Hello everyone, Just a heads up that our stats updates froze this morning, which is why there are no stats updates for today so far. Parking sites were not affected. We have resolved the problem and the system is now in the process of clearing the backlog. We apologize for any inconvenience. Mister B

Hello everyone, It has come to our attention that, since yesterday afternoon, the biggest ISP in Spain, Telefonica is having a host of DNS problems which are leading to several pages not resolving. This is something which is out of our hands and is affecting a large number of providers. Telefonica are working on the problem

Hello everyone, This week, we put a couple of new features live on our Virtual Folders. The main change is the new NDX Market virtual folder. This shows you all domains you have listed on NDX Market, all domains you have offers on and all domains you have not listed on NDX Market yet. This will

It has come to our attention that several domains which were hijacked from Warren Weitzman in recent days have been pointed to NameDrive's nameservers at fastpark.net. We have great sympathy for Mr. Weitzman in this difficult time. Our legal team are in contact with him and we are doing all we can to help resolve

Hello everybody, Just to let you know - due to a delay by our advertising partner we haven't been able to update the revenue statistics for Tuesday the 23rd yet. Updated statistics will be available as soon as we get our hands on them. Apologies for the inconvenience, Mister B

Hello everyone, After a first month in which over 50 domains of various TLDs with prices ranging from a $10 to $4,000 were sold on NDX Market, we have now released our new homepage with NDX Market at the forefront. We are also delighted to announce our partnership with BuyDomains and Dotcom Agency, two of the industry's

While browsing the internet instead of working this morning, one of my Mister B contacts pointed out this rather interesting story on the BBC website. I'm not sure how IE7 can be shipped without a browser, considering it is a browser, but I suppose we can never be surprised by what Microsoft will do next.

Hello everybody, Another week, another news roundup. Some interesting coverage of ICANN's stint at Capitol Hill from DomainNameWire, as well as some scaremongering about various scary internet threats (including what appears to be a domainer conspiracy theory to down the missing Air France jet). Most odd. Have a great weekend! Mister B. ND Weekly...

The eagle-eyed of you will have noticed that our Homepage is proudly proclaiming that our 0% commission on domain sales on NDX Market are is being extended through June. We have been selling an average of 1 domain per day for the first 30 days of NDX Market, so it's a great chance to try out

Mister Blogs Tip of the Day #5 While explaining the sales tax situation on NDX Market to one of my trusty colleagues, I thought the explanation might help others out there in ND World who are looking for extra info regarding sales tax and how it concerns them on NDX Market. So, without further ado, here

Hello everyone, With all the exciting new developments and innovations here at NameDrive over the last week, it?s been easy to forget about the rest of the domain world. Here?s the best of what you may have missed. Hope you have a great weekend! Mister B ND Weekly-Word Pros and cons of the new generic TLDs Beginning in the last quarter of 2009,...

Mister B's Tip of the Day #3 How to sell domains on NDX Market This one isn't from our FAQ, but it is something which is a bunch of FAQ questions put together. Now that we have over 100,000 domains listed on NDX Market, combined with experience we have from the past, we thought it would help

Here we go straight into Tip #2. One we've been asked a lot recently. How much does using NDX Market cost? Using NDX Market as a domain buyer is entirely FREE. Listing domains on NDX Market as a domain seller is FREE. You only need to pay a fee on NDX Market as a domain seller if you

Hello everyone, Just to let you know that between about 3-5am this morning, our upstream provider had some routing problems which led to about 2 hours of downtime. We will of course compensate any lost revenues, as usual. We apologise for any inconvenience. Mister B

Hello everyone, Now we have so many new features to tell everyone about, I'm going to have a Tip of the Day for you. Many of them will be from our exhaustive FAQ where you can find answers to over 100 questions. You can find our full list of questions on the FAQ.. We also have 12

NameDrive are delighted to announce the launch of NDX Market, a fully-integrated domain trading platform, and a full relaunch of our domain parking front office. Building on several years' experience of brokering private domain sales totaling several million dollars, NameDrive now gives all of our clients the opportunity to buy and sell domains on ...

Hello everyone, News from last week?s ICANN meeting dominated the world of domains this week, with particular interest being paid to the organisation?s decision to delay the launch of new internet TLDs. Hope you all have a great weekend. Mister B ND Weekly-Word Big biz slams brakes on new domains ICANN has bowed to pressure from big business to pus...

Hello everyone, This week we have plenty of tips to help you get the most from your domains, plus some interesting news about .me and .eco TLDs. Hope you all have a happy Easter. Mister B ND Weekly-Word Generic Domain Name Doubles Traffic From Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Ad Campaign PPCSE study shows ads featuring a generic domain name produce up ...

***UPDATE*** Things are going well with the main bulk of the work done now. Just a bit more crunching and you'll be given your first peek at the new system. Thanks for your patience. Mister B Morning everyone, NameDrive is undergoing a complete face lift and is implementing a huge number of new features for you. As a result, our

Morning everyone, NameDrive is undergoing a complete face lift and is implementing a huge number of new features for you. As a result, our homepage will be down for scheduled maintenance today for a couple of hours while we put the changes live. Your parking pages and earnings will not be affected while the homepage is offline. While you

NameDrive is undergoing some scheduled maintenance which will make the homepage unavailable for 60 minutes. Your parking sites will not be affected. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope you have a great weekend. Your NameDrive team

Hello everyone from Warsaw, Poland, where ND is attending the Secondary Market 2009 conference. This is the second conference organised by the Polish registry, NASK, which NameDrive has attended. .pl is one of the fastest-growing ccTLDs in the world and is set to become the fifth-biggest European ccTLD by the end of the year. NameDrive

Hey everybody, Quarterly reports inspire (as usual) doom and gloom and optimism in equal measures, read two sides of the story below. This week .tel domains make an appearance in public and of course everybody's already trying to figure out how to monetize them, let's wait and see what happens. Watch out too as the

ND Weekly-Word Hello everyone, Another intriguing week in the world of domains, with the upcoming launch of .tel and a $1.7 million domain sale dominating the headlines. Hope you all have a great weekend. Mister B .TEL Launches on March 24 A new top level domain, .tel, launches on March 24 to the general public following sunrise and landrush period...

We at NameDrive have always prided ourselves on squeezing the best performance out of international traffic. However, it's not always clear for domainers how best to optimize a domain for international potential, or even which company to park with to ensure that all traffic is performing as well as it should. Things have

Hello everyone, It?s been a busy week with lots of news and rumours regarding Yahoo and Microsoft, Domain price capping, industry reports and the quirks of Japanese internet usage. All the latest on these topics and more can be found in our weekly digest. I hope you all have a great weekend. Mister B nd-weekly.rtf ICANN to Study Price

Hi everybody, and happy Saturday, What with beta testing our fabulous new FO and NDX Market, and various other activities which have been taking up my time recently (such as kite-surfing), I almost forgot to do my weekly news roundup, so here it is, complete and unabridged, and only one day late. Have a great weekend, Mr. Blogs ND

Hello everyone, As you will have been informed by email, we reset all passwords on our system yesterday. This was a precautionary measure we took after we became aware of a security breach regarding a very small number of NameDrive accounts. All users are required to request a new password when logging into the NameDrive system.

Hey everybody, A big week for NameDrive as NDX Market finally comes out from under wraps - I'm not usually one to blow our collective trumpet (I am, really, as it's my job), but it's fantastic, we love it and really think that you will too. It's undergoing beta testing by an intrepid team of,

NDX Beta Live! All of us at NameDrive are very excited to reveal what we've been working on for the last months - the NDX Domain Aftermarket. We've made every effort to make sure that it's all working properly but just to be sure we're currently running a beta on it - we're keeping it

Hi everybody, Obviously a big week in politics (were there some by-elections or something?) but the domain industry seems unaffected as yet, continuing its inevitable decline/inexorable growth, depending on who you believe. Google seems to be doing well though which I'm sure will please all of you - in other news, we have our own

Hey everybody, Here's hoping that 2009 has started with a bang for you. Mr Blogs's did, as he strapped all his fireworks together into one mega-firework - the resultant shock-wave caused an unseasonal snow-storm in his native Tahiti, and killed two birds. In other news, there has been news since the Blog was put

Hello everyone, We are currently undergoing some maintenance and will have the main site back up for you shortly. Parking pages are not affected. Apologies for any inconvenience and we hope you have a great end to the weekend. Mister B

Hello everyone, As the end of the year nears and winter draws in (except for our southern-hemisphere readers, who should disregard that part) ND Towers becomes a seasonal beacon of light and merriment. Coming up to the end of what has been a remarkable year, with ups, downs, lefts and (yes) even rights, why not

Because they got bumped down by this week's fascinating installment of the ND Weekly, here are links to (drum roll……) Our New Templates Announcement! Our New Languages Announcement! Our request for New Category ideas! Don't let me down - there is a vague deadline of sorts for new category ideas so get ‘em in early. Mister B...

Hello everyone, We are currently revamping our category structure and would like to open the floor to you for categories which you feel are currently not represented on the NameDrive system. Implementing new categories is a big job for us: ensuring the related searches generated by each subcategory are translated into 10 different languages means w...

We are delighted to announce the launch of six new templates today. The new templates are: Boulevard, Kayak, Portrait, Simple, Box and Spring. They offer a mix of templates with targeted category images and more generic landers. Boulevard and Kayak have targeted images on the landing page for your chosen category. Portrait, Simple, Box and Spring a...

Thanks to the hard work of some of the active forum members on www.idnforums.com, we are pleased to announce NameDrive's parking pages are even more targeted for international viewers. We have now added Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek and Bulgarian related searches to our pages. If you set a category for your domain name, then it

Hello everybody, and welcome to another ND Weekly. Exciting developments at Nominet and Yahoo get top billing; elsewhere, it seems that the print media industry's tenuous grasp on advertising is getting ever smaller as online advertising continues to grow. And if anybody was wondering why their .ir names were suddenly not doing so