More domain names, more branding woes New rules that will dramatically expand the number of domain names on the Internet have sparked warnings that Canadian companies that want to defend their brands will face heavy costs. The naming rules, set to come into effect next year, will encourage ?cybersquatters? who can harm a brand?s identity, and force...

There have been some changes made by our advertising partner, and we would like to draw your attention to how these changes will relate to our service. As of 1st of October NameDrive will no longer be allowed to support advertisements to URL forwarded parking pages. Needless to say, you are still able to park

Hey Mr. Bloggers, This week we start with the news that Jeff Kupietzky (koo-pyet-sk-yee) has decided to step down from his position as CEO at Oversee.net (and perhaps occupy himself with something that provides situations a little less complex than domaining) to move to Israel. Secondly a serious appraisal of whether it still makes sense to

Hi Folks, Those of you with non USD accounts may have noticed some unusual CPC and revenue figures this morning. We are aware of the problem and are in the process of correcting it. We have also experienced a short downtime earlier this morning, however your parking statistics and your actual earnings have not

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Go Daddy announced that they were being sold to a group of investment firms led by KKR, no changes will be made in the company's business approach. A group of investment firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures have reportedly acquired the Go Daddy Group. The domain name registrar is possibly...

Hello folks, Just a few stories for you here with Icann?s? approval of the gTLDs being the main industry news circulating the web. Related to the gTLDs ,? The risk of cybesquatters?, ?Trade mark owners blocking .xxx tlds? and? last but not least ?Chinese tennis star Li Na name for sale by a fan? Cheers, Mister B ICANN Public

Hi everybody, Welcome to the weekly news at a glance. This week; rise in social media marketing, ?Digital City .NYC TLD, Domain .XXX to cost $99. Google not paying out on dot.tk domains. Read on for all this and more of this weeks stories on the net. Have a nice week! Mr. B City Launches New Digital

In between Mr. Blogs has been perusing the web to bring you the latest news and updates you can?t operate without.? From macro Icann changes to legalese in online gambling, we?ve got you covered. .XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the

Mr. Blogs has, this week, been observing mud-wrestling at Google, shooting elephants at GoDaddy and elephant conservation / business development at Namecheap. Namedrive is actively considering buying an elephant to help trample 20% of the domain fraudsters out there (we already mud-wrestle every Tuesday afternoon – video to follow on a future...

Hi Everybody, Welcome to our weekly news roundup. This week MrBlogs has been watching with some concern the current troubles in Japan. Whilst our thoughts go out to all those affected by this disaster, we are pleased to announce that all ND employees based in Japan are still with us, no doubt benefiting from

At the end of this month Craig, our head of customer care, will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Thewaterschool a non profit organization aimed at providing sustainable drinking water solutions to those not as fortunate as ourselves. Here's what he says;   "After working with a lot of you for a few years now

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }h2 { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }h3 { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { } Hi everybody, Welcome to our weekly news roundup. This week Verisign releases their 4th quarter report of 2010.There's also news of a new Google tool that and Domaintools website, There have been much speculations about .XXX and ICANN decided...

Over the next couple of weeks NameDrive will introduce two new advertising formats to the parking page. The first option allows advertisers to introduce more specific links on their Ad, while the second introduces client reviews to their products and services.  See bellow for samples. The first Ad Sitelinks, adds more product links to the adv...

Wow, what a month! First, please accept my apologies for not keeping up-to-date, what with moving office's and maintaining a tight grip on the system for our clients our blogging hands have been somewhat tied. Internally, for our multicultural team we have been treated to the delights of French Cuisine – and yes it is indeed as

Hi Everyone, We've been experiencing problems with our statistics updates over the past few days. While the last full day of stats was December 24th, parking has not been affected at any point. We are working on resolving this issues as quickly as possible and we will keep you posted. Thank you for your

We will go into maintenance for a short period on our homepage. Parking remains are unaffected by this. Thanks for your patience. Mister Blogs.

The inaugural event for "UK Domaining", a new domaining meetup group, takes place today in central London (location TBC). The event has been setup by Iain Taylor. Himself, a long term domainer and director of a number of other businesses, setup the group with a view to building a domaining network in the UK. He attended a number...

Hey everyone, Just a little note to inform you all of the goings on. Due to a few system issues today our tech guys will put the system into "maintenance" within the next hour. Parking remains unaffected by this, as has been the case all day long. Maintenance is due to last about an hour, then we should be back

In case you all haven't heard, NameDrive will be sponsoring the IDN Event & Auction (idnevent.com) held in the heart of Manhattan at Haru Sushi. Whether IDNs are the cornerstone of your portfolio or you seek exposure to this high growth domain market, IDN Event is the conference for you. Come out and

Hello everyone, In case you haven't heard, NameDrive's live domain auction at our MeetDomainers show in Manchester is starting in 30 minutes. You can enjoy all the fun here: http://meetdomainers.co.uk/auction/ Good luck to all those bidding Mister B

Following on from the success of our recent LLL EU auction. NameDrive are proud to announce the exclusive brokerage of the domain Malta.com A popular European holiday destination, the sale includes the site Malta.com, content and great revenue opportunities. For more information please contact [email protected] who would be glad to help. Mister ...

NDX Market .eu Auction surpasses 35,000 EUR in sales NDX Market last week ran a special auction of 771 3-letter .eu domains. Lively bidding was encouraged by offering the domains with a 1 Euro start bid and low reserves. Overall, 4221 bids were made in the 7 days of the auction and all domains sold successfully. The

NameDrive and WIXI announce the launch of the world's first domain parking program dedicated to the Japanese market. NameDrive will combine its unparalleled technical and industry knowledge with WIXI?s local Japanese industry expertise to provide a parking platform tailored for the Japanese market. Owners of unused domain names in Japan or using t...

Morning everyone, Just a quick divergence from the world of domains to give a shout out to a great new service from one of Mister B's friends. It's called Shutl and their mission is to provide almost immediate delivery of goods ordered online. At the moment, they only deliver in the London area, but remember you

***UPDATE*** This also affects the stats for the beginning of Tuesday, so these will also be updated once the servers have been kicked. *** Good morning everyone, The stats in the member area have not been updated since late yesterday, so your Monday stats may be a little lower than usual. Don't worry, though, we have counted all the

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. We will go into a short maintenance period this afternoon while we speed up some processes and prepare for the launch of ND FastPage. We don't expect it to last any more than 60 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you have a great week. Mister

Hello everyone, The time has come! Another first from NameDrive in the form of the first global domain development platform! Today sees the Beta launch of ND FastPage. We will be revealing the inner workings to a lucky few before rolling out across our entire system next week. If you'd like access to this new system,

Hello everyone, Today's template is Tori. What is Tori? How about ?? It looks like this and it's one of my favourites. Internally, we've always referred to it as the "Japanese Template" or the "Bird Template", so we decided on the name Tori. Which is, yes, "Bird" in Japanese. After 14 great new templates over 3...

I was just browsing the net this morning when I found someone had snapped me on a romantic weekend getaway. It does pose the question: Is there any privacy left for the ordinary blogging man? "Mister Blogs family man" has been one of my mottos for several years now, and I refute any allegations to the

Hello everyone, especially those of you in the UK, Following on from our past success of Pints&Parking events in the UK and Austrlia, NameDrive will once again be providing a forum to meet like-minded domainers in Blighty. ND will be available to answer any questions, offer advice and generally have a bit of fun on Friday

Hey sports fans! It's that time of the week again and this week's template is for all those Sports domains out there. Here it is in all its glory. The images rotate when the page reloads, so there's fun for all the family. Enjoy! Mister B

Hello everyone, One of our own, Matthias Kaiser, is going to be taking part in the charity climb of Kilimanjaro next week. He is doing it for an excellent cause to give children in Africa more access to clean drinking water. You can find out more about The Water School charity here and more details on

Good day everyone, I'm sure if you're reading this, you've also seen the picture of me in my painting robes putting my own touches to the ND website. All will be revealed shortly, but for now, you can enjoy the Magazine template which is released today as part of Template Tuesday. See the next post as

Hello everyone, In the face of fierce Domain Blog rivalry, I don't usually post links to competitors of Mr. Blogs, but there are not many domain bloggers out there with the resume of the man behind FacingTheAbsurd.com. The blog has lots of great insight, with less of a focus on current events and more of an

Good day all, We are told that the Tuesday after Valentine's Day is the worst trading day in the year, so I hope we can keep spirits up with this week's offering, the Education Template. How the weeks just fly by! And every one brings new template joy. Mister B

Hello everyone, Today, for friends of Al Gore and those with ecology-related domains, we have the ecology template for you. We hope you like it and have a great week. Mister B

Good morning everyone, I'm afraid we haven't yet received the numbers for the update on Saturday from our ad provider, so we haven't been able to update the stats yet. We expect the numbers to arrive today and we will update them for Sunday. I apologize for any inconvenience and I wish you all a great

TGI Tuesday already! This week, it's Skyline. Blue, fresh, generic. Check it out here. Hope you enjoy it. Mister Blogs and the TTT (Template Tuesday Team)

Hello everyone, Today's template is the Adult 5 template. You can see it here. We hope all of you with adult traffic enjoy using the template. Ed

Hello everyone and welcome to 2010. As many of you will be aware, we launched Template Tuesday in 2009 along with our Christmas Calendar. Now, after a brief Winter Break, Template Tuesday is back with a double template launch. Today's releases are Fashion Boy and Fashion Girl. Two templates for those with clothing / fashion

NameDrive is proud to announce the sales figures for the first six months of trading on NDX Market, NameDrive's public domain marketplace Since launching in May this year, 4526 domains totaling $4.64 million have been sold and successfully transferred using NDX Market?s brokerage and sales platform. The domains sold on NDX Market have covered the ...

Hello everyone, I'm delighted to announce what we at ND believe is the first-ever domain parking advent calendar. Every day for the next 24 days, NameDrive will be revealing something new to the world by means of the calendar on our site. Today, you get a new template to play with, so what are you waiting for?

Hello everyone, I'm afraid our ad provider has not yet updated the earnings data for September, so we have not yet been able to update the revenue for Saturday. As soon as the update is in, we will update the stats. Hope you all have a great week. Mister B

Hello everyone, Unfortunately, our advertising partner seems to have had some Halloween gremlins over the weekend and are late with the revenue update for Saturday's stats. We expect that they will update it throughout the course of Monday and we will update the revenue for Saturday and Sunday once the stats come in. We apologize for any...

Good morning everyone, Due to a delay in reporting revenue from our upstream provider, the revenue update has not yet run for Friday 2nd October. We expect this to be resolved today, so we apologize for any inconvenience and hope you have a great weekend. Mister B

NameDrive are proud to sponsor and attend MeetDomainers in Poland. We've very much enjoyed any opportunity to visit Poland with possibly the most active domain community in Europe and, if MeetDomainers in Warsaw is half as good as it was in Krakow last year, all attendees are in for a treat! If you are new to

Hello everyone, We had some server issues today with our upstream provider which resulted in around 3 hours of downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience and will naturally make sure you are compensated for any downtime. We hope you have a great weekend. Mister B

Espa?ol Italiano NameDrive has long been the premier brokerage house for large domain portfolio sales. Our brokerage team's years of experience, unparalleled network of industry contacts, and commitment to personal attention has allowed us to broker some of the largest portfolio sales in the industry. Since 2006, NameDrive has brokered portfolios ...