Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News Upcoming Verisign Price Increase Reminder of ICANN’s failure Verisign’s price increase on .Com and .Net domains effective January 15th is a reminder of one of ICANN’s major failings. What is so galling about the Verisign price increases permitted by ICANN is that they add further unjustified costs to the Internet on top of the large, and excessive, prices that Verisign is already c... DomainArts.com - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 12:40 Who Cares about the ICA? At first I was surprised by how little support the ICA received from Domainers. But the more I talked to other domainers, and the more I thought about it, the less surprised I became. Instead I became pleasantly surprised that the ICA has as much domainer support as it does. This isn’t because what the DomainArts.com - Friday, November 4, 2011 - 12:17 Andy Booth Flies High – the Story of his Domaining Success In 2006, Andy Booth, a 22-year old recent university graduate, had to borrow a thousand pounds from his Mum to make his first domain purchase.  Two years later Andy was regularly buying and selling six-figure super-premium domains, had quit his job and was traveling around the world with his new Mexican girlfriend, and was locked DomainArts.com - Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 10:46 Why is a WIPO panelist sending a C&D letter to my personal trainer? For several years, Chay, my personal trainer at our local gym here in Washington, DC, had the thankless task of trying to get my computer-softened body into some kind of shape.   He is serious about fitness and wanted to publish a web site.  In July, while brainstorming possible names, he came up with and DomainArts.com - Friday, October 21, 2011 - 11:24 Impressions of the TRAFFIC Auction The TRAFFIC auction fell victim to the recurring curse of live auctions – lack of quality inventory at reasonable prices leading to poor results. There were some high quality domains, Power.com, Dubai.com, Prague.com, Avatars.com, Cheese.com, Tie.com, and Movies.xxx etc, but the reserves were too high.  UPDATE.  Per Mike Berken... DomainArts.com - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 17:45 Branding Backfire? – .CO URL shorteners .CO has carved out a niche for itself as the preferred extension for URL shorteners.  Google (g.co), Twitter (t.co), GoDaddy (x.co), are now using .co domains as URL shorteners. Using .co as a URL shorteners has taken one of .co’s defects – that it doesn’t have a separate identity from .com – and turned it DomainArts.com - Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 13:18 Which businesses will the Internet kill next? Blockbuster, Borders, Circuit City, the Tribune, Musicland – all killed by the Internet.  Will Barnes & Noble, YellowPages, Comcast, and radio stations be next? The Internet offers global reach and low-cost distribution.  It is a winner-take-all environment without the traditional barriers to entry. Google, Apple, Amazon, F... DomainArts.com - Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 13:54 The Tripod – Three Foundations for a Solid Domain Business The downturn in domain parking has hit a lot of domainers hard.   When the economy is doing poorly, end-user sales often dry up. Domaining is not immune to risks from the larger economy, but a diversified domain business can cushion some of the blow. A diversified domain business can rely on income from three main DomainArts.com - Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:57 NewYorker article gives insight into the Brand Naming process – and why your brandable domains ma... Naming companies spend months and weed through thousands of names before settling on a new brand name for a major product launch, according to a recent article entitled Famous Names, in the NewYorker.   The lengthy article follows a company called Lexicon, and tells the story of the creative process that resulted in the brand names DomainArts.com - Monday, October 3, 2011 - 16:50 GeoPublishers Conference off to a promising start Just came back from the GeoPublishers expo in Chicago, put on by the new GeoPublishers association and organized by Borrell Associates.  While it was a small gathering, the presentations were packed with useful, actionable information.  It was encouraging to hear practical advice from successful Geo developers such as Sara Mannix (Sa... DomainArts.com - Monday, October 3, 2011 - 10:51 Domaining.com - Newsletter - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Suggestions - Trends - Registration - Marketplaces - Portfolios - Brokers Drop - Appraisal - Financing - Escrow - Parking Web Hosting - Development - SEO - Forum - Tools - WHOIS Education - Resources - Metrics - New Extensions - Legal - Events THANKS to our friends DomainTools.com for their cutting edge WHOIS service and Estibot.com for their domain valuation technology.