.Co landrush proves significant interest in securing .co domains. The .Co landrush application period has closed, and the domain name registry has received 27,905 applications during the period. That brings the total applications received to date (including sunrise) to 39,000. 2,523 domain names r...

A Glimpse at Name.com from Name.com on Vimeo. Here’s a short video we put together that offers a glimpse into life at Name.com as a community focused, innovative company that loves our customers, ping pong, and of course beer. We hope you enjoy. :) ...

Skip Hoagland has always preached that partnerships are the way to get high quality domains developed into popular websites. Hoagland cut deals with experts in hunting and automotive media to transform two more of his domains - Shooting.com and CarClassifieds.com - into online destinations that jus...

Domain Name Wire locates a long lost video of Sarah Palin talking about domainers. Well folks, the domain industry doesn’t get media attention like this every day. Check out this video of Sarah Palin talking with Larry King about the domain name industry. Hear about her love of Bob Parsons...

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Most in the watch industry consider Patek Philippe the world’s best watch maker. Today we got in inventory their most iconic of designs, the men’s Calatrava 5120. It’s not just any Calatrava though, it’s a solid 18k gold Calatrava complete with box and papers. The Calatrava, ...

Peter Askew sent this one in from Seattle. Love how they use "Smoke" like it's a verb rather than an adjective. At least the URL is sea-worthy, as in worthy of being seen....

Behold the HELLAAMBIGUITY that is ALLCAPS. The name of this building is Park Kingsbury Lofts but the eye is trained to read Parking, especially when looking at a sign on a building! Reminds me of Nosmo King...Image Source...

United really plussed up this URL. Nice Leading Caps. No dubs. They should get a positive charge from this one!...

I don't hate the alternate domain (non-dot-com) because it bares the initials of the key words. It sucks that the decal has the first "c" caught in the crevice though. Dot-cc is already a not easily recognized TLD, much less when half of one of the letters is cut off. This URL's gonna make ya sweat ...

Domainer Chris Brown asked me what I thought of this URL. While I like the selection and presentation (despite the spacing issues), I can't see this fetching anywhere near the asking price of $150k. Brown is holding steady to his belief that this could be the first six word domain sale to break the ...

Here's another SkewURL (that would be Askew-URLs for the uninitiated). Peter thought this was "cringe-worthy" but I don't mind the URL selection. Would love to see Leading Caps, though. 1ForAll.us. Now that's something I can get behind. If they really want this website to stand for something, they s...

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The venerable .ORG registry is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. It was on July 10, 1985 that the first .ORG domain name was registered. Since PIR took over operation of the registry in 2003 it has grown by 300% to over 8.5 million active domain names....

More domain name issues for ChatRoulette. ChatRoulette.com has become somewhat of a hot button topic in domainer circles thanks to the CamRoulette.com saga. So it’s interesting to see a new set of features from ChatRoulette with domain implications. First, the company launched ChannelRoulett...

Tucker Carlson’s publication The Daily Caller buys domain name KeithOlbermann.com. From one political pundit to another: I own you! Tucker Carlson has acquired the domain name KeithOlbermann.com. Actually, it’s Carlson’s The Daily Caller that acquired the domain name, and now sh...

Yahoo to transition to Bing search results very soon. It’s time to stop talking about Yahoo search rankings and the traffic the search engine delivers to your site. Starting as early as next month, no one will care how well you’ve tricked Yahoo into ranking your site well. Today Yahoo!...

First .music, now .berlin wants extra credit for being early to the new TLD game. I wrote previously about how one applicant for the .music top level domain name requested favored status since he had been working on the concept for so long. Now another group is asking for similar status. dotBERLIN...

Company files information with SEC regarding legal setback. Shortly after receiving an adverse decision in appeals court last week regarding an anti-trust lawsuit, VeriSign filed an 8-K with the SEC explaining the opinion. The disclosure summarizes changes to the court’s original order, and ...

First diapers.com, now soap.com. It’s been a couple months since I first became aware that the company that owns Diapers.com was getting ready to launch a new store at Soap.com. Today the store went live. Soap.com is an online store for toiletries and other household products. Think of it...

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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of F words totaling $183,000 set the pace at the top of our new all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. It was also a big week for the ccTLDs as they piled up eight entries on the elite list. The non .com gTLDs had a decent outing too with...

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