The domain name CurrentAffairs.us will be auctioned off on Bido this week. CurrentAffairs.us, a great keyword domain for a news website or forum, will hit the auction block on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 around 12:30 pm EST. Link to the auction: http://www.bido.com/Auction?name=currentaffairs.us Bi...

Last Sunday I commented on DENIC releasing one- and two-letter domains as well as pure number domains, which were previously impossible to register. This Sunday I will have to comment on the actual results of the allocation process. As it stands now, 28% of all one- or two-letter domains that were c...

DENIC, the registry of Germany’s .DE top-level domain, has announced that it is going to make one- and two-letter .DE domains available for registration in a few days for the first time. In addition to these, it will then also be possible to register pure number domains such as 123.de, which, ...

I am a person who is interested in many things. Although this blog is clearly about domain names, I actually enjoy studying other subjects too, such as finance and economics, but do I write about them? Rarely. That is so because whenever I have written a post on something other than domain names, in...

Search engines have access to tons of valuable information, treasure troves full of clues to human behavior and what their millions of search engine users are up to. That is why the big search engines have great power even beyond their new role as brokers of advertising spaces on the Internet. Every...

Yahoo Search Marketing to change its payout algorithms and stop doing business with some of its direct partners. Overall, lower revenues for Yahoo’s pay-per-click advertising partners are expected. As has been reported by two blogs today, Domain Name Wire and Julia Mackenzie, Yahoo’s sea...

Domain auction company SnapNames sells close to $47,000 worth of domains in its September online auction. MillionaireDating.com is the highest sale at $15,000. As reported by Oversee.net’s public relations department, the SnapNames September showcase auction concluded today with a total of $46...

The question whether the length of domain registrations had an influence on search engine rankings or not has been around for a while. But so far none of the big search engine companies has given any firm advice on this subject. Today, however, I stumbled upon a post on Search Engine Land saying tha...

According to a company press release (German), the domain name Shopping.de was sold for €1,960,000 (~$2,800,000) in 2008. The domain was purchased by Unister GmbH, a company also operating other popular online portals such as News.de, Auto.de, Geld.de (”money”), Kredit.de (”credi...

In a startling move, the Swedish regulator PTS apparently has declared that it wants to ban the term “bank” from all domain names registered under the Swedish .SE top-level domain. It notified the .SE registry about its decision in a letter (PDF, Swedish) on August 27, 2009 and requested...

The two domain names ElkInsurance.com and HousesNorthwest.com are currently for sale in auctions on SnapNames. ElkInsurance.com is a domain that was originally registered in 1999, according to Archive.org. It was used by an insurance company offering animal insurance services for elk and deer. Provi...

I just received the newsletter including the latest WIPO decisions. Some prominent companies have won domain disputes again, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Burberry Limited. Both companies were able to achieve the transfer of the disputed domain names: Lufthansa won Lufthansa.com.au and Burberr...

ICANN is asking for comments from the public on its post-expiration domain name recovery practices. These policies regulate to what extent and how it should be possible for domain owners to recover their domain names after the expiration date. The public comment period was opened August 20 and ends ...

Kevin Wilson, ICANN’s Chief Financial Officer, made a post on ICANN’s blog yesterday saying the organization would provide more thorough financial information from now on. This is something that has long been asked for by the domain community, considering that ICANN is a not-for-profit o...

In an attempt to find out more about the practice of domain name front running, Internet security expert Benjamin Edelman conducted a domain front running study on behalf of ICANN. Front running is a term that was first coined in the world of finance, where it is used to refer to an illegal practice...

Well, that is what an ignorant wannabe domain buyer wrote after he lost an auction at SnapNames. Here comes the story: Apparently, the individual came across an appealing domain name which he saw was about to delete. He then did some research (including the reading of old articles from 2005) to find...

WebMediaBrands (NASDAQ: WEBM) has sold Internet.com to QuinStreet Inc. for $18 million in an all-cash deal. The sale is not just for the domain name but also includes the website behind it and all of its assets. WebMediaBrands still owns the popular MediaBistro.com, JustTechJobs.com and Graphics.co...

Dot Eco LLC is an organization campaigning for the .ECO top-level domain and it has the support of former presidential candidate Al Gore. Al Gore has supported several environmental causes over the years, he has been part of an Oscar-winning documentary about climate change and he has received the N...

TechCrunch reports today that when Amazon acquired Zappos in July for more than $900 million, it also bought intangible assets including various domain names. One of these acquired domain names is Clothes.com. According to Amazon’s SEC filing, Zappos had bought Clothes.com for $4.9 million fro...

The domain SecondLienLoan.com will be sold at auction on Bido today! Second Lien Loan (or last-out participation) is a form of loan with a security interest in the assets of a company that are second in ranking behind a traditional senior credit facility. A lien is a form of security interest grante...

The New York Times has published an interactive graph visualizing data from the latest American Time Use Study, which asked thousands of Americans to recall how they usually spend the 24 hours of a day. The graphic is cool, because the data can be broken down by gender, age, race, employment status ...

Sedo is now the exclusive broker of the Jets.com domain name, according to a company press release. As already reported by TheDomains.com, Jets.com has been put on the market after the company that owns it had been acquired. Apparently, the domain has not been part of that deal. It’s hard for ...

Mozilla’s popular Firefox web browser has reached one billion downloads today. Currently, the download counter stands at 1,000,066,665. The downloads have been counted since the release of the first official version of Firefox in November 2004. I was actually a happy user of Microsoft’s ...

As reported by Andrew from Domain Name Wire yesterday, Wikipedia has been redirecting searches for the terms “Domainer” and “Domaining” to its entry about cybersquatting. This shows once again what people from the outside think about the domain industry and the people making ...

Last week, it was the first time that I submitted domains to Bido. I can say that the submission process went very smoothly. I think Bido’s auction platform is one of the best I’ve used so far. Not only does the design look nice, but it also follows function. It was very easy to submit d...