After 16 months, we figured it was time for a makeover. April 16th has been a very special day for me for the last 21 years. 21 years ago today I married my beautiful bride Judi. So its a perfect day for a remix and a relaunch of thedomains.com As you can see, the logo has changed, along with the la...

Last week,  Goldman Sachs (GS) sent an Cease and Desist letter,  demanding that blogger Mike Morgan take down his gripe site GoldmanSachs666.com, saying that the site violated Goldman’s intellectual property rights and that the domain constituted trademark infringement. The “666″...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo, is preparing another significant round of job cuts. According to the report, the cuts are likely to affect several hundred employees on top of 2,400 jobs cut last year. The Journal says the cuts could be announced as soon as next week, when Yahoo repo...

With Google scheduled to report earnings after the close of the market on Thursday, the question is will this be Google’s first down quarter? Yes amazingly, since going public in August 2004, Google has never had a down quarter; a quarter in which  its gross revenue was lower the previous qua...

If you play poker or watch it on TV, your probably family with the term of a “Tell”.  If your not, this is basically something you do, a motion, a habit, something you say or do, that gives away what kind of hand you have. Its called a “tell”. Demand Media had some very inte...

Moniker.com tonight, released a tentative list of domains for it’s live domain auction, which will be held as part of the TRAFFIC Silicon Valley show later this month. The Moniker.com auction will be held on Wednesday April 29 at 3 PM PST. Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com. The...

The Internet Commerce Association, (ICA) of which we are a gold member, just posted its comments to ICANN on the 2nd draft of the Guidebook on the new gTLD’s, which as we keep telling you has issues which currently would impact domains you now own. The comment period closes today. You still ha...

According to MSNBC.com Dell, Inc. refused to spend $750 a month to lease the domain Adamo.com prior to releasing new ultrathin laptop. Dell was offered the $750 a month deal by Bill Sweetman, General Manager of Tucows owned Yummydomains.com. “”"”Yummy Domains General Manager Bill S...

Time Warner cable has been talking about it for quite a while and now seems to have a plan in place to for a variable pricing, depending on amount of bandwidth a customer uses. The pricing could leave consumers paying up to $150 a month for Internet access. Here is the proposed pricing according to ...

The public comment period for the second draft of the guidebook for the new gTLD extensions closes on Monday. What’s at stake? Much more than just the rules for the new gTLDs. What ICANN winds up doing on these new extensions, will impact all existing extensions, including .com’s. Why? B...

Prior to the last ICANN meeting held in Mexico City, ICANN set up a system where you could submit a question concerning the new gTLD’s which might be asked and answered at the meeting. (You can read our post about this process here).  The questions were limited to 30 words, in twitter like fa...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo are discussing a deal in which they would sell advertising for each other. “”"It is unclear whether the talks, which could produce a collaboration without a full-fledged acquisition or major asset sale, will result in an agree...

Over the last hour I have received about 10 message purported to be from Godaddy, which is in actuality a phishing attack. Like all phishing attempt the e-mail looks legit using Godaddy format, logos, etc, but of course are not real messages and under no circumstances should you click on the links c...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo may lose up to 15% of its search traffic over the next 12-to-18 months after failing to renew deals with two computer makers. Yahoo was the default search tool on HP and Acer computers. However those deals expired last year and Yahoo’s failure to ren...

YouTube and Universal Music Group, announced today that they will jointly launch a premium music video website in the next few months, Vevo.com According to the press release, Vevo,com, “will be a premium online music video hub designed to offer higher-quality videos, as opposed to the typical...

In a Wipo action first reported by the domain bible, OK magazine, jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org were awarded to Mrs. Anthony. The domains according to OK, will be used by the Jennifer Lopez Foundation, “which promotes better access to healthcare for women and children”. ...

Memorabledomains.co.uk, A UK based company, released a study (pdf) today, on the performance of using a top generic catergory killer domain in a PPC campaign and compared it to the the results to, using a lesser quality domains. Although the study is just a case study limited to one situation, it is...

Wow Talk about the power of the Internet. Today according to a post on Facebook’s offical blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that Facebook will welcome their 200 millionth active user some time today. One site, 200 million users. It took the United States some 200 years to get the same number of...

I have been contacted by representative of both Answerable.com and SnapNames.com on our post yesterday concerning SnapNames sending out e-mails to customers notifying them about certain registrars being terminated by SnapNames.com According to Viram Lodhia of Answerable the e-mails sent out notifyin...

I have, over the last couple of days, received over 18 e-mails from Snapnames.com, each announcing that they are terminating their relationship with one of their partner registrars. As I write this post, notices are still coming in, so the number of terminated registrars, might grow about So far, th...

A California appellate court ruled that a person does not have a right to privacy for any material they post on their social networking page.  This exact case should also act as a cautionary tale to all parents and their children to understand the possible ramification of a seemingly innocent post ...

The domain, 401.com sold today at NameJet.com for $65,100  in a private auction which was opened to just 115 people at Namejet.com and lasted over 3 hours of extended bidding 401.com of course could be used in connection with 401kplans and appears to generate several thousands visitors a month acco...

As we posted a couple of days ago, Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against t...

Sedo, announced today that is has entered into  a strategic partnership with Intellectual Property Management (IPM) Company, a highly recognized provider of domain management services to corporations. “”"”The partnership is designed to help businesses manage existing domain ...

The 2nd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled against Google in a trademark lawsuit stemming from AdWords ads, saying that allowing a trademark term to trigger a search ad is a “use in commerce”, within the meaning of federal trademark laws. Google was sued by computer repair shop, Resc...