Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers In to Africa - Why I hate Domain Capital So it’s been what? 4 days since I launched this blog? Now I’m going to Africa to attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro so it’ll be a solid two weeks until I update again. Those that know me well know that I’m not exactly a pillar of health. Hell, one of the reasons  I signed up for Rick Latona - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 14:27 Trading Domain Names for Tangible Item I thought it would be cool to trade valuable domain names for a tangible item - a virtual property for a physical item. I’ve always wanted to have a beautiful MONTBLANC pen, but I haven’t felt like putting down the money for it. In that regard, I’ve decided to trade a few domain names for Elliot Silver - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 22:59 TrafficZ Apologizes for Privacy Violation, However… TrafficZ apologized for accidentally disclosing over 1,500 email addresses when they forgot to BCC all recipients. In an email from TrafficZ, Ammar Kubba said: “We at TrafficZ would like to extend our sincerest apologies to you and each of the other disclosed recipients of yesterday’s mass accounting email…“ However... Elliot Silver - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 18:15 List of PreRelease NameJet.com domains for today With Ages I must be in a Giving mood today. So here is a list of ALL .com and .net PreRelease domain names that will go to auction today via NameJet.com. If you would like to be in the auction for any of these domains, you must backorder them by 8 pm PT. This is in Excel, and can DotWeekly - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 12:12 Moniker TRAFFIC West Auction List Released Moniker publicly released the TRAFFIC West live auction domain list this morning. They received over 120,000 submissions for next week’s auction, and after reviewing the names, I think this auction will set a record for highest grossing domain auction - even though it is missing the great multi-million dollar domain name that i... Elliot Silver - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 10:13 Next Week’s Auctions are Important for Domain Industry Geodomain and TRAFFIC auctions conclude next week; important for industry. Advertisement With all of the doom and gloom in the economy and questions surrounding the value of domain names, next week will be an important one for the domain name industry. First, Sedo’s Geodomain auction will end on February 20. The auction ... Domain Name Wire - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 10:20 Domains Available for Registration #31 In addition to posting available domain name lists I’m going to try and start pointing out other quality posts by domain bloggers that I think might be of value to my readers. Jeffrey Behrendt wrote a very informative post at DomainBits.com titled How to Get Started with IDNs - 14 Tips, Techniques and Resources. Bill Eisenmann - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 22:19 Legal Domain Name for Sale: BusinessAttorneys.com I am selling a high quality domain name in the legal field. BusinessAttorneys.com is available for acquisition for just $12,000. I initially put BusinessAttorneys.com on the market for $18,000, but decided to drop the price to sell it in the next couple of days. This is a bargain price compared to some recent comparisons Elliot Silver - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 9:37 Marchex Reduces Dependency on Yahoo Company continues to build its own ad network, reducing dependency on Yahoo. Advertisement Direct navigation and domain name companies typically get pay-per-click ads from Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG). As I pointed out earlier this week, this duopoly is dangerous for domain owners. Domain company Marchex (MCHX) realizes that, ... Domain Name Wire - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 11:12 What Does This Partnership Mean For SimplyGeo.com and You? What does this announcement mean to you and the future of the blog, business as usual!  There are a few readers and major geo owners who are concerned about the direction SimplyGeo.com will take after this announcement was made public.  I have even received a few emails and a phone call over it.  I had no clue you SHARETHIS.addEntr... Simply Geo - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 18:21 Last 2000 NNNNN.com Domains To Go Yes it’s happening! For all the non believers, recent count shows only 1829 NNNN.com’s available only. The buyout is very close and it might happen within a few hours to a few days. After that it will be hard to find NNNNN.com’s at reg fee.. Half of the remaining NNNNN.com are starting with 0 and Domain Magnate - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 15:58 How to Avoid Getting Scammed in Domaining This is a complete guide on domain scammers that shows how to recognize and avoid scammers while trading domains. There are several popular scamming schemes: 1. Scammer sells stolen domains How it works: Scammer trying to sell quickly a stolen domain for a bargain price. A domain can be stolen by hacking into the a email address as... Domain Magnate - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 22:14 Saturday Musings - What's next? So what will I be up to during the next week and what's happening in the domain industry? Even as I write this I'm ripping the latest 3 disk Bladerunner CD to put onto my iPod for the journey across the Pacific. I think that Bladerunner is one... Michael Gilmour - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 19:59 Alarm Clock: Answers Gives Up The Ghost On $100M Buyout of Dictionary.com Answers.com wanted Dictionary.com and its parent group Lexico in a bad way. Enough to agree to pay $100M to buy the ad-supported reference network. The problem is that Answers didn’t have the cash and needed to go to Wall Street to do a secondary offering. Now Answers has had to admit that Wall Street gave them the Heisman. A... Conceptualist - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 5:52 Skip Hoagland, Owner of Atlanta.com Becomes Major Investor And Partner Of The SimplyGeo.com, LLC Network SimplyGeo.com, LLC is proud to announce today the strategic partnership with expert and long time geo domain developer, Skip Hoagland.  Skip has joined the team to assist in delivering an array of services to the underserved Geo domain industry and to provide educational tools for Geopreneurs. Today marks an important milestone for t... Simply Geo - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 8:19 Next Week's Auction of .US domains, some stand outs Cities.us,Houses.us,Computer.us So all the city .com names are taken,no biggie All you need is Cities.us which emcompasses every city in the US. Why settle for only a handful of city domains when you only need one, cities.us .Here's a run down of next weeks .US domains up for auction. CELEB.US $1 - $5,DWARF.US $1 - $5,HOTTUBS.US $1 - $5,KISS.US $5,001 - $10,000Onli... Mister US - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 9:45 The Complete Guide to IDNs (International Domain Names) Just a quick note before I tell you about the IDN guide… I just got over a terrible case of the flu. Maybe it was all that rain in Hollywood? Anyway, I am back from my extended break and ready to get the DotSauce gears turning as before. I must admit, I DotSauce Magazine - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 21:25 .US Next weeks Picks of my faves,, Cities.us 25,000 - 50,000 ,Pretty cheap considering you can target Every city in the US, your not just talking one or two or a dozen cities ,,but Every Single City in the US.Computer.us 10,000 -25,000 For a computer company signifing to the rest of the world their US base... Mister US - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 19:43 quadrantOne is formed by 4 major NewsPapers to create online ad network Four of the largest newspaper companies in the United States are teaming up to create an online advertising sales network targeting premium advertisers seeking a national audiences. Owner Companies:Tribune Company â?¢ Gannett Co. Inc. â?¢ The Hearst Corporation â?¢ The New York Times Company have created quadrantone with over 50mill... Mister US - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 16:49 Domain Magnate 1 Week Anniversary, Stats and Plans Yeah time passes by quickly. Would you believe it’s been a whole week since DomainMagnate.com was launched? After one week the blog is averaging over 300 unique visitors per day and growing rapidly. I have big plans for this blog. Many cool things will come out soon. Unlike many others I’ve been late to the Domain Magnate - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 13:22 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West Moniker February 2008 Live and Online Auction List Moniker has released their list of domains that will be in the 2008 Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C (Traffic) West list recently. The live auction will take place on February 18-21, 2008 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Always nice to take a look at some domains like Dance.com, Invest.net, Audit.com, Liens.com, Vet.net, CD.com, + mo... fka200 - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 18:38 WHAT! Live.com (3) Beats Google (4) In Alexa Ranking?! Was sitting in the library and decided to check Alexa.com and see what was going on with the Alexa Global Top 500 Rankings. To my surprise… LIVE.COM is beating GOOGLE.COM! Weird! What’s going on with Google traffic lately? Like I said before, Alexa ranking in these teeny weeny digits is pretty accurate… so something... fka200 - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 14:39 .CA domains mentioned in Sedo Feb. newsletter Just received my February 2008 Sedo newsletter, and the feature article is a spot on .ca domain names and their growth (by Monica Ibrahim). It's too long to post here, but a few highlights are:"One thing is for certain, the demand for quality .CA domains will continue to grow." He couldn't have been more on target as we continue to ... Dot CA Domains - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 12:45 Change Your Domain Details Right After Buying Change Your Domain Details Right After Buying We all buy and sell domains on a daily basis and frequently the domains are not updated after the purchase. Buyer forgets or puts off changing the new owner information, or dns, thus still allowing the previous owner to earn the parking revenue. As strange as it may sound, Domain Magnate - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 5:40 AWAY.. Leaving soon to Las Vegas. As the show for me is extremely busy, I don’t plan to post during the next week. If you wish to attend the BIDO.COM Launch party Monday night, look us up at the show prior to launch party at the Targeted Traffic’s cocktail gathering for an invitation. To those who plan to attend: Safe Travels! C... Conceptualist - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 6:4 Godaddy renewal codes! Here are some discount renewal codes to use for when you renew your domain names at Godaddy.com . FYI, these codes are not part of an affiliate program or anything like that, they are just simply a code to save you some cash when you renew any of your domains! cjcbentld ~ $7.64 .org gdp0119d ~ $6.20 .net oyh3 ~ $7.20 DotWeekly - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 7:18 NameJet.com “Not Verified Bidder” Glitch FYI~ I noticed this morning that I was no longer a "Verified Bidder" on NameJet.com. So I called to see what was up and they said it’s just a glitch in there system and they are working on it. If you are a Verified Bidder at NameJet.com, then no worries, as it still shows on there backend and DotWeekly - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 9:36 More Job Cuts in Old Media - Chicago Tribune Saw an article in my local newspaper today about 100 job cuts at the Chicago Tribune. It's a well known fact that newspapers have been losing out to online media in recent years, and here is another related story.The cuts at the Tribune amount to 3.5% of their workforce. They reported that total revenue was down 5% in January, and ... Dot CA Domains - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 0:54 Marchex - $37 Million for The Fourth Quarter of 2007 Marchex reports: $37 Million for The Fourth Quarter of 2007 Fourth Quarter 2007 Consolidated Financial Results: Revenue was $37.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to $32.6 million for the same period of 2006. Domain Magnate - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 5:25 The Domainer's Toolbar The Domainers Toolbar is an all-in-one, browser based, hardcore domaining toolbar. It's a collection of all the most important links and resources that domainers use everyday. Here's a link to some screenshots. This is definitely a worth while tool designed... Domainer Developer - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 23:57 Win or Lose: The UDRP Is Not Your Only Option When It Comes to Domain Names While the UDRP is an efficient and relatively cost-effective mechanism by which a trademark owner can acquire a domain from a cybersquatter, it is not the only option.  This is especially true since the proofs needed to win a UDRP are not the same as those required to win an ACPA federal lawsuit, although similar.  If your ... Anticybersquatting - Friday, February 15, 2008 - 10:37 Domaining.com - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Domainers.org - A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |  F  |  G  |  H  |  I  |  J  |  K  |  L  |  M  |  N  |  O  |  P  |  Q  |  R  |  S  |  T  |  U  |  V  |  W  |  X  |  Y  |  Z THANKS to DomainTools Whois for helping us promote the domain industry and Estibot.com for domain valuation technology.