Wait a minute, what? When did Sedo become a porn website? ***WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW – DO NOT LOOK IF OFFENDED BY NUDITY*** Let me start off by saying I don't know how long or if anyone else has noticed this before, but this is a first for me. So this morning I was heading

Francois, owner of Domaining.com, has organized a special domain name sales newsletter that will benefit sellers and bloggers. The idea is for the blogging community to promote January 9th's Domaining.com newsletter, giving it more eyes for sellers and increase newsletter reach.?In addition to the blogger circuit the newsletter will be broadcast on...

Although the .ME registry completed their premium .me domain name auction last week, I haven't seen any posted sales, so I figured I would share some information about it. In short, of the 178 domain names listed for sale about 41% (73) met reserve. Total sales ended with $167,708, which is an average of $2,297

Can't afford to buy that premium .com domain name? .ME might be the perfect alternative for you. As an avid reader of TechCrunch.com, usually there is not a week that goes by where a new project is funded involving a catchy .ME domain name. Startups love value and .ME domain names offer just that. .ME

As reported on ElliotsBlog.com, .XXX Sunrise period which originally was to end today, has been extended until Monday, October 31st, 4pm EST. Also reported is they have?received?over 70,000 pre-registration requests. At roughly $200 each that is $14 million, WOW! For those of you that don't know if the Sunrise period is for you, watch this...

Ok no, Netflix.com did not forget to renew its domain name, but this is funny. Still, within the humor are several important messages. Don't forget to renew (auto renew) your valuable domain names. Buy easy to spell and pronounce domain names, nothing too tricky. Secure your developed brand by purchasing available typos. Watch the entire...

The news of .XXX sponsoring a powerboat broke late last week, so I am a little late to posting. Although late, I think it's great news. Any chance of getting the word out about domain names is awesome and this is certainly a BIG way to do it! This is now the second boat that

Earlier today Oversee.net sent out a press release announcing DOMAINfest's Global 2012 date, January 31 to February 2. The one question I had, and I'm sure everyone had, will they be ending at the Playboy Mansion again?. Well, I emailed Oversee and this was their official response. "After three years of Farewell Parties at the...

I just?received?the following email from Mason Cole, Oversee.net VP of Communications & Industry Relations. I am confirming the departure of Jeff Kupietzky from his executive role with Oversee at the end of August.? After five years with the company and the last two and a half years as CEO and President, Jeff has elected for

Wow… it has been a long time since I have posted a comic strip. Actually this one was prepared for my first DNCruise, but I never posted it. Click on the image to?enlarge.

Victor was a great host of the Domain Masters show for many years, the industry is lucky to have him back again. Press Release: Victor Pitts has returned to once again host the longest running podcast on the domain name Industry, which has churned out over 240 episodes since its inception in November 2004. Fort

For those of you that have not already seen, I was interviewed by DomainSherpa.com which posted yesterday. Thank you to Michael Cyger for the invite and interview. I also want to add a bravo to Michael. He's done a great job with his video interviews. Michael has interviewed some great guests such as Frank Schilling,

Over the weekend Elliot Silver of ElliotsBlog.com did an article comparing the amount of domain names that resolve to each parking company. The article was based off of DNS information provided by DailyChanges.com.?Unfortunately,?as Elliot pointed out, the data may not be completely accurate because some customers use their own DNS controls. Person...

Disney purchased ClubPenguin.com in August of 2007 for $700 million, $350 million cash and potentially another $350 million based on performance goals. At the time of purchase ClubPenguin.com had more than 12 million members with roughly 700,000 of them paying $57.95 per year.?Do the math, that is over $40 million per year in revenue. You

The big news in the domaining community today is that .CO has sold it's 1,000,000th web address. Here is the statement released by .CO this morning. ".CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO domain, announced today that it has reached the landmark one millionth .CO domain name registration. Less than one year...

I haven't seen any news about this so figured I would bring some attention to it. On October 5th 2010 Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com published information about an upcoming Moniker auction which?Restaurants.com was part of. Berkens posted this in relation to the domain name, "Reserve price I?m told is north of $6 Million making this...

So what's the big secret, we all already know that John Ferber is a millionaire from creating and then selling his Advertising.com business to Time Warner in 2004 for just shy of $500 million. You can read more about that story on ElliotsBlog.com. The secret here, or at least until Secret Millionaire airs tomorrow night,

I've been counseled by many people on whether to post anything about this at all or not. I decided that I would share my side and then leave it there as I believe this will answer everyone's questions on what really happened. However, first I need to comment on motivations behind Rick's postings because I don't,

Nearly one year ago, after being self-employed for over five years, I decided to take a position with domain name registrar Moniker as a premium broker. A lot of people questioned why I did this. Well, last January before DOMAINfest my friends Morgan Linton and Jason Thompson held their Southern California Domainers Meetup which I

I know this post is going to seem out of the blue considering I haven?t posted since Christmas, (thank you DomainGang.com for pointing that out), but that?s ok.? I absolutely had to show some support for my friend Mike Law over at NameTalent.com.? Mike recently announced that he would be hosting a new "never before

I know it is late in the day, but I wanted to at least get out a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the domain community. Picture below taken two weeks ago at the beach. I know, living in Florida is tough Next week I will be posting a 2010 recap for Chef

Join Stu Maloff, Mike Ward and myself tomorrow night at 7pm est for a South Florida Domainer meetup located in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Come casual, no structured networking or speaking for this one. Just relax, enjoy the pizza and hang out fellow domainers. Our sponsor for the evening is Moniker/Snapnames which will be providing pizza and

***Breaking News*** About two hours ago I received a Like request to join a Bido.com Facebook fan page. So what does this mean? It means that Bido is back! I have personally confirmed with an unnamed source that Bido will be coming back soon. In fact, another domainer on Facebook has already pointed out that a new domain

The winner is… Ok, not so fast. First I want to start off by saying thank you to Escrow.com for providing a free cruise pass to the winner. For those of you that have not used Escrow.com to complete your domain sales, do so, it's an excellent service. Secondly I'd like to say this was a very

Escrow.com and I are giving away a free DNCruise conference pass, cruise to Cozumel Mexico and even including round-trip airfare (up to $250). If you are a domain investor, own at least ten domain names and are available for a cruise from October 11-15 then keep reading. With less than 45 days to go we have

I'm famous, I made it on CNN Money. Ok, so it was just for a split second, lol. Watch the video, you will see myself sitting next to client Kevin Wood whom purchased Companion.com $45,000 and Hoarders.com $1,500 during DOMAINfest's live auction held in New York on August 18th. In total the auction sold $1,801,900

I was reading TMZ.com, which I do daily. Yes I like celebrity gossip, lol. During my daily read of celebrity news I found an article which included GoDaddy. It appears that Michael Jackson's estate is suing the owner of MichaelJacksonCasino.com and has included GoDaddy in that lawsuit. Why is GoDaddy involved, because they allowed the registrant...

DNCruise which sets sail out of Miami Florida on October 11th for Cozumel Mexico is the first domain conference ever to be held on a boat. Now DNCruise is the first conference to offer a money back guarantee! You read correct, a money back guarantee. For any domain investor that has never been to a conference before,

Tonight's guest will be Jonathan Johnson III, President of Overstock.com. We will be discussing the companies recent purchase of O.co for $350,000. Be sure to join me and my co-host Morgan Linton tonight at 7pm EST LIVE on Domain Masters Radio on WebmasterRadio.fm. To listen in and join the chat visit WebmasterRadio.fm/chat.

Some of you may have already heard this, but Victor Pitts is no longer the host of Domain Masters Radio. Victor Pitts has done a phenomenal job the last few years hosting over 100 episodes. More on this tonight. The new host is….(drum roll)…Chef Patrick That's right, I am the new host of the show.

Just a quick note to let you know tonight I will be co-hosting Domain Masters radio show with Victor Pitts. This will be my first of many appearances as the new co-host of Domain Masters. Be sure to tune in tonight at 7pm est as we do a LIVE show. Guests will be free to chat

WhyPark Enhances Domain Development Platform with ?Domain Apps? Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands? — July 6, 2010 — WhyPark, the scalable domain development division of Parked.com, Ltd., announced today the launch of ?Domain Apps By WhyPark?.? The new release to the WhyPark platform allows customers to add depth, relevant engaging content a...

Moniker/SnapNames Celebrate July 4th with valuable .US Domain Name Online Auction, including CreditReports.us, Flights.us, Candy.us, Slots.us and PayAdvances.us. The online auction will begin July 1st at 9:00 am ET and end on July 8th at 3:15 pm ET. For more information or to preview the .us domain names, visit SnapNames.com at: http://showcase.sn...

You are cordially invited to join Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, myself and about 30 other South Florida Domainers for a meetup this Thursday night. .CO Internet is our sponsor and has generously agreed to provide dinner, non-alcoholic drinks, tax and tip. For anyone interest in .CO extension this will be a great time to ask questions

The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog ? MorganLinton.com. How to learn more about a...

Within the past couple of weeks Moniker reported the sale of Slots.com for an estimated $5,500,000. I say estimated because legal and escrow fees were not calculated into the sales price. One thing that was unclear to the public is who the buyer was. This morning Bodog brand released a press release letting the world

I love to save money whenever I can in regards to making purchases in general. This rings true with my domaining ventures as well. I think most consumers, myself included, want to feel like they got a good deal when they buy something. Granted sometimes we just can?t get around how much we might have

The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog ? MorganLinton.com. With the .CO launch getti...

Only days before the GEO Domain Expo in New Orleans did Patrick Carleton send me an email saying to send a bio within the hour, because I would be speaking Thursday. I don't know if you guys remember but I am deathly afraid of public speaking. Just this past November was my first ever speaking

DOMAINfest Live Auction has come to an end…thank goodness! This being my first live auction I will admit I am exhausted. Right now I am up in the room, taking a break and catching my breath. In just a few minutes I will head back down for a few hours more of networking and dinner

My good friend and fellow domain investor/blogger Morgan Linton is appearing live today at 2pm EST on Owen Frager's Domain Success show. Morgan has become a weekly writer for this blog sharing his knowledge of the ccTLD market, an area I am not an expert in. Morgan will be discussing the following: Domain Monetization Domainvestors Television Doma...

Well, not exactly, not yet at least. What I meant to say is my first domain name under contract that should sell for $1mil plus. That name is…CommunityCollege.com. Here are some of the names I am brokering in the upcoming DOMAINfest Live Auction later this week… CommunityCollege.com Karate.com Detox.com Counselors.com Therapists.com eA...

The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog ? MorganLinton.com. Many people see the ccTLD...

Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com posted yesterday that Moniker.com sold the domain name Photo.com for $1.25 million. Photo.com is currently registered under Network Solutions privacy, the buyer is building a new website which should be launching in the upcoming months. Photo.com $300,000 Alexa Rank: 300,850 Google Page Rank: 5 Google Search: not l...

GeoDomain auction is coming to an end today at 3:15pm EST. So far there are 22 bids on 14 different domain names. To place a bid and check out the 800+ domain names up for auction visit SnapNames.com. Once the auction is over I will post the results right here.

The following is a guest post written by Morgan Linton. Morgan is the President of Linton Investments, a Los Angeles-based Domain Investment Firm. Morgan runs a ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter and is the publisher of ccTLD Investors magazine. Morgan writes about his adventures in Domain Investing on his blog ? MorganLinton.com. Let?s face it ? IDNs will...

Sorry I haven't had the time to blog lately. Don't worry, if I have to get under the desk at work to blog I will! Previous Comic Strip: How Does This Thing Work?

This week's video sponsor is WhyPark.com, a mix between development and parking. Links: GoDrops.com Relaunches Expired Domain Finder Service by DomainNameWire.com I Am Giving Away Two FREE Tickets to the GeoDomain Expo by ElliotsBlog.com Bargain Domains Switches to Auction Format by DomainNameWire.com The Domain Name Wire Auction Auction by Domain...

Sorry for the lack of blog posts over the last two weeks. I plan on spending some quality time this weekend getting caught up on some posts and schedule a few out for the upcoming week. I also have plans to have Elizabeth over tomorrow to help me with this week's news video. What have I