I am still away for DomainFest, and two of my friends have written guest posts related to topics in which they are experts. On Monday, Jeff Behrendt of INForum.in, wrote about investing in Indian domains. Yesterday, Richard Douglas discussed social media for domainers. Today, Richard discusses inve...

As with most industry conferences, the first day of DomainFest Global was mostly spent catching up with old friends who I don’t get to see on a regular basis.  It was good to see most people in positive spirits, and it looks like the tough economy is helping people step out of their comfort z...

NameDrive, known to most as a parking company, are announcing at DomainFest today that they are launching NDX Market - a service that will provide domainers with a fast, secure and powerful public marketplace for buying and selling domains. According to their own numbers included in the marketing ma...

Registrar Name.com and Verisign just announced that you can now protect your domains with the security of a two-way authentification keyfob via a new partnership between the two companies. The keyfob, which you should carry with you at all times displays a 6 digit number that changes frequently. On...

Morning Folks!! We are at a dire point economically and the worst part is the fallout from all the closing and layoffs have yet to be felt. If 1/2 million people get laid off THIS WEEK it takes months before that really impacts the system. Some will impact immediately. The vacation, the eating ...

I have a feeling this post might ruffle some feathers on both aisles so why don’t I start by apologizing to those  whose feathers I might ruffle.  To those who simply do not agree with me. It is OK, we both have a right to be wrong . When you are a domainer, you see domains in [...]...

The no/low reserve auction at Domainfest grossed $128,650 in sales. Here are the offical results from Moniker.com: eat.net                                        $15,000 spearguns.com                           $14,000 sanfranciscorestaurant. Â...

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What a month it#8217;s been for me.  After a nasty case of bronchitis followed by a fun case of sinusitis- neither pass quickly for an asthmatic- we made some big steps towards purchasing our first home.  We#8217;re having one built, which has been an exciting and scary process what with selecting...

Last week I posted how to forward and mask a domain/url. In the comments of that post it was brought to my attention that the masking route is a somewhat questionable technique. Personally I do not see anything wrong with the method, at least my use of it is not intended in a negative way. [...]...

Thanks to Barry Goggin of PredictiveDomaining.com this post came sooner than expected. Barry is one of the individuals that brought the use of .htaccess (server side redirect) last week. After a few conversations via email I asked Barry if he was willing to share his knowledge on this topic, without...

Once again we were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFest Global 2009 Conference in Hollywood, California. There were over $150,000 worth of domains sold at the Opening Night Auction including SpearGuns.com for $14,000, Eat.net for $12,500, and Rich.net for $12,500. As a...

New content can be the life blood of a website but obtaining new text and photos can be very time consuming. Too few people actually think to simply ask for new content. Everyone has a digital camera and photo web sites abound. The number of new authors has grown and many are clamoring for attention...

Yahoo reported a 4th quarter loss of $303 million compared to a profit of $202 Million in the 4th quarter of 2007. However without one time charges and write off’s in the 4th quarter related to restructuring and layoff’s,  Yahoo would have made $238 million, or 17 cents per share, from ...

I’d like to open by insulting you, if you don’t mind. I’ll try to make up for it later if you stick with me. I think it’s foolish and bad business to ignore ccTLDs. Any responsible business person should know this one fundamental rule: To grow your business you need to either...

DomainFest 2009 Photos (DNN) Only One Statistic Matters for Domain Parking (DNW) Panel: Taking Domains Offshore is a False Hope (DNW) Steve Wozniak Discusses Domain Names and Woz.com (DNW, with video) DOMAINfest Attendance Tops 600 (DNW) (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Buy Category Killer Domain Names...

Afternic had another strong showing this week with over $500,000 worth of domains being sold. Check out the full list - which includes Outright.com, Adventive.com, and Moviezine.com - after the jump… Domain Price outright.com $ 13,000.00 adventive.com $ 12,000.00 moviezine.com ...

In November 2008 a large source of the world’s spam, the McColo network, was taken offline. Spam levels dropped 70% but while spam is still down overall, it’s important to note its rate of growth. Spam levels are up by 156% since November 2008. Google enterprise blog looks at spam 2008. ...

RPC, RPM, etc. mean nothing when comparing parking services. I came in to the “Domain Monetization 101 & 201″ session at DOMAINfest today near the end. But I caught a couple questions, one of which was “what three statistics should I look at most for my parked domains?”...

You can spend years building a brick and mortar business but why? The power of the internet is so powerful that with the right product, the right ads and knowledge of social networks one can become a powerhouse within weeks. GetSnuggie …. Domain registered in July, Ads launched in October, Laughin...

NamePros.com the largest Domaining forum is out and down again. NamePros is down again for this month with problems from the datacenter. Many place have been getting DDOS attacks and I suspect this might be the reason. For now, no reason has been given at this time, But when I am updated or Find out...

Last week I posted how to forward and mask a domain/url. In the comments of that post it was brought to my attention that the masking route is a somewhat questionable technique. Personally I do not see anything wrong with the method, at least my use of it is not intended in a negative way. [...]...

I posted a list of 57 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 [...]...

It’s really only my second day on Twitter.com but I noticed a mistake that even several of the domain industry Pros are missing. To me, when you add your domain name aka website to your Twitter Profile, you want people to be able to SEE IT on your twitter page and also be able to Click [...]...

Just checking out the most active auctions over at TDNAM and I see as the second most active domain MyFaceBook.com. With over 8 days to go the domain is already at $1,605. Not surprisingly, the domain has monster traffic. According to TDNAM the domain has over 84,000 monthly visitors and compete.com...