Here is still another reason to be thankful this weekend - the continuing growth of the online advertising market. Despite the meltdown in the general economy, online search ad spending isl expected to set another new record next year. In this economy how many other sectors are expecting a near doub...

If you are not aware of it yet we are currently holding a mega domaining essentials contest here at DNXpert. Thanks to our various contest sponsors we were able to put together a prize pool worth over $4,800 in cash and prizes. If you want to be in the prizes check out the points tracking page and m...

According to the AP, Carl Icahn, bought 7 million more shares of Yahoo for $67 million. That works out to about $9.92 a share. His stake in Yahoo is now 75.6 million shares, or nearly 5.5 percent of the company Icahn previously bought 70 million shares for about $25 a share and has lost $900 million...

Internet Marketing  is more than a channel for producing leads and sales - it’s now a major driver for building your eBusiness brand. Over the past few months we have seen stories of well-established newspapers and other print media shutting down their print publishing operations, and opting ...

I think the most important reason to buy keyword domain names is to get the attention of people searching for those keywords. Type in traffic is still the most targeted traffic you can find, but for the most part, domain names that get type in traffic are very expensive for most people. However, I b...

One of the reasons why I am a big supporter of the Chabad movement is because of their welcoming nature. Whenever I have visited a Chabad house, be it in Venice, Italy, Dubrovnik, Croatia, New York, New Hampshire… etc. every Rabbi I have met has been warm and welcoming. My good friend Rabbi Le...

Nominet’s Domain Name Industry Report for 2008 released recently at Nominet’s annual .uk registrar conference held at Wembley stadium in London UK shows a continuing increase in popularity of country code domain names driven by strong growth in countries such as China and Russia. The report ...

Black Friday and my family and I stayed home - no shopping for us. Here are three reasons why we are staying home: 1. Do you know how the economy will look like tomorrow? Do you know if your income will sustain tomorrow? I don’t either. 2. Our TV/Refrigerator/Dishwasher works fine - no need to...

eNom, announced today the renewal of their Domain Name Services Agreement with VeriSign, under which eNom serves as the registrar for premium .tv domain names. According to VeriSign, .tv domains have experienced annual growth of over 60 percent and a doubling of new .tv domain name registrations. Mo...

More thinking how this series will continue, I think I will focus daily on one area which can be improved. That way we will ensure each area is being discussed thoroughly where we can all understand the issues better, and hopefully be able to make better decisions. Today let’s talk about minds...

As most of my readers have gathered by now I really like the ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain) space and it seems as though I am not alone. Rick Latona had this to say after the Traffic DownUnder show had finished......

We have just installed the latest versions of Wordpress and VBulletin on the DNXpert blog and domain forum respectively as they badly needed an upgrade. If anyone sees anything weird in the next few days please let us know via the contact form. Thanks! ...

Day 4 – Tues 18th Nov The sessions kicked off first up and each of them outstanding. I had the privilege of being a part of the first one with Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ), Rick Latona and Dan Warner (Fabulous). I attended a lot of the sessions and it was with some......

You know when you buy a domain name you think its going to be good? Right, it may not sell for as much as you was hoping to get out of it. When You find a Available domain to register and you want to know how much it will sell for. Don’t go ask someone on a forum or another domainer. You might...

URL-aholic Ron Patrick spied this traitorous URL. I like the fact that the URL backs up the ad speaking directly to parents but methinks Parents.GoArmy.com would work much better. This URL loses the battle with the slash and the war with the underscore....

Corey Jenness submitted this hodgepodge -- 1 Good URL and 4 Bad URLs. This ad starts off on the right track with a catchy domain and leading caps but runs downhill from there through a maze of all lower case and slashes before bottoming out with a real downer....

Fellow URL-spotter, Sean Fallows sent this one in. Since the URL is only one word, I'll give the use of all caps a Presidential pardon. Dig how they tied it in with the campaign slogan. I wouldn't change a thing here....

One more from the Good URL Bad URL mailbag. This one comes courtesy of Leo Dominguez. He points out that the spacing here makes it look more like an email address than an URL. They need to fix this one today....

About 6 months ago I made a list of about 500+ .co.in & .in domains that I was looking at registering. I purchased about 100+ of the ones that I liked the best and left the rest for later or in this......

Linton Investments launched DNInvestor.net Thanksgiving of 2008. The focus of DNInvestor is to provide the latest Domain Name Investing News and well as market analysis for domain name professionals and investors. To start with we'll be providing updates weekly staying on-top of the current trends a...

Phil, the previous owner of LLLL.com (goes by the handle “VURG” on Namepros and DN Forum) started sharing information about the LLLL.com market back in early 2006 on Namepros. Thanks to his research and the work of DYYO.com, early LLLL.com investors were able to make more informed decisi...

Let’s face it, some domainers and webmasters are tricksters. Or at least persuaders. We try to persuade consumers to buy our product, click on our banners and ads. So why do I consider this tricking the consumer? Because when someone writes an MFA site, or just a nice content site, they usuall...

A new website - DomainFight.net - owned by USpeakWeType Technologies, LLC allows the search of both the WIPO and NAF panel decision databases concurrently. Touted as a tool useful for both Complainant and Respondents involved in domain name and cybersquatting disputes under the Uniform Dispute Reso...

As previously announced, Sedo’s premium numeric domain auction has just opened for bidding. The auction ends on December 4th and features the following domain names: 024.org 10029.com 13.net 1500000.com 20032.com 25.com 40.com 44.ca 500.net 6801.com 70.com 79.net 88.com 94.com (c) 2008 Domai...

Like any market, domaining sees strong seasonal trends. With Thanksgiving today and Black Friday tomorrow the domaining market will enter a new cycle. As a domainer, the question you should always ask yourself is, "How will seasonality change my business?" Forecasting your business can be challengin...