ProBlogger.com Expires, Up for Auction

The ProBlogger.com domain has expired and is up for auction on Go Daddy's Domain Name AfterMarket site. Bidding is up to $95 with eight days to go. There have been seven bids already, and the domain appears to get about 3,000 visitors a month, despite no real content at the site. There's been a lot of interest in blogging domains, and even with the failure of some of the blog networks, there could be strong interest in this domain.

ProBlogger.com was registered to ProBlogger.com">Matt Winkler from Chatsworth, Calif. The Wayback Machine shows that in ProBlogger.com/">May of 2006 the site featured a placeholder page that described the coming debut of a "new type of blogging community. Offering innovative technology, fully customizeable layouts, image hosting, and many other features, Problogger is sure to breath new life into the blogging community." Earlier searches from 2004 show a blog with Lorem Ipsum text.

So who's interested in ProBlogger.com? It would be a natural for Darren Rowse, who has built one of the blogosphere's most successful and respected brands at ProBlogger.net. It might make sense for Darren to re-invest some of his six-figure blogging income to register the .com, if only as a defensive strategy to prevent another blogger from buying the name and diluting the brand equity he has built on the .net domain.

  Posted by RichM February 22, 2007 | Permalink | Newsletter

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