Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers dyslexia is a disease horrible I’m not sure why I keep making so many mistakes in my daily newsletters. Just yesterday I made two. I told my audience that on jp.net I can no confirm that this name does 5 dollars a day on Sedo. What does that mean? It looks like I’m saying I can’t confirm when in fact I Rick Latona - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 18:19 Developing Great Domains vs. Average Domains Developing a website takes the same amount of time whether you are building it on a good domain name (CoffeeHouses.com) or an average domain name (FreeCoffeeHouseDirectory.com). Likewise, the cost of developing a website is pretty much the same whether it is a good domain name or a poor domain name. For these reasons, I Elliot Silver - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 10:0 LLL.com Prices Continue to Fall Previously, on June 7, I warned that LLL.com prices were about to fall. On June 26, I showed that prices had already began to fall. I hate to sound like a broken record, but today, evidence comes in that prices continue to fall further. Today on Bido, the domain QVK.com closed at $6,730. A week ago, people were scoffing at the mentio... Domain Bits - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 14:30 Round 2.. Who owned the reported Afternic sales? Last week after DnJournal.com reported the sales for that week, I dug into who owned the domains that sold for AfternicDLS. Of the reported domains that I grabbed and decided to look into, I was pretty shocked to see that 96.5% of the domains I looked into were owned by Afternic/BuyDomains. After writing that (The first DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 14:3 Geo Domain Expo Award Semi Finalists The semi finalists for the 2008 Geo Domain Expo Awards have been announced, and voting is now open. Voting can be done directly on the Associated Cities website. It’s great to see the leaders of this rapidly growing industry being rewarded for their hard work. When the industry has evolved 5 and 10 years from now, Elliot Silver - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 17:38 “Learn to Speak Better English!” He Yelled Incident in Paris Highlights Domainer Attitudes Domain Name News’ award winning Senior Entertainment Analyst G. is back again with a new story. This time G. reports back from the recent Paris Domainer Meeting. The second I heard it my eyes closed while their lids popped clean open, alert and ready to pummel. This was the wron... Domain Name News - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 0:14 Will Cost Per Action Replace Cost Per Click? The future of cost-per-click is questionable. Cost-per-click advertising, such as Google Adwords, is a staple of the internet advertising industry. It is also the primary form of advertising used to monetize parked domain names. But will CPC give way to CPA (cost per action)? First, a little history. It used to be that many Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 10:18 Microsoft to Make New Bid For Yahoo Search?? According to a report today by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo’s search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo’s breakup. According to the Journal. Microsoft has already held talks with Time Warner and News Corp. Also accori... The Domains - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 12:44 Photo Review of the 2008 DomainerMeeting Conference in Paris, France June 19-20 Europe's first DomainerMeeting conference was held in Paris, France at the Hotel Le Meridien Montparnasse June 19-20. I was unable to make the trip as my wife had to undergo knee surgery the day before the event began but I arranged to have show organizers send us some photos so we could give you an inside look at the action. Domaining.com - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 11:3 Harlot.com on Bido We are putting  Harlot.com on bido and the auction is in less than week July, 8 Great one word domain well fit for an adult site. Some recent sales on bido turned out to be bargains, so don’t miss this one! RYY.com - $7,124 domaintalk.com - $2,415 panelist.com - $1,866 golfiowa.com - $460 QVK.com - $6,730 Domain Magnate - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 18:43 Direct Linking to your Afternic listing page Here is a How To for direct linking to your domain listing page via Afternic.com for a specific domain name. If you want to list your domain with Afternic you will need an account first. The fee is $19.95 to list domains on the Afternic DLS (Domain Listing Service). For a buyer it cost $1. Once you DotWeekly - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 11:46 Vert.ca and Vert.com recent domain sales While looking on the Sedo homepage today, I saw that they reported the sale of Vert.ca for $7,595. That's a nice sale for a french word that means 'green'. I remembered that I recently saw another sale of Vert but in a different domain extension, so I did a little digging on Google and found I was right. Sedo also sold Vert.com for $... Dot CA Domains - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 13:17 Does Your Browser Need an Expiration Date? Over 600 million users are surfing the Web with a potentially unsafe browser, according to a Swiss study released this week. The solution? An "expiration date" for the software, the authors suggested. The study, authored by ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM, examined the Google logs of users browsing the Web between January 2007 and ... Domaining.com - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 14:28 Political consequences of ICANN’s gTLD changes Now that the dust is settling following ICANN’s blockbusting approval of a proposal to loosen restrictions on domain extensions under the gTld naming system, I think we have a chance to review the possible consequences of such a move by the controversial governing body. As a result of ICANN’s rule change, any entity will ... DnExpert - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 8:39 GeoDomain Expo Finalists Announced, Voting Open Associated Cities has announced the finalists for the GeoDomain Awards and voting is now open. Finalists can be seen on the Associated Cities site.  Winners of the awards will be announced during the awards dinner at the GeoDomain Expo in Chicago on July 12th. (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com Visit our Calendar of Domain Industry Events. ... Domain Name News - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 15:33 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.