Last week I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes. Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who will receive a $500 Name.com account cr...

While looking at Sedo.com today I noticed the sale of MusicVideos.com for $250,000. MusicVideos.com was previously owned by DNStination, Inc which purchased the domain name from Yahoo, Inc mid to late 2009. DNStination either owns or has sold domains like iSlate.com, Me.com and Z1.com. The current w...

During DOMAINfest in January I had an opportunity to chat with my friend Tony Kanakaris about a new project he was working on. After further development and beta testing Tony officially released SocialDomainers.com yesterday. In his own words Tony says… SocialDomainers.com is the Facebook for...

Earlier today an attendee for my upcoming conference, DNCruise.com, paid for their pass through PayPal. When I received the payment I noticed no fees were taken out of my account. I asked the payee if they used mass pay and to my surprise they said no. Instead, they were given the option to pay the ...

Press Release .CO Founders Program Launches to Engage Early Adopters, Proactively Develop Domain Extension MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– .CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co), a new company formed by Arcelandia S.A., a wholly-owned Colombian company, and U.S. company Neustar, Inc., today ann...

Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com just reported the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 by Moniker. I knew a deal was going to get done on this domain name. It was up for sale during DOMAINfest’s last auction in January and was very close to the reserve. Guns.com $800,000 Google Search: not listed on fir...

Women, are you feeling left out? Is your domainer husband ignoring you? Fix that problem today, get this brand new perfume. Your man will be sure to pay attention to the new smelling you. Click on the comic strip to enlarge. Previous Comic Strip: Show Us Your Boobs ...

As many of you have already read on multiple blogs, I have launched my own domain industry conference which will be held on a cruise ship this coming October. This will make for our industry’s first ever conference on a boat! Thank you to the following people for their coverage of DNCruise: Do...

On Monday I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes. Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who will receive a $500 Name.com account cr...

This auction has closed and the results are listed at the bottom of this post. LuxuryNames two day auction is coming to an end today at 3pm EST. So far there are three bids on three different domain names, dartmouthhotels.com $525, graduateprograms.org $2600 and graduatedegrees.org $2600. Still ava...

The highly anticipated second DOMAINfest show has been announced. Actually I have not received any official word on this, I’m going off their DOMAINfest.com website. The event will be held at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. It begins October 6th, 2010 and end October 7t...

LuxuryNames.com is holding another auction! In fact, it started earlier today. It opened up today, March 2nd, and will end on Thursday, March 4th at 3:15 EST. The auction itself is being held at SnapNames.com. These domain names stood out for me as I browsed the list: BallerinaShoes.net Chandeliers....

Press Release Atlanta, Georgia USA – March 2, 2010 – Targeted TRAFFIC is gearing up for its first 2010  European show, which will be held on April 27th-29th 2010 in Milan, Italy. Milan is the largest metropolitan area in Italy with an estimated population of 7.4 million. The city has the larges...

On Friday I announced my first domain name sales newsletter was going out on Monday of which I asked for domain submissions. Well, I received around 90 emails with about 1,000 domain names for consideration. I still have not had the opportunity to sort through them all. I wanted to share with everyo...

Press Release LIKE YOUR NAME? HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO OWN IT ONLINE More Than 300 Names & Surnames Up for Grabs in the Next .ME Auction Podgorica, Montenegro – March 2, 2010 – The .ME Registry and NameJet announced the Internet’s largest online auction of personal names today. If you’ve ...

You all know I love a good contest! Here is one from Name.com created exclusively for my ChefPatrick.com readers. In case you haven’t heard already, to celebrate .com’s 25th anniversary Name.com is running a special this month on their .com, .net and .me extensions. If you register any of th...

While at the recent Domainer Mardi Gras show all I wanted to see was the ladies dot com portfolios. Awesome conference, I’ll be back next year! Previous Comic Strip: Proud Irishman Changing To .ie ...

Sedo posted the sale of Metal.com for $165,000 on their website yesterday. Whois history records show the previous owner as Wayne Lazarus of JZJ, LLC which has owned the domain name for at least the last 6+ years. Wayne may have owned the domain name longer, but whois history is only showing records...

Coming this Monday I will re-launch my domain name newsletter. I say re-launch because I attempted to make a go at this in September, but found quickly I did not have the extra time on my hands to sort through emails, offers and publish a newsletter. What has changed since is I have hired a [...]...

The following is a combination of two press releases published today for the upcoming GeoDomain Expo. The GeoDomain Expo will be held at The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 28 through April 30. St. Louis, MO, February 23, 2009.  Staying true to the spirit of holding the annual Ge...

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...

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? ...

WOW…a .org domain name has sold for $1 million!!! Sedo not only sold this year’s first million doallar sale, but also broke the record for the highest .org domain name ever sold. Poker.org $1,000,000 Google Search: not listed on first three pages. Google Page Rank: 0 Compete.com Traffic...

WOW…a .org domain name has sold for $1 million!!! Sedo not only sold this year’s first million doallar sale, but also broke the record for the highest .org domain name ever sold. Poker.org $1,000,000 Google Search: not listed on first three pages. Google Page Rank: 0 Compete.com Traffic...

As reported earlier on several domaining blogs, Sex.com is heading to foreclosure auction on March 18th. One quick note, in order to bid you must be prepared to put down a $1 million deposit. For more details visit the auctioneers auction page. So the question is… How much do you think the d...