I posted a list of 43 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...

The company using MyEmma.com brands as just “Emma”. That’s a mistake. Over the holiday I was reading an article on the local newspaper’s web site when I saw an ad for an e-mail marketing service. The service was called “Emma”, and it caught my attention. I know...

Another great example of people who found a niche and developed an online business around it - TreeTopia.com is a one stop place for Christmas (Holiday) trees. In fact, artificial green trees were not how they entered the business but rather red, pink, white and unusual but fun trees. The site aver...

Mondays can be quite boring or crazy busy but cyber monday always comes with a certain obligation to “steal” some of your employers time and start the hunt for the perfect christmas gifts. In the domain world it seems to be just another Monday so if you’re gift hunting and would li...

Widest.com, the cool and affordable domain registrar, is now sporting a new design and layout (it may take a few hours for the new layout to resolve via your IP/ISP - try clearing your browser cache). With over 95% of visitors viewing our site at 1024 pixels wide or more, we’ve decided to adju...

The telephone is an amazing tool, but who wants to 'interrupt' anyone these days? Be honest, we live in an "ask permission first" world, and the last thing that people respond to are crafted messages from companies or people that they don't know. One would be wise to better utilize the many wonders ...

According to Oppenheimer & Co banking analyst Meredith Whitney, the U.S. credit card industry may pull back well over $2 trillion of lines over the next 18 months leading to sharp declines in consumer spending, prominent  said. The credit card is the second key source of consumer liquidity, the...

According to the Times of London, Microsoft is again in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to a new management team which would then raise an additional $5 billion from external...

The site for the planned UK domain event has been changed to www.domainroadshow.co.ukAll updates and progress reports will appear there in future.As Napoleon Hill famously stated, "From every adversity, there is the seed of a greater benefit", or words to that effect.The name is better than the prev...

DN Journal has published its comprehensive review of the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference ever held outside the United States. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under, ably staged by Fabulous.com, attracted domain owners from around the world to Australia's scenic Gold Coast. We have photos and inside show info y...

Thank you to Chef Patrick for thinking of me for an interview! ...

Tucows overtakes “original” registrar Network Solutions. Registrar rankings from RegistrarStats.com I’ve been doing a lot or ranking watching over the past 48 hours. I’m a Texas Longhorns fan, and axiously awaited results from the Coaches Poll, Harris Poll, and BCS over the ...

Domain name eBook is now free. When John Motson, who writes the DNXpert.com blog, released his eBook “Domaining Manifesto” a while back I didn’t pay much attention. I was actually kind of miffed because I had planned an eBook about the domain name industry and had already registe...

I don't like the recruitment industry particularly. The people within it are some of the most slimy characters I've ever met. Discover a recruiter's forum and you'll soon see what I mean. Kids with no business knowledge, most of them.There is only one part of the industry that held any interest for ...

A post at Idnforums shows that IDNs are fairly well represented in their top 1,000,000 list. While alexa is pretty much useless in trying to get any meaningful stats from, i still think that it positively shows that IDNs are being developed into meaningful visited sites, that are being regularly vis...

  Closing an end user sale is the only way to make serious money in this business. Yes it’s lovely when they approach you and make a fabulous offer, but this is rarely the case. So instead of waiting around for what is probably never going to happen, a small amount of domainers take the i...

ElliotsBlog.com is one of my favorite domain news blog, right after my own of course.  Elliot Silver has been blogging since June 2007 and has not stopped since.  I really applaud him for this, it is extremely difficult to take a blog and continue writing month after month supplying new ......

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...