Is anyone looking out for the domainers? After reading the following blog the clear answer is yes. Reece Berg who is already known for his blog LLLL.com has done it again with DomainNameScams.com. Get this, the blog has only been online for 10 days and has 16 ......

Kevin made a great suggestion to me this morning - that I write a blog post asking my readers for their “Dear Santa” list to see what they would like for Christmas (or Hanukkah .  Since I am traveling today, I thought it would be a great time to ask the question.  All responses (commen...

As unconvered by Domain Name Wire, Godaddy has joined the ranks of registrars that participate in the participate in Domain Warehousing practices. Domain Warehousing means the practise where a registrar keeps domains for themselves after the original registrant fails to renew the domain. Tucows, one...

VeriSign released their quarterly report on domain registrations know as the “The Domain Industry Brief” today. Here are some of the key findings, all are based on the quarter ending September 30, 2008. There were 174 million domains registered across all Top Level Domains (TLD’s) ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (December 4, 2008) - DomainSponsor(tm), the domain monetization business of Oversee.net and organizer of DOMAINfest Global®, a franchise of premium conferences designed to promote and support the advancement of the domain industry, today published the agenda for DOMAINfest Global 20...

  (Sorry - but this could be a hoax - there is a hallmark e-card that contains a virus doing the rounds - but it isn’t the most destructive ever - in fact if you have up to date anti virus and firewalls you should be okay. Still this does hilite two things - be careful opening mails from ...

  Most of us involved in the domain business have taken a risk. Some have taken small risks with their weekly allowance, whereas others have put their house and savings on the line. Look at Rick Schwartz, Scott Day and Frank schilling – people thought them madmen when they put everything ...

I arrived in Japan yesterday for 3 weeks as part of my families 7 month world trip. We start off in Tokyo for a few days then off to Kyoto & Osaka for another 20 days. What I have noticed so far in Tokyo is that they have some strange domain names indead! In one of the local [...]...

Just when we thought things were on the mend in the domaining world (NOT) my friend Andrew Allemann did some crazy-ass investigative work to uncover the intricate details of how Godaddy profits from the expired domain names noone buys from it’s expired domain market by parking them behind the ...

Oversee.Net announced the agenda for DOMAINfest Global 2009. The third annual event will take place at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, California from January 28-30, 2009, with a pre-event Boot Camp on January 27. DOMAINfest Global will conduct a pre-event Boot Camp for beginner or...

Another LL.com finds an enduser on Sedo. ...

Regardless of how the wider economy is doing, domain name sales report reveals that there is still very strong demand for domain names. The DN Journal sales report for last week shows that domain names are still selling for handsome figures. Here is sample of the top sales: BikeHelmets.com - $50,000...

The laws of supply and demand made me take a second glance at LLLL.com’s. The law of supply and demand says that when costs are low, there is a high demand. So in the case of LLLL.com’s, prices crashed from about $50 for the average LLLL.com to $15 in only 5 or 6 months. But [...]...

Jamie Parks of DomainDeveloper.com has started an interesting experiment in domaining. He has decided to stream live through LiveDomainer.com in an effort to engage domainers more completely. He states that he wants to create a “sharing and learning” environment for domainers and build r...

Well, several people loved my "Godaddy Trick" that I wrote about yesterday. I mean, who wouldn’t. It all makes sense after I pointed it out, minus one part… The part that stated: "Godaddy has stated several times they do not warehouse domain names" that was a key poin...

After award winning work at Richmond.com, Jon Lumpkin has left to join Skip Hoagland's Domains New Media where he will help build a new site on Alexandria.com. The project will serve two cities that share the same name. Lumpkin will work on Alexandria, Virginia while Gastón Piarrette develops a co...

.TEL launched their Sunrise period today and Name is offering .TEL domains for $389 for the initial three year period. The .TEL extension is unique from other domain extensions. While .com and .org are most often used for websites that contain dynamic information and rich media content the .TEL exte...

A story is doing the rounds on NamePros, DomainBits, DNForum and Conceptualist about an Iranian hacker who has managed to amass a collection of over 1000 stolen high quality domain names by hijacking email accounts. Examples of domain names stolen in this fashion include: Problems.com, Mistake.com, ...

GoDaddy goes to great lengths to hide its expired domain warehousing operations. Scottsdale, Arizona based The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and profiting from them. The company has ...

EnCirca Inc. is accepting domain applications for national trademarks as of today. Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis by submitting them at www.encirca.com. “.tel is changing how consumers will locate contact information online. We are excited to be able to offer...

What are you doing now? the most popular question in Facebook, right? Well I was just wondering what my fellow domainers are doing right now. I will start, I went to enom.com and was just checking out the premium names .TV registry is hoarding. There are 53050 of them ranging in  from 500K  per ye...

Two character domain bought by end user. Sedo has completed the sale of SC.com for $300,000, and it appears the buyer is Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered provides banking services mostly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Standard Chartered Group was formed in 1969 through a me...

Wednesday, here is your weekly domainer comic strip. Think you have a funny idea for my next comic strip? Jump over to the contact page and send over some ideas. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE Make sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter. I am sending out this ......

Google is facing up to difficult times. Get ready for lower revenue shares. A few years ago I read an article with a quote from a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) human resources executive. He was commenting on the company’s lavish perks and how they were unique to Google. When the reporter pointed ou...

This came to me from a reader who just got this expiration notice from a Snapnames.com registrar: (domain info deleted) “”"”"You registered the domain ….. on 2008-03-29 18:08:57 UTC and it will expire on 2009-03-29. If you want renew your domain for one year please send us 12...