Early morning of the day Amazon is reportedly going to announce the new "Kindle Fire" tablet, whois data updates on KindleFire.com domain name but not to what one would expect. I wrote about the domain names surrounding what potentially could be "tablet" domain names that were owned by Amazon on September 26, 2011 and KindleFire.com...

According to whois records, Verisign Inc. has purchased the domain name BetweenTheDots.com! This comes on the heels of two newer companies launching by different companies: LeftOfTheDot.com RightOfTheDot.com (Michael Berkins and Monte Cahn) The domain name BetweenTheDots.com has actually had several owners in 2011 already: Global Billboards has own...

TechCrunch is reporting that Amazon will launch the "Kindle Fire" on Wednesday September 28, 2011 Well, let me do some digging and see what I can dig up domain wise. Amazon owns A LOT of "kindle" related domain names and they grab new ones A LOT as well…. so if they name the new Kindle®,

Welcome to another round of a series I like to call GoDaddy Goodies. A hand picked list of exclusive expired domain name auctions that I pick out of hundreds of thousands of domain names and present to you what I think are the goodies! All of the following domain names are Expired, No Reserve and

Back in July 2011 Google reportedly purchased the domain name G.co from the .co registry. Did they? Some recent whois records changes may make you wonder if they really did "buy" the G.co domain name to be used as a link shortner. A September 18, 2011 domain name whois records shows Google Inc. owning the

CNN dropped $750,000 to secure the domain name iReport.com after they built the brand iReport without the matching domain name. Are they about to make the same mistake again? CNN filed a trademark for the term This Jest In and you guessed it… they do not own the domain name ThisJestIn.com or ThisJustIn.com The Trademark:

I have been tracking GoDaddy.com's expired domain name sales data for about a month now and I shared some of the data here and here if you missed those when I shared a bit more in-depth data report. Today, I wanted to share the top 20 expired domain name sales data for September 18, 2011.

Yesterday I wrote about the crazy new DVD spinoff branding by Netflix of "Qwikster.com". Today, I want to touch on some "ODD" things that I noticed (as well as Elliot Silver) about the typo's and what MarkMonitor's "Brand Identity Inc." was doing with some of the domain names they purchased for Netflix. Park them with...

Netflix to split streaming and DVD service and roll out Qwikster.com for DVD only service. Netflix is set to split up it's service from one brand into two services and will launch a new brand for DVD's by mail under a the new brand name Qwikster.com What? Two services? Why the "Qwikster" name? "We chose

Apple Inc. acquired iCloud.org when they purchased iCloud.com for Millions in June 2011 but hasn't done anything with the .org, until now. So what has Apple done with the iCloud.org domain? They are redirecting it to the .com! If you were to visit iCloud.org it will do a redirect / forward to iCloud.com. iCloud.org either

Welcome to another round of a series I like to call GoDaddy Goodies! The following is a list of 73, hand picked expired domain name auctions that are currently live exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are expired and no reserve with a starting price of only $10/$12. Each domain name is directly linked to

Here is another method I use to spy on domain names and the entities that own them! Back in March 2011 I revealed how to spy on company domains and this has changed people! Websites like Fusible.com have exploded in traffic after JB learned this little process from DotWeekly and he uses it daily to

Domain name aftermarket service Sedo.com sold $1.25 Million dollars worth of domain names this week. Seven figures in sales is a strong week for one domain name aftermarket service in this kind of economy but Sedo had done just that! Yes, TheDomains.com has reported the $540K (really $619,590 with conversions and a couple domains missing

Kate Gosselin has launched a new website on KatePlusMy8.com. What do you think the reason behind me writing about this is? If you guessed I was going to make it clear that Kate or her team didn't think about registering the alternative domain name KatePlusMyEight.com, you are correct! Kate or somebody from here "team" registered

I use to cover a lot of advertised domains used on TV and print ad and I didn't stop writing about it on purpose, companies have simply just stopped using unique domains in advertising! OK, not every single company has totally stopped using unique domain names in advertising, but overall, the majority have switched from

Welcome to another round of GoDaddy Goodies. This series contains a hand picked domain name list of current expired domain name auctions currently taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are expired and No Reserve with a starting price of only $10 or $12! Each domain name is directly linked to the specific auction

Moving to the domain name dark side is very tempting… There are some very shady things you can do with domain names if you know what you are doing, but often times this involves moving to the "dark side" and domain name registrations will include trademarked terms! This is something I do not do now

Welcome to a series I like to call GoDaddy Goodies. This series includes a hand picked list of expired domain name auctions currently taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are Expired and No Reserve with a $10/$12 starting price and only $5 bid increases. A very nice mix of domain names in today's

Nike® has launched the 2011 Nike Air Mag shoes but the domain names used for the campaign are stuck in the past and are confusing! Nike has released 1,500 shoes that will be auctioned off but getting people to the location to bid/purchase the shoes is confusing to people because of the way and places

Domainsville.com tries to buy me out for $60 USD! Here is the story: I list all my domain names for sale! Why? Because in my book, everything is for sale for the right price. That includes my domain names like JamieZoch.com (my personal name), DotWeekly.com and many other domain names I own. I do not

Apple Inc. has purchased the domain name ImPod.com Apple has recently purchased the domain name impod.com and the purchase may have taken place on domain name aftermarket Sedo.com or directly with the seller. The domain name was parked with Sedo. The domain name could be a new kind of "iPod" or the domain name may

Welcome to another round of a series I like to call GoDaddy Goodies! The following is a hand picked domain name list of expired only domain names that are on auction. All domain names are expired, no reserve and have extremely low starting prices of only $10/$12. I was going to post this list tomorrow,

Yesterday I gave you a little teaser into domain name sales data that happened for expired domain names on GoDaddy. So today, I want to compare two days worth of data and show you those side by side just to see the numbers. I love numbers!!! The data I displayed yesterday was for 9/1/2011 sales

Data in the domain name industry is lacking to say the least, but I hope to change that a little bit when I launch a new site (sooner than later I hope) that will focus on GoDaddy Auctions and really change the way you bid on domain names that are on auction at GoDaddy. I

Welcome fellow domain investors to another round of GoDaddy Goodies! This series contains a hand picked list of expired domain name auctions that I pick that are currently taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are Expired and No Reserve! (eRaz.com is a member listed domain but with No Reserve) All domain names will

Mega game company Zynga is launching a new game according to TechCrunch.com called Adventure World. (be sure to read the interesting fact near the bottom of this DotWeekly article) The new Zynga game will be a "Facebook" game but Zynga often tries to own the matching .com domain name to its games, but AdventureWorld.com is

Branding is important and can be easier with a domain name! Local news agencies love social networking sites as they prey on people for news stories, pictures, videos and sources. One thing I see many of these news agencies lacking is branding. Providing an easy and memorable road map! Branding doesn't have to be a

Welcome to another round in the series I like to call GoDaddy Goodies! Today's hand picked list contains 96 expired, no reserve domain name auctions. This list contains only expired domain names that are currently on auction exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are directly linked to the specific auction page for easy bidding or

Gust.com was purchased around May 29, 2011 for an undisclosed amount according to whois records but who was the buyer and what will the site be? I actually noticed the sale right away in one of my DotWeekly Discoveries articles on May 30. During my daily digging, I ran across the domain name Gust.com which

Google appears to have lost control of the domain name Gmail.us According to whois records on DomainTools.com and whois history records, Google Inc. owned the domain name Gmail.us and then on August 26, 2011 a Russian name and different email address were displayed in whois other than Google. Whois records indicate on 8/25/2011 that Google

It's been a little bit since I did a This And That type post and I have some things I'd like to share so here we go. ~GoDaddy I had won some "test auctions" (domains I purchased as a test) at GoDaddy recently and one of the domains was reclaimed from the past owner. No

Welcome to another, and final $10, 1 bid expired domain name list on DotWeekly! I started doing these lists as a test and I continued to do them until now but this will be the final $10, 1 Bid expired domain name auction list I do on DotWeekly. I think people like these but a

Here is an example of "timing" playing a factor in a domain name sale. PostQuotes.com History Not a killer domain name by any standards, but still catchy and relates to some popular things going on right now. Quotes are always popular because people "post" them all the time using social networking sites. The domain name