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As our man on the ground reports the two PitchFEST 2 winners were Chad Folkening with his Rapid Domain Builder as voted by the judges David Liu (Jefferies & Company Inc.), Douglas McPherson (Idealab), Richard Morganstern (Tech Coast Angels) and Root Orange won the people’s choice award. Th...

The second day at DOMAINfest was a blast. We were very excited about the Keynote from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com. Here at Name.com we share a lot of the same philosophies on company culture and using good customer service to help build your brand. It was an amazing keynote and so much of what Ton...

GAC asks to postpone expressions of interest for new top level domain names. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is asking ICANN to delay a decision on the so-called “Expressions of Interest” process for new top level domain names. In a letter dated January 26, GAC Chairman Janis ...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Photos & highlights from Day 2 at the DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica, California. Includes Zappos.com Founder Tony Hsieh's keynote and a dinner party at The Getty art museum where Barbi Benton was among the guests....

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Substantial and unmistakable signs of profound change in the global strategic framework have become concrete in the past year. The stress in the structure has already developed into fissures. The transformation, in reality, has been underway since the end of the Cold War, and will continue and compo...

One ad banned, but others approved. Phew, that was a close call. GoDaddy’s media strategy around Super Bowl ads was almost thrown into the air as CBS approved some of its risque ads. Without a banned or censored ad, that would mean less pre-game media coverage. But thanks to “LolaR...

Domainers dress up for The Getty. When you think of domainers at a party, the last thing you think of is viewing Rembrandts. But that’s exactly what they did at Wednesday night’s DOMAINfest party at The Getty in Los Angeles. Hundreds of domainers made the trip to The Getty, arriving ...

NBC (LA) is reporting that the website of Rep. John Campbell has been redirecting traffic for the last 3-4 months to his opponent, Beth Krom. A typo on Campbells “Join The Resistance” webpage went to CampbellforCongres.com (one “s” and not two), which was paid for by Krom. Kr...

I’ve recently dived back into some domain research after much too long of a break and have chosen a select 42 quality .COM domain names that have recently expired and become available to register. Here’s your chance to get into the domain game! Yes, the domain names listed below can be ...

New video on the Bido.com homepage, replacing our old Flash page. Check it out, let us know what you think! ...

The live auction at Domainfest will be held Thursday January 28th starting at 2pm PST. There are over 250 live domains selected for the auction. Remote bidding is available on SnapNames.com but you have to have an account and download the software in advance. (the software does not work on a Mac ope...

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Interesting to say the least is the post by TechCrunch today that Apple does not own even 1 iPad related domain name. As you know by know Apple chose to name its tablet the iPad rather than the long rumored iSlate, even through it owned islate.com The fact that Apple went with the name of the produc...

How many times do you get an incoming link using your website name? To succeed with a website these days, you must have plenty of good quality inbound links with good anchor text. This is where many websites fall down and fail to get the organic traffic they could potentially get. But how do you [.....

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This is a live post of Tony Hsieh’s fireside chat at DOMAINfest…updating. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com gave a keynote fireside chat with Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky. Hsieh founded LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft. He then invested in and joined Zappos.com, which he sold t...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com:Opening day photos & highlights from DOMAINfest Global in Santa Monica, California. Everything from the Pitchfest that kicked off the show through last night's colorful dinner party featuring a Colombian dance troupe that brought everyone to their feet....

After considerable speculation and discussion, Steve Jobs introduced the new Apple iPad today in a press conference that received much fanfare. The iPad is a device that is a new category of computing systems that bridges the gap between the iPhone smartphone and the Macbook laptop. If history is an...

MissDomain is organizing a charity auction for the earthquake victims in Haiti based on the initiative and idea of Internetsweden. The auction will include .NU (country of Niue) domains, which are sold worldwide. According to the announcement the ownership of the domains will be free, since the regi...

With the recent news about Geosign Spin-Off Moxy Media, we also came across news about Restaurantica, a restaurant review website that was originally started in 2003 by Ryan May and sold to eMedia, which is owned by Geosign’s founder Tim Nye. Ryan May has sinced moved on and is working on his ...

by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males & Patrick Carleton [Editor's note: this is a guest article about the potential of IDN geo domain names.] We’ve long been believers in GeoDomains and continue to be on the lookout for new and lucrative niches, which is why we have each individually made subst...

Yahoo reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues were $1,732 million for the fourth quarter of 2009, exceeding the top end of the Company’s business outlook range. Revenues decreased 4% from the fourth quarter of 2008 and increased 10% fro...