Thanks for all of the activity on the domain name v8.com.au. We have received over 16 offers to sell the domain name. The offer we rejected this week was for $82.5k. We are still accepting expressions of interest to purchase, lease or own equity in the domain name v8.com.au and will do so until September 1, 2010.
Moving forward as a company to exceed all goals set forth almost 2 years ago is a very good, very humbling and also a very well deserved feeling. Dream, visualise, create and succeed. In order to do this successfully, you must first do two things: Embrace your possibility of failure and remove it; then you must remove all negativity in all forms be it people, foods or other.
In preparation of launching a business model that has been over 17 months in the making, I am ready to embrace that possibility of failure head on and look defeat in the eye because I have planned for it and already established our various recovery plans of action through a 4 week discovery phase.
I hope that our new domain name bulk development service along with our articles marketplace and backlinks seo marketplace will improve the internet as a whole and be a solution to many Australians and others worldwide that own a portfolio of domain names that are parked.
The countdown is on… we’re close now…
Pacific Octane recently acquired the domain name illawarra.com.au for $5,000.00AUD and then converting the AUD into USD we can gauge quite closely that it was purchased for $4,550.00USD as listed on DNJournal.com
Within a period of less than 72 hours, illawarra.com was sold for $1,500.00USD by BuyDomains.com, a division of Name Media. Now to make this EVEN STRANGER, if you try to acquire the domain name illawarra.net, it is listed for sale at a $8,000.00USD asking price.
My question is this: Is the .com always going to be more valuable than any ccTLD domain name or will the evolution of the Google algorhythms slowly push value on a geographical basis to the ccTLD?
I will actually for the first time on my blog be allowing comments, but they will be solicited comments from people that I admire and respect in the domain name industry.
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Pacific Octane Pty Ltd has acquired a true monster of a domain name in v8.com.au. V8 during the month of October 2009 was searched locally here in Australia 1,500,000 times and 5,000,000 globally. Pacific Octane Pty Ltd is currently seeking expressions of interest from industry related companies looking to partner with us on the development of this monster domain name. Please contact James on 0401 725 885 if you would like to be considered in a participating role of V8.com.au that is set to launch in mid 2010.
If you are a fellow member of auDA and you have been contacted by individuals and/or others soliciting upon their behalf, perhaps you are just as annoyed as I am regarding the lack of respect that this has shown and also demonstrated in my opinion of what is WRONG with auDA at present time.
Where have these people been the last year? I have studied political science and I am very switched on when it comes to how the dynamics of certain individuals within an organisation can create more synergy and achieve more. What I don’t understand is how the same individuals can even work up the courage to ask for a vote or a vote on someone’s behalf that doesn’t have any interest in industry growth.
Domain owners within the .au domain market want change. auDA will remain a controlled environment until NEW people are put into play and unless that happens, expect no change. I see the perceptions of policy growing wider as the noose around the necks of domainers keeps tightening.
Where is the marketing of this great product the .au domain name? When will auDA actually change and begin incorporating TRADITIONAL CAPITALIST STRATEGIES into their business plan? When will they start being proactive in tracking down individuals that ABUSE the dispute policy and actually PROSECUTE them based on MALICIOUS INTENT?
Wake up people. If you own more than 50 .au domain names, you need to be a member of auDA.
I am voting this board election. I want my vote to make a difference. I only hope that the hopeless chain of communistic and prehistoric business practices can be abolished in the coming year.
As for the persons emailing us for voting support I say to you: “Do the right thing and contact us for a chat. In the coming year, how about let’s get together for a beer and some structured conversation. Why not incorporate a State by State get together of white board meetings and fundraising to propel an industry into the mainstream so EVERYBODY can MAKE MORE MONEY!”