Domaining News

Last week I wrote of sedo.tv being expired and that a Namejet auction was coming soon. This was an expired domain that was registered at Enom so it went into a 3 day auction at …

Directnic.com announced yesterday that it’s new redesigned website is now live. The new website includes new features like better search results, an improved “My Account” Dashboard and an upgraded Expiring Services page.  This is the …

The new Afternic website has been unveiled today! (just minutes ago) Last week Afternic announced that it was going to release to it’s users the new and redesigned website. I couldn’t wait for the new …

A few days ago Sedo announced the top 50 domains for September. Today, Sedo released the top 50 domains for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference that starts in a couple of days. Sedo includes the price suggestions set …

Last week Afternic announced that it was going to release to it’s users the new and redesigned website. The new Afternic website was supposed to debut this week but today I got another email from …

Conan O’Brien made a joke on Monday about internet search engines on his show Conan, my favorite talk show. It was during his monologue that he said this: There is a new internet search engine …

A complaint was filed yesterday at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name eurobaby.com. The complainant is Eurocycles & Eurobaby Eurotrek Group Limited/Liam Sutcliffe that is a company/person based in Dublin, Ireland. …

Today, I logged into my account at Dynadot only to find a new control panel awaiting. That was a nice surprise to mark the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite registrars. The new control …

The Pirate Bay was down for the past two days. I was starting to get worried even though the Pirate Bay team had announced that the downtime was caused by a Power Distribution Unit (PDU) …

This week, 884 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million. Only 223 domains were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for …

I have won several domain names at Namejet auctions. One problem I always have is this. A lot of the domain names I won are behind privacy before I win them and continue to be …

There is a lot of talk lately about who makes lists, how many and who’s lists are the best. I occasionally look at one of the lists but only to see what kind of domains …

Here is a list of the latest .info auction results. This time 3 of the 4 auctions were for a Land Rush 2 (LR2) .info domain. The domains were auctioned off at Namejet and  Premiumsale.com. Please …

Really? Do you call yourselves domainers? I have done a couple of posts in the “What domain not to register” series I started: What domain not to register #1 and What domain not to register #2 …