Surprisingly, there are 13 LL.com domains that are about to expire. How soon? Well, in less than 40 days. Generally speaking, it’s good to renew your valuable domains for several years in advance; the benefits are multiple: Registration security until a future expiration Taking advantage of t...

Over the course of the past 18 months I’ve moved the majority of my domain portfolio over to Fabulous.com and I couldn’t have been happier. I’ve written before why I think Fabulous is *the* best domain registrar catering to domainers. This time around, I will discuss an important ...

Quite often, I wonder if my definition of quality customer service is too demanding but the answer comes back as a flat “no”. Having used the services of many companies over the years – from retail to banks – I can honestly say that I’m just an average Joe with regards ...

The announcement by the Library of Congress that it has acquired the entire Twitter database of messages – several billions of it – might seem like trivial to some. In fact, the only trivial thing I can think of, is that if you tweet, you can now consider yourself officially published. N...

I do not define a man’s worth by their accomplishments in life. It’s not who they are and what have achieved; what matters to me is how they got there and how they stand, as people, if their title and status were to be stripped off. Mike Mann is well known for his domain portfolio, inve...

This is the kind of news that you will be hearing a lot for the days to come, especially on its launch today. Rick Latona effectively changes the paradigm of delivering a list of domains for sale: the domains are now placed on a 24-hour auction, with the clock ticking as soon as the newsletter notif...

In all honesty, I can’t recall how it all started with web development; I vaguely recall using Wordpad on Windows 3.11 Maybe because I’m about to push mid-4o’s or perhaps because it doesn’t really matter. There are things that one fails to register, for good. At some point, h...

Upon hearing the news that fellow domainer Adam Strong sold CamRoulette.com for $151,000 its previous owner could not believe he let it go for a mere $1,400 just a few weeks earlier. It happens all the time. In the domain business, there are no if’s and but’s that can take you to the nex...

It’s quite ironic issuing this statement; as a web developer I am supposed to be pushing everyone around me to develop, build, create. Right? While this is true in small quantities, when a domain is truly one project that derives its potential from its owner’s imagination and vision, dev...

A day can be as busy as we make it. From the moment we wake up, until the time we turn our brain into ’sleep mode’, the interaction with events, obligations, projects and other such business functions is a continuum that we rarely dare interrupt. During prolonged periods of time when we...

Often times, I wish we could see Hollywood producing films with titles that are longer than a couple of words, so that any sane person would never type the .com in their browser. This would probably lead to less domain squatting of movie titles. Surely, ClashOfTheTitans.com is receiving some insan...

It seems that Sedo.com has run into a potential issue when it comes down to managing domain pushes at Fabulous.com Several domainers complained that once instructed to push a domain to the Sedo account as part of a sale, they are faced with a message at Fabulous, stating that the Sedo account is ...

Domain Name News wrote yesterday about the current sale of a trademark for “Sex.Sex” on eBay by its owner, as the best contender to an adult gTLD, with potentially a higher chance of approval than the much-despised .xxx Although the sale is based on pure speculation – there is no g...

I’ve used Windows since the 3.x days and back then my trustworthy 386 SX with 8Mb of RAM never complained when I simply pulled the ON/OFF switch. Then again, the Internet screamed at 9600 bps on a dial-up modem, all while browsing the “world wide web” meant I’d have to wait s...

How sad is it that I am making this statement, typing from my home office, with a multitude of technology gadgets surrounding me? And yet, if I step outside this room, reality should tell me that the invisible wires to the outside world should still be there. Wrong. An hour of Internet downtime ear...

A little over a year ago I started consolidating my domain names at a single registrar. At that time, I decided to use Fabulous.com for a number of obvious reasons: low pricing, extensive backend to manage the domains, great tech support. As time passed by, I still have domains in a handful of other...

Humans are somehow obsessed with dates and numbers. Since the early days of cave-dwelling, counting the goods we owned has apparently instilled a certain level of instinctive focus on numbers: how many, how often, when. When it comes down to domains and domain portfolios, renewal dates are effective...

I’m often amazed at the type of content slated as “development” with the usual tags of “minisite”, “stores” and “portals”. Often a euphemism for graphic headers slapped on an interface that lacks intuition, those design atrocities are presented t...

A month ago I wrote about how you can effectively remove unauthorized content from web sites, under the threat of a DMCA notice. The process is simple, straightforward and as long as you provide the necessary information to the legal department of the host providing the server space, it will work re...

When I sent my first email while in college in the late 80’s, we didn’t even call them such. They were “network messages“; few of us had access to the gateway that would send these messages outside of the local network and into the wild unknown. In fact, there was nothing of ...

There are millions of hearing-impaired people around the world that cannot enjoy the goodies offered on YouTube and other web sites. Now, there is hope and it takes your participation to do it. ...

I’m a big fan of Pauly Shore. From the era of MTV to Encino Man, Son in Law, In the Army Now to Jury Duty and the mega-flop Bio-Dome, Pauly Shore often appeared next to other up and coming Hollywood comedians. The 40-something comedian’s career abruptly stalled in the mid 90’s. The...

I’ve been writing essays and stories since I was five or six years old. During the past 35 years, I’ve used my ability to form words into intelligent passages for a number of purposes: winning contests, writing books, engaging in journalism in both English and my native language of Greek...

In my very early days as a domainer, not having much feedback or guidance from experienced professionals, I thought it was cool that I had registered the .com of an existing company that for some odd reason chose to use the .net So nonchalantly, I did the obvious: contacted them and offered it for s...

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...