Yesterday I added my first names to Brand Bucket.  At first I was like everyone else and thought I could do my own version of Brand Bucket. But the more and more I thought about it I realized that they have built a business that startups and domain searchers go to for names. They also offer buy it now prices which is much more comfortable for many ...

The world's insatiable appetite for property in London is being reflected in applications for domain names during .london's landrush, according to the registry. Just a few days before the landrush ends, over 30 applications have been filed for properties.london, Dot London said, and apartments.london and houses.london "are among the most sought aft...

The longest comment thread in the history of domaining is the post that Michael wrote four years ago about 3D, it has 5,371 comments. So for those interested in the topic of 3D there is a new search engine launching on a .es domain is all about 3D content, the engine will be using the […]

Reserve Met and Will Sell RHK.com – $9,500 – LLL.com domains are on fire, and I expect the price to move up based on the most recent LLL sales per NameBio, including HCK.com at $20,000 (two of the same three letters, for whatever that's worth), MRQ.com at $12,100, SDH.com at $18,600 and IFK.com at $10,600. TopReview.com – $1,800 &...

If I'm not mistaken, 4 new gTLDs will enter the General Availability phase next week and the Early Access Program will start for another 4 extensions. As always, please take everything I say with a grain of salt because since most new gTLDs are extremely poorly promoted, I might have missed some. I do my best

Our hotel is in Palm Desert and I'm amazed at the amount of people that are out here. There are so many people that it feels like Vegas. Yesterday evening

I am enjoying a nice weekend in New York City. I went to the Arsenal v. NY Red Bulls soccer game yesterday with my brother. It was the first professional game I've been to in about 10 years. Although it was clear the game was just an exhibition, I had a great time. My brother is a big Arsenal fan, and I've been following them for a couple of years....

Here are today's names GulfCoast.com  Huge name.  Some of the best vacation cities in the US are on the Gulf Coast PlanoHomes.com  Plano Texas is one of the biggest and wealthiest areas of Texas.  And man do they love football  iEducation.com   Online education is big money….and CPC.  A lot of bidders agree ChineseWok.com   A lot of these are...

And now for some exclusive domainer news: Popular Thought Convergence entrepreneur, Ammar Kubba, is testing the TV network waters, with a new show based off the popular "Deal or No Deal" series. Titled, "Domainer Deal or no Deal?" the networked licensed show will feature prominent domainers that attempt to close a domain sale, all while […] C...

Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with recent data courtesy of DN Journal and historical data from NameBio. Flips LocalSpot.com – sold recently for $7,250 at Indus Domains, vs only $638 two months ago at NameJet. A tidy $6,600 profit before commissions in a short timeframe. An acquisition by smart guy currently enr...

Yet another good week for GoDaddy coupon enthusiasts! I'll be sharing 22 discount codes with you guys today: 6 of them *should* work worldwide as opposed to only for customers from the US/Canada and as far as the remaining ones are concerned, I'm not sure. Didn't use any of them myself, so I can't guarantee they'll...

Hello, Happy Saturday and welcome to my weekend musings. We have been in Vancouver since Wednesday night for Fashion Metric meetings and now have our first day of downtime before we head back to Austin tomorrow. Never a dull moment but as someone that has done business in Vancouver for many years (I ran Sonos […]

The expansion of the Internet name lanes is like the Y2k bug at times: gTLD domains introduce challenges daily to functions where regular TLDs do just fine. An apparent glitch that we found yesterday, affects the API between Domain Name Sales and Escrow.com, and it's something that produced an hour of "fun" attempting to complete […] Copyrigh...

Yesterday afternoon, Protrada announced the soft launch of NameInvestors.com, a platform that allows users to create a "domain shop" to help sell their domain names. According to the newsletter email I received, "this new platform offers domain investors a ‘domain shop' and ‘tools' for marketing and selling of domain names, faster." Acc...

I'm not sure if it's my luck, my timing, or my offers.  Over the last three days I've had people reach out to me with a price on a name that I've had interest in. I usually take 24 hours to think over decisions but in that time the name has sold to someone else.  I know you're saying "should've just bought it and you would have the names".  But the...

Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyer's premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Richard a few questions about what he does, why he purchased the name and […]

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! There are some very solid names that were added to Flippa this week, this is definitely one of my best lists this year, enjoy! Freakish.com – 15 year-old one-word .COM that could be a good one for someone who is doing something Halloween-related. Domains like […...

One of my clients has strong ties with the former DEC/Digital in Maynard, Massachusetts. The recent auctioning of several digital assets of the former company, that was absorbed by Compaq and eventually Hewlett-Packard, adds a sad epitaph to the region's tech sector. My client is a corporate veteran that has lived the 70′s and 80′s [...

Nathan Safran wrote a piece on Search Engine Land that had to do with the branding benefits of search. In his piece entitled, It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search, Safran cited a Google study that concluded, “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” The study tested brand recall for searchers who […]

Two weeks ago, we covered the first recorded UDRP for a dot .Company domain name; Statoil, a Norwegian oil company undertook the task of protecting its trademark. In this case, the same company filed a UDRP against the registrant of the domain name, Statoil.email. The Respondent, Giovanni Laporta of UK, asserted that the domain is […] Copyrig...

According to a regulatory filing, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that it has issued 350,000 new Ordinary Shares following exercise by an employee of 350,000 share options at an exercise price of 9p per share. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu [R...

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures Here is the latest company domain movers with new registrations and domain name purchases by large companies. Several interesting stories along with some of these domains today, so enjoy. Penguin Books Limited Purchased the domain name HappyReader.com, likely from Sedo. The domain was registered 3/11/2014...

Another new gTLD string has apparently been resolved, .Broadway The surviving applicant is Celebrate Broadway, Inc which is a Minds + Machines backed applicant. Those withdrawing their applications are broadwayacrossamerica.com and Donuts. We do not have any information regarding how the contention set was settle or what the terms were. We only kno...

Celebrity chef among end users who bought domain names last week. Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who experienced a spectacular fall from grace last year over her prior use of racial slurs, is making a comeback with Paul Deen Ventures. She's launching a subscription service called Paula Deen Network (PDN). She just made a smart move […]

Sedo reported its sales from this month's Great Domains auction, and there are a few notable sales to report. Chat.fr was reportedly sold for 99,999 EUR and Chat.de was reportedly sold for 65,000. The total of these two domain name sales was 164,999 EUR. At today's exchange rate, this is approximately $221,872.51 USD. Several of the other domain na...

Kathy Nielsen did an article for Wired that took a look at the U.S. lagging behind China when it comes to gTLD awareness. From the article: The IDN movement is significant in China, which has 21.97% of the world’s Internet users, compared to just 9.58% of the world’s Internet users coming from the U.S. In […]