We have decided to make available the premium domaining business related domain name:   DomainBoss.com   It has been registered for almost 10 years since 1999. Many other extensions of the ”Domain Boss” have been snapped up by others including the:  .net,  .org, .biz, .us, .co.uk, ...

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is over but two more domain conferences will get underway outside the U.S. over the next 7 days. We have details on those events in Poland and Canada (both of which will include live domain auctions) as well as info on a pair of online auctions worth taking a look at....

I was abroad with my business partner last week, conducting asbestos surveys. This is the large contract we won after being contacted from one of our web sites and being invited to tender for the work.The contract will take several months and quite a few more visits.Usually, when we conduct these su...

Here's an eyechart for ya. First off, they own HolidayInn.com so no idea why they're using the Holiday-Inn.com. And the URL only goes downhill from there. A slash, an airport code, and a nonsensial abreviation. Toss in the dubs and alllowercase and if this were Bad URL Bingo we'd have a full-card wi...

This is the second reverse URL I've spotted. Unlike the last one though, this actually does show up properly in the rear-view mirror. And Leading Caps give it a good chance at sticking. .LRUdooGAsIsihT...

I've been walking by this awning for a couple years now but never had my camera on me until this past weekend. I just don't get this URL. The name of company is 12 Gauge. Since when is GA a universally accepted abbreviation for Gauge? Since when did the word Gauge even qualify for abbreviation statu...

Sedo has just completed the first seven-figure domain sale since the first quarter of this year - moving Invest.com for $1,015,000 through their GreatDomains premium auction site. The news come from Sedo's Kate Donahue who is preparing for some big changes in her life....

Is there a faster and easier way to develop a topical domain name than to set up a news aggregator and republish stories on one of your own websites? No effort necessary… well, maybe a little. A few tools that I’ve come across are Hexamail’s News2Web and MySyndicaat. With a little ...

The first few weeks of school were brutal, but now that I’m getting back into a good work and study rhythm, I can start posting again. Senior year is bound to annihilate many more of my brain cells, in more ways than one, but I must keep exercising whatever is left of my impoverished intellect...

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 name had no bids) now, I do normally see names in this section preceded by a number or two, ...

The IDN aftermarket continues to grow quickly, with sales picking up on IDN forums in recent days. Sales yesterday included: Russian GEO – ????.com (Sochi) – SOLD for $21,555USD on idnchannel.com - Punycode: xn--h1aliz.com - Russian resort city, with population: 402,043 (2007), set to ho...

Organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference completed their 12th successful run this morning in New York City. We have photos and highlights from the past 24 hours, including presentation of the annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards last night and also clue you in on show plans for 2009 and beyond....

Bido.com is a new auction provider, with a twist. Bido.com auctions one domain per day, with no reserve. There’s a self-imposed hiatus at the moment while they fix some bugs in their system, which on the whole I take as a positive sign — better than the endless-Beta mode that Google h...

1. Just because you register a domain someone will offer you millions of dollars for it. 2. There is an ‘easy’ way to make money with domains, buy my ebook. 3. Every new extension that comes out has a potential to make you a millionaire. 4. No effort is required to find out which domai...

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 have been doing a lot of mining for geodomains using my trusty Domain Research Tool.  There ar...

Update: Here are the final results for the Auctions that were conducted during the Traffic Show.  The total came to approximately $4.7 million for all auctions held. Moniker.com Live Auction: Approximately $3 million Moniker.com Silent Auction: $907,649 RickLatonia.com Live Auction: $699,600 Afterm...

Domain Auction Begins HandyManVentures.com 1-Oct BMAV.net 1-Oct BostonHousing.net 1-Oct CelebrityPromotion.com 1-Oct GolfMassachusetts.com 1-Oct PropertyLocators.net 1-Oct Sk8Guard.com 1-Oct TipCalculator.com 2-Oct MKTManager.com 2-Oct OnlineSportClub.com 2-Oct PersonalizedP...

Here are DN Journal's photos and highlights from the first full day of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York Wednesday, including two live auctions, Barbara Corcoran's well-received keynote speech and TrafficZ's official show party that ran into the wee hours of the morning....

Kelly Hardy did an interview with me for NameSmash about (what else) new TLDs. We did the interview using instant messenger, which is my new favorite way to do interviews — if both parties can type, that is. Topics include: Is ICANN ready? Is the submission fee too high? The future of the r...

Chinese market definetely seems to heating up with alot of healthy sales for expired .cn IDN domain names. Sales are taking place at ebname.cn and 66.cn, who are operating under contract from CNNIC for dropping .cn IDNs. Sales from the last month include: ??.cn (plane tickets) - US$7,159 ?.cn (net/n...

There was a special surprise at the registration desk given to the first 250 people who arrived at the TRAFFIC conference in New York; a custom Rick “The Domain King” Schwartz bobblehead. The custom bobblehead was produced by Bobbleheads.com owner Warren Royal and approved by the domain...

There seem to be more domain tools appearing by the day, and I say you can’t have too many, just a personal opinion Scott over at TrendDomaining.com has highlighted a couple from Name.com, which I personally find very timely. My attention was drawn to another tool I rather like, which I sp...

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference got underway last night. DN Journal has some photos and highlights from the opening activities and a look ahead at today's agenda for the first full day of the event....

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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.  It’s gone and the site is back. I’m a bit out of touch at the moment; haven’t bee...