Frustrating. I use the Sedo Domain Auctions regularly to find new domain names. I’ve bought several domain names from there down the years and the auction feed used to be real quick and easy to browse. Then they made it all whizzy and now it runs like a dog on my laptop and slooooow on my iMac. It can take a whole minute to load 50 domains and sometimes it crashes the browser. So I stopped using it and have probably missed some decent domain names. BUT…
…I have found a solution!
I created a Sedo “partner” account and set up some PHP in a subdirectory of my TV Smash website to grab the feed, do an hourly refresh and feed the re-formatted content out to Yahoo Pipes. It includes the domain name on auction, the time left to bid, the current high bid and by clicking the domain name, you get taken to the page to bid on the domain name!
I love Yahoo Pipes! I have created a load of them actually, mainly using gaming feeds but this domain auction pipe is now top of the pile in terms if usefulness (for me, anyway!).
One of the great things about Pipes is that you (or any user!) can filter the feed to only show what you want. So, if you only want to see domain names with a .com or .net extension that include the word “amazon” in the name, you can take my feed above and add filters.
In fact, you have several ways of viewing or using this domain name auction feed: you can either simply view the list on that page linked above, or it will let you take it as a RSS feed, a JSON feed or add it direct to homepages at MyYahoo etc. With RSS or JSON it’s pretty easy to incorporate this auction feed into a blog or website too if you are a webmaster and want some interesting and regularly updated data, hence why I used Pipes.
Now to go spend some money again
Just installed the latest version of Flash (10) and started seeing a green line across Youtube videos and on other sites splitting the video in two. Did a bit of digging and found it was a hardware acceleration issue. here is the fix:
Go to a video
Right click on it and choose “Settings”
Choose the first little tab at the bottom of the popup panel
Untick “Enable Hardware Acceleration”
Worked for me – no more little green lines