Over the past few years I've noticed a worrying trend. New, pop-up web sites for domain name investors. It seems that every month I get at least 2 new emails, packed full of unsubstantiated marketing claims and hype. Just today I received an email from a new service that is going to publish new domain ... The post Be Wary Of New Domain Claims appea...

Chinese buyers have taken over the upper reaches of the 2014 domain sales charts, accounting for more than half of the year's top ten sales.Their latest salvo came this week when a 3-letter .com sold for CNY 1.2 million (almost $200,000) to land among the year's 30 biggest sales to date.

Talk about a waste of money. The owner of the domain name UGN.com just successfully defended a UDRP against UGN, Inc which was represented by Laura Petrolino of Arment Dietrich, Inc., Illinois The owner of the domain has owned it since at least 2001. Complainant had a trademark for the term UGN SOUND SOLUTIONS FOR […]

Neil Patel from Quick Sprout put this together, I read everything Neil puts out as he does exceptional work. Landing pages are supposed to help boost your conversions, but in some cases, they kill them. When does that happen? If your landing pages have the wrong copy or distract your visitors, your conversion rate will […]

Stephen Colbert scoops up Sarah Palin Domain Time magazine wrote about Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central registering TheSarahPalinChannel.com, the channel will parody the new SarahPalinChannel.com. The Sarah Palin channel will cost you $9.95/month or $99.95 for a one year subscription, the parody site of course will be free. Dan Kemey of Time Mag...

4 new gTLDs entered the General Availability phase today: Dot Toys Dot University Dot Town Dot Reisen (Reisen = “trips” in German) My favorite is Dot Toys but I only got one: Safest.Toys More and more parents are concerned about the safety issues associated with toys (where they're made, whether or not the company making the toys uses/used question...

Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO's application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: "Thank you for your participation in the [&#...

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures Welcome to the latest round of company domain movers from large companies in the series that I call DotWeekly Discoveries. Huge list today with a lot of different domains, so I hope you enjoy and lets get to the action. Research In Motion Limited Registered the domain names BlackberryGuardian.com .net . R...

Being a domain name broker seems like it could be lucrative, and for the best domain brokers, it is a great job. Domain brokers represent domain name owners who are trying to sell their valuable domain names and they make a commission on successful sales. Aside from their time and marketing expenses, brokers rarely have a financial stake in the dom...

Large companies snap up domain names at Sedo. This week's Sedo end user sales list is packed with big name end user buyers. Fortune 500 companies bought domains for under $2,000. The list follows. You can view previous lists like this here. If you'd like to learn how to sell your domain names like these […]

Tomorrow is a key deadline for .London domain names. The .London domain name is launching, and it's very different from previous domain name launches. I reached out to Antony Van Couvering with Minds + Machines to learn more about the .London launch. One key thing to note: the London Priority Period, which ends tomorrow, is […]

Victims of terrorism want to be paid (in part) with country code top level domain names. ICANN has responded to the U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing that ccTLDs (country Code top level domain names, e.g. .ca and .de) are not property and can't be awarded to plaintiffs in a case involving […]

Owners of .xxx domain names will get matching adult-themed web addresses. Kevin Murphy at Domain Incite reports this morning that ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx, has settled the contention set for .sex. That means ICM is the only remaining applicant for .sex, .porn and .adult. This may be good news for .xxx domain name […]

You may recall a little while back there were all those Flipkart domain purchases in various cctlds, well the company certainly could afford it as they have just completed the largest funding ever by an Indian Internet company. flipkart.ca May 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.cn April 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.co.za May 2014 5,000.00 EUR [R...

I don't kick myself very often but I did yesterday by missing Twitters earnings.  I knew they would be good but had all my money tied up in Chipotle and didn't want to sell.  It takes a few days to transfer in money into the account so I did nothing.  Then Twitter crushes the numbers and the stock goes up by 25%.  Not many chances to make 10% in a ...

Google and Microsoft seem to have settled their contention set for the .docs new gTLD, with Google emerging the victor. Microsoft withdrew its application for .docs this week. It's not clear how the deal was made, but Google is known to have participated in private auctions for other strings. Google Docs is of course Google's […] Related pos...

ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM's the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD's .adult and .porn The only caveat on […]

New gTLDs are being launched every week and I'm seeing the same mistakes over and over again. The information in this post, could be the difference between failure and and a hugely successful launch. Here are my top tips: 1. Don't Rely On Registrars Right now, I believe this is the #1 mistake that new ... The post 5 Ways New gTLDs Can Reduce The Ri...

It's Tuesday.  Since I work the weekends at the nursery I try and get some stuff done at home but I never actually do.  I usually catch up on my sleep do a little pondering.  Here are a few of those thoughts 1. Sahar Sarid believes his portfolio has grown in value over the last 5 years and is now worth over $100 million.  I haven't seen the portfol...

I've been writing this blog for over seven years, and nearly 5,000 articles have been published in that time. Many of the articles would be considered "news" rather than opinion, but there is a large percentage of articles that would be considered personal opinion or advice. These articles are generally based on learnings from my own business and o...

The Respondent to a recently decided UDRP at the WIPO used a novel way to attempt to extract unreasonable fees from the Complainant. In a UDRP case involving the domain name OnWikipedia.com, the Complainant – Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. – was sent back this response from the domain's registrant: "What is this email requesting I do? [R...

Escrow.com has confirmed the fix of a strange glitch that affected the use of gTLD email addresses. As we discovered late last week, when the email address of the parties was based on a new gTLD domain, for example dot .email, the escrow would not initiate. It's a good thing seeing that there is email […] Copyright DomainGang

I'm in a bit of a rush today, so here is the list without any bells and whistles. Here is the list today! Enjoy! 27236.com 69910.com 84826.com agingtastefully.com atractivetube.com bloggingempires.com

Freebies and deep discounts add up to a big figure. The .XYZ domain name now has over 400,000 registrations, according to zone file reports. Of course, the majority of these registrations were given away free to Network Solutions customers on an opt-out basis. nTLDStats.com shows that about 353,000 .xyz domain names were registered at Network [R...

Company sells close to $10 million worth of domain names. Domain name brokerage Domain Holdings had a big second quarter, turning in almost 3x the sales of its first quarter. The company reported today that it sold $9.9M worth of domain names in the second quarter of this year. That compares to just $3.4 million […]