Frank Schilling and the team at DomainNameSales.com released a pair of great videos geared towards end users.  The first one, featured below speaks to the value of quality domain names and the second one is more about the DomainNameSales.com company.  Thanks to Frank and team for producing quality videos about the value of quality domain

While visiting with family at Easter brunch yesterday my uncle mentioned to me he saw some videos about domain names on Forbes.com over the weekend. My family knows I invest in domain names and being that domains are in the news quite often with all the new TLD happenings I wasn't surprised to hear that

Based on some domain purchases made this week, all signs point to yes. DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova are bolting from their current conference structure on June 30th, and are taking the Big East Conference name with them. This leaves a number of current Big East teams conference-less and needing...

IceHockey.com sold in the Webfest Global Live Auction today for $25k. Big deal or big steal? Other notable sales include jf.com $250k, XU.com $210k, free.me $19k and bez.com went for $17,650. See all of the auction lots/sales in the DNN post: Webfest Global 2013 Domain Auction Results (unofficial)

.TV time!  It hasn't been the most active past two months for .TV news but there have been many impressive sales and plenty going on behind the scenes. It was pointed out in a thread at AllThings.tv that SanFrancisco.tv and Hamburg.tv, which were registered on the premium drops in early September have already exchanged hands. 

It's going to be a snowy Saturday here in Denver! I hope you're enjoying the weekend so far. Lot's to talk about in the domain industry this week including some nice .com sales, launch of new partnerships and conferences, interesting URDP decisions and much more. Diving right in, I noticed a new gTLD conference was

Could this be the grand finale of the Jeff Baron domain saga? As covered by last year by TheDomains in a post titled "He Once Had Over 1 Million Domains & Made $1.5 Million A Month, Now This Domainer is On The Verge Of Losing It All". It appears the last of the domain portfolio

Coming through the Sedo sales wire this morning you will find a couple nice five figure sales reported including CRMSoftware.com which, according to Sedo, has sold for $40k. CRM stands for customer relationship management, a very common term and type of software in the sales niche.   We are unsure of the buyer as the

ICM Registry, operators of the .XXX top level domain announced this week they are releasing over one thousand ‘premium generic keyword' .xxx domain names in a public sale.  The names are available on a first come, first serve basis.  This comes shortly after the launch of search.xxx a search engine that only only serves up

An appropriate topic for the upcoming Halloween holiday.  I can't remember the last time I went to a haunted house but if I was looking for a good one in my area I would know (and remember) where to look online and it wouldn't be Google.   The folks behind Scared.com have done a huge marketing

Sedo.com continues to be the top marketplace for ccTLD sales racking up more a quarter million in ccTLD sales so far this month.  Doctor.co.uk lead the pack with a 24,999 GBP sale (approx 40K USD).   The .co.uk extension saw several other very strong sales including content and keno which both attained five figure sales. Italy's

Every Friday I get a few fine folks who include me in their #FF (follow friday) tweets. I thought I would post today some of my favorite profiles to follow on Twitter from the domain industry. Happy Friday! Enjoy the list… @thedomains @DNJournal @adamstrong @fusible @morganlinton @DomainingCom @elliotsblog @mwzd @Nameclerk @DomainKing @Andrew...

Starting in 2013, you will only be able to read a Newsweek publication online.  The U.S. weekly news magazine announced today that it will no longer publish its print version with the last print publication going out on December 31st, 2012.  Not only is it ceasing print publication but will rebrand to Newsweek Global. Two

A recurring problem with NamePros over the last couple years, database error.. database error.. database error.  It looks like more DDOS attacks. This popular domain forum suffers from more DDOS attacks than any other domain industry website it seems. I have a couple open transactions there on names I'm buying so it's a little frustrating....

Apple Inc. has filed a patent lawsuit against a Polish online grocery delivery service accusing them of using a similar name and logo to benefit from its trademark.  A.pl Internet SA runs the popular A.pl website which has attained a worldwide global Alexa traffic rank of approx 72k and 1,032 traffic rank in Poland.  The

Michael Cyger, author of the domain industry blog DomainSherpa.com was awarded ‘Best Domain Blog' in 2012 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference today.  I wholeheartedly agree that Domain Sherpa has been a great resource for not only domain industry news but for especially for sharing wisdom via extensive interviews with players in the domain/devel...

It's a crisp, cool Sunday morning here in Denver, Colorado. I hope you're having a great weekend. Lots going on in the domain industry over the last week and in the coming days.  Here are a few tidbits to get you caught up! A blockbuster sale of the domain name GiftCard.com + website was announced.

The Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction takes place a week from today at the Ritz Carlton Hotel (seminar ballroom) from 3-5pm EST. This is definitely the most anticipated domain auction of the year as Rick Schwartz (and domain sellers) have put together an inventory comprised of 103 lots of which 60% are going to sell with NO

According to Sedo.com the domain Buy.me sold recently for €115,000 (approx $148,500 USD) which will place it at #15 on DNJournal's top year to date reported sales once verified.  As pointed out in a post by MHB today, the name was picked up for $17,500 in the same 2008 Moniker/Snapnames auction where his investment group

I put together this infographic using data from DNJournal.com. Important to note that these are pure domain sales verified by Ron Jackson, not website + domain sales. Keep in mind these are only reported domain sales, there is a lot going on behind the scenes and probably just as many if not more transactions don't

Time for another .TV update! Well, I keep getting emails from Fabulous.com encouraging me to ‘improve my online presence' with a .TV domain name. Interesting that they have just recently added .TV to the short list of extensions that their registrar supports. The retail pricing at Fabulous is $49.95, with that kind of markup I

The RMDC Summer meetup is only a few weeks away!  I've just released the location and short agenda for the event on RMDC.co (copied below).    This will be an excellent opportunity for any level of domain name investor, web developer or Internet entrepreneur to meetup with fellow domainers and domain companies from the Denver

There's an appraisal thread at NamePros discussing the value of LosingWeight.com.  In case you don't know appraisal threads can only be started by domain registrants and in cases of high value names moderators at NP do due diligence. The member posting the appraisal is a new member and goes by jake238 (I'll just call him

Most Wanted Domains sold Circumcision.com as reported by DNJournal.com. You must be wondering who would spring $45k for a circumcision? While the name is still registered under privacy protection, the new owner of the name seems to be IntactAmerica a group that is against permanent bodily alteration in the name of culture, religion, profit, or...

The company Brands-and-Jingles has teamed with Sedo marketplace to auction 190 .ME domains. The auction has been running for the last week and ends tomorrow. Currently, there are 53 names that have earned $17,549 in bids but only three of those names have met the reserve and will sell. There are quite a few decent

I read on CNET this morning that Apple's lawyers have taken control of the ipad3.com domain name.  It was reported on DomainNameWire at the end of June that Apple had filed a UDRP case with WIPO to have a panel decide the fate of the domain.  It looks like that may be triggered the former

I learned this morning that Domainsville has created a new service to help individuals promote their domain auctions.  Domainsville Auctions is not actually hosting any domain auctions, they are using a variety of techniques to promote your auction that may be running on sedo, namejet, godaddy, etc.. Congrats to Abdu Tarabichi, founder of Domainsvi...

I reached out to an end user today who operates a website on the .net version of one of my geo+realestate .com names. The owner of the real estate firm replied via email: Thanks for your email… but I'm not sure why I would pay you $xxxx for a .com, when I paid $9.99 for

In case you missed it.. earlier this month Rick Schwartz represented by Howard Neu Esq. won the UDRP decision for the domain name SaveMe.com which Márcio Mello Chaves and his brother Heitor Chaves tried to hijack by abusing the UDRP system.  The three person panel ruled in favor of Schwartz and eRealEstate.com  in a case

Hipsters.com will be sold tomorrow at the Afternic Summer Auction being held at SnapNames.  The high bid is $16.5k at the time of this post. It's one of only five names in the auction meeting the reserve and of those it's the only name with a bid over $2k. The hipster subculture can be a

Looking at the new gTLD reveal day results one of the first things I noticed was that applications were submitted for most major car brands.  I counted at least 30 automakers (list below) with gTLD applications submitted.  Two major car companies that did not submit a gTLD application were Subaru and Mercedes. Even Nissan submitted

DomainNameWire broke the news earlier this week that GoDaddy.com, the worlds largest domain registrar, plans to change the company image by hiring the ad agency Deutsch Inc. Apparently Godaddy wants to move away from the sexy and racy advertising that put it on the map to something that better promotes the services it actually offers.

By: Mike Awada At this point we all know who applied for what extensions and who didn't. The one question that remains is what extensions did the "experts" miss out on? There's a lot more than you would expect. .ALL .SHARE .AMERICA .GREAT .SNOW .DOLLAR .TREND .BONUS .STOCKS .SWEET .SUPER .FRESH .DRINK .EYE .WHITE .YELLOW...

While waiting on hold this morning during a call to Waste Management I was informed by the friendly on hold message of a couple additional domain/sites that Waste Management utilizes.  Waste Management's homepage is the two letter domain WM.com.  Of course they also have WasteManagement.com which re-directs to wm.com. I learned today they also own...

There are 120 .IN and .CO.IN names up for auction at Sedo in the Generic .IN Auction that has been running since June 1st. Right now there are less than 40 total bids and only one name has a bid meeting the reserve. While there are some solid generics and deals to be had, most

Since the end of the application period earlier this week, many companies have publicly announced their TLD applications. Most notably, TLDH revealed they are applying for 68 new TLDs and Directi company Vadix is applying for 31. Google also announced it submitted applications for .google, .youtube, .docs and .lol.  It's rumored that they may have...

Today I visited DNFblog.com to re-read one of the articles posted by Puranjay, the main contributing editor. When I arrived to DNFBlog.com I was surprised to see that it has expired and the site resolves to Godaddy's expired name page. A couple weeks ago Morgan wrote a post "What Happened to DNFBlog?"  As Morgan mentioned,

The Premium .ME Auction ended on Sedo.com today and the unofficial results are in thanks to .ME Of Course!  The top sale was Cruise.me, which sold for $28,500.  The only other sale cracking the $10k barrier was Air.me which ended with a high bid of $10,099.  Other notable sales include: Legal.me $8,100 Malta.me $8,100 Restaurant.me

The TLD Application System (TAS) closes today, May 30th at 23:59 GMT/UTC. Yesterday, ICANN announced its ‘target' timeline for the New Generic Top-level Domain Program leading up to the 45th public meeting in Toronto, Canada in mid October. According to the ICANN event calendar batching begins on June 8th. The batching will be done using...

Some nice sales coming from Sedo.com to close out May.  Pronounceable/catchy four letter .coms continue to flex their muscle with several strong sales including the six figure sale of Ahha.com.  The new registrant for ahha.com is Multiview Inc. out of Irving, Texas. Yali, Zuvo and Mopo .coms all attained 5 figures sales while Vulo missed

Reminder:  Premium .ME domain name auction kicked off today on the Sedo platform.  Already, almost half of the names have opening bids, three of them with reserves already met:  Personals.me, Electronics.me and Dates.me all with bids over $499. The auction will run through Thursday, May 31st.  188 previously unreleased .ME domains are up for grabs...

You may be thinking "What better time to sell Ballot.com than during presidential election year in the U.S.?!" Interesting timing, but I don't necessarily think that it will spark a bidding war resulting in a huge sale.  If buying to develop, is there really enough time left to do something with the name in time

It's a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning here in Denver, Colorado.  Hoping you're having a great weekend!  It was a busy week in the domain name industry!  Recapping some of the top stories: Michael Berken's announced last week that Most Wanted Domains will be publishing domain sales in realtime on its @MWD Twitter handle and corresponding...