In four short years Page Howe has become the poster boy for the amazing things that are possible in this business. This is the previously untold story of how Howe discovered domains and went on to become one of the industry's key players. Get the story in DN Journal's new August Cover Story....

"A a struggle of epic proportions." After laying off 36 more people, that's how the publisher of a local newspaper owned by the New York Times described their battle to survive in a media world increasingly dominated by the Internet....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. One of the largest three-word domain sales we’ve ever seen took the #1 spot on our Top 20 chart after changing hands for $260,000. Another six-figure blockbuster from the geodomain category passed the $150,000 mark....

I have ecently learned that my blog can be a very useful tool while making money on it also. I have also learned that some of you have been reading my blogs. Well here a short simple sweet catch-up on life. Me and ashley are over. Went to hell and back then back to hell. She is going out with an old...

As the foundations of traditional media continue to crumble, print magazines are the latest to find their necks in a noose. A new report covering the first half of 2008 showed big declines in both circulation and ad pages in nearly all subject categories....

I check Google Trends for most search phrases and domaining opportunities and use it as at least one data point when considering whether or not to invest. But I have never actually put the search term ‘domain names’ in until today.  Here’s what I saw: It wasn’t what I exp...

Forbes.com writer Charlie Foster just posted a new article about the domain business and he says it became the top-ranked story on the influential business news website today....

‘Mumpreneurs’ or ‘Mumtrepreneus’ have become quite a phenomenom in the UK in the last few years.  It’s a sector of the economy that apparently contributes £4.4bn per year, ($8.8ish) and rising. Naturally it’s the internet which has enabled women with kids to w...

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??.com, Chinese for bank.com just sold on snapnames for $21,022. A bargain for the buyer, and great news for Chinese IDNs especially .com’s which have recently seen a number of decent sale prices. ...

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Google’s algorithm is not going to get any dumber, so don’t try to trick it. They’ve got many smart people working on it, so in the long run, I’ll trust Google to tell quality from bullshit over trusting any SEO professional to give me “Top search engine rankings in a week.R...

Great to see the important of IDNs recognized by a major international body, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and their work towards the successful planning, implementation, and bringing awareness of them. In the following post: ICANN approves the introducti...

The Olympics are here and so is usaWaterpolo.mobi; this is the official site of the USA Water Polo team and is designed to help draw attention to the team's competition in the Beijing games. The project was a joint effort between several companies, all working to help bring the spotlight ont...

This might not interest many of you, but if you remember Mosiac you might remember that mcom.com was their domain name back in the day. AOL has started offering some vanity email addresses of this and a few other domains. Some of which great like games.com, when.com and switched.com, others of which...

Looks like the IDN market is heating up with one domain sale of $xxx,xxx and another deal of $x,xxx,xxx. While full details have not yet been released, the buyer has let it known that the sales were all for Russian IDNs. Also reported a Chinese seller sold a .cn for a good $xx,xxx to a business [......

The following screenshot may be insightful (taken today, courtesy of Google Trends). I hope it needs no explanation. I advocate what could be called “trend surfing” or keeping track of currently popular fads and social trends to keep my content fresh, topical, and of interest. This is gr...

The general economy is sputtering but the media industry continues to be among the fastest growing industrial sectors in America. Better yet, a new study says the biggest waves within the media business are all breaking in favor of those of us who operate online....

August is shaping up as one of the busiest months ever for domain auction activity. You will need several scorecards to keep up with the action and we have links to where you can find them. Also today, Sedo announces a plan to help build wells in drought stricken Ethiopia....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top domain is a Dutch country code name that ranks among the 12 biggest ccTLD sales so far in 2008. The new all extension Top 20 has 14 .coms and a pair of country codes with the final four openings divided evenly between a .net, a .or...

The 2009 Domain Roundtable conference will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel June 14-17. This will be the first Roundtable on the east coast and the first staged by new owner Thought Convergence. We will tell you why it's a smart move....

As PPC revenues continue to sink, solutions to improve domain monetization are springing up from within the domain community. Portfolio Help from Bido.com and a quick and easy domain development plan from AEIOU.com are tackling the problem from different angles....

Sorry, but if you searched and found this post because you’re wondering when we UK publishers will have a chance of earning on YPN, you’ll still feel let down. I’m guessing you searched because you needed an alternative to Adsense, since they disabled your account for no reason. ...

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 reasoning and repercussions behind this move by Google - So, allow me to share with you the one or two s...

Entrepreneur Magazine has published a very nice article on the domain business by Laura Tiffany titled Imminent Domaining. The piece does a nice job of explaining this industry to the magazine's audience of serial entrepreneurs - a group that is always looking for new opportunities....