Geo-Domain owners are not domainers. Most of the major cities (think top 50 US) were all taken before 1997. Often times they were taken by people in that specific area. For example, I met the guy who owns Austin.com. He has it because he had an ISP from there, and registered it. In March 1994. Few [...]

NameMedia  (parent company of buydomains.com) announced that they have purchased photo.net, which is to work in tandem with their photography.com website. This continuous their development efforts and certainly shows that they are willing to buy existing sites and combine them with their premium domain names. Share

During the Targeted TRAFFIC conference in Florida which started yesterday, a new kind of Domain Development company called Domain Strategies is being launched. The company will bring together domainers, investors and entrepreneurs in order to create businesses. Rob was so kind to take the time to talk to me about his new venture earlier this [...]

It is with delight that I welcome a new author to Domain Name News: Ahmed F. Ahmed is an experienced developer, and his latest project, iBegin Source, offers reasonably priced local business data, which can help with domain development. [Frank Michlick] It is both exciting and disheartening to read about parking development. Exciting because it is good [...]

The latest DNJournal cover story is about Michael Mann - his story starting with BuyDomains and how it continues today with WashingtonVC and GrassRoots.org. Also it appears he has launched DomainMarket in an early stage version, listing domains and allowing people to fill out a contact form. Share

There’s a short article over at Business Week that features Michael Mann and his company WashingtonVC. It discusses Mann’s approach to his investments and business they incubate using the Kiertsu model. “We promote the exchange of services such as search-engine optimization, Web design, and software programming, so that each small business has fewer expenses,” he says. Mann [...]

Earlier today I was on a panel at Domain RoundTable in Seattle about web2.0 and domain development together with Joe Davison from TechAnalyst.com (who was kind enough to step up to the moderator plate when our moderator did not show) and Stuart Wood of WIFI.com (Salient Properties). I was pleasantly surprised with the good attendance [...]

BP Holding Group has announced the launch of their new and improved site Weblog.com. Michael Bahlitzanakis and BPHG seem to be holding to their promise that they gave during the launch of their corporate presence to “unveil a new site each month.”  Weblog.com is really version 2 of the site which was originally launched in [...]

While the following press release is dated July 30th, it apparently only went out today. Domainer.com is a custom service that brings content and domains/traffic together and adds additional means of monetization. The company announced that they have concluded a private placement of CDN $2,0 million (approximately 1,880,000 USD). From their press release: The Company [...]

Serial entrepreneur, domainer and now developer, Michael Bahlitzanakis just sent me a scoop about the launch of his new corporate website and re-branding which was released “literally seconds ago”. Formerly known as BP Holdings Group, Mike’s company is now operating as BPHG Media and can be found at www.bphg.com. According to Bahlitzanakis [...]