Its been reported that Sedo has brokered a deal selling poker.org to PokerCompany.com for the sum of $1 million. Other .org auctions include engineering.org for $198k which happened in 2003 and date.org for $150k in 2006. ...

A few snippets of interest came out of the 2009 earnings call for TCX. For the record, neither I, nor any company I’m associated with own any shares in TCX. 1. Revenue for the fourth quarter increased 6.1% 2. New registrations up more than 10% 3. For 2009 as a whole, domain service revenue gre...

A few weeks ago I received an email from someone who had a large portfolio of domain names for sale. This isn’t unusual, but what can be frustrating is seeing the same mistakes and unrealistic expectations, over and over again. Consequently, I thought there are some interesting lessons for ne...

Danica Patrick was involved in a 12-car crash in Daytona. The accident wasn’t her fault; it occurred after Colin Braun and Josh Wise clashed. Skysports reports that Patrick said after the race “It’s important to have realistic expectations”. “There’s going to be s...

Just awhile ago I just received an email from the guys at Oversee regarding the Snapnames auction at Domainer Mardi Gras. At first I thought….I’m already overloaded with conferences and auctions … do I really have the time to look at this? Honestly …. I couldn’t resist ...

eBay has quietly announced a change to its RSS feed. For those that use the eBay Partner Network, use 3rd party software or have developed their own software (such as myself), you will quickly realise that your RSS links dont work! If you are using 3rd party software (that builds stores for instance...

Lets not let the facts get in the way of a good story about the Internet. While symbolics.com might be the oldest currently registered dot com, its not the oldest currently registered domain. As I pointed out years ago, nordu.net has a creation date of 01-jan-1985. For those that don’t know, n...

Las Vegas City Council has voted to support Dot Vegas Inc. to become the registry of a proposed .vegas TLD. This surprisingly clashes with the current owner of vegas.com (The Greenspun Corporation – owner of the Las Vegas Sun). On a deal voted 4-3, Dot Vegas Inc was supported on the basis that...

NBC (LA) is reporting that the website of Rep. John Campbell has been redirecting traffic for the last 3-4 months to his opponent, Beth Krom. A typo on Campbells “Join The Resistance” webpage went to CampbellforCongres.com (one “s” and not two), which was paid for by Krom. Kr...

Earlier today I was given a coupon for 99 cent domains at Godaddy – excluding the 18 cent ICANN fee (for their slush fund). I’ve tested it and it works right now! Time to go crazy! Enjoy the Superbowl (11 days, 13 hours and 51 minutes) from now. P.S. This is for new domains only, not re...

Sony appears to have registered the domain playstationarc.com for its new motion controller – the Arc. However its another site, ps3arc.com which is attracting attention. Many gamers are debating whether or not the site is legitimate, or just a marketing ploy by Sony. The domain was created...

Harmon Bajwa woke up one morning to find a message from Facebook stating that his URL had been revoked on allegations of a policy violation. The revocation came after a message from Bajwa International stating that the company had filed a complaint with Facebook and that they were willing to buy th...

About an hour ago I received this email (below) from Latonas. Having seen first hand, the “technical difficulties”, it was the right decision. The auction platform just wasn’t working and there was no real way for online bidders to participate effectively. This isn’t that unu...

Latonas auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas got off to a very rocky start. The online bidding system wasn’t working properly and the auction stopped twice in the first 10 minutes. Putting aside the usual 6 second delay in video feeds, the current lots and bids were not being updated. Here are ...

Its no secret that I buy domains / portfolios and own quite a few in the finance / mortgage vertical. As such, its typical for my mailbox to contain a few emails each day, from people approaching me directly. When I looked closely at this recent email, there are a few issues that concern me. For the...

The auction for Domainstate has ended, with the successful bidder being none other than an Aussie local (to me anyway). Congrats go to David Warmuz and the guys over at Trellian – you might also know them as above.com. ...

Travelocity.com took DNRecover to the National Arbitration Forum over the typo-domain traveolcity.com stating that it was: 1. Confusingly similar 2. They did not have any rights or legitimate interests 3. They registered the domain name in bad faith DNRecover didn’t respond, so after taking in...

Casie Cathrea became the youngest Monday qualifier for an LPGA event at Blackhawk Country Club. Her official website is Cathrea.com. Her father, Harry Cathrea tracked down Leonard Meng Lee who registered CasieCathrea.com; he threatened to sue Lee under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Prote...

Apple has won 16 domains from Daniel Bijan, including macbookpro.com. This is by far the most domain names I’ve ever seen awarded to Apple in one hit. Here is the official list: blueipod.com iphonecheap.com iphonetoys.com ipodaccessories.info ipodkits.com ipodsbaratos.com macbookpro.biz macboo...

MSNBC (a Microsoft / NBC Universal joint venture) has announced the acquisition of BreakingNews.com, complementing its @BreakingNews alert service on Twitter. Charles Tillinghast, president of the msnbc Digital Network, said in an interview: “Our goal as a news organization is to provide the m...

MSNBC (a Microsoft / NBC Universal joint venture) has announced the acquisition of BreakingNews.com, complementing its @BreakingNews alert service on Twitter. Charles Tillinghast, president of the msnbc Digital Network, said in an interview: “Our goal as a news organization is to provide the m...

ICANN has released its 2009 Annual Report over the Christmas / New Years period (just when nobody was looking). Here is one very interesting paragraph on private registrations. “ICANN has obtained preliminary results of its study of domain names, registered among the top five gTLDs, which appe...

Announced today, the National Arbitration Forum has dismissed Google’s complaint that it was entitled to the domain name, Groovle.com. Young Canadian entrepreneurs Jacob Fuller and Ryan Fitzgibbon, launched the web site in 2007, to provide users the ability to upload photos and customize their...

On the afternoon of Thu 17th, 2009 SAPIA Pty Ltd registered the domain name “stephenconroy.com.au” as a satirical platform on which to air grievances and promote debate about the Australian governments proposed mandatory Internet filtering scheme. By 5pm the next day, the website was for...

Burger King has delayed the launch of its Russian expansion until 2010 after failing to register the domain name burgerking.ru. A Scandinavian company registered the domain name and Burger King Corporation (who registered its trademark in Russia back in 1994) doesn’t want to pay for it. It app...