I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2010 with hopes for good health, happiness and prosperity for everyone. ...

Just a quick note to wish all our readers,  advertisers and everyone in the domain community a healthy and happy new year. See you on the flip side. ...

Between working on a couple projects for 2010 and the kids being off of school for the holidays I haven’t been blogging much. That will change tomorrow! I’ll be back with my weekly news video and then a couple 2009 blog posts over the weekend. In the mean time, Happy New Year!!! ...

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A fleeting masterpiece appeared in my backyard this morning. I was struck by how appropriate it was to see this on the last day of another decade - to be reminded that despite recessions and wars and all of the other ills affecting the world - there is always a new day ahead, another chance to try t...

Live Current Media sale of Leisure.com may be in the works. The whois information for Leisure.com has changed, signaling a possible sale by Live Current Media (livc.ob). The whois record for the domain name on December 22 showed Live Current Media; on December 30 the record changed to GoDaddy̵...

I spent some time with someone who mentioned that his company filed for a strategic bankruptcy in the past year. Although I have recently come to know this person and his family pretty well in just the past two years, I had known of his company since I was a kid because of his company’s region...

As a special New Year gift to you, we’ve just loaded a complimentary Bido Credit into your account. You may go ahead and use the credit to accelerate a domain to auction, to exchange for Voting Points in the Vote For Profits program, and more. In addition to the free credit, at midnight, we...

Yesterday, Josh wrote a comment on my blog directed at another commenter who used the initials “JP” in his comment, “Curious who you are, I see a lot of comments on boards by ” jp ” and since I am known by JP myself I have people getting us confused so I switched to just my nam...

Wow! The last day of 2009! What a great year this has been! At the time of writing countries such as New Zealand and Australia have already entered 2010! Today is the end of a year, a decade, and an era. Tonight, a new year, a new decade, a new era and a new season begins. Unfortunately, I [...] ...

Domain name registrar shuts down, exposing a host of unknown problems. It wasn’t quite RegisterFly, but the fall of domain name registrar Parava this year was a stark reminder that the domain registration business remains poorly regulated with lax compliance. ICANN sent a breach notice to Pa...

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According to a report released by comScore today, people spent $27 billion online from November 1 through December 24, a 5% increase  over last year. Here is a the detailed chart from comScore: ...

Another decade will end less than 36 hours from now and according to a new report from the The Pew Research Center people are not going to miss the "aughts." Yet, here I am - in the small minority that has a generally positive view of the decade that is about to close. Here is why....

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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A nice .com geodomain set the pace with four ccTLDs rounding out the first five. The country codes went on to take eight places on the all-extension Top 20 chart and a dozen country codes cracked the five-figure mark....

Better late than never, here’s a 2008 Domain Dunce Award. What do you mean today is Wednesday? This week I’ve run a series of posts with Domain Dunce Awards for 2009. But there was one I missed last year that is worth giving a retroactive award for. This one goes out to John Berryhill...

After an intense round of negotiating, we’ve gotten the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to drop the room rates for our attendees down to only $99 per night. The cut off date for getting that rate is January 11th. Even if you have already booked your room, they will lower your rate. If ...

“Who do you want to meet” campaign successful. As you heard on DNW Radio, networking is the biggest reason people go to domain name conferences. With that knowledge, Rick Latona’s team came up with an ingenious advertising campaign for TRAFFIC Las Vegas. Through banner ads, peop...

Usabilla, a usability testing startup, launched earlier this month and congratulations are in order, as they have already been featured on Mashable. While there are many popular and effective services for getting feedback about your website or application, Usabilla is bringing powerful tools like h...

During the past year, a few people have mentioned that they received emails from other bidders competing on domain auctions, although primarily involving drop auctions. The competing bidders reached out in an attempt to thwart their bidding, to keep their own acquisition cost down. Judging by the fa...

A controversial “relaunch” goes awry. .CM, the country code top level domain name for The Republic of Cameroon, has a storied history amongst domainers. Kevin Ham struck a deal to wildcard the domain name, sending lots of typo traffic of .com domain names his way. Ham, including his ...

Announced today, the National Arbitration Forum has dismissed Google’s complaint that it was entitled to the domain name, Groovle.com. Young Canadian entrepreneurs Jacob Fuller and Ryan Fitzgibbon, launched the web site in 2007, to provide users the ability to upload photos and customize their...

Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name  is “confusi...