Successclick, Domain Monetization

ALERT: The Future Trend Domain Auction™ List is OUT, but NOT COMPLETE YET!

Moniker and Snapnames have released the registered domains for the Future Trend Domain Auction™, tentatively set for August 24 – Aug 30.

However, that list is NOT complete yet. This isn’t unusual. We wanted to get out the first of the auction’s domains quickly, so all of the FT domainers could see their domains included, and start promoting those domains.  At the same time, we are writing a “Directory” of these domains, with relevant links and data that explains why the domain is valuable.

Don’t get confused by Moniker’s labeling of the “List” as their “catalog”.  But to save time and effort, the real catalog of all the info on the domain in the Future Trend Domain Auction™ will be called the “Future Trend Domain Auction™ Directory.”

That way there won’t be confusion, hopefully.  Moniker calls their “list” their “catalog”, so we’ll call the final data file on all the domains in the Future Trend Domain Auction™, the “Directory”.

This directory will be downloadable as a PDF file, not only at Moniker and Snapnames, but at many blogs, including ours.  This is important for promoting the FT domains, because the more people publishing the domains and the directory for the Future Trend Domain Auction™, the more interest we may gather from end users who would be excited in controlling their prodservs generic descriptive domain brands.

NOTE:  If you are sure your domains have been listed on Moniker’s auction list after you registered them, PLEASE BE SURE TO WRITE YOUR 150 WORD REPORT, WITH AT LEAST 2 RELEVANT NEWS LINKS and email them to Successclick.com IMMEDIATELY so we can include that data in the Directory.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR DATA SUBMISSION FOR THE DIRECTORY:

1) Your Full Name

2) Your email address

3) The domain name along with the reserve price you chose when you registered your domains at Snapnames

4) That you have at least TWO links that support your domain’s value based on the articles/reports that those links promote.

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MORE NEWS FOR THE LUCKY FEW ACCEPTED- Future Trend Domain Auction™

Hi Future Trend Domain Auction™ participants.

If you’ve registered your domains at the special Snapnames registration link: FUTURE TREND DOMAIN AUCTION™ then you can complete you final step in getting your domain listed worldwide, in the largest promotion of a single domain category ever in the history of domain auctions.

Successclick.com is creating a Powerpoint-style report that allows all buyers to download and read so they can learn about the domains and other domain that may seem similar to their needs.

IMPORTANT: If you have registered your domains at Snapnames, then your next step is to submit the following to the Successclick email address:

1)  For every domain accepted into the auction, write a 150 word (none plagiaristic, write it in your own words!) short report on why your domain is valuable. DO NOT EXPLAIN WHY DOMAINS ARE VALUABLE, FOCUS ON YOUR DOMAIN!

2) Add at the bottom of your report at LEAST two links from legitimate news sources on why your domain is either maturing now, or will in the near future.

3)  When you SUBMIT THIS INFO TO US, Please use these EXACT words in the SUBJECT LINE SO THERE IS NO CONFUSION FOR US TO FIND OUT WHICH EMAILS ARE INTENTED TO PROMOTE THE ACCEPTED DOMAINS!

SUBJECT LINE:  “ACCEPTED FT DOMAINS DETAILS AND LINKS

That subject line will allow us to wade through the hundreds of email we get daily.
We’d like to thank ALL the participants in this auction. Remember, this is a TEST auction. We aren’t sure which domains have matured yet and either are you.

Both Moniker and Successclick will be spending the next 2 weeks contacting most of the marketing company we know, including the New Media Marketing groups.

With the completed PDF file of all your domains with their descriptions and followup links, when potential buyer download the list of domains we accepted.

Congrats again to all of you, thank you for your constant support and offers to help promote the event, and good luck!

PS: More Info Coming

WHOA! 2ND ALERT! NEW FUTURE TREND DOMAIN AUCTION™ INSTRUCTIONS!

Hi FT Domainers,

The next process to expect is an email from Successclick.com that will show you which of your domains that have been accepted, along with the reserve prices that you submitted.

DO NOT WORRY IF YOU DON’T GET THIS EMAIL IMMEDIATELY. We are doing this by hand, not by automation. What you will receive is an email from me instructing you to click a registration link from Snapnames to register your accepted domains with Snapnames/Moniker.

Clicking this link will allow you to exclusively enter this auction with the domains I indicate in my email to you that were accepted. To have even ONE domain of yours accepted is pretty good, since thousands of domains were submitted, and only about 200 have been accepted, maybe more. We will know for sure by Aug 5.

YOU NEED TO ACT ON THE EMAIL I SEND TO YOU IMMEDIATELY. Please make sure any domains coming from “Successclick” are not spam dumped, or you could lose out on a possible payoff for your accepted domains.  I think most of you will be honored to be included in the group of domainers and their domains that have formed the basis of the first Future Trend Domain Auction™.

In other words, if you get an email from me, with a list of your domains that have been accepted, that’s a good sign you’ve invested in some powerful FT domains. Whether they sell at this auction doesn’t mean they won’t sell in our future auctions. This is the first one, and you’re all pioneers in this direction of investing in Future Technology domain trends. I say you’re smart. Some naysayers may say you’re dreaming. We’ll just have to wait and see!

I’d like all of you, once you get my email, to write your 150 word report on each domain that I indicate was accepted, and find as many news links to support your domain’s value. Your information will be included in a fantastic FT Domains Catalog of education and pricing for thousands of people to download and read. This will be a first for any auction every held.

Stay tuned, your email will be coming today, tomorrow, and through the weekend. The deadline to register is Tuesday, Aug 2nd.

Cheers and congrats!  I want to thank Moniker and Snapnames (Oversee.net) for their support in this event. It’s difficult learning each business process for holding domain auctions, but they are just as excited as we are about the event, so give them your full support!

ALERT! 3D/HOLO/ENERGY DOMAINERS: FUTURE TREND DOMAIN AUCTION™ UPDATE!

BIG NEWS!

This blog article is meant specifically for anyone who submitted domains to the Future Trend Domain Auction™.  (You should also subscribe to the Successclick.com newsletter for quick updates).  The news is that over 200 domains have already been accepted, and many of you should be contacted this week by Snapnames or Moniker to sign up for the auction officially.

At this date, over 300 people have submitted over 2,750 domains.

THE NEXT STEPS TO EXPECT: If any of your domains were accepted in the Future Trend Domain Auction™ (FTDA), Snapnames/Moniker (“SnapMon”) will be contacting you by email to invite you to officially register for the auction. Once you’ve registered, your domains and reserve prices will be added to the FTDA list.   Once 50+ domains are confirmed to be in the auction, they will be listed on the homepages of SnapMon, and our blog, and several other respected popular domain blogs. There also will be PRweb News Releases sent out including links to pages showing your domains.

NOTE: 1) Some of the homepage listings may be announced only by a link to another page showing the list. 2) The domain seller (you) confirmations will be continuing for at least 10 more days, so don’t be discouraged if you haven’t been contacted yet.  3) You should be contacted no later than August 5 if your domain/s were accepted. If Successclick sent you an email saying any of your domains were accepted and they don’t show up on your SnapMon acceptance agreement email, contact us immediately.

Once you’ve confirmed your agreement with SnapMon to participate, you will need to send me the following immediately:

•  A 150 word description on why each of your ACCEPTED domains are valuable
•  A few links to relevant news articles for each of your domains that support the value of your domains by showing a news website discussing your domain’s purpose.

This information will be published in the Future Trend Domain Auction™ (FTDA) Catalog PDF that will be downloadable at Moniker.com for anyone interested in your domains. The sooner you get the information about your accepted domains to Successclick (our email is — “successclick {at}  gmail.com”), the sooner we can finish the catalog and get it online for buyers to download.

The purpose of the FTDA Catalog PDF is to educate potential buyers on your domains and all FT domains featured in the auction. A large majority of the FTDA domains are not well-known prodservs yet, and this catalog will educate anyone interested in investing in maturing or already matured future trend domains. The FTDA Catalog is crucial to even minimal success of this auction, which means everyone participating has a part in supporting the FT domain investment growth.

This is an extremely important part of your participation in the FTDA event. Providing end users with detailed information and supporting news links on your domains helps define interest and show mainstream buyers the value of Future Trend domains.

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“I CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU, SON.” The Sad Reality Of Domain Corporate Proliferation

True Grit. Few people we all knew for years in this industry who helped us through rough and ignorant times are left. With the loss of Mike Robertson at Fabulous.com months ago and Victor Pitts at Moniker.com, I think there’s no other rep working for a domain corporation who will bend over backwards to make sure you’re treated fairly, and maybe give you a chance to recover from a mistake before it becomes devastating to your portfolio. The chance that it will become very profitable for the registrar holding your domain is a nebulous cloud.

Most large domain companies (no names need to be mentioned) have “switched it up” for us domainers, because everyone knows how soul-less corporations work. It’s “let’s get rid of all those employees who treat our clients well, but bend rules just a bit to make them happy, and although forming great bonds with those customers, large and small, they may not be making our company the extra dollar we would like based on possible penalties, mistakes, miscues, fines, additional fees, etc. that we can legally extract from those customers, and that will add profits to our shareholders bottom line..”

Most corporate financial analysts of the heartless kind (oops, that was redundant) know one thing:  EXCISE ANY EMPLOYEE THAT HAS CODDLING FRIENDSHIPS WITH CUSTOMERS WHO DON”T BRING IN REVENUE IN SIX FIGURES ANNUALLY. Warn them to keep kissing butt for those six-figure customers, but anyone less, they now have to toe the corporate line “because, that’s what the rules are, and the powers that be demand it.”  Then the next sentences you start hearing regularly are “Sorry, I don’t have the power to change this because upper management is bearing down.” uh huh.  (Translation: “I vaz only followink owrdaz”)

We all have our personal experiences in dealing with “new” employees who replaced those employees we became friends with and who bent over backwards to repair our stupidity and literally saved us tens of thousands of dollars or more in our relationships with the company even though yearly, we bring in thousands of dollars for them.

Things have changed across the board for most domain registrars and domain companies that provide multiple services, backed up with millions of dollars of venture capital and tens of thousands of expired domains they’ve captured from their customers who didn’t pull it together in time.

Ironically, we all make money from those domains that are put up for auction from this sad situation, but we still pay the companies who “nabbed” the deleted domains we buy from their own customers. The sad part is that the companies taking these domains from their customers is like telling your best friend that you are taking their $1500 stereo because that $100 they owe you hasn’t been paid, and you’ve given them enough warning. We’ll hear a “fake sorry”, but business is business.

Most Registrars and Multi-Purpose Domain companies have become:

1) Acquisition monsters
2) Removers of customer-favoring policy executives
3) Shifters or removers of “favorite customer service reps”
4) And with #1 above, very suspicious of any executive or customer representative who have built up a large list of customers who like working with the company thanks to that one representative working there.

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WHY FACEBOOK IS DANGEROUS

Facebook is probably the most dangerous “socially” accepted medium in the world.

Not only will it find a photo of your face online with every bit of data connected to your photo (with FB’s new facial recognition software) but it will do a “reverse mining” scan of the internet on your name, confirm that your name and photo are “exact” (analyzing your FB account’s photos) and archive that information in their servers.

This means that FB can collect information about you and your family/friends/coworkers, neighbors, schoolmates, etc, (all those photos at family birthdays and frat parties, etc), based solely on connecting facial recognition technology with knowing what name to put with what face. FB then runs those photos of your “connections” against their own database of photos to see which of those faces in your photos have a FB account, even if you didn’t ID them. So all that fake “Tagging” people’s faces is just for the convenience of your viewers on your FB account.

Then you can ponder, if you know history and the evil that exists in the world, the power Facebook controls over a half billion people (that’s correct, a half billion). You should consider measuring how it ties in every bit of your personality,  your friends and family, and stores that information, and continues to mine (scan/search) that info based on your photo appearing anywhere on the internet, and then builds a permanent profile about you.

I’m not talking about “contact information”, we’re talking about revealing everything about you, connecting the dots, categorizing you instantly in a variety of areas (are you conservative or liberal?) and innocuous information that you would never believe would come back to haunt you – or information you don’t want people to know. It’s all attached to a database record of you on Facebook’s servers, and it will be more complete than any nefarious force (hacker, dictator, corporate power, whoever) could ever dream of.

Those who think Facebook’s all about “marketing”, think again. Stop and think how many major corporations can screw up your life because you’ve become dependent on what they offer… for example: cellphone companies, utility companies, banks, investment firms, political parties, transportation sources like airlines, trains and buses. If you think your life is automated safely and comfortably, with the government and mulit-national corporations putting your happiness and safetyy first and showing you how to depend on them for their services, then jump on the FaceBook juggernaut. It’s as easy as voting for GW Bush in 2004, because he had our best interests at heart.

Write on Facebook everything you’re doing, post your pics. No worries!  Some believers in Facebook will moronically say “it’s just family photos and I have “privacy settings” checked.”

Really?  Then continue. Show them everything. Want to keep something private about an innocent family member, like a young niece or child in your family circle? Don’t worry, put up a birthday party picture with their face in the shot, and guaranteed Facebook will have as much information on your little niece within a few months as there is available. Don’t forget,  she’ll be starting her own “personal site” soon, so it’s just a simple “connect the dots” with Facebook pinpointing her face that is now recognized in a family photo you posted (without identifying her) a year or two earlier.

That’s how Facebook is insidious.  It’s just connecting the dots, and they aren’t dots YOU have laid down. They’re dots placed by your Facebook group… and the applications they sucker you into playing, like the cunning “question party” game that tricks your connection into mentioning you in a series of questions, even using terms to “compliment” you into answering. (Yep, my wife’s Facebook account has almost ten comments from high school mates saying she was the “prettiest girl”. Then they post that on my wife’s FB wall, and try to lure her to answer or even see the what was written about her. So, does curiosity kill the cat? Or does curiosity on Facebook just pan out to be “innocent fun for all?”

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WHAT’S THE STORY WITH THE FUTURE TREND DOMAIN AUCTION™?

BIG NOTE FOR SUCCESSCLICK AND Future Trend Domain Auction™ FANS:

I finally received hopefully my final medical treatment for a crushed elbow, and it’s news that has removed a lot of stress on me. There’s no broken joints, but I have compressed cartilage, bruised pivot joints, and torn ligaments in my left elbow that I’ve been struggling with for almost six weeks. I was supposed to have exploratory surgery a month ago, which would have torn my arm apart and not allowed me to be able to type for another two months.

Because of this auction, and my dedication to helping everyone try to find the “sweet spot” for the value of their FT domains (or what has matured, and what hasn’t), I chose not to have the surgery, and my wife helped me do some physical therapy at home, against three doctor’s recommendations who wanted surgery. (think they want some money from my med insurance?)

My arm still isn’t 100%, but I can type, and after seeing an orthopedic surgeon specialist, he informed me that there probably isn’t permanent damage that would require surgery.  This was a huge relief, and I’ve been trying to catch up with all of you since then. Thanks to many of you for your support and writing me personally.

The Future Trend Domain Auction™ is still on, and Moniker hasn’t given me any indication that it isn’t. The auction hasn’t been officially announced because of the unbelievable amount of submissions I received (over 2,500 from about 275 people). Compounding the unexpected popularity of this auction was the fact that there are A LOT OF SMART DOMAINERS OUT THERE.

You guys have found Future Trend domains that even I haven’t heard before, and I probably am the foremost expert in this area in the world. (Just had to say that to irritate my buddies).  Seriously, we have had to research hundreds of domains we’ve never heard of before. Some we just wanted to skip over because they sounded so ridiculous, except they turned out to be FOR REAL.   I don’t think anyone in this sector of domain investing even KNOWS the amazing technology trends that are being developed right now. It’s incredible. However, searching them up and confirming their value has been overwhelming.

Since Successclick.com isn’t making a commission or any money from promoting this auction, we’ve put hundreds of hours pouring over your domains to pick out the ones we feel will not only blow people’s minds, but possibly open up new domain investment doors. We’re happy to have support for new technology domain investing from some of the top domainers in the world, including Rick Schwartz, Michael Berkens, Elliot Silver, Adam Strong, Page Howe, Andrew Allemann, Ron Jackson and many others. Sorry if I didn’t drop your names here in this list that is only half true.

We can tell you that at least 80% of the domains have been accepted, and the process of contacting those domainers for officially entering them into the auction using SnapMon’s requirements is all that’s left, except for the homework I’ll be giving you once you’ve confirmed you’ve allowed your domains into the auction.

The Future Trend Domain Auction™ is a different auction, unlike any held before. How? Because I’m pushing SnapMon to use their non-domainer marketing tactics to reach end users instead of simply sending out boilerplate email to their domainer list. Successclick is contacting marketing websites and will be sending out PRwire news releases about this auction to hopefully attract end users.

However, here’s the big “I love FT Domains” move that all of you can do to help this auction bring in outside end users:

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