Last month panelist Eduardo Machado ordered the transfer of Ovation.com in one of the most poorly reasoned UDRP decisions ever issued.  Stephen Gilfus, the owner of the ovation.com domain, has filed in Federal Court in Florida to prevent the transfer by seeking a declaration under the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act that his use of the domain [&...

.Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete for $5.85. Regular wholesale pricing is $7.85 per year. The domain names must be registered […]

Sensationalism in the media isn't something new; it has existed since the time someone printed a newspaper and sent out hordes of barefoot, underpaid kids to distribute copies of it. Headlines that are controversial catch our attention – that's the nature of the human brain; we are attracted to things that are different, that stand […]...

Minds+Machines, one of the biggest investors in the gTLD namespace, is upping its ante with an aggressive marketing promotion geared towards domain investors, and indecisive end-user buyers alike. After announcing the "death of dot .com" on a Facebook ad, a funeral ceremony will take place this coming Sunday. "We are not disrespecting the body of [...

This week at GoDaddy & Afternic total sales are  $1,760,202 led by HealthAdvisor.com for 40K, followed by ContractControl $24,479 and ChinaTextile.com for $22,750 the top non .COM sale was CTDO.org for $9,977. Below is the full list of published domain names sold over $1K Whats your favourite form the domains sold below? .com Sales  Price healt...

Demand Media, Inc.,  proposed spinoff of its new gTLD registry, and registrar business Rightside.co just released an introductory video on its business and the new gTLD's program. The video highlights many of Demand Media, Inc. own gTLD's it applied for including .Ninja   …

I think there are many people that have an interest in the domain space, and some would prefer to work on the service side rather than as a full time domain investor. From time to time, I'll share a job opportunity that I found somewhere that looks like it could be of interest to someone reading my blog. There are many companies hiring right now. I...

It is cold, real cold here in Los Angeles. I am sure a number of you in other parts of the country and world would probably laugh at the fact

.UNO's 60-day Sunrise Period starts and runs until Feb. 6, 2014 Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) December 10, 2013 It is with much anticipation that Dot Latin LLC, the .UNO Domain Registry, announces today that their 60-Day Sunrise Period starts and … Continue reading →

Leading brandable domain names marketplace BrandArrows has created the heat in the domain name market by listing five single letter .pw domain names for sale. (PRWEB) December 10, 2013 Brand Arrows has emerged as a one stop brandable .com domain … Continue reading →

USAToday.com, is reporting that Art.com, a leading online seller of prints, posters, frames and canvas, is discuss plans for a possible initial public offering (IPO) next year If Art.com's IPO plans work out, it will likely try to go public toward the end of 2014. "A surge in Internet stocks this year and the successful Twitter IPO has many privat...

ParkLogic founder, Michael Gilmour reflects on the past 12 months and what has transpired in 2013. Everything from outsourcing domain management, increasing revenue, domain sales and the new tLDs is discussed. {youtube}tqq13D_op_0{/youtube}

We've got five (FIVE!) free tickets to NamesCon to give away to lucky DI readers. NamesCon is "a pro-new TLDs conference" happening at the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas from January 13 to 15, 2014. It's being organized by domain investor Richard Lau, Jothan Frakes (Domain Roundtable, DomainFest), and Jodi Chamberlain of 32Events (TRAFFIC, Domaining ...

Okay, so you've probably never heard of Lazada but that's just because your based in the US or Europe, if you live in Asia you've definitely heard of it. While Amazon may have built a huge market in the US, Lazada is building an eCommerce giant in Asia that really is "the biggest online shopping […]

Aero Club of New Delhi, India, represented by Lall & Sethi Advocates, India was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) by a one person UDRP WIPO panel on the generic domain name Woodlands.com Aero Club operates under the domain name woodlandworldwide.com which they registered in 2002 and tried to grab the shorter Woodland.com doma...

CentralNic is one of the world’s largest domain registries, currently distributing popular domain names such as .uk.com, .us.com and .cn.com. But their portfolio is rapidly expanding with 60 gTLDs coming soon, including .wiki, .bar and .xyz. To get some...

Check out "The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet" http://t.co/N2GlPa38HC via @eventbrite — Josh Bourne (@joshbourne) December 9, 2013   Fairwinds and The Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society are hosting an event next week called "The Impact of gTLDs on the Internet," and the event is open to the public. This free panel, moderate...

Almost everyone is talking about the Minds+Machines ad that said dot com is dead, without understanding that what they're doing is marketing 101 and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Their ad can be considered click bait and it also ended up being a good example of link bait. Let me explain. The concept of click bait

Oftentimes, after closing a nice domain sale to an end user buyer, I'll research similar domain names to see if I can buy something to re-sell to that person or company. I figure that if this buyer is willing to pay retail pricing for the domain name I offered, I could probably sell other domain names to the company at a similar price level (assumi...

A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this year I uncovered one such scam after digging […]

The ongoing debate about whether "dot com is dead" is definitely energizing the typically stagnant waters of the domain industry, after falling prey to a crafty "trolling" ad by Minds+Machines. While domainers waste time speculating the clinical status of the "king of all TLDs", someone apparently registered DotComIsDead.com – as early as in ...

Yesterday we purchased our Christmas tree. The lot was only about five minutes from my place. We ended up going to this particular Christmas lot because it was run by

Today a coalition of Technology companies released their plan for reforming how the government conducts surveillance.  See below for the full press release. In addition to the press release there were a couple of other related stories. CNN featured a story today, "Microsoft Fights Back Against NSA Snooping" (CNN) — Still concerned about some ...

It has a nice ring to it. Over the weekend Elliot Silver posted an ad with the headline "Dot Com is Dead" from Minds + Machines. I've seen a lot of other blog posts about how new TLD backers are beating the drum that .com is dead. Domainers commenting on the posts then typically say […]

It appears that Godaddy.com charges its customers $50 one of their domains get hit with a UDRP. One customer is complaining on his own blog. Daniel Paden tells his tale on the blog Atheiststoday.com, in a post entitled, Stop Using Godaddy, including all the emails he exchanged with Godaddy.com complaining about a $50 fee charged to Mr. Paden credit...