According to a post on Most Wanted Domains newly launched Facebook page and a corresponding tweet, Michael Berken's company is going to be reporting information on their domain sales through social media in real time, starting next week. It also appears that the company bought mwd.com for an undisclosed price – the domain currently redirects ...

A look at a few stories I haven't covered this week… There are a few notable stories in the domain name industry that I missed writing about over the past week, so here's a quick run down. A "monster" of an acquisition – Mesh Digital, which owns domain name registrar DomainMonster, has been acquired by

Buying expired domain names is a great way to pick up some good deals on domains that could make great development or resale candidates. Many of the top investors buy expired domains every month and have been for years, people like Frank Schilling, Michael Berkens, and many more. The problem is, many new investors see

The SnapNames Moniker Spring Auction is set to end in less than 1 1/2 hours – here are the current domains and their bids:   Related posts: SnapNames Year End Auction Ends Today SnapNames Spring Auction & Sedo .TV Auction Ending Today Moniker/Snapnames iGaming Extended Auction Ends Today SnapNames Showcase Auction – Entertainm...

Oversee.net hires GM from online travel industry to run its travel network. Oversee.net has hired Raj Beri as General Manager of its travel vertical, the company announced today. Beri was previously Director and COO of IgoUgo, a travel site owned by Travelocity. The travel vertical is part of Oversee.net's "vertical markets" business that includes ...

The SnapNames.com/Moniker Spring Showcase Auction ends at 3:15pm today and as of publication there are 18 domain names that have bids including: Mama.com $155,000 MovingCompany.com $150,000 Sly.com $50,000 None of those domain names have hit reserve. There are 10 domains that have hit reserve and will sell. We wish all the Seller and Bidders the be...

I'm reducing my site portfolio and raising money for new ventures, so this is a good chance for someone to pick up a few great, well established sites with stable, passive revenue. These sites require no updates or maintenance and get most of their traffic through search engines. I've acquired most of them during the

From dessert names to rather unflattering names, here are 14 odd domain registrar names. People get creative when coming up with domain names. Even registrars sometimes get into the act when naming their registrars. Many registrar names are created by companies creating drop catching registrars. Since they aren't public facing registrars, they get ...

Sint Maarten's new .sx country-code top-level domain has been online for at least a couple months now, but Google's Chrome browser appears to be still a bit wary of it. Typing "registry.sx" and "nic.sx" into Chrome's combined URL/search bar today, instead of being sent to my chosen destination I was instead sent to a page Related posts:Google bl...

Today is all about domaining off the cuff. We cover the principals of domaining and the cold hard fact that you need to be in this game for the long haul. No overnight success here, but ‘hide the sussuage' did sell for $350   Links Frager Factor Mike Mann and the cycles of success The

Another two letter .com appears to have changed hands in the last few days. The domain name Tu.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by Energy Future Holdings in February 2012, then moved to Trademark Protection firm, MarkMonitor.com in the past month and yesterday became the property of Luis Miguel Sanz Triguero of Telefonica I y D o...

Major League Baseball has acquired the generic domain name Athletics.com according to whois records for an undisclosed sum. The "official site" of the Oakland Athletics resides at http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=oak&sv=1 but it will be easier to visit the site directly, as MLB almost always does a redirect of the basebal...

Wow there are a ton of great names at auction today. I could put 50 strong names up today with no problem.  I'm like a kid in a candy store.  I love these types of days because there WILL be some names that get missed because there are so many.  Here are some of the names I thought had value.   7n.org A two character dot anything is worth a go...

Appraiso, the unique website appraisal tool developed by domain investor Morgan Linton announced its first partnership today.  The Appraiso website appraisal system is now available to Protrada.com customers who can start tracking the value of their sites as traffic and revenue continue to grow. This is a fantastic partnership for both parties! Thi...

Hello and welcome to a little weekly segment I've decided to call WordPress Wednesday's. People always ask me what WordPress themes I like so as per usual I like to turn these into a post rather than just share this information with one person. For my first WordPress Wednesday I thought it would be fun

People are going bonkers for Facebook's IPO (Initial Public Offering). It'll rock the stock market on Friday. But does anyone remember when Yahoo! was valued at one hundred billion dollars? Well they were and, well, Yahoo! has become the VCR … Continue reading →

A complaint was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name Vanity.com. Beyond the fact that an undisclosed complainant is trying to take away a dictionary word domain, the even more shocking part is that the domain name is not parked, not inactive but a fully developed site owned by a company named Vanity...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently issued a detailed press release regarding Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases for which it provided arbitration services in 2011 (http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/article_0002.html ) and, once again, the number of WIPO filings was up. read more

I just received an email from 4.cn proudly announcing that they had just finished brokering the sale of 999.com for 4,000,000 RMB or approximately $632,000 which would put it at number two on the annual sales chart compiled over at DnJournal. 4.cn has always been known as the king of the numeric domains and this past year has been no exception.DnJo...

I'm going to give out an award honoring your favorite account manager, account executive, or account representative at a domain industry company. Please post your nomination in the comment section below, and I'll post a poll early next week where you can vote for your favorite, with the winner receiving a yet to be determined

A GoDaddy user is getting ready to sue the biggest domain registrar in the world, reportedly for millions of dollars. The reason? Physical injury sustained while wading through dozens of pages in order to renew or order domain services. "My fingers are hurting like a person with arthritis and I'm only 29 years old," said

Request for .xxx domain name denied. United Kingdom insurance company BGL Group Limited, better known as CompareTheMarket.com, is the first complainant to lose a UDRP for a .xxx domain name. The company filed the complaint against UK resident Jon Watkins, who registered the domain back in December when .xxx became generally available. But as I've...

Irish small businesses overwhelmingly chose .com domains over .ie and .eu during the first year of a Blacknight Solutions web presence freebie initiative. Blacknight said today signed up 10,000 Irish small business customers through Getting Business Online, a partnership with Google and the local postal service, which it launched a year ago. The sc...

The Social Security administration published the most popular 1,000 boy and 1,000 girl baby names for 2011, on Monday. It probably won't surprise you to find out the all 2,000 .Com domains are taken. Some popular baby names are also the names of cities like Brooklyn and Madison while others are also three letter abbreviations. Yet  if you search th...

It is always exciting to see domain names released into the wild and being put to good use. We've noticed that there is a burgeoning community of artists, designers and makers promoting their pet projects on the web these days....

Watching the news this morning it was hard not to feel bad for the poor Greeks. Yes, their leaders made unwise choices. Yes, they don’t work as many hours as their Northern neighbors. Too many Greek countrymen work for their government, effectively draining the public coffers rather than contributing to the real economy and growing