The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A $300,000 sale that ranks among the year’s ten biggest headlines our new Top 20 chart with a second six-figure blockbuster in the #2 slot. The latter domain, a ccTLD representing Spain, ranks as the year’s 2nd biggest country code sale...

According to a blog post om sex.ie, the registry for .ie (ireland) country code, refuses to allow the registration of the domains porn.ie or pornography.ie on the basis of morality. The author of the post claims he has been trying to register the domains for about four years. but each time the regis...

DomainFlipBlog.com is now Domainvestors.tv! ...

I have to say that the best thing I ever did for myself in terms of development was to learn basic HTML. I didn’t sign up for an expensive course or buy a bunch of books. I did it all with the help of Ebay. When I was selling domain names on Ebay a few years [...] Related posts:Mini Site Tem...

AfternicDLS had a strong week with approximately $580,000 in reported domain sales. Check out the full list of domain sales after the jump - including LoanDepot.com for $15,000, CurrentHealth.com for $10,000, and 4AutoInsurance.com for $8,500. .Com Domains Price loandepot.com $ 15,000 ...

As I promised yesterday, here are the 25 .TV domains that we will be giving away in our Blockbuster Domaining Contest. Lordship.tv Memorandum.tv Delegation.tv Stall.tv Stool.tv Specification.tv Sickness.tv Taxpayer.tv Booklet.tv Theorist.tv Treasurer.tv Preference.tv Confirmation.tv Pensioner.tv Pil...

Today, Richard Branson announced on his blog that he was holding a contest, where entrepreneurs can submit a 2 minute video pitching their idea, and every month he will select 5 winners who will have their video presented on Virgin Atlantic flights where it can be seen not by Richard, but by all tho...

Rob Monster made quite an impact in the domain industry when he started Monster Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that backed more than 20 early-stage companies - many of which were based on high quality domain names such as Alerts.com, HealthCare.com, and Complaints.com. But now, two years l...

Here at Domain Superstar we’ve been working like crazy to create new, unique, premium tools for our members. Today we’re announcing the release of a ground-breaking new tool that utilizes Google Maps, GeoNames.org, and domain availability checking to help our members find great, valuabl...

Google announced today on it’s company blog that is was launching a $100 Million venture capital fund, “to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies.” The fund will be run by managing partners William Maris, a former entrepreneur, and Rich Miner, a former ...

I watched the whole auction that took place via Aftermarket.com / DomainTools.com for the Domain Madness auction presented by DomainConsultant.com and was pretty impressed! I am glad DC added in the video feed / Chat as I think it really added to the auction. Now was it perfect? No. Miguel had a col...

http://www.domaintools.com/domain-auctions/live/DomainMadness Video Feed (I think there’s an occasional problem with their audio where it gets extremely annoying to listen to with the constant echoing of the screaming): ...

Is it wise to run a web service using a questionable country code domain? I’ve warned about the dangers of country code top level domains. Rogers Cadenhead made some interesting observations about Bit.ly, a URL shortening service that just scored $2M in funding. You see, .ly is the country co...

A look behind the scenes at the Domain Madness auction. It’s Domain Madness time! Domain Consultant’s Domain Madness auction kicks off today at 2:15 CDT (12:15 PDT) with 48 domain names going under the hammer. To make things more interesting, someone will walk home with $1,000 for corr...

Both of Chicago's daily newspapers are now in bankruptcy after the Sun Times files for court protection...You can now view videos of the seminars from January's DOMAINfest Global conference online at no charge...plus some other notes about upcoming events....

There has been some decent discussion about the value of Mini-Sites on a recent post at Domain Name Wire however I really want to challenge all the mini-site providers to step up to the game. First, I want to say I commend all those who are providing mini-sites to people. Basically, kudos for doing ...

A classic abuse of UDRP. Every once in a while you come across a classic example of abuse of UDRP domain name arbitration. That’s the case with a recent decision for Scalar.com. The perpetrator was Scalar Decisions Inc, a fast growing technology company in Canada, represented by Peter M. Dil...

There are just a few hours remaining to bid in 2009 Domain Madness. As the clock ticks down, bids have been coming in, although there are many domain names that are just below their reserve prices. I expect many of these names to sell, so take a few minutes and get your bids in to [...] Related po...

New Jersey lawmakers are considering new legislation, entitled the “Social Networking Site Safety Act”,  that would require Facebook, MySpace and others social networking sites to police every post to determine if it is “offensive”. Under the proposed law social networking s...

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Spring is here! If you're in a spring-cleaning mood, you may be thinking about reviewing your sites or re-evaluating your groups. The next time you log into your WhyPark account, make sure to check out the main My Sites dashboard for our latest new features to make your spring cleaning seamless. The...

Sedo had a very impressive week closing over $1 million worth domain sales including Motor.es for nearly $115,000 (€85,000), and BabyShop.com for $85,000. In total, Sedo reported over 150 different domain sales in the past seven days. Click through to the next page for the full list of resultsR...

DOMAINfest Global has updated DomainFest.com to include photos, videos, and testimonials from the January event in Hollywood, California. On top of that, DOMAINfest released the feedback from the post-event attendee survey which showed that: 97% of survey respondents rated DOMAINfest Global as valu...

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In an article on Yahoo! Tech states that Fox News is behind when it comes to online visitors compared to CNN and MSNBC. So Fox has launched FoxNation.com to try and help improve this. Fox has been the clear leader when it comes to TV and it’s prime-time viewers. In the article, there are some ...