Want to win $5,000! Enter our #WhyIChoseORG contest & tell us how your .ORG site is making an impact! Rules: http://t.co/5qZY7w0ULR — PIR (@PIRegistry) March 11, 2014   According to a tweet this evening from the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry that manages .org domain names, there is a $5,000 contest I want to share with you. ...

Domain investor, Page Howe, was visibly dejected today, after announcing the loss of gTLD domains to the Registry, Donuts, Inc. Apparently, three full weeks after Page registered those domains at eNom, he received an email notifying him of a "mistake": "im speechless at the ineptitude of donuts.co , for those of you in the domain […]...

GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boards of Echelon and Autodesk. Rafael is the first woman on GoDaddy's […]

              You think domain flipping is a nice way to make money ? Try being popular on Vine, $2,000 for a click of a reVine button is a mighty fine way to make some serious bank. Of course you need to have a real following and a creative spirit […]

I was trying to access my Twitter account this afternoon, and I was having trouble. When I went to Twitter, it prompted me to the sign in page, which doesn't usually happen because I always stay logged in to my account. Apparently, there is something funky happening because now there is an error message on the website: "Twitter is currently down fo...

The tech sector in San Francisco is booming, and two thirds of all the office space is used by technology corporations. That constant growth has led to a less obvious revelation: all the good company names are long gone. With more than 112 million dot .com domains in active registrations, it is clear that the […]

The Baltimore Business Journal has just covered John Ferber and his new venture  Bidtellect which is what the company known as DomainHoldings, Inc. is changing its name to. According to the article which quotes John: ""Bidtellect is an online platform through which advertisers bid in real-time for native ad spots. " "The company was founded in 2010...

Trademark counsel should pay attention to the latest TLD to enter sunrise. A lot of people have focused on .sucks as an example of a top level domain "shakedown" in which companies will feel compelled to register domains for protective purposes. There's a similar domain name entering sunrise today that hasn't received much attention: .exposed. [...

Company loses dispute for Unstoppable.com domain name. Fiskars, a company you most likely know for its scissors, has a trademark on "Unstoppable". But a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panel has ruled that its rights to the term are stoppable. The company filed a cybersquatting complaint under UDRP against the owner of Unstoppa...

The Trademark Clearinghouse has sent over 20,000 notices to trademark holders based on domain registrations matching trademarks. The Trademark Clearinghouse has now issued 20,076 trademark notifications based on second level registrations in new TLDs. The notifications are sent to entities that have registered their marks with the Trademark Clearin...

        The Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) issued its monthly update. As of March 10th 2014, there are 27,252 marks submitted for a total of 59, 593 trademark years. 20, 076 notifications were sent to holders based off attempted new gTLD registrations.  …

I noticed that Elliot's blog dropped the Like/Don'tlike buttons over the last few days.  I understand why, like everything on the Internet it turned out to be mostly negative with most people using it to bash people.  Me included.  I found myself down voting people rather than ideas or thoughts.  So I blame myself.  It's people like me that make it...

Jayson DeMers wrote a very detailed and well thought out post about Google and coming changes in search.  In the article DeMers discusses that search will change to accomodate a more mobile world, that SEO professionals will have to adapt and change as well. All things search must evolve. DeMers goes on to discuss that there will be more color and ...

According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com,  the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today.   Li Yifei, president of the company said "the market for web game exports is optimistic and it is a necessar...

A very active domain investor and entrepreneur, alerted us to the following domain scam that he came across not once, not twice, but three times at Sedo. The same trick might be in effect in other domain sale venues as well. Here's how the domain scam works. You get an offer at Sedo for a […]

Facebook is assisting with the launch of a new campaign, called "Ban #Bossy". The focus of the campaign is gender bias; when boys are assertive they are referred to as "leaders". Meanwhile, girls are typically branded as being "bossy." Words like this, send a message that girls, who eventually become women, need not speak up […]...

Verisign, masters of the dot .com and dot .net TLDs, offer network-related services designed to deliver protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. "Combine innovative, patented mitigation technology, a globally deployed network of scrubbing centers, and the benefit of advanced cyber security intelligence to provide a scalable ...

Up until this point, all comments had to be approved manually before appearing on DomainingTips but as of today, I'm going to try an experiment and disable comment moderation altogether. That way, your comment *should* appear instantly, assuming of course that it isn't caught by a filter (for example, if your comment contains a bunch...

I've been following along on the reported numbers of registrations for new gTLD domain names. Earlier this morning, I shared my thoughts on what sunrise registrations might mean. According to Domain Incite, as of March 5, there were just over 200,000 domain names registered in the new gTLD extensions. This is a lighter number than I anticipated wou...

If you happen to be in Austin for SXSW then there's a good chance you've bumped-into these guys: They're called the XYZ Squad and they are getting a lot of attention at SXSW this year. To shake things up .XYZ is giving away prizes to people who posted a photo of the XYZ Squad on […]

Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned  that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn't have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD's in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .??? Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is ...

Google is giving away free .??? domains. According to a company spokesperson, the first 5,000 people to submit a .??? web site idea via a campaign web site will receive a coupon for a free one-year registration in the new namespace. The offer expires April 5. The regular retail price at registrars appears to be […] Related posts: Google's fi...

Remember that company MeetMe Inc? You know the one that made domaining headlines for purchasing Meet.me from Worldwide Media, Inc., Rick Schwartz and Ammar Kubba for $450,000. Take a look

The internet has its first IDN versions of legacy gTLDs. Public Interest Registry had three new gTLDs delegated over the weekend, all non-Latin versions of its flagship .org. The gTLDs were .?????, which means "organization" in Hindi, and the Chinese .?? and .????, which seem to be two ways of saying "organization" too. They're not […] Relat...