It looks like the Google Adsense for Domains team has added the ability for domain owners to add keyword hints to help Google provide the most relevant ads that match their domain. Here's the instructions on the Google Adsense support site for adding keyword hints. Here's the official Google Adsense blog post about this news. Are you using...

The domain name waktukecil.com is for sale for $100. #waktukecil is a popular topic on Twitter right now. Waktukecil means "When I was a child" in Bahasa Indonesian. People are tweeting about their childhoods. This domain would make a perfect site for people to share stories about their childhood. Click here to buy the

Just got this in via email from DotSter.com: Buy One Domain, Get One Free With each new year comes new opportunities. THIS WEEKEND ONLY, purchase any .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO or .US domain name at Dotster.com, and get a second domain free!* Just enter coupon code BOGODOMAIN at checkout. And the fine print: * LIMITED TIME OFFER. BOGODOMAIN...

I read an interesting post in Elliot J Silver's blog about a recent UDRP case lost by former eBay CEO, Meg Whitman. I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but after reading some quotes from the panelists that made the decision to deny the complain (without the respondent even offering a rebuttal),

I just read Mike's "01/05/2009: Domain Newbies and Junkies… When is enough, enough?" post at wannadevelop.com where he talks about "domain junkies" and "domain newbies". I know Mike probably doesn't know me from Adam, but I just wanted to set the record straight that this "DomainJunkies" doesn't fit the profile of the "domain junkies" that Mi...

I just read a great post at dotweekly.com about feeling like an "end user" when buying a domain name. I was typing out a comment and it accidentally turned into a book, so I figured I'd post my "reply" here: (I wonder if longwindedcommenter.com is registered) I'm actually going through that End User love and feeling right now...

Although not everyone agreed with the move for domaining.com to switch to a paid monthly membership model, I can say from first hand experience that their domain for sale listings do generate sales! I listed a domain for sale this week and a buyer was found within a few hours! I woke in the morning

Google announced via its Adsense blog today that they will be expanding their Google for Domains program to all publishers. Instead of showing "page not found" or DNS errors, users can now see contextually targeted ads, links and search results when publishers use the Google for Domains feature. Previously, Google Adsense for Domains was only...

Not to get too political (ie: political rant comments will be deleted), but I thought it was worth noting from a domainer perspective that just 2 days after being elected President of the United States, Barack Obama has "registered" a nice little dictionary domain to help transition into his presidency: change.gov The site seems to be...

The domainer community forum NamePros.com is holding a live domain name auction on Thursday, October 28, 2008 at 6PM EDT. There are several names listed in the auction queue that are available for prebidding. A few LLLL.com (L.etter - L.etter - L.etter - L.etter .com domain names) are up for auction, including the CVCV (Consonant - Vowel

I think it's time to appraise the value of domain name appraisals. Let's use some recent real world figures here. I received an email inquiry last week on one of my domain names. It went something like this: Hi, would you be interested in selling [name intentionally left out].com? Thanks, [name removed] I did the normal checks to see if it...

Here's an interesting gem I found today on eBay. QBAY.COM is for sale, current high bid is just over $2000. What's more interesting than the domain is the mini blog/twitterlike updates that the seller is making within the auction listing. 4 days after he started the auction, he posted this call for help: 4/12/2008 3:22PM MT uhhh… no...

I just love this new domainer tool from Richard Kershaw of Quality Nonsense! It's basically a quick way of looking up domain names from any text you see on a webpage using Firefox. First step is to install the Firefox extension. Then, say you're reading a breaking news story today about a new tech discovery and you want

The sale closed on my first domain sale of 2008 this week. $3200 from an original $10 purchase. The interesting point about this particular sale is that I had submitted it a previous domaintools.com auction and they passed on it. One thing that is very clear with aftermarket domain name sales is: "Good domain names sell themselves" A good...

Bidding is now open in the domaintools.com premium domain name auction. Bidders can now register their bids for any of the 170+ domain names listed for auction by visiting the following website address: http://www.domaintools.com/live-auction/bid.html To bid, visit the above link, and if you're not already a domaintools verified member, you may be ...