We are aiming to announce details of our Blockbuster Domaining Contest on Wednesday, March 4th. We will be sending the details out to prospective sponsors over the weekend. Sponsors will be rewarded with a dedicated blog post about their website/products/services. Your links will also be permanent, ...

6 companies to bid in Friday’s Toys.com auction. In a review of qualified bid documents, Domain Name Wire has discovered some familiar faces in Friday’s auction of Toys.com: Frank Schilling, National A-1 Advertising, and Toys ‘R’ Us to name a few. It’s clear that the ...

Top 10 Obama Domain Names:Obama.comObamanomics.com ObamaWear.comObamaMania.comObamaNews.comObamaBlog.comObamaMemorabilia.comObamaBook(s).comObamaFashion.comObamaMerchandise.com ...

Barack Obama domain name 'Obama.net' recently sold for five-figures.As reported in this week's Dn Journal Domain Sales Report: "The only other non .com domain on the Big Board was #15 Obama.net, a name that sold through the affiliate forum at WickedFire.com for $15,500".- DnJournal.com The Obama.net...

Many people install and use the very powerful blog platform Wordpress but they also do not add what is needed to make the new blog even more powerful. Wordpress is great, but adding plugins make it AMAZING! Wordpress IMO is one of the best style sites for SEO, the fastest and easiest to set up and [...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the market stirred from its slumber this week with three of the year’s six highest sales reported over the past 7 days. Those sales totaled more than $700,000. Our new all extension Top 20 chart features 16 .coms, 3 ccTLDs...

Your unofficial guide to staying safe en route to ICANN’s meeting. Do as I say. I’ve written before about the dangerous situation in Mexico. But I realize a lot of people in the industry are still heading down to Mexico City next week for the ICANN meeting. So I reached out to former c...

Hi I thought I would make a brief post regarding pending delete domain names.  We receive lots of emails from users about our site who are not aware that we offer pending delete domain names.  The best way to search for pending delete domains is to use the “List only Domains dropping on:R...

Sometimes one needs a lexicon to decipher the perfectly massaged texts presented by corporations on their web sites. This is the case with the FAQ section on the .tel Registry’s web site, TelNIC.org I will attempt to explain what each grand statement means, in plain “domainese”: Al...

Here is a list of domain names from Godaddy.com that are currently only $5 plus renewal fee! I think you can find some really nice domains for a very fair price. You do not even need to "wait" or be "in" an auction. All domain names are directly linked to it’s specific auction ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that it is soliciting Expressions of Interest from firms interested in and capable of performing any number of independent evaluation roles as part of the new gTLD process. These entities, to be retained by ...

I really did use to enjoy reading Ron Jackson’s report on the results of domain auctions at major domain conferences. It was really inspiring to see the top quality domains changing hands at life-changing figures. Now, I barely track domain auction results. I have lost interest. Domain auctions ha...

No one would willingly buy a bad domain name, but quite a lot of companies and individuals new to the Web are unaware of why some names are worse than others. Many have sadly learned that if you choose poorly your dreams for online business success can be over before they’ve begun. So what is ...

If you haven’t caught-onto the Twitter craze yet then it’s time to leave the cave and come play with the rest of the world. All joking aside, Twitter is making headlines everywhere. I was watching the news this morning and the reporter spent an entire five-minute segment just dedicated t...

Auction DetailAcai affiliate domain offered in this month's Great Domains premium domain auction- 'AcaiWeightLoss.com' auction ends Feb/26/09 12:00 PM EST (11 bids at the time of this blog post)... Click headline to bid ...

The internet in 1997 - AOL, Stock Market, iMac, and lots of “LOLS”. Figured this was humorous enough for domainers. Forward to 1:20! ~ Colbert Report Internet in 1997 ...

The internet in 1997 - AOL, Stock Market, iMac, and lots of “LOLS”. Figured this was humorous enough for domainers. Forward to 1:20! ~ Colbert Report Internet in 1997 ...

(image source) Many wish to use the services of auction houses are not ready, willing, and able. This post is for those who wish to sell, need to sell, and motivated to sell. If you belong to the group who wish to hold tight to inventory, this isn’t meant for you. Ready, willing, and able: Re...

I remember the day I got my first phone number and was listed in the White Pages. Then thirty days later, the bill arrived in the mail and I realized it was not as much fun. In the early 90’s I got an email address and in the mid-90s an ICQ number. That’s all I [...]...

I have been reading both Rick and Sahar’s blog posts recently on auctions. I come away wondering if auctions are really the best model for buying and selling domains. Are auctions bringing new money into the industry or recycling old money? Is the industry growing through new domainers bringin...

I like to do a "This and that" post from time to time as it allows me to cover several things at once. Most of the things I cover in these kinds of posts do not hold enough info for me to do one post. ~ Vivid.com aka Vivid Entertainment, the world leader in adult entertainment [...]...

There have been a few stories in the last days that seem to indicate that Microsoft is still interested in Yahoo or at least its search business. Today Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jorgensen of Yahoo said it was “not opposed” to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search busin...

I was doing some research on the top domain name sales of 2008 and found something very interesting. Forty percent of the top domains sold are not developed. The following information was compiled using sales reported on DNJournal. Domain Name Invest.com FinancialAid.com LowFare.com FinancialAide...

Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they’ve been working on called USniper.com USniper.com is a FREE service that allows you to automatically place bids on expiring domain names at the time you designate. You choose the price, and you choose the bid time, allowing you to ...

As part of new TLD process, ICANN commissions study on pricing restrictions for registries. After receiving a number of comments about lack of pricing limits in new TLD registry agreements, Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has commissioned a study to determine if price ca...