In case you missed it: ** Before it's too late, cast your vote for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS 2010. Find the ballot at HowardNeu.com, e-mail your submission to nominations@targetedtraffic.com by 8pm tomorrow (Wednesday).   Among the nominees for the ‘Domainer of the Year' award are Morgan Linton, Elliot Silver, Larry Fischer, Mike Berkens and ...

I have finally recorded my first ever video, it took some motivation from Chef Patrick's Free DNCruise.com Conference Pass, Cruise and Airfare Contest which closes today, entries should be in before midnight EST. Even though I only used a simple digital camera and recorded from my home office, creating my first video entry was actually

LC Luxuries Limited subsidiary "US Cannabis" is reportedly close to acquiring the domain name and website WeedMaps.com. WeedMaps is an online community and tool that serves medical marijuana patients based on their location. Visitors to the website can look up medical marijuana dispensaries on the map or they can search for a specific type of...

The Obama administration has called for a meeting on September 29th and invited representatives from ICANN and select domain name registrars to talk about what can be done from the ground level to stop illegal pharmacies that are selling medicine online.  Recently, LegitScript an online pharmacy verification service identified over 36,000 pharmacie...

I originally acquired this 1998 gem to develop as part of the NameTalent.com brand but right now I don't have the time for the project and would prefer to sell.  Offers should be sent via pm to mike@nametalent.com. BusinessTalent.com – offers from $1k Thanks for looking!

Kevin Murphy, author of the newer domain blog DomainIncite.com also writes for TheRegister.co.uk. I came across an article written by him over there this morning titled "Nominet Chief Tells Domainers to Grow Up". The article highlights how the CEO of Nominet.com Lesley Cowley spoke at MeetDomainers conference and requested that domainers be more ma...

DomainConsultant.com will be auctioning DomainName.com today (8/31).  Bidding will conclude 3pm EST .  The starting bid price and reserve is $1 million. Will there be a $1 million bid?  Several bids? Final selling price? Auction details from DomainConsultant.com Here are some auction/site highlights: 1. Bidding will close on 8/31 at a private locat...

I'm home and somewhat rested after a busy and fun trip down to Cancun.  Ready to get back to work!  As promised I am following up on my last post about .MX domains and how prevalent they are in the part of Mexico I was visiting.  Unfortunately, I did not come across any .MX domains

I promised in my last post that I would report on the .MX cctld when I return from vacation.  Well, I had a little free time this morning so I decided it would be a good time to report what I have learned about .MX and it's usage in Mexico so far.  Basically, so far it's non existent

This week's DomainFest Conference in New York attracted alot of media attention to the domain industry as a whole.  I've seen more non domainer news sources publishing stories/blogs relating to domain names in the last few days than I can remember for a long time.  NYDailyNews.com Article: "Dot com bust: XXX.com, Alcohol.com among unsold names at D...

I first saw a tweet by @NameSwing mentioning that Owen Frager has shut down DomainSuccess.com and his blog FragerFactor.com.  Owen just confirmed with me via email this is true.  Here's his reply when I asked him about leaving the social scene: Too time consuming for the return Creates too much spam both on the social

As usual I like to keep my eye on and report Sedo's ccTLD sales.  No sign of slowing down this month!  The top sale I could find was an Austrian ccTLD, Tracker.at which sold for over $23k USD, congrats to the seller.  Germany's .de had another strong showing as  handwerkerfinden.de was sold for roughly $17K USD, the words translate into...

* It's been a while since I talked about .TV sales.  Here's a summary of what I could find that sold in August/late July – Westerns.tv $1000.00, Primetime.tv $1500, Chocoholic.tv $1000, Sparkle.tv $1250, Forecast.tv $1000, Disco.tv €555, midlands.tv $1950, khl.tv $1000, dom.tv $1024,  tuto.tv $1152, gym.tv €8800, Bahamas.tv $10000 * I won and...

If you've spent any time on a domain forum it's very likely you have come across a few posts by Toni, his user handle was and still is on some forums ‘Lapannion'.  Toni is truly one of the nicest and most honest guys in this industry I have had a chance to do business and

Alarm.com is a firm that generates millions of dollars in yearly revenue by offering customers the ability to monitor their house via mobile devices like cell phones, smart phones, etc. Rewind ten years, the company Micro Strategy (microstrategy.com) saw the domain name Alarm.com for sale and acquired it for what they figured to be a

If you have been looking for a tool that quickly analyzes domain availability, IP address,  whois, Alexa rank, Google PR, DMOZ listing,  and Yahoo backlinks all at the same time… We found it!  Domain Hammer is the all in one domain bulk checker.  This handy tool supports over one hundred TLDs, so you should be