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	<title>DotWeekly.com Domain Name Blog</title>
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		<title>Holiday Domain Name Deals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the 4th of July Holiday in the US only one day away, many have today off from work as well. This starts off for an early weekend for a lot of people in the US, which makes it a longer weekend off of work then normal.
Kids are out of school for the summer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godaddy.com: Valuation Dollar Value. Trust it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Godaddy.com on a large number of it&#8217;s expired domain auctions, Godaddy offers what they call a &#34;Valuation&#34; of a specific domain name that is up for auction.
So how does Godaddy come up with this valuation number?
Godaddy states that:

The valuation is based on the approximate traffic revenue expected for the domain.

I think the keywords one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Candy.com By Suggesting a Sweet New Slogan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the recent sale of Candy.com &#8482; and the up coming launch of the new Candy.com website, the owners are in need of a Sweet New Slogan!  OK, the &#34;sweet new slogan&#34; was my doing, but really, they are having a slogan contest!
Get your creative mind flowing and help Candy.com with it&#8217;s new slogan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Domain Appraisal Value vs Real Value?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a Question and Answer with a DotWeekly.com reader.
Q: Wondering if you have ever paid more for a domain name  than it&#8217;s valuation on Estibot.com or other &#34;valuation&#34; services?
A: The short answer would be Yes and No. You really should not put much, if any trust in domain valuation services to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress Contact Form Plugin: Contact Form 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I have been building several new sites lately, one thing I have been in need of was a nice easy plugin for making a contact form on my contact us pages. I have found it in the form of Contact Form 7.
This plugin makes it about as easy as one can get! No coding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domain Sales: Seller Disadvantage Using 3rd Party Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many domain name sellers, including myself depend on the two most popular domain listing services Sedo.com and Afternic.com while listing domain names for sale. When an offer does come in using these services, the seller is at a large disadvantage not knowing who the buyer is!
No seller ever want&#8217;s to &#34;leave some on the table&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Try This At Home: Domain Auction Scamming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: I am in NO WAY saying to do this or advising you to try this. This is a fictional story based on something that could happen!
Let&#8217;s say a online domain name auction service offered bidding services on expired domain names. It cost&#8217;s $5 to sign up to use the service.
Since no detailed investigation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitchman Billy Mays Dies Today ~ Sad, Sad Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of my DotWeekly.com readers know I was a Very Big Fan of Billy Mays and the direct response market. With the recent show Pitchmen, people were able to see what it all takes from the inventor pitch to make it to TV as it does.
I am just Shocked!!!! Such a great business man, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godaddy.com Domain Coupon Codes + Auction Hot List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a little Sunday treat for all DotWeekly.com readers. A list of Godaddy.com coupon codes + a Godaddy Domain Auction Hot list!
All domains in the list have a range of ending times, starting with today and going out several days. All domains are directly linked to it&#8217;s specific auction page for easy bidding and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DotWeekly.com Saturday Micro-Blogging on Domains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple things I am thinking this weekend about domain names that either captured my eye, thought about or are working on.
~ I noticed END.net sold on Sedo for $2,250 USD. I think somebody got a pretty darn good deal on that one!

Then you notice RefinanceRates.com for $30K . Not so sure I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBay.com Filled With Squatter Michael Jackson Domain Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the recent deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, eBay&#174; has been cluttered with domain name squatter&#8217;s trying to profit from them. So Sad!
Often called &#34;Cyber Squatters&#34; are people who register domain names and try to profit off a trademark or likeness of a company or person. This can include simply selling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Fly.com Sell Again? $1.6 Million or $1.76 Million?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was reported by a very credible source that Fly.com sold to Travelzoo Inc. back in Feb 2009 for a reported $1,760,000 all cash deal and that Travelzoo would be putting up a site that month on Fly.com .
According to whois history records, Fly.com did change hands on 1-22-2009 from Flycor, LLC to Travelzoo Inc.
Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Buy a Domain Name and What is Right for Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying a domain name is no easy task for the everyday average person that does not practically &#34;live&#34; online. I think the first thing one needs to understand is not only today&#8217;s need but down the road as well.
Deciding if you really need to spend a fair amount of money for a quality domain is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OnlineFinancing.com Purchased $17.5K, Then Let Expire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The domain name OnlineFinancing.com was purchased during the Feb 20th 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Vegas by a company called Vendare Media / Netblue. (Vendare and Netblue merged and now are called Connexus).
In fact, OnlineFinaancing.com was the 82nd domain in the live domain auction and was sold to bidder paddle #462. The domain sold for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to Start a Domain Brand? Here’s a Domain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting a brand is important for any company / website. It becomes the &#34;name&#34; that will be referenced by people to talk about your products or services. Most brands are built away from the &#34;companies name&#34; to better fit what they offer.
Subway&#174; is the brand of Doctor&#8217;s Associates Inc. . It would be pretty funny [...]]]></description>
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