FYI – DomainAnimal.com has been removed from the Domaining.com feed due to being sold. The owner of Domaining.com demands repayment of the "setup fee" once a site included on the feed changes hands (even if no settings change). As we will not be repaying for "setup," please add us on your favorite RSS reader :).Related Posts:Moniker Exiting t...

I would like to share one of the main things I've been working on lately in case anyone here could possibly benefit:   I've been in search of an alternative to the domain marketplaces. And after lots of trial and error with many different pieces of tech, my current system is somewhat optimized.   Note: […]Related Posts:Throwback Thu...

Whether selling a domain or launching a website, a nice logo can give a boost. If on a steak and taters budget with time to spare, check out 99Designs. If not, check out these free options (with paid options available on most): 1.As Stencil   Stencil is mostlyAs a Canva.com clone, but IMO it works better than […]Related Posts:Throwback T...

NameSilo, a domain name registrar, has just launched the ability to offer Payment Plans for premium domain names to customers. The announcement by NameSilo came via an email which can be read below. This means that customers can pay for a premium domain in the NameSilo Marketplace utilizing NameSilo's shopping cart and payment options. If […]...

.KIWI, a new domain extension aimed at the New Zealand market, has experienced tremendous registration growth the past two weeks. .KIWI has gained 170,000+ domain registrations according to NtldStats and NameStat, websites that track new domains. As of this writing there are 187,225 .KIWI domains registered. This now puts the .KIWI domain 22nd in t...

Occasionally I become interested in a new technology that is just beginning to bud, and if it sounds promising, like others I may take a gamble on registering some domains within that field in the hope the technology eventually goes mainstream. Each year as the domains come up for renewal I spend some time reviewing […]Related Posts:Moniker E...

It is an undisputed fact to anyone involved in the domain name aftermarket that a significant upswing in overall pricing trends of certain categories of domain, namely short 2 and 3 character .com as well as strong one-word .com, have been realized over the past year due to a strong influx of Chinese buyers into […]Related Posts:Ching.com Fli...

While cleaning out an inbox the other day I somehow came across a link to a blog post from four years ago, titled, Domain-squatter parasites not interested in haggling, apparently. As you might have guessed already, the author relates the story of how he woke up one day deciding he'd like to own a particular […]Related Posts:In Case You Misse...

Although it isn't a regular column to this blog, consider this my weekend musings, if you will.? The following are some thoughts I was having a moment ago while giving my head and beard a quick trim for the coming week. Several days ago I caught a post on Abdul Basit's blog, New Year Starts […]Related Posts:A Sale Isn't A Sale Until The Money...

One of the company's drop-catching proxy registrars SantiamDomains recently (and quietly) changed hands and is now under Web.com's ownership. This article is purely speculative, but it's based on something that I learned today while troubleshooting some domain administration issues. A domain that I had caught at Snapnames back in March of 2014 is c...

.Press is open for landrush registration as of today, August 26th.? It will be interesting to see who turns up as the owner of Word.Press, provided the name is not being held back by the registry. If it turns out to be WordPress themselves, and they actually do something with the domain, such a move […]Related Posts:WordPress Plugin ‘My...

Back in 2010, I covered the domain 2012.com, which had been sitting idly for years without resolving.? The owner had been adamant that, "this domain is not for sale. Please do not call. Please do not write. Please do not email." Then again toward the end of 2012 I speculated that the domain's value might […]Related Posts:December 21, 2012 Mar...

There are a lot of reasons I can think of that one might want to bid on a Go Daddy expiring auction more than 7 to 10 days in advance of the end date, and absolutely none of them make sense. Following is a poll to see if we can get to the bottom of […]Related Posts:The Minimum Price On Go Daddy Expiring Domain Auctions Is…Are Go Daddy ...

Bought on Namejet this past January, the domain Ching.com was resold in Sedo's GreatDomains auction which closed last Thursday. While eyeballing a domain at Sedo's latest monthly GreatDomains auction which closed this past Thursday, another domain, Ching.com caught my eye because I knew I had seen it before in the not too distant past. Sure […...

This morning I was going to put in a back order at Namejet for AppDevelopment.org, a domain that I believed to be dropping from the registry today. When I headed over to Namejet to register the back order, I was surprised to see that there was (and still is) a day left until closing time, […]Related Posts:Recently Expired .TV Domain Captured ...

From the Sales.mx blog … Get Loco With Sales.mx and Win a Free Domain Sales.mx is going loco, and we?re taking you with us! To help spread the word about Sales.mx, the world?s only exclusive market for buying and selling .mx domains, we will go to any lengths ? even giving away one of our […]Related Posts:DoUsAFlavor.com and Win a Milli...

In case you weren't aware, Namejet has a featured auction running for a plethora of 3-number .Asia domains. The names were opened for pre-bidding several weeks ago, and the private auctions are now all officially under way. 888 is considered a luck number in Chinese culture. According to this Chinese Lucky Number Cheat Sheet for […]Related Po...

BitcoinWallet.com, a domain that you'll remember sold for $250,000 back in February of this year, is now open for business. Price Givens, who identified himself as a founder, seems to have introduced the new site to the bitcoin community just two days ago via a thread on the forum BitcoinTalk.org. My name is Price Givens […]Related Posts:Have...

Back from the fray with an interesting observation this evening.? Doing some domain administration across my portfolio and I noticed that all of my .com and .net domains registered through Dynadot are showing a "Last Updated" date of 1970. I'm not certain whether the difficulty is at the registrar level or with Verisign, or both, Related Posts:Rece...

For those of us involved in the craft of domaining, our brains tend to perk up when a domain crosses our path in the analog world, whether good, bad or ugly.? Here are a few examples of domains I've recently sighted in the wild that caught my attention … LoveThySandwich.com – Over on the East Related Posts:A Special Thank You From DBRFu...

HostingCon, the web hosting industry's premier annual trade show and conference will be held later this month, from June 17 – 19, in sunny Austin TX. Scanning over the list of attendees I counted 25 companies in all representing the domain industry.? Companies in bold will also be exhibiting. .CO Internet 101Domain .ORG, The Public Related Po...

Today I was surprised upon opening a registrar's newsletter to learn that the following gTLDs are all set for price hikes in the coming months? … Verisign .NET will increase by $0.51 as of July 1st .NAME will increase by $0.60 as of August 1st PIR .ORG will increase by $0.55 as of July 1st Related Posts:Two Out of Four Go Daddy Premium Listin...

I don't often write outside the topic of domain names on this blog, but here's one.? There's a moral at the end. I ran a race today called the Spartan Sprint.? It's essentially a race of the ‘Tough Mudder' variety which I'd guess is a name more folks will be familiar with.? It's a distance Related Posts:Bigfoot Sightings at WebFest Global Con...

As I sit in the Orange County Airport awaiting departure back home to Texas, I want to take a moment to say a special and very sincere THANK YOU to all of the wonderfully generous sponsors whose contributions helped make DBRFunFest, not only possible, but incredibly memorable. One of the great things I found in Related Posts:Bigfoot Sightings at We...

Common wisdom holds that the shorter the domain, the better.? However there are some examples of very long domains that have sold in the past. According to the DNSalePrice.com record of publicly listed domain sales, the longest domain names that have ever been reported sold contain 7 words, and there are four such sales on Related Posts:Tequilas.ne...

I'd like to share a situation I ran into today on a domain forum, that might help anyone new to domaining. Recently I posted a thread in the ‘Domains Wanted' sub-forum, and today I received a private message from a forum user there who had submitted two domains to me earlier in the week.? In Related Posts:What Are Domainers Buying On the Foru...

… and Am I the First Domain Blog To Report On It?? Perhaps I am behind the ball here and ICANN has once again postponed another of its deadlines, but it was projected that today would be the official launch of ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse, and the news of its launch has already been reported by Related Posts:FaceTime Communications Inc. To...

Two weeks ago, DNJournal reported the domain Tequilas.net was sold on Sedo for $7,800. I recalled researching some wines & spirits domains last year on DNSalePrice.com.? I had the feeling it was not the first time this domain had been reported sold, and memory served correct. In September of 2008, Tequilas.net had changed hands in Related Posts...

By now its no secret that leasing domains is all the rage in 2013, what with the advent of the Domain King‘s JointVentures.com leading the stampede. As Ron Jackson, editor of DNJournal recently commented, "While it is true that there is nothing new about domain leasing, in the decade I've spent in this industry I've

Recently I worked on a negotiation with a buyer for a domain I had acquired about six months earlier. During the negotiation which lasted several weeks, I was bouncing some of my negotiation strategy and thought processes off a good friend of mine, to help clarify my thinking, and to elicit feedback to ensure I

A Domain Animal Exclusive Speculation has been rampant about various reports of a Bigfoot sighting coming from WebFest Global in Santa Monica over the past week.? Now, thanks to popular blogger DomainShane, we have the smoking gun! An attendee of WebFest who wishes to remain anonymous has come forward to share this exclusive photo (above)

HostingCon, the largest annual web hosting industry conference, has just announced that registered attendees may now vote for which expert talks will be given over the duration of the show.? There are a few domain-related sessions proposed, whose abstracts are listed below. Companies behind the session proposals include NameMedia, OpenSRS (Tucows),...

There were a couple of great comments in defense of domain investing the other day, on TheDomains.com, in response to .Gay TLD applicant Alexander Schubert's call for ‘dead domainers'.? Here is the original article, for reference, in case you missed it. The focus of that article is not a subject I wish to dwell on

No one is likely to dispute that Frank Schilling is one smart cookie, but almost no where is this more evident to me than when one examines the evolution of the Domain Names 101 page on his flagship DomainNameSales.com website. Viewing the page again for the first time in many months, it struck me that

The current issue of my local Community Impact newspaper has a bit about a new charitable organization announced in late November by famed University of Texas (UT) football coach Mack Brown, musician Jack Ingram, and actor Matthew McConaughey. According to the charity's website the goal of the organization is to impact the lives of kids

I began drafting this post back in late October, in the wake of a Google algorithm change called the ‘EMD Update' and never got around to finishing it, until now. Merry Christmas. As most readers will be aware, EMD's stand for ‘Exact Match Domains'. Lately (at least, back in October) every time I turned around

This morning I was reading through Domain Name Wire's weekly report of domains bought by end users.? Scanning the list, I came to GFIDirect.com, and paused briefly to consider why someone would have registered that particular domain with the hopes of reselling in the first place. Googling the term "GFI Direct" in quotations returns almost...

I'm currently testing out a new file syncing service called AeroFS to keep files synced between my laptop, desktop and other devices. In the process of getting set up, reorganizing my file structure and ‘clearing out the clutter', I've been combing through a lot of orphaned files including old keyword and domain market research.? Although...

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.? If that's the case, uber domain investor Mike Mann has good reason to be flattered. Founded in 2007, Mann has built a successful $2.1 million/yr (2011) enterprise around his DomainMarket.com, a company named to this years INC 500 list of Fastest Growing Companies. It looks

Since first breaking the news about 25.com having received a $1,500,000 bid at domain marketplace CAX, other bloggers had speculated about whether the bid or the bidder were in fact legitimate.? It turns out those speculations proved accurate. Although the 7-day auction was scheduled to run until December 2nd, the domain no longer appears to

If you domain invest long enough, you'll eventually come to an axiomatic truth, which is that the more value a domain name has, the less effort is generally required to convince other investors of the same. For example, if it requires a lengthy dissertation to explain why small businesses should be climbing over themselves to

Notable domain industry investor and entrepreneur Francois Carillo who runs a network of domain sales and services sites, including Domaining.com and CAX.com, may have gotten the biggest baddest Cyber Monday ‘deal' of all today. The 2-letter domain 25.com has just entered into auction at CAX having met reserve with a single bid of $1,500,000....

Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating with family and friends in the United States.? Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.? There is no other motive for the holiday than simply to get together with those closest to you, give thanks, and celebrate by eating a huge feast. What could be better than that? In

Clearing out my Spam folder this? morning I found an email from a sender, Domain Purchase.? The subject line of the email referenced a domain I had just registered last week. Had I struck gold so quickly? On the off chance that this was an actual inquiry on one of my domains I did not

It looks as though Web.com Group, Inc. has partnered with PayPal to promote their internet marketing service to the oodles of PayPal users. Logging in to PayPal.com today I was greeted by the following prompt: PayPal has enlisted the experts at Web.com — a leader in internet marketing — to help you grow your online

One habit that has been bugging me lately is that I often let the expiration dates creep up on domains I no longer see the value in holding and intend to drop, until its really much too late to try to liquidate them. Typically what happens is that I'm aware the domains are coming up

The latest political buzz phrase making headlines over the last few days is about the 47 Percent.? The source of the term comes from comments made by Mitt Romney during a presidential campaign fundraiser some time ago.? Apparently video of a candid conversation there was recently leaked on YouTube.? HuffingtonPost has more on the back