Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers What’s up with the SnapNames Live Transfer Fee? I sold about a dozen names at the SnapNames Live auction in Hollywood California. I was just looking at my report and noticed they charged me a 100 dollar transfer assistance fee for each of those domains. Am I the only one that thinks that’s a total crock? Rick Latona - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 21:50 I just bought my dream car What do you guys think of my brand spanking new 50 year old 1958 Corvette hard and soft top convertible? Side view of the vette Front View Rear View Rick Latona - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 13:38 PaidContent: Success Magazine Wins Six Month Battle To Own ‘Success.com’ Domain As it prepares to relaunch its print version next week, small biz title Success magazine has prevailed in a bid to own the domain ”Success.com.” The magazine site, which had been operating under the url “Successmagazine.com” fought for six months to buy the Success.com domain from an individual who had registered it in the ea... Conceptualist - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 1:15 Domains Available for Registration #35 Here are 40 more domains that are all available at the time of this post. My email subscribers will be happy to know that I’ll be sending out 3 or more lists in the next 10 days in order to use up the yearly quota from my newsletter service. If you haven’t subscribed yet, now Bill Eisenmann - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 22:45 NameJet.com Sales Here are some sales at NameJet.com last few days holdit.com    $6,100 islandholidays.com    $3,500 justarrived.com    $3,200 smartwarranty.com    $2,600 60601.com    $2,600 cherrybusters.com    $2,300 snowsurfing.com    $2,300 acapulcovacations.com    $2,300 christelle.com    $2,111 bigislandcondos.com    $1,300 buygreenrealestate.ne... The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 15:22 “Leap Day” Saved The Day! Yesterday was a really great day for us, more than anyone could have imagined. First, we released the Bido.com preview site, a new auction site which is focused on auctioning one domain per day, an auction site which aim at bringing liquidity to an illiquid market. Next, FuneralHomes.com. This venture is taking off better than our ex... Conceptualist - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 12:44 Protecting your virtual assets Remember that high school kid that used to break into everyone’s lockers to steal your stuff? Guess what, he’s now an adult and he still steals - only this time, it’s your virtual assets he’s after: your domains, your emails, access to your bank and credit card accounts. This kid simply changed the size of the... Acro - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 21:45 News.US it just may take foreigners to show Americans how it's done. An Australian start up purchased News.us about 3 months ago for 6 figures (confirmed) ,since then the company has been quietly buying every related news domain in the .US space financialnews.us,californianews.us, etc dozens if not in hundreds of .us news domains ,total package ,my estimate after talking with most of the sellers anoth... Mister US - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 7:9 Digg This! Please read the following ICA article and then Digg it! if you can, please support the ICA. Elliot Silver - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 11:27 Google's dotMOBI Killer While Apple might have your attention at the moment with that impending SDK, the Android OS seems to be coming along quite nicely at Google and the Open Handset Alliance. BBC's Darren Waters got to peek "under the bonnet" with Andy Rubin himself, and has video to prove it. The OS was running on an unknown 3G touchscreen prototype, wh... The Frager factor - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 0:19 Marchex Director Buy Shares A director of Marchex Inc., Nicolas Hanauer, bought 98,000 shares of stock of Marchex, a week ago Friday, on February 22, for between $8.26 to $8.50 a share. The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 15:10 Fortune Mag Asks: Is Google Running out of Gas?? In a very interesting article published by Fortune Magazine’s Techland Blog, the Article notes that Google’s annual growth rate has declined from 56.5% to 28.2%, and in the past three months Google Market Cap has decreased 85 Billion Dollars, as the stock has gone from over $700 a share to $450. The article cites the repo... The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 15:7 Elliot’s Auction to Raise Money for the ICA Elliot announced on his blog  the he is auctioning off the domain PuertoRicanVacation.com and giving 100% of the proceeds to the ICA.  The auction closes Wednesday. It is a no reserve auction. Elliots whole posts reads: I am auctioning PuertoRicanVacation.com on my blog with ALL funds going to the ICA. Highest bid submitted to my b... The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 11:57 Off the wall Domain Name Stats Here are my weekly listing of "off the wall domain stats". These stats are from yesterday, 2-29-2008. Godaddy.com is still impressing me with how many domains they control. Godaddy has had a positive gain of 702,940 domain names in the past 30 days! Very impressive! They now control 23,739,714 domains and that does ... DotWeekly - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 13:27 Local Resident, Microsoft Settle Web Name Suit Software giant Microsoft reached a confidential settlement with a Fort Wayne man accused of trademark infringement. This month, attorneys for Microsoft and Anthony Peppler signed an injunction that brought about the dismissal of the months-old federal lawsuit. While the terms of the financial settlement were not made public, the in... Conceptualist - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 11:37 Search and John Battelle - Part 2 - The book! This article continues immediately on from the first in the series titled, Search and John Battelle - The Inspiration (index.php/20080228381/MyBlog/Search-and-John-Battelle-Part-1-The-inspiration.html). The dilemma I faced was that John Battelle is a really smart guy. So rather than dismissing his views on domaining out of hand ... Michael Gilmour - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 9:45 Google VP Sell Shares According to reports, The vice president, secretary and general counsel of Google Inc., David C. Drummond,  reported he sold 19,672 shares on this past Tuesday for between $455.51 to $457.41 a share. The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 14:52 When Start-Ups Shut-Down NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Bankruptcy. Asset sale. Shutdown. Those words make most entrepreneurs and venture capitalists cringe. But for Joseph Finn Jr., they spell big business. Finn, the founding partner of Finn, Warnke & Gayton, works with distressed companies and auctions off assets. And these days, after a bit of a dry spell, he'... The Frager factor - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 14:38 Political Candidate Cybersquatting: Hilary Clinton's Name Most Squatted Hillary Clinton the Most “Cybersquatted” Name This Election ~ The National Arbitration Forum Blog The most eagerly followed U.S. election race in decades has triggered an avalanche of 'cybersquatter' activity, according to a cybersquatting report on Forbes.com. More than 1,900 domain names related to the presidential candidates have ... Domain Dispute - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 11:52 Godaddy .net .com renewal codes I was googling for a Godaddy .net and .com renewal coupon for a couple of my domains and it was actually pretty tough to find some that are still valid. Here are the ones I got: For .net: gdbb776 For .com: oyh3 Here are others that I found that might work for renewals and registration: cjcbentld for $7.64 .org cjcbentld DnExpert - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 8:38 Judge Reverses Wikileaks Order! Remember my article about Wikileaks getting shut down due to legal problems? Well, the judge has reversed the order! A federal judge on Friday withdrew his earlier order disabling a Web site that allows the anonymous posting of documents to discourage unethical behavior in governments and corporations. Read about it at the NYTimes we... fka200 - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 22:53 Heroes Happen Here (.com) The largest IT professional and developer launch in the history of Microsoft can help IT Heroes seize opportunities to turn customer confidence into sales. And finally they own the matching domain! Expect more and more b2b players will be directing targeted traffic to micro sites with unique domains. The Frager factor - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 18:47 Baidu Sued for Music CopyrightInfringement As reported by the Associated Press, Baidu.com, has been sued by the Music Copyright Society of China a  music industry group (the Group”), over alleged copyright violations. According to the Group, Baidu.com provided “music listening, broadcasting and downloading services in various forms on its Web site without approval... The Domains - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 14:57 Obama Cycle (.com) Obama-mania has resulted in a shortage of campaign paraphernalia, leading one supporter to create ObamaCycle, which is being touted as sort of a Craigslist for supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate. The site, which has nearly 900 registered users, is aimed at reusing Obama campaign materials rather than throwing them aw... The Frager factor - Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 0:12 Political Candidate Cybersquatting: Hillary Clinton's Name Most Squatted Hillary Clinton the Most “Cybersquatted” Name This Election ~ The National Arbitration Forum Blog The most eagerly followed U.S. election race in decades has triggered an avalanche of 'cybersquatter' activity, according to a cybersquatting report on Forbes.com. More than 1,900... 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