I hope to be there?next year!

The Domaining Spain 2013 Conference will be hosted in the city of Valencia (Spain) from 25th to 27th of April 2013. It is the fifth edition of such an event taking place in Spain and it is wholly dedicated to investors and developers in domain names. This will be my third visit to Valencia and

And here's what I like! :-) Funny response from Name.com to GoDaddy commercial with model?Bar Refaeli. Daniel Dryzek

Another GoDaddy's commercial. There's a model?Bar Refaeli and there's an "IT guy" Walter. But to be honest – I don't like this video. And what's your opinion about it? You like it or not? Daniel Dryzek

Check out GoDaddy's new TV commercial :-) Daniel Dryzek

Nice video I came across today :-) Daniel Dryzek

Happy New Year! Please check out my top posts in 2011. 1. How important is it to have keywords in a domain name? 2. Why ccTLDs Are More Valuable Than .COM Domains? 3. Top ccTLD Registries and Happy Easter! :) 4. Short .DE Domains Released: HR.de, E.de, G.de and more 5. Angry Bird?s ?overnight success?

For the last few months me and my wife Agnes have been working pretty hard to make upcoming MeetDomainers the biggest and the best so far. Now is your turn! In just a few days, one hundred specialists from Poland and abroad will meet to talk about domain names and alternative investments. There will be

A Collection of 60 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes About Life, Design and Apple

Do you remember the "famous elephant story" that broke couple of weeks ago? Well, probably yes, because it was very "hot" industry news. But did all the people that criticized Bob checked how much does he care of human beings and how much money does he give to all kinds of charities? Check out this

People (we!) very often call someone else's success – "overnight?success", while usually it takes YEARS to finally be?successful?(and sometimes success never comes!). Angry Bird?s story is one of such?"overnight?success" stories. "On March 10 the creators of Angry Birds (Rovio studios) announced that they had taken $42 Million in funding. The...

One of the last week's sales on Sedo was biura.com. "Biura" means "offices" in Polish language. It was sold for 1150 USD. The same keyword in .pl (biura.pl) would generate at least 10-20 thousand USD but probably much more. People in Europe (and in other parts of the world, too!) would generally prefer ccTLDs (.pl,...

"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends? Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts." Henry David Thoreau "We are not consumers. We are people. We are not living lives meant to earn money in order to support a shopping habit, or a large home and two cars, or lives

"Investors have been fleeing Demand Media since April 6th, as shown in this chart from Yahoo Finance. April 6 is right around when Google implemented its latest search algorithm tweak, which has hammered Demand Media's sites according to Hitwise data given to Forbes, as well as earlier data from SEO firm Sistrix. Demand admitted its...

Top ccTLD Registries (April 23rd, 2011) 1 .de (Germany) 14,367,909 2 .uk (United Kingdom) 9,317,393 3 .nl (Netherlands) 4,412,505 4 .eu (European Union) 3,392,796 5 .cn (China) 3,379,441 (February 28th, 2011) 6 .ru (Russian Federation) 3,274,063 7 .ar (Argentina) Source: Zooknic, January 2011 8 .br (Brazil) Source: Zooknic, January 2011 9 .it (Ital...

Check out this .ca promo video on YouTube. I think this is a very good way to promote Country Code Top Level Domains. Well done CIRA! Source:?DomainReport.ca Daniel Dryzek

Question answered by?Matt Cutts -?the head of Google?s Webspam team. This is a new video from March 7, 2011. Daniel Dryzek

Only 6 hours left to my plane departure from Warsaw, Poland to Los Angeles, California. After 16 hours of traveling (including 3 hours of transfer at London Heathrow) I hope to land safely at?Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). So far I have attended two DOMAINfest conferences in Europe. One in Amsterdam in 2007 and the

On 12 January 2011, 10:00 CET, the central German registry DENIC released nine short .de domains for registration which were previously blocked due to temporary injunctions: dw.de, e.de, f.de, g.de, hr.de, sr.de, x.de, y.de and z.de. Domains are now assigned to new owners. Registration was based on "first come, first served" basis but while usually...

It was a little bit surprising to me to see 423 out of 796?domains (768 separate lots)?listed in the Extended T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami Auction to be .co names. It will be interesting to see how many of them will sell. Three .co names were sold in live auction in Miami (DayTrading.co $1,000, Alquiler.co $1,200, Coches.co $15,000)

It is always quite?awkward for me?to hear from almost every domainer that .eu is dead and that this TLD is without future. Well, maybe but maybe not. If you look at the latest Sedo?s Domain Market Study, you will see that .eu is second most popular ccTLD on Sedo's marketplace. The .de extensions remains the

This blog post was going to be only a comment to a blog post on Elliot's Blog titled "Rick Schwartz Floating TRAFFIC Without Sponsors Idea" but it is long enough to post it also on my blog, so here it is – my take on domain conferences and TRAFFIC in particular. I was attending three

I am excited to invite you to our first MeetDomainers UK event that will be held in Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel on August 27-28th, 2010. We are teaming up with NameDrive, one of the biggest parking companies, to bring you a two-day show in Manchester exploring trends, technologies and opportunities in the UK and International

Looks like we have a new player on the Pan-European domain auction market. NDX Market auction of 3 letter .eu domains will end in the next 21 hours. Only one company was so far on this market and it was Sedo. Will NameDrive grow as a big domain auction and aftermarket Sedo competitor in Europe?

So here it is: the TOP story of the day – "Bido is ceasing operation as of May 5, 2010. All transactions and accounts will be gracefully finalized and closed." End of quote from Bido website. I will not deliberate on why Bido failed and if I liked it or not – you can read

"On July 1, 2010, VeriSign, the registry for .COM and .NET, will increase prices ? .COM will go up 7%, and .NET by 10%.?The increase will be passed to registrars like Go Daddy and then, unfortunately, to consumers like you." So I got an email from Mr Bob Parsons today and you probably got it

So who is coming to TRAFFIC Milan?? European edition of this popular domain conference will be held in the?capital of fashion and design, also home to world class European football team A.C. Milan, on April 27 – 29, 2010. I T A L Y If you are coming to TRAFFIC Milan you may be interested

DomainSponsor has recently established its European head office in Frankfurt, Germany.?They have also announced DOMAINfest Europe that will be staged in Prague on 6-7 October, 2010. It seems that DomainSponsor has taken it serious when it comes to European domain market and ccTLDs monetization. Here is my interview with Joerg Schnermann – Gen...

Most of .tel names are expiring this month. Will you renew your .tel domains? I have only 10 .tel domains ?I have just renewed all of them. There are some names for personal use and some for businesses. I am not a big fan of that extension but in some cases it can be useful. Renewal

It was always very interesting but also wired to me that domaining was so US oriented. When I was at my first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show in Las Vegas in 2007 nobody, NOBODY was really interested in ccTLDs. COM was king and there was no doubt ?about it. This is still the case – COM is the

I won't be traveling to Las Vegas for TRAFFIC domain conference this time but I hope to be back again in April, when TRAFFIC comes to Milan, Italy. I will be?absent in Vegas due to the most important thing that have ever happened to me..?YES – I will become a father soon So please

Rick Latona Auctions Live auction result: $1,295,000 Number of domains sold: 77 TOP SALES: Rio.com $450,000 Whiskey.com $185,000 SchoolLoans.com $137,500 iAuction.com $50,000 Boy.com $45,000 Porn.co.za $45,000 Megan.com $42,500 900.com $40,000 Kasino.com $35,000 Hookahs.com $26,000 PapuaNewGuinea.com $25,000 PopStars.com $21,000 Extended auction re...

I haven't managed to post during the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference in New York. There are always so many things happening during these few days of conference, that there is hardly any spare time to blog When I am at the conference I try to focus on it as much as I can. For the

Some of the high pre-sales at .DE Sedo Pre-Auction (one character): 1.de 56,000 EUR i.de 49,000 EUR 6.de 46,000 EUR e.de 36,100 EUR s.de 34,500 EUR a.de 32,111 EUR x.de 32,000 EUR b.de 31,100 EUR c.de 31,100 EUR d.de 31,100 EUR m.de 31,100 EUR n.de 31,000 EUR p.de 28,100 EUR w.de 27,800 EUR h.de 26,500 EUR f.de 26,...

You probably heard the news about releasing one- & two-character .DE domain names. Names are listed on Sedo pre-auction site. Less than 4 hours left, so place your bids before it is too late. Winners in that auctions are not guaranteed to het their .de names but they will only have to pay if Sedo

"DENIC will amend its Domain Guidelines with effect from 23 October 2009 and will thus abolish most of the restrictions currently applicable with regard to the registration of second level domains under the TLD .de. In doing so, the registry creates room for a large number of new domains. In future, also one- and two-character

The CZ.NIC Association, administrator of the .CZ domain, announced the registration of .cz domain number 600,000. Since registration of the first half million domains, less than 10 months have passed. Domains have started to accrue at this rate since the introduction of the new system for domain management, FRED, in October 2007, which has speeded...

All of the 31 One-Character .BIZ domain names were sold at Sedo auction for a total of $369,195. The top sale was e.biz for $66,001. Second place was taken by 1.biz for $32,003 and third by d.biz for $26,110. Sedo has exclusively been selected to auction the majority of the available internet catalog of one-character .BIZ

MeetDomainers is a Truly European Meeting of Domain Investors. Second edition will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Poland, September 25-27. Almost one hundred people will participate in this event ? experts in domain investing, domain name law, web development, domain parking and representatives from registries and registrars. Please check http:/...

The Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland has announced competition for the post of the director of the research and development unit under the name of Scientific and Academic Computer Network (NASK – Naukowa i Akademicka Sie? Komputerowa) in Warsaw. I would like to remind all, that NASK is responsible for .pl domain

As the Polish ?Dziennik? informed in July ? NASK ? the institution which services the .pl domain registry on the territory of Poland, lost 14 millions of PLN (3,5 millions of EUR) in connection to risky financial operations, the amount which constitutes 15% of its annual budget, which amounts to 93 million PLN (23 million

Only two days left to the end of LL.pl auction at Allegro.pl (Polish version of eBay). This is a great two letter .pl domain name (both letters are "L") and the highest offer for now is only 20,000 PLN (~ 4900 EUR). I am not the owner of this domain and I do not profit in any

54 domains were sold at?Domain Roundtable 2009 extended auction. Total sales grosses $81,774. 52 of them were .com and only two were .org domains. Top sales at the auction: Larger.com?$24,800 StreetLife.com $12,200 TheSportsbook.com $7,500 Employ.us ?3,905 AirlineTickets.co.uk ?3,600 Jewelers.co.uk ?3,600 Niemiecki.pl ?3,550 Router.com.au ?2,122 Em...

As you probably heard – Rick Latona teams up with Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu to organize TRAFFIC conferences in 2010 and beyond. This includes not only European TRAFFIC editions but also those in US and Asia. First of all, I think this is a very wise move – both for the founders of TRAFFIC and

39 domains (out of 76) were sold at Domain Roundtable 2009 live auction in Washington, DC. Total sales grosses $498,100. Top sales at the auction: Contests.com $380,000 WeightTraining.com 19,000 CharmBracelet.com $12,500 BabySwing.com $12,000 Castaway.com $9,500 Schizophrenic.com $8,000 Bullfighter.com $5,500 Contests.com $380,000 WeightTraining.co...