Torex appoints Sedo to oversee web address saleSedo, the leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings (Torex™) to oversee the sale of rss.com. With the development of the Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS)...

Torex appoints Sedo to oversee web address saleSedo, the leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings (Torex™) to oversee the sale of rss.com. With the development of the Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS)...

Torex appoints Sedo to oversee web address saleSedo, the leading marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has been appointed by Torex Retail Holdings (Torex™) to oversee the sale of rss.com. With the development of the Internet, Really Simple Syndication (RSS)...

The new October Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Our comprehensive review of the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference explores why show goers felt so optimistic at a time when the financial world at large was (and still is) on the edge of disaster....

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 afford having 100, 200 or 300 new cars at ~$25k a pop?  In order to get around this prob...

National advertisers want to target local communities online according to a new study conducted by Sterling Market Intelligence and commissioned by Marchex, Inc. The down side to this new trend is National advertisers are confused on the best tactics and best traffic sources to use and how to...

As reported across the industry blogs, Moniker.com’s silent auction concluded yesterday.   Among the names that sold for top dollar was the geo domain/geo targeted domain NewYorkRestaurants.com for $30,240.  It took the number 5 position on high sales for the silent auction.  One year ago,...

Moniker has released the results from their T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York online auction. Coupled with their two live auctions in the Big Apple, Moniker wound up booking close to $4 million in domain sales. Also, a new trade association for Canadian domain owners is set to launch Oct. 7....

If you’re a fan of the .us extension, then you’re probably upset about the recent price hike to $19.95.  I can’t waive a magic wand and bring the prices back down… but what I can do is share some promo codes that I know about to help bring your totals down a bit. Emma1 will ...

I guess we have a perfect generic domain in our portfolio that can be used nicely by other aspiring domain name bloggers. The domain name is:   DomainNameBlogger.com i.e. Domain Name Blogger   I would like to see this domain used by a domainer who is passionate about sharing his knowledge for t...

Our friends at Fabulous are working on the new Traffic show, Traffic Down Under. The projections I hear are over 250 attendees. As .Com.Au is a hot domain extension these days (the Australian government recently made some chances to the .AU registry) I expect many local businesses to attend as well...

I would just like to quickly announce that tonight at 6pm EDT the NamePros.com Live auction will take place! I just checked out the queue and there are some gems to be had this evening, including a 2 character .net (9U.net), an amazing dictionary word (Controversy.com), some investment quality 4 let...

Former Domain Roundtable producer Stephen Douglas has settled a lawsuit against Name Intelligence, the company behind the 2007 conference he directed, and its CEO Jay Westerdal. Elsewhere, NameMedia announces a further expansion of their AfternicDLS domain aftermarket platform....

PremierDomains.com Selects NameMedia’s AfternicDLS Domain Sales Platform as Supplier of Premium Domain Names   WALTHAM, MASS - October 2, 2008-NameMedia today announced a strategic domain marketing agreement with the newly launched Internet domain marketplace, PremierDomains.com   Under the...

Driving traffic to your web site or domain is one of the more tricky and time-consuming elements of any online marketing strategy.Many domainers and marketers jumped on the bandwagon of BANS - "Build a Niche Store", which essentially builds a site based on a particular niche, by scraping content fro...

Now this doesn’t bother me particularly, but I noticed that when registering a few domains yesterday, (October 1), I paid an extra cent for them. $7.49 using a coupon code plus $0.20 Icann fee = $7.69, Godaddy rounded it up to $7.70.  I know I should be buying in sterling, being British, (ol...

This is an ex-blog domain of mine with PR 2 and parking revenue.  It was a blog about the now popular Eee PC by Asus, I bought it 3 or 4 months before the machine went to market and it’s popularity has grown in that time. Go.ogle very helpfully accused me of invalid clicks, (someone else clic...

Some of the .mobi registry's best domains, including cellphones.mobi, games.mobi, blackjack.mobi, doctors.mobi, quotes.mobi and xxx.mobi will be auctioned off by Sedo on November 5. The registry says winners will be required to have a developed site online within 9 months of transfer....

We were away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference last week so our usual weekly domain sales report was delayed until today when we published an expanded double length report that will bring you up to date on all reported sales since our last column Sept. 16. A million dollar sale tops t...

Today is your last chance to get in on the Afternic Auction for MobileMail.com.  Bidding will end at 4PM EDT Oct. 1. With the popularity of BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices that can access email continually on the rise just imagine the potential for a domain like MobileMail.com. Clic...

It’s been a month since I last updated the blog. During that month I mainly rested, focused on reading, as well as visited the Traffic show in New York City. The show I felt was a success, the food was great, Rick and Howard once again delivered on their promise, that is, bringing the best in ...