The economy might be bad but there is one piece of the industry that remains solid and healthy in its revenue: the gaming industry. I won’t bore you with the usual news about gaming domains acquired by domain investors to build gaming portals – we all know that Bill Karamouzis is the #1 ...

It was in late September, 2005 that I heard of MillionDollarHomepage.com – an odd project of a financially-strapped college freshman from England, Alex Tew. The Million Dollar Homepage project started on this day five years ago – August 26, 2005 – with the intent of collecting one ...

That quote from the 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski always cracks me up. Perhaps, because it’s one of the funniest movies of the late 20th century. Also, because the quote is perfectly usable when one expects a large amount of money and it doesn’t arrive regardless of any inquiries and atte...

Apparently, domain sales at TRAFFIC Dublin weren’t that great. Objectively speaking, compared to DomainFest’s recent record sales, the TRAFFIC Dublin auction results were pitiful. But really, who cares? While it’s important for the conference organizers to make money from auctionin...

Since the introduction of the so-called “social media” Internet users are spending increasingly higher amounts of time being “social” online. Which translates, of course, to less real-life socializing. Regardless of whether your friends, buddies, followers or readers share th...

The overall state of the economy might be bad but only to those that have not been careful with their investments. Another thing to consider is the management of credit. If you’ve been negligent in the past, you probably noticed a series of changes in your line of credit. Most credit card issu...

I’ll be darned, I am in total shock. It seems that both Beyonce Knowles and Nicole Kidman died today. That’s what the emails said. What emails? The ones I got earlier. Wait a second, what do you mean by “spam”? You don’t believe everything that’s being discussed o...

Some rumor about Owen Frager leaving blogging and domaining behind made me worry for a while. After all, Owen is an “old timer” that precedes the digital era that many current entrepreneurs and developers were born into. In fact, Owen isn’t going anywhere and the whole thing was an...

Yesterday I witnessed an example of Sedo’s efficiency in completing domain transactions on their marketplace, at Sedo.com With $23 million in domain sales during the first quarter of 2010, Sedo remains the #1 place to buy and sell domains in the secondary market. But back to the sale of a two-...

Those of you that had the patience to read through my exceptionally long post about the stolen domain names jis.com, leading.net, southeast.net and jaxnet.com – should be delighted with the news. The domains have been returned to their rightful owner, Karl Renaut and are now in his possession ...

Many discounted Sylvester Stallone when he produced ‘Rocky’ – the 3 Oscars it received in 1976 was perhaps a lucky strike, as the release of blockbuster ‘Star Wars’ had been delayed by 6 months. And yet, that was four years before the 70′s ended – which incl...

After last week’s revelation about the stolen domain names, jis.com, leading.net, southeast.net and jaxnet.com, I had a phone conversation with domain investor and developer, Elliot Silver. My call breakdown shows that our conversation lasted for one hour and forty minutes and it was the first...

Living so close to the Space Coast has its benefits; every time there is a shuttle launch I can view it, whether it is day or night. NASA is a space agency with its main facilities in Florida and California and in other locations such as Texas, but here at the Kennedy Space Center is [...]...

Data is far from insufficient, but still, the equation does not compute. As I’ve written many times before, numbers cannot be disputed. And the numbers about .tel are saying that there is zero growth in that TLD. While 200k .tel domains were registered between launch to mid-summer of last year...

If you thought that the incident I reported about the stolen domains jis.com, Leading.net, Southeast.net and Jaxnet.com is isolated, you’d better guess again. While that case involved the acquisition of FloridaDigital.net on Namejet in order to gain unlawful access to jis.com and eventually th...

Here’s the summary for the impatient: The domains jis.com, Leading.net, Southeast.net and Jaxnet.com are currently in the hands of a person who took control of a managing domain’s account and impersonated its owner. I’m sure you want the juicy details, so please bear with me for a ...

Perhaps I have high expectations from people; I engage in communications with a polite, friendly tone. When someone makes several attempts to get in touch, I assume they are looking for dialogue, not mud-wrestling. Alas, this is often quite far from the truth. Yesterday, I received a call from the o...

The incidents are too many to list; I experienced and often pointed out – in my blog and on forums – several circumstances of stolen domains throughout the years. Some of them were reclaimed by their legitimate owners. Others, well – they are still being offered for sale on auction...

GoDaddy is the biggest domain registrar today, with 40 million domain names under their control. Bob Parsons started small but by 2001 they were already growing by leaps and bounds, having thousands of customers. Having registered my first domains with GoDaddy in December of 2000, it didn’t ta...

After a few months of research – not to mention, arguments with my wife at that time – I registered my first domain in February of 1997. Until then, researching domains for availability was a passtime; the kind of window shopping that was fun back then – and a realization of wasted...

A lot of late-night activity yesterday in the domainer blogosphere. Incredible as it may seem, Shane of DomainShane.com kept a long distance runner’s strategy on the rest of us. Owen Frager, Rick Schwartz, Fusible and I, we all finished last in the Domaining.com ratings. A job well done, my vi...

I like Owen Frager – for what he stands: old school, corporate and surrounded by the laurels of a career spanning several decades. In fact, I dedicated to him – via DomainGang – an entire article: “10 reasons why we like Frager Factor“. But lately, Owen seems to have be...

When I sent my first international email to Illinois, it felt unreal receiving an answer back within minutes. Despite one’s technological background, this kind of instant communication was brand new in the late 80′s and early 90′s. In today’s world, email seems so trivial and...

One of the lessons I learned during the past decade as a domain owner, is that money takes its sweet-ass time to reach your destination - if you simply sit and wait for it. As long as you wait for the moolah, sitting on your behind until it somehow knocks on your door be prepared [...]...

There’s a new generation of domain professionals that is quietly and diligently working. The old guard can’t view them as a potential threat; they are not considered “worthy” of any serious achievement. As with everything else that arrived with a big, orange blast on a quiet ...