dig up the actual video card for any techies that care. Later this week I’ll provide some screen caps of my adventure in the belly of JOOST if their TOS allows it.

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