Angela St. Julien continues to interview important people from the domain community, in a an hour long feature called "HappyHour Chat." This week, the BrandBar owner discusses domains and the law, with IP attorney Karen J. Bernstein, Bernstein IP Based in New York City, Karen Bernstein talks about her career and background as an attorney, the [R...

Over the past week, 581 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: ezpr.com at 14,500 USD Top ccTLD: moon.co at 6,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: legend.net at 13,000 USD   .COMs ezpr.com 14,500 USD […]

NEW YORK, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Twenty years ago, with the Internet in its infancy, it was understandable for high-achievers dedicated to their callings and immersed in vital endeavors to have a simple Hotmail account for personal use.  Today, nothing … Continue reading →

Here's an awesome illustration of domain extensions and the timeline of their launch years… from .COM to many of the new TLDs.

The Washington Post and New York Times covered a story on former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the domain name ClintonEmail.com. It seems that on the day of her Senate hearings she registered the domain name ClintonEmail.com. This is important because only official government email accounts have their content retained under the Federal Records Act...

Namejet.com released its domain name sales for February for domains that sold for $2,000 or more. The total of such sales is just short of $615,000. Here are the sales:   Domain Name Amount buying.com $69,200.00 yry.com $25,022.00 xixia.com $19,488.00 quk.com $14,301.00 newlogic.com $12,600.00 yuchu.com $11,904.00 gqt.com $11,800.00 ndq.com $1...

Today we have a heavy hitters list of corporate domain name movers, registration and more by companies many of you are aware of! Some big, expensive domain names are in today's list and most of these sales would go unreported otherwise… so here we go! EmpiresAndAllies.com has been acquired for a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. The domai...

There aren't many who's registering this new domain name. Only one non-brand new top level domain name goes live this week in general availability, and it's a rather unique one. .Whoswho went live yesterday. It appears to have only gotten about a dozen registrations on its first day and only has 22 names in the […]

If you're a huge fan of The Walking Dead series – hello, Tia Wood – and want to diversify your domain investments by grabbing a commercial piece of land used in Season 3 of the popular series, now it's your chance. Nine buildings in downtown Grantville, Georgia, are up for sale on eBay, with a […] Copyright DomainGang

 If you could have a million dollars cash or 25.com which one would you take?  For me it's an easy choice.  But you would have the million dollars in hand, ready to get working on the next investment.  Could you put it into a stock and triple it by the time you sell 25.com?  That's the question.  What's the value of cash vs potential.  I'll take th...

Tucows and Namecheap have both pulled out of their joint venture with Radix to run the .online registry. Tucows revealed the move, which will see Radix run .online solo, in a press release yesterday. Both Tucows and Namecheap are registrars, whereas Radix is pretty much focused on being a registry nowadays. While financial terms have […] Rel...

We need NamesCon and I am attending the conference for that very reason. Although the domain space is fairly small, in reality it really isn't that small. Yes, all of

There are two US-based domain industry conferences taking place within the next 12 months, and both are offering special rates to entice attendees to sign up in advance. I am curious about whether you plan to attend one, both, or neither of these industry conferences. Howard Neu sent me an email this morning to announce a special price on conferenc...

Discounted tickets available for two weeks. The inaugural THE Domain Conference, Howard Neu's follow up to TRAFFIC, takes place this coming September. Compared to TRAFFIC, the show is very inexpensive. And it's even less expensive if you buy a ticket now. THE Domain Conference is offering passes for only $349 until March 15. To get […]...

EasyGroup Limited of London which owns Easy Jet, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name easygroup.com from Easy Group Holdings Limited of Kowloon, Hong Kong, The three member UDRP panel split in its decision as panelist Jane Lambert did not agree in the finding of RDNH Here are […]

We all detest spam, and even if it supposedly arrives from multi-billionaire, Bill Gates, such scam emails are a waste of time. The fun side of it lies in the extent that such email fraudsters go, to devise legitimate-sounding situations. One such fun example is this email we received from a supposed Nigerian Senator. This […] Copyright Domai...

How a category-defining domain name creates instant credibility. Domain name investors know that great domain names offer a number of benefits to the companies that use them. In this episode, Wearables.com co-founder Luis Rincon gives concrete examples of how using a category-defining domain name has helped his company get instant credibility plus ...

Both terms are popular in existing domain name registrations. Google bought rights to the .App top level domain name last week for a whopping $25 million. Also last month, .Blog sold for an unknown number that was certainly 8 figures. App and Blog are certainly very popular terms, and they're frequently found in newly-registered .com […]...

Publicly traded company BIMobject announced today that the company have acquired the top level domain name BIM.COM. The company is traded on the NASDAQ OMX exchange as BIM "Acquiring BIM.COM is an exciting step toward increasing our market penetration. BIM.COM is an under utilised asset that we can unlock to reach its full potential", says, […...

In November of 2014, it was announced that the one letter Z.com domain name was sold by Nissan North America for JPY800 million, which was worth just under $6.8 million USD at the time of the sale. The buyer was a Japanese company called GMO Internet Group. According to an article written by Avi Mizrahi and published this morning on ForexMagnates.c...

The discounted offer by NamesCon founder, Richard Lau produced some great results over the weekend. More than 200 people took advantage of the hefty discount, registering for NamesCon 2016 for only $199 dollars; a savings of $800 as compared to pricing at the door. For a domain conference that is scheduled for January 10th, 2016 […] Copyright...

ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it […]

The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size […]

Now that we have a baby and an almost three year old, there aren't really anymore lazy Sundays for me anymore. I can't say that I miss those days all that much, but I wouldn't mind sleeping in once in a while Here are some thoughts, updates, and news for the weekend. As always, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and/or news if you'd like to...

It must have been something I ate last night; either the filet mignon was from beef grown on GMO grains, or the sauteed mushrooms were not brushed clean properly. Now, I don't toss and turn during my sleep, the dawn finds me tucked in place the way I went to bed, like a wrapped candy […] Copyright DomainGang