Frank Schilling's YouTube channel shared a video on Thursday that explains how & why domain names are truly valuable assets. It's a short video, only 1:43, so I'm inclined to believe most end users wouldn't mind taking a look. See below: It's always great to have something else to show end users and this video .......

I rarely ever send group emails, especially when trying to sell domain names to end user buyers. I think sending individual emails that are tailored to each recipient can help improve the open rate and can also help improve the sale through rate. I understand that it might be more efficient to send group emails The post Use BCC When You Send Emails...

Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online. A final Senate vote is scheduled for May 6. The bill, called the Marketplace Fairness Act, would allow states to require online sellers around the country to collect sales tax for

I am thinking about organizing a meet up of domain investors who are located in the Boston area, and I am interested in knowing if there will be enough interested people. I've spoken with a couple of companies in the area, and I am quite sure there will be a decent turnout. When I lived The post Boston Domain Investor Meetup appeared first on Ellio...

Today I was checking for information about the WooCommerce Plugin from WooThemes. I noticed WooThemes is Down. Getting a "403 Forbidden" error. Below is the screenshot of the result when I access WooThemes directly by typing the url. I even tried going through Google and Yahoo in vain. Is the site hacked? Anyone else facing the same problem?  ...

Jodi Chamberlain is known to be a dynamo with regards to successful event management; her business credentials speak for themselves. Once again, Jodi delivered a very successful Domaining Spain event, that attracted speakers and attendees from around the globe. At closing today, Jodi took her personal commitment to the Water School project one step...

Very interesting infographic that gives a look into what women are doing with their advanced degrees. One interesting point about this study was that women are paid equal until they hit age 30, which coincides with the average age for having a baby. Another interesting facts was that within 3 to 5 years of getting

ICANN has posted its latest weekly batch of Initial Evaluation results for new gTLD applications, with 44 new passes and no failures. The publication brings the grand total of passing applications to 213, with only one failure to date and 51 withdrawals. Today's passing strings are: .?? (Wei-bo), .?? (charity), .?? (microblogging), .cimb, .wme ,bro...

With Domaining Spain unfolding in beautiful Valencia, Spain, until tomorrow April 27th, here are some things that you need to know to effectively communicate with Spanish domainers in their home turf: Domain name – El dominio How much is your domain? – ¿Cuánto cuesta su dominio? Your domain is crap! -  Su dominio es una

The recent sale of Moms.com at the Sedo auction of Greatdomains for a hefty $252,000 would not be left unanswered. Australia-based domain and web site auction powerhouse, Flippa, immediately saw the possibilities of staging a domain – and gender – war. "So what so special about Moms.com and why on earth would it sell for

You can hardly swing a dead cat around NewTLDland without hitting some controversy -- particularly concerning closed generic new gTLDs.  March's conversation concerning the possible consequences of allowing them, and what ICANN should do concerning their implementation, resulted in the … Continue reading →

The 2013 Domaining Spain conference got underway Thursday in Valencia. We had some more opening day photos come in overnight featuring everything from paella to a Domaining Spain 2013 Family Photo shot this morning on the front steps of the hotel where the show is being held.

Company loses dispute over domain name that includes "Philly". Philadelphia's dominant newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and its parent company apparently think they own the term "Philly". True, the newspaper's home on the web is Philly.com. But anyone who has ever eaten a Philly cheesesteak knows that it's a common nickname for the city. So it...

Avaya Inc. a company with 17,500 employees worldwide, was found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in its attempted theft of the domain name Avayo.net The panel took into account two other losing UDRP decisions filed by the company, in making its finding of (RDNH)after the company lost two other UDRP proceedings. The story was first rep...

… because, sometimes, reality tends to suck. But as a domainer or let's say as an investor in general, you'll lose your shirt if you aren't able to be brutally realistic. Yes, brutally. Most people don't do as well as they could/should because they run away from pain. The truth can sometimes hurt but pain isn't bad. It just...

Tomorrow I run another marathon but this one is going to be different.  It will be the first time I approach it like business.  I have always gone with friends, had some fun the night before, talked along the course, and generally tried to run hard and have fun.  That's a great way to run a marathon but this time I want to try and see what would ha...

ICANN has announced the opening of an office in Turkey led by David Olive, ICANN’s Vice President for Policy Development. I don't know about you, but when I think technology, the word Turkey doesn't exactly come to mind. However, I can imagine using ICANN and the word "turkeys" in the same sentence. Of course, this ...

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The ‘dream' of working for yourself comes with a cost. This week we share how a couple of old domainers make it through a working day.The post Episode 69 – No One Will Do It For You appeared first on Oz Domainer.

All to often the Support Team here at DomainTools receives disconcerting stories from registrants who have no control over their domain names or websites. What is entirely surprising is how many registrants shift control of their business’ domain and/or website to outside resources without building a solid understanding as to how to manage their ...

.Com registry Verisign reports first quarter earnings. Verisign reported its first quarter earnings after the bell today. In the first quarter it added a combined 1.99 million domain names in .com and .net. That brings the total to 123.1 million active domain names in the zone for .com and .net — a 5.5 percent increase

My Father passed away on April 2nd, 2013. As most of you have noticed, I have not written anything since April 1st. I decided to step away from the blog

See how to get started with this simple (yet valuable) software program. I've mentioned Watch My Domains Pro multiple times over the years. It's a relatively simple software program that makes it easy to manage your domain portfolio. At a glance you can view expiring domains in your portfolio, see which registrars your using for

DomainReport.ca This week's .CA drop featured some good keyword domains.  A total of 188 domains were taken in this week's drop. There were no .ca domain sales reported in this week's DNJournal.com sales report, perhaps we'll see some .ca's listed next week.  It is a bit of a surprise to not see any .ca domain sales, usually there is at least one...

Aftermarket.com recently created one of the best infographics I've ever seen about the art of valuing a domain name. You can view the inforgraphic below and if you haven't checked-out Aftermarket.com I highly recommend you take a look, great platform to list your domains for sale with an amazing team behind-the-scenes doing some very innovative...