DirectI, the parent company of BigJumbo, DomainAdvertising.com, Logicboxes and ResellerClub amongst others has announced today with an email to its customers that it will be merging the DomainAdvertising and BigJumbo brands. From the email: DomainAdvertising.com is pleased to announce today, the merger of BigJumbo.com & DomainAdvertising.com in...

Internet marketer and chiropractor "dk" (as Dr. David Klein is known) networks with all the big names in Internet Marketing. Once a year he holds a thinktank event where many successful business professionals network and exchange ideas. Some domainers have already been there too. In order to promote this years event he's holding a series...

The big tech news yesterday was that Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, was fired.? Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo! is a possible takeover target (when weren't they a takeover target).? As Business Insider puts it,"That's the equivalent of sticking a FOR SALE sign on the lawn."? Yahoo! may have missed their...

Domain name broker Andrew Rosener recently delved in to building out an online business, launching a daily deals aggregator at DX.com. ?I ventured over to the site to see how things were progressing and noticed a dramatic change to the layout and what appeared to be new ownership in the whois.?DNN contacted Rosener who confirmed

Verisign has released their latest issue of their quarterly Domain Industry Brief (PDF) today. The second quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 215 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.2 million domain names, or 2.5 percent over the first quarter. registrations have grown by

At the beginning of August, Goddaddy lowered it's Premium Listings from 30% commission to 20%. ?The company informed DNN today that they will be extending this offer through to the end of September. Godaddy's Premium Listings are a popular way for some domain name investors to sell their "fixed price" inventory of domains through Godaddy.com....

Via email from Adam Dicker: DNForum announces its 2011 NFL pool, this is our 6th year running this pool. There is almost $4,000 in prize money up for grabs so good luck to everyone. All you have to do is pick who you think will be the winners in games each week. The one with

The .SX (Saint Martin) registry operator, Open Registry, announced today during the Dot NXT conference that it had received an additional investment by a strategic investors, including DomainTools.com. While the amount of the investment was not disclosed, the company stated that one of their board seats would also go to DomainTools.com. Jean-Christ...

After CO Internet, the operator of the .CO registry recently announced that their renewal rate was about 66% at the end of July and "expect to see somewhere in the nature of 68-69% renewal rates for July once all late renewals are totaled". The first drop catching providers have now added the ability to go

After watching an interview on MO.com with Brent Beshore, an Inc 500 entrepreneur, I cruised over to Inc.com and noticed another familiar name in the list of the fastest growing companies. ?Matias de Tezanos and his company BrokerWeb.com ranked #20 in the 2011 Inc 500issue. The company saw a?3 year growth of 8,127% with?2010 Revenues

Importers.com was owned by Canadian Company Live Current Media (previously known as Communicate) and was purchased by a domain investor in 2010 for $165,000 USD (as reported by DomainNameWire). The domain was purchased strictly for the inherent value of the name itself with the intent to switch off the business and replace it with a

BankRate.com's Premium Domain Acquisitions have been revealed in a recent SEC filing. carinsurancequotes.com – $7.5 million USD"Approximately $7.5 million was recorded as intangible asset, all of which, was for the domain name." bargaineering.com – $2.7 million USD "Approximately $2.8 million was recorded as finite-lived intangible asse...

Domain Market place and parking provider Sedo has announced that Thies Lindenthal has been appointed Product Manager for Domain Pricing. Lindenthal, a seasoned internet entrepreneur and researcher, will bring his scientific expertise and his PhD in Real Estate to the domain pricing field, and work closely with Sedo's existing Product Management tea...

According to an email sent by domain parking company TrafficZ last night, Yahoo! has introduced a daily revenue cap for parked domains in the .biz, .co, .info, .tv and .us TLDs. If a domain exceeds the revenue cap, no more paid Yahoo! ads will be displayed on the domain for another three days. Unfortunately the

DomainSponsor, the domain name monetization unit of Oversee.net and organizer of the DOMAINfest series of conferences, has announced it will return to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica for their annual DOMAINfest Global event from January 31 to February 2, 2012. As in past years, the entire Fairmont Miramar Hotel has been reserved exclusiv...

As reported by Home Media Magazine, NCR has filed a motion that the BlockbusterExpress.com domain name is not to be included in litigation with Dish Network, the new owner of the Blockbuster brand as part of the Chapter 11 proceedings. On March 2, 2009, NCR and Blockbuster signed a license agreement regarding the domain right

We'd like to welcome Mark Jeftovic as a guest author. In the domaining world he's known for stirring up some controversy in the past. Mark lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and daughter, he's the founder and president of easyDNS.com – the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a libertarian and former Director...

Godaddy launched a domain name market analysis section on their site today which touts the claim that they are selling more domain names at auction than industry veteran Sedo.com. According to Godaddy : Go Daddy sold more than?109,000 domain names through auctions?in 2nd Quarter 2011. Sedo sold approximately?10,600 domain names in 2nd Quarter 2011....

Web.com (Nasdaq: WWWW), a leading provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and privately-held Network Solutions, a leading provider of website services, online marketing and global domain name registration focused on the needs of SMBs, today announced the signing of a definitive agre...

DNN has just received word from Godaddy that Premium Listings sales commissions have been reduced to 20% on all new Premium Listings for the month of ?August. ?The previous rate was set at an industry-high 30%. ? Many domain name sellers had noted that the Godaddy commission was excessive but had seen good results using

This article was syndicated with kind permission by Michele Neylon over at Internetnews.me. where it was first published. Centralnic?s gb.com is no longer pointing to their nameservers and any domains in the zone are now being wildcarded to the main gb.com website which carries the following notice: You may be here because you have been

According to a note that reached DNN from a spokesperson of Oversee.net, Jeff Kupietzky is going to leave Oversee.net at the end of August. He had been with the company for five years, the last two and a half years as CEO and President. According to the note Jeff has elected for personal reasons to

Apparently Facebook has not only continued their practice of filing disputes for domains names it saw infringing on its trademarks but now also has changed gears and filed a suit on July 22nd against more than 100 parties claiming Cybersquatting, Trademark infringement, False Designation of Origin, Trademark Dilution, Breach of Contract and Tortiou...

Power.com is going up for bidding in a private auction organized by RokMe. The auction takes place as a silent bid auction at first that may be extended into a second round English auction if necessary. Bidders are charged a non-refundable fee of $2,500 USD, which will not be applied towards their bid. The auction

As DVMag reports (German) that the Luxemburgian Investment Fund BIP Investment Partners announced today that it is combining the Registrar Key Systems (St. Ingbert, Saarland) with the domain parking company Namedrive (Luxemburg) in a new holding company named Keydrive S.A. based in Luxembourg. The new ownership was already added to NameDrive's ICAN...

Back in November of 2009, Daniel Goncalves was indicted on charges that he had stolen the domain name p2p.com from domain name investor Marc Ostrofsky and Albe and Leslie Angel. ?The details of the case and investigation were docmented in a story on DNN published in August 2009. Although there have been other notable cases

This post has been syndicated (and slightly edited to reflect updates) from a post by SEO expert Bill Hartzer. Google, in an effort to protect their interests in their new?Google+ Plus social network, has recently acquired the?International Domain Name (IDN)?+.com, also known as xn--dra.com. The problem here is that xn--dra.com (+.com) is an illega...

After Google launched the goo.gl URL shortener in 2009, they have just announced that they will be using g.co as an official shortcut for their own websites. goo.gl will remain as is. The purchase price has not been revealed. The registry also announced that 500startups.com has acquired and will be using 500.co going forward. Currently

In partnership with entrepreneur and researcher Thies Lindenthal, Sedo has developed a standard price index for domain names. More than 6 years of domain sales transaction data from Sedo, coupled with Lindenthal?s expertise in real estate research ? a field in which he holds a PhD ? makes IDNX is the first quantitative analysis of

This morning, DomainTools has announced a revamped verision of their API. What originally started as a tool for domain name suggestions and has since been expanded to include almost all of the data and functionality of the DomainTools website. Sample uses of the API are: Add value to lists of domain names by highlighting important

As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites "spammy". Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offers bulk registrations of 15,000 subdomains for a fee of $1,000. According to the company's website they...

GeoPublishers Expo to be held in Chicago from September 30th to October 2nd 2011 GeoPublishers.com is the new trade association for the geodomain industry. The?inaugural Expo will be in Chicago at the Fairmont Hotel. Starting with the President's reception on?Friday 30 September, there will be a day-and-a-half program of keynotes and panels, and a ...

DNN received an unconfirmed report today that Oversee.net had let go of several of it's key executives, including President and CEO Jeff Kupietzky. It was also believed that because of these changes that the board had taken over. When questioned about the topic Oversee's Mason Cole confirmed with us over the phone that four three

After the disappointment of the DomainFest Barcelona live auction cancellation, the SnapNames.com re-do auction has ended with what most would consider to be more disappointment, only 4 5?domains sold for a total of $55,670. (Note this is an unofficial total). The highest priced sale, Houses.co.uk at $50,870, ?received the most activity on bidding ...

3M has filed a broad lawsuit naming a larger number of registrars, webhosts and dns hosts for cybersquatting and infringing on the company's brands. The lawsuit is also filed against some individual domain names that include the letters "3M" and "mmm". A large number of the sites named in the lawsuit appear to be gambling...

Entrepreneur and domain investor?Marc Ostrofsky appeared on ABC Television's The View on Thursday for a brief segment to promote his book, Get Rich Click. ?Ostrofsky talked up domain names to the five female celebrity hostesses, who grilled him with a seemingly enthusiastic interest in making money online. ?As Ron Jackson at DNJournal points out, O...

DNN will be live blogging the results for the DomainFest Barcelona auction today. ?Oversee has been having some technical difficulties this morning (US time), with all of their network offline including their core sites like Snapnames.com, Moniker.com, and Oversee.net being offline. ?Let's hope they get things back up and running before the live ev...

According to a press release sent out today, Latona?s, formerly an auction platform for generic domain names has been relaunched as a brokerage firm for money generating web properties. Rick Latona defines web properties as, ?A digital asset that resides in cyberspace such as a website, domain, Facebook fan page, Twitter account, YouTube channel, e...

According to GigaOm Trademarkia has released a domain name registration service. As reported in the comments on GigaOm, the domain registration service will only notice trademarks that exactly match an existing trademark.Another caveat is that the notice of the potential infringement is only displayed relatively late into the checkout process. Trad...