With 2008 now behind us and 2009 in full swing it's time to find the next big trend. In 2008 the Domaining community shifted focus from parking to development. Now in 2009 a new trend is forming and its all about ccTLD's…maybe.  For those of you who have been reading this blog f...

(image source) Via NamePros: Brendan writes: So I was thinking of new domains for a project I want to start and I thought of one that I really really liked and I typed it into my browser…and to my surprise, it redirected to Yahoo. I don’t really see why Yahoo wants this domain..so if I ...

January - September 2008RankParent CompanyTotal Ad Dollars Spent*1. PROCTER & GAMBLE CO$2,342.32. GENERAL MOTORS CORP$1,659.63. AT&T INC$1,317.64. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC$1,125.65. TOYOTA MOTOR CORP$1,194.16. FORD MOTOR CO$1,112.97.JOHNSON & JOHNSON$1,059.18. TIME WARNER INC$878.29. G...

The silent/extended auction from DomainFest, which was held by Moniker.com today through SnapNames.com closed today with almost $481,000 in sales. In all, 222 domains sold with blooms.com and resorthotels.com tied for the top spot at $58,830 each. Here is the full list of all the domains that sold t...

Google has announced in the last couple of days a couple of new products that makes it clear that Google knows everything about you, or is about to, including your location and your health. Google Health is a new service that organizes and stores all your health information including your medical re...

Live Current Media Inc, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, today announced cost cutting measures including a reduction in staff and a domain name sale to the amount of $400,000 US. The company announced that it has introduced various measures to decrease its monthly ope...

A new study has emerged that shows the key U.S. Digital Marketing Trends for 2008. It’s web site traffic numbers clearly reflect the events of last year with recession and political related topics gaining rank. The report highlights key trends in several areas of digital marketing, includi...

Domain Names For Sale with their expiry, registrar, price, status and category. To contact me about a specific domain you would like to buy, please click the envelope icon next to the domain details. This will allow you to send me an inquiry email about that domain. Domains with a beside them are ...

Today in DN Journal's Lowdown - an inside report from an under the radar bankruptcy auction where Toys.com closed at $1.25 million Wednesday. A multi-name lot went for over $2 million in the 16-hour event in Wilmington, Delaware but no sales will be final until creditors of The Parent Company approv...

In the past couple of months, I’ve registered a few “new” domains. Some were expirations and a few were fresh registrations.  CigarEnthusiasts.com HeatingOilDelivery.com Frengles.com (French Bulldog & Beagle Hybrid - I have a Puggle) DrinkKoozie.com DrinkKoozies.com ThreeIn...

Good news for a lot of folks that can’t use PayPal for various reasons - MoneyBookers.com has become an official payment provider for eBay.com. The Moneybookers payment system claims to offer a wide range of local and international payment options worldwide while allowing customers and merchan...

Do you consider your blog a business? I do, although I thoroughly enjoy this it is still a business that needs to produce income. One of the essential elements of owning a business is branding. Today I want to specificity discuss branding a blog. I’m going to share what I believe to be two dif...

Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker , was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company we...

Live Current Media sells domain name and lays off 38% of staff. Live Current Media (OTCBB: LIVC.ob) today announced the sale of a domain name for gross proceeds of 500,000 CAD, or approximately $400,000 USD. Based on information including whois record changes, Domain Name Wire believes the domain ...

The DomainFest Global 2009 extended silent auction ends today at 3:15pm EST and features over 1,400 domains with starting bids of just $300, over 3,000 domains starting at $1,000 or less. Premium names such as drink.com, weblog.com and celebs.com are included in the auction, which features many diff...

This week’s Sedo sales report features some of the strongest domains of the year with approximately $600,000 USD in total sales. The top 10 sales of the week were all .com domains: NoHotel(s).com for $60,000 USD YOG.com for $29,500 USD RTTV.com for $22,500 USD Fired.com for $20,600 USD EasyWe...

When you attempt to sell a domain name, you are generally in a weaker position than when someone sends you an unsolicited email to buy a domain name. In the first situation, you are trying sell a domain name on your terms, and you need to find a buyer who can meet them. In [...] Related posts:Art...

(image source) Where we are today Job cuts are all over the map so I thought I should write a word or two about it, for some who are looking for a job, know someone who is looking for a job, or simply want to increase their income level, or more importantly, their value in the marketplace. Real wor...

Good Morning Folks!!  Let's give them Seattle. You heard it right. You heard it here first! This is no joke. Well kinda. Let's give them Seattle. They are "Sleepless" in Seattle anyway, so let's give Seattle to China. See I figure the value of Seattle would pay off the debt we owe to Ch...

Escrow.com President Brandon Abbey discusses Escrow.com and the challenges of starting an escrow company. Big ticket domainers — and even smaller ones who want safe domain transfers — often turn to Escrow.com for domain name escrow services. The company was founded in 1999 by Fidelity ...

The dot TV domain extension is taking off. We have sold quite a few dot TV domain names in the last few months to end users. The most recent sales went for $x,xxx. Our test auction last month for a .tv domain name closed at $1,050 with 24 bids. We are now running a dot TV domain [...]...

Morning folks!!How often do you test and experiment and change parking companies or other ways to monetize with the traffic you have? Do you just leave your traffic at the same place month after month? Maybe even year after year. Show me someone who does not test and I will show you someone that i...

If you are a late night browser, or live on the Eastern side of the globe (where it was early morning) then you may have noticed that our website was temporarily down late night Wednesday night (US Time). This was a planned upgrade of our website as we were transferring our website to new servers, a...

I have another list for ya.  I’m a fan of lists, even biased lists (not that unbiased lists exist, right?).  But my main problem with lists are putting them across a ton of pages.  Forbes does this.  I can’t stand it! This list is brought to you by Popular Mechanics, who also puts on...

~ The domain package of MajorFights.com, MajorFight.com with the .net, .org and .info of each and the hyphen version  of each the plural and singular versions were sold for $2,500 USD by NamePro’s member Rhinoz. I spoke with Mark a little bit and ask him what approach he took to selling t...