.ME is the country code for Montenegro but when the extension was relaunched in a new disguise last week half of the registrants came from the U.S. See more early .ME stats at DNJournal.com....

6-figure .org sales are rare but this week TWO of them hit the top of the chart. It was also a huge week for the country codes as seven ccTLD domains made the all extension Top 20. The country code charge was led by TWO big French ccTLD sales,...

Yep, last night, 11.15pm UK time. I was preparing some late night snack and had the TV volume down quite low, so I didn’t hear all of it.  After some bizarre ad where a man swapped eating porridge for a 37K per year IT job, (74K in dollars), I noticed a familiar logo more commonly seen on my ...

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Our local daily continues its anorexic decline. Meanwhile another major publication hopes to survive with a new model that will debut tomorrow. As the future unfolds geo domain owners may be in the catbird seat....

It’s good to keep an eye on those domains which are closely related to yours, to get some idea as to whether or not the development of them will affect the value of your own domains. If you own SportsCarHire.com, for example, how will the development of SportsCarHireUK.com affect the value of ...

Major congratulations go out today to long-time domain investor Howard Hoffman (who also operates PPCIncome.com). In addition to his domain endeavors Hoffman owns a fast-growing bottled water company that distributes an oxygenated spring water called O2Cool. Mariel Hemingway discovered it, loved it ...

Here are Mobile Banking .mobi sites along with their respective promotions: (courtesy BocaVision)Grupo Banco Popular (Spain) - GrupoBancoPopular.mobi (a Spanish bank with 2.7 billion Euros in revenue) PROMOTION HERE First National Bank (South Africa) - FNB.mobi (one of the BIG 4 South-African banks...

DN Journal's comprehensive review of the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago has just been published. We have behind the scenes details and dozens of photos from the landmark event that you won't find anywhere else....

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 me correctly.. Ok, before I go into the details, let me also point out that im gonna give y...

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 it seems. [the recent class action filing by Boston attorney Hal Levitte not being relevant at this...

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York sells a fourth live domain auction seat for their September conference to Bido.com, the domain business heats up in Brazil, .pro gets ready to relaunch and a fish tale from the latest domainer's outing in the Adirondacks....

Moniker.com has always been the only live auction provider at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences but the show's organizers have decided to let up to five auctioneers set up shop at the next show in New York City Sept. 23-26. The third spot was taken today by RickLatona.com who chose to Go Big rather than Go...

Registration of .ME domains opened to the public today but a lot of potential registrants are crying "woe is me" after paying for domains at GoDaddy only to learn later that someone else got the names they thought they had purchased....

The auction for Video.us ended at 12pm this afternoon, and this time it sold for $12,000. The name sold for $75,000 last year and then $18,500 earlier this year. Check out Ron Jackson’s recent post on DNJournal.com for more information about the strange history of this domain name: In the pas...

DN Journal has compiled and released the latest domain sales data for the first two quarters of 2008. We give you the facts and figures on how the domain market has been faring at a time when the general economy is in disarray....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and once again it was a solid week for the aftermarket. A trio of six-figure sales included one that ranks among the year's 12 biggest sales. There was also a major deal in the country code category that ranks among the ten biggest ccTLD sal...

As many of you know I very rarely sell any of my LLLL.com’s but I need some funds to support another project so here it is, an excellent triple repeating LLLL.com for sale! Domain: YYYB.com Registrar: GoDaddy Expiration Date: 04/24/2009 Price: $1200 > $1000 I am flexible on the price and...

For the third time in 15 months, the highest valued .us domain to date - Video.us - is up for grabs. The two previous owners had the name stripped from them by the registry for WhoIs or Nexus violations. Will the third time be the charm for this star-crossed domain?...

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 air, as more information has emerged, the more Ive realised the seriousness of what Dan Ka...

Parked.com and Modern Domainer Magazine will sponsor a show in New Orleans during Mardi Gras week February 19-21, 2009. Parked.com and Modern Domainer share New Orleans roots though Parked.com moved most of their operations to Tampa, Florida (also our home base) after Hurricane Katrina....

The 2008 GeoDomain Expo closed in Chicago Saturday (July 12) with a 12-hour day packed with big events. It opened with a morning session featuring stories from five geodomain pioneers and also included Moniker's live domain auction and the 2008 GeoDomain Awards dinner....

That I am now a moderator on NamePros for the ccTLD forum. Just trying to give back to the community as I told Corey from Fusion Explorers. The rest of the interview might make for light reading Also, I’ve been accepted by the good folks at Bido as an industry expert. I’m honoured. I g...

As a follow up to a previous article I thought I would write a quick update on how the VCVCV.com market is progressing. I ran a scan last night on all VCVCV combinations. You can find the results and available domains list below. Scanned: 55125 Registered: 32604 Available: 22521 Percentage registe...

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