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Here are my top 3 picks for both the Rick Latona Auction and Moniker Live Auction: Rick Latona Auction: Bid Here SmartPhones.com - Reserve: $50k This is an extremely huge and HOT market right now. With more and more phones becoming “smart” i think this will be a great buy for an end-user...

The URLeriffic Nate Gawel came across this company and its, er... concise URL. He speculated that maybe their slogan is "There's No 'I' in Digital." This URL is unlikely to emerge victorious....

Thomas Umstattd Jr. weighs in with his 2nd URL-spotting. This one clearly could stand out better by dropping the dubs and rockin' some Leading Caps. They need to dig deep and channel the Good URL inside....

Peter Askew puts up SkewURL #26. Short and sweet, Leading Caps, and acceptable Abbreviation really help this URL drive home the point....

a href="http://www.bbb.org/" target="_blank"img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z221/agoldman3/IMG00288.jpg" alt="Bad URL" border="0" //abr /br /I won't begrudge the a href="http://goodurlbadurl.blogspot.com/search/label/Acronyms%2FAbbreviations"acronym/a here but the a href="http://goodurlb...

Starting in few minutes. My thoughts about this and other auctions this week are here. If you wish to participate, click here. Enjoy! Edit: Auction is over. See results here. ...

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So here I am, once again sitting in the Qantas club waiting for my plane on the way to TRAFFIC in Santa Clara. The only difference this time is that Irsquo;m in Sydney rather than Melbourne as I wanted to board the A380 (really big plane) as it has power......

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the GeoDomain Expo in San Diego for the Aftermarket.com Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. The live auction sold 29 names for a total of $101,089.00 with SierraMadre.com being the highest priced s...

Here are my favorite 5 blogs in the domain industry. Listed in alphabetical order: ChefPatrick.com Of course I’m going to list my own blog, I love it. I personally believe it is the most well rounded blog in the domain industry. I do not report news on a daily basis but do provide a recap of t...

Latham.com sold for $30,300 at Namejet.com Latham is a popular last name which pulls over 7 million results on Google If you do a Google search for “Latham” the first result is for Latham & Watkins, which seems to be a very large international law firm, second is a link to Congressma...

A look back at Friday’s GeoDomain activities and a unique twist on today’s auction. Friday kicked off the first official full day of activities at the 2009 GeoDomain Expo in San Diego. The day opened with a brief address from San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders. Associated Cities president D...

I apologize in advance because I can’t use the specific brand or domain name in this story, but I wanted to share a funny story with you about how some brand managers just don’t take domain names as seriously as they should. After the party at the GeoDomain Expo, I went out to drinks wit...

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The first full day of business (and night of fun) at the GeoDomain Expo in San Diego ran into the wee hours of the morning. We have exclusive photos and highlights from Fridays activities for you. The show closes today with another jam-packed schedule of events including a live geodomain auction....

Effective today, I have decided to remove the NoFollow attribute from all comment posted here at SkyDomains. By default, anyone who includes their URL in the URL/Webpage  field when submitting a comment has the NoFollow attribute automatically attached   to that link. This “theoreticallyâ€...

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(image source) This week is going to be one of the busiest weeks for auction houses. Besides the daily auction houses out there (Bido, Sedo, Afternic, NameJet, Snapnames) this week will be all about live domain auctions. First in line is Aftermarket.com’s GeoDomains auction. Later the week Ri...

Its not often that you see a three letter domain drop naturally, and today by my count there are at least 35 of them. These are actual drop domains, so they can be caught by any drop service or even with you own script (if you have one). If you want to go after any of these,  you need to backorder ...

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Success.co.in Sold for USD $292.00 @ Bido Go now to: Bido ...

Globe Media International Corp, a Canadian business whose contact person is Mr. Stefano Venneri, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) panel - a very serious offense that includes a potential penalty of $5000 - for trying to take ...

EuroDNS is giving away 10 free entrance passes to TRAFFIC ccTLDs 2009, which will be hosted in Amsterdam on June 1-4, 2009. All you need to do to qualify is click here and fill out the short application form. [via EuroDNS] ...

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