A domain name hack has traditionally used ccTLD's to form words and made it a brandable domain. Some of the more famous hacks are bit.ly, and del.icio.us instagram.com started out as instagr.am But now with the new gTLD's people are using them to form words with longer extensions to the right of the dot. So […]

I was looking at Twitter tonight, and it appears that the Verisign Twitter account has been hacked or somehow compromised. The most recent tweet from Verisign said, "I'm down almost 13 pounds this month, woohoo!" As you can see by the check mark next to the user name, Verisign's Twitter account is a verified account. I didn't click the Bitly link, ...

It looks like there will be a new domain publication coming on the scene in July. Perusing Facebook there was an ad for DomainWorldMagazine.com Ryan Colby of Outcome Brokerage looks to be the registrant of the domain. From the Facebook page With over 175,000,000 iPads sold, we figured it was time to publish the first […]

Turkey is looking at leaving the world wide web for its own protocol I can say I have thought for a long time we will eventually see the balkanization of the Internet. The net has become to vital in so many aspects of life that we continue to have global agreement. We do not see […]

Faced with a lengthy, unproductive gap between their respective festive periods, Santa and the Easter Bunny announced their merger into a joint venture earlier today, just in time for Easter. "We are joining forces, as times are tough and the market is competitive," said Santa, who's been working on sled repairs to make ends meet […] The post...

We are taking our daughter to her first Red Sox game of the season today. I didn't really like it when the Red Sox introduced Wally the Green Monster as a team mascot, but it makes me smile every time Hailey yells out "Wally!" when she sees him on tv. If you are celebrating Easter, I hope you have a great holiday and are spending it with friends an...

Great news, it seems GoDaddy is once again starting to be more generous when it comes to coupons. Found 10 this week: two of them should bring the price down to $0.99, three should bring the price down to $1.99 and five should bring the price down to $2.95. I'm not sure whether they work for

LinkedIn reached 300 million members according to a story in USA Today. The company was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, the company is now a publicly traded company and is currently trading at $175 a share, this equates to a market cap of $21.6 billion. From the USA Today article: […]

If you need a short, memorable domain for your next dot .Photo web site, then you might consider picking one of these sweet, short three letter .Photo domains. Domain availability lists are generated using expert tools, and we bring you the best lists faster – absolutely FREE! And that's exactly what this domain availability list […] Th...

As Shane mentioned yesterday, Lowballer.com is currently up for auction at NameJet. There are 62 active bidders for this great domain name, which is surprisingly low considering how many people there are out there who would make good use of this domain name. If I win the auction, I think it would be funny to set up an email address and use it to in...

Back on February 6, we posted a poll that asked readers to choose their interest level in the new gtlds.  Readers had a choice of strong interest, moderate interest or zero interest. The poll ran til April 1 and in total 240 readers voted. The results were : 132 Zero interest 70 Moderate interest 38 […]

Consolidation has been re-shaping the domain industry for years now so it was just a matter of time before that irresistible force arrived in the blog sector of the business. DomainShane.com and AccidentalDomainer.com are merging into one new blog.

A bitcoin company bought a domain at Sedo last week. Sedo had a solid sales week last week with $1.3 million worth of sales. Here are ten that were purchased by end users. You can view previous end user sales lists here. Coinify.com $10,000 – BitCoin Nordi, a bitcoin seller. ForzaFootball.com $1,900 – FootballAddicts AB, […]

Yes, it's pretty hard for a week to go by without another company that brands on .IO either raising their next round, or getting acquired by Silicon Valley favorites like Quixey. This week Kite.io, a competing app search engine was acquired by Quixey, a startup that has raised $75M so far and is not slowing […]

Conan Pravasi is on a roll; the proud owner of Synagogue.com has sold yet another top notch domain on DNForum: Extinct.com. It's a little known secret that people buy Lego kits from estates and resell them individually on eBay; domain portfolios acquired in the same manner can bring lots of profit when sold separately. This […] The post Extin...

LinkedIn announced today, that they have 300 million registered users worldwide; 100 million of which reside in the US. The social network for professionals started in 2002, at a time before Facebook, filling the void for professional networking. "To get there, we are delivering personalized experiences built around members and their identity, netw...

The forthcoming .london gTLD has earmarked its first 28 domain names, most of which are going to some famous, and not-so-famous, local brands. Judging by the list of names, registry Dot London Domains is going for a relatively classy bunch of anchor tenants, which is probably why I wasn't invited to the launch event earlier […] Related posts...

Color me surprised. Afilias launched its first six new top level domain names yesterday, and I'd rate it as the worst first day performance of any portfolio applicant. I'm basing this on changes to the zone files. Here are the six domains Afilias' launched in general availability yesterday with how many domains they added to […]...

Single word, dictionary domain names stand a better chance of being used as brands, or to be resold. Who was the ‘smart' guy that said all the good dot .link domains are taken? (LOL) Here’s the list of all available 3 to 8 letter dictionary words (in English), presented below for the dot .Link gTLD […] The post Powered by CAX: List of a...

The list is back this week after taking a sabbatical last week.  Per usual, there are a few names at auction and a few names at BIN prices. If you see a name you like email me an offer. You never know.  Here are today's names. Maine.net  Not a lot of State.nets come up for sale.  And I'm surprised by the low price eMOOC.com (Make Offer) Massively O...

Uniregistry announced its affiliate commission program a few days ago; the process is also explained in a step-by-step manual for Domain Name Sales users. Just how much is Uniregistry paying for domains that are registered via an affiliate link referral? The earnings vary according to the TLD, and there is a useful table that explains […] The...

GoDaddy, the biggest domain registrar in the world, isn't shying away from the use of performance-enhancing (but legal) substances. The infamous GoDaddy commercial aired during the Super Bowl, was a precursor to the first gTLD by GoDaddy: dot .roids. Aimed at lifters, meatheads, pumpers and steroid fans, dot .roids will utilize Danica Patrick in he...

Today's list is making me hungry! I think I might have to grab a little Kung Pao chicken for lunch! It's another great day out here in Los Angeles. I

As much as I hold the partial title of a ‘domainer', it's more for an inner city reference than for public identification outside of that circle. The world, in fact, retains very little respect for domain investors, that are often labeled with ‘squatter' or ‘opportunist' and other such negative epithets. As a developer, I am [R...

Intent-to-use trademark does in complainant. Neal & Massy Holdings, a business conglomerate operating in the Carribean, has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name Massy.com. Massy.com is owned by domain investor Gregory Ricks. Ricks defended himself without counsel in the UDRP. He made a good defense, pointing out that the domain name is...