Company sources confirm that direct navigation company Sendori.com has been acquired by Ask.com sponsored listings.  Specific details of the transaction were not provided. Sendori.com provides a unique service in the domain space. Rather than parking domain names on a page with search listings the...

In the first major domain company acquisition of 2009, Ask Sponsored Listings (operators of Ask.com), a division of Barry Diller's IAC internet empire, has acquired Sendori.com. Sendori operates an innovative exchange that pairs domain owners directly with advertisers who buy their direct navigation...

Domainers will have the chance to rub shoulders with Hollywood celebrities and athletes at DomainSponsor’s fundraising event for Autism Speaks, which will be held at the Playboy Mansion on Thursday, January 29, during DOMAINfest Global. Some of the celebrities and athletes planning to attend t...

Have you casted your vote on GoDaddy for their Super Bowl ad? I just placed my vote, after careful consideration, for the Danica Patrick shower commercial :)...

Sameh from Namepros was kind enough to share the latest LLLL.com sales from DN Journal. Between Namepros and DN Journal, the following LLLL.com sales > $1000 were reported: SSIC.com $6,650 (SN) OSRL.com $6,500 (Sedo) Coto.com $5,855 (NJ) CCCM.com $4,000 (Afternic) fscj.com $2,400 (Sedo) doxo.co...

Alternative rock group wins bizarre domain arbitration. This is a follow up to the story I wrote in November (Rock Group Wants ThirdEyeBlind.net). Third Eye Blind has prevailed in the dispute. In November I speculated: The owners of ThirdEyeBlind.net seem to be dodging the band by changing its who...

I must say that Domaining.com did help DotWeekly.com rise in the ranks of domain blogs with it’s service and I thank them for that! The win/win situation that Domaining.com (which I am going to call D from now on) was just that. It was a win for D because it grabbed my content that I [...]...

Now that I’m back into the swing of things again I wanted to continue the series that I began last year on risk. Towards the end of last year I covered the different business models that are evident in the domain industry. This article will begin to explore the risks......

The acquisition of a well-known domain industry company is about to be announced, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for their conference which runs next week in Hollywood, California and the daughter of a well-known domainer is featured in an exclusive Huffington Post interview....

A Google document from 2007 entitled “Google Guidelines For Quality Raters” was released into the wild last year. I wanted to analyze it a bit because if you are going to develop a domain, then this document describes what a quality site is, in Google’s eyes. Much of this informati...

I noticed some pretty good legal domain names on Snapnames dropping in the next few days. I really like town/city + attorney or lawyer names, and there are several. I pointed a few of them out in my “Top Drops” page, but there are some other pretty good ones at good prices. [...] Re...

Moniker.com released the list of domains for its “Live Low Reserve/No Reserve Auction”,  which will be held on Tuesday January 27th at 7pm PST at the DomainFest Show in Hollywood, CA. Both Live and online bidding will be available for this event. As always reserve prices are provided in...

DomainSponsor has published the final DOMAINfest agenda and it looks like the conference is once again set to be the premier event of the year for expert insights and opinions on the many changes impacting the domain, search, and advertising industries. DOMAINfest Global 2009 - which is being held a...

The child online Protection Act, a law originally past in 1998 is finally done. The Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of the case. Shortly after the law was passed in 1998, a federal judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction against the statute on free speech grounds and the law has ...

The next Live Auction at NamePros.com is only a day away! The event will kick off at 3pm PST /6pm PST.  Click here to visit the auction queue to see what’s on the block, and to get your pre-bids in! See you there! ...

Moniker customers will be able to list domains for sale on Snapnames from within their accounts. Domain Name Wire has learned that Moniker and SnapNames will introduce a new feature next week that makes listing domains on SnapNames easier. The feature will allow customers to list domains on Sn...

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 21, 2009) - DomainSponsor™, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net and organizer of DOMAINfest Global®, the domain name industry’s premier conference, has published the final DOMAINfest® agenda, which features a comprehensive list of experts who will offer in...

Can domain name flipping still be done in this current market? Where can domain names be flipped? How do I do it? It really depends on the time/effort you want to put in. Flipping can be easy and you should be able to do it in any kind of market. It ALL depends on the domains [...]...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Continuing a trend we saw develop in 2008, high end domain sales remain few and far between while small business end users dominate aftermarket activity with four-figure and low five-figure purchases. All reported sales were well under the ...

I contacted somebody today about buying their domain name and got a reply that I have yet to hear in my years of domaining. That doesn’t happen that often, so I thought I would write about it a little. The domain I contacted the person about is no longer a "site" but the owner surely f...

I decided I am either going to sell TrickOrTreating.com in the next few days or I am going to develop it.  First, here’s a brief sales pitch. The keyword “trick or treating” appears to be highly searched, according to Google’s Keyword Tool.  As one can imagine, most of the ...

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I was watching CNN yesterday like most people. I however did notice something interesting. I noticed that a lot of the ads on TV now centers on these themes ” We, Together”. Everything seams to be community oriented and how you can make the world a better place by getting involved. Notab...

Sorry it has been a few weeks since adding a comic strip. Between the holidays, site changes and the recent contest it completely slipped my mind. This weeks comic is extremely funny and very true. Click image to enlarge… I’d like to thank Mark Fulton for the idea. An email will be sent...

I posted a list of 49 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum. Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past an...