There’s a Godaddy Cyber Monday domain deal. For some of those people who are considering purchasing a domain, for $4, you might as well just take that gamble and just give in to the temptation . Godaddy Cyber Monday Deal: Godaddy Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal: $4 domain name (+ICANN fee) ...

The Australian domain after market is relatively new to the TLD market and has only been around for less than 2 years now. The only Drop service that I am aware of is www.drop.com.au (formally www.domain8.com.au up until a few weeks a go when it was sold to www.fabulous.com) There have been many na...

Yesterday DNN.com first broke the news about Photon Group’s updated takeover offer to Dark Blue Sea, the parent company of Fabulous.com. Photon’s previous offer of $0.30 per share was increased to $0.35 per share and free of all conditions. At this point no details have been shared about...

Photon Group to acquire Dark Blue Sea. Does a nickel make all the difference in the world? Dark Blue Sea has accepted (pdf) Photon Group’s takeover bid after Photon upped its offer from 30 cents per share to 35 cents per share. In a joint statement, Dark Blue Sea Chairman Vernon Wills stated ...

A few days ago, I was searching through Snapnames auctions for domain names with bids. I frequently do this to see if there are any names I happen to like that already have bids. I don’t use any software or tools to look through all of the expiring/dropping names, so this is an easy way to see...

It was a pretty busy 4 days over at NameJet.com during the holiday in the US. The domain name ModelDirectory.com lead the pack selling for $16,665. The domain seems to have had minimal traffic at best and seems like a huge price, but I’m sure one of you out there in the domain world can tell m...

Hotel rooms are booking quickly for January domain name conferences. It’s hard to believe that the 2010 domain conference schedule kicks off in about seven weeks. As it creeps up on us, be sure to make your hotel reservations now. Rooms for the TRAFFIC show at the Hard Rock hotel in Las Veg...

In a joint press release issued today, domain name company Dark Blue Sea [ASX:DBS]  and Photon Group [ASX:PGA] announced Photon’s unconditional buyout offer of DBS shares at 35 cents per share. The company made a previous takeover offer at the end of October for 30 cents per share and explain...

Today’s comic strip is more on the serious side. Without my family none of what I have accomplished would be worth anything. They are the backbone of my life and I am very thankful for that. All the black Friday deals in the world couldn’t replace them. Click on the image to enlarge. ...

It’s another lazy Sunday afternoon, but I am doing some work while my wife gets some of her work done. Here are some things that I am thinking about today: I saw a commercial for the movie, Ninja Assassin, and thought it was strange that they are in-market with the domain name Ninja-Assassin-M...

This offer expires tomorrow, so you better hurry – this Godaddy coupon let’s you register or transfer a domain name with Godaddy for only $4.00. cjcBLACK09 Other interesting Godaddy coupon codes include: Zine7 – $7.49 new domain names and renewals Zine6 – $5 discount on order of $30 ...

Consider the case of David Lloyd who registered his nickname ’squaresheep’ on Facebook, the nickname he says he has been known by for over 10 years and used  on other services like Hotmail and Skype.com However last weekend, Facebook notified him that his username had been revoked and awarded t...

SpyShop.in at Bido today – No Reserve – 50k exact matches every month – http://www.bido.com/Auction?name=spyshop.in # Obama greets India with a Namaste – http://www.2point6billion.com/news/2009/11/25/obamas-namaste-to-india-3166.html # Powered by Twitter Tools ...

*** I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ TIM’S COMMENT ON HELPING WITH CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME AND BEING ON THE COMPUTER ALL DAY. CLICK HERE TO READ IT! I’ve been hearing a bunch about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome lately. This isn’t exactly directly related to domaining, but the more I talk to dom...

Following a public discussion with Joel Ohman of Domain Superstar with regards to the earning potential of a blog as opposed to a “real” website, here is an outline of how DNXpert is monetized. * We use OIOPublisher to sell advertising space on our blog. Even though we had the option of ...

It’s common for large content rich sites to implement measures to increase page views and decrease bounce rate but BankRate.com appears to be taking this philosophy to a whole new level. The reason that most sites want to increase page views is of course to theoretically better engage visitors...

DomainShane.com (thanks to some folks over at NamePros) has put together a list of 99 tips for successful domaining. Now, you might not agree with all the points there, but it’s definitely worth a read. Go on over and read the list, I know you want to . ...

Here is a list of 20 expired domains with stats and description (stats courtesy of Valuate.com) domain freq searches traffic avg comp avg cpc appraisal wrongboard.com 75,800 5 0 13/100 $0.05 $480 Buy with Godaddy | Buy with Moniker description:interesting name for a forum domain freq...

Jason Cupp, creator of GoDrops.com, has done a great job over the last 18 or so months of not only providing a list of daily dropping domain names, but an exciting place to chat about them as well. I am proud to say that I am now an equal partner in the GoDrops business. I’m a big believer ...

When I am working with my designer on a development product, I constantly check the new website in Safari and Firefox since I use a Macbook. My designer also uses a Mac, so he has the same browsers that I have. It’s critical to also check your site in other browsers (like Internet Explorer) si...

Hi all, Just a quick update about a couple of podcasts - First off the interview I had planned a while back with Johns Wu the creator and seller of www.bankaholic.com has had to be postponed until early next year due to contractual agreements with the sale of the site. I will let everyone know when ...

Cross-linking your own websites is an issue that comes up quite a lot. It seems logical to cross-link all the websites you own to spread the traffic across the website network and maximize the return on your traffic. However this can look spammy to search engine bots and it can result in links being...

This year’s Black Friday made a major push to the web. I remember the first time I decided to brave the crowds for Black Friday, the official first shopping day of the holiday season. I had to drop my wife (girlfriend at the time) off at the airport for an early morning flight, so I decided I...

With acquisitions of Mail.com, Fan.com, Deadline.com & others, the 30-year-old son of auto racing legend Roger Penske is building an Internet media empire. Here's how Jay Penske, backed by $35 million in venture capital, plans to be a big winner in the transition from traditional media to online pub...

My group at AIG did quite a bit of sponsored marketing in the bank channel. We co-marketed our accident insurance products to customers of the largest banks. We tested quite a bit of opportunities, and the variables in each of those opportunities, and we invested a lot of money in channels and demog...