I’ve been learning quite a bit about ccTLD domain names (before and during the TRAFFIC conference), and I wanted to share one quick lesson. Registrants for each country’s ccTLDs have their own unique registration quirks. This makes it quite important to do research about the country and ...

Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: Photos and highlights from Wednesday's schedule at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference in Amsterdam, including the keynote address from Dr. Kevin Ham. There's also a scene from the Tuesday night dinner at the historic West Indies House where plans for New York City we...

Right at a turning point for the economy with good signs of improvement, Sedo begins a week-long themed auction of “Career” domains. With more Americans looking for employment than ever, it’s a good opportunity for businesses and individuals to invest in domains that represent a la...

I can’t understand for the life of me why domain companies do so little to encourage aftermarket sales. Sedo, AfternicDLS, SnapNames, NameJet, Pool, GoDaddy Auctions, and many of the domain conferences — what are they doing? Most of these companies do little more than submit their sales ...

I was doing some SEO work and analysis on Exdon.com, one of our brands, and came across a very interesting Namepros forum thread. Now I am not in any way annoyed or upset with the thread. The thread starter stated that he had listed his domains at Exdon.com and that he had received an offer of [...]...

Spanish language domain name tops Sedo’s weekly charts. It’s an interesting week when Sedo’s top domain name sale is only 25,000 EUR (about $35,000 USD). It’s even more interesting when that domain name is a Spanish language .net. But this past week Moviles.net took the cro...

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A friend (non-domainer) sent me this e-mail joke, that is making thecircuit around the net called: “10 Worst Company Domains” Of course each of these domains really does exist for the purpose explained, but all have double meanings. In the spirit of the TRAFFIC show being held in Amsterd...

I was asked what I had been doing lately by a friend of mine who noticed I was doing a lot less domain buying and selling. With prices the way they are, I’m not particularly excited to go out and sell many of my domains for a 50% loss and despite domains being cheaper today than they’ve ...

I have seen many people come in to the domain industry and pretty much fail with in the first month simply because they have no idea what they are doing. There is one type of domaining i suggest everyone do but i think it is where most people should start. What i am talking about [...] Related pos...

.DE registry DENIC says about 50% of its domains have hyphens in them, about 6.4million #traffic # Nominet (.uk registry) is currently discussing potential release of 2 letter domains for 2010 #traffic # .AT registry offers zonefile access for 300 Euros onetime fee. #traffic # Phil Kingsland of Nom...

Former United States president Bill Clinton has lost a challenge for three domain names. Bill Clinton had a way of winning at the polls, but he couldn’t persuade an arbitrator this month that he should have rights to the domain names williamclinton.com, williamjclinton.com and presidentbillcl...

In one of my most recent articles about Twitter.me, I published some misleading information based on missing research, which I later revised. I received one comment stating that the only reason I wrote the article was for the traffic. This is why I think it would be appropriate for me to address and...

I know a lot of domainers who tread very close to the cybersquatter line — they might be legally safe, however they continue to encourage the “All domainers are cybersquatters” mentality. With all the talk about the URS and how this could destroy domainers, I’m flabbergasted ...

The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) has just released its statement regarding the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal of the trademark group making up the IRT committee of ICANN. Yesterday we published a post, discussing  the IRT committee and their proposals to increase protection for ...

Many of us missed out on the dot com rush, but that doesn’t mean that the domaining industry is slowing down one bit or that you completely missed the boat. The nature of a domain registration will continue to provide virtually infinite opportunity for domainers, simply because of the fact tha...

Frank Michlick, co-editor of DNN.com is across the pond in Amsterdam and has been reporting via Twitter as the information rolls in live at the TRAFFIC ccTLD show in Amsterdam. Drop us a note in the comments section if you are at the show and want to meet Frank or message @fmichlick.  We’ll a...

As we reported previously, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer let more than 50 of their .org domain names expire in March 2009. The names were brought to DNN’s attention as they appeared on a SnapNames auction list . After expiring several of the domains appear to have been registered by SnapNames an...

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AfternicDLS sold over 400 domains this past week for more than $600,000 in total sales. The top sales included 03C.com for $22,888, TheLove.com for $11,000, and MillionDollarNapkin.com for $11,000. The highest non-.com sales were Wristbands.net for $4,000, BackupSoftware.net for $3,588, and BodyArmo...

On April 26th I launched a contest to give away a Flip Ultra camcorder and an XShot. All you had to do to enter was subscribe to my newsletter,  follow me on Twitter and send one Twitter message to your followers. Here is a link to the contest I was running just to refresh your [...]...

Domain arbitrator says complainant brought complaint to harass domain owner but won’t find reverse domain name hijacking. LaFrance Corporation made a dubious attempt at getting the domain name LaFrance.com and lost. But despite overwhelming weakness in its case, an arbitrator with World Intel...

JPKing.com is auctioning “The World’s Largest Known Real Estate Domain Listing Portfolio” including more than 2,600 geo-domains on June 11 at 4:00pm Eastern Time. The extensive portfolio includes: 2,300+ US City Geo-Targeted Collection covering 99% of the cities with over 35,000 i...

Cable TV might be a strategic advertising option for GeoDomains (and other web sites). I’ve just signed a deal to buy cable TV advertising to promote Lakeway.com, my geo web site for Lakeway, Texas. The ads will run on CNN, FoxNews, A&E, and a local news channel a little over 200 times ...

This is by no means a review of Bing.com. Far from that. However this is a mini post about how I currently feel about Bing.com. This morning I decided to briefly test drive the Microsoft search platform called Bing.com. At first I was kinda pleasantly surprised about the layout which to me was somew...