Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News GoDaddy, Ugh, Does It Again… If you’ve been following the overall thread here, you know that every year I end up lamenting another lame attempt by GoDaddy to represent our industry, domains. This year, I thought, Bob is gone so maybe, perhaps, GD will put out something good and viral and even…clever? You fool! No, instead they gave me even DomainConsultant.com - Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 23:41 What’s Wrong With This Picture? Artist Simon Beck has become a sensation with his “snow circles”, creating concentric spectacles using only his feet as his brush. Truly, the art, the symmetry, the scale is astounding but there is one thing wrong with this picture. Can you spot it? Of course, it is not the art itself but the marketing – DomainConsultant.com - Friday, February 1, 2013 - 23:24 Shooting Fish with George Washington In the past I took it upon myself, just before a new TLD opened, to remind domainers about America’s founding fathers – those who in effect started their own “registry” and would up largely penniless because of it. What is the connection? Well, for one, they were very much like domainers – they were spec... DomainConsultant.com - Friday, January 25, 2013 - 6:53 Five Big Domain Questions for 2013 Greetings and salutations in the new year, I wish you all the success you desire and more. And in honor of a fresh calendar, I decided to jot down the most common five questions I receive from other domainers, family, anyone. Broad as they are, I hope you can find something suitable, something that perhaps DomainConsultant.com - Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 15:31 G.uest Post: Predictions for the New Year! Cheerio to all you domainers out there, all tingly with the anticipation of perhaps a better year ahead than the one we just left behind. Well, phooey to you! For all it really means is that you have to work off all the weight you gained during the holiday season! Me as well! Oh sure, DomainConsultant.com - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - 0:0 Ranking the gTLDs – 2012 Edition I’ve spent the last few weeks pondering, reworking a list of of all the gTLDs, in an effort to rank them from top to bottom, left to right, and everything between. Doing so, I thought, might give us a better snapshot of the industry and potential areas of growth – of which there are a DomainConsultant.com - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 16:8 Facebook, Twitter Marketing Madness For a domain broker, it is the moment you dream of. Hanging outside a great club, dressed in costumes, having a drink, talking things over. Guy I’m chatting with is the Marketing Director of an industry leader – an industry for which I am brokering the best domain name. The best, by far. I explain DomainConsultant.com - Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 22:2 G.uest Post: Going to TRAFFIC? I Wasn’t Nominated Ahoy out there to all you domainers…Hello? Hello? Anybody left out there? Oh well, I do enjoy my own company and tooting my own horn, so I will continue with the train of thought, the main query: are you going to TRAFFIC? I, sadly, am not, which means all you out there waiting to catch DomainConsultant.com - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 0:8 What is the Contention Process for gTLD Strings? What happens to two (or 13 in the case of .APP) applicants that have applied for the exact same string set?  This is not just a whimsical musing but a real multimillion dollar question for the hundreds of gTLD applications that have direct competition for the same string.  That competition could result in months of DomainConsultant.com - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 14:11 Soundboard.com Dumps Flash, Launches in HTML5 I still remember, back in the day, when Flash was first introduced by Macromedia to designers and developers – it looked, smelled and tasted like the future so I jumped right in, built an entire Flash site based on one of my products at the time, a line of licensed Andy Warhol cigars and humidors. DomainConsultant.com - Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 14:57 What is the Trademark Clearinghouse? The new gTLD system brings with it a host of new questions for intellectual property rights holders.  Will businesses need to buy hundreds of new domains just to protect their trademark rights?  ICANN has not ignored those concerns.  In addition to greatly expanding the available namespace, the introduction of new gTLDs will coincide... DomainConsultant.com - Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 13:11 Don’t Expect Your Money Back When Applying for a gTLD What is a nonprofit corporation with $350 million in cash to do? If that nonprofit is ICANN, the answer is apparently “keep it.”  After receiving approximately $350 million in new gTLD application fees, at $185,000 per application, ICANN has no plans for offering a refund to the applicants.  In the public forum at the ICANN DomainConsultant.com - Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 16:20 Google Makes a Stand…Ugh Why is it that the products I use and companies I know have to take a stand on divisive social issues? I mean, why is eating Oreos and searching Google suddenly a statement, a validation of same-sex marriage? Sure, make a political donation to someone who helps the cause but when you come out publicly DomainConsultant.com - Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 0:11 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