Variety.com just published a cover story on Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and its less than flattering. The article entitled Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media starts out: "Take note, Twitter: Not every tech company has a happy ending after a ballyhooed IPO. Just look at Demand Media, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based firm some thought wou...

TechCrunch.com is reporting that Virtual Piggy, a payments service aimed at minors is today rebranding as Oink after buying the domain, trademarks and social marks from Milk (not Google) for $57,500. Founder and CEO Jo Webber is quoted as saying "the company found that 66% of it users were already over the age of 13, “Piggy” sounded too infantile b...

Many of the new gTLD registries are planning on the old .TV pricing model to sell their premium domain names. Two large applicants Donuts and  Minds +Machines who between the two applied for 400 new gTLD strings, have both stated they indent to use the .TV pricing model which sells premium domains instead one for a one time payment in the four, fiv...

Morning Folks!! With hundreds of new extensions coming out the noise will be very loud. Too loud for me to even respond as we soon will be overwhelmed with hype, ads, press releases and a host of things that will make your head spin. Some will be very good and creative, many will be pretty […]The post My Job is to Pick the Winners. First, Sec...

EURid is to expand sales of .eu domains to three countries outside the European Union from January 8. Companies and individuals from Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway will get to register .eu names, due to a rule change at the registry. The three countries are members of the European Economic Area, which enjoys many of the […] Related posts: ...

Found a lot of names I like at Godaddy today.  A change from the last few weeks.  I also have added 50 or so names to my portfolio this past two months.  I've been reinvesting my profits back into what I think are value names.  Names under $500 each in which I think I can get 10 times my money.  We'll find out if it was a good move down the road.  ...

Flickr set: The first few weeks at iwantmyname in 2008 It was in mid 2008 when two Germans and a Kiwi came together in New Zealand to start a company (a new domain name management service to be precise)....

Back from the fray with an interesting observation this evening.  Doing some domain administration across my portfolio and I noticed that all of my .com and .net domains registered through Dynadot are showing a "Last Updated" date of 1970. I'm not certain whether the difficulty is at the registrar level or with Verisign, or both, Related Posts:Rece...

According to a 8-K form filed by Marchex, Inc. ("Marchex") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC")  the company may sell up to $50 million of its Class B common stock, at prices and on terms that Marchex will decide at the time of any offering. In addition, under the shelf registration, certain of Marchex's stockholders may offer fo...

From Bill McBride - Calculated Risk: My credit card expired this year - as credit cards do - and Google notified me that I’d have to update my payment information to pay for the URL. No problem. I updated the...

With a low registration price and hotel room rates discounted to an astonishingly low €70 a night, Domaining Spain has always been one of the world's best conference bargains. If you want to go to the 2014 show next May, we can make it even cheaper for you to do so!

One of the biggest differences between domainers (or I'd say investors in general) who do well and domainers who don't is the fact that those who do well are willing to change their opinion when they come across facts which prove that they were wrong. They swallow their pride, admit they were wrong and change/calibrate their

Over the past week, 670 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million dollars. This amounts to $62.1 million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: bitok.com at 15,000 USD · Top ccTLD: batterie.fr at 14,000 EU...

As many of you know I am a huge fan of Lean Startup Machine. I first participated in LSM the summer of 2011 in NYC and after that I was hooked. I became a mentor and have had a blast over the last couple of years mentoring teams as they go through the weekend experience. […]

Seven more New TLDs are now available for Sunrise registration! That's right, after years of making this moment in Internet history come to life, the second batch of New TLDs are available for copyright holders starting now! The seven New … Continue reading →

Another record setting numeric .com domain sale just crossing the Sedo.com wire The domain name 1001.com just sold for $100,000 The last time the domain name wasn't under privacy was 2008 when the registered owner was  1001 Media Group of  Sherman Oaks, California Last week Frank Schilling's Name Administration sold 88888.com for $245,000 The third...

The holiday shopping numbers are in and its official, the Holiday shopping season now belongs to the Internet. Overall holiday sales numbers are down with retail brick and mortar stores licking their wounds, but online retailers are surging according to a report that just aired on Fox News. Amazon.com is reporting sales are up 44% from last year. e...

Matt Hampton is originally from California but has lived on the east coast for a little over 20 years. He found a good opportunity to go to art school out in Connecticut where he met his wife and original business partners, and  acquired two fine art degrees during his stay. Although he doesn't often get […]

Yesterday, I wrote an article about the Domain Name Association, and I was hoping someone from the organization might offer some information about membership benefits to domain investors. Mike Berkens, whose Right of The Dot, LLC company is an Affiliate member of the DNA, shared some of his insight about the organization. This morning on Twitter, T...

We didn't actually plan to write our 6,000 post on what is the 6th birthday of TheDomains.com. Our first post was published on December 4th 2007. (yes I know its technically tomorrow) Time really does fly. For those keeping count in addition to the 6,000 posts, there have been over 81,000 approved and published comments and well over 5,000,000 visi...

Morning Folks!! Starting TODAY, As TRAFFIC will share the names of folks that signed contracts to sell domains and did not fulfil their obligations as well as bidders that don't fulfil their obligations by paying for domains they bid on and won. I am personally calling on ALL auction houses to start sharing this information IMMEDIATELY. […]Th...

A few weeks ago I announced that we would start the Australian Domain Sales newsletter. The first edition went out 10 minutes ago and we have already sold 3 domains. That's how HOT this market is! If you are in the .au namespace, you are going to want to sign up (its 100% free). More ...The post Australian Domain Sales Goes Live appeared first on D...

When we broke the news of Uniregistry revealing the official dot .sexy video a lot of people were wowed. Some were upset that no nude models were featured in the video, but one needs to understand that dot .sexy domains aren't exclusively for adult content; on the contrary, sexiness in people is measured beyond the […]

DomainReport.ca I like to follow the stocks of junior companies, usually mining and resources, however sometimes something different comes along. A company that was recently brought to my attention is called LX Ventures (LXV.V).  They are based in Vancouver and their website is at LXventures.com.  In short, they are an incubator for tech start up...