Last week Google published the “official reasons” for buying DoubleClick. DaveN wrote a summary over at ThreadWatch. Basically they say it’s to expand their advertising/advertiser reach. One reason that appears to be implied, but I would like to emphasize, is the increased reach Google gains in order to track which pages are visited by which [...]

Here are the domain industry news and related articles published elsewhere. If we missed anything, please let us know in the comments. TRAFFIC Forbes on the TRAFFIC auction Traffic Review and Interview with Rick Schwartz @WebmasterWorld Associated Cities TRAFFIC review New York Post on TRAFFIC auction Domain Name Wire suggestions for auction improvements Andy Sweet: Traffic Conference Tucows’ Adam Eisner on the Traffic [...]

Lawrence Ng, Co-Founder and CEO of Oversee, has been named the 2007 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Oversee is the parent company to Domainsponsor.com, a domain parking company that many domain owners use to monetize their domains. I’ve known Lawrence for many years, I’m not sure there was even an Oversee back then. [...]

AvocadoTree.com - $4579* CallSign.com - $2722 Quarky.com - $555 BeOpen.com - $370 * Frank, I hear there is a hot market for these

ProxyAllow.com - $1605 biasfa.com - $1220 BringItOnGirls.com - $2305 FacesBook.com - $3005

Another tidbit coming from the transcript from today’s ICANN meetings in Puerto Rico. Philip Corwin, from the ICA , commented today during the ICANN meetings and gave a hint that a new ICANN constituency might be under consideration. “PHILIP CORWIN:  Good morning, Philip Corwin, counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, representing domain name investors and developers [...]

HomeMart.com - $22,472 PetDirect.com - $3600 Nemes.com - $1777 AnchorMen.com - $1200

Bovik.org - $755 Mortgage-Mart.com - $3505 (133 bids) IACFA.org - $710 NonSong.com - $506

More details have come to light on a story that first broke by George Kirikos on DomainState.com. Originally, it appeared that Vulcan Golf had filed yet another lawsuit against some of the “usual suspects”. However, Vulcan’s suit is more ambitious than just going after the portfolio owners or the parking companies that are named in [...]

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 [...]