Slips in schedule could result in reduced staff bonuses. ICANN has clear short term economic incentives to roll out new top level domain names, and bonuses are one of those reasons. Read this exchange at the Cairo ICANN meeting between ICANN Senior Vice President of Services Kurt Pritz and former I...

Implementation Recommendation Team suggests drastic changes to existing protections for IP holders. The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), formed by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency, has released its preliminary report (pdf) of suggested safeguards for trademark holders in lig...

Thought i would highlight some domainers on twitter today. This is not a top 10 type list. These are just people in the industry that i have seen that add value to all of us in the industry together. So lets check this list out: @DomainingCom @DonnaMahony @TeenDomainer @ChefPatrick @BidoDotCom @Doma...

Domain name service drops upfront fees. [Update: What I couldn't write about yesterday but can now is that Parked.com has purchased WhyPark.] Domain name parking alternative WhyPark has dropped its upfront fees and is now free. Previously, WhyPark charged $99 for the first 100 web sites. Add-on s...

To follow up on the WhyPark.com Just Went FREE post i thought i would do a case study to see the real power of WhyPark.com. So basically i picked a crappy domain for this, BeerComments.com. First thing i did was obviously change the nameservers. Thought it would be best to do this ASAP since it can ...

The financially troubled newspaper industry met at the Newspaper Association of America’s annual conference in San Diego the second week in April, and Associated Cities held its annual GeoDomain Expo in San Diego from April 23-25.  I think the GeoDomain Expo was quite a bit more upbeat! I att...

A look back at the 2009 GeoDomain Expo. Some domain name conferences are special. Different. Unique. On Sunday morning, I opened up the sliding door to my first floor room at Catamaran Resort in San Diego and saw this: The vista made me think about how “different” the GeoDomain Expo w...

Company wins great domain name at UDRP just two weeks after being found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Just two week ago, financial firm Versa Capital Management was found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) by an arbitration panel when it tried to get the domain name VersaCapit...

We will soon be offering an eBusiness-In-A-Box service here at eBusinessDomains. We will give you a free minisite with certain domain purchases. We will roll out this service in the very near future, firstly to our newsletter subscribers. We may also add free hosting from Widest.com. If you are a mi...

What is Domaining? This is super frequent question going around these days. It is also asked by many many non-domainer types that want to know what the industry is all about. I think the first thing that we can all agree on is that it has to do with domain names. Seems pretty basic but [...]...

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Tomorrow Tuesday April 28, Rick Latona will be holding his live domain auction, from the TRAFFIC show in California at 3:30 PST, 6:30 EST. Remote bidding will be allowed for those not in attendance. So it’s time for our picks, pans, and predictions for the auction. So with all our stats and fi...

We are now just over a week away from launching a brand new online presence. We are excited about it, as we will be taking a brand new direction in how we go about our business. We are now seeking quality content relating to ALL areas of online business activities. We are aiming to provide an [...]...

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, is the new owner of the two-letter domain name WP.com. The domain was previously owned by Yahoo. WP has been widely used as the acronym for WordPress for a long time, so it was a good decision to acquire the domain. Matt Mullenweg of Automattic writes on ...

http://xr.com/am8 - WP.com « WordPress.com buys wp.com from Yahoo! # Powered by Twitter Tools. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auctions ...

I like social gatherings. Parties, conferences, meetings, galas. It’s part of my personality and nature, as I am eager to communicate, to reach out to others and exchange ideas and share information. Plus, the drinks, food and further “opportunities” are there, especially when one ...

I haven’t launched a business to consumer ecommerce site in seven years. Smoking cigarettes though, that I’ve been doing for 20+ years. Jesus I’m getting old. Well, in celebration of three weeks without a cancer stick I’m proud to announce eFags.com This site will be a labo...

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After obtaining the right domain name for your business, the next step to getting online is to get quality web hosting. When choosing a web hosting service for your website, you need to make sure that the server is fast, reliable, and comes with all of the features you need. Stability is important, ...

Yes that is right Whypark.com is now offering a FREE service to its customers. This is pretty big news for the company since in the past you had to pay $100 to get an account for 100 domains. WhyPark.com is a Parking 2.0 company, that’s what i like to call them. They basically offer a differen...

A little fun fact about myself. I met my wife on AOL 13 years ago. The First Twitter Wedding!!! Click on the image to enlarge. Here is a link to last week’s comic strip in case you missed it. ...

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An interesting post in Media Post’s Search Insider a publication written for those professionals that help their clients by PPC advertising. It’s important to see what companies that get paid to place PPC for advertisers are thinking because they direct a lot of the major PPC ad buys. Fi...