People usually thinking of defensive registrations as buying various extensions when they own the .com, buying the plural version of their domain name, and/or buying the common typos of their domain name. For really important domain names that receive strong traffic, doing all of this and forwarding all accidental traffic to the main domain name is advisable.

Sometimes you have to do more than this for your defensive registrations, even when you probably aren’t even going to develop the domain name. For example, I recently announced the acquisition of CelebrityBabyPhotos.com. I bought the name because more and more celebrities are being paid big bucks to gossip magazines for the rights to the first exclusive photos of their babies. To help protect this domain name, and to also increase the value of the package, I also recently purchased CelebrityBabyPictures.om.

Individually, these are both strong names, but I believe the value of the two names together is greater. No matter whether people are searching for “celebrity baby photos” or “celebrity baby pictures,” I am covered.

It seems that the latest rage in our gossip craving, celebrity worshiping society is to pay exorbitant amounts of money to celebrities for their baby photos. Searches for “celebrity baby photos,” have been growing over the last several months, just as the hefty sums to acquire the exclusive photos have grown. To capitalize on this trend, I just purchased CelebrityBabyPhotos.com.

Although I am not quite sure what I am going to do with the domain name yet, I know there is great value in the name. Just today the New York Post gossip section led off with an article about Ashlee Simpson’s pregnancy rumors and the fact that her father is pitching photos of her baby for $1,000,000. TMZ has also been covering Ashlee’s pregnancy.

This comes on the footsteps of other multi-million dollar celebrity baby photos, including Jennifer Lopez, Katie Holmes, Christina Aguilera, and many others. As people continue to spend a considerable amount of money reading up on celebrity lifestyles, the payouts are going to continue to grow.

Top Notch Domains, LLC, a New Hampshire based domain investment and development company has acquired Burbank.com for an undisclosed sum. Burbank is one of the fastest growing cities in the state of California, with a population of over 100,000 residents. Previously, Burbank.com was used as a private Burbank news website.

The city of Burbank is known as “the media capital of the world,” as many of the largest media companies have headquarters or significant production facilities in the city, including Disney, Warner Brothers, and NBC. Burbank is located approximately ten miles from from Los Angeles, and it is home to one of the fastest growing airports in the US. It has beautiful homes, is a center for business and has a strong economy.

“We just launched our first geodomain website, Lowell.com, and I am looking forward to the development of Burbank.com,” said Elliot Silver, President of Top Notch Domains, LLC. “I am excited to fly out to Burbank on Jet Blue - non-stop from JFK, to begin researching this great city.” The company anticipates that a mini-site will be developed in the coming month, and Burbank.com will be fully developed by the end of Q3 2008.

Top Notch Domains, LLC also owns Salinas.com, which is currently being built into a guide of Salinas, California, a city of around 150,000 residents in California’s wine country. The company recently put the name for sale, but is reevaluating their position.

Top Notch Domains, LLC, a Nashua, NH based domain investment and development company, announces the recent strategic acquisition of TaxGuide.com and TaxGuides.com.

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Top Notch Domains, LLC, a Nashua, New Hampshire based domain name investment and development company, is excited to announce the recent acquisition of Lowell.com.

Lowell is the fourth largest city in the state of Massachusetts, and it has a population of over 105,000 residents (as of the 2000 census). With its urban renewal efforts, Lowell has minor league sports teams, a highly regarded university, popular public facilities, great restaurants, and wonderful public parks. As a suburb of Boston, Lowell is home to several large companies, and the city is able to host large conferences with its ample supply of hotel and lodging facilities.

“Having been born and raised near Lowell, I am thrilled to have purchased this exceptional domain name,” said Top Notch Domains, LLC President Elliot Silver. ”My company plans to develop a comprehensive website about the city of Lowell, providing the tools and information residents and tourists will find valuable. As Lowell continues to grow and thrive, we hope our website will grow into a resource for residents and tourists alike.”

According to the September 2007 eMarketer report entitled, “Local Online Advertising: Measuring The Market,” the firm projects that local online advertising spending will reach $2.9 billion in 2007, and by 2011 those figures are expected to reach $7.8 billion. This is an increase from $2.1 billion that was spent in 2006.

In a recent Associated Cities article, Monte Cahn, CEO of Moniker, a top 10 domain registrar and broker specializing in Geo-specific domain names said, “The expected increase in localized, online advertising provides the owners of these domains with the ability to capitalize on the trend, and generate significant return on their investment.”

Advertising opportunities will be made available once the website is relaunched in the first quarter of 2008. For more information, please send Elliot an email.

About Top Notch Domains, LLC

Founded by Elliot J. Silver while a graduate student at NYU, Top Notch Domains, LLC owns a strong portfolio of generic domain names including Devices.com, Customs.com, EasternCaribbean.com, TaxCodes.com, AlcoholCounseling.com, and many more.

Top Notch Domains, LLC, a Nashua, New Hampshire based domain investment and development company, is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the domain name EasternCaribbean.com.  The company intends to develop an informational website focusing on travel to the islands of the Eastern Caribbean.

“This is a fantastic geographic domain name, and I am thrilled that we were able to acquire it,” said Top Notch Domains, President Elliot Silver.  ”Over 11 million people will take a cruise this year, and many of them will end up in Eastern Caribbean hotspots like Barbados, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas.  EasternCaribbean.com is a domain name that aligns with our growth strategy.”

Top Notch Domains, LLC owns domain names such as Devices.com, Customs.com, VirginiaMortgages.com, and many other valuable generic domain names.

I believe I just acquired a gem of a domain name in the aftermarket - AsianVacations.com. After seeing CaribbeanVacations.com sell for $130,000 and EuropeanVacations.com sell for $85,000 at yesterday’s TRAFFIC auction, I decided to buy AsianVacations.com. While the Caribbean and Europe are more popular vacation destinations than Asia, I still believe AsianVacations.com can become a great travel website.

If you or anyone you know specializes in Asian vacation planning, please get in touch with me. Perhaps we can work together!

Top Notch Domains, LLC, a Nashua, New Hampshire based domain investment and development company, is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the domain name Customs.com. The company intends to develop an informational website focusing on foreign and domestic travel requirements.

“We are thrilled to add this great domain name to our domain portfolio,” said Top Notch Domains President Elliot J. Silver. “We believe owning a prime generic domain name is one of the keys to a successful website, and Customs.com aligns with our growth strategy.” Customs.com will launch in Q2 2008.

Top Notch Domains, LLC owns domain names such as Devices.com, DrugCounseling.com, FlightDiscounts.com, and many other valuable generic domain names.