Ten Emerging Beliefs and the Opportunity They Present Domain conferences share a commonality during which, over time (turbulent times no less), certain conventional wisdoms begin to emerge as the industry matures and infrastructure solidifies. In other words, the more the industry coalesces and becomes viable and full, the more common beliefs come into play and [...]

Imagine the following scenario: A registrant owns a .NET version of your .COM domain and decides to list it with SnapNames. However he mistypes the domain by entering the .COM version in the spreadsheet he sends to his account manager. The account manager then proceeds to move the .COM version of the domain, which is [...]

After working with Sedo for over six years in various senior roles, Matt Bentley, Sedo’s Chief Strategy Officer, will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. “It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to participate in Sedo’s worldwide growth and witness the company’s emergence as a dominant player in the market,” said Bentley. “I’m definitely [...]

Selected Sedo sales for the week up to July 27th, 2008 after the jump.

According to an email sent to Resellers, Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) has now re-branded their wholesale services to use the old OpenSRS (SRS = Shared Registrar System). The new site resides under the OpenSRS.com domain, whereas the original site used to be hosted under OpenSRS.org. The change will also be announced at HostingCon, which is currently being [...]

Tim Chen, an online media and advertising specialist, has joined Thought Convergence and is expected to be heavily involved in all the company’s business units including TrafficZ and DomainTools. “Tim is well experienced in the domain space and comes with a lot of knowledge and skills in dealing with domain monetization and acquisitions”, said Jay Westerdal [...]

Marchex (MCHX) has sued two ex-employees for deceptively creating and running competing websites. The pair - Eric Thoreson and Casey Manion - have agreed to pay Marchex $100,000 in legal fees and deactivate their competing sites. The article by the Puget Sound Business Journal explained that the duo “had copied key Marchex computer code and were [...]

Sedo played host to one of the largest domain name sales of the year today, as Villas.com sold for 305,000 EUR ($480,000 USD). With nine different buyers interested in the domain, there were only two who bid beyond 200,000 EUR before the final sale price was reached. According to DNJournal.com, it was the eighth largest domain [...]

“Domain King” Rick Schwartz has sold “property.com” to foreclosure.com. Rick purchased the domain for $750,000 USD less than 3 years ago. Details of the deal have not been disclosed at this point and it is not known if “properties.com” was included in the deal. Property.com will include all listing types, including those indexed the Multiple Listing [...]

Michael Geist recently reported that Rogers, an internet service provider, has changed its approach for failed DNS lookups, which happens when an internet user types in a domain name that does not resolve. Now, instead of reaching a standard error page, Rogers’ customers are being redirected to a sponsored page that contains links to Rogers’ [...]