Swine Flu Can Make You Money

As discussed elsewhere, the flu can have a silver lining, in the form of valuable domain names. It was noted that AtHomeFluTesting.com and NoFluZone.com were likely winners, meaning they can be sold for nice profits. You should focus now on swine flu domains, like AtHomeSwineFluTest.com. In view of today's U.S. Government warnings about the threat of flu for pet dogs and cats, you might consider buying DogFluVirus.com and similar pet domains. Register your creative flu domains for under $10 at Moniker. Buy any of the above domains by submitting your offer as a ”comment” on this blog (it will not be published).

Sarah Palin (Sarah Six Pack) Is Back In The News, Her SarahSixPack.com Is For Sale

Sarah Palin is going on Oprah and promoting her book, "Goin' Rogue", with a national media tour, and sure enough, her favorite nickname, Sarah Six Pack, is back in the news as well. The domain SarahSixPack.com is for sale. Buy it direct via email to DomainValues@yahoo.com.

Le Whiff, or The Whiff of Luxury

Some clever folks at Harvard, of all places, came up with an inhalable chocolate product and lipstick-sized delivery system and they called it Le Whif. The idea grabbed the attention of the media, which gave the product global free publicity. The problem was, the inventors/marketers gave the product a dumb name, and opened the door to unlimited and perfectly legal domain name opportunities.

Why did they name it Le Whif?

If they were going after a primarily American or English-speaking audience, they should have spelled it right - Le Whiff (as in LeWhiff.com). The majority of media stories on the device spelled it with 2 f's. Second, why use the word whif or whiff anyway? In the U.S., a whiff of something is generally bad, odorous, off-putting. In baseball, a whiff is an embarrassing miss. These are negatives - not the sort of association you want for a consumable. Strange.

Maybe they had to misspell whiff because the word is in such wide use that they couldn't claim trademark rights to Le Whiff (with 2 f's). If you Google Le Whiff, you'll find wide use of that phrase, with many negative connotations, including one site using it to describe awful smells in France, with a photo of stinky cheese. Whiff alone returns 2.3 million links at Google. 

If you'd like to own LeWhiff.com, email your offer to DomainValues@yahoo.com.

Leave Your Heart in .NYC

Soon you'll be able to buy domains ending in .nyc instead of .com. New York City aims to become the first U.S. city to have its own top-level domain. Hundreds of thousands of New York businesses and individuals will likely rush to register the .nyc version of their present .com domains. What a windfall for major registration companies like Moniker! The city will also make money on the deal ($millions starting in 2010, according to NYC accountants), so expect many other cities to follow suit (.la, .sf, .phx, etc.).

Punta Colonet to Get 60,000 Homes, Power Plant, Airport and More to Support Megaport

Baja California Governor Jose Osuna Millan today reaffirmed plans to build the megaport at Punta Colonet, saying that economic conditions require only that it be built a little smaller than originally contemplated. He said that a mimimum of 60,000 homes will be built in what is today a fishing village. He also said that an airport, industrial zones and at least one electric power plant will be part of the massive construction program.


Those Punta Colonet domains -- PuntaColonetYellowPages.com, PuntaColonetInfo.com, PortColonetBay.com, PortColonet.com, ElPuertoDePuntaColonet.com, PuntaColonetLawyers.com, PuntaColonetHomes.com and PuntaColonetCarRentals.com, to name a few -- will be worth a fortune! Buy some today at Moniker or SEDO or submit your offers direct (avoid commissions) to DomainValues@yahoo.com. For the latest news on the meg-port project, vist the Punta Colonet Blog.

6 Domains Have Sold for 7 Figures in 2009

Let's see... Someone created the domain Call.com for under $10, and it sold in recent days for a whopping $1.1 million. Nice! The sale was handled by the #1 domain company, SEDO. If you want to register a new domain or shop for a good existing one, click on the Moniker or SEDO link at the right and go for it!

Jam That Cell Phone!

You go to the movies and no matter how clever the request is for everyone to turn off their cell phones, all through the movie you hear cell phones ringing, see cell phone screens glowing, and hear people talking on the damn things. Same thing in Broadway theaters and church services. In prisons, convicts use smuggled cell phones to set up prison breaks and even orchestrate revenge killings and conduct drug trafficking in the community outside prison walls.

How to stop all this? Jam cell phone signals. Cell jammers (CellJammers.com) are legal in most countries, but they're not in the U.S. Since no one's ever been arrested for using a cell jammer in the States, there are lots of them for sale all over the Internet. Congress is preparing to legalize jammers for some uses (like prisons), but pressure from many other groups assures that they'll soon be legal for everyone. 

One company uses the domain CellJammer.com (the singular) to market its products, but the plural CellJammers.com is available from DomainValues@yahoo.com; they're asking $1500, a bargain. To register your own domain creations, click on Moniker.

From a personal security standpoint, another signal jamming issue arises from the use of RFID signal emitters in everything from credit cards to passports. That makes the domain RFIDsignaljammer.com worth bucks. Buy it from DomainValues@yahoo.com.