May 21, 2009 Posts

Attendees at next month's Domain Roundtable Conference in Washington, D.C. will see two industry heavyweights, BuyDomains Co-Founder Michael Mann and Rob Monster (Monster Venture Partners), on a domain conference panel for the first time. The Castello Brothers will join them to complete an all-star lineup.

Dark Blue Sea / Fabulous.com who started listing their own expired domains from the company's portfolio at Namejet back in August of 2008 has now expanded this service in a beta version to it's other registrar clients. For the participants of the service, the domains will be offered on the Namejet auction site as of

The Domains: FCC Gets Restraining Order Agaist Yahoo & Others For Selling Ads Containing .Gov Address | http://follow.to/3f13a # ElliotsBlog: Quintaris & Pool process 10,000 pre-registrations for new TLDs before they can apply for ICANN approval: http://follow.to/2ffe4 # BostonHerald.com: Downturn drives Web domain name auction - http...

Company tries to patent geo-targeted directory that starts with "104″. Apparently it's kooky patent day. This morning I wrote about a company trying to patent "virtual domain names". Another patent application published today (pdf) is for a geo-targeted directory made up of domain names starting with "104″. Here's the problem the pat...

Incoming NTIA chief asked to keep close eye on ICANN agreement. U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe (of the infamous "Snowe Bill" ), R-Maine, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla, are pushing for incoming National Telecommunications & Information Administration chief Larry Strickling to keep a watchful eye on ICANN, reports Nextgov. NTIA is currently requesting c...

Great domain names have many ways to gauge value but I think one that is often over looked is Trust! Trust is one of the hardest things to gain on the net because the "bad apples" (scammers) and the lack of face to face business. Some of the best domain names are generic product and

While the data can be skewed because there is no cost to reserve a gTLD domian name using Pool.com and Quintaris' system? to reserve gTLD domain names before their registries are even created, the companies are indicating that the market for gTLDs is strong. According to the companies, 10,000 gTLD domain names were reserved every Related posts:G...

Mister Blogs Tip of the Day #5 While explaining the sales tax situation on NDX Market to one of my trusty colleagues, I thought the explanation might help others out there in ND World who are looking for extra info regarding sales tax and how it concerns them on NDX Market. So, without further ado, here

Yesterday I read many bloggers posting the news that .me registrations, had reached 250,000 registration and that .tel reached 200,000 registrations. However, today I have to ask is that number really that impressive? Consider last June, the registry administering the the ugly stepchild of domain extensions,? .biz announced, they had reach 2 Millio...

Last night on Domain Success, Mike "Zappy" Zapolin (aka The Internet Warrior) provided an eye-opening example of the power of video search, Today writing in Search Engine Land, Eric Papczun couldn't be more on point. In "Optimize Your Videos For Prime Time" Eric observes that "Many savvy advertisers are making strides in attracting their target aud...

This is another basic article in my domain guide. It shall explain what is important to consider when choosing a domain name and when ultimately registering domain names. Then I also briefly note what you should be paying attention to when managing your domain registrations. Although the tutorial is targeted mainly at those new to Copyright (C) 200...

WP-Domainer is a free Wordpress plugin I've developed that's basically been a bag ‘o tricks for my various sites. With WP-Domainer you can insert a message at the top of every page, upload favicons for Wordpress MU installs across multipe domains, and list domains in a post or page using a flexible Wordpress shortcode. Like I said, it's absol...