Network Information Center (NIC) Mexico announced they are planning to re-open top-level .mx registrations after 20 years of restrictions. Since February 1, 1989, the registration of first level .mx domains has been extremely limited. At first it was only to be used by educational institutions, but in 1996 that too was taken away with the [...]

We have just finished liveblogging the DOMAINfest Global Premium Live Auction where over $600,000 worth of domains were sold with sales ranging in value from IncredibleBargains.com for $500 to Wife.com for $100,000. Only 29 percent of the domains listed were sold today (58 of 200) with the rest heading for the DOMAINfest Global Extended Auction [...]

While domain auctions are front and center this week with DOMAINfest Global going on, Sedo continues to deliver excellent results with nearly $600,000 worth of domain sales in the past week. Some of this week’s highlights included ParierEnLigne.fr for 30,000 EUR, Roulette.it for 30,000 USD, Courier.net for 25,000 USD, Slots.eu for 24,000 EUR, and CheapUsedCars.com [...]

Internet REIT, has chosen Bob Hurtte to replace Craig Snyder as their CEO. Hurtte joins the company with over 25 years of success in leadership and corporate development. Prior to iREIT, Bob was the Chief Operating Officer of Gurwitch Products, LLC, the worldwide distributor of Laura Mercier brand of cosmetics, and helped the company grow [...]

SnapNames and Moniker, a leading domain registrar, have joined together to allow sellers to list domains for sale on SnapNames.com directly from their Moniker accounts. The listing service will provide domain sellers with an increased reach into the industry’s largest pool of qualified buyers, where over 15,000 sales occur each month. In turn, the buyers [...]

According to the latest Click Forensics report, industry click fraud reached new heights in Q4 2008 with the average rate growing to 17.1%, up from 16% from Q3 2008. The company’s reporting service – the Click Fraud Index – monitors and reports on statistically significant industry PPC data collected from online advertising campaigns across all [...]

NameDrive, known to most as a parking company, are announcing at DomainFest today that they are launching NDX Market – a service that will provide domainers with a fast, secure and powerful public marketplace for buying and selling domains. According to their own numbers included in the marketing material for the new product, NameDrive also [...]

Registrar Name.com and Verisign just announced that you can now protect your domains with the security of a two-way authentification keyfob via a new partnership between the two companies. The keyfob, which you should carry with you at all times displays a 6 digit number that changes frequently. Only if this number is entered correctly [...]

Once again we were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFest Global 2009 Conference in Hollywood, California. There were over $150,000 worth of domains sold at the Opening Night Auction including SpearGuns.com for $14,000, Eat.net for $12,500, and Rich.net for $12,500. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these [...]

DomainFest 2009 Photos (DNN) Only One Statistic Matters for Domain Parking (DNW) Panel: Taking Domains Offshore is a False Hope (DNW) Steve Wozniak Discusses Domain Names and Woz.com (DNW, with video) DOMAINfest Attendance Tops 600 (DNW) Google gets rough ride at Domainfest (Kieren McCarthy) DomainFest 2009 Photos, Playboy Mansion Photos (Kieren McCarthy) Video footage by [...]