SnapNames.com is now making it Much Easier to list your domain names for sale in partnership with it’s parent company Moniker.com . This is Now Live! The process is explained very well here https://www.snapnames.com/updates200901.jsp I really like using both Moniker and SnapNames. I have had s...

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s staff filed a notice yesterday that they will appeal the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, to the Kentucky Supreme Court. In announcing the appeal, Michael Brown, Secretary, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet said: “The Commonwealth will continue its a...

dotMobi, the registry for .mobi, announced that they will make available .mobi domain names with one and two alphanumeric characters, such as q.mobi, k9.mobi, 13.mobi or ny.mobi. Companies may submit expressions of interest for a one or two character .mobi domain by visiting http://dotmobi.mobi/onec...

It just so happens that a new domain news aggregator site has been created and it offers something that I think you are Really going to like! Not only is the site design very clean, NameBee.com gives you Options! An option that I grew to love nearly instantly is the option to Add Your Own Feeds. Th...

With just hours remaining, several good domain names have met their reserves. Sedo ’s January Great Domains auction concludes at noon EST today. With just hours to go, several high quality domains have met their reserve prices and should go much higher in the final hours. I’m surprise...

  Well I’m not going to lie to anyone – it’s been a pretty tough couple of weeks. I haven’t had any serious enquiries on my names, but I have had a couple of $200 offers on my CC.coms and about 5 other ridiculous offers.   Now I don’t mind a bit of hustle as I...

The word is out, direct navigation from domain names is hot!  It’s why Google recently launched AdSense for Domains and its why many people are pumping out mini-sites and landing pages for their high-traffic generic .COM names. Ron Jackson at DNJournal has just broke the news that Ask.com ha...

Two hundred years ago women didn’t even ride horses. Now, when I take my daughter to her riding lessons it’s noticeable how there are no boys there. It’s certainly a girl’s hobby these days and probably the most expensive hobby an eight year-old could have. My daughter ha...

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be ...

Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC, acquires direct navigation company Sendori. Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), has acquired direct navigation monetization company Sendori for an undisclosed amount. Sendori offers an alternative to domain parking that automatically...

Patent office rejects subdomain patent after EFF complaint (c|net) (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Buy Category Killer Domain Names for the best price possible. ...

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 ...