As heard by our staff at the DomainRoundtable conference in San Francisco this week, it is rumored that TrafficZ (or it’s parent company Thought Convergence) is buying NameIntelligence, the parent company of the DomainTools.com website and organizer of the DomainRoundtable conference. The price is said to be 16-18 million USD. TrafficZ also is one of [...]

Yesterday at the Domain Roundtable show the winners of the annual Name Intelligence Industry awards were named as follows:

Registrar with the Largest Net Gain - GoDaddy
Best Registrar for Resellers - Enom
Outstanding Drop Catcher - NameJet
Outstanding Secondary Market - Sedo
Best Registrar - Moniker
Best Parking Company (tie): Sedo and Parked.com
Best Aftermarket - Afternic
Best Forum - DNForum.com
Best Blog [...]

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 [...]

Jay Westeral and Domain Tools announced today the creation of the Domain Tools “Sexiest Domainers” list. Westerdal made his first list last year of “Millionaire Domainers“. This list takes the concept one step further and gives the domain community exactly what they want. “When we published the Millionaire list we received a ton of inquiries [...]