February 18, 2010 Posts

I've been writing essays and stories since I was five or six years old. During the past 35 years, I've used my ability to form words into intelligent passages for a number of purposes: winning contests, writing books, engaging in journalism in both English and my native language of Greek. Being protective of one's literary work is...

I just noticed that Elliot Silver posted on his blog that there was going to be a foreclosure auction for the domain sex.com. For years I have seen the domain Related posts:GreatDomains Auction Starts Today. How Can They Call This A Premium Auction?Snapnames October Auction brings in $107,339ArtDealer.com Leads the Sales For Snapnames Mardi Gr...

As reported earlier on several domaining blogs, Sex.com is heading to foreclosure auction on March 18th. One quick note, in order to bid you must be prepared to put down a $1 million deposit.?For more details visit the auctioneers auction page. So the question is… How much do you think the domain name Sex.com will sell for?

In the ongoing drama that is Sex.com another major twist in the story has occurred. Sex.com has now been listed at Maltz Autctions as an asset to be sold at a foreclosure auction.? Elliot Silver scooped the legal documents listing the domain name, the loan agents, as well as the investors involved. The domain name was

77% of whois data rubbish? More like 8%. If you just read the headlines, you'd assume most domain name whois records are bogus. Here are a couple headlines from today: "77% of domain registrations stuffed with rubbish" – TheRegister "ICANN fails to control Internet, 77% of domains have no valid information" – Ecommerce Journal Indeed,...

Application filed nearly a decade ago covers domain name title insurance. Over the past few years, a number of domain industry experts have been calling for domain name title insurance. The basic idea is that a title search would be run on previous owners of a domain name to make sure it hasn't been stolen,

Yahoo-Microsoft payday for domainers is finally within view. It's getting closer. Yahoo and Microsoft have announced they've cleared U.S. and European regulatory requirements for their search partnership. The first change will be that Bing's search results will start showing up on Yahoo search pages. That means one less search engine to optimi...

This case was over before it even began. I was scratching my head when I saw that someone had filed a UDRP against the owner of PaperSnowflake.com. Who in the world would go after a generic name like that? We now have the answer, but I'm still scratching my head. Patricia Kelley, who owns PaperSnowflakes.com (plural), filed

Simply put: you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. I'm looking for a handful of people who are interested in being on board as "founders". I will definitely make it worth your while, here's what will make the forum special: 1) Practically no moderation whatsoever. If you want to sign up just so you can tell

If you have not heard yet, Poker.org sold for $1 Million Dollars. Yes, the domain name was Poker.org, not poker.com or poker.net or xyzpoker.com… it was Poker.org . Although the coverage in the domain industry would be considered light by most standards for a 7 figure sale, why I do not know but the coverage

After posting yesterday's article discussing what names have sold recently, which was a follow up post to the post about recent domain purchases, Steve Morsa and a couple of others suggested a follow-up post. Although it's very interesting to see what names are selling, it might be even more important to learn about where domain Related posts:Ar...

My eyes continue to get worse every year. I am sure it is because I stare at a computer screen all day every day, and my eye doctors agree. Katie recently found me a new eye doctor. He had great ratings on Yelp and I must say that he is much better than my Read more articles on this topic at Green Taxi20/20 Rule for Vision Improvement Related ...

As most domainers know there is an ongoing dispute between AOL's Advertsing.com in its claim of right against Ad.com and Advertise.com. In a case that strikes us a being very similar, a federal jury has decided in favor of New Jersey based Ad Magic ruling that its corporate name and Web sites, admagic.com, admagic-inc.com, admagicadvertising.com, a...

A report released tonight by Minds+Machines, (pdf) predicts that the proposed gTLD's will only cause 316 new cases of CyberSquatting and that the cost to trademark holders worldwide will be "less than $.10″. How does the authors of the report come to that conclusion? They look at the percentage of UDRP cases coming from .com's, .net and...

It's been a while since I've wrote about what is going on with our domain development services at DomainMassDevelopment.com. So basically over the past few month's we have been rolling out some pretty cool new products (e-shops, minisites and megasites) as well as recruiting and training a lot of new talent as we are growing the entire operation. I...

I have just ordered a small quantity of unique products that I am going to use as test and try to sell them using social media websites mainly Twitter, Facebook ,and Google Buzz.? From my eBay selling experience I have some connections with dropshippers and wholesalers in China so I?am able to get my products at Related posts:5 Places You May No...

It's that time of year where our company sits down and comes up with an advertising plan for the upcoming year.? We use a combination of direct mailing, email newsletter, TV ads, Newspaper ads, Adwords, and had recently decided to try and use the online version/website of the local paper. I know it, they won't admit Related posts:The Wednesday M...

Browsing through Twitter I stumbled across the sale of an established web design blog. The site has a lot going for it – decent traffic, PageRank 5, and a small amount of revenue. The main thing that stood out was that it is underachieving. Overview The site itself is http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk. It has strong foundations with a

I've always wanted to do a before and after shot of a renovation project.? Now that I've decided to move forward with renovating my office in downtown, I figured this would be the perfect time.? My office is located in the Wilshire-Westlake building in Downtown, Los Angeles.? This is a fairly old building, which needs