A very interesting article by a guest blogger at Savings.com today stating that Bloomberg is reporting: “Some bloggers may be covered for online lawsuits under the personal liability coverage of their homeowners or renters insurance policies” Worth a read – check it out here http:...

After the jump you will find the live auction results from thew MeetDomainers Event held in Manchester, UK by Daniel Dryzek‘s DDFund.eu and NameDrive. Highlight was the sale of QuadBikes.co.uk for £12,500 and BackLinks.co.uk for £3,000, but it is also worth mentioning the unusual auctioneer ...

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Obama administration wants to address illegal online pharmacies. The White House has called for a meeting with domain name registrars, registries, and ICANN to discuss rouge online pharmacies. According to an email obtained by Krebs on Security, White House Senior Adviser for Intellectual Propert...

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A week of news while I was away on vacation. I’m back from an enjoyable family vacation at Disneyland. If you ever make the trip, I highly recommend staying at this house — the kids will love it! Also, a quick shout out to my daughter, who just turned 4 last week yet braved Space Moun...

One man’s story should serve as a warning to domain name registrants. Blake Smith is a savvy internet user. After all, he runs a web consulting business. In his role he’s ordered dozens of domain names from GoDaddy for both himself and his clients. One of his clients orders domains ...

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The following 96 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy buy screen for quick Read more » No related posts....

Domainer Income TV I am happy to announce that my Aussie domainer friend Simon Johnson, who I interviewed on my Last Domain Names Podcast has launched his fantastic new show called Domainer Income TV which you can check out at DomainerIncome.tv. This weeks guest is Jeff Kupietzky from Oversee.net wh...

We’re happy to announce that we’re currently running a super sweet special on .IM domains. For a limited time you can register and renew for the low price of $6.99! This special pricing will be available through this fall, so you have plenty of time to come up with a good name or two, or...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Moniker rings up a 7-figure sale in the DOMAINfest New York Extended Online Auction, country code news featuring ,AU, .NL, .MX and .UK, plus Alexa Raad, the highly successful President and CEO of the .ORG Registry (PIR) will step down next month....

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It was in late September, 2005 that I heard of MillionDollarHomepage.com – an odd project of a financially-strapped college freshman from England, Alex Tew. The Million Dollar Homepage project started on this day five years ago – August 26, 2005 – with the intent of collecting one ...

That quote from the 1998 movie, The Big Lebowski always cracks me up. Perhaps, because it’s one of the funniest movies of the late 20th century. Also, because the quote is perfectly usable when one expects a large amount of money and it doesn’t arrive regardless of any inquiries and atte...

As announced by the .ORG registry, Public Interest Registry, Alexa Raad has resigned as President and CEO, effective September 24th, 2010. She was with the registry operator for 3 1/2 years. The Board has initiated a search committee for the next CEO. In the meanwhile, Mr. Botterman will step in as ...

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by Ken Hansen, Neustar [A big hurdle for new top level domains is getting attention as potentially hundreds of competitors are launched concurrently in the near future. In this guest post Ken Hansen, Senior Director of Business Development at Neustar, explains that getting good distribution from d...

The following 94 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy buy screen for quick Read more » No related posts....

These are the official results of the extended DomainFEST NYC auction, which ended today. The highlight of the extended auction was the sale of Quotes.com for $1,100,000 USD. Domain Sale Price quotes.com $1,100,000.00 luxuryapartments.com $62,500.00 cj.org $29,420.00 cashit.com $5,890.00 ...

French company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for VirtualExpo.com. A French company has been found to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking of the domain VirtualExpo.com. M. Corentin Benoit Thiercelin, who claims to run a company called VirtualExpo, filed the complaint with WIPO t...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A preview of Germany's biggest domain conference - DomainvermarkterForum - coming up next week in Munich. Plus, why .CA domain owners should rally behind Zak Muscovitch's bid for a seat on CIRA's Board of Directors....

Apparently, domain sales at TRAFFIC Dublin weren’t that great. Objectively speaking, compared to DomainFest’s recent record sales, the TRAFFIC Dublin auction results were pitiful. But really, who cares? While it’s important for the conference organizers to make money from auctionin...