You may remember my infamous “A New Domain King Is Born” blog post that made some people laughed so much, they nearly lost their rice crispies. Don’t hold your breath, there is nothing to laugh about this time . I have now registered eBD.me, my first .Me domain name. So what will I do wit...

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) announced in a press release that Thought Convergence has graciously offered time during the Aftermarket.com premium domain auction at the Domain Roundtable conference to sell domain names donated to the ICA by members and other supporters of the non-profit ad...

Court documents denying a motion to dismiss(pdf), reveal that hosting company Solid Host, NL is suing domain name registration company NameCheap.com over cybersquatting claims for a domain name registered under the NameCheap whois privacy services WhoisGuard. Solid Host’s domain name had repor...

The past 2 days over at bido.com there were a couple great .us domains up for auction. Those two domains are Blues.us and Bankrupt.us. Pretty amazing domain names considering that the Blues started here in the United States of America and Bankruptcy is a pretty big thing right now with the economy i...

Dispute over osram.tel will test new top level domain. Osram GmbH has filed the first ever UDRP dispute for a .tel domain name, going after the domain Osram.tel. This should be an interesting case because of the differences between .tel and other top level domain names. In a UDRP, the complainant...

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Thought Convergence, the organizers of the Domain Roundtable conference coming up June 14-17 in Washington, D.C. will provide time during the show's live domain auction to sell domains donated to support the Internet Commerce Association. Donations are now being sought for the June 16th sale....

Actress Sigourney Weaver picks up her namesake domain name. Actress Sigourney Weaver has been awarded the domain name SigourneyWeaver.com by an arbitration panel at National Arbitration Forum. She filed the claim last month. The owner of the domain name, Stephen Gregory, did not respond to the all...

Every few days we seem to publish some “big” dollar domain sales from NameJet.com, but usually don’t find them on Snapnames.com Today is an exception, as a very good domain, in a high paying category, CheckMyCredit.com sold for $23,000.           . Since were on the subjec...

The risks of releasing hundreds of new TLDs at once outweigh the benefits. It’s no secret that I’m generally opposed to introducing new top level domain names. And I’m not alone. Even before people started talking about a mass introduction of new TLDs, most of the domain name ind...

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Use DomainTools’ whois history to research the history of a domain name you’re buying. When you’re ready to shell out a bunch of cash for a domain name, it’s important to understand the ownership history of the domain name. There’s no title insurance for domains, so t...

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer formally introduced Bing.com Microsoft new search platform today at the All Things Digital conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal,  the search engine “is different from its predecessor and rivals’ search engines, with search ...

Time Warner announced today official plans to spin off AOL.com around the end of this year. Time Warner’s board is expected to meet today and approve the plan. Once completed, the deal would once again make AOL an independent, publicly traded company. AOL bought Time Warner in 2001 for $147 bi...

Is your ebusiness build on a solid rock or is it build on sinking sand? Do you have a concrete plan or, are you just doing random things with the hope that one day you will strike it lucky? A lot of people say that they want to succeed, but deep down they are lying to themselves. [...]...

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Smartphone maker gains 101 domain names in single dispute. When it comes to getting bang for your buck in domain name arbitration, Research in Motion may have just set the bar. In a single UDRP case filed at World Intellectual Property Organization, the BlackBerry maker won 101 domains (and was de...

The mobile web is getting bigger by the day. It is expanding a lot faster than most of us even want to think about. On top of that more and more people are getting mobile devices that can access either full blown browsers or just some type of mobile interface. This is just one reason [...] Related...

We all seem to rely on web ranking services,  in valuing domains we are looking to acquire and one of the tools many domainers use, including myself, is Alexa.org Alexa.org basically uses the information from those who have downloaded its toolbar (and specifically allowed Alexa to use the info) as ...

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RE: @venturebeat Old find, but still a good look back at domain name. I wonder how much they really paid. Anyone have a… http://disq.us/7b5 # (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auctions ...

Bulgarian residents will be able to register domain names in Cyrillic by the end of the year, the country’s foreign minister vowed. The goal was described by Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin as part of the state policy, even though the press conference he gave was part of his electioneering as S...

Hard to prove demand for new top level domain names One of the key questions facing ICANN and the internet community is if there is any demand for new top level domain names should they be released. So far no one has released convincing evidence of demand. And if past TLD launches are any indicati...

Yahoo’s CEO,  Carol Bartz said Wednesday she would be open to striking a search deal with Microsoft if they offered “boatloads of money.” “If there’s boatloads of money and the right technology involved, we’d do a deal, sure,” Ms. Bartz said at the All Thin...