The Dow Jones industrial average closed 251 points today to its lowest close since May 7, 1997. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index also logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1997. (Source Yahoo!) Does this mean we can hand reg LLL.com’s again? Nope, but back in 1997 many were availa...

I decided to create some tutorials to help with the basics of customizing WordPress. I added a tutorial link to the menu above. This tutorial shows how to create a banner or logo for your website. I used the photos that I used to create BoneThinning.com so you get an idea of how that was [...]...

Every once in a while, a neat web application shows up and then you scratch your head wondering - “Now, why didn’t I think of that first?” Without much debating on the issue of one’s dying braincells, I’d like to introduce ZFBot and its creator, Ken Greenwood. In this q...

Bido.com domain auction service has A Lot going for it! They had issues with some technology but took the site down and fixed them. Since relaunching late last week with EquityGrant.com selling for $810, BarPictures.com for $100 and with today’s auction of FixedLoans.com ending for $5,449 show...

The results are in… Last Friday at Domainer Mardi Gras I presented some of the results from the 2009 Domain Name Wire survey. Over the next couple weeks I’ll be tabulating and disclosing more results here on Domain Name Wire. This year 401 people participated in the survey. This was le...

Part 3   End users will NEVER come to the domain auction in mass. Never. They will come one project, one need, one domain at a time. So you can't come to an industry auction and expect end user prices. Each auction house is doing what they can and each domainer must do what they can if they w...

(Image Source) We’ve all seen this before: Auctions go underway, item is overpriced, no interest whatsoever, auctioneer whispers “Pass”. Why is this happening? The seller really did not care that much. He sets the price and watches from the sidelines. The seller in this instance m...

The latest available LLL.in list. The total LLL.in population currently is 88% registered (15591 of 17576 registered). aqh.in aqv.in aqw.in awq.in axq.in ayq.in azq.in azx.in bcq.in bgq.in bjq.in bjz.in bkq.in bkx.in bmq.in bpq.in bpz.in bqe.in bqf.in bqg.in bqh.in bqi.in bqk.in bqp.in bqq.in bqr.in...

I’ve never actually done an interview on this site but in this case I felt it was important. I myself, am not entirely sure what to think about .tel names, especially when it concerns the reseller market. So, I’ve decided to ask a few pointed questions to Khashayar Mahdavi, the CEO of Te...

Famed domain name sells for $5,459. The domain name that brought down Bido.com — FixedLoans.com — has helped the auction service get back on the radar. Just moments ago the domain name sold for $5,459. FixedLoans.com attracted a lot of attention in August of last year, and the auction ...

Mutual Jurisdiction may come back to haunt you. At a session Friday afternoon at Domainer Mardi Gras I made the case that moving your domain names offshore may not be a good idea, both from a protection standpoint and logistics. Earlier in the day John Berryhill gave another possible reason to keep...

*Pre-post edit* I know Rick is about to discuss his take on auctions, but this is what I wrote in anticipation of my aunt’s funeral I am sure my post is much more tactical but I wanted to preface it anyway. After every live auction, no matter who is running it, I always see complaints [...] ...

After a few weaker names in their auction Bido is now re-auctioning the name fixedloans.com today, which originally brought down the one-domain a day auction website. Bido has been under criticism for sending unsolicited messages to DNForum paticipants and industry bloggers. [Update] The name sold f...

Yes shocking, but true. A  .tv domain sold on NameJet.com for just $100 less than a three letter .com sold for the day before. Interracial.TV sold for $5,000 yesterday while GGK.com a very good three letter .com fetched just $5,100 the day before. Here are the other sales from NameJet.com over $1,0...

We will be launching the eBusinessDomains.com Blockbuster Domaining Contest soon, perhaps as soon as March 1st. We will be offering some great prizes, and it won’t cost you anything to participate. It will be loads of fun! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact me at Kevin [at...

Job losses are unavoidable in the reality of the current economic climate. More and more companies are advising of layoffs, and with these layoffs, government will earn less revenue. This points to the magnitude of the challenge affecting us, so it is important to prepare. What people need is a map,...

I went to the Toby Keith concert on Friday night with my wife and had a good old time! I look at advertising all the time on TV, Billboards, Print etc and am always amazed that many companies do not include their domain names in the ads they show and run. A concert is No Different. [...]...

After several months of fighting, my aunt (mom’s sister) lost her battle with pancreatic cancer.  I wanted to share two of my  favorite memories of my aunt. During every holiday celebration she would make an angel food cake specifically for me (I think) because I liked her recipe and request...

Google uses widgets.com as example domain name. Google is releasing a new policy for Adwords advertisers that will allow them to only use one second level domain per ad group. Instead of using DomainNameWire.com and DNW.com in the same ad group, I’d only be able to use one of these. If you r...

The first Domainer Mardi Gras conference closed Saturday. We have photos and highlights from the final day in New Orleans where attendees enjoyed brunch at a restaurant founded in 1832 before heading to an afternoon domain auction where Voodoo.com conjured up a $300,000 sale....

Part #2   I am sick of falling asleep in the auctions. I am sick of the hype without the substance. Domainers bare some responsibility. Stop submitting domains with no stats. NO STATS = NO RESERVE! If folks don't want to provide stats then folks should understand that auctions are not the prope...

Rick unleashed on the auctions.   Part 1 of 3 so far   Ok, fasten your seat belts, I have seen enough and now it is time to speak out. I gave you a preview yesterday. Today I will include the rest of the first part. I will be covering quite a bit in this series. So what I have not mentioned he...

NIC Mexico has announced the upcoming public launch schedule of the .MX ccTLD (Country Code) domain extension.  Since 1989, after limited registrations by a few Mexican institutes, the .MX extension was closed for new registrations. Now, 20 years later, .MX is once again open for business. This may...

Ok, so you already know how to choose a domain name, you know how to choose a hosting plan, etc. etc. You may know how to do all of that BUT if you are making the plunge into domain name development and shooting to make quite a nice sized chunk of change then you had better plan ahead to make sure t...

I was over at namepros.com today just browsing around like normal when i came across an ad that looked interesting. The ad was for a site called PDDW.com. Site is part of IPAlert.com which is a TM monitoring service. Through the services page you will see PDDW.com. It is a site that has tools that ...