I am happy to announce that Francois of Domaining.com has acquired DNGator.com - the Domain News Aggregator - to further expand the offering of services, including delivering up-to-date news related to the domain industry. Domaining.com recently launched a domainers’ profile service, at Domain...

Monday is the last day you can lodge a protest with ICANN that may keep over-reaching trademark interests from helping themselves to your domains in the future. Also, for your holiday weekend enjoyment, hundreds of previously unseen photos from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam and Silicon Valley....

Yesterday's short domain auction on Namepros was a blast. Read on for the list of the sales... Related posts:Namepros Short Domain AuctionLLLL.com Letter PerformanceA Look at the CCC.com Market...

Whats a holiday weekend without sex? Well, sadly many people prefer tweeting to sex (or any physical contact with the real world) but those guys never really could get laid anyway. So today we bring both groups a little fun - from the wild and crazy hedonism.com to tweeters.com for the geeks. Snapna...

If you have a hard time making changes to your website, perhaps not understanding or having taken the time to learn the programming code behind it, you need to get Firebug. Firebug is a Firefox addon that lets you see what code changes would do to your blog without actually happening to your blog. ...

This week’s video is sponsored by WhyPark.com and Domainvestors.tv. I need your help. Do you like Tia (whypark model), Monica (domainvestors model) or would you like for me to keep searching? Please comment below or send me an email, your vote will help determine my new video assistant. If yo...

There are 2 domains still at backorder at Namejet.com that looks like they are going to sell into the five figures. TajMahal.com is currently at $8K with the backorder deadline closes at 11pm EST tonight. Filth.com is currently at $5K with the backorder deadline closing tomorrow at 11PM. You can see...

Geo web site commercial will start airing next week. As I wrote about last month, I’m running cable TV commercials for my geo web site Lakeway.com. We’ve completed the first commercial, which you can watch below. The commercials will run over 200 times each month across CNN, FoxNews, ...

For the fifth time since May, Google has been sued for trademark infringement on AdWords. This lawsuit, brought by computer software company Ascentive, in the federal district court in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, alleges that Google wrongly allowed other companies to use Ascentive’s ...

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We have talked about it since it came out, and now the time to put your comments on record at ICANN for the proposed Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). The comment period closes on Monday July 6th. Although the URS on its face only applies to the new gTLD’s, comments made by representatives of IC...

IDN, or Internalized Domain Name is a relative new addition by ICANN. It allows foreign language domains - such as Chinese, Janpanese, Spanish, Hebrew, etc. For example, McDonalds.com translated to Chinese would be ???.com So in foreign countries such as China computer users would simply type in ???...

I was recently asked if I could write a post on IDN domains. I don’t know a whole lot about IDNs, so I thought it’d be better to write about what resources exist out there for IDNs. I’m not sure how many IDN investors visit this blog, however please feel free to leave links in [......

It seems like a no-brainier to me, but I have seen at least 10 stories in the mainstream media about this today and no one reported it on domaining.com, so I’ll bite. TheJayLenoShow.com was ordered transferred to Mr. Leno in a WIPO action today. The domain was originally registered by Guadalup...

Domain sales results from the just concluded 2nd quarter of 2009 are in and they aren't pretty. The total dollar volume of sales reported to us in 2Q-2009 fell 25% from the previous quarter. A big part of the decline came from a pullback at the ultra high end of the market. Median prices were down l...

Starting today on NameJet, an exclusive set of premium .ME domain names will be open for backorder. These .ME domains are owned by Randy Charach, founder of Synergy Domain Club and all around great online businessman and fellow domainer. There are hundreds of quality, actionable, and generic one wor...

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"To use the feature, just login to your GoDaddy account and click on any of your domain names to access the manager (where you also go to do things like update name servers). There’s now a Twitter option under “Domain Enhancements” from which you can check your username availability." Source:...

Survey asks how ICANN can improve its web site. ICANN’s web site is outdated, and the organization knows it. It has hired an outside firm to perform usability analysis and improve the web site. The organization is serious about the effort; I spent 30 minutes on the phone today with its outs...

DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo?s technology partners announced the launch of its... DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo’s technology partners announced th...

DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo?s technology partners announced the launch of its... DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo’s technology partners announced th...

DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo?s technology partners announced the launch of its... DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo’s technology partners announced th...

DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo?s technology partners announced the launch of its... DomainsBot, the leading semantic technology provider for the domain name industry and one of Sedo’s technology partners announced th...

I received an email from Francois this morning letting me know that he's launched a first mockup of what will be a domainer yellow pages site at Domainers.org. As an example, you can see Francois' profile here: http://www.domainers.org/search/?q=Francois+Carrillo. Any information you'd like to add t...

Find out what keywords people are using in domain registrations. What terms did people register domain names for yesterday? Domize let’s you take a peak. Domize’s domain registration statistics provide daily and monthly stats for domain registrations by TLD and term. For example, its J...