(Attention, irony within .ed) OK, most of us know domaining is a big problem. Why? Because we don’t own the real premium domains we’d really like to own - yeah, there might be a few exceptions to this amongst our readers. Well, along comes Lynn Tan and writes a nice article on CNET. About Domainers [...]

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 [...]

The Canadian company GeoSign, owner of premium domains such as GolfCourses.com and Hockey.com, went through a strenuous period lately. After its massive $160,000,000 funding, the company got a black eye due to its search engine arbitrage, and after Google stomped on that, went through some layoffs. Anyway - it seems that GeoSign now has two subsidiaries [...]

Naked.com and BigTits.com Sold 50 domains sold for US$360,400 at Domainvermarkter Forum Top Sedo Sales, Week July 24-July 30, 2007 MarketWatch on branding and generic Domains Domain Parking Shortcomings: Content Sedo Sales of the week up to September 17th, 2007 $682k in Domain Sales at Internext Adult Domain Auction Domain Investing: What You Can Learn From the Stock Market Top 10 posts for [...]

Idearc (the guys behind SuperPages) just announced that they have purchased the url ‘LocalSearch.com‘ and 20% of AmericanTowns.com in a transaction valued at $3.3 million. What is interesting is not only that the press release mentions the URL first - other sites also cite the URL as the main transaction conducted.

In a blog post today, Jay introduces domain insurance as a new service offered by his company Name Intelligence. I first came across “domain insurance” as a business model, when I heard Frank Schilling talking about it several years ago. Earlier this year, he blogged about this topic. Andrew from Domain Name Wire also posted [...]

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When the first ever Domain Roundtable auction began, I had just wrapped up a 4 hour flight to St Louis on my way back home from Seattle. With an hour drive still ahead of me, I called a few friends to see how things were going “on the floor”. Fifteen minutes into my drive, they [...]

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 [...]

ICANN has now created a “one-stop” comment page. The new page lists the topics with brief summaries and has an email link for each of them. Make sure to voice your opinion on such topics as the “Changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement“.