Gambling Domains News

Looking for a domainer and gambling expert

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:45 +0000

Gambling Invest is looking to relaunch its main web site and its blog Gambling Domains News to create a resource for gambling operators and webmasters looking to invest in gambling domains.

To do so we are looking for someone familiar with both online gambling and domaining to write a guide and how to articles about investing in gambling domains, but also to blog on regular basis covering news of sales of gambling domains and other related events.

This is a part time position starting from around 20 hours per week as a writer/blogger, but for the right person there is a good opportunity to become a partner and take over responsabilities such as managing inquiries about domains in our portfolio, identify and contact possible buyers as well as be involved in a special project for the development of a network of gambling affiliate sites and eventually represent Gambling Invest at all major igaming industry and domaining events.

Excellent communication and writing skills and a good knowledge of domain tools are a must as well some experience in both industries (domaining and online gambling).

Other than that, all we require is that you are able to work on projects both independently and with minimal supervision as well as by following instructions. Attention to details and the ability to manage your own time effectively are also a must.

If you are a self-starter with the desire to contribute to the first specialized portal bringing together domaining and online gambling, and in the process willing to learn and be committed to make of Gambling Invest the protagonist of a very competitive industry, please contact pbuccioli at gamblinginvest.com

Last Two Days for Gambling Domains London Auction

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:05:56 +0000

The online auction of 2300 gambling domains, including picks.us, bettingexchange.us, igaming.us, asianbookmakers.com, soccerbookmakers.com, tennispicks.com, worldcuppicks.com, totobet.com, londonbet.com and p2pbet.com, started on Wednesday 26 January.

“The selection of domain names available should appeal to igaming operators and affiliates alike as domains represent a good investment and many of the names available for sale in the auction are perfect to be developed into web properties,” commented GamblingInvest.com founder, Pierluigi Buccioli.

“Participants turnover has so far been lower than we expected, so registered bidders should be able to snatch domains at very good prices,” added Buccioli.

From January 25 to January 30 the igaming industry gathered in London to attend the ICE Totally Gaming and the London Affiliate Conference.

“It may well be that last week igaming operators were busy attending the London events. Hopefully they are now back in the office and have fully recovered from a week of parties in London, ready to join the bidding,” concluded Buccioli.

If you are interested to participate in GamblingInvest.com’s Gambling Domains London auction, you can find the full catalogue and register for bidding at proxibid.com/gamblinginvest

The auction ends on February 2, 2011, at 8PM (UK time).

First US state voted for online gambling: premium .us gambling domains go for sale at auction online

admin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:08:30 +0000

Gambling Invest announced over a month ago the upcoming sale of over 2000 gambling domains. Since then, New Jersey passed, with a large majority vote in both houses, a legislation for online gambling.

With several other US states considering regulating gambling on the Internet, industry insiders believe that if Governor Christie puts his signature on New Jersey igaming legislation, not only New Jersey will become the first US state with online gambling, but its igaming regulation could be the much needed push for the entire USA to change their attitude towards online gambling.

Gambling Invest is offering for sale, in an online auction starting Wednesday 26 January, a good selection of premium .us gambling domains such as igaming.us, picks.us, bettingexchange.us, financialbetting.us and many more.

“US facing domains are just a part of the great selection of gambling names offered for sale by Gambling Invest,” said Pierluigi Buccioli, founder of the domains auction house. “The auction includes also brandable domains like Totobet.com, Londonbet.com and P2Pbet.com as well as many names at bargain prices with lots of potential for development.”

“While domain auctions are generally created for domain investors, the gambling names offered in the Gambling Invest online sale have a real appeal for gambling operators and affiliates alike,” added Buccioli.

“Keyword domains always represent a good investment because they provide an actual advantage in search engine marketing, but gambling keyword names are also easy to monetize and if developed into a site, a gambling domain can provide a very good return on investment,” he concluded.

GamblingInvest.com’s Gambling Domains London auction starts January 26 at 8PM (UK time) and ends February 2 at 8PM (UK time). The full auction catalogue is available at http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=35497

All interested bidders need to register at Proxibid in order to participate to the auction.

Gambling domain names auction announced

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:52:48 +0000

Gambling Invest to offer for sale over 2000 gambling domains

The gambling domains specialist announced that it will host an online auction featuring over 2000 domains, covering all the key sectors of the gambling industry from sports betting to racing, to casino and poker. These will include bettingexchange.us, igaming.us, picks.us, bookmakers.mobi, jackpotnews.com and tennispicks.com.

“Domain names in general and gambling domains in particular are an excellent investment,” said Pierluigi Buccioli, founder of Gambling Invest and online gambling super-affiliate.

“Demand and prices for gambling domains have continued to go up in the last two years despite the economic crisis and recession, confirming that domains can be used to capture qualified Internet traffic and to establish a company’s identity online. But they are also an excellent investment for buyers that are prepared to hold onto them for few years as well as for operators who develop domain names into web properties.”

“And with the United States considering the introduction of online gambling regulations and several other countries opening their online gambling markets to international competition, it is safe to say that 2011 will be another record year for gambling domains.”

The portfolio of gambling domains offered for sale by Gambling Invest includes lots of domain names that igaming affiliates can develop into gambling portals as well as a good selection of names perfect for operators looking to establish an internet presence or internet startups looking to launch a new brand.

The domains will be up for auction through the Proxibid platform between January 26 and February 2, 2011.

Gambling Invest will make more details of the auction available in the coming weeks.

UPDATE-Slots.com fails to meet reserve price at auction, high bid of $4.5m not enough. Now what?

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:59:59 +0000

The category killer gambling domain Slots.com is still up for sale after failing to meet its reserve price in the auction held at Moniker SnapNames. The auction ended today with 3 interested parties placing bids on the name and a highest bid of $4,500,000. By all reports, the owner of Slots.com had hope the sale would bring in a minimum of $6m, but will be disappointed that even with all the coverage in the gambling industry and a domains powerhouse managing the auction Slots.com didn’t reach the asking price.

There was a lot of interest around Slots.com when the auction was first announced at the GPWA forum, then cancelled, eventually ending up at SnapNames. At this point, the owner has not said if a second auction will be held or if negotations will take place with the highest bidder. But $4.5 million is certainly a price worth considering. At that price, if confirmed, the sale would top the 2010 sales chart at DN Journal, knocking off Photo.com recently sold by Moniker for $1,250,000. Had the name sold for $6m, it would have been a bigger sale than casino.com, which sold for $5.5m, placing Slots.com in the top 10 of reported domain sales of all-time.

While the high bid of $4.5 million suggests there is definite interest, gambling webmasters and domainers in particular have been skeptical at the owner’s target price.
And the lukewarm response to the Slots.com auction indicates the seller needs to be more flexible to tempt the right buyers.

Whatever the outcome of the Slots.com auction, the domain market certainly doesn’t need a rally to show its worth. Nearly 30 of 2010′s top domain sales have been for six-figure dollar amounts and at least 12 gambling domain sales have been reached five figures or more.

UPDATE: The Epik Blog reported last night that Slots.com eventually sold for $5.5 million possibly to one of the big online gambling casino providers.

PokerStars Adds DanielNegreanu.com to Portfolio of Pro Players Web Sites It Operates

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:14:20 +0000

Last week PokerStars purchased the domain DanielNegreanu.com for $6,710 on Afternic. Within days, the largest poker site on the internet had a web site live. And this isn’t the first time that PokerStars has purchased the domain name of a world famous poker player. The Isle of Man-based poker company owns hundreds of poker-related names including the domain and website of Chris Moneymaker.

Prior to PokerStars acquiring the domain, DanielNegreanu.com was owned by FullContactPoker.com, a popular poker forum and informational site, whose most popular member is Daniel Negreanu himself. In 2007, Daniel became a member of Team PokerStars which includes other top pro poker players from around the world such as Chris Moneymaker, Joe Cada, Vanessa Rousso, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. But that didn’t change anything on the FCP’s web site, where Daniel Negreanu still runs a video diary and writes an online journal.

Team PokerStars – Famous Pro Poker Players

Team PokerStars sponsors several professional players, while also owning and operating their domain names and web sites, including JoeHachem.com and ChrisMoneymaker.com. But PokerStars doesn’t own them all. Other players on Team PokerStars like Joe Cada have a fan site setup at JoeCada.com. GregRaymer.com is the website of Raymer Real Estate Services, while BertrandGrospellier.com is the unofficial blog of Bertrand Grospellier and is owned by Gt Holdings LLC, a company that owns over 2,000 domains.

PokerStars doesn’t seem to mind paying for the names either. But is it possible the players just don’t care about owning their virtual names?
The name of a famous poker player is a brand and owning the virtual space associated with it is important. Likely Daniel Negreanu and Chris Moneymaker have some kind of deal that gives PokerStars the option to operate their web sites now while they are part of the company’s pro poker team. And get the domains back later, as all famous poker players seem to ultimately branch out and make money in a variety of other channels.

Slots.com receives $4 million bid at Snapnames

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:46:27 +0000

The owner of Slots.com has finally pushed the domain name to auction. Whatever circumstance caused the change of venue for the much-anticipated Slots.com auction from the forum of the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association to the auction platform at Moniker SnapNames, the result is the name is now in a public auction with a reserve believed to be at $6 million (as reported by DotWeekly.com). With the track record of Moniker at brokering blockbuster deals, the owner of Slots.com might have found herself in a better position.

Not many details as to the reasons behind the change of venue were provided in the press release that announced the auction was going live at Snapnames.com. Slots.com’s Christina Renee simply said: “We are excited that the industry’s leading domain name auction companies Moniker and SnapNames, have agreed to manage this online auction. Their innovative technology platform and reputation for excellence provide a safe, secure and reliable bidding process.”

A hefty reserve some have said could hurt the potential of this name selling, but like it or not, the economy hasn’t affected prices for gambling names in the aftermarket. And when it comes to gambling domains Slots.com is one of the best domains on the market.

Will it sell?

Reactions have been mixed. Comments to Jamie Zoch’s article about the auction at DotWeekly.com yesterday were all negative, but most professional domainers do not think in the same terms gambling webmasters and online gambling companies do when looking at a name that has a lot of potential if fully developed.

More importantly, the auction has grabbed the attention of the entire gambling industry, with several specialized gambling news sites reporting about it and possibly attracting the interest of major online casino operators, for which slot games and slot tournaments represents cash cows.

At the time of writing a bid for $4 million has been placed by bidder casinocity, possibly representing casino portal CasinoCity.com, which also owns the GPWA forum. Auction ends May 12.

Anyone know what Slots.com went for?

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:58:07 +0000

The Slots.com auction came and went on April 28. According to the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association terms of the auction were emailed to participants on Monday April 26 and the auction apparently took place on Wednesday April 28. So far no news has been reported about the auction results and the final sale price remains a mystery at least to the general public.

Did Slots.com sell for more than $1 million – the price tag of Poker.org that turned heads simply because many didn’t believe a .org domain name, no matter how strong the keyword, could sell for such a high price?

Assuming Slots.com did sell on Wednesday, it could be loads of success for the owner of the domain. Christina Hall has remained quiet on the Slots.com blog where posts have been intermittent at best for the last several months. Her last post on March 31 announced that the domain was up for sale and so too was an industry. In her last post, she wrote:

“Slots.com is one the the Internet’s finest domains for the gambling industry, and it will be on the auction block this April. Land based and online operators are battling heads, and wallets, for the prize of owning the URL, with the auction coming hot on the heels of the sale of Poker.org for $1 million”

For many anxiously awaiting the results, the question is: will details on the price be kept under wraps, like many of the big ticket sales that go unreported? It’s obviously too early to say, but forum members on the GPWA’s website are asking the same question.

“Anyone know what slots.com went for?” The question was asked yesterday and remains unanswered. Not even guesses or theories about the auction.

And while the forum responses stay quiet, gambling news sites too have been quiet the past few days, with the last articles from one or two weeks ago reporting about the upcoming auction. Not a single gambling news site has written about the auction result.

The past few months have seen gambling domains perform extremely well with Poker.org selling for $1 million,
so keep an eye out for news of the Slots.com sale – because if a deal did go down, public or not, there’s one sure bet: it sold for more than Flying.com which owns the top sale in 2010 for $1,100,000.
And eventually gambling news sites and domain blogs will be abuzz with comments and analysis…

Slots.com auction to take place April 28, mixed opinions and predictions

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:09:13 +0000

The highly anticipated auction of the domain name Slots.com is now set: mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Interested parties will be able to learn the terms of the auction starting next Monday, April 26, after submitting their contact information to auction@slots.com. The deadline for submission is Friday, April 23. If you have a budget of at least $1 million, you’d better hurry and get registered. The domain name slots.com will go for no less than $1 million.

The plan is for Slots.com to be auctioned at the public forum of the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA). An online forum with over 5,000 members, that is dedicated to helping its members succeed as webmasters in the online gambling industry. Traffic to the online forum reached a record high for the website in March with over 40,000 visitors.

The news of the auction received mixed opinions by forum posters over at GPWA, as can be expected when a domain name is listed for sale for 7 figures. Predictions are the name could sell between $2 milllion and $5 million, but some GPWA members believe that slots.com is “worth every penny and more” and “even $2,000,000 would be a bargain basement price”.

And while domain insiders and web developers not familiar with online gambling may think that $2 million is way too much for slots.com, what online gambling webmasters think can be summed up by a comment of one GPWA forum member, who writes: “Maybe you are valuing this domain in terms of how much value it would be to someone like yourself. You are missing the bigger picture in seeing how much value this domain could be to those who could market it, brand it, etc. You can’t just value a domain like this based on its positions (or lack of) in the SEs and its minimal traffic compared with other slots sites. We will all find out soon enough how much this domain is worth to those with enough spare money to buy it.”

The final sale price might be uncertain and the auction may have gained very mixed opinions, but in less than two weeks we’ll all know. At the time of writing, Flying.com, which sold for $1,100,000 in early March, and Poker.org, which sold in February for $1,000,000, are the highest reported domain sales for 2010. This could all change if Slots.com turns out to be a hot commodity for online gambling operators with plans for development.

While the Slots.com blog has been quiet for the last 2 weeks, Online Casino News reported the news yesterday. A flurry of news coverage will likely start by Friday. So stay tuned, because Slots.com might end up sitting atop the domain sales charts for the remainder of 2010.

Poker and casino sites named in Kentucky case buying backup domain names

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:08:48 +0000

As the outcome of the case between the state of Kentucky and the owners of 141 internet gambling domain names remains uncertain, it is understood that the gambling companies behind the casino and poker sites the Governor of Kentucky tried to seize are now putting in place contingency plans.

The online gambling sites could end up buying similar domains to the ones named in the case.

This strategy would prevent any downtime for the web sites whether the domains get seized, but it could also create a windfall for the owners of the domain names that the gambling sites seek to buy. Desperate times call for desperate measures and in this situation the demand for similar domains could allow owners of the domains to ask for a lot more money that they normally would ask for.

The operators of Full Tilt Poker have recently purchsed FullTilt.com, which was previously owned by a company that provides a product information management solution.

Few years ago, Bodog had to rebrand first as newbodog.com and then as bodoglife.com when 1st Technology was given the control over the bodog.com domain after being awarded a default judgment for almost 50 million dollares in a patent infringement case.

More recently, UltimateBet rebranded as UB.com following a major poker cheating scandal that even attracted the attention of the CBS television show 60 Minutes. The two-letter domain name UB.com sold in 2007 for $130,000 on Moniker.

As in any supply-demand scenario where the buyer is desperate, prices will soar. And domain owners sitting on properties that otherwise haven’t received much interest, might see competitive offers coming in. Especially from companies that have worked hard to build their online gambling brands and do not want to take chances until the fate of their gambling domains in the Kentucky case remains in question.

Following is a list of the 141 internet gambling domain names identified in the Kentucky case.

Do you own any similar names that could be of interest to gambling sites?

123bingo.com

777dragon.com

7sultans.com

absolutepoker.com

aceshighcasino.com

alljackpots.com

allslots.com

arthuriancasino.com

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aztecrichescasino.com

bellavegas.com

bet21.com

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bigtimebingo.com

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blackjackballroom.com

bodoglife.com

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bookmaker.com

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casinobar.com

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fulltiltpoker.com

galaxiworld.com

gamblingboard.com

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grandmondial.com

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