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I have often wondered why the large domain companies like SnapNames, NameJet, Godaddy, Afternic and so on never offered search features like all the "domainer owned" sites do. Well, this appears to be changing…

Godaddy has added the option to search for CVCV, VCVC, CVVC and VCCV style domain names directly on their site. This is a first for any large domain company to offer such a feature. I think this has a lot to do with Adam Dicker (domainer) being added to the team at Godaddy!

For those that are unaware what CVCV etc stands for, the C means Consonant and V means Vowel and would contain letter combo’s like: BEBE

In order to use the search, visit Godaddy.com and click Auctions. Once at the auction section, click Advanced Search.

I hope to see More search features like this added to Godaddy, because as an investor I feel that they have the most accurate data to search, so why not offer the tools domain investors Want! I would expect to see a "dictionary word" feature added and maybe some similar to that. I wouldn’t expect to see options like Domain Age, Backlinks or things like that since it would take an outside source to provide the info. Then it becomes harder to verify or provide 100% accurate data.

I hope to see SnapNames, NameJet, Sedo, Afternic etc to follow and provide domainers Direct Tools they want to search these massive amounts of domain names in their inventory.

Freshdrop.net is a great Free and Paid service provided by a domainer (Gorilla_Bob) and today when I went to the site, it has a new look.

They are clearly still in the works of getting the new look fully in place, as the page is very wide, buttons are hide under things etc, but these are all little bugs that will get worked out.

I also noticed "the filtering" tool (that allows you to only see .com or domains with or without numbers etc) is missing and hope that comes back. Anothing thing you will no longer be able to do is "copy" (highlight domain, right click, copy and paste into godaddy) a domain and add it to Godaddy to watch/bid. This was a smart move by Bob, to get people to actually click on the domain so he get’s credit for you using the service. Keep in mind, that just because you "click" a domain on Freshdrop.net doesn’t mean you will pay any more for it at auction. This simply allows Bob to get affiliate credit and keeps the site up and running.

Programming, hosting and design are not Free, so be sure if you use the service, use the tools provided so the site can stay up. Use the Buy button so you can watch or bid on the domain via Godaddy.

Freshdrop.net has went from a little tool with a "Lemon Design", into a Great tool used by most domainers and I hope to use it for many years to come!

I had wrote about Aggregation feeds back in June. With anything, there is always the good and the bad. I have always had mixed feelings about them.

The problem I am having more of right now is Saturation of using one’s feed… Domaining.com, AdamDicker.com are two of the main ones that grab DotWeekly.com’s feed. I’m sure other’s do as well and now DnHeadlines.com is interested as well.

Here is my recent Q&A with Michael from DnHeadlines:

DnHeadlines: Q, What do you think about becoming part of the DNHeadlines.com RSS inventory?

My Answer:

Hi Michael,

I guess I have always had mixed feelings about blog aggregation.

The good for the blog owner:

It can provide extra traffic (readers) to your site, which can also bring in more direct readers.

Gain in links.

The bad for the blog owner:

The person grabbing the feed is "getting something for nothing"! Who says they will be sending traffic "back" and not just using the content.

The person grabbing the feed is profiting from somebody else’s work. IMO (ie, adding "ads") because without the aggregation, Domaining.com and DNHeadlines.com wouldn’t have the content they do and the advertisers wouldn’t be around or getting clicks.

The bloggers unique content is spread around the web, making the blogs unique content not very unique anymore. Although the blogger was the first, that doesn’t mean all the traffic from that content goes TO the site that started it.

Saturation. After domaining.com started, more and more "domain" aggregation sites are coming up. Do we really need more?

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I think our industry is way to spread out already. Don’t get me wrong, competition is good but when is the fine line of to many or to much?

How many think like I do, that the domain industry has way to many Auction Services? Same thing as the Blog Aggregation. It’s good and bad. Bad for buyers, because how do you be so many places? How can you reasearch so many different domains all over the place, let alone find them all..

What if the auction services offered up all their domains into 2 auctions per day as a Group? Each get to keep their own profits etc. Then you would only have One Place to do your reasearch. One auction for Expired Domains, the second auction for the day would be "customer domains". TDNAM, Pool, SnapNames, Afternic and Namjet, Sedo all on ONE auction service… I know I’m dreaming, but it "could" be done.

Dustin Machi, the current owner of MyDebate.org is missing out and is the latest victim of not understanding domain names. Although he was smart enough (or lucky) to own a very similar domain to the one that was announced to Millions during the Presidental debate last night, MyDebates.org. MyDebate.org which is more clear and what is likely Thousands visited last night and today and probally for a while, land on a standard registrar park page!

This brings up a couple things… One, owning the Plural and Nonplural versions are very important to domain name owners with full sites on one of the domains.

Secondly, it brings up clear proof that owning the "other" version of a domain that get’s a good deal of traffic is not a bad idea as long as the domain is a Generic. MyDebate.org has an Alexa.com rank in the 600K range and I would bet Dustin doesn’t even know the amount of traffic it’s getting!

MySpace.com is running the real debate system and owns MyDebates.com but if you leave off the www. the page doesn’t resolve. Dah! Secondly, the domain that was used during the live debate last night on TV was MyDebates.org . MySpace doesn’t appear to even Own the .org as whois shows BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) as the owner which appears to be a marketing company, but the domain name does forward to MySpace.com .