Clicks and Bits

I was just notified that I have 8 domains that made the cut at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley domain auction taking place April 27-30.

My domains up for bid in the extended auction:
beatwriter.com
brandingtips.com
cheapskills.com
companyseminar.com
greekseasonings.com
lowerincome.com
minutetrainer.com
theconvergency.com

If there is any interested parties who may be interested in bidding on these, please drop me a note. If I can confirm 2 or more potential bidders, I can possibly get these promoted to the live auction.

Friend of Clicks and Bits, and partner in numerous other ventures, David Burn, recently launched Liquid Oregon, a blog/resource for all kinds of tasty beverages flowing out of the craft drink mecca of Oregon.

Subtitled, “It’s in the water,” is an apt description of what appears to be an over-abundance of the craft trade. Numerous craft breweries, premier coffee roasters, and a valley producing some of the finest wines in the country. Something is clearly happening in the water.

David’s description of the site is “Liquid Oregon is dedicated to the promotion of locally-produced coffee, wine, beer, micro-distilled spirits, drinking vinegars and artisan sodas.” I think he is underselling, you are also getting a master narrative from a fine wordsmith.

Give him a visit and spread the love: http://www.liquidoregon.com/

For all the cool kids with both iPhones (or any GSM-based phone) and a Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) account, forward your unanswered calls to Google Voice to receive the voicemail and a transcript in your email account.

Step 1:
On you iPhone (or any GSM-based phone), pull up the keypad and type the following, substituting 1234567890 with your 10-digit Google Voice/GrandCentral account:
*61*1234567890#

Step 2:
Log in to your Google Voice account and turn on Do Not Disturb mode.

That’s it. All unanswered calls to your iPhone will instantly be dropped in to your Google Voice voicemail.

To restore your iPhone to the original visual voicemail settings, pull up the keypad and enter:
##61#

Your settings will be restored.

Cross-posted from http://www.sh2.com/blog/iphone-to-google-voice/

Recently dropped and available for registration:
MMASTOPS.COM
FIGHTRUMORS.COM

Both domains appear to have clean registration histories and could give you a valuable/logical two word combo domain name in the hot MMA (mixed martial arts) space. MMAStops.com see a valuable future either as a calendar displaying future events or a video library of submission moves. FightRumors.com could see a nice life speculating about upcoming match-ups.

Go get ‘em fight fans.

29 .com Recruiting domains available for registration at the time of this publication.

DETROITRECRUITING.COM
ATLRECRUITING.COM
NEWHAMPSHIRERECRUITING.COM
SANFRANRECRUITING.COM
HAWAIIRECRUITING.COM
IDAHORECRUITING.COM
CONNECTICUTRECRUITING.COM
WYOMINGRECRUITING.COM
RHODEISLANDRECRUITING.COM
WASHINGTONDCRECRUITING.COM
KANSASCITYRECRUITING.COM
OAKLANDRECRUITING.COM
COLORADOSPRINGSRECRUITING.COM
MSPRECRUITING.COM
NOLARECRUITING.COM
KANSASRECRUITING.COM
DELAWARERECRUITING.COM
SOUTHDAKOTARECRUITING.COM
RENORECRUITING.COM
TAHOERECRUITING.COM
SANANTONIORECRUITING.COM
DESMOINESRECRUITING.COM
OKLAHOMACITYRECRUITING.COM
COLORADORECRUITING.COM
ORANGECOUNTYRECRUITING.COM
NORTHDAKOTARECRUITING.COM
OKLAHOMARECRUITING.COM
MONTANARECRUITING.COM
ALASKARECRUITING.COM

The following list are the only 21 domain names in the format of visit(city/state/area).com/net/org which are available for registration. My geo list is comprised of all 50 states and the top 70 metro areas in the US. My definition of metro area is comprised of city name, airport abbreviation or common metro area name. All 120 .coms of my source list are registered. 21 available out of a total of 360 domains is indicative of pretty competitive market.

visittahoe.net
visitatl.com
visitsanfran.net
visitmsp.net
visitaustin.net
visitmesa.org
visittahoe.org
visitoakland.net
visitsanfran.org
visitwashingtondc.net
visitmsp.org
visitsf.net
visitnola.net
visitfresno.net
visitminneapolis.net
visitatl.net
visitfortworth.org
visitdesmoines.net
visitnola.org
visitarlington.org
visitatl.org

Thinning out some domains. $25 each via Paypal (shartley[[at]]gmail[[.]]com) and I’ll get you the auth code to initiate a transfer. If the domain has expired and still within my basic-fee redemption period, add $10 to the Paypal and I’ll renew it prior to transfer (which will in effect give you a 2 year registration).

MINIFOOTBALL.NET, 2008-07-09
OMAHALAWFIRM.COM, 2008-07-11
COFFEEROASTING.ORG, 2008-07-15
GOLFSHIRTGUY.COM, 2008-07-16
MCCORMACKSOMAHA.COM, 2008-07-18
ACCESSOMAHA.ORG, 2008-07-21
PROPAPILLION.COM, 2008-07-22
FANTASYFOOTBALLWIRE.COM, 2008-07-26
VISITOMAHA.NET, 2008-07-27
FREEFOOTBALLPICKS.WS, 2008-08-04
MYFREEFOOTBALLPICKS.COM, 2008-08-04
ALLNATURALSTEAK.COM, 2008-08-07
ORDINARYGOLFER.COM, 2008-08-07
PROFOOTBALLEDGE.COM, 2008-08-07
FROMDENVER.COM, 2008-08-10
STEAKEXPERTS.COM, 2008-08-10
KLJLAQ.COM, 2008-09-12
PROPAPILLION.ORG, 2008-09-27
BEANSCOFFEESTOP.COM, 2008-09-28
CONVERGENCY.INFO, 2008-10-12

Domains should be assumed to have little to no parking revenue in the last 6 months although a few of these have had minor returns.

Wow, I didn’t realize that the Crazy Horse Memorial has been under construction for 60 years.

They just announced a $5 million matching gift and the Crazy Horse Scholarship fund has topped $1 million.

You can find more info on the web at http://www.crazyhorse.org/

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith

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