Here is another round of Off The Wall Domain Name Stats. These are stats that are not often seen and can be used to watch trends and what’s going on behind the scenes. The stats are from Yesterday, March 27, 2009. All of these stats are based on Domain Name Server changes and only involve .com...

(image source) Reading this morning about Monster Venture Partners closing doors, it brought back recent thoughts I was going over and yet to write about. I visited our office yesterday, said hi to all, spent few hours with our teams going over stuff, the usual. I asked a little about revenues, pro...

Bob Parsons CEO and Founder of Godaddy.com released video blog #23.  A surefire way to be lucky and happy! Focus on things you can control and be able to see when a lucky moment is on your side. Bob goes to Las Vegas (not in a limo, but on his motorcycle) with several Godaddy Girls™ and s...

A very interesting blog post over at Tech Crunch talks about human nature and the tenancy of selling out too cheap when faced with a buyout offer, or as the author puts it: “”"Entrepreneurs selling companies too early. “”"Several entrepreneurs here have described themselves a...

Venture Capital firm was big backer of generic domain-based companies. Rob Monster’s Monster Venture Partners is closing its doors, reports TechFlash. Monster Venture Partners backed a number of companies that were formed with high value generic domain names, such as Alerts.com and Healthcare...

Exdon.com, an acronym for Exchange for Domain Names is a free and increasingly popular marketplace for domain names. Exdon.com does not charge for membership, domain listings or domain sales. There is no commission charged on sales, and buyers and sellers negotiate directly with each other without t...

The Co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake, talked about her new venture appropriately named Hunch.com A very interesting concept, paired with a great, easy to remember domain, should make this site one of the next BIG Web 2.0 sites.  We had the myspace.com period, then facebook.com, now twitter.com i...

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TRAFFIC Silicon Valley Santa Clara, California April 27-30 2009 Internet World 2009 London, England April 28-30 2009 TRAFFIC Europe Amsterdam June 2-5 2009 ICANN Meeting Sydney, Australia June 21-26 2009 Domain Roundtable Washington D.C. June 14-17 2009 DomainConvergence Location TBA, Canada Fall 20...

I’ve used Registrant Alert by DomainTools for nearly two years and am sorry for not having shared it with you sooner!  It really is an essential tool that automates the otherwise complicated task of digging through WHOIS pages. Registrant Alerts notifies you whenever a change is detected on...

Dell decides it should use the domain name Adamo.com for its new computer. When Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) launched its sleek new laptop called Adamo it overlooked one important marketing issue: it didn’t own the domain name Adamo.com. As we reported last week, the domain name was owned by Tucows (...

The DomainConsultant.com Domain Madness Pre-Bidding domain name auction is currently Live but a live video feed from the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas will be happening as well for the Live Domain Auction! Live from Las Vegas Bidding is now open but the auction will conclude with a LIVE finale hosted fr...

According to a blog post on One Degree, Tucows’ YummyNames unit has sold the domain name adamo.com to Dell. Details of the deal have not disclosed other than it was directly brokered by Bill Sweetman of YummyNames with Dell. Adamo is the name of Dell’s new luxury notebook line, and the d...

The theme for next month's GeoDomain Expo in San Diego will be "Freefall! (How to Monetize the Collapse of Traditional Media)." A stunning new report on revenue declines in the newspaper industry underscores the timeliness of the Expo's theme and the huge opportunity opening up for geodomain owner...

If you’ve been searching for the perfect domain name for generating huge parking revenues or developing into a major online retail business, PaintballGuns.com just might be it. The domain name was listed for auction on eBay earlier this week and has already accumulated over 30 bids and 2500 pa...

The Domain Madness auction event by DomainConsultant will end with a live finale video broadcast from the Palms hotel in Vegas on March 31st, 2009 at 1pm CDT. The event starts in the DC suite and will continue  in the pool area after the conclusion of the auction. Any domainer is welcome to partic...

eBay domain name auction attracting lots of bids. It’s unusual for a good domain name to be auctioned on eBay, but an auction for PaintballGuns.com has topped $20,000 with just three days to go. There is a reserve on the domain name and no indication from the seller about what it is, which me...

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This week’s video is being showcased at Domaining.com. The video will be running there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Monday I will then replace this post with the video in order to archive it for future viewing. I made an error in the video, DomainBoardroom.com has been up for two years n...

There may be a few changes made to this inventory by not many. Descriptions and the order of the inventory will be published over the weekend. I apologize for the ugly formatting of this post. The official post will look much better. I wanted everyone to see it before they went home for the day. ...

We have added the option to create a classified style advertisement for any listing in the DotSauce Marketplace.  Additionally 3 new marketplace categories have been added that we feel will be beneficial for domainers and developers. Cross Promote Your Current Domain & Website Sales When submit...

Laying out hard cold cash for a very ethereal concept like a domain name can be a daunting proposition. Once you’ve decided that you’ll invest in a domain based upon traffic statistics you will soon discover that there are a number of risks and ways of hedging those risks. For......

I always like to look at reported domain sales and this is for a couple reasons. The majority of sales that take place at sites like Afternic.com and Sedo.com are to End Users. As a domain seller, that’s who you want to purchase your domain! Reported sales at sites like NameJet.com, SnapNames....

Two lucky winners will each win a one-word .co.uk domain name in our Blockbuster Domaining Contest. This is a major giveaway, as Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) are very high on the radar for domain investors. With a population of nearly 60 million people, a very high internet penetration an...