Name Media has decided to pull their planned IPO offering citing market conditions. The Massachusetts-based domain conglomerate (parent company of BuyDomains, the AfternicDLS and several parking services), originally filed for a $172.5 million IPO in November 2007....

Sorry I was not able to post the contest winner last night. A couple things held me back, besides the full day of Christmas shopping you guys didn't make it easy to pick a winner. There were 300+ domain names submitted for the free mini-site. Besides that I wanted to ......

I have always just tried doing many things manually that I figured I could have a script tool but always put it off. This was a Huge mistake on my part, because these little scripts can save you SO much time. You can have a script made to do a function that you do manually. Example, Lazymate.com was...

Verizon wins default judgment against top 15 domain registrar. Customers of OnlineNic, Inc., a top 15 domain registrar with over 1,000,000 domains registered, should be concerned about the state of the registrar after a judge ordered the company to pay $33 million to Verizon (NYSE: VZ). A judge ent...

Actress wins domain name at WIPO. Actress Scarlett Johansson has won rights to the domain name ScarlettJohansson.com in an arbitration decision at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Johansson has starred in numerous movies including Lost in Translation, Match Point, and The Ghost Whi...

In the largest cybersquatting judgment ever, a federal court in the Northern District of California has awarded Verizon $33.15 million in a case in which an Internet domain registration company tried to take advantage of Verizon and Verizon customers by using Internet names chosen to be easily confu...

It might be Christmas Eve but I am delighted to have closed a sale for a btach of 19 specialist names today. It wasn't massive money, but they were names that I would otherwise have let expire as they aren't in a market I want to be in any longer.I'm quite pragmatic about certain names in my portfol...

I want to take this opportunity to wish all our clients, readers, advertisers and affiliates a very holy and joyous Christmas. I pray that you will find 2009 to be a prosperous year. I want to thank all our clients for their business and continued support. I wish you every success in your respective...

Pronounceable LLLL.coms are a much more difficult sector to master than ordinary LLLL.coms. While there are base prices for LLLL.coms that have a certain letter quality, certain letter patterns, certain levels of brandability, assumed enduser potential, traffic, etc, it’s much more difficult t...

Whenever we talk of LLLL.coms, we see the same thing repeating itself –  a lot of domainers (new and old alike) fail to truly understand the diversity of the LLLL.com market. This post is dedicated to anyone new to domaining or the LLLL.com market with the goal of getting you up to date on ho...

The first three names on the Top 20 chart banked a total of $1 million. One of those sales ranks among the 12 biggest of 2008 and another is the 4th highest non .com global TLD sale. The all extension leader board was made up of 16 .coms, a pair of .nets and two country code domains, one representin...

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I know you’re been saving up your pennies for a little .COM magic for the holiday season and I don’t want to disappoint you. For the next 24 hours we’re treating you to $7.25 .COM new registrations. I think this offer speaks for itself but just in case you need convincing… It...

The contest prizes consist of cash and other prizes. The contest will run till Friday January 23rd 2009. Winners will be announced in the following week. Go now to: SocialDN.com ...

Some of the more outspoken veterans of the domain name business like to think of themselves as early adopters, likely because of their early awareness and insight into the power of domain names.  However, for most domainers this early adoption of one particular form of naming has not carried over t...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. In contrast to retailers who are suffering through a dismal Christmas season domain sellers had a banner week with five names cracking the six-figure barrier. The first three names on our new Top 20 chart banked a total of $1 million....

It’s time for another weekly summary of Sedo’s domain sales. This week features Riva.com selling for 200,000 USD, Crab.com closing at 92,000 USD, and Casas.net reaching 87,000 EUR. But there’s much more after the jump! Domain name Price Currency Translation .COMs ...

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15 years after Korea was allocated the .kr ccTld, the National Internet Development Agency of Korea has announced the number of registrations of domains in the .kr ccTld have passed the 1 million domains mark. According to the National Internet Development Agency, the number of domains registered wi...

This one came my way from Jeff Campbell (who, btw, couldn't look anything less like Kenny Rogers). I wonder if the XXL version of this shirt (which would be for men who look like Kenny Rogers circa 1995) has enough room for the URL not to wrap? Bottom line, when it comes to URLs, you gotta know when...

This one was brought to my attention by Bryson Meunier, a good friend of the Good URL Bad URL family. Took me a while to decipher the URL. Took me even longer to figure out it was all a gag. BIG ASS waste of my time....

This one comes from URL-spotter Jamie Forrest, who played cat and mouse with this van to get an unobstructed view only to find out the URL was not PhoneBook.org, rather PAOneBook.org -- as in Pennsylvania One Book. Zoiks. More like PA Two Looks....

Given the recent PCWorld article on the Internets Oldest 100 Domain Dot Com Domain Names, I thought I’d bring up a little known fact that is often overlooked by many people. Symbolics.com might be the oldest currently registered dot com, but its not the oldest domain. In fact, there is a .NET ...

MAP Research, a Melbourne-based research company, has released what they claim to be “the world’s first report on the size, state and future of the global domain registration industry”. They interviewed a number of the top 20 domain registrars globally to formulate their data. Amon...