What Michael Collins’ departure means for Internet Commerce Association. When Michael Collins resigned as Executive Director of Internet Commerce Association last week, I re-read his resignation letter a few times. What did it say about ICA? What is the future of the organization? It̵...

While I am away for DomainFest, a couple of my friends have written guest posts related to topics in which they are experts.  Yesterday, Jeff Behrendt of INForum.in, wrote about investing in Indian domains. Today, Richard Douglas discusses social media for domain investors. Richard has a diverse ba...

Well like many of you i’m at DomainFest for the week. If your coming to the show, safe travels. One word of warning, as I got here yesterday, baby its cold outside, at night. You can catch me speaking at 9:45 Wednesday morning,  at a session called: Domaining 2.0™ - What Does The Next Evolu...

The sad thing that many people do not know is YOU can own a domain name. The popular term known by many is "all the good ones are gone". True? yes and no because you can: Buy A Domain Name Buying a domain name first starts by YOU deciding what domain name you would like to buy. [...]...

Bart Lieben is an intellectual property attorney who has become the go-to guy for trademark verification for top-level domain Sunrise periods. In my interview with Bart, he talks about how he does his job, with some tantalizing hints about a system he’s developing to make the whole trademark ...

I am happy to say that in March I will be doing a Podcast interview with Ron Jackson from DNJournal.com. Ron is the main man in the Domain Industry for covering all the major events and is...img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ozdomainer/~4/BQliEI62HKw" height="1" width="1"/...

Morning folks!!When I was a kid like many other kids, I collected coins. In coin collecting "Circulation" is the keyword. How many coins in circulation is the basis for value. The less available, the more they would normally be worth. It is also the word used to describe the condition...

GoDaddy Marketplace is simple, but what effect will it have on the market? As Domain Name Wire reported earlier this month, GoDaddy is launching an online marketplace to buy and sell goods. It is now live, and over the weekend I had a chance to test drive GoDaddy’s new “marketplace...

  Every name in our portfolios has been registered because we think we can make money off it. The sad thing is not all of them will sell. A few of them may pay their way with parking income, but even that is unlikely. So the others just sit there burning a hole in our pockets as we wait for the...

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I’ve had a couple posts mentioning ccTLDs in the past, so with the latest Rick Latona press release, I definitely had to give him some props and make a post “promoting” the information: Straight from Rick Latona’s Website (CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL RELEASE AND MORE INFORMATION...

Right now all the action is on Twitter.   Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Sign up now on Twitter To Follow me, Click on the bird to the left. ...

I was just checking my Tweets and found that there was a new Wordpress Plugin released by DropBuzz.com. What’s so special about this plugin? Well, as PPC continues to diminish, domainers are starting to take different routes to monetize their domain names other than “set it and forget it...

Domain has met reserve and will sell for six figures. The domain name Top.com has met its reserve at Sedo and is currently at EUR 101,000 ($133,000 USD). 38 bids have been placed. The auction ends January 29 at 7 am EST. The auction should give a confidence boost to the domain industry heading ...

We are in a niche market. Ask a random person on the street if they know what "Domaining" is and 999 out of 1000 times - they won't know. I live in Los Angeles and went to the local Borders the other day - there wasn't a single book published about Domaining. If you've ever walked around ...

We are in a niche market. Ask a random person on the street if they know what "Domaining" is and 999 out of 1000 times - they won't know. I live in Los Angeles and went to the local Borders the other day - there wasn't a single book published about Domaining. If you've ever wal...

How ironic is this ? Guests checking in online at the Hollywood Renaissance hotel were greeted with a familiar website today.  The domain name RenaissanceHollywood.com expired on January 19, 2009. Nice work guys! (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com NameDrive is introducing 6 new innovative templates. ...

Such a simple task but not everyone is doing it. If you do not know how to backup your data please call your hosting company and ask them to walk you through it. I know HostGator has a tutorial video in their cPanel. Three Examples Why: Andrew, a friend of mine and one of my developers almost [...]...

With the DOMAINfest Global Conference running this week in Hollywood, California, we're on the road again! We have some notes on that event as well as who was named keynote speaker for next month's Domainer Mardi Gras in New Orleans and what is on tap for the first ever European T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Confe...

SEO Expert and author of the SEO Book and course Aaron Wall has praised newly inaugurated US president Barack Obama for his choice of domain names in recent times awarding him a 2009 domainer of the year award in a post on his blog. Wall points out that Mr Obama smartly chose the domain name Change....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Atlanta, Georgia USA – January 26, 2009 – Rick Latona Auctions is proud to bring the famous T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference to Europe for the first time, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs, 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from June 1 - June 5, 2009. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs 200...

Just a few days after Godaddy was hit by a DDoS attack that took out a number of its shared hosting accounts for quite a few hours, Royal Pingdom reports that another popular registrar has suffered the same fate. Network Solutions suffered a DDoS attack last Friday that slowed down access to thousan...

The domain name TOP.com is on auction at Sedo.com at the moment with some 2 days 12 hours left at the time of writing this. This premium 3 letter generic domain name gets some 33,230 visitors per month according to Sedo stats and with 38 bids placed the price is currently at 101,000 EUR with the res...

Sedo Announces Availability of Top 10 Premium Generic Domains(Last week AcaiJuice.com went to auction with a buyer's bid from Canada and the auction was cancelled due to an error.)AcaiJuice.com is now available for purchase on auction this week!AcaiJuice.com is available for purchase exclusively thr...

Cocooning is the name given to the trend that sees individuals socializing less and retreating into their home more. This trend was recognized back in the 1990s and has been increasing ever since. Many companies have realised the potential of the cocooning trend and so they market products based on ...