Yesterday, I published an article titled “There Are No Secrets In The Domain Industry”, which has so far received a few interesting comments. If there was or is any secret in the domain industry as such, then it would be to do with expiring domain names. Almost every domainer will eventually hea...

First I want to wish all of you and your families a great thanksgiving, as we all have so much to be thankful for.  With so many people out of work; losing their homes, companies out of business and retirement plans wiped out, as an industry, we are very, very fortunate. I see many TV shows giving ...

This is the first in a series of flowcharts to describe how domains are currently monetized, and how they could be monetized. The purpose of this is to initiate a discussion and hopefully influence those who can to do a better job serving our needs, that is, monetize our domain names better. ...

It appears there is another one time use Godaddy code to get yourself a .com for just $0.99! I have just tested it and it still works. Get yourself a .com domain name at Godaddy for $0.99 using the coupon code 99DOMAIN. Good luck! ...

Doubters of Twitter’s potential as a breaking news source have once again been proven wrong in the aftermath of the horrible events unfolding in Mumbai, India over the last 24 hours. Just like during the recent earthquakes in China, news of the event has spread via Twitter by eyewitness report...

As I skim through the forums I see quite a lot of threads from people new to this business titled: I have $10,000 to spend on domains – what should I invest in now? Of course there is lots of advice thrown around (quite a lot of it is very good), “LLL.com’s are cheap now, only inve...

Although Thanksgiving is primarily an American holiday, I think in this day and age a lot of us have much to be thankful for. I for one am thankful for my health and the health of my beautiful family, for the opportunities handed to me and for the things I have experienced in my life so far. Whether...

ICANN is pleased to release an updated draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD fast track process [PDF, 265K]. The updated document contains clarifying information about the notion of IDN tables. An IDN Table is a table listing all those characters that a particular TLD registry supports. If on...

After eight days straight of being under the camera eye, I gotta say it's been a wild ride so far. I've met hundreds of people that I never would have met if not for this experiment. The conversations have been mostly intriguing, at times mind expanding, and every now and then, a littl...

As we are about to enter the last month of 2008, it is time to start looking towards 2009. 2008  will be remembered as the year of unprecedented economic and financial troubles. Some experts are predicting that unless urgent actions are taken, next year will be even worse. The main down fall for ma...

I’ve put together a permanent page of resources for ICANN new TLD applications. These materials can be hard to locate; I originally put this together for myself because of that problem. I’m also hosting any documents, because of the exasperating slowness of ICANN’s site. All re...

Most of us feel that we are responsible for developing our own content but this doesn’t have to be the case. You too can have your own content writers without breaking the bank. Here is a trick to get good content on the cheap. Starving students can create website content College students are ...

I posted a list of 55 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum. Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past an...

Over the past few days, we've given you an inside view of domain events in Australia and on the French Riviera. Today it is on to Egypt where Directi sister companies Skenzo and LogicBoxes took delegates at this month's ICANN meeting in Cairo on an "Egyptian Odyssey" that included stops at the Great...

This is some short news I want to pass along the web from my point of view. When you are looking to buy a website, do some research on the website and see if its worth what you are going to pay for it. Offer what you think it worth. OK now on to the news. Wordpress has released it new version of wo...

Cheer up and give thanks. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States. That means a light work week, time with the family, and then a mad dash to the stores on Friday (except that I buy everything online). It’s a time to reflect on the past year and give thanks. Here’s what I&#...

The highlight of the week was a very large number of LLL.in sales, most of them premium LLL.in at very good prices. There were many successful sales by INForum members: Meditang sold the domain Kgb.in for $5,000 and another undisclosed LLL.in for $1,200. Johnny sold Tpa.in for €1000 or about $1,30...

I had the pleasure on a recent trip to New York (see my site http://www.laptopnomads.com/413/sitting-on-apple-in-the-big-apple/) to catch up with fellow Domainer / Developer Elliot Silver and his lovely wife Karen.* We chose The Hard Rock Cafe in Time Square as had been there last year and wanted to...

Wednesday, time for your weekly domainer comic strip. This one is funny, let's call it Domainers Anonymous. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Don't forget you can can get your domain names with GoDaddy for only $7.49 by using this link or the links drop down on the menu bar. I ......

I don’t like to write sappy posts, but I have much to be thankful for this year. On the personal side of things, I married a great girl a few months ago and things have been going very well. We are both happy and healthy, and have a lot of good friends and family who [...]...

It’s time to get Personal with your customers and WebOuts.com brings this in a very unique way with cutting edge technology allowing you to control what your customers See and When. This comes in the format of Video but not just any old video. You do not get a second chance at a first impress...

Country code domains turned in the strongest performance we have seen since starting our weekly domain sales report over five years ago. The biggest ccTLD sale of the year led a country code charge that gave ccTLDs 12 of the 20 positions on our latest Top 20 sales chart....

In an interview with iTWire,  ICANN CEO, Paul Twomey, said that he expects ICANN to start accepting application for the new gTLD”s by mid 2009.” Aside from restrictions in relation to trademarks, intellectual property rights, potentially confusing names like .kom and some character stri...

Many people have heard the term "Frozen Tundra" or "Lambeau Field"®. Both are the same place and home of the NFL ® football team the Green Bay Packers®! I live a short 3 minute drive to the legendary "Crown Jewel" of the National Football League®. T...

According to a report today in CNET.com, Google’s Chrome browser has a 3.6% usage rate. Browser usage according to CNET are split up as follows: Internet Explorer 40.7% Firefox                 37.4% Safari                   18.2% Chrome            ...