The Week of Domaining In Review: November 11, 2011.

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Recognizing in 2005 that there would be an oversupply of condominiums in the United States, Richard Swerdlow saw an opportunity to build an online market to buy and sell condos. It would be modeled on the stock exchange and intended as a transparent place to allow buyers and sellers to connect with one another.

His online real estate empire started with the acquisition of Condo.com and continued with Houses.com and Property.com. As the owner of what are arguably the most premium online locations for real estate, Swerdlow shares his plans for continuing to connect buyers and sellers through his virtual marketplaces and how others can apply his strategy to their own development projects.

With the introduction of new gTLDs, brands will have to rethink their online strategy.

A domain name strategy is quickly becoming critical for any organization conducting business or wanting to engage customers online. Ignoring the profound impact of the rapid evolution of the Internet with respect to the introduction of new gTLDs could turn out to be a missed opportunity for a company to extend its brand deeper into the Internet.

The Week of Domaining In Review: November 4, 2011.

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Occupy Wall Street Pays $8,000…, Hindi Domain Name to Bridge…, When You Mean Facebook but…, Left Of The Dot Media…, Speedo Wins Fight to Shut…, Marchex Reports Third Quarter 2011…, Domain Start-up Winged Media Gets…, CADNA Goes From Opposing New… The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

Fred Mercaldo understands geographic domain names (geodomains) better than most other domain name investors. He has built multiple companies and platforms in the geodomain space, including a software company, a marketing services company and a call center.

In this show, Mercaldo describes his experiences building successful geodomain name properties and shares tactics others can use to develop geodomains profitably.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, more than half a million small businesses are created each year. More and more of these businesses are turning to the Internet, offering their services online instead of in traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

Whether online or in the physical world, the number one rule when it comes to creating a business is: location, location, location. And location on the Internet is your domain name. Once you have determined the right “location” for your business, you then have to decide whether to rent, lease or buy the domain name.

Page Howe did not start domaining in the mid-1990s like so many other mega-domainers who have sold domain names for millions. Instead, he started just when the market was crashing in 2001 by buying the assets of a dot-com burnout through eBay for $105,000. He later sold those assets for $1.8 million.

As a regular “Joe Domainer” – in fact, he named his domain name marketplace JoeDomains.com – Howe uses a very structured approach to successfully buy and sell domain names in the under $5,000 range. The entire interview is packed full of great tips, so be sure to grab a pen and pad of paper before watching this show.

Last week, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Conference & Expo took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Top domain investors from around the world converged at the Ritz Carlton for five days of networking, sharing, learning, partying and dealmaking.

Here are five lessons learned that you can use to grow your business that I gleaned from this conference. If you attended the conference and learned a lesson or two that is not covered here, please let us know about it in the comments.

The Week of Domaining In Review: October 21, 2011.

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Lego Loses First UDRP …, Association of National Advertisers Urges …, Wordpress.com Announces Addition of .ME …, HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1…, Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie …, Harry Thomas Jr. Gets Domain-jacked …, ICANN and The Coming Flood …, Domain Name Mastery Looms Large …, .CO Premium Domain Re-auction Coming …, Battle for .ECO is Not … The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.

While in college, Thomas Smale was looking for a way to earn extra cash. When he stumbled upon the concept of buying websites that needed work and reselling them for a profit, he realized he had found his niche. His first website flip returned $500 on an investment of $100; now Smale is co-owner of a business that brokers and flips websites, grossing $1 million in annual revenue.

In this show, Smale shares his insider tips for flipping websites – from finding undervalued assets, to improving them, to determining valuation, to ultimately selling them to another person.