A couple of weeks ago, I listed TrickOrTreating.com for sale on my blog for $7,250 and provided my idea for the site. Additionally, a number of people commented about my business plan for the site and made recommendations. After DomanFest and my trip to Burbank, I am motivated more than ever to ke...

The DomainerMardiGras is approaching again this year. It is to be held February 19 through to February 21 2009 in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Here is a mail I received from Domainer Mardigras staff today that everyone might be interested in: Hello Colleagues, A quick reminder that today is the la...

As the curtain comes down, here’s a look back at last week’s conference in Los Angeles. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest Global 2009 was an excellent conference. Now that I’ve had time to relax and reflect on last week, I’d say the conference deserves five stars. Of course, t...

The silent/extended auction from DomainFest.com show ends this Thursday at 3:15pm EST, 12:15 PST, and there are already quite a few domains with bids on them, including introduction.com with a bid at $117,650. If you want to join any of these auctions, just click on the link for the domain. We will ...

I am sure a few people read this headline, and said “uh oh!”  Don’t worry, no secrets shall be revealed in this blog post! I wanted to share two stories from my evening at the Playboy Mansion last Thursday - one of which I think is funny and one of which is pretty cool.  As expec...

I have to say that I personally love the eTrade.com commercials with the baby. They speak volumes and are simply Crazy Funny! The following is My Vote for the best Super Bowl commercial and it happened in the Pre-Game! You can see more funny eTrade.com Baby commercials via eTrade.com/Baby or just k...

2004: What worked then does not work now. Jeff (red shirt, with our team in Russia) and I started in the domain business some nine years ago, in November 1999. At the time I remember didn’t know about the “dot com bust”, I didn’t know much about business either. Not knowing g...

RAI.mobi domain owner did himself a disservice in responding to UDRP. It’s difficult to win a UDRP domain arbitration case when you don’t respond to the proceedings. (Difficult, but not impossible). But sometimes not responding to a case is a better idea than responding with a half-hea...

A look back at the previous month in domain names. 2009 started with a bang in the domain name industry. Here’s a look at the top five new articles (by views) on Domain Name Wire: 1. GoDaddy Takes on eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo - in a rather perplexing and unexpected move, GoDaddy launched ...

Morning folks!!   Let's face it 98% of the domain industry is incestuous. That means that most domain sales are to other domainers. Nothing wrong with that. But don't be in denial either. The true test of 2009 and beyond is can the industry reach out to end users? Now I am not putting down an...

I think we can all agree that the Moniker live auction at DomainFest was pretty much a bomb, but I don’t really think this is a bad thing for the industry. There weren’t many bargains in the live auction, which shows that domain owners aren’t necessarily losing faith in their inves...

I was one of the ten’s of millions that watched the Super Bowl and the hyped Super Bowl commercials that come with the game. NBC has reported that all 67 ad spots were sold in the range of $2.4-$3 Million Dollars per spot that totalled up to $206 Million. So what companies that paid these mill...

Morning folks!!   It's the 4th quarter and what started as a post on reviews of the Superbowl ads got derailed by the possible lie that NBC is circulating about the ads sold and prices paid.   I counted at least 20 some odd commercials of the 67 ads sold that were to companies related to NBC. ...

The entrepreneurial spirit of Nick Spanos, a respectable Real Estate broker from Manhattan, NY and owner of bApple.com, led him to new ventures in the 1990’s. His vacation rental business was thriving and so was his portfolio of domain names. Nick’s business expanded on the Web to promot...

Domain registrar offers its own competing service when changing nameservers. Domain name registrar GoDaddy .com is promoting its own domain parking service “Cash Parking” to customers who attempt to change a domain’s nameservers to a competing domain parking company. If you have ...

Two must read stories for the day: 1. GoDaddy.com founder Bob Parsons “Success key: Never give up (but be very quick to change). Turning $15,000 into $64 million. Kissing $64 million goodbye.” Laying in bed at night. I used to lay in bed at night flipping through the pages of a prominen...

I posted a list of 46 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 [...]...

Conferences are great places for sharing and finding new ideas. New trends and technologies are displayed and discussed. This is a great way to get inspiration for generic domain names and these days you don’t even have to attend the conference. Conference agendas Conference agendas are publis...

I always consider news in Newspapers as Yesterday’s news. Newspapers compile local, nation and world news and print it and ship it. From the printing presses, to trucks to newspaper stands and to your door all takes Time & Money. Logging onto your computer and going to a website takes litt...

I just received word that Pligg, an open-source content management system (CMS), has just released a major version update. You may be familiar with domain news aggregator DNHour.com which uses the original version. DotSauce also featured Pligg as one of 10 Outstanding Scripts for Developing Domains...

With the new and easy form of listing domain names on SnapNames.com as pointed out in a couple of post that I have done recently Listing Domains on SnapNames is a Snap and Listing domain names on snapnames is getting easier . One thing I didn’t expect but I wanted to make you aware of it. [......

I just updated my picks for “Top Drops” on Snapnames.  One name that might be of particular interest to domain owners in the name DomainInvesting.com.  Although DomainInvesting.com does not appear to be a standard dropping domain name, it is certainly one that could be used by a domain...

For those of you who are involved in the domain industry as an investor, developer, or other service provider, I again strongly urge you to attend a domain conference.  The one complaint I heard and have to a agree with is that there are so many good shows now, it’s difficult and expensive to...

DomainFest’s theme was domaining 2.0, where does the industry go from here. I was honored to speak about the topic.  Since the session was a sit down chat, answering questions from a moderator and the audience, I didn’t prepare remarks.  Instead I spent a lot of time reflecting on the ...

According to Forbes, Seattle is the new Internet King, replacing two-time winner Atlanta.  Recently, Forbes published America’s Most Wired Cities, ranking the top 30 U.S. cities in several internet access categories.  Seattle also took the top spot in availability of wi-fi access. San Franci...