Here is a ranking of our most popular articles this January: Targeted TRAFFIC Las Vegas 2010 Live Auction Results DomainFest Global’s Premium Live Domain Auction Results Foreclosure.com Parent Seeks Bankruptcy Protection AshleyMadison.com to Go Public, to Purchase Moxy Media Adam Dicker leaves Go...

Sunday morning David Clements and I went on a bicycle ride. Our journey will take us from Atlanta to New Orleans for Domainer Mardigras. While that may not sound like a lot to those of you in peak physical condition, it’s a heck of a journey for two middle-aged, over-weight guys like us. Keep ...

This is a tradeshow update, but it’s not THE tradeshow update from Domain Fest that I plan to post tomorrow. My parents are in town for the New York International Gift Fair, which takes place a couple of times a year at the Javitz Center. How does this relate to domain names? This afternoon w...

Reviewing last week’s DOMAINfest conference. For many years, DOMAINfest has attracted the largest crowd of all domain conferences. It only takes place once a year, and Oversee.net and DomainSponsor spend over a million dollars organizing it. The event last week set an attendance record wi...

There’s no doubt that outsourcing is hurting U.S. website developers. People are turning to others in countries like India or Malaysia to create applications and websites for them. They have much lower living costs, thus allowing them to provide their services at prices that are dirt cheap. Bu...

Hmmm, shop online too much? Don’t get out? lol If you missed last week’s comic strip it was What Are You Saying?, created for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas flyer. ...

In a ruling this week,  a three member WIPO Panel gave a generic term, LawSociety.com to a group in the UK based off a trademark for “The Law Society” Here are the findings from the panel: “”The Complainant in this case was “the representative and regulatory body for t...

iPad means more web users will circumvent web addresses to get information online. It wasn’t a question of whether or not Apple would release a tablet computer this past week. It was only a question of the specs and name. What we’re left with is a device called iPad that is basically...

Unless your trip to TRAFFIC Las Vegas or to DomainFest in California was paid for by your employer, it’s time to take a good look into your credit card and even your bank account, for any unauthorized charges. The days in TRAFFIC Las Vegas were packed with events – and of course after ho...

Day three started off with another session of PITCHfest where Rapid Domain Builder ended up taking home the award this time. They were up against DevRich, Skinected, and Root Orange — who walked away with the People’s Choice Award, congratulations guys! After another lovely lunch outsid...

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Here’s how to block friends from seeing your crazy night at the Playboy Mansion. That was quite a party Thursday night at the Playboy Mansion in L.A. Compared to last year, it was really off the hook. So now that your hangover has worked its way off, you might find another hangover when you ...

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ICANN has named David Olive Vice President of Policy Development Support. Olive ends his 20 year tenure at Fujitsu where he most recently was General Manager and Chief Corporate Representative in the Washington office and will join ICANN on February 15th, 2010. He has also served as a member of the ...

We try to point out anytime mainstream publications cover domain names and in a new post by BusinessWeek.com, they tell their readers to go get a .com “A dot-com extension is typically where customers will look for your company online, while you can use the dot-net or dot-biz extensions with y...

Three live domain name auctions in less than a week netted over $1.5 Million in sales from RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction, the no/low reserve DomainFest auction and the Premier DomainFest auction, now its time to weight in on what you thought was the best buy. I made some suggestions on the right wh...

Domain registrar shut down after not paying accreditation fees. ICANN has sent a notice of termination to New Orleans-based domain name registrar DomainCannon, citing a number of infractions. The registrar apparently owes $186,598.39 in past due accreditation fees. Additionally, it’s web si...

DN Journal has photos & highlights from the closing day of the DOMAINfest Global Conference that ended last night with a massive farewell party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Despite setting a very high standard in 3 previous shows, this year's DOMAINfest managed to exceed all expectations....

I was once an active Ebay domain seller. This was before I knew about domain forums, and I knew relatively little about other domain sales venues such as Snapnames. I did fairly well selling inexpensive domain names on Ebay, although I haven’t done so in quite some time. I want to share one ex...

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There has been much discussion in recent weeks on blogs, and even Jeff Kupietzky as part of his opening remarks from DomainFest noted that there is a huge surge of web activity from mobile devices and what the effect of navigation through mobile devices mean for the value of domains. Well in a post ...

Survey assesses most important aspects of domain name registrars. When it comes to choosing a domain name registrar to manage your domain assets, what’s the most important factor? It’s a question we’ve asked all five years of the Domain Name Wire Survey, and the results have been ...

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The live domain auction from Domainfest just closed with a total of $931,300 in sales by my count. LoanCalculator.com lead the way with $215K. Here are the unofficial results: $215,000 LoanCalculator.com $65,000 GolfLessons.com $50,000 PearlEarrings.com $45,000 Husband.com $45,000 Golf...

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction.  Unsold names will be sold in the extended online auction from 01/28 - 02/04 at 12:15 PM PT. As alwa...