Before tomorrow’s General Availability Launch of the .CO ccTLD domain registrations, today is the final day to place pre-orders. The local Colombian based registrar Mi.Com.Co has launched a site offering the top 300 places in its registration queue. Prices start at $300 and are lowered the lat...

As one of the original top level domains, the .ORG extension is one of the more recognizable domains out there. However, it’s a common misconception that it’s limited to non-profits, which is definitely not the case. .ORG is a versatile extension that can work for you in a number of diff...

Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas. The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name compa...

While the US state of Kentucky is fighting online gambling by seizing domain names, the Canadian Province of British Columbia has decided to try to get a part of the online gambling cake and was apparently overwhelmed by its success. The British Columbia Lotter Corporation had launched its controver...

Two days after the Estonian Registry operator, Eesti Internet, has gone live with their new registry system, they added another 1,329 new domains, effectively doubling the amount of registrations processed over the course of the preceeding two months. The new model of the registry for .EE domains is...

In 2008 Jothan Frakes held an impromptu survey for registry service providers for new gTLDs at the ICANN meeting in Paris. The results were then consolidated into a matrix and published on the Names At Work blog by his friend Antony van Couvering – unfortunately DNN could not locate the inform...

Rick “DomainKing” Schwartz has just posted a press release on his blog according to which he sold the domain name Punchbowl.com to Punchbowl Software, Inc , a developer of party and event planning website. The sales price of the domain has not been disclosed and the company states that i...

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The following lists are premium quality keywords that were available to pre-register at GoDaddy for $29.99 as of the time of this posting. The majority of these keyword names have at least 2000 monthly searches on Google in the US alone, often much more. Act fast to secure the best names before Tues...

ICANN Ombudsman tries to get name taken out of public record in air travel dispute. Earlier this year DNW wrote about ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie and a complaint he filed against Air Canada. A Canadian Transportation Panel found that Fowlie “engaged in abusive and offensive behaviour”...

For those that don’t know, a domain hack is when you use the extension to complete a word or phrase like watch.es or jesuschri.st. We’ve all heard the success of companies like Blo.gs and Del.icio.us. Those sites have helped raise consumer awareness in the United States that sites don&...

I’ve just finished scanning a list of the most populated U.S. cities and was surprised to see that many of them are still available to pre-register at GoDaddy. While GoDaddy cannot guarantee that you will receive the domain name, you can pre-register now to be first in line during the July 20 ...

Good keyword domains still available in .co. Now that the .co landrush has ended, I have compiled a list of 265 .co domain names that weren’t picked up in the period. That means they will be available on July 20. But many of these keyword domains will be in demand, meaning you need to pre-r...

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Inspired by Cortez the conquistador, Frank Muller designed this complicated wristwatch to be bold and intimidating. The watch is large and heavy in its solid 18k white gold case. You can sense the value while you wear it. It’s not so heavy that its uncomfortable. Rather, it has a manly feel to...

A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. This month we profile Canada's Rick Silver who rules an online empire built on his nation's relatively unheralded .ca country code extension. ccTLDs have been coming on like gangbusters, making Silver's bet on top tier generic .ca domains look smarter with ...

.Co registrar creates innovative way to increase odds of getting your .co domain on July 20. I’ve written about how various registrars are handling pre-registrations for .co domain names, which will become generally available July 20. None of the registrars has been explicit about how they&#...

Education site worried about effect of corresponding .org domain name. This morning I came across a story about an education web site at NewsBowl.com that is worried that a marijuana site is at NewsBowl.org. The owner is worried that students will type .org after NewsBowl instead of .com and find ...

The parent company of Minds + Machines, Top Level Domain Holdings [AIM: TLDH] reported their revenue for the period to the end of April with £32,000 ($49,000), with a loss of £462,000 ($708,000). The company is pretty much in a holding pattern until the release of the new gTLDs by ICANN and is exp...

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Google has just acquired what looks to be a revolutionary content aggregator for web developers. Metaweb defines it’s service as a hub for web developers and bloggers to “plug in” to great content. Metaweb has built a smarter, more connected internet by classifying all persons, pla...

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