There was a large NNNNN.com drop today. Vibrant Networks/iTimeMarketing didn’t catch ANY NNNNN.com today, and they’ve been the biggest catcher of this category of names for the past few months since the buy-out. Here’s the break down of today’s drops:
NNNNN.com (106)
Here’s the first installment of a look back in time to see where all those watched domains have gone. Are they still parked, still being run through the ringer (kiting) or are they — gasp! – developed… Let take a look, shall we?
MyIcons.net Parked at GoDaddy. One of the worst crimes when obtaining domain names is not forwarding them to a real parking service, at the very least you should do this.
BurmaTraveller.com has a website about domains, hosting and servers… go figure.
ConcreteProfessional.com Now that’s more like it. I gave a live link because there’s actually a site there without Adsense. Looks like it’s being hosted by blog service called Moguling. I’ll have to check that out…
CoffeeCollective.com A great name that perhaps is more appealing in the .org, just a blank page (sigh).
GeorgiaVacations.net Good travel GEO despite the .net. Looks like it’s a affiliate link to VacationRentals.com, maybe I’ll look into that too…
BlueWave.com This one was either backordered with Snapnames or purchased at their public action just after it dropped. BlueWave appears to be a nice media/design company. Thumbs Up!
VampireTalk.com Could be a great forum for goth, roleplaying or gaming enthusiasts, but alas, it shows an old school Apache directory listing
ArcadeDungeon.com Doesn’t resolve at all. Pity, I thought “arcade” names were highly sought after…
Eco-Index.com Contact page right up front. Plain and simple to contact the owners directly for sales leads.
Well, there you have it. I hope you enjoyed our little trip through time. Now get out there and develop your names! 
In the middle of summer? Picked up two great names today: GroovyPhotos.com and SmartChristmas.com. I’ve parked SmartChristmas.com for now (I know: nice play!), but I’ll be hosting GroovyPhotos.com on my WordPress MU site and looking for some good “social” themes and plugins… maybe I can get this one rolling into a social photo-sharing app.
Everyday it seems, BuyDomains is getting their hands on more premium LLLL.net on the drop. A quick look on their site shows several of them listed at a buy-it-now price of $5000. Wow! If only I had a fancy website to showcase my domains. Oh, wait… I do. Getting to work in ernest on my StandoutNames.com website now and hopfully will see some end-user sales soon.
There are a lot of shortcomings to listing your names with Afternic and SEDO, so I think it’s important to have your own portfolio presence as well…
That’s the risk you take when you publish a live list of names you’re monitoring — names you intend to either register immediately when they drop or you’re just curious who might register them and develop.
iCairo,com was on my drop list (to the right) and I though about it for an hour or so. I checked my parking stats and just received a $1 click on a GEO name, so I thought “OK” I’ll go get it… too late. 
Snapnames didn’t catch any names that I was watching today, not sure what they caught for their auctions, but yesterday they caught most of the premium dropping LLLL.net.
When Snap sleeps the other backordering services get their chance. GoDaddy is one of these. If the nameservers switch to *.domaincontrol.com, then you know a GoDaddy user has backordered the name and GD successfully caught it for them.
Note, it costs $18 without coupons to backorder a name at GoDaddy.
JoyBag.com, this one dropped a while ago, but I registered it today. It’s short, brandable and memorable… and meaningless. Well, not sure what to do with it. Nobody at DP seems to want it. Mmmm. Unknown future this one…
Snapnames is back in action, drop catching anything that moves. Now you’ll have to troll their auction listings to get anything good or wait until they drop the names that don’t get any bids… Ugh! Sleepless nights ahead…
Everyone should have some form of IRA or Individual Retirement Account. And the best people to give advice about picking the right IRA would be… drumroll… the professionals! Great word combo here, IMO. I’ve already started a mini-site: IRA Professionals.
Just missed a taster’s drop of a super-premium LLLL.net because my whois scanner incorrectly tagged the name as SOLD. The name was being tasted by PSI-USA, which uses NameDrive for parking. Usually if the nameservers change to *.fastpark.net, it has been purchased by a non-taster, but not in this case…