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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchmen? When a vice president of a corporation who is supposed to be in charge of security processes violates the trust of clients, who is watching upon him?
Nelson "Halvarez" Brady is not necessarily a bad person. In fact, most people who met him or otherwise engaged in business relationships...
Over the past few years, I have been involved in purchasing high level generic domains. Some of those domains were bought through auctions at Snapnames. When I heard yesterday that a former employee was doing sham bidding, I was in shock. I always had high regards for the company, which I could not say for the other major drop player at the time. T...
Today in t he Lowdown at DNJournal.com: News from Sedo, Moniker, Neustar, Pool.com and eBusinessDomains.com, Sedo kicks off our round up with 3rd quarter results from their popular aftermarket platform where sales volume rose 5.5% from the previous quarter and average sale prices soared 37%.
Press Release:
London, UK (PRWEB) November 5, 2009 — eBusinessDomains.com has partnered with The Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a product of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), to broaden their domain search inventory of high quality domains.
Under the terms of the agreement, eBusinessDomains.com will market DDN's domain inventory ...
DNJournal reports Moniker has sold Best.com for $331,561 and Best.net for $36,840. Current whois information is protected by Moniker's privacy service. Previous owner is believed to be NTT Communications. By visiting Archive.org it appears that Best.com was a domain registrar and web host with Best.net forwarding to the .com version. Best.com/.net ...
Direct from directNIC.com:
Sign up for a directNIC, Ltd. account, and qualify to WIN a TRIP to New Orleans, Louisiana during Domainer Mardi Gras 2010!
That is right! directNIC, Ltd. is rewarding one client with an opportunity to travel to the Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana courtesy of directNIC, Ltd. One lucky directN...
Okay, while my title might exaggerate a tad bit when I say micro niche websites are the biggest hype ever, but they are continuing to gain popularity, especially in the domaining and forum community. For those of you who don't know what a micro niche website is, you can call it a website that is
The more we find out about the SnapNames employee shill bidding, the seedier it gets.
Adam Strong has followed up on the story in great detail in a must read expose over at DNN, while even Michael Arrington of TechCrunch chose to give his views on the matter – painting the domain industry as a whole
The Targeted TRAFFIC NYC 2009 Silent Domain Auction by Moniker and Snapnames ended yesterday, selling another 139 domains for a total of $278,338.00 bringing the combined auction total for live and silent to $690,488. The top three sales were:
OneOfAKind.com at $26,000
LoanOfficer.com at $16,000
FDA.net at $11,550
Find the full results after the ...
On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo, domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.? The domains will be made available in a phased release beginning November 30, 2009
Report provides insight into expired domain names.
Nominet, the registry for the .uk country code, has released its 2009 Domain Name Industry Report (pdf). It includes in-depth stats about domain renewal rates and the reasons people let domains expire. This data should be useful to the ICANN Working Group examining the issue of expiring
One auction ends and another one begins today.
The extended auction for Rick Latona's TRAFFIC auction ends today, and bidding is open online. A handful of domains have already received bids (which also means they hit their reserve). Notable domains with bids include StateFlag(s).com at $25,000 and DLE.com at $12,400.
In an email sent to...
It's clear that a lot of people lost trust yesterday. Here are a few poll questions to see how the Snapnames bidding scandal will change your behavior.
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Domain name renewal scam resurfaces.
A domain renewal "scam" that I first wrote about in 2007 has surfaced again.
The e-mail scam comes from an outfit calling itself ISP renewal aka Domain Renewal, and informs you that your domain name is expiring. The company misleads domain registrants to think they need to renew their domain through...
VeriSign reports earnings and domain growth.
VeriSign, which manages the registry for .com and .net domain names, reported a profitable third quarter. The company earned $53.6 million in the quarter, compared to a loss of $201.1 million in the same quarter in 2008.
VeriSign has divested a number of businesses lately, and is focusing on its
Court dismisses case with prejudice over jurisdiction.
Go Daddy Group has scored a legal victory involving jurisdiction, which should be a sigh of relief for other domain name registrars, parking companies, and even the internet industry as a whole.
uBid sued Go Daddy for allegedly including domain names that included uBid's trademarks in both park...
Many of us including Acro and myself have been discussing Halvarez for years – look at this thread on DNF. This isn't anything new. Having experienced this first hand, you can see the date and time stamps I posted in the thread!
Unfortunately we may never REALLY know what went on. What is good, is that
A grand total of $124,260. Enjoy
UsedRVs.com – $65,000
StateFlag and StateFlags.com – $25,500
DLE.com – $14,250
DenimJeans.com – $9,000
Celcius.com – $5,000
Dendermonde.com – $3,010
Cognac.cm – $2,000
BirthNotices.com – $500
SnapNames.com had a very trying Wednesday to say the least with breaking the news about the alleged insider shill bidder Nelson Brady. I think it was the right thing for SnapNames to do. They could of kept quiet but they didn't.
Since the news broke yesterday and it was big news, it also happened to take
I often get BS domain renewal notifications via snail mail trying to get me to renew my domain name with a company other than my domain names registrar. Yesterday I got an email from "ISP Renewal Internet Services" using the domain name DomainRenewal-Online.org .
Now I am not going to say this is a "scam", I
We want to share some exciting news with you.
eBusinessDomains.com has partnered with The Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a product of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), to broaden our domain search inventory of high quality domains.
Under the terms of the agreement, eBusinessDomains.com will market DDN?s domain inventory via its marketpl...
We all register head shaking domain names. Sometimes it comes after a few drinks, and sometimes we just have no clue about where the idea to register a particular domain name came from. The only thing we know is that the domain name will not be renewed upon expiration!
In honor or Rick Latona's AmishFurniture.mobi, here
Related posts:Rick Latona...
I read an interesting letter from John Mauldin today called Catching Argentinian Disease that?focuses on the risk of hyperinflation in the United States. Much of the letter quotes Niall Ferguson's recent book, The Ascent of Money, which I have not read. However, Mauldin makes some interesting arguments about the risk of our economy running into Rea...
Last week we covered summer sales of .in and .co.in domains.? Now let's look at what happened in September.? Sales volume picked up quite nicely with summer ending.? September sales included many end user sales, which is always good news and highlights the growing importance of .in internationally.
Headlining the month was a nice LLL.in sale...
Morning Folks!! I feel the worst for those that were friends of Nelson and were betrayed. I knew many that had his back for many years. In the early days Nelson basically ran his entire business off my first domain board. He was popular and had a lot of friends. I can’t imagine how they feel. Adam Strong gave a taste of what that must be like. Betr...
The extended auction of the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction will be held today online at? 1:30pm EDT.
There are about 600 domain in the extended auction including those that did not sell in the live auction
To view the full catalog or to bid click here
Here are our top picks for the auction today:
DLE.com
$12,400
UsedRvs.com
$65,000
Automa...
Here are the results for the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which was held on SnapNames.com yesterday which generated $278,338 in sales.
In all, 139 domains sold and I'm sure none of you would have picked the highest selling domain as OneOfAKind.com which went from its reserve of $5K all the way up to $26K.
A pretty good
Having a day to reflect on the revelation about the Snapnames bidding scandal, I put together a list of the 5 most surprising things we learned yesterday:
1.? Who It Was:
The most surprising part of the story was the identity of the person involved in shill bidding, Nelson Brady.
Not only was Nelson an employee of Oversee,
Just stumbled upon this interesting article about Frank Schilling's Name Administration from Allen's E-Commerce Blog in December 2008. It starts: "Frank Schilling has been pushing forward for change… Well, within his own portfolio at least. It consists of 100,000’s of domains as if you didn’t already know and is one of the best collections of domai...
If they only listened to Frankie in May 2007:"It's official, Snapnames has been acquired by Los Angeles based Oversee .. And while it may seem like the rumored 25mm sale was struck, purely on the EBITDA that Snapnames.com generates, I have a hunch this is all about what can be done with the industry’s leading automated auction platform and clearin...
I've talked about the opportunity for dotMOBI to build brands via Carvetising.Now Springwise reports that Carvertising has been around for years—both the kind focused on rental cars, which we've covered several times, and the kind that lets sellsumers earn a little extra cash wrapping their own cars in ads. Setting its sights on the latter, cashURw...
Ancestry.com?has launched?an initial public offering (IPO)?and raised $100 million from the sale of 7.4 million shares. The website is reported to have over one million paying subscribers, and?they have?few other relevant competitors operating in this area of the market.
Ancestry was founded in 1983 and?employ approximately 600 people. The company ...
I just wanted to publicly say thank you to the product management and marketing team from Verisign for reaching out to discuss public and domain investor perception of the .TV extension and asking for feedback as they move .TV forward.
In too many ways there is a huge disconnect between the people that control domain names in general and those of ...
Whether you are looking for ways to promote a new small business website or a major web development project it is important to find ways to promote the site, although search engines and targeted PPC advertising help drive traffic it is very important, especially for local small businesses to promote their sites on a day to day basis as their store...
Are you one of the top 100 domaining bloggers? Do you want to see where you stack up against your fellow domain name bloggers in terms of Alexa rank, Compete rank, # of Twitter followers, PR, # of backlinks, and more? Maybe you just want an easy place to scour the rankings and find interesting
Hot off the press – I have some breaking news for this week! Press release below:
London, UK (PRWEB) November 5, 2009 — eBusinessDomains.com has partnered with The Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a product of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), to broaden their domain search inventory of high quality domains.
Under the terms o...
I am very excited to say that I have won my first award in the Domaining world! NameTalent.com has announced winners in its Domain Name Video Awards and I won the award for Best MiniSite/Development video for my video about creating an online destination.
Of course Chef Patrick joins me in the winners circle for his
So we all know that the Domaining industry is pretty much unknown…but did you know that there's a whole group out there who think they know us? TechCrunch – one of the most well-known blogs out there that receives between 1.5-2 million visitors/day had this to say about Domaining:
Anyone who doesn?t know how dirty the
After seeing what seemed like 300 articles about the same subject yesterday I thought I would lighten things up a bit
I am completely making that title up, Sedo is perhaps the most up and up company in the business and like Pool would NEVER have that problem,? but there are plenty of things that go
I was just notified that our comic strip has won a NameTalent.com Domain Name Video Award.? Thank you NameTalent.com, and a special thanks to Mike, the creator of the blog.? We were placed in a special category called "Best Domain Comic Strip."? The comic which the award was based on is "Career Day Domainer."
If Mike
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Today our driver in Rome: Lost his phone, hit a car, forgot evening agenda, took us to wrong restaurant. We like this guy!
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