Since my background is in the direct marketing business, I pay attention to infomercials and other marketing efforts specifically to analyze the execution. Some of these commercials (maybe most) are cheesy, but everything from dialog, domains, actors, and product placement has a purpose. The domain ...

I have heard too many horror stories on the forums that domain thief’s have been able to log in to a customers account and transfer domain names out without permission. With the abundance of internet fraud I tend to look for companies that offer extra security features. For instance, I love my...

Registry wants to offer name.xxx later this year. After winning an independent review against ICANN for denying ICM Registry’s application for a .xxx top level domain name, the registry says it hopes to begin offering .xxx domain names later this year. It has already opened up a process on i...

As of this writing, the RollingStone.com website has become a Network Solutions domain parking page.  Gawker Media first pointed out that the music industry website was no longer active. I know what you are thinking, the domain expired and NSI took it over.  WRONGO!  The domain doesn’t expi...

The owners of PokerCompany.com made history last week when they purchased Poker.org for $1 million, by far the highest price ever reported for a .org domain. We have learned that they also paid the second highest price ever reported for a .org domain in the previously unannounced sale we are reporti...

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Domain company plants flag in Texas. Last month I hinted that a domain name company was on its way to Austin. Now it’s official: domain parking and sales company NameDrive has set up shop in the capital of Texas. The company has leased space north of Austin, which it is currently readying fo...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets low marks. The percentage of people rating ICANN’s performance as “Good” has hit its lowest point since Domain Name Wire started its annual survey five years ago. In the fifth survey, including responses from over ...

Verisign, the registry provider for .com and .net, has released their domain industry brief today. The report can be found in PDF format here. Some of the highlights of the report include: -  At the end of 2009 there were 192 million domain name registrations across all TLDs, an increase of nearly ...

DNCruise sets sail this October. The domain name industry is getting its first floating domain name conference — a cruise this October. Patrick Ruddell of ChefPatrick.com is organizing DNCruise, taking off from Miami October 11. The cruise will make stops in Key West, Florida and Cozumel, Me...

Let’s face it; Selling is not an easy job. To sell, you not only have to have what someone wants, you also have to price it right. You sometimes have to beat the alternatives, and surely you need an audience to sell to. Who would object to having some help with marketing their domains that are...

Survey finds little support among domain community. Support for ICANNs “current plan” of introducing new top level domain names is still limited — although the ice may be thawing. In the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 26% of respondents said they were in favor of ICANN’...

According to the new VeriSign released its State Of The Industry Report for the 4th Quarter today, (pdf) the Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 and wound up the year at more than 192 Million domains. New registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 came in at ...

A lot of people do not realize this but for a while now Google has been taking into account a website’s domain extension and the brower’s location when displaying search Read more »...

If you are in the Atlanta area, we are throwing a party at our office on Thursday the 25th of February and we would love for you to come. In fact, if you aren’t in the Atlanta area and want to come, you are welcome too! The food and drinks are on us of course. There’s no [...]...

Domain names registered for attack on global warming. Looks like the Republicans — perhaps the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) — are getting ready to ask the question “Who Cares About Global Warming?” WhoCaresAboutGlobalWarming.com, .net, and .org were all...

…for some domains, anyway. A lot of the talk around new top level domain names is the lack of pricing controls on providers. A company that launches a new TLD can set prices however they wish, and owners of existing TLDs worry that this idea would then be applied to their domains. Have a su...

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Many in the domain community think that companies in the space do not try to reach out to “End Users” or non-domain tech companies enough. However this week several company’s from the domain space are attending the Parallels Summit here in South Beach. Speaking at the conference in...

For quite some time, when you did a Whois lookup using DomainTools, you had the ability to click a little flag icon to monitor the domain name you were looking up. You could monitor for Whois changes, Nameserver changes, Registration changes, and maybe a few other things. Recently, I tried to monito...

As many of you already know I am a proud Irishman. So to honor my heritage I have decided to change ChefPatrick.com to ChefPatrick.ie. Click on the image to enlarge. PS…No I’m not really changing extensions! Previous comic strip: Does Your Family Miss You? ...

About a month ago I wrote a post about my plans to attend 3 trade shows in 3 weeks. When I first planned on hitting all three shows, TRAFFIC Vegas, DomainFest and Domainer Mardi Gras, I thought to myself there was going to be a lot of repetition, lots of the same people, lots more of the same. But i...

Domain owner sues pool equipment company to block transfer after unfavorable WIPO ruling. Earlier this month we wrote about a WIPO panel awarding the domain name Hayward.com to a pool company called Hayward Industries, even though Hayward.com is the name of a city in California and the domain didn&...

Spam sucks. I know it, you know it. We all do. It’s bad for business, and being associated with spam in any way can hurt your business too. We tend to Read more »...

According to TechCrunch, Norwegian tech companies Aspiro and Platekompaniet are launching a music streaming service for Norwegian users. The service “is launching with streaming deals with over 20 content providers for over 6.5 million songs, including the four major record companies and a num...