Warren Royal in Wall St. Journal: $2 Million+ in Annual Bobblehead Sales

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It’s great to see friends and colleagues getting mainstream recognition related to their business activities, and I want to share an article from the Wall St. Journal that featured Warren Royal, the founder of Bobbleheads.com, who built a successful bobblehead toy business on this exact match domain name.

If you follow baseball, you probably heard that the New York Yankees honored Mariano Riviera with a bobblehead doll giveaway, and due to some apparent truck troubles, the bobblehead dolls were delayed and 18,000 fans were given vouchers for a free bobblehead. People were upset, and the fact that they had to wait in line during and after the game to trade their voucher for a bobblehead made things worse. Several sports and other news outlets picked up on this story.  My first thought was that I hope Warren’s company wasn’t involved in this fiasco!

The WSJ article discussed the Yankees bobblehead situation, but it also discussed bobbleheads in general, touching on the popularity of these figurines. I honed in on the section about Warren, and the business he built is pretty amazing:

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Nokta Domains Relaunches Website

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Nokta DomainsI received an email from Nokta Domains‘ Kubra Koseler, and she wanted to let me know the company recently relaunched its website. I think the redesign is worth mentioning because of the company’s end user reach and potential for that to impact our business.

One thing you will notice right away is a group photo of the Nokta employees. It seems a number of companies in the domain space are doing this, including Domain Holdings and Name.com to name two. Another thing you’ll notice is that the website is entirely in English, despite the company’s Turkish roots (they do have a Turkish language version).

Along with the aesthetic changes to its website, the company made some changes to its

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Dynadot Giving Away Some Swag!

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Dynadot wants to give you some Dynadot-branded swag! The company is offering the following free giveaways to people who read my blog:

  • 5 t-shirts
  • 10 Shot glasses
  • 10 Sunglasses
  • 10 Keychain Flashlights

Since there are limited quantities for each item, it’s available on a first come, first served basis.

To get your free Dynadot swag, send an email to Jacqueline Daly – marketing “at symbol” dynadot.com. Let Jacqueline know which giveaway you’d like, and she’ll let you know if it’s available. She’ll need your address to send your item.

No need to comment here, especially because I don’t want you to publish your mailing address on my blog.

Coffee.org Offering Free Box of K Cup Samples

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Last week, I reached out to a number of companies and people that are involved in the domain space to see if there was interest in doing a giveaway to readers of my blog. Bill McClure of Coffee.org (as well as  Bouquet.com) made an offer on behalf of his company, and I want to share it with those of you who are coffee lovers:

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Domain Name Sales is Hiring Inside Domain Broker

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Jeff Gabriel, Vice President of Sales at Domain Name Sales, just posted an announcement on Facebook to let people know that his company is hiring in house domain brokers. There is one major caveat to this though – employees of Domain Name Sales must work out of the company’s Grand Cayman headquarters.

Here’s how the company describes its ideal candidate for the Inside Technical Sales position:

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Place Your Backorders Everywhere

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On occasion, an exceptional domain name will expire and enter pending delete status. Most often (from my perspective), one of the leading auction websites, like NameJet or Snapnames, will catch the domain name, and it will be entered into an auction with many bidders.

Sometimes, neither one of these large auction houses will capture the domain name, and it will be caught by another auction house, by a private company, or by a drop catching service that awards the domain name to the first and only backorder. This happens when the

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