I’m excited to say tomorrow night, March 16th, I’ll be in South Florida for another great Domainer meetup. The last meetup I attended was in December and I had a great time. This is a fantastic networking opportunity as there are a lot of domainers down south. Already confirmed to attend is ...

In the midst of many debates on how successful any extension can be other than a .com, Football.tv was launched. However, it is not referring to football as we know it in the U.S., it’s referring to soccer. It is commonly known that soccer is a crucial part of culture for some countries and Footba...

As reported in this week’s domain news episode 41, .xxx vote has been delayed. Previous Comic Strip: Geek Perfume Another .XXX Comic Strip: Domainer Comic Strip #2 ...

***CLOSED – Thank you, we now have all the beta testers we need. My partner and I are looking for 10 experienced domainers to become GoDrops.com beta testers. Beta testing will go from March 15th to March 29th, during which you will gain access to our full drop lists with statistics to make yo...

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost two months since my last weekly news video. I’ve been traveling a lot with the shows, meetings and just overall busy with projects. I hope to get back into doing the weekly videos starting today. Links: $750 In Prizes Just To Register Domain N...

I do! Honestly I don’t know enough about ccTLDs so I’m glad to see that my good friend Morgan Linton of MorganLinton.com has launched a new blog, ccTLDinvestors.com. The online magazine was created to specifically discuss ccTLDs. In addition, Morgan recently released a ccTLD only newslet...

Yesterday I had the opportunity of being interviewed for Moniker’s Domain Master radio show by Victor Pitts. We discussed information about my first conference and the domain industry’s first conference on a boat, DNCruise.com. Thank you to Victor Pitts, Moniker and Webmaster Radio. To l...

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...

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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...