Forums are a legitimate way to develop a domain but I rarely use them. Proponents argue that the content is created by users and it brings life to a website. This is true but does that outweigh the negative aspects of forums? In my experience, forums are rarely worth developing except in certain cas...

My representative at Enom.com informs me that they are offering discounts on any premium .tv domains you may have, if your willing to renew them now. I just renewed one of my few premium .tv domains, great.tv for 2 years.  With interest rates at 2% you could save a lot more by renewing any premium ...

Acquisition of Leading Domain Monetization Provider Significantly Increases Sedo’s Market Share and Establishes Exclusive Registrar Partnership with Former Parent Company, Dotster Cambridge, Mass., February 24, 2009 — Sedo, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names, ...

Japanese find ways to navigate web even before IDNs. In an article titled “Domain names? We don’t need no domain names”, IDG News Service writer Martyn Williams explains how the Japanese use the search box in lieu of domain names. Instead of typing Google.com into their browsers, t...

What WordPress theme are you using and do you like it? I get this question a lot so I wanted to do a quick response for future reference. This way if I’m asked again, which I know I will be, I can just refer to this link. This site is based on a theme called Live Wire [...]...

Clever ad pokes fun at single serving sites. Those guys at Woot, the one-a-day product showcase, sure are clever. Consider this advertisement on downforeveryoneorjustme.com: Woot is poking fun at so-called Single Serving web sites that do just one thing. Part of the irony is that this ad is on th...

Search Marketing Standard Magazine - You can subscribe by following this link. In April of 2008 I took a very risky move and started to advertise in Website Magazine. We took out a 2-page spread to make sure that everyone noticed us. In August we added Internet Retailer. Again, with a two-page cente...

WhyPark is a unique company whose platform can allow you to customize dozens, hundreds or thousands of domain names into websites with fresh daily content and multiple monetization options for just $.99/each (or less in bulk). Instead of solely relying on type-in traffic to produce revenue via parki...

Registry to take additional measures against buyers who haven’t developed domain names. It’s taken a long time, but buyers of premium .mobi domain names appear to finally be developing their domain names. dotMobi says it will take additional measures against those who have not taken th...

The car maker Volvo, filed a case under the dispute resolution panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), against  the owner of a spare parts seller, for control of the domain volvospares.com. The panel found that the owner of volvospares.com was found to have legitimate interest...

Sedo announced this morning that they purchased parking company RevenueDirect from registrar Dotster and expanded their partnership with the registrar. From the Sedo Press Release: The acquisition of RevenueDirect’s substantial customer base significantly increases Sedo’s North America...

I just received a very interesting e-mail from RevenueDirect, a domain parking company that I use sparingly. Apparently, Sedo now owns RevenueDirect. Not that great of news to me since for some reason Sedo has left a sour taste in my mouth late-2006 after trying to squeeze out “acceptable̶...

Sedo has acquired RevenueDirect, Dotster’s domain name parking service. Sedo has acquired domain name parking company RevenueDirect. For established domain parking companies, acquiring another domain parking company usually doesn’t make sense. Parking companies rarely have long term ...

We are en route back home to Florida after stops in New Orleans and Ohio. Some things you need to know while we are making the trip; our weekly domain sales report will be pushed back one day due to our travel commitments and while we are in the air today, news may come of a major domain industry ac...

Yahoo announced today the launch of three new targeting products for advertisers. Two of the products are for display advertising, and one if for the PPC channel. The new products include: Search Retargeting, wh...

I have listed a mix of domain names that I own for sale on SnapNames.com . Some are Buy It Now listings and some are Auctions. All end Today, Feb 24, 2009 but the Buy It Now domains can be gone at Any Time if the BIN option is used. 4n.net Buy It Now $6875 Rare [...]...

XF.com Investments is pleased to announce the launching of the most exclusive domain forum on the Internet. Found at www.XF.com,“the Exclusive Forum” already has representation from top domain investment companies across the globe. Corporations such as Reinvent.com, Directi.com, NetraCorp LLC., ...

I had submitted several domain names to the Aftermarket.com domain name auction for Mardi Gras and all with No Reserve. Yes, I submitted a couple so/so domains but I also put in several nice domains as well. (irrigators.com and GenuineGold.com/.net) I was a little upset when nothing made it into auc...

Morning folks!!   Interesting that out of the 3 part series that the #3 post had the most readers. #1 sets things up, the meat of the posts are in post #2 and that was the least read. Go figure.   I had a very constructive conversation with Moniker yesterday as well. I think they get it. They...

I’m away on a personal matter at the moment but using the 15 minutes I have to spare this morning .. or tonight wherever you are .. I really want to say that day after day I see crap getting bought and crap getting sold more and more. First, I do not claim to be an expert for all things domain rel...

I just watched a very inspirational video by Gary Vaynerchuk. If you don’t know who this guy is - don’t feel bad - he isn’t a player in the Domaining community - or is he? Gary is a player in the Web 2.0 community and this is a world where every Domainer should be living. Gary has ...

Jupitermedia Corporation (”Jupitermedia”) (NASDAQ: JUPM) announced today that it completed the sale of Jupiterimages Corporation (”Jupiterimages”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupitermedia, to Getty Images, Inc. for $96 million in cash. Included in the assets acquired by Get...

Shooting from the hip and making up a story with domains I own.. Just for fun . Here we go….. I was KickedBack.com one day and could only think how nice it would be, to be NiceOff.com like Donald Trump financially. I needed to change my "thinking" and turn that into action, so I could...

The new era of domain tasting starts in April. “The end of domain tasting” “Domain tasting is dead” “ICANN shuts down domain tasting” You’ve heard it all before. But as I’ve pointed out, new rules designed to kill domain tasting starting in April won&...

Most of us have watched the video by the 3000 dollar a day domainer. One of the reasons I waited this long to post my views is because I really do not want to influence any one’s decision. However if you care to know what I personally think, then here it is. Do I believe it is [...]...