Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Meet Ken.. Internet guru and multi-millionaire responsible for all those hyphenated domains Do you know who Ken Evoy is? Nope.. Of course you don't. Well, here is a quick intro: Ken is the man responsible for all of the mass development of 100,000's of hyphenated dot com domains since 1997... The guy is an internet marketing and web development pro. I saw websites produced with Ken's system as early as 2001. I remember firs... WannaDevelop.com - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 0:5 Thought Convergence Sues Westerdal...Read Summary Company sued Name Intelligence founder Westerdal on May 1 over $16M deal gone wrong. Earlier today we reported about a riff between Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal, founder of Name Intelligence. I was just tipped off to a lawsuit filed by Thought Convergence against Westerdal earlier this month. Defendants also include Per Wes... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 21:31 On Day 8 I had a question, On day 9 I found the answer…. Morning Folks!! So I was in Istanbul for 2 days and 1 day in another part of Turkey (Kusadasi and Ephesus pictured below). I like to look at local magazine ads. I noticed something a little unusual. While almost all had an email address in their ads, only about one third actually had a website listed. Brought me back a few years when... Rick Schwartz - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 1:26 Parked.com - Poor Working Conditions II Part II comes ten months later but better late than never. For those of you that have been reading my blog since inception, you may remember my Parked.com - Poor Working Conditions article. That was the very first article I wrote here. In fact Donny Simonton was the first person I have had the chance of ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 15:8 Breaking News: Thought Convergence Has Filed Suit Against Jay Westerdal A search of court records shows that Thought Convergence filed suit against Jay Westerdal, his father and other parties on May 1. DNJournal - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 20:32 Breaking News: Thought Convergence Has Filed Suit Against Jay Westerdal A search of court records shows that Thought Convergence filed suit against Jay Westerdal, his father and other parties on May 1. DNJournal - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 21:32 Thought Convergences Releases Statement about Westerdal Termination Company says termination is unrelated to acquisition dispute. Thought Convergence, parent company of TrafficZ, has released a statement about the termination of Jay Westerdal. The statement claims that Westerdal’s termination is not related to a dispute between Thought Convergence and Westerdal over the acquisition of DomainTo... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 22:52 Elements of a Successful Geo Website I am frequently asked what it takes to have a successful Geo Website, and I think there are many aspects of this. As far as I am concerned, the number one thing is to have the primary domain name, as it breeds trust, can open doors for advertisers, requires little or no explanation, and it Related posts:The Lowell Project - Planni... Elliot Silver - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 12:43 Powerful Theme Generator for Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal(Minisite MUST) I was over at Bido.com yesterday chatting it up in the chat they have going on everyday during their auctions, when someone mentioned Artisteer. They gave me a brief description of what it did so i thought i have to check this out. I put it on my back burner until i remembered it last Related posts:7 Essential Wordpress Plug-InsHo... YGrab - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 13:7 Here's Why Jay Westerdal and Thought Convergence Have Parted Ways Name Intelligence founder leaves company. Jay Westerdal, founder of Name Intelligence, has left Thought Convergence. Thought Convergence, parent company of TrafficZ, acquired Name Intelligence LLC last year. The acquisition included the popular DomainTools.com site. Westerdal remains with Name Intelligence, Inc. a holding company. ... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 17:53 If Reinvent’s Philosophy Make Sense, It May Make Sense To You Too Via DNJournal: Reinvent Technology is making a big move toward become a major player in the convergence of TV and the Internet. To that end, Reinvent has just appointed award winning TV producer David R. Sams to the newly created position of Executive Vice President for Strategic Development, Marketing, and Creative Affairs. Sams is ... Conceptualist - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:20 Trimming the Fat, Expiring Domains We're trimming the fat from our domain portfolio, and getting rid of names that are about to expire by not renewing them. If anyone's interested in acquiring the names listed below before they drop, just let us know.. Fusible.com - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 21:46 Jay Westerdal No Longer With Thought Convergence Facebook status update A year ago Thought Convergence acquired Jay Westerdal’s Name Intelligence. Today looks like Jay is no longer with the company. Details are fuzzy but from what I’m hearing (edit: and now reading) it isn’t a friendly breakup. Maybe expectations have not been met, maybe ideals and ideas weren&#... Conceptualist - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 18:8 YummyNames.com Makes Tucows.com A Cool Million Tucows.com reported earnings after the market closed today Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows said  “we saw continued strength in domain registrations through our  wholesale services business, marked by the highest number of new registrations since the second quarter of 2000 and strong year-over-year growth in renewal tra... The Domains - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 16:33 Bido: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats As you all know we work extremely hard on Bido. We do so because we truly believe this is what domain owners need. How do we know? Because we own a large portfolio ourselves. Building liquidity is essential to the health of the industry. The stronger the liquidity in the domain channel the better we all are. If you do not agree with... Conceptualist - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 20:2 High End of the Aftermarket Missing This Week But the Low to Mid Range Marches On The price tag on the #1 domain on DN Journal's new weekly sales chart is the lowest we have seen for a chart topper in quite some time. Though the high end was missing in action, the low to mid range of the market (favored by small to medium sized businesses) continued along on its merry way. DNJournal - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 20:49 Available Domain Names - May 13th The expired domains below dropped earlier today and are now available for registration. According to the Google Adwords Tool, the domains with the highest monthly Google search volume are: BloodPoisoning.net 6,600, KaiserRoll.net 3,600, BedroomDancing.com 1,600 and BrackishFish.com 1,300. Also from the Google Adwords Took, the domain... Bill Eisenmann - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 15:35 Random Tweets About Domain Names on Twitter I like using the search feature on Twitter.com and see what people are writing about Domain Names. I use different keywords like domain or domain name and domain names to see what people are asking or saying. This can be a way for you to drum up some biz as well, so if you can be DotWeekly - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:24 Get Your FREE Premium Domain in Our Domain Marketplace Pre-launch Giveaways This is a reminder that as part of our Domain Marketplace Pre-launch promotions, we will be giving away over 100 domains today via our domain newsletter. We will be giving away even more tomorrow and on Friday. So subscribe to our domain newsletter now to get your hands on these gems. Read our previous blog post for eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 9:19 FMA to Launch Vanity Email Service In the UDRP decision for the domain name Miki.com, (which was defended by Kenyon & Kenyon and won by Future Media Architects), the company announced its plans to launch a vanity email service on some of its domain names. People will be able to choose email addresses from the portfolio of high value domain names Related posts:L... Elliot Silver - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 18:36 Class Action Suit Filed Against Google For Selling Trademarked Keywords I know your thinking this must be the all Google blog this week, but everyday news is coming out on Google and today’s is not good. As we wrote yesterday, Google announced the further expansion of its policy regarding allowing rivals to buy keywords under trademarked terms in up  to 200 countries (you can read that The Domains - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:51 ICANN.gone? Internet Battle Set for this Fall U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) questions future of DNS management. ICANN’s Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the U.S. government ends in September, and already countries around the world are asking that control of the domain name system be pulled from the U.S. T... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:49 “Look in the mirror, Google. Your horns are showing” Google plans to allow firms to bid for the trade names of their competitors as advertising keywords, BusinessWeek reports. For example: Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) could bid to have its ads appear when users search for “HP” or “Hewlett-Packard.” That’s not evil? In what universe? Link to article Definitely an ar... fka200 - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 3:3 Year Over Year, Advertisers Cut Back Paid Search By 26% (Source: Hitwise) Via Hitwise: Hitwise data indicate that the share of search traffic coming from paid listings is decreasing at the expense of organic traffic. In the four weeks to May 9, 2009, 7.25% of search engine traffic to All Categories of websites was from paid clicks. This compares to 9.84% in the same four week period in ... Conceptualist - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 18:31 DotWeekly.com Micro Post | All Kinds of Stuff Here is one of my Micro-Blogging posts. This one is not going to be all about domains but other "Stuff" as well. ~ First I want to thank all of those who wished me well on a fast recovery with the hand surgery. I am not up to full song yet, but getting better by the DotWeekly - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 19:40 TelFeeder Populates .Tel Domain Names System makes it easier to populate multiple .tel domain names. A new service called TelFeeder.com has launched, helping owners of multiple .tel domain names quickly upload data. .Tel domain name owners download a simple XML file and open it in Microsoft Excel. Next, they input data according to each field (i.e. e-mail address) and s... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 11:36 TwitterSquatters and Kanye West: WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? Feel Kanye West's MacBook Air breaking while reading his latest LOLrant about TwitterSquatters invoking his name. Kanye slapped his peen on the CAPS-LOCK key and went fucking at it. (This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER... WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 ... The Frager factor - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 22:22 Domain Whois Executive On The Run-- Is Your Data Safe Tonight? So timely. When is privacy protection not protected? Please join us for an in depth study of the legal consequences of this event, as we Lunch and Learn with "The Technology Attorney"-- Enrico Schaefer. Thursday 1:30PM EST-- a DomainSuccess.com special event. Get event access code here. The Frager factor - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 20:20 Parava Transition to Hover Has Started Transition of domains from de-accredited registrar begins. The wait is almost over for Parava Networks’ customers who haven’t been able to access their domain names in a couple weeks. As I write, domains are being transferred to Tucows’ Hover.com. Parava customers need not contact Hover yet, as they will receive an... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 14:57 Vancouver .ca domains on MyID.ca auction Here are the vancouver domains on the current MyID.ca auction: CheapVancouver.ca FreelanceVancouver.ca HotelsinVancouver.ca RadioVancouver.ca TvVancouver.ca VacationsVancouver.ca VancouverCV.ca VancouverDating.ca VancouverImmigrations.ca VancouverInc.ca VancouverNaturopath.ca VancouverOptometrist.c... MyID - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 1:36 AfternicDLS: Did You Know? #6 Did You Know? #6 AfternicDLS respects your privacy. We will keep sales data private upon request of either buyer or seller. All you need to do is ask! Afternic DLS - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 11:2 Breaking News: Jay Westerdal Terminated by Thought Convergence Jay Westerdal, who sold his company, Name Intelligence, LLC (which included DomainTools.com and the Domain Roundtable conference), has been dismissed by the buyers, Thought Convergence (operators of TrafficZ.com and Aftermarket.com). DNJournal - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 17:27 Are Website Makeovers Worth It? Many people will probably disagree with what I am about to say, but I think people place too much value on giving a website a makeover. Obviously it is always good to improve a site, but people tell me all the time that if I do this or do that to my sites, the site ImpulseCorp.com - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 13:12 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.