The DN Journal reports that the Ask.com division Ask Sponsored Listings, which is an IAC company, has acquired domain monetization company Sendori. Founded in August 2006, Sendori is a relatively new service acting as a middle-man between owners of premium type-in domains and advertisers looking to ...

FreshDrop is a service that makes it easy to find quality domain names that are for sale on the major domain marketplaces and drop services. It’s really a very useful tool for analyzing a large number of domains so you can then extract and buy only the best of them. For example, on FreshDrop y...

Today I received an email from Mike Robertson at Fabulous saying that the videos of the speeches from the TRAFFIC Down Under 2008 conference have been made available for everyone to watch. The videos can be found at http://www.trafficdownunder.com/news.htm. I should note that the site seems to work ...

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/ebay-we-booted-shady-typosquatter-from-our-affiliate-network-in-november-ebay-amzn Again, here comes negative press for the domain industry, and it’s due to Kevin Ham. The Silicon Alley Insider reports on the Amazon.cm typo domain name which is being forwarde...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6338b00-dddb-11dd-87dc-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 As reported by the Financial Times in the article linked above, Microsoft (MSFT) is again (or perhaps still) interested in Yahoo’s search business (YHOO). Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, told the FT that the so...

Short announcement: Domain news site DNKitchen.com is no more. As of today you will find it under the new name ChefPatrick.com. The owner and main contributor to the former DN Kitchen website, Patrick, decided to rebrand his blog. Some of you may already know him by the name “Chef Patrick̶...

Today I received an email from the MyLink500 LinkedIn group that I’ve been a member of. The group is going to rebrand under what may be the best domain name for this purpose: OpenNetworker.com. An open networker is a person who will accept all invitations to connect to further grow her network...

Online dating website Match.com is going the free-way: In addition to its paid service, it has launched a free online dating service under the domain name DownToEarth.com. Apparently, it became too difficult to compete with the many free dating sites on the Internet, especially with the widely popul...

The domain industry of 2008 has been significantly different from last year’s industry. A lot has changed, not only within our industry but in the economy in general. To speak the truth, it has become more difficult to make money in domain investing. Domain registration fees are on the rise, parki...

This just in via the Google AdSense blog: Extending AdSense for domains to all publishers Many publishers have approached us looking for a way to monetize their domains, and today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of AdSense for domains. This product allows publishers to earn revenue th...

I’d like to thank Guy Kawasaki and Neenz Faleafine for having added a domain name category to the popular AllTop.com news aggregation site! The listing of domain-related news feeds on Alltop will help further promote the domain business. Also, thank you to everyone who submitted the blog feeds...

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/media/2008_11_05_historic_election_day_sets_traffic_records.html According to this GigaOM article on CNN Money, yesterday’s presidential election has set a traffic record as people from all over the world went to news websites in search for the latest...

Today, one day after I wrote about Google and Yahoo having modified the terms of their search advertising partnership, Google officially announced on its blog that it would end the agreement with Yahoo. Google justifies its decision with the ongoing criticism from government regulators and some of i...

Web search leaders Google and Yahoo have formulated and submitted a new agreement outlining their advertising partnership to the U.S. Justice Department. The companies have been subject of discussion due to Google gaining too much power in the competitive online search market, hence the Justice Depa...

AOL unveiled its new When.com project this morning. It’s a search engine for local events. The media company already owns some other websites for local content, including MapQuest and AOL CityGuide. When.com automatically recognizes where you’re located when you go to the website, but mo...

For the past few weeks I’ve been watching the stock market - not in fear, but in amazement. Before you continue reading you should know that I’m based in Germany, so lots of what I’m saying here is directly related to what I perceive to be the current economic situation in Europe, ...

The much-anticipated TRAFFIC Down Under domain name conference will be held on Australia’s Gold Coast November 18-20, as I’ve been told by Dan Warner of Fabulous.com. This will be the first time that there is a TRAFFIC show outside the United States. Dan, Michael Robertson and others fro...

Intellectual property and domain law firm Traverse Legal has launched a new UDRP search engine, as pointed out to me by Traverse Legal attorney Enrico Schaefer. The search engine can be found at DomainFight.net. DomainFight.net comes in pretty handy, because it is a tool that allows you to search bo...

Earlier this week Pizza Hut announced that it would definitely be rebranding itself as Pasta Hut in the United Kingdom. But despite the vast spendings on the advertising and rebranding efforts, the company apparently forgot to register or buy the Pasta Hut name under all major generic top-level doma...

Forbes released the new list of America’s most expensive ZIP codes, which the company compiled by looking at the median sales prices of homes in those areas. From a domainer’s perspective, it is interesting to note that Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) does not own many of those ZIP codes, althoug...