The domain name ePhoto.com just sold on SnapNames.com for $16,000. The high bidder's ID was Maxbid. In all there were 174 bidders in the auction with 7 bidding $5K or more. The domain name ePhoto.com was a pure drop domain, meaning it didn't drop to a certain service, and could have been caught by anyone. According to DomainTools appears to have be...

The Megaupload scandal is still in its infancy, particularly after CEO Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz was denied bail in New Zealand. Fat boy Kim Dotcom is thus expected to face extradition to the US. While Megaupload.com is held hostage by the FBI and dozens of other domains owned by Kim Dotcom and his employees are in

A one member WIPO panel just awarded the domain name TommyBahamaSucks.com to the Trademark Holder. While we usually post the relevant facts and findings by the panel this case can be summed up citing this finding of the panel: ""This case ultimately turns on the quality of Respondent’s evidence." "In this regard, however, the Panel notes Respondent...

I'm actually surprised by the amount of good domains in the Godaddy Closeout section. It's also obvious that plenty of people are viewing them because many of the domains I watched started to get picked off when they dropped a few dollars in price. A couple good things about the closeout section, closeout domains

(Editor's forward to this article: The screenshot taken below and the proceeding details were dated from January 25th.  While writing this article and double-checking some facts today (yes, I actually fact-check each of my posts prior to publishing) … it appears that the feature in question is no longer present, and has been updated to...

A few years ago, I learned about Swoopo, an interesting type of online auction website that had bidders pay for bids. As I recall, there was some controversy surrounding the type of auctions on the site, because a $100 item that sells for $10 could conceivably have hundreds of dollars worth of bids to get

A look at who took this year's survey. Domain Name Wire's 7th annual domain name industry survey has concluded with over 1,500 participants. I'm busy collating and analyzing the results, which will be posted on Domain Name Wire throughout the month of February. Here are data about the participants in this year's survey: 1,593 survey...

Toby Clements is one those people that just has a natural gut instinct for domain names. He can look at a list of domains and quickly identify which ones could sell, and which may be sitting in their owners portfolio collecting dust. One of the top questions I get from blog readers is, "What kind

So its now a week since the 1st press release was issued announcing that Moniker.com and SnapNames.com were sold to Key Systems. In addition to being a blogger I'm a domainer that has multiple accounts at Moniker.com and an account at SnapNames.com where I spend six figures a year,  but to date I haven't received a email from either Moniker.com or ...

Former ICANN director Njeri Rionge has emerged as a possible candidate for the soon-to-be vacated CEO's job. Rionge is a Kenyan national, described last year by Forbes magazine as "one of Kenya’s most successful and revered serial entrepreneurs". She founded Wananchi Online, a successful ISP in East Africa, and the business consultancy Ignite Consu...