A story about entrepreneur Richard Gordon was published in the Herald Tribune today. The article mostly focuses on how he makes money on processing charges for porn sites and at the same time is involved in more “socially acceptable” endeavors. Not really any of our concern, but a little snippet of the article [...]

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the reported mistress of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against MRA Holdings, producers of the popular Girls Gone Wild videos. Among the many allegations, the filing cites violations of the Lanham Act including cybersquatting domain names. Other Lanham violations include profiting from trademark infringement, false [...]

As reported by Tech Crunch, Citizen Hawk, a “digital brand management” company is now funded with $3 million courtesy of Maveron LLC. “CitizenHawk helps companies protect their online brands by targeting cybersquatters.” The interesting angle that goes unmentioned at Tech Crunch is that Maveron already has a history of investmenting in the domain space with their funding [...]

Following the reported sale of Pizza.com, mainstream media is once again picking up on domain buzz. Boo and Huffy, the animated commentators at Minyanville.com, do their take on domain names and naming trends. Check out the video on the right side of the article.

WOW ! I just woke up to an earthquake in my home town of Springfield, Illinois, 1 day before I leave for the earthquake capital of America (San Francisco, CA) to attend Domain Roundtable. According to the USGS the earthquake was a 5.4 magnitude centered at 38.501°N, 87.898°W which appears to be 173 miles [...]

The Vulcan Golf vs Google et al (including IREIT, Dotster, Sedo and Oversee) case has been green-lighted by the court to move forward. However the court has ruled in favor of the defendants to dismiss some of the other charges including the conspiracy, consumer fraud and RICO charges The court has made a ruling that will [...]

Back in 2006, Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel began work on a book about the domain space. Kesmodel also released his own blog publishing news and insight into companies and players in the space.  Kesmodel announced he was shuttering the blog and heading back to  a reporting gig in Chicago.  So, what happened to [...]

The domain space has already seen rocker Joe Higgins and his band The Likes of You competing on reality-TV, and now we can root for another domain guy who’ll be appearing on a popular TV game show. Christian Higgins, Account Manager at Parked.com (no relation to Joe) will be appearing with his fiancée on [...]

If you are a DomainSponsor.com publisher partner, you might know Joe Higgins (far right of pic). He’s an account rep for the domain monetization company. Joe also is the drummer for a band, The Likes of You. The Los Angeles-based band made it through the Fox reality show “The Next Great American Band”. [...]

Rumors are circulating that the sale for the domain name Cowboys.com will not be moving forward. The domain name brought in a $275,000 bid from a phone-in bidder at the recent TRAFFIC domain live auction in Hollywood, Florida. The bidder had been earlier identified to be a representative from the Dallas Cowboys NFL team. [...]