Monday, June 1st 12:00PM - 06:00PM Registrations Open. 12:00PM - 06:00PM Exhibitor Setup in Exhibit Hall.     10:00AM - 06:30PM Coffee, Tea, and Informal Networking.Networking on Opening Day is always relaxed and everyone typically has some time for meetings. This is always a...

NameMedia announced today that it has teamed up with TradeMark Express to sell premium domain names through TradeMark Express’s full-service trademarking process. “NameMedia is pleased to further expand the reach of our AfternicDLS sales platform,” said Pete Lamson, Senior VP and G...

Sedo closed over $300,000 worth of sales this week including Thalasso.org (as in Thalassotherapy) for $18,300 (€13,100), SEO-Tools.co.uk for $16,700 (€12,000), 1n.com for $12,700 (£ 8,000), Digital.eu for $11,100 (€8,000), and Fotonic.com for $8,400 (€5,999). Check out the full list of week...

Could move foreshadow image ads on parked pages? Today Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it will start adding relevant banner ads to the bottom of link ad results pages. Link ads are part of the Google Adsense program. Instead of showing ads that link directly to an advertiser’s site, a ...

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Name.com is offering Happy Hour pricing on dropped domains every day starting at 3pm MST (GMT-7). Do you scour the daily drop lists and find yourself saying “I’d buy that domain name if it were cheaper” or “I wish I could buy all of these domain names, but I just don’t have enough cash.”...

Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST),  made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated that it is planning to offer to purchase at least $100 milli...

Auction page now easier to scan. One thing has always baffled me about the auction page at Sedo: domain names were truncated at 13 characters even though there was plenty of space to list the entire domain. Like many things in web applications, fixing this was a challenge due to some legacy backend...

A new day has truly begun in the domain industry. For years, domainers failed to see any potential for domain names beyond domain parking. With the current economic downturn inevitably came a reduction in domain parking revenues, to say the least. For most domainers, it was more like a monetization ...

The following domains are expiring soon and I'm giving them away since I won't be renewing them. All are registered at GoDaddy. One domain per person per week. If you want one, just post the one you want and either post or PM me your GoDaddy username and email address ......

Alright i know that the presence of the mobile Internet is growing by the day. As some of you may know i was out and about this weekend and i just happened to visit Domaining.com on my Centro and found that there was a mobile version of the website. Kind of made me happy at [...] Related posts:Mob...

Microsoft has switched gears again in its naming of it’s search engine.  From Live.com to Kumo.com (which never officially launched) they have appearently settled on Bing.com According to Ad Age, Microsoft plans on spending $80 million to $100 million on its ad campaign for Bing. Ad Age point...

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Arbitration panel finds Parker Waichman Alonso LLP overstepping its bounds. New York law firm Parker Waichman Alonso LLP has two registered trademarks that include the term “YourLawyer”: yourlawyer.com on the principal register and YourLawyer on the supplemental register. It’s try...

Sedo's latest GreatDomains premium domain auction ends Thursday afternoon at 1pm (U.S. Eastern time) with 80.com and CD.net among the names going on the block. Also, the AfternicDLS expands the reach of their domain sales platform through a strategic partnership with Trademark Express....

My visit to company’s offices in Seattle. Over the holiday weekend I traveled to Seattle for a wedding. Because I can never take a holiday from the domain world, I arranged to visit Name Intelligence’s office while I was there. Name Intelligence, owned by Thought Convergence, operates ...

As announced via email today, Francois Carrillo, operator of Domaining.com and Premiumdomains.com, has launched a public Beta of Valuate.com, a free automated Domain Evaluation tool. Shortly after he sent out the launch email however, it seems that the site was temporarily not responding, possibly d...

The domain stripclubs.com which sold at the Rick Latona auction at the Phoenix Forum Adult show On March 5, for $101K, is back on the auction block. The domain is being offered for sale on ebay.com with a starting bid and reserve of only $75K. According to the owner of the domain, the sale with Rick...

Alright this week we have a short line up due to the holiday. Its a pretty interesting week compared to past auctions with mostly ccTLDs making up the list. On top that there are 2 .us names. This is pretty cool considering that most of the time the only auctions going on the Bido.com auction [...] ...

Twitter related .me domain names sells for five figures. The latest premium .me domain name auction is coming to an end, and Tweet.me looks to be the winner at $11,505. I can see this being used for a Twitter service, but I’m a bit concerned about all of the services popping up that use vari...

Good URL Bad URL is now on Twitter. Follow along for random URL-spottings and other related URL-ventures. And tweet any notable URLs you come across to @GoodURLBadURL. 140 characters should be enough to relay even the longest of Looooong URLs....

German domainer Markus Schnermann is the picture of good health: physical, mental, financial - you name it - he is at the top of his game. Domainers in his homeland often refer to Schnermann as a "superstar." Heady stuff - especially for someone whose parents were once told they would have to care ...

An available list of LLL.in’s is published at affiliated.in ...

Why would the call to action on this online ad be "Visit us online at..."?!? Um, hello. We're already online. What, did you think might try to go to www.infoprint.com/transpromo using our fax machine??? And it's a good thing you included the www just in case I didn't want to click on the ad directly...

The domain itrust.com sold today for $13,100 on NameJet.com to the bidder known as “eglobal”. itrust.com is certainly an end user type of domain and for me a bit overpriced. Here are some other notable sales over the last few days at NameJet: audios.com                  ...