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  • .OM Registry Contract Awarded New!
    Qinetics, a registry solution provider in Malaysia, announced on Sunday that they have been awarded the contract to manage the .OM ccTLD for the country of Oman.  The entire company press release can…
  • Verisign Acquires .Name TLD New!
    Verisign has closed a deal to acquire Global Name Registry, the London-based company that runs the .name registry. This move adds to Verisign’s control over the domain industry, as the company alrea…
  • Hitfarm Prepares to Launch Parking Indices and Hitfarm 2.0 New!
    Hitfarm, a company specializing in domain parking, is releasing two major domain market indices - the Reinvent Index (RVT-200) and the Hitfarm Composite Index (HCI) - so domainers can increase the per…
  • New Association for Canadian Domainers
    A new association is being launched to help Canadians domainers protect their investments and increase the value of their domain names. The Domain Owners Association of Canada will have its inaugural…
  • Domain Convergence Conference Adds Live Auction
    Fusu, a domain aftermarket specialist, will hold their first live auction at Domain Convergence, an industry conference held in Niagara Falls from October 6-8. Domain Convergence has lined up numerous…
  • Sedo sales of the week up to September 29
    The top Sedo domain sales are listed after the jump… Domain Price Translation/Other Type .COM revenueshare.com 15,000 USD vetement.com 14,000 EUR “Clothing” in French wyominginn.com 11,000 USD g…
  • Several Websites Launched by Future Media Architects
    Future Media Architects, an internet development company led by Thunayan Khalid AL-Ghanim, has announced the release of several websites: AI.com: News and information about artificial intelligence. Co…
  • Moniker Premium Live Auction Results (Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C.)
    Once more we will were be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, this time for the Moniker Premium Auction. Names not sold in this liv…
  • What you’re missing by not being at TRAFFIC
    Conference attendees at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference received one of 250 Rick Schwartz DomainKing bobbleheads. The other 250 bobbleheads of the batch are available for sale at bobbleheads.co…
  • How to advertise your Domains at a live Auction
    Domainer Mike Ambrose continued to draw attention to his name cleaning.com with the help of his lovely assistant. The names listed by him and his partner at no reserve in the Moniker Premium Live Auct…

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  • Rss.com Up For Auction on Sedo New!
    Rss.com is to be put up for auction this month on GreatDomains.com this month with a US$750,000 reserve. RSS is the abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication, the delivery of those automated news ser…
  • Views on Kentucky Gambling Domain Name Seizure Differ New!
    Lawyers acting for both sides in the dispute where the Kentucky Governor managed to obtain a court order seizing over 140 online gambling-related domain names differ widely as to whether the state's o…
  • Bodyguard Cybersquats Indian Tribe Domains New!
    A bodyguard who registered the domain names miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and billycypress.com is refusing to give them up to the tribe for less than $500,000 according to a report in The Miam…
  • Hurricane Katrina Cybersquatting and Fraud Leads to Jail New!
    Two brothers who registered the domain name salvationarmyonline.org on 3 September 2005, less than a week after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, were sentenced to jail for more than eight…
  • Beware of Online Brand Scams and Frauds New!
    For all the good of the internet, like probably any thing, place or activity, there is also a dark side. This article from Law.com looks at the bad side of the internet and gives a layman's descriptio…
  • Part 6 - The Pressures on PPC New!
    Despite the robustness of the online advertising industry the current negative economic sentiment will flow and is flowing through to the domain industry. There are two reasons for this: Google and Ya…
  • European Hosts Sought for October 2009 Meeting New!
    Are you interested in hosting an ICANN meeting in 12 months' time? Are you based in Europe? If so, ICANN's meetings team would like to hear from you. From 25-30 October 2009, ICANN has scheduled its 3…
  • Verisign acquires the .Name Registry
    This is unofficial, but according to Verisign's latest e-mail to registrars around the world, they claim to have acquired the London-based, Carlyle-backed company that runs the .name top level domain.…
  • DNJournal releases 2 Week Sales Report
    DNJournal.com just posted a completely up to date with a new double length report published today that covers all of the notable sales reported over the past two weeks since their last report was file…
  • PremierDomains.com selects NameMedia’s AfternicDLS Domain Sales Platform as Premium Domain Supplier
    NameMedia today announced a strategic domain marketing agreement with the newly launched Internet domain marketplace, PremierDomains.com. Under the terms of the agreement, NameMedia’s Afternic DLS g…

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thedomains.com

  • Google-Yahoo Deal On Hold New!
    Google has agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with Yahoo to give U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. Two weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told The Associa…
  • ICA File’s Brief in Kentucky Domain Seizure Action New!
    The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) filed a “friend of the court” brief yesterday on the Kentucky domain name seizure. ica-amicus-brief (Adobe Reader Required) The brief attacks the governor a…
  • Would You Turn Down $100K for a Domain You Might Lose? New!
    An article in the Miami Herald yesterday talked about the story of Steve Thiele who registered the domains miccosukeetribeofindians.com, miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and a site named after tr…
  • Kentucky Domain Seizure Update: ICA Gets Involved
    Today is the deadline set by the judge to file briefs in the Kentucky domain seizure action. Phil Corwin, legal counsel to the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA”) was preparing to submit a b…
  • Moniker.com Silent TRAFFIC Auction Scores Big: $960K
    The silent auction from the TRAFFIC show held last week in New York just completed and the results are a whopper. In a week where the stock market has tanked, commodities sank and the everyone in the…
  • TRAFFIC Silent Auction Ends Tomorrow: Our Picks
    The silent auction from the TRAFFIC show held by Moniker.com, will close tomorrow Thursday October 2nd. All bidding for the silent auction will be conducted by SnapNames.com All bidding will conclude…
  • Microsoft Launches SearchPerks.com
    Microsoft launched a rewards promotion today called SearchPerks to lure Internet users away from Google. SearchPerks, which runs through April 15, is similar to airlines’ frequent flyer programs. Ev…
  • Members of Calif. House Says Allow Google-Yahoo
    Some members of the California delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives have warned regulators not to block a controversial advertising agreement between Google. and Yahoo. In a letter sent to…
  • Cameroon (.com.cm) Domain Sunrise Period Opens October 15th
    NETCOM.cm Sarl, the official registry in charge of the Country Code Top level Domains of The Republic of Cameroon, proclaimed today that it will launch second level .cm domain name registrations on 15…
  • $18 Million For Three Weeks On The Job: No Wonder The System is Broken
    So as you know by now there was a blood bath on Wall Street Today with the Dow recording its largest one day point loss.  Larger than any day during the great depression, larger than the first day of…

dotsauce.com

dnkitchen.com

  • Short Domains - Both Sides Of The Coin
    A conundrum presented itself long ago - There simply aren’t enough Tier 1 Generics to go around and lesser premium multi-word domains often evoke preconceived expectations and biased opinions in vis…
  • Results From NamePros Auction 10/2
    Tonight was a great auction, some really good domain names sold. Below are just a few of the better domain names and the sold prices. Coru.com $950 ***Not Sold - Auction Buyout*** NamesSold.com $85…
  • NamePros Live Auction Tonight
    Every two weeks NamePros.com holds a live two hour auction. The time has come for another auction, check it out tonight at 6pm est. From the looks of it, it is not too late to add a domain to the auc…
  • What Makes A Premium Domain Name
    Hello to all at of the DN Kitchen readers… First of all, I wanted to thank Patrick for having me here at this “stew pot” of the domaining industry. I am usually uncomfortable in the kitchen, but…
  • Domainer Comic Strip #8
    I have to say this is my favorite domainer comic strip so far. Submit a suggestion for my next comic strip to win a free newly registered domain name of your choice with GoDaddy. Thank you for the sec…
  • Interview with Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly.com
    I came across Jamie’s work while visiting Domaining.com.  For those of you not familiar with Domaining.com it is a site that showcases the latest headlines via RSS feeds of all the major blogs.  I…
  • Check Your Page Rank
    You heard it here first, check your page rank!!! I would say this comes to us all as a big surprise.  The last page rank update was only about six weeks ago on August 5th.  I discovered this purely…
  • Rick Schwartz Has A Big Head
    This was just too funny yet genius not to share. I think by now everyone knows Rick Schwartz for his high end domain sales, T.R.A.F.F.I.C events and countless other things he has done for the domain…
  • Domainer Comic Strip #7
    My favorite time of the week, Wednesday comic strip. I have to say this one is funny, but next weeks is hilarious. Stay tuned for that one!!! Click on the image to enlarge. Submit a suggestion for my…
  • Sell Your Domain Names For $5!!!
    This week I made a few improvements to the site. The main improvement was the new fancy menu bar with drop downs. This will make navigation to our links and sponsors a lot easier. Another feature that…

circleid.com

  • How Can ICANN Improve Institutional Confidence?
    This week ICANN held a public consultation in Washington, D.C., where ICANN's President's Strategy Committee (PSC) solicited remarks from a packed audience of intellectual property (IP) lawyers, domai…
  • ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn
    If you have rules and regulations but don't enforce them then there's little point in having any rules or regulations in the first place. One of the criticisms that is often leveled at ICANN is with r…
  • dotMobi Announces 2.0 Release of Award-Winning DeviceAtlas Mobile Device Database
    Tthis 2.0 release moves DeviceAtlas from a read-only database to a read-write version with the introduction of a variety of technical enhancements, including automated phone capability tests, advanced…
  • 10 Years of ICANN
    ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was officially incorporated on 30 September 1998 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California,…
  • Delayed Enforcement Blocks Domain Name Lawsuit: Southern Grouts v. 3M
    I'm often baffled by lawsuits over domain names and keywords because they just don't seem to make any economic sense. This lawsuit is especially perplexing given the plaintiff's delays and the seeming…
  • Who Should Bear Domain Name Risk?
    Domain owners are bearing tremendous risk that someone else is better equipped to absorb. In this post, I outline the motivation of risk ownership, the sources of risk associated with owning a domain…
  • Time to Redelegate IE Namespace?
    I've written extensively about Ireland's country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) '.ie' and its current registry operator IE Domain Registry (IEDR) in the past. While I've always tried to be fair and bal…
  • Kentucky Governor: All Your Gambling Sites Belong to Us
    According to news reports, the governor of Kentucky has filed a suit in state court to seize 141 gambling domain names. His claimed authority is a 1974 law against gambling devices, on the theory that…
  • Hostway Offers Discount on Newly Expanded .Pro TLDs
    Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, has begun accepting registrations for the .Pro top-level domain (TLD) under new rules that extend .Pro eligibility to a wider global audience and o…
  • dotMobi Announces Special Online Premium Domain Name Auction with Leading Auctioneer Sedo
    dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi internet domain designed to help consumers find mobile-friendly content, today announced a special online auction for 200 highly desired premium .mobi domain name…

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domainpulse.com

  • European Domains Dominate Top Sedo Sales for the Week New!
    The latest of Sedo’s top domain name sales is below. Sedo’s top three sellers this week were all European ccTLD names - allgemeine.de (€14,000), rachat-de-credit.fr (€13,500) and sexe.ch (€1…
  • Rss.com Up For Auction on Sedo New!
    Rss.com is to be put up for auction this month on GreatDomains.com this month with a US$750,000 reserve. RSS is the abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication, the delivery of those automated news ser…
  • VeriSign Acquires .Name New!
    VeriSign has advised registrars it has closed an agreement to acquire Global Name Registry, Ltd. The email to registrars says this include management of the .name TLD as of October 1, 2008. There are…
  • Views on Kentucky Gambling Domain Name Seizure Differ New!
    Lawyers acting for both sides in the dispute where the Kentucky Governor managed to obtain a court order seizing over 140 online gambling-related domain names differ widely as to whether the state’s…
  • Bodyguard Cybersquats Indian Tribe Domains New!
    A bodyguard who registered the domain names miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and billycypress.com is refusing to give them up to the tribe for less than $500,000 according to a report in The Miam…
  • Moniker Online T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Auction results New!
    Moniker’s Extended Online Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York concluded last night with sales of more than $900,000, bringing the total sales for Moniker’s live and online domain auctions to nearly…
  • Hurricane Katrina Cybersquatting and Fraud Leads to Jail New!
    Two brothers who registered the domain name salvationarmyonline.org on 3 September 2005, less than a week after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, were sentenced to jail for more than eight…
  • Beware of Online Brand Scams and Frauds New!
    For all the good of the internet, like probably any thing, place or activity, there is also a dark side. This article from Law.com looks at the bad side of the internet and gives a layman’s descript…
  • European Hosts Sought for October 2009 ICANN Meeting
    Are you interested in hosting an ICANN meeting in 12 months’ time? Are you based in Europe? If so, ICANN’s meetings team would like to hear from you. From 25-30 October 2009, ICANN has scheduled i…
  • McCain and Palin Gun for MILFs with VoteForTheMILF.com
    There are reports such as one in The Huffington Post that with Sarah Palin’s hotness, among some, has led to the McCain campaign registering the domain name voteforthemilf.com. Currently this forwar…

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 DOMAIN BLOGS

sevenmile.com

  • Domain Names, New and Old - Everybody Sells
       What does a guy who is well known for “not selling domains” know about selling domain names?  Well I might just know a thing or two.  As the title of this post states:  Everybody sells. It…
  • What Happens in Vegas .. Happens Everywhere
    I just spent a few days in Vegas at the TRAFFIC convention..  man that town will chew you up and spit you out if you let it. The night I left town Josh sent me this link which focuses on an interes…
  • My Kingdom for An Eyeball
    What a world we live in..  and what a great deal a man (or woman) can learn in a month away from the blog-sphere.. Deals announced, partnerships strategized and all roads lead to the ability to reac…
  • 2008 and Beyond
      It’s wonderful being back after an extended vacation break. I used to scoff at vacationing (vacations are for the weak), but I was amazed that those friends and colleagues who took longer absence…
  • Christmas Vacation
    Folks it’s time for me to recharge the batteries..  I’ll be leaving the blog today so that I have some time to wrap up a few left-over items..  then I take to the skies for my Christmas vacati…
  • Disruptive Technology to Change Advertising as We Know it
    http://domainstate.com/showthread.php3?s=8444324b3e3a6a31b47609a0ffc57499&threadid=84905 We can all feel the changes reverberate across the Web..  Domain names registered by small registrants and lar…
  • Monday Linkfest
    Elliot blogs about the 3 letter .com realm. http://www.elliotsblog.com/index.php/2007/12/10/b-king-on-three-letter-com-sales/ ***FS*** There are only 17,576 3 letters in .com ..  This piece probably…
  • A Visit to Art Basel in Miami Makes Mike Berkins Appreciate how Cheap Domains Are
       http://www.thedomains.com/2007/12/08/domains-are-cheap/ This piece deserves to be set apart from the Linkfest..  Berkins has that “oh-my-gosh” moment and realizes how cheap domain names are…
  • The Blind Leading Those Who Can Not See
     Beware of Domain Name Traffickers. by John F. Letchford: (From the Archer and Greiner Intellectual Property website.) Excerpt: “”Domain parking sites collect and index additional links where dom…
  • The Gift That Keeps on Giving
    Conor writes: “”I am giving fullname.com domains as gifts for Christmas this year. Any suggestions on how to give as a gift? I am thinking about just registering and hosting myself and if they wan…

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battellemedia.com

  • Know, Really New!
    So many things to miss when you're not reporting news anymore - some of these are old, but they stood the test of time: Larry Page, Google, Watch these White Spaces, and Prop 8 in CA Is Deeply Dumb an…
  • Google Diaspora New!
    Good piece on Merus Capital, started by folks who used to be in Google corp dev. Merus Capital, as it happens, is itself a new Google product. Or, to be more specific, Merus Capital is the product of…
  • Super Cool
    Mac OS on a Dell. Wonder, does this fix all the poewr management and battery issues I have with my MacBook? (Thanks Andy)...
  • CM Conversation: Laura Desmond, CEO Starcom MediaVest Group
    FM's third CM Summit is just two weeks away (register here), and as I have in the past (and will with other speakers as well as folks I'll interview at Web 2), I turn to the collective intelligence of…
  • TweetSense
    I think the business model at Twitter is going to be really, really interesting, and I think it's going to leverage search, but search as a proxy for data and pattern recognition. We get an inkling of…
  • All Algorithm, No Voice
    That's how Fred describes Google's new blog search, a supposed Techmeme (or Technorati or Blogs.com) - killer. It's a very good description of Google's services....
  • Time Machine
    I've wanted a time axis for the web for, well, for ever (OK, since 2003 when I got the idea). Google has given us at least one point on that axis, 2001. What a nutty time. Check out a vanity search fo…
  • World Inside Out
    Over at the Amex Blog we're starting a conversation about how this financial crisis effects small business. The site has given me a chance to think more deeply about what it means to run or be part of…
  • Dear Google: Either Drop PageRank, or Give It More....Granularity
    I'm a seven, I think. Danny was too, but now, for some reason, he's a six. Mike's an eight. Google, natch, is a Ten (one of only two that Amit could find). PageRank is the unofficial, and official, an…
  • We don't have enough proper data to come close to solving the death problem
    Why I love Kevin's work, part umpty billion....

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elliotsblog.com

  • Impetus for our Economic Woes - “Free Money” New!
    About 10 months ago, I wrote a guest post on Owen’s Blog about people who were “lucky” enough to receive lines of credit by accident at K-Mart. While everyone is pinning the credit problems the…
  • Selling A Few Names
    I am selling some domain names that I don’t think I’d ever get around to developing. They are registered at Moniker for an easy push. Shoot me any questions you might have about these names. First…
  • ICA to Participate in Emergency Summit
    News release from MarketWatch: FRANKFORT, Ky. & WASHINGTON, Oct 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Internet Commerce Association, a non-profit trade organization representing domain name investors and d…
  • You Choose the Topic
    I am working very hard on re-launching a completely new Burbank.com, so my brain is fried. A number of people have asked me various questions about domain investing in the past few weeks and I’ve tr…
  • Investing During Tough Times
    During these tough economic times, I am spending a good deal of money investing in my own business (via development) rather than buying new domain names. Although the TRAFFIC auctions were relatively…
  • Domain Convergence, Great Learning Opportunity
    There are just a few days remaining to register for Domain Convergence, an intimate gathering of domain investors and developers just over the border in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada from October 6-8…
  • Domain Beginnings: Andrew Allemann
    The domain industry is made up of a diverse group of people with vastly different backgrounds. I’ve always found it interesting hearing about how domain investors became familiar with domain names a…
  • Domain Beginnings: How I Started Investing in Domains
    The domain industry is made up of a diverse group of people with vastly different backgrounds. I’ve always found it interesting hearing about how domain investors became familiar with domain names a…
  • LifeInsurancePolicies.com Nets $15k for ICA
    An anonymous donor auctioned the domain name LifeInsurancePolicies.com at the TRAFFIC auction, netting $15,000 for the Internet Commerce Association. I didn’t notice this auction benefitted the ICA…
  • Domain Legal Advice
    “I’m not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” I admit it, I still get a kick out of those commercials. Even when they aren’t on television, I am reminded of them when…

predictivedomaining.com

  • Does your domain name “suck”?
    The National Arbitration Forum maintains a Domain Name Dispute Proceedings and Decisions searchable database and of course I couldn’t help poking around. Domains Suck I searched for cases involving…
  • Super Parents online
    Parenting is the number one online activity cited by moms, ahead of search, e-mail and news in a new study by AOL’s Platform-A and global communications agency OMD. More than half of moms use the In…
  • Medical symptoms as domains
    More and more people are getting medical information on the web. Surveys have suggested that at least 50% of patients are getting medical information from the web. Direct to consumer (DTC) advertising…
  • A medicated life
    I was skimming through an issue of Scientific American and was reading an article entitled “The Medicated Americans: Antidepressant Prescriptions on the Rise“. Some frightening statistics in there…
  • Premiumisation and Recession
    Premiumisation (or premiumization) has been a major trend for marketing this year especially in the food sector but also in many other areas. An article on premiumisation in the New York Times today c…
  • Google Suggest
    I recently talked about Google Suggest from Google Labs and now this tool is going mainstream. According to the offical Google Blog, this will now be the default for the Google search box. You can tur…
  • Wellderly and illderly
    I discussed in my last post the trend towards increased lifespan and the associated consequences including elderly health. I was interested then to see that the Aug 6th issue of Nature had a article e…
  • CDC media releases and predictive domaining
    One place I like to check for inspiration for predictive domaining now and again is the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the US. They have a media relations section that is well regarded and spurs…
  • Disease associated domain names
    I want to have a look at domain names associated with diseases and what to look for in those domain names. Domain names associated with diseases may be worth investing in. In the latest issue of Scien…
  • Google Labs
    Google Labs - Google Suggest I always like taking a look at what Google is testing out. Google Labs Suggest tool is an interesting concept. As you type in your search term, it will suggest terms to yo…

domainersgazette.com

  • Oh, The Domains Some Folks Will Buy
    I’m still scratching my head on this one.. Perusing the Pre-Release list at Namejet this morning, I couldn’t help but notice this winner, stuck directly below the active bid names..(and no, this n…
  • Oh, The People You’ll Talk To…
    When I stumble across a domain name I’d like to acquire, I tend to email the owners - to check and see if it might be for sale (obviously).. Oftentimes lately, though, I simply call ‘em up. Grab t…
  • CTOPD - UncleSam.com
    (CTOPD is our hobby project … read more about it here) we’re headed into an election year, so what better time to visit UncleSam.com.. and per wikipedia: He is often depicted as a serious elderly…
  • Drop What You’re Doing, Watch This Video
    don’t wait DomainWeek uncovered a gem take a peek at this Oscar worthy commercial aimed at domainers.. http://www.domainweek.com/2008/09/03/funny-video-the-domain-name-dollar-store/ if this ain’t…
  • Square Pizza (.com) Gets It
    I ran over to Oxford Mississippi last weekend to see some friends, and grab a few stories for the site.. For those who haven’t visited — downtown Oxford is centered around an idyllic town square,…
  • It’s Baaaaack … DomainerCon 2 !
    Ryan and I had a blast throwing the last DomainerCon, so we’re doing it again.. Wednesday 9/17/08, from 5pm till whenever.. [UPDATE: We had a scheduling conflict, might be winter before the 'Con is…
  • C’mon Bido.com! C’mon!
    shameless self promotion here.. I bought eDaycare.com about a year back, had big plans to build a daycare directory out of it.. but with Inspection Scores, and my city sites, it fell by the wayside..…
  • Beware of My Henchman
    don’t even think of outbidding me at auction… or even sniping a domain from an at-large mom and pop consumer before me… or else I’ll sic Olivia and Oglethorpe on you.. and they will knead you…
  • What Part of ‘No Thank You’ Did You Not Understand?
    So, I was bored the other day, and googled ‘domainer’ to see who was coming up in the serps.. wikipedia, domainer.com, dailydomainer.com, domainersmagazine.com, etc.. then a paid ad caught my eye.…
  • Introducing: InspectionScores.com
    Elliot has his Lowell.com, Sahar has his Bido.com, Latona has his DigiPawn, and MacDonald has his Marietta.com. Me? Well, sure I’ve got developed domains, but over the years, I’ve been searching f…

dmueller.com

  • TRAFFIC NYC 2008 Domain Auction Results
    What follows are the results of the domain auctions held at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference in New York City this year: Overall, three auction houses were selling domains at TRAFFIC NYC 2008: Ric…
  • Domain Strategies launches Tanning.com
    Tanning.com, LLC and Domain Strategies, Inc. announced today the launch of a new marketing and information portal designed to educate consumers and generate leads for tanning salon owners at www.Tanni…
  • Sedo to auction off 200 .mobi domains
    Domain marketplace Sedo is going to auction off 200 .mobi domains in cooperation with the DotMobi registry. The auction inventory includes generic domains that were previously reserved by the registry…
  • Everybody Pays (.com)
    Everybody pays, and Sony Pictures wisely paid for a generic and yet brandable domain name. Namely, Sony is using the domain EverybodyPays.com to promote its action-thriller movie The International, wh…
  • No more Seinfeld in Microsoft Commercials
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/its-over-for-seinfeld-but-crispin-porter-keeps-microsoft-business/ TechCrunch reports that Jerry Seinfeld won’t be appearing in the commercials of Microsoft’s…
  • The Art of Making Mistakes
    http://www.dnforum.com/f557/domainers-start-mistakes-thread-323531.html In this thread on DNForum.com titled “Domainers start with mistakes?” a forum member asks if he was the only one who registe…
  • Domain Strategies Launches Slideshow.com
    From a Parked Domain to Business Poised for Growth in 45 Days. Slideshow.com, LLC and Domain Strategies, Inc. announced today the launch of a new internet business - Slideshow.Com – created to be th…
  • Strong Domain Sales Offer Positive Outlook
    There have been some very strong end user domain sales that were reported during the past week, which proves that domains continue to increase in value despite the slowdown in the economy. First, TopM…
  • Jerry Seinfeld helps Microsoft waste $300 million
    Today I read about Microsoft’s new TV ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, which was aired for the first time during yesterday’s National Football League broadcast. I then went online looking fo…
  • Funny (or Die) Domain Video
    Via FunnyOrDie.com: See more funny videos at Funny or Die Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Dominik Mueller. Funny (or Die) Domain Video

trenddomaining.com

  • A Domainers Long Hard Look At Bail Outs Part 1: The Auto Industry New!
    The auto industry is hurting: it’s down 20% from this time last year.  In case you don’t know how auto dealerships work, here it is: dealerships don’t own the new cars on their lot.  Who can a…
  • How To Research A Keyword Geodomain Before You Buy It
    To start, this post isn’t about pure geo domains.  Those are no-brainers.  This post is intended to help you decide if a geo+keyword.com is worth picking up. Since I found the new Name.com tools I…
  • I’m Back! And I Have A Couple Great New Tools
    I have electricity once again after Ike took it from us for 11 days.  The site was also down today.  Apparently the Google positioner plugin I use stopped working and made the entire site go poof. …
  • My Running Diary Of Hurricane Ike
    Sorry for the off-topic post. This isn’t about domaining, so if you’re sick of Ike now would be the time to click elsewhere. I wrote this post and after I was done I decided to change it a little.…
  • Free Unique Content: Themed Restaurants
    This is a pretty small niche, but interesting nonetheless.  Web Urbanist has posted 15 of the strangest themed restaurants.  And when I say themed restaurants, I’m not talking Hard Rock Cafe or Ra…
  • Of Hurricane Ike And Disaster Domains
    Hurricane Ike is headed my way.  It’s current target is Freeport, Texas, which is just 70 miles south of Houston.  Many of you have not heard of Freeport yet, but you will eventually and not becau…
  • Do Technology Trends Have Their Own Hype Cycle?
    Found a neat chart over at TechCrunch on technology hype cycles, pulled from the Gartner Consulting website.  For those of you who do not know about Gartner, they are an IT consulting group that are…
  • Social Trendcasting Site Is Great Tool For Domainers
    Ran across a nifty site today; I have no idea how it slipped by me.  It’s called Edopter.com and they brand it as social trendcasting.  You are able to browse and follow trends, even submitting so…
  • Labor Day Recap: Vinyl Wall Art Is Now My Top Search Term
    Nice to have a day off!  Good luck to people being affected by Gustav today and the upcoming days.  Being in Houston, what has happened to New Orleans could just as easily have happened to us. Back…
  • Tattoos And Piercings Are Just Two Elements Of The Body Art Trend
    I’ve had this article in my vault for about a month now.  Since I saw a company I was going to write about included in TrendWatching.com’s latest report, I figured I ought to push this out sooner…

isitmeoriseveryoneelsestupid.com

  • Greetings Fellow Citizens
    Sorry ive not been about much, but ive a new job/s. More details to follow over the following week/s or so.. In any case, Ive been online today and spun about the discussion boards only to find this w…
  • Back in the day…
    When i first started out buying domain names (before the “how long did it take you to invent that collective noun” term “domainers” was invented) my sole focus was on the acquisition of domain…
  • Domain Parking Changes Part2
    Last night I met for drinks the source who gave me the insider take on Google looking to dump all the tail end domains from their system. Inevitably the chat soon turned to domain parking and the reas…
  • Google Knol - a Wikipedia killer??
    Apparently so. Dont forget you can throw into the mix the likes of wordpress and yahoo answers as well - apparently both these should be going to the sword any day soon .. Ive often wondered about Goo…
  • Thanks Google..! Did i really just say that?
    Against everything you’ve seen from Google in the past, well, forever…. Google have actually decided to give out some pertinent information that will be of benefit to domain owners. Yes, you heard…
  • Google Parking Changes Approaching
    I promised you guys some news last week which sounded important at the time, well here it is. From a reliable source Im told that Google has had enough of domain parking, though not all elements of it…
  • Your DNS is broken - and it cannot be fixed… Oops!
    Occassionally, I’ll republish someone elses work if i feel it important enough. Ive been tracking this news for several weeks now and, whilst initially I thought it was some sort of scam/prank/hot a…
  • Internet procrastination has a detrimental affect on you wealth and wellbeing, but now there’s a self help solution
    Today is Sunday and, unusually for me, I’m looking forward to next week. Cant say too much at the moment but there are a few snippets of news that have come my way since Friday that I will share wit…
  • Why do they bother…?
    Another thing thats really annoying me at the moment are internet start up’s that attempt to give the impression they are a large organization… I cant for the life of me understand why they do thi…
  • namepros.com
    Just a short post to say congratulations to namepros.com for achieving 100,000 registered members. For a forum of just 5 years old, i think its fair to say that namepros.com is by far the most renowne…

ricklatona.com

  • Get Your Name in Print
    The TRAFFIC Down Under show in Brisbane Australia is just around the corner. Specifically, it’s November 18th through the 20th in Brisbane. If you’d like to submit domains to our auction there, I…
  • Auction Results and Final Thoughts - NYC 2008
    It’s time to leave New York and go home. Overall, I think it was a very successful show. I cut a lot of deals, developed and strengthened strategic relationships and had a good time. Before I go on…
  • Last Minute Addition - Seoul.com
    Rick Latona Auctions is proud to announce the last minute addition of Seoul.com to our T.R.A.F.F.C. New York auction. Seoul is the largest city in South Korea as well as the 2nd largest metropolitan a…
  • Anxiety Level at All-Time High/Email Down
    So, last night I had a dream that Audits.com and Audit.com, two fantastic names, sold in the millions at the auction. Then the dream turned into a nightmare where nothing else sold. I wake up and go t…
  • Bidding Starts NOW!!!!!
    We’ve done one more thing to change the way domain auctions should be run. Our main competitor throws names that don’t sell into an online bidding system and runs them for another week. We are sta…
  • Here We Go Again!
    I swear I’m not schizophrenic. I know it can appear that way when I change my newsletter design so frequently. This time it is a bit different as my organization continues to reinvent itself. This i…
  • Financing Options at Rick Latona Auctions are Better
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Rick Latona Auctions Partners with Domain Capital. Atlanta, Georgia USA – September 10, 2008 – Today, Rick Latona Auctions, LLC and RickLatona.com, LLC announced a partnersh…
  • See You Down Under. Rick Latona Auctions Lands Another Contract
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RICK LATONA AUCTIONS TO FEATURE AT TRAFFIC DOWN UNDER DOMAIN CONFERENCE Atlanta, Georgia, USA (September 8, 2008) – Rick Latona Auctions will be holding an auction at the TRAF…
  • I Predict an Incredibly Good Week!
    When I was selling cars, back in the day, a bird flew by and took a dump right in the very center of the tie I was wearing. My sales manager walked by, pointed at it and told me, “Son, you are goin…
  • Want a piece of domaining history? A few more names that will be auctioned off in New York.
    On the 11th of July, 1985 the domain mcc.com was registered. It was only the 4th .com domain ever registered. Today that name generates around 100 dollars a day in revenue and it will be auctioned off…

isquattedyour.eu

  • New Hosting and Domain Statistics Site Launched New!
    John McCormac has been collecting and processing statistics on domain registrations and hosting for as long as I can remember. He is probably best known for Hackwatch and WhoisIreland, which produces…
  • Swedish Registry To Release Geographic Names in December
    The Swedish domain registry has announced its plans to release roughly 4 thousand geographic domain names in December. In common with several ccTLDs a block list forbidding their registration had been…
  • ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn
    If you have rules and regulations but don't enforce them then there's little point in having any rules or regulations in the first place.One of the criticisms that is often levelled at ICANN is with r…
  • Has the time come to redelegate IE namespace?
      I've written extensively about the IE namespace and its current registry operator - IEDR in the past. While I've always tried to be fair and balanced in my coverage of the issues facing the IE…
  • IEDR Completely Offline
    The IE Domain Registry is currently completely offline with all services down:whoisapiall web servicesUPDATE: Services are now available again...
  • Maxlock - Protect Your Domains
    Moniker has launched a new service to help domain holders protect their domains from hijacking and other issues.Maxlock, which retails at $59.95 per domain per year is aimed at offering domain holder…
  • Vint Cert Visits Nominet and Oxford Internet Institute
    Image via WikipediaThe Nominet management blog is always a good source of thoughtful and interesting posts.The latest one, by Lesley Cowley, Nominet's CEO, covers Vint Cerf's recent visit to their off…
  • AFNIC Issues Phishing Warning<