According to an email sent to all of its clients tonight, the domain name registrar Moniker.com notified its client they did a "system-wide password reset" tonight that will require ALL Clients to reset their passwords. Here is the email Moniker.com send out tonight: ""Moniker’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious a...

Now that I am working a job and a half I thought it would be fun to dedicate one blog entry a week to what I am actually working on.

ICA has been informed by ICANN Staff that the Working Group (WG) on the Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings appears to have settled on a recommendation that domain name registrants who are Respondents in a UDRP proceeding be granted an automatic right to request and be granted a four day extension of the deadline for filing their r...

  Yesterday we wrote about domain names related to Kim Kardashian and Kayne West's rumored  baby's name and pointed out some recently registered domain names, who owned them and what was being done with the domains. One of the domain name we pointed out was kaidencedondawest.com, which yesterday was registered under privacy and listed for sale...

Bill McClure bought Bouquet.com for $30,000 in the TRAFFIC Las Vegas live auction just 3 weeks ago but he already has an attractive e-commerce site running on the domain along with an affiliate program for other domain owners who have floral related .com domains.

Electronic dance website guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after engaging in "duplicitous dealings". I have to admit, I don't expect much business or legal sense from a company that uses the domain name digi10ve.com for a site it calls "Digilove"… Ryan P. Boggs of the site Digi10ve.com filed a seven-sentence UDRP pleading with WIPO...

Landrush Registration phase of Radio GLDs – Radio.am & Radio.fm set to begin July 1, 2013. San Francisco CA (PRWEB) June 19, 2013 BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build … Continue reading →

Sometimes, humor is the best way to deal with important on-going issues, such as privacy of communications. While the revelations about PRISM – the NSA platform – appear to be at their opening stages still, the issue seems to have stricken a sensitive chord with many. What if PRISM were a real world project, asking

In case you didnt know Games.info was reported sold via the Namejet.com platform on 6/5/2013 for $11,500. Now we know who bought it. San Francisco, CA — (SBWIRE) — 06/19/2013 — While it may mean very little to consumers and … Continue reading →

I want to let all of the readers of TeenDomainer.com that I have moved my domain blog to BrianDiener.com. A few months ago I turned 20 and could no longer be the "teen domainer". On my new blog, I am still going to be blogging about many of the same topics I covered on this Related posts: TeenDomainer turns 18 and Becomes an Adult Domainer also Po...

The Alexander family asks court to overturn decision to transfer JustinAlexander.com. In 1999 Gary Alexander did something that was rather forward looking for the time: he registered his family members' names as .com addresses. He registered his own name, GaryAlexander.com, domains for his sons, JustinAlexander.com and JaredAlexander.com, as well a...

Here are my Top Picks over at SnapNames for 6/19/2013! Some of these domains are in auction and will end the next 24-48 hours! There are about 250 domains that all have bids on them over at Snapnames.com. There are … Continue reading →

Domain industry’s premier domain services platform, HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center, chosen to power of some of Japan’s largest corporate .BRAND TLD applications by leading Japanese Consulting firm – Brights Consulting. VANCOUVER, Canada (PRWEB) June 19, 2013 HEXONET (http://www.hexonet.net) today announced … Continue reading →

New TLD backers will be headed to a lot of tradeshows. One of the larger booths at this year's HostingCon conference is the .host booth, pictured below: I've written about a number of domain name companies exhibiting at HostingCon this year, but there's a big difference between .host and the others. .Host isn't at the

When I was initially looking to acquire a geodomain name, I was assured by a number of people that there would not likely be any issues regarding owning a domain name that comprises the name of a city or town. In the 5+ years of owning at least two geodomain names, this has proven to The post Humorous Reply to a C&D Letter Sent to the Owner of...

Bidders withdraw applications for 6 top-level domains after the first Applicant Auction, run by Innovative Auctions Ltd., successfully resolved contention for the strings. (PRWEB) June 19, 2013 Innovative Auctions Ltd. (IAL) has successfully completed the first private auction for generic … Continue reading →

Innovative Auctions today announced that its second new gTLD auction is scheduled for August 13 and that several companies have already signed up to participate. The news follows the settlement of the first round of auctions, which saw $9.01 million shared between losing applicants and Innovative for the rights to six new gTLD strings. "[A]ll Rel...

After a year's hiatus, the newdomains.org conference organized by United-Domains is back this October. Registration has now opened for the two-day event, which is entirely focused on the new gTLD market. The agenda is still forming and United is looking for speakers. The conference will take place in Munich at the Sofitel Munich Bayerpost hotel R...

All of the auctions will start tomorrow and end next week. To take a look at their entire inventory, click HERE. They have some amazing .it domains (televisione.it, moda.it, sport.it, auction.it, bookmark.it etc.), can't remember the last time I saw so many good .it domains. Here are some of the domains that are being auctioned this month: hia.com...

In a blog post, DomainIndex.com looked at  seasonality in parking revenues and concluded what most of us long time domainers already knew. The summer months are the  slowest and the Winter months of November- February are the strongest months of the year for parking revenues. In its post DomainIndex.com write: "We have been able to use a database o...

This weekend I wrote about the biggest event in the LA startup world – Silicon Beachfest. What you might not know is that Demand Media is taking center stage at the event as one of the biggest evangelists of the LA startup scene. To start with, they are one of only two premier sponsors which

After moving my entire portfolio away from Sedo in October of last year, I finally stopped receiving those lowball $60 queries via the GoDaddy TDNAM. No hard feelings; Internet Traffic pays more for parked domains, and offers a multitude of tools to maximize your domain sales ROI. There is one thing, however, that is done

Google, already the titan in search engine volume, stores information about trillions of web pages and other private communication, such as email. Gmail was included on the PRISM list, the secret initiative by the NSA that allegedly processes mass amounts of raw data in real time. If you are concerned about your privacy online, particularly

Welcome to another edition of the Gaijin-san Domainer. This is David J. Walker's second story about life, the Internet and domain names in Japan. If you missed the first part, then by all means click here. -*- Overdue Cell Phone Bill: Arm, Leg or Kidney? – by Gaijin-san Domainer. On Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s second