It’s Saturday again!! Over the past few weeks or months, to be more accurate, my blogging efforts have been reduced to these weekly domainer musings. These musings started in the summer with me wanting to just offload a few thoughts and then going to bask in all the fun that London has to offer. ...

This was the best domaining conference I have ever been to. Ok, so this is also the first one I’ve ever attended, lol. Seriously though, this was a great show. I not only suggest anyone in the industry attend at least one TRAFFIC event, but attend several if possible. I will definitely be att...

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At 25 Years old I had no idea what I would do with my life, I was completely lost. I was playing Chess online for few years at that point, and although at the time I inquired about a networking/tech degree, it didn’t make much sense to me. I did not like it that much, and I was definitely not ...

Growing up, I loved playing soccer, and I played on organized teams through high school. I never really enjoyed watching soccer on television, because I didn’t follow any teams or players. Lately, I’ve been watching English Premier League football games when I catch them on tv here in th...

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I’ve compiled a delicious collection of 100% geeky goodies for your enjoyment this Halloween, take your pick! Featured are top resources on domaining from October and a few gems from yesteryear. After you’ve received your tricks, be sure to sample the jaw-dropping collection of download...

Here at Seoul 36th ICANN Meeting, ICANN Board has just approved to Launch “IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program”. Application Period for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Program is going to be start on 16th Nov. The new rules for IDN Script are as follows: 1. the string must be a minimum of two characters long (U-l...

Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board. “The coming introduction o...

(Today’s Auction archive screenshot, click image to view full size) Still one auction going right this moment, DPO.INFO, current bid $150.00 This concludes October, it was definitely a fun month. Now come November, we have many new upcoming auctions (Monday for example, over 150 live auctions...

Ron Jackson, one of the nicest domainers I know, now has a big head. That’s right, Warren Royal of Bobbleheads.com has done it again. First he did it last year by giving Rick Schwartz a big head and now Ron Jackson. Good news, I was able to grab an extra one for you guys. Post a [...]...

This week’s video is sponsored by Parked.com. Parked.com offers over 15,000 templates, dedicated account managers and payouts twice a month. Serving over 4 million domain names. The winner of our DomainerBlog.org contest is… (gotta watch to find out) Links: RickLatona.com Live TRAFFIC ...

Quick news updates before the weekend. It’s the Friday before Halloween and there’s a lot of domain news to report. I’ll be taking off early today to go to my daughter’s Halloween school carnival (she’s dressing up as a Flamingo), so here’s a condensed version of...

Group submits plan to takeover Fabulous‘ parent company. Photon Group has submitted its formal share purchase statement (pdf) for its planned purchase of outstanding Dark Blue Sea shares. Dark Blue Sea is the parent company of domain name registrar and parking company Fabulous. Photon owns al...

I saw a thread that was rekindled on DomainState that I hadn’t looked at in a number of months. Recent comments seem to indicate that some people believe geodomain values are significantly diminished. For the purposes of this article, I am going to refer strictly to city/state/country/region ....

For the third installment of Case Study Friday, we’re going to look at one of Joel and my newer acquisitions, Versailles.com. Weeks one and two focused on CreditCardChaser.com, one of Joel’s finance-related sites. The posts generated a lot of discussion. Versailles.com is in the early ...

Google gets into the lead gen business through Adwords. Google has launched a new Google Adwords offering that directly competes with mortgage lead generation companies such as Lending Tree. The new offering, dubbed Comparison Ads, allows Google visitors to compare offers from various mortgage provi...

Earlier today, with our monthly newsletter, we ran a Twitter contest. From our newsletter: Afterwards we thought, what about those who did not win, weren’t around when the newsletter arrived? So, the next 100 who tweet @bido the best deal on Bido in October will win one Bido credit each. To ...

Join Adam Strong and Jothan Frakes (Live from South Korea) for a video chat about the #ICANN meeting. If you are prompted for a password, enter “domains123″. ...

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The board of directors of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted for a  Fast-Track Process for applying for an IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) and will begin accepting applications on Nov. 16. Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able t...

There’s a reason why the US Navy recruiting office’s motto is “Let the journey begin”. The seemingly vague and non-restrictive phrase was meant to match that of the US Army’s apparently restrictive line – “Be all you can be“. But was “Be all you ...

Is there is no product on earth that can’t be sold on the Internet? If you thought the one product that couldn’t be sold over the Net was caskets, you would be wrong. Walmart.com, has 14 caskets that can be purchased on its site. The prices range from $895 for a steel casket to $2,899 fo...

Can you feel the electricity in the air? There’s a revolution brewing. It’s the lingering smell of ozone, right before a powerful storm erupts. It’s about time to bring the end-users to the domain conferences. It’s about time to change the rules of the game by altering the l...