National Public Radio now count themselves as having the tiniest shortened URL for use on Twitter and other social media sites. The organization announced their new domain N.PR yesterday on their blog. The company had been using Stumble Upon’s  Su.pr url shortener on most of their Twitter acc...

The .ME registry has partnered with NameJet yet again to offer up another batch of .ME domains at auction. This time it’s personal . . . as in personal names.  The list of 300 domains includes some of the most popular first and last names such as Adam.Me,  Michelle.Me, OConnor.Me, and Smith....

John Zuccarini is back in the news fighting against the collection of a judgment by DS Holdings . DSH has been assigned a judgment by Office Depot from 2000 and is seeking to collect by seizing domain names.  Zuccarini was found guilty of cybersquatting on Office Depot’s trademark with the do...

Congratulations go out to DNN’s good friends Joe Higgins and Jessica Besseling who are now proud parents. Joe and Jessica have been long-time employees with Oversee.net (Jessica also worked with DDC.com). According to Joe “Baby Gia was born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on Thursday, Fe...

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  Gawker Media first pointed out that the music industry website was no longer active.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...

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 ...

I found an interesting  product today while searching for some domain news articles.  It’s Domain, the men’s fragrance by Mary Kay. Mary Kay describes the fragrance :  “Wrap him in the scent of hearth and home with Domain® Cologne Spray. He’s a breath of fresh air and so ...

In the ongoing drama that is Sex.com another major twist in the story has occurred. Sex.com has now been listed at Maltz Autctions as an asset to be sold at a foreclosure auction.  Elliot Silver scooped the legal documents listing the domain name, the loan agents, as well as the investors involved....

As reported earlier on TechCrunch , National A1 Advertising has sold the domain Poker.org for $1 million to poker company PokerCompany.com . The transaction is cited as the highest recorded .org sale price.  PokerCompany.com runs a portfolio of other non-.com domains including Craps.net, BlackJack....

TechDirt covered a unique twist in domain name disputes last week.  Pet Holdings, Inc, the company behind wildly popular websites such as Icanhascheezburger.com, FailBlog.org and Failbooking.com, sued the owner of the domain name FailBook.com because the owner framed PHI’s FailBooking.com sit...

DNN’s own Frank Michlick will be the featured guest on tonight’s show of Domain Masters with Victor Pitts on Webmasterradio.fm . Check it out ! (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auctions ...

Now that the Super Bowl game’s “Brand Bowl” is finished, the polls and opinions are popping up everywhere. This year there seems to be a lot more  reactions and buzz bubbling on the internet, more so than in year’s past, thanks in part to social media sites. Who had the clev...

Over the last few months, SnapNames.com has been conducting monthly auctions and even private party auctions with varying results.  The recent monthly showcase auction, which ended yesterday (January 19th), concluded with the companies best result of  nearly $150,000 in domains sold. The January s...

A few months back I wrote about the charitable work many domain name companies and individual domain investors are involved in supporting.   Now I’m going to ask YOU to consider stepping up to the plate and help a charity.  The beauty of it . . . it costs you NOTHING except a few minutes of...

DomainFest is less than 2 weeks away and there will be plenty of networking and big name speakers at the event. If you can’t get your fill at Domainfest though, there’s even more going on in LA that might be of interest to you as well.  Wednesday and Thursday Los Angeles will also be ho...

A story in Dallas that made headlines regarding a massive cyber-criminal ring that defrauded telecommunications companies of millions of dollars, has also shed some light on a little cited provision in US law that involves domain names. According to the Dallas Morning News , a group of 19 defendants...

Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name  is “confusi...

Kevin Ohashi, a domainer and student, recently won the Venture Cup Syd business plan competition in Sweden.  Ohashi, who is studying for his second Masters in International Marketing and Brand Management at Lund University, won the top prize for student business plans and another top 10 recognition...

Dark Blue Sea [DBS:AX] and Photon Group [PGA:AX] announced today that several DBS board members have resigned.  The director resignations come from Richard Moore, former CEO and most recently Executive Director, Vernon Wills, Chairman of the Board and Joseph Ganim, Director.  Duncan Cornish has al...

In a joint press release issued today, domain name company Dark Blue Sea [ASX:DBS]  and Photon Group [ASX:PGA] announced Photon’s unconditional buyout offer of DBS shares at 35 cents per share. The company made a previous takeover offer at the end of October for 30 cents per share and explain...

According to a report on the Quintura.com blog, the domain name Russia.com was sold today for $1.5 million. The former owners New Media Holdings sold the domain through Sedo.com. The sale was also reported on Sedo’s home page today. The seller, New Media Holdings, also owns other country domai...

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in a press release today that Union, New Jersey resident Daniel Goncalves was indicted today.  Criminal Justice Director Deborah Gramiccioni stated that the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes/Computer Analysis & Technology Unit obtained ...

We didn’t have to wait long for a class action to be filed. As we posted earlier it was just a matter of time before the sharks bit. The weekend gave Cueto Law Group and their lead plaintiff Carlos A. Cueto enough time to put together a filing against SnapNames. Andrew at DNW and I were having...

It didn’t take long for the sharks to begin circling. It’s come to our attention that class action attorneys already smelling blood in the water have begun investigating the possibility of a class-action case against SnapNames.  Blim & Edelson, Chicago based class-action attorneys, ...

On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo, domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.  The domains will be made available in a phased release b...