The CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz,  in speaking on a possible deal with Microsoft said today at the Bank of America U.S. Technology conference: “I personally think we’d be better off if we never heard the word Microsoft” Bartz went on to day that a search deal between Yahoo and Micros...

A friend (non-domainer) sent me this e-mail joke, that is making thecircuit around the net called: “10 Worst Company Domains” Of course each of these domains really does exist for the purpose explained, but all have double meanings. In the spirit of the TRAFFIC show being held in Amsterd...

The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) has just released its statement regarding the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal of the trademark group making up the IRT committee of ICANN. Yesterday we published a post, discussing  the IRT committee and their proposals to increase protection for ...

The Wall Street Journal today published an article entitled, Entrepreneurs Pack Up and Go Home, which talks about a trend of small businesses abandoning their brick and mortar businesses, unable to afford the rent and overhead, and going online. One such person is quoted as saying in support of clos...

In the almost 300 page report of the comments received on the new gTLD  guidebook version 2, the issue of most concern to domain holders, is still on the table. Despite many comments, including ours, calling for ICANN to place price caps on registries for the new gTLD’s for registrations and ...

Trademark holders, unhappy with UDRP’s, a system under which they already have over a 85% win rate, formed a group, The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which was given committee status by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency “to give additional protection to tradema...

The domain Camilla.com sold for $16,100 on NameJet.com another great name for Mrs Jello. There are over 18 million reference to this name on Google. The second highest bidder went by the bidder id of camillacorp, which could have been the clothing company from Australia whose site is at camilla.com....

According to TechCrunch,  Facebook will announce later this week that they will allow users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page. At a date and time, to be announced, the landrush will begin and users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice. The Landrush rules will...

We all talk about it. For years and years now. Getting big business to understand the value of domains. Getting the Fortune 500 to “get” domains. Problem is the Fortune 500 isn’t coming to our trade shows. God knows Rick & Howard have moved heaven and earth trying to get them t...

CNET.com has just released a video presentation called “Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names”. I will leave the surprise top 5 list for you to watch. Watch the video. Here’s the question that the video ends with, How valuable are domains, because how many of the top 5 have you visited...

National Journal, Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, is holding  a hearing on June 4th to examine the future of the U.S. government’s relationship with ICANN. “Boucher has previously expressed interest in holding an ICANN hearing, partic...

Google has been hit with another AdWords-related lawsuit, this time by a Connecticut law firm.The personal injury firm Stratton, Faxon filed a suit in the New Haven Superior Court alleging that its name was being used to trigger ads for the rival law firm Silver, Golub and Teitell. Stratton, Faxon c...

Every few days we seem to publish some “big” dollar domain sales from NameJet.com, but usually don’t find them on Snapnames.com Today is an exception, as a very good domain, in a high paying category, CheckMyCredit.com sold for $23,000.           . Since were on the subjec...

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer formally introduced Bing.com Microsoft new search platform today at the All Things Digital conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal,  the search engine “is different from its predecessor and rivals’ search engines, with search ...

Time Warner announced today official plans to spin off AOL.com around the end of this year. Time Warner’s board is expected to meet today and approve the plan. Once completed, the deal would once again make AOL an independent, publicly traded company. AOL bought Time Warner in 2001 for $147 bi...

We all seem to rely on web ranking services,  in valuing domains we are looking to acquire and one of the tools many domainers use, including myself, is Alexa.org Alexa.org basically uses the information from those who have downloaded its toolbar (and specifically allowed Alexa to use the info) as ...

Yahoo’s CEO,  Carol Bartz said Wednesday she would be open to striking a search deal with Microsoft if they offered “boatloads of money.” “If there’s boatloads of money and the right technology involved, we’d do a deal, sure,” Ms. Bartz said at the All Thin...

Radio.com was first registered by CNET, the company CBS paid $1.7 billion dollars to acquire about a year ago. If you look at radio.com today its a simple parked page. Incredibly strange considering CBS owns last.fm, an online radio station which it paid $280 Million for in May 2007, and over 100 on...

The domain realsestate.com is at auction at Godaddy and with over 1 day to go, it’s already at over $3K. Godaddy.com estimates traffic, at a pretty minimal, 191 visitors a month. Why would someone spend thousands of dollars to buy a typo with minimal traffic? Thoughts ...

Facebook today announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST),  made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated that it is planning to offer to purchase at least $100 milli...

Microsoft has switched gears again in its naming of it’s search engine.  From Live.com to Kumo.com (which never officially launched) they have appearently settled on Bing.com According to Ad Age, Microsoft plans on spending $80 million to $100 million on its ad campaign for Bing. Ad Age point...

The domain stripclubs.com which sold at the Rick Latona auction at the Phoenix Forum Adult show On March 5, for $101K, is back on the auction block. The domain is being offered for sale on ebay.com with a starting bid and reserve of only $75K. According to the owner of the domain, the sale with Rick...

The domain itrust.com sold today for $13,100 on NameJet.com to the bidder known as “eglobal”. itrust.com is certainly an end user type of domain and for me a bit overpriced. Here are some other notable sales over the last few days at NameJet: audios.com                  ...

A story in paidcontent.org today tells the tale of the domain LiveSearch.com. According to the story, Microsoft’s failure to acquire the domain, may have lead it to abandon its live.com search for Kumo.com. Apparently the owner of the domain LiveSearch.com turned down a $200K offer  and deman...

The research firm, HitWise is reporting a record drop in Paid search advertising over the last few weeks. HitWise reports that the share of search traffic to websites generated from paid listings has dropped to about 7.25% over the four weeks ending May 9th, down from 9.8% during the same period a y...