Clicks and Bits

I’m pruning my domains, many of the following have or have had affiliate programs, parking programs, content or are live sites with content. Contact me if there is interest and we can go from there (for stats regarding traffic, parking revenue, affiliate revenue, etc) - just leave a note in the comments, and I’ll send you an email in return. As many of these are up against renewals in the next 120 days, I’d be willing let quite a few them go in the $20/domain range. Others have a solid revenue history and I’d be more than willing to negotiate on an appropriate multiple.

Many of these have Google PR, many have a solid archive.org history, and some of these have Domain Age going back to 2001/2002, with the bulk in 2003/2004.

Without further ado, 40 Domains For Sale Today:

adventuresportsguide.com
aksarbenbrewing.com
beanscoffeestop.com
bodyenergized.com
brandingtips.com
carbonmarketing.com
creditscorezone.com
danmarinodiet.com
dugoutsportsbar.com
emergesports.com
experiencenewyork.com
fitnesstoolbox.com
footballadvisors.com
footballpulse.com
freefootballpicks.ws
getsprayflex.com
greatlettersfromsanta.com
heysantaclaus.com
ipodstation.com
itunestricks.com
macdome.com
mccormacksomaha.com
myfreefootballpicks.com
nycjobhunt.com
omahanodo.com
ontheipod.com
osxsecrets.com
pokerbookstore.org
pokervisors.com
propapillion.com
propapillion.org
sprayflex.net
sprayflex.org
summerblockbuster.org
supremesportspicks.com
teamsportsgear.com
totallybaseball.com
traveltahoe.com
webhotelrooms.com
webpowermarketing.com

10 Ways to Avoid a Google Reputation Management Nightmare
With the growth of social networks and other sites where users are allowed to creative derivative domain names, it is wise to be ahead of the game in getting your soc-net-names in place.

Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview
A cool interview with Bono by Rolling Stone Magazine.

Copywriting 101 Cheat Sheet
To be a good writer, you must be a great reader. Get your knowledge on with these sites.

The last few months I’ve posted xx Domains Names you Can Register Today at the end of the month. Today someone offered me $250 for exclusive access to my list I was going to post on Friday for September.

While that email was a surprise to me, for some reason, I think my site traffic also spiked. I haven’t had a chance to check my stats yet, but I received 7 emails asking about the list in one day where I’ve had exactly three emails in the last two months about the same subject.

Monetizing my list really wasn’t on my agenda going forward, so I accepted this one offer under the condition that I can post the unregistered names with my end of October list. This will either be a one-time experiment, or if it does develop into something else, I’ll try to tier my list so I can continue with my free list series.

In the mean time, I’ll try and get a few posts during the month to satisfy your domain name jones.

The Free Mac Classroom.
Over 200 applications available for your Mac as broken down by category. A very nice list.

The decreasing value of an MBA.
The banking and finance sector seems to lead the trend with regards to business educations. The fact that individuals are increasingly finding success as small players is starting to render the MBA as a waste for those with leaning towards a life of entrepreneurship.

iPhoto Extras - iPhoto and especially iPhoto ‘08 is great program for managing your digital snaps, but make it better with these free add-ons.
iPhoto Buddy - allows you to manage multiple iPhoto libraries (note, you can also manage multiple libraries from within iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching).
Galerie - point and click media gallery creation without all the work.

Mirroring your Mac’s Hard Drive to an External Drive
This is the process I use for monthly back-ups of my MacBook (I also do weekly incrementals - but that is another story).

Online Video Eductaion from Google
Conversion University - Driving Traffic, Converting Visitors, Tracking and Testing & Analytics in Contect.
Over 200 Tech Talks (lectures, meetings and conferences) with Google engineers and the community.

Microsoft’s Gastineau Screenshots & Overview
Microsoft’s upcoming web analytics suite. Personally, I’m interested in seeing the final product. Google has a huge lead in the analytics field, as they do in search as well, so it will be interesting to the rate of adoption. Beta Invites are available.

“If you won’t be better tomorrow than you are today, then what do you need tomorrow for?”
     - Author indeterminable but sourced at ESPN.com’s story on Priest Holmes

Apple today, along with announcing new iPods, end-of-life’d the 4GB iPhone and dropped the 8GB iPhone price by $200 to $399.

While Apple maintains a 14 day price match guarantee, and is honoring it for iPhones purchased during the previous 14 days, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of a financial refund or rebate for early adopters, or “rollout buyers” as quoted to me by an Apple representative.

In other words, if you were among the first to purchase the iPhone and contribute to the marketing effort through the coolness factor, word-of-mouth, or beta testing, Apple’s message to you is “Suck it.”

That is the technology game for first movers and I accept that, however, I’d drop cash without hesitation on a second phone if they were offering some sort of credit/rebate. Maybe I’ll pull out the patented “strongly worded letter,” just to see where it gets me.

p.s. The new iPods are pretty cool. The Fat Nano and 160GB iPod Classic have the most appeal to me, put I see the iPod Touch having the most appeal for those who haven’t dipped into the iPhone pool yet.

Update 9/6/07
Apple responded to the criticisms of rollout buyers today and will be offering a $100 store credit to said purchasesers, as detailed in Steve Jobs Open Letter to iPhone Owners.

Last month’s list of 60 Domains You Can Register Today was such a hit, here is another batch of 35 for you. If you register any of these and go on to develop a site, feel free to give a link back to Clicks and Bits.

vegasprep.com
denverballet.org
hottbodyfitness.com
augustfirst.com
meetlasvegassingles.com
bodyzonespa.com
weightsover.com
trustedoffers.com
vegasbusinesscards.com
brassgrills.com
omahaclassics.com
trustskateboards.com
fullswingolf.com
meetvegassingles.com
bayviewcoffee.com
insiderfantasysports.com
detroitsteaks.com
laketahoeshirts.com
tahoegamblers.com
wifidenver.com
mulligangolf.org
hallmarkfitness.com
simplefitnesstips.com
newyorkcoffeecompany.com
ultimategolfgear.com
omahasteaksoffers.com
lasvegasweddingideas.com
naturalhealthfaq.com
nebraskatelephone.com
vegasplayboys.com
carbongrill.com
beantownfitness.com
denverchapter.com
clubgearonline.com
omahacitysearch.com

I haven’t had a daily roundup in a couple of weeks so here is a new edition with some leanings toward the upcoming football season.

There is a lot of stuff happening in the web space with regards to fantasy sports. Since it has become a multi-billion dollar industry, here are some of the new things happening in the space:

QB1 was a huge hit for the bar and restaurant entertainment network, NTN Buzztime. Now, web startup You Be QB is bringing similar action to the web at YouBeQB.com. There is a late game tonight, so if the kids get to bed at a good time, I’ll be logging on and giving it a look. Bonus coverage: the YouBeQB has a blog, which has yet to be updated.

Screaming Sports is fantasy sports on steroids. Their goal is to consolidate all of your fantasy teams from multiple providers into one place, while providing some value added services such as player news, automatic roster substitutions (so you never lose points with an empty roster spot), access from mobile devices, and tools to create your own sports homepage. Screaming Sports has a blog, and they update it often.

A whole host of new league services are also cropping up. FleaFlicker is one such service which is designed to bring off-line leagues onto the web with a total customization. The league chat and advance stats & charting are also top notch - you know, because fancy charts and graphs sell damnit.

iPhone users who are looking for live baseball and football scoring action should point their iPhone browser to PickleView and FumbleView respectively. Live scoring updates with a visual field layout - a live gamecast format - and a live ‘chat’ based on Twitter. Both sites operate utilizing ESPN’s data sources and I wouldn’t be surprised to see an acquisition come from this down the road.

For your tailgating or fantasy football draft night food needs, I’d suggest whipping up a batch of Georgia Mustard for basting/dipping grilled/smoked sausage or as a marinade/baste for a grilled porkloin. For an appetizer, you can’t beat the grilled, bacon wrapped olives.

On the tech front, I picked up a Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop to use as a home-based backup of my work PC. I’m a Mac guy through and through, but a lack of Mac-based tools, short of emulation via Parallels or VMware Fusion, for managing the web and MS SQL servers necessitates the need for a Windows box. It is amazing what $600 can buy power-wise, but you get a bloated, clunky form factor that is almost user unfriendly.

Frank also blogs about the domain industry at SevenMile.com.

Microsoft has released an updated beta of their Open XML File Format Converter which now supports .docx, .docm, .pptx, .ppsx, and .potx. Still no sign of an Excel (.xlsx) converter.

Download the latest version of Microsoft’s Converter for Mac.

Note: You will need MS Office 2004 or MS Office v.X.

Update:
Alternatively, you can download the free NeoOffice, a Java-based office productivity application which can read/write in the open XML format.