How’s this for a minisite, 10,000 pages with more dripfed daily and even more at a press of a button [WHAM], a fully operational CMS with bells on and twelve reindeer pulling it [BAM], on site and off site SEO, five internal, one external with submission [THANK], your own integrated revenue streams from google to affiliated merchants [YOU], embedded external content, newsfeed, gallery, videos, games and much much more [MAN].

Minisites are history, sites like minisites.com are an Egyptian Mummy, sites like contentminisites.com are so Napoleon dude, whereas Squillions.com Minisite nay MASSIVE site GROWBAGS are today and the future for all, the first passenger flight to Mars, the first home built on the Moon, the mercedes of flying taxis, today we set the standard for domain names parked, today Squillions takes your domains out of park, on to the road for an 220mph drive out of the wilderness and into google, yahoo, bing ding and let it sing, baby!

We build minisites that are websites, growbags that enable your domains to blossom. With others you can pay £137 for one minisite with the above hosted developers for what amounts to a logo, five unique pages and probably a shared rev scheme or pay up to £32 for 200 scraped free ‘you can get them yourself darling’ articles per site and a little bit of adsense placement thrown in, let’s compare that to Squillions.com Growbags, massive sites not mini, not even big mini, they’re massively gigantic humungous minis… here’s what we can offer you;

Squillions Royal Standard

Option of free hosting > details
Five pages of unique content
300 words each
One image per page
Meta / alt tags
Content seo and keyword enriched
Banner placement
Adsense placement
One header image
For sale / contact link
Tellafriend / recommend link
Contact page
Privacy Policy

Did I forget anything? Ah yes;

Embedded Public photo access for each post/page
Video gallery
Video post import
Image gallery
2 affiliate content units implemented
Newsfeed
Sitemap
RSS
Favicon
One article written and submitted to directory
Directory submission
One site link in
Automated content
Google analytics or tracking code installed
Search
One click import post creation
Datafeed script, install and one import
Category set up
1 merchant content units for page
Choice of templates
Optional colours
Optional layouts
Twitter / Facebook set up
Twitter embedded
Twitter update
Feature clause – if we update to a better feature within two months, you get it upgraded for free
Support – one month free support and guidance, we don’t just leave you to it

Websites@Minisite.Prices – we don’t just build minisites, we create websites that can grow! Interested in this and other packages? View our offerings in the minisites / growbags section or contact us. Compare minisite deals.

The next question, who would use such a domain? The answer being more simple than you can imagine, you, me, I could use it. Everything is online content, therefore the end user possibilities are quite unlimited, a for instance, you might be too busy to write this blog entry for yourself, so you may pay someone to write it, a company who offers online content writing services would sell services from this domain.

Come closer, there’s more; make videos for youtube? online content, manage websites for a group of companies? online content management can operate on this domain, supply ringtones, logos, run auctions, sell products, offer photos, syndication, write content filled with keywords, jokes, news and reviews, offer all the above and more then this domain name would house your ‘online content’ perfectly.

Squillions catches domain names worthy of an Oscar, we just dropcaught onlinecontent.co.uk!

And we got healthy food, not just for you but the whole of the UK and anyone else who feels like dropping by, sell it, educate, tell a story, advertise produce, products, research, fitness regimes, diets, recipes, anything at all that can be associated with healthy food can be dealt from a domain like healthy-food.co.uk

Not only does it receive the thumps up for being a category killer, it receives 22,000 local exact searches on the keyword string a month – that’s good and 823,000 globally on broad. Squillions.com eats healthy-food.co.uk

Yes Sir, Lords, Ladies and Gentleman I hereby confirm that BritishWebsites.co.uk has found a home and an obvious one. You would not believe the amount of companies that trade off .net or some obscure extension other than a uk domain who would dearly love to trade off a .co.uk but couldn’t because another company was trading before they arrived on the scene. There’s Squillions of ‘em.

Squillions.com catches domains that are pertinent avenues for existing and new partners.

Hand trolleys are bought and sold all around the world and have many uses to moving fridges to moving window panes and we don’t just have one, we have two cracking domains that go side by side, handtrolleys.co.uk and to ensure you catch all the traffic; handtrolley.co.uk. Are we not just the cleverest bunch of hand trolley salesmen selling fantastic hand trolleys that you’ve ever met?

Squillions.com buys and sells product related, bang on related domain names.

It says what it is and what it will offer, phones and deals which is what the majority of people and consumers want these days, deals on their phones. And you know what can also be done with this name? Use the subdomain and have mobile.phone-deals.co.uk and you go from 14,800 exacts to 110,000 local search results a month.

Squillions.com offers directly searched domains that give a little more with some imagination.

We suggested to the purchaser that while it had overwhelmingly fantastic connections to Rodeo Bulls and the entertainment factor, a domain doesn’t stop there. A domain can spread the word, can build community and as I pointed out “I’m a different breed when it comes to domains, to me keyword searches aren’t the be all and end all, with rodeos.co.uk I see brandability but also a community”

“Not unlike the wild wild west, I see opportunity and a gung ho spirit, a hub where all go to get associated with rodeo, to join, find and gather, upload vids, source entertainment etc. there’s so much more to domains than keyword search. I am excited by this one as a brand.” and I am and even though it’s gone to a good home, I’m still excited that something special will happen with such a brand welcoming domain name.

Squillions.com buys and sell a whole range of domains names.

*Sale did not proceed

To join in, simply click ‘view’ next to the domains that interest you.  To get into the forum if not registered yet, sign in via hotmail, facebook, twitter or any other community portal and you’ll be able to bid straight away. Auctions are due to end at 9pm, should there be a bid in the last five minutes, auction will continue for five minutes past end time.

Please find a list of current auctions here;

All auctions end 9pm BST 19th May 2010 – any questions email or get me on MSN: domaini@hotmail.co.uk

tinboxes.co.uk VIEW
spaceagetravel.co.uk VIEW
handtrolley.co.uk VIEW
handtrolleys.co.uk VIEW
accessshop.co.uk VIEW
gardensaws.co.uk VIEW
discounttraining.co.uk VIEW
consolidated-loans.co.uk VIEW
wannabees.co.uk VIEW
babydrinks.co.uk VIEW
alisted.co.uk VIEW
directflow.co.uk VIEW
refrigeratedstorage.co.uk VIEW
diversecleaningsolutions.co.uk VIEW
slamdoors.co.uk VIEW
easypage.co.uk VIEW
lifestyle.me.uk VIEW
fashionality.co.uk VIEW
boxdisplay.co.uk VIEW
britishwebsites.co.uk VIEW
businesspodcasts.co.uk VIEW
discountedloans.co.uk VIEW
dubaicruise.co.uk VIEW
qualitymenswear.co.uk VIEW
phone-deals.co.uk VIEW Now at £250
glowspa.co.uk VIEW
plantoperator.co.uk VIEW
raisondetre.co.uk VIEW
graniteart.co.uk VIEW
ticktick.co.uk VIEW
intuito.co.uk VIEW
shuttletransport.co.uk VIEW
textilearts.co.uk VIEW
sole-traders.co.uk VIEW
conservatively.co.uk VIEW
camelotcastle.co.uk VIEW
rodeos.co.uk VIEW SOLD
personify.co.uk VIEW
backpages.co.uk VIEW
biometry.co.uk VIEW
biometry.org.uk VIEW
luxuryworld.co.uk VIEW
electronicsecurity.co.uk VIEW
en-suites.co.uk VIEW
en-suite.co.uk VIEW
marinesigns.co.uk VIEW
regalkitchens.co.uk VIEW
netmobiles.co.uk VIEW
brick-work.co.uk VIEW
sport-equipment.co.uk VIEW
beyondcompare.co.uk VIEW
expresslets.co.uk VIEW
localcommunity.org.uk VIEW
localcommunity.co.uk VIEW
globalsource.co.uk SOLD
astray.co.uk VIEW
seismictechnology.co.uk VIEW
keyyachting.co.uk VIEW
fidgety.co.uk VIEW
browngoods.co.uk VIEW
tottenham-fc.co.uk VIEW
hiddenplace.co.uk VIEW
cosmetic-bags.co.uk VIEW
sportsvitamins.co.uk VIEW
pleasureaids.co.uk VIEW
paintme.co.uk VIEW
onlineoutlet.co.uk VIEW
nanology.co.uk VIEW
investorforum.co.uk VIEW
eprospects.co.uk VIEW
transfixed.co.uk VIEW
naturalexposure.co.uk VIEW
mobilefascias.co.uk VIEW
glassgift.co.uk VIEW
adultlearningcentre.co.uk VIEW
tailoredtours.co.uk VIEW
st-pancras.co.uk VIEW
schoolouting.co.uk VIEW
satellitenavigationsystems.co.uk VIEW
pursuits.org.uk VIEW
photographer.me.uk VIEW
gridlines.co.uk VIEW
expressconveyancing.co.uk VIEW
cruiseshipholiday.co.uk VIEW
claimssupport.co.uk VIEW
christopherlee.co.uk VIEW
auto-world.co.uk VIEW
ppcconsultancy.co.uk VIEW SOLD
fineale.co.uk VIEW
bracewells.co.uk VIEW
affiliateagency.co.uk VIEW
stayout.co.uk VIEW
protegees.co.uk VIEW
periwinkles.co.uk VIEW
pass-port.co.uk VIEW
onlinepractitioner.co.uk VIEW
nileholiday.co.uk VIEW
musicgallery.co.uk VIEW
financesector.co.uk VIEW
debtmanagementloans.co.uk VIEW
biocars.co.uk VIEW
onlinemarketeer.co.uk VIEW
departurezone.co.uk VIEW
protegee.co.uk VIEW
projectworkers.co.uk VIEW
projectworker.co.uk VIEW
prioritysearch.co.uk VIEW
populardemand.co.uk VIEW
popicons.co.uk VIEW
medicalfield.co.uk VIEW
caterme.co.uk VIEW
mega-byte.co.uk VIEW
ecalendars.co.uk VIEW
compensationdirect.co.uk VIEW
climbindoors.co.uk VIEW
winesolutions.co.uk VIEW
telesalesjob.co.uk VIEW
signaturewines.co.uk VIEW
rurallife.co.uk VIEW
performancesales.co.uk VIEW
officeidiot.co.uk VIEW
industrialrepairs.co.uk VIEW
gembags.co.uk VIEW
gadgetstation.co.uk VIEW
freebusinessreport.co.uk VIEW
frameservice.co.uk VIEW
flexistaffing.co.uk VIEW
euconsultants.co.uk VIEW
creditservices.org.uk VIEW
labelmate.co.uk VIEW
premierlegal.co.uk VIEW
personifi.co.uk VIEW
myrelatives.co.uk VIEW
lettings-company.co.uk VIEW
wowgaming.co.uk VIEW
rivertrent.co.uk VIEW
palmphones.co.uk VIEW
originalconcept.co.uk VIEW
jeanskirts.co.uk VIEW
jeanskirt.co.uk VIEW
goldenjewellery.co.uk VIEW
filmmagazines.co.uk VIEW
valuehampers.co.uk VIEW
terrazzotile.co.uk VIEW
quicksurveys.co.uk VIEW
motortools.co.uk VIEW
limpets.co.uk VIEW
hydrodome.co.uk VIEW
finearttours.co.uk VIEW
universityblog.co.uk VIEW
swapthings.co.uk VIEW
realrooms.co.uk VIEW
plantbox.co.uk VIEW
luxurywine.co.uk VIEW
onlineleisure.co.uk VIEW
veneeredpanels.co.uk VIEW
televisionbeds.co.uk VIEW
planetnames.co.uk VIEW
minae.co.uk VIEW
thelettings.co.uk VIEW
sonicspeed.co.uk VIEW
sharepriceindex.co.uk VIEW
securitykiosks.co.uk VIEW
musichut.co.uk VIEW
hertsnews.co.uk VIEW
y-e-s.co.uk VIEW
wildorchids.co.uk VIEW
vip-cleaning.co.uk VIEW
travelperks.co.uk VIEW
philter.co.uk VIEW
itappointments.co.uk VIEW
somethings.co.uk VIEW

* Squillions.com reserves the right to withdraw an auction.

The BBC protect the majority of their programmes and services / offerings by registering domains online and are usually looked after by MARKMONITOR with others on tag BBC. While a great many have been renewed, I can’t help but wonder if the over zealous protectors who are ‘BBC Internet Services’ have made a mistake or they have simply been told to reign in their budget.

On Tuesday several dozen domains will drop that will have been previously registered to the BBC, some are untagged so difficult to know if MARKMONITOR have simply lost them or they’re being dropped, ‘renewal required’ showing on all however.

What are the BBC releasing? The list is as follows, some will argue the BBC should never have spent so much on renewal fees in the last ten years, there’s rights protection through registering domain names yourself and ensuring no one elses uses them and then there’s rights protection through being active and action, the mere threat of the corporation challenging should be enough to ensure most registrations as follows are not used.

bbc-animal-hospital.co.uk
bbc-beautiful-gardens.co.uk
bbc-breakfast-news.co.uk
bbc-britcom.co.uk
bbc-children-in-need.co.uk
bbc-choice.co.uk
bbc-classic-collection.co.uk
bbc-close-up.co.uk
bbc-clothes-show.co.uk
bbc-connect.co.uk
bbc-enterprises.co.uk
bbc-essex.co.uk
bbc-explore.co.uk
bbc-focus.co.uk
bbc-food-and-drink.co.uk
bbc-good-food.co.uk
bbc-good-living.co.uk
bbc-greater-london-radio.co.uk
bbc-hereford-and-worcester.co.uk
bbc-homes-and-antiques.co.uk
bbc-inform.co.uk
bbc-knowledge.co.uk
bbc-language-learning.co.uk
bbc-learning-link.co.uk
bbc-learning.co.uk
bbc-legends.co.uk
bbc-match-of-the-day.co.uk
bbc-melodies-for-you.co.uk
bbc-money-programme.co.uk
bbc-money.co.uk
bbc-music-magazine.co.uk
bbc-national-orchestra-of-wales.co.uk
bbc-networking-club.co.uk
bbc-out-this-week.co.uk
bbc-plan-tx.co.uk
bbc-press-pack.co.uk
bbc-prime.co.uk
bbc-quick-and-easy.co.uk
bbc-quick-cook.co.uk
bbc-radio-berkshire.co.uk
bbc-radio-collection.co.uk
bbc-radio-derby.co.uk
bbc-radio-suffolk.co.uk
bbc-radio-surrey.co.uk
bbc-radio-warwickshire.co.uk
bbc-record-review.co.uk
bbc-scotland.co.uk
bbc-script-scheduler.co.uk
bbc-script-writer.co.uk
bbc-sound-and-vision.co.uk
bbc-southern-counties-radio.co.uk
bbc-sports-special.co.uk
bbc-thames-valley-fm.co.uk
bbc-thames-valley-radio.co.uk
bbc-the-film-club.co.uk
bbc-top-gear.co.uk
bbc-uk-sports-entertainment-network.co.uk
bbc-vegetarian-good-food.co.uk
bbc-video.co.uk
bbc-whatever-you-want.co.uk
bbc-words-and-pictures.co.uk
bbc-young-collection.co.uk
bbc-young-musician-of-the-year.co.uk
bbcbeautifulgardens.co.uk
bbcclose-up.co.uk
bbcexplore.co.uk
bbcoutthisweek.co.uk
bbcquickandeasy.co.uk
bbcquickcook.co.uk
bbcthamesvalleyfm.co.uk
bbcthamesvalleyradio.co.uk
bbcthefilmclub.co.uk
bbcuksportsentertainmentnetwork.co.uk
bbcwhateveryouwant.co.uk

BBC Internet Services currently have 1409 domain registrations to their name, they will have 75 less by the middle of next week. I’m sure the BBC have other holding registrant titles but that would take a little more research. Protecting rights is a difficult issue for many, for those with a big budget most professionals would recommend registering everything – if money doesn’t matter and you don’t have a nominated charity instead.

The BBC is big business, when new programmes are launched, half the viewing public tune in at some point and the corporation have massive visibility in magazines and media countrywide so the opportunist may see short term keyword value in bbc-top-gear.co.uk to shift some top gear videos. On the other hand, the BBC have spent approximately £4402 over ten years registering and renewing those names and possibly the only one they should keep is bbc-video.co.uk

What’s £4k when we’re talking a £3 billion a year budget? Not a lot, it’s peanuts but if you had 100 departments all saving £4k each then it does start to add up, especially when it comes from the public purse. Rights protection is important and I would advise all businesses to register hyphenated versions of their company names, related products sold, even down to industry terms if it gets the natural searcher to your web presence.

Should the BBC have enough clout not to have registered those names or were they correct in doing so? If they hadn’t would they have had to be more active in law actions and spent more? Hindsight is a wonderful thing but for now only an idiot would register the above dropping names, unless you’re lucky to be named BBC and operate in video then I’d say bbc-video.co.uk would be an ideal catch.

*More than the above will drop. crinkley-bottom.co.uk brittas-empire.co.uk and more.

Searching endlessly through lists either auto ran or manually is only one factor of domain catching, there’s at least another dozen checks to do, not forgetting the necessity to have the best tools at your disposal, some are admittedly better than others and not so easy to immitate or cheap and after all that is done, we have to market, develop, negotiate and plan after, far from easy!!

I’ll admit when on holiday or around the girlfriends I can take ten to twenty minutes to do a quick manual eye scan, pick the best and hope for the best but on other days I can be so meticulous you’d think I was swabbing up at a murder scene, sometimes it can take three hours to disect and turn over each domain that has meaning or statistical data to go with it.

Other domainers may laugh when reading this, the likes of *** who tell me in five minutes, “right nothing there, I’m off…” or ****** who seemingly does an auto scan for every hyphen going and ***** who knows full well what’s going to happen economy wise with four letters when this recession begins to recede. I try to cover all the bases and when we all see that £15,000 domain dropping we know full well it’s indecision time, leave it and go for the second best, leave everything and go for that or just chuck it in with the rest, why not…

Why not indeed, most of this game is chance, a chance ping and ding a ling ling, you’re in, jackpot, eureka, buy the kitchen, buy the car, book the holiday, we got it, we got it. So what did we all get? Friday 14th May was a domainer frenzy, my lists have been getting longer and longer leading up to yesterday and for one time only, you get to see it what I made of the drop list, interesting huh?

So here it is, an X if it got taken, a – if renewed and blank means still to reg, I have colour coded how I sorted my lists from importance to weakest link and it’s nice to see where I have placed domains in the most wanted section, they have been most wanted by most others.

So there you have it, a little insight into one day’s busy catching which tells me I think along the same lines as most others, just occasionally I wouldn’t mind looking deeper into their sales operations and finding out how they deal with stuff on that side but then again, I dare say I fair better than others on that too, I’m hardly Mr Average.

I did leave one list out and I hope you noticed, so peekaboo, I haven’t given you everything but I thought it might be fun to see another person’s picks of the day. People are always surprised when I say I select up to 150 names in a day, I can tell you some are happy going for three while a few others do the same as me, though probably more automated than with my tired eyes. Here’s another;

landart.co.uk xxx
cja-group.co.uk
thephonesspot.co.uk
localresettlement.co.uk
luxurybedandbreakfast.co.uk —
artstationery.co.uk
agentless.co.uk
algerianews.co.uk
britishwebsites.co.uk xxx
camtalk.co.uk xxx
camcorderdating.co.uk —
buyingaboat.co.uk
cctv-camera.co.uk xxx
cheapyachtinsurance.co.uk —
eshoppingbag.co.uk —
enlargment.co.uk xxx
drugprescriptions.co.uk —
discountedloans.co.uk xxx
getridofwrinkles.co.uk —
funny-game.co.uk
karmaarmy.co.uk
pigmedia.co.uk
optinbuilders.co.uk
referral.org.uk xxx
redart.co.uk xxx

I hope you enjoyed that and regged what was left from Friday’s fun, I think the next time a buyer comes along and says “£50, you don’t deserve more, you didn’t do anything and just regged it ’cause I want it” I think I’ll point them to this article, this other one Domaining The Service; and then proceed to jump out of the window.