Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact Latest News Mind Reading Technology: What Does This Mean for the Web? By: Mike A. If you haven’t heard the amazing news today, scientists have discovered how to tap into electrical signals in the brain, and decode these signals into words. “By looking only at maps of electrical activity in the human brain, scientists were able to tell which words a person was listening to. The discovery NameTalent.com - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 12:59 15 Picks from the Upcoming Sedo .ME Premium Auction Sedo.com is hosting another Premium .ME auction featuring 178 more previously unreleased domains. The auction will start next Thursday, February 2nd and ends February 9th. There are many top one word .ME names in the auction including hotel.me, coffee.me, camp.me and many more. Below are my picks from the upcoming auction which inclu... NameTalent.com - Friday, January 27, 2012 - 8:27 ‘Anonymous’ Takes Down CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com In a retaliation to the shutdown of the multi-million dollar pirated content site MegaUpload.com, the group of ‘hacktivists’ known collectively as ‘Anonymous’ had at some point today, taken down two of the most visited sites on the net. UniversalMusic.com with a worldwide Alexa traffic rank of 32K and CBS.com ... NameTalent.com - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 14:42 SexOnTheBeach.com goes for a cool $15K By: Mike A. Break out the Vodka, Peach Schnapps, and OJ, we’re having a party. SexOnTheBeach.com sold for $15,000 American dollars on Sedo this week, prompting the seller to buy drinks for everyone in the house. For that kind of change, you can even hire a team of excavating professionals to remove the sand from your crack afte... NameTalent.com - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 11:43 A Day in the Life of the Lifeless By: Mike A. I’ve received numerous phony domain inquiries over my career as a domainer. It’s generally pretty obvious when someone is pulling your leg and wasting your time. Typos and odd requests are often a dead giveaway. Why do people do this? Trying to trick people into sending them personal information or wiring them NameTalent.com - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 14:42 WhyPark Rebrands to DomainApps.com We’ve  just received an email (below) from Craig Rowe, founder of WhyPark.com that explains to clients how WhyPark, the company that introduced ‘Domain Apps’ has rebranded to DomainApps.com.  Currently, WhyPark.com re-directs to DomainApps.com. I am very fond of the domain apps feature WhyPark implemented and I thin... NameTalent.com - Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 16:31 Surprising Domain Sales By Mike A. It’s been an interesting month in the industry, with some big sales reported, and nice names some slipping under the radar. Although this edition will be about some .com sales, it’s great to see the influx of ccTLD’s that are showing up in the weekly top sales. I think this is a NameTalent.com - Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 18:18 Interview with Mike Mann I had an opportunity to chat with Mike Mann on the phone last week and discuss domain investing as well as some of his projects in an interview style which I have published below.  In case you are not already familiar with Mike, he is a serial entrepreneur and domain investor... NameTalent.com - Friday, December 16, 2011 - 6:12 Available .XXX List #2 Authored by Mike A. No one can say for sure what the future of .XXX is. Mike Law spoke interestingly about how ICM is cashing in on the necessity of protecting your brand; especially from those taking it to the extreme and overthinking the kind of names they’ll need to protect. This type of thinking NameTalent.com - Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 16:36 Is Any Exposure Good Exposure For .XXX? ICM Registry's .XXX domain has been dominating the headlines on not only domain publications but also in mainstream media. Just this morning, the top story on the Yahoo.com homepage is an article titled "Non-porn players rush to grab .xxx websites". The article mentions several colleges and organizations that were compelled to b... NameTalent.com - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 12:25 Available .CO Domain Name List Authored by Mike A. People have told me that I have a knack for locating some nice domain names that are available to hand register. It started out with .com, but now I have compiled a list for every desirable extension. Unfortunately for me, I cannot afford to register every good name that I find. Fortunately for you, I will be shar... NameTalent.com - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 15:17 NamePros.com Live Auction December 18th – Submission Period Closing Tonight NamePros.com is holding another live auction on Sunday, December 18th at 3pm EST in the chatroom.  This month’s auction will see only ccTLD’s auctioned off. The submission period for this auction ends tonight, so it ’s not too late to add your name to the auction queue. Last month’s auction generated several t... NameTalent.com - Friday, December 9, 2011 - 19:10 Six Interesting Names in Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Sedo’s GreatDomains auction ends tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Of the 213 names up for grabs, I would guesstimate about half are .com. The rest are made up of quite a few .net, .info and .co.uk with a handful of .me, .biz, and .eu names. Still, only 3 of the 20 names with the highest current bids NameTalent.com - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 3:41 First Ever Available .XXX List I found myself looking up some .XXX names this afternoon since the landrush opened to the public this morning.  I found a few that I think are decent and others that are just funny. I decided to dabble and ended up registering a couple.  Enjoy the first ever .XXX available name list!  Nothing on here NameTalent.com - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 19:6 MGM Going After Casino Poker Domains MGM Resorts has filed lawsuits to gain control of seven domain names that they believe are infringing on their trademark. It's hard to argue theses cases, every one of the domains in the following list include the name of a MGM owned casino that already has an active poker room in Las Vegas. The dom... NameTalent.com - Monday, December 5, 2011 - 22:49 ParkingCrew.com – Industry Veterans start their own Domain Parking Platform I had a recent chat with the founders of ParkingCrew.com, in order to get a bit more feedback about their platform and why they decided to get into the domain parking business. Here are answers to a few question I had: Question 1: You guys have been around for more than 30 years collectively. What NameTalent.com - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 9:51 .TV Spotlight Post #21 The .TV extension has seen over $100k in reported .TV sales since last month’s .TV Spotlight post. Below are sales reported, most of which occurred at Sedo. Stock.tv $7,500 Bobo.tv $1,500 Welt.tv €3,400 Prisma.tv $1,220 Greg.tv $4,775 Talk.tv $40,000 Venezia.tv $800 Party.tv $3,234 Quran.tv $1,199 Forex.tv $24,000 XQ.tv $795 66... NameTalent.com - Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 16:30 Saturday Tidbits Domain name seizures captured the news in our industry over Thanksgiving as 131 domains were taken by the Homeland Security ICE. Most of the names seized were related to jerseys or handbags. Looking over the list of seized names I would estimate about seventy percent were actual TM names. Many of the domains were quite NameTalent.com - Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 13:12 Happy Thanksgiving I have so much to be thankful for including wonderful family, friends and health.  I hope that those of you celebrating turkey day get to enjoy it with your family and loved ones.  NameTalent.com also has much to be thankful for.  I like use my Thanksgiving day post each year to recognize the awesome sponsors of this NameTalent.com - Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 13:38 Two 30k .COM Sales at Sedo: Explorers & CloudEx One sold for $30k USD and the other €30k EUR.  I just saw these while browsing the market activity page on Sedo.com.  Sedo is reporting CloudEx.com sold for $30,000.  The name, registered in 2004 is currently held by Sedo according to whois.  Could CloudEx.sa (Saudi Arabia) have picked up this name?  I don’t really see NameTalent.com - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 15:20 Next 20 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 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.