Via NamePros, DomainBits, and DNForum: “Over 1,000 high quality domains have been stolen by a thief in Iran. He has brazenly set up a website to sell the domains - LuxaryDomains.com. As well, he is sending out lots of emails to domainers informing them of the domains he has available. Here...

It’s hard to get any company to listen which really makes me scratch my head. When a company does listen, many times you never see any action. I mean these are the same people spending money so why wouldn’t a business listen and put in some of the ideas from it’s customers! Well, S...

Bank of America today slashed its price target for Google by 23 percent and cut its fourth-quarter and 2009 profit estimates for the Internet search giant to reflect an increasingly negative outlook for global advertising. The Bank cited, “recent weakness in online retail and travel sectors, t...

Domainers are some of the most interesting entrepreneurs in the World.  They come from all walks of life, with different levels of education and business/marketing experience. There have been a myriad of individuals who have become successful in the domain industry, with a small, but growing number...

I’m hoping to have an LLLL.com price guide out in the first week of December. I’ll be compiling all sales data from November to draw a conclusion on where the market is at and where it will be heading in the near future. I’m hoping to have a mobile compatible version of the price g...

One of the most important costs LLLL domainers need to consider is the holding cost. Unlike many other domaining segments, LLLL domains come with renewal fees which often represent a very significant portion of the domain’s value. So how does an interested domainer go about intelligently inves...

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...

You can find the LLLL.com Price Guide here . I tried to go light on predictions this month and only offer suggested prices where there is sufficient evidence to support them. With prices having fallen considerably between September and October, there isn’t sufficient sales data yet to make acc...

I know the hard core LLLL.com domainers on the Namepros domain name forum are well aware of this, however since I haven’t yet polled visitors here on where they conduct business or their level of involvement in the LLLL.com community, I thought I’d share this info about TDNAM.com (auctio...

Did you get your copy of the Domaining Manifesto ebook? If you haven’t already done so, go grab it now for free from DomainingRevolution.com. If you did grab it, I’d love to hear your thoughts about the book. Did you enjoy it? Learn anything from it? ...

Go give this article a read - definitely cool stuff from Sahar Sarid explaining why short, generic domain names will remain the flag bearer of our industry. ...

As has been predicted by a couple of threads on various domaining forums, SnapNames are now providing deleting .mobi domain names in their deleting domain auction platform. SnapNames and Oversee have published an official press release on this matter. According to the press release, the dotMobi orga...

After listening to yesterday's webinar with Jeff Reynolds of http://www.americanflags.com/ on Owen's Grand Names site, I'm now quite looking forward to taking part myself this week.Jeff Zbar will be comparing the event and I'm hoping that a few readers of the blog will come along and ask a few quest...

On November 17 I was surprised to see only one Sedo sale above $15,000 - this week there was only one above $10,000! Aside from GiftIdeas.co.uk selling for $37,950 USD and ten .mobi domains selling for over $1,000, nothing really stood out. It got me wondering, with so many things going on last week...

Though the long Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. shortened the work week to just three days for most Americans a string of completed live auction sales filled DN Journal's weekly Top 20 chart with some solid numbers. A pair of $150,000 sales from Rick Latona's live auction in Australia led the pack....

Via LifeHacker: “New web service Nombray is out to help folks establish their online identity by registering their name-based domain. Enter your name into the Nombray search engine and register the various available combinations of vanity URL available. (For example, a search for my name retu...

I came across this article by Dion Hinchcliffe of Zdnet.com where he discusses online communities and rates the top ten community platforms. Joomla was rated no. 1 in his list as a platform for communities with Drupal at no. 2 position. Also I particularly liked his model of the life cycle of an onl...

SnapNames has just announced a nice number of new features for buyers and sellers including improved search, buy it now inventory and more. Kudos to the Snap team - the more tools the better. Check out the news here ©2008 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights Reserved.....

DomainersLive is a Stream site where I will get on there and talk and chat about domains domaining, and letting you interact with other Domainers where you don’t have to sign up. You just go and play. I am experiamenting with this and hope it works out, I need more traffic and more people to ...

According to Barron’s, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says Google revenue will decline for a total of three years, $15.71 billion in 2008, $15.23 billion in 2009 and $14.57 billion in 2010. The 2008 number is consistent with the rest of Wall Street, but Chowdhry’s 2009 an...

Are Fishkin's comments counter intuitive? Not really. The web is the most efficient business platform in the world and thus the one best suited to help business owners survive the economic downturn.Like domain names, SEO can provide a lot of bang for the buck at a time when businesses have to make e...

The domain Euphoria.com is current on auction at TDNAM. With over 5 days to go the domain is already at $10,100. The domain shows a creation date of November 4, 1993, making it one of the oldest domains I have seen in a long time hit the drop auction. My prediction is a selling price of around $15K....

I thought I would try a little something different and talk about domain names that I own and why I purchased it. I know it’s hard to "judge" a domain purchase without knowing the price paid, so let’s say I got all my domains that I will talk about at Reg Fee! (not always true,...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the former Chief Executive at AOL,  Jonathan Miller is trying to raise $30 Billion to purchase Yahoo for $20-$22 a share. The Journal reports that he has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds for months in hopes of raising mon...

Starting in Christmas, yours truely will be in Europe. I will make my first stop in London. (Should be there for about a week) then heading to Athens on the first. I'll be working my way back to London via the EURAIL with stops in Italy, France, and Spain. Mostly backpacking ......