We all talk about it. For years and years now. Getting big business to understand the value of domains. Getting the Fortune 500 to “get” domains. Problem is the Fortune 500 isn’t coming to our trade shows. God knows Rick & Howard have moved heaven and earth trying to get them t...

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Everyday we have some sort of breaking news of some sort. Some are great while some are tragic and terrible. However, no matter what the news is, as long as it it is popular there will surely be a bunch of domain squatters and/or speculators hoping to cash in on the news of the day. Whether [...]...

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ccTLDs carry lots of risks with the rewards. With TRAFFIC ccTLDs just around the corner, it’s only fitting that another example of the risks of registering country code domain names should pop up this month. As spotted by Internet Commerce Association, The Argentina Ministry of Foreign affai...

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Andrew McLaughlin to be deputy chief technology officer. The New York Times is reporting that former ICANN executive and current Google head of global public policy Andrew McLaughlin is joining the Obama administration as deputy chief technology officer. He will report to chief technology officer A...

Jay Westerdal has set up a new website to post developments in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Thought Convergence against Westerdal and other shareholders in his former company, Name Intelligence, Inc. TC bought Name Intelligence, Inc. for $16 million in May 2008 but the deal soon went sour....

Mr Moustapha Saya Kaigama, the president of Netcom.cm which owns and operates Cameroon’s controversial ccTLD, will present details about the development of the .CM registry and its upcoming top level domain registration re-launch during the ccTLD TRAFFIC symposium in Amsterdam from June 1-4, 2...

CNET.com has just released a video presentation called “Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names”. I will leave the surprise top 5 list for you to watch. Watch the video. Here’s the question that the video ends with, How valuable are domains, because how many of the top 5 have you visited...

National Journal, Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, is holding  a hearing on June 4th to examine the future of the U.S. government’s relationship with ICANN. “Boucher has previously expressed interest in holding an ICANN hearing, partic...

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You should see the amount of contests going on through twitter. Literally all you have to do is type “contest” in the search box and you will see amazing amounts of new easy to enter contests. I have personally won quite a few free domains from namecheap.com, domaining.com, and fusedhost...

Amended complaint includes new parties and allegations. Thought Convergence (TCI) has amended its complaint against Jay Westerdal and other parties related to TCI’s acquisition of Name Intelligence, LLC (NIL). The amended complaint names Name Intelligence, Inc., a holding company owned in part...

No video today. Elizabeth is sick DNJournal has not posted the top sales of the week (should be up this afternoon) Most importantly my daughter graduates from VPK - voluntary pre-kindergarten today No worries though, we will be doing the video tomorrow and have it up in the afternoon. In the mean ...

Sales from the two live domain auctions at last month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference started closing in large numbers this week to dominate our latest weekly sales chart. One of those broke the six-figure barrier to top the leader board. That name also ranks among the 15 highest sales r...

Mogulus, an innovative media company that allows people to create their own online television channels, has purchased Livestream.com for $100,000 via Sedo and re-branded its service with the new and improved name. Since being founded in 2007, Mogulus has been used by more than 300,000 people worldwi...

This is a HUGE problem with people that see that first couple dollars roll in when they first get in to domaining or site development. It is very very easy to fall in to this void, especially when you know that you did something right. The thing that sets everyone back is that they think [...] Rel...

Typo Generator includes the information you need to protect your brand against typosquatters. All week I’ve been writing about how I use DomainTools. Here’s the latest tool I use… There are a number of typo generators out there, but DomainTools’ is the only one that makes i...

Google has been hit with another AdWords-related lawsuit, this time by a Connecticut law firm.The personal injury firm Stratton, Faxon filed a suit in the New Haven Superior Court alleging that its name was being used to trigger ads for the rival law firm Silver, Golub and Teitell. Stratton, Faxon c...

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When it comes to managing a large portfolio you really need to cut down on maintenance tasks. For that reason I usually renew my domains across multiple years. I also try to have a bunch of them renewing at the same time. It’s Friday night and what am I doing? Renewing a few names of course! T...

Arbitration panel finds no bad faith, but declines to find reverse domain name hijacking. A Korean man has successfully defended against a domain arbitration claim waged by United Kingdom pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser Plc for the domain name RB.net. Reckitt Benckiser claimed to have commo...

My last post about the .us domain space was mainly about just recognizing that ccTLDs are not something to be underestimated. Bido.com has been having ccTLD auctions for a while now and most that have come up including .co.in have sold for nice prices considering the state of the economy and their e...

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