The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top sale ranks among the year's 25 biggest to date. Nine country code domains made the all extension leader board and we also saw one of the year's five biggest non .com gTLD sales this week....

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by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males & Patrick Carleton [This article explores the latest with IDN ccTLDs such as .?? and .??. Aaron Krawitz of IDNBlog and Gary Males of IDNDemystified co-own IDNDroplist, IDNTools and IDNNewsletter. Patrick Carleton is Executive Director of Associated Cities. -Andrew...

by Crystal Peterson [ICANN's 39th Public Meeting is headed to Cartagena, Colombia this December. While much of the world pushes through frigid winter, .Co Internet Senior Marketing Manager Crystal Peterson promises it will be nice and warm in Colombia. -Andrew] I had the opportunity to travel to ...

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted TRAFFIC Conference in Dublin, Ireland. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction. The auction sold 12 domains for a total of 86,820 Euro...

Bidding for our live auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin is starting now. The live portion of the auction begins at 10:00 am EST, 7:00 am PST, 15:00 GMT or 16:00 CET. I know that’s confusing but just click the link because it’s today. For your convenience I’ve pasted the entire invent...

DNS parking may be required in the future. A few days ago Sedo informed its customers that its primary advertising provider (read: Google) may change the way it allows domains to be parked. URL forwarding will be out and all domains will need to be parked using DNS. This change has been rumored f...

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The following 100 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....

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A website I administer loads data from two wordpress databases – a method I recently blogged about – and it ran fine under WordPress 2.9.2. However, having updated the core Read more » Related posts:Loading Posts From Two WordPress Databases WordPress 2.5 Upgrade How To ...

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Since the introduction of the so-called “social media” Internet users are spending increasingly higher amounts of time being “social” online. Which translates, of course, to less real-life socializing. Regardless of whether your friends, buddies, followers or readers share th...

We came, we saw, we conquered the Tour De Cure Colorado! It was a gorgeous day in Longmont this past Saturday and everyone had a blast on their different rides. Of course, I’m the only one who literally had a “blast” when I got a flat shortly after my halfway point. But the Tour s...

The DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day was held Wednesday (August 18) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan. Conference organizer Oversee.net sent us some of show photographer Marvin Yan's pictures from the event so we could share them and the conference highlights with you....

Here’s what’s stopping you from selling more domain names. 1. The distribution market is still fragmented – we’re still at a point where we have a fragmented market of domain listing distribution providers. There’s AfternicDLS, Domain Distribution Network, and to some...

Post updated – see updates in bold. If you are a dot ca domain holder, you may be aware that the elections for the CIRA Board of Directors are underway. Many of you know Zak Muscovitch, a domain name lawyer, whom we previously interviewed about Canadian domain laws.  Zak is seeking a seat on ...

DNS company gets marketing kick with DNS.com. Last month at HostingCon I met with Cloud.com to learn how their great domain name has propelled their business. I also got to spend time with domain industry show regular Sean Stafford, who’s latest venture DNS.com is off to the races. He proud...

Domain registrar continues growth, lands on Inc 5000 again. GoDaddy continues its growth, landing on the Inc 5000 again in 2010. As the company gets bigger it makes it harder to turn in huge percentage growth numbers, but Inc reports 153% growth over the past three years. The revenue number for 20...

by Michael Goldstein [Sometimes dead simple innovation can have big results. In this post, Michael Goldstein discusses Hover's "No-Hassle Renewals". By implementing this simple feature the company has been able to reduce support costs while improving customer satisfaction. Goldstein is the VP of...

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Don’t know if you’ve noticed but the quality of domains on auction at Domainfest, TRAFFIC and other online marketplaces has improved dramatically. On offer earlier this month were Stocks.com, Quotes.com, Alcohol.com XXX.com, Cable.com, Rate.com, Artist.com, Hamburgers.com, Koran.com, Pat...

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