Archive for June 21st, 2007

DisneyPhotoPass.com Two Thumbs Up

June 21, 2007

In a previous post I wrote about how I was unable to access the DisneyPhotoPass.com site.

I have since been able to get in and try the site out.

The service has some neat features I haven’t yet found in the other photography lab sites I have studied.

Although the site still runs a little slow and doesn’t work with my Mac + Firefox, the Disney Photo Pass site appears to be best of breed in the photo marketing industry.

Their most promising feature is the PhotoMovie. You can drag and drop up to one hundred photos into their movie builder and “star” along side a cast of Disney characters.

Disney Photo Pass Upload

Disney Photo Pass Photo Movie

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Network Solutions Phone Home

June 21, 2007

Is it any wonder GoDaddy.com is the largest domain registrar?

Today I received the following email offer from Network Solutions after I had already bought my domain names for the day from GoDaddy.

Network Solutions

I am sure there are compelling reasons to pay twice as much to register your domains at Network Solutions than at GoDaddy.

Since Network Solutions hasn’t been able to convey to me exactly what those reasons are, I will continue to register my domains with GoDaddy.

GoDaddy

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Seo.com Sold! $5,000,000.00…

June 21, 2007

According to a Chinese fortune cookie I once received, “Valuable things aren’t cheap and cheap things are of no value.”

The trick to discovering and capturing value is to acquire it before the market has fully recognized and priced it.

If there is any one group of people on the planet who know market value as well as Wall Street does I would have to guess it would be us folks who operate in both the search engine marketing and domain industries.

DotSauce.com reports Mike Mann and his firm WashingtonVC have acquired Seo.com for $5 million.

With DNJournal’s report of Gary Kremen’s Sex.com selling for $12 million, the importance of domain ownership and its relevance in a search addicted society have never been greater.

To get a rough idea of what your domain’s potential market value check out the new domain name appraisal tool from LeapFish.com

Although a domain is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it, I think the Leap Fish free domain appraisal tool is off to a good start.

When the tool is able to calculate and appraise multivariate data, they will really have something of value.

The following are Leap Fish appraisals for the domains mentioned above:

Seo.com

Sex.com

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