Is it just me or does the whole "domaining" industry – if i can call it that – nowadays just sounds like one giant infomercial. Couple that with the new crop of domaining observers and journos (whilst struggling to keep up with all the excitement) labelling every event or piece of news with headlines such as

Or so it seems. I've been tracking this for the past few weeks, a little cynical that what I was hearing was in fact true. Anyhow, word on the street is that Yahoo are not renewing the direct deals with partners where their overall traffic quality score is less than 7 out of 10. Regardless of income

Havent blogged for a while but I thought this newsworthy enough to come out of my self imposed exile. Anyone familiar the US.com and UK.com domain names will know that the owners, UK based Centralnic, sell sub domains of these TLD's as domains in their own right. Earlier today however (and up to and including the

In one of the most remarkable domain disputes ever seen (certainly for the UK name space), the domain name oasis.co.uk has today been overturned on appeal by the panel of nominet appointed DRS experts and returned to the ownership and control of the registrant. The parties in this case are UK high street clothing chain Oasis

I'm not sure if any of you guys have been following the story of CEO Mark Hurd over at HP? .. ? To bring you up to speed, allow me to give you a 5 second capsule review. In May last year, Hewlett Packard bought Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for $13.9Bn.? EDS provides, in their words,?

Seemingly well regarded PCWorld.com writer David Coursey gets mixed up about cybersquatters, ahem domainers : Fight Back Against Cybersquatters The article kicks off with this: "The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect the #$&%$ pond scum who hijacked the name of a not-for-profit animal rescue group. Not t...

Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It's from a question given to students in a University of Washington mid term paper Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? One students answer: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the

Albeit in a tongue in way. UK Price comparison site comparethemarket.com has been running adverts on television about a spoof site Compare The Meerkat dot com Quite amusing, but with a serious point no doubt. In the very least it shows that main stream media now recognises the value of the typo domain. I do like the way they

Last week, my boss spent the evening in London with some prominent domainers - and by all accounts a good time was had by all. The reach of domainers, domaining, direct navigation and the industry-at-large now seems to have reached a new level in the UK; for apparently, included at this get-together was? an IP lawyer

Ok, just a short post.. I intend to compile a top ten of the best domain names (that I want, of course) where the owner has or hasn't made (as the case may be) not much at all.. I'll kick it off with a few of my favorites: Please feel free to suggest some more.. Pro.com Click.com And, I

As I reported in July, it now seems that Google have gotten around to cleaning up the domain channel at the domain level by opening up their Adsense For Domains program, "domainpark". Confused? Read on. "Google apparently have gotten fed up of policing their AFD program and are about to become proactive with a new domain

This week I was invited to attend a quorum where the subject of domaining and "domain traffic" was the topic for discussion. I wont bore you with the name of the company that held this get together but, sufficed to say, they are a big enough deal for me to bother getting off my arse

Sometime during the backend of last week the private domain forum operated by Rick Schwartz suddenly went off air. Since then there has been some speculation as to the whys, wherefores and events leading to it's demise. In fact, a few of my readers (im assuming who are/were members) have since mailed me giving their insight. TargetedTrafficForum...

Hey folks, it's me! [whoopee goes the crowd] With the office being so quiet (and dark and cold and wet and miserable and lonely) at the moment, what with everyone off sunnying themselves down under, I thought Id come back to my old (and somewhat neglected) blog and bring you up to speed with some goings

Oxford, England based "dot UK" root domain name registry Nominet (a not for profit organisation) has this week been thrown into further turmoil as controversially elected nominet board member and leading IP attorney Jim Davies wrote to the board demanding the resignation of both the CEO Lesley Cowley and Chairman Bob Gilbert. As if this...

This morning I read Joe Davidson's excellent piece on the crisis in domaining. I knew I'd enjoyed it as I also felt the need to post a comment in his thread highlighting my long standing belief in that domainers are inherently lazy. Before I attempt to mitigated any fevered replies i might invariably get here,

Sorry ive not been about much, but ive a new job/s. More details to follow over the following week/s or so.. In any case, Ive been online today and spun about the discussion boards only to find this welcome message greeting me on the well respected tmfor.com trademark domain forum site.. " See how greedy worthless lawyers

When i first started out buying domain names (before the "how long did it take you to invent that collective noun" term "domainers" was invented) my sole focus was on the acquisition of domains and other digital stock. I must have spent the best part of 4 years in the late 90's / early 00's

Last night I met for drinks the source who gave me the insider take on Google looking to dump all the tail end domains from their system. Inevitably the chat soon turned to domain parking and the reasoning and repercussions behind this move by Google - So, allow me to share with you the one

Apparently so. Dont forget you can throw into the mix the likes of wordpress and yahoo answers as well - apparently both these should be going to the sword any day soon .. Ive often wondered about Google and encyclopedia style info sites - wikipedia being the most popular. No matter what you search for it