If you are planning to be a “domain developer” or build a business out using a domain, sometimes you have to protect your turf. What that means is you’ll have to register typos, plurals, similar sounding domains, etc before those “damn cybersquatters” do or buy them from the people who already own them. [...]

A few weeks back the sale of SEO.com was reported. Veteran domain investors, Mike Mann and Mike Bahlitzanakis today have officially announced their partnership, launch and expansion of search optimization services at SEO.com. From the press release : WashingtonVC (www.WashingtonVC.com), an incubator of innovative technology and marketing firms, announced today a partnership with BP Holdings to [...]

Since domain development is and will remain a hot topic, I like to talk to people who have taking a step to develop some of their properties. Michael Monahan is one of them. He has recently developed his domain FundsOption.com into a financial social network. As a backend for his development work, he used the [...]

Hats off to Marchex (MCHX), a company that has always innovated in our space, be it for example by amassing a huge collection of zip-code domains or now by integrating content across 100,000 different domains. While the zip-code domains did not start a new direct navigation trend (at least as far as I know), the [...]