The Toys.com domain name bankruptcy auction is now over. I caught the tail end of the auction and listened and Twittered as the 2 final bidders ToysRus and National A1 Advertising fought it out with $5,000 bid increments.  The final blow by Toys”R”us was a $5,100,000 bid that trumped Na...

Politicians are already using, and the domaining community is now making it a number one destination for domaining news and fun. Here is an article listing some of the world’s moist famous celebrities who are on Twitter: http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=14064863 Follow eB...

Larry over at DirectNavigation.com is live blogging the toys.com auction. So far Frank Schilling has dropped out of the auction and the last bid was placed in the amount of $3,130,000 by National A1. Minmum bid increments have been set to $5,000. [Update]: Adam is now also tweeting the Auction. Toys...

Guidelines for new registries doesn’t make sense; but therein lies a business opportunity. If you want to apply for a new top level domain from ICANN, you need to provide lots of financial documentation about your ability to run the TLD. ICANN is mum on how much money you need on the balance...

Damn you Rick Dees! Having lunch with Jay Westerdal in New Orleans he posed an interesting theory. What if, years from now, you could go to GoDaddy.com and register .rick with your credit card? While that scenario is incredibly unlikely it’s interesting to contemplate what it would do to domain va...

Have you ever wondered how to respond to domain offers ? You are not alone. I am about to share with you an email I received yesterday evening from a multi-million dollar company.  This information is still hot off the email server. I had offered to buy if they will be willing to sell one of there...

More evidence that domain owners are in the right place at the right time. A new report from the Kelsey Group predicts that money spent on local advertising online will soar 129% over the next five years while local ad spending in traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV, etc.) will decline another ...

Last week I talked about the new book Twitter Power by Joel Comm and why I use Twitter. Today I am going to tell you how the power of Twitter has worked for me. Wednesday I posted an article about the top domain sales of 2008 not developed. Well, it went viral! What does Viral mean? According to [.....

Because full scale development can take a considerable amount of your time, I would advise that you choose a domain name that is in a field of interest for you.  This is especially true if you have a full time job and become a developer on the side.  If I didn’t enjoy the domain industry, [....

Auction ends today at 4 PM CST. It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Aftermarket.com’s Domainer Mardi Gras auction is still going, and some of the domains that didn’t sell during the live auction last Saturday are getting bids. That includes Credenzas.com, at $13,500, and Golf...

The aftermarket.com silent auction portion for Domainer Mardi Gras ends today at 5pm EST. Two of the passed domains from the live auction have now received bids. The current bid for Credenzas.com is $13,500 and GolfSet.com is currently at  $4,500 . In addition all of the remaining no reserve listin...

We have successfully launched our domain forum today. We are still tweaking a few things, but the domain board is looking good and ready to go. Please sign up and test drive this new domaining community. You also have the chance to define the spirit of the forum. We have created quite a few sub foru...

Joe Biden joins Ted Stevens in web hall of shame. Vice President Joe Biden is having difficulty with this whole interweb thing. When asked for the web address for a government web site, he looked to an aide and said he didn’t know what it was followed by “do you know the web site number?...

Domain name parking alternatives vary in approach, but one is a clear favorite. In light of falling domain parking revenue a number of services have popped up that offer to develop your domain names or monetize domains without pay-per-click ads. For the first time ever, the 2009 Domain Name Wire Su...

In a survey released by popular domain blog DomainNameWire, WhyPark was voted the best domain parking alternative. We couldn’t be more thrilled! Our platform developments are based on customer feedback so we’re encouraged by this pat on the back. Thanks to all our customers who voted for us in t...

Aside from the frightening SSL stuff, Moxie Marlinspike stirred up some good interest in Internationalized Domain Names at Black Hat in DC with his domain lookalike attack. Since I’ve been studying the topic for a while, I wanted to point out some things about IDN people may want to know. At CanSe...

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. 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...

I mean seriously. C'mon now. Who's gonna type in this entire string? While I commend Kaplan's intentions to track response from this TV spot, I sure hope they give attribution to any leads that came from direct navigation during the hours around each time this commercial aired. It's more than likely...

According to online research firm Omniture, Oscar.com saw its unique visitors and page views increase 87% and 91%, respectively, on Oscar Sunday compared to last year. Users spent a average of 14.5 minutes on the site per visit, up 42% from last year. Oscar.com had 18 million video views on Sunday a...

I was reading an interesting article on Trendwatching.com about Generation G. That’s G for Generous. For those speculating on domains for new trends, this has some interesting predictions. They discuss the disgust at the excess in the corporate world, bad corporate leadership and current finan...

In the last couple of days documentation has been lodged with the Supreme Court of Queensland that has confirmed that the Australian domain industry regulator, au Domain Administration Ltd, has invented complaints in order to strip businesses of their Au domains. For example, the auDA compliance o...

Sedo’s first themed auction of the year, the No Reserve Auction, started today at 1:00 PM EST and will run through to March 5 at 1:00 PM EST. There are plenty of great domains available under a wide range of categories - including SkiDestinations.com, TaxReturnOnline.com, Deposits.com, Dangero...

The operator of the .info registry, Afilias, has released a detailed new report on the progress the first "new" global TLD has made since its introduction 8 years ago. Also, a team of domainers is celebrating an upset win over a previously unbeaten team in India's prestigious Mumbai Corporate Cricke...

Service sends traffic to best parking company based on visitor’s location. It’s no secret that certain domain parking companies perform better with traffic from different countries. Some do better with U.S. traffic while others do better in Germany, India, etc. But splitting domain tr...

Mitsu’s new .IN Registrant Agreement which is given by .IN registry to all registrars to follow and will applicable to all registrants of .In domains irrespective of your registrar. Go now to: Mitsu ...