Tucows has announced that it is laying off roughly 15% of its staff in a restructuring move to deal with the macro economic environment and unexpected changes in the industry. Elliot Noss, the President and CEO of Tucows, explains more on the company’s website: “We decided to take this step because of the uncertainty of overall economic [...]

Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX: TC) has just announced the launch of their YummyNames site, which lists domains from their portfolio of names for sale online. The company has before sold individual and groups of names directly and via various brokers and is now formalizing some of their offering under a new brand. “YummyNames, the public face of [...]

Conference attendees at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference received one of 250 Rick Schwartz DomainKing bobbleheads. The other 250 bobbleheads of the batch are available for sale at bobbleheads.com, which is operated by domainer Warren Royal.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has issued a seize order to have 141 domain names taken from their current registrants. The seizure was placed because the “domains were being used in connection with illegal gambling activity.” There were a number of popular gambling sites listed for seizure including PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, BodogLife.com, GoldenPalace.com, Bet21.com, DoylesRoom.com and also Rick Schwartz’ [...]

The News of Our Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - Mark Twain Rick Schwartz announced in an email a few days ago that the upcoming TRAFFIC show would be auctioning sponsorship positions. My gut reaction to reading this email was that it had a ring of desperation. I posted on a forum to [...]

DomainNameNews has learned that Fabulous.com and TRAFFIC will be announcing later today that they are donating all profits from the forthcoming TRAFFIC Down Under domain conference to the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). Fabulous seems to be putting together a show with a ton of activities and events for attendees in a beautiful location. It’s clear by [...]

“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 [...]

A local reporter, who also works with NPR, was in attendance at the last TRAFFIC show interviewing bidders after the auction. The story was released today including interviews with Andy Booth, Rick Schwartz and Jeremiah Johnston. Listen here. Previous coverage of domain names from NPR : Web Site Names Become Big Business

The Domain Game question for Day 4 : Name the investment bank and the banker responsible for the sale of BuyDomains in 2005 ? Enter your answer on our contest page here. DONT POST IN THE COMMENTS!! Congrats to the Day 3 Winner : Paul S. !! The answer was LipService.com . . . bonus answer [...]

After Rick Schwartz decided to stop blogging due to what he feels is the failure of the industry to defend itself against initiatives such as the Snowe Bill by joining the ICA, he had listed the domain name “widgets.com” for sale on eBay. The auction just ended with a high bid of US $175,100.00, but [...]