Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers You know you've made it when one of your competitors copies you word for word Just the other day one of my clients notified me that he came across another domain development service that had a pretty similar sales pitch. So I visit the website... I look closely.. WOW! Pretty much copied me word for word. Well, I am flattered. LOL. What else is there to say?! No.. I am not going to send a C&D letter to this per... WannaDevelop.com - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 0:29 Site offers $1,000 prize for winning slogan. PremiumDomains.com, which is run by the same company as Domaining.com, has relaunched. The service now includes hand-picked, uber-premium domain names for sale such as Cleaning.com, Hybrid.com, and Competition.com. Sellers list domains on the site for a 15% commission, which includes list... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 15:47 SnapNames: The Million $ Link Today we will see the biggest upgrade to date for the SnapNames platform and believe me when I say this is exactly what the domain doctors ordered. Today – after years of many of us preaching – you can now DOWNLOAD your search results. This single addition will improve prices for domains, heat up competition and provide Newfound Names - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 20:37 Companies in the News: The AfternicDLS, DirectNic, NameJet and PremiumDomains.com The AfternicDLS has expanded its reach thanks to a new registrar partner, Directnic.com, NameJet will auction off 15 premium .me domains next month and, if you are good with words, a new contest at PremiumDomains.com could earn you $1,000. DNJournal - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 20:41 May/14/09 Sedo's Q1 Secondary Domain Market Study We are happy to announce our findings from our Secondary Domain Market Study for Q1 2009. We?ve seen some interesting trends and changes... We are happy to announce our findings from our Secondary Domain Market Study for Q1 2009.  We’ve seen some interesting trends and changes in the industry, as represented on our marketp... SEDO - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:38 Circuit City Trademark & Domain Sale Approved According to an article published in this morning’s Boston Globe, Systemax will purchase Circuit City, its trademarks and domain names for $14 million, in a deal approved by the court overseeing the Circuit City bankruptcy. I presume this means that Systemax, a computer and electronics sales company, will begin to operate and r... Elliot Silver - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:47 Domainer Legened Yun Ye and Other Multi-Million Dollar Success Stories Michael Wong, SEO and Business blogger, published a fantastic editorial today featuring 8 ordinary people achieving extraordinary success. These mostly young entrepreneurs, software developers, affiliate marketers and bloggers made their millions by developing businesses online. However, there is one man that stands out who…Thi... DotSauce Magazine - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 18:15 NameJet.com To Auction Off Registry Owned, Reserved .Me Domains Namejet.com announced on its site today that it would be hosting an auction on 15, premium, registry owned .me domains stating on June 5th. Domains have to be ordered by the backorder date and the auction closes on the auction close date and all are available to be backordered now here: Backorder deadline         The Domains - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 14:54 PUGNA PRO JUSTICIA In the wake of turmoil going on in the domain industry currently, I just wanted to make a philosophical observation for all my readers. Remember this phrase, and stand behind it, act on it, because you’re the only one who will… “Pugna Pro Justicia” “Justice is like water… sometimes it flows like a... Stephen Douglas - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:22 Sedo weekly sales up to May 11 Sedo reported nearly $600,000 worth of domain sales this week including GGG.co.uk for nearly $27,000 (17,700 GBP), B4.com for $26,002, PlaneSales.com for $19,750, Mieten.com for about $18,000 (€13,222), Flirten.nl for around $15,500 (€11,500), and four domains at $15,000. Check out the full list of results after the jump… ... Domain Name News - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 9:14 Facebook Preparing to Become the Next Big Online Marketplace Social networking giant Facebook is preparing to test a new payments system, according to BusinessInsider today.  A company rep says this new system will allow the use of Facebook credits towards the purchase of goods and services through third-party applications. “They’re earning WHAT!?”…This article is from ... DotSauce Magazine - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 16:4 Thought Convergence sues Jay Westerdal Yesterday DNN received an email from Jay Westerdal saying that he was let go by Thought Convergence and they still owe one of his holding companies money. The email can be found after the jump. Later at the end of the day Thought Convergence issued a statement as well, which can also be found after the Domain Name News - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:41 Get That Content Off Your Site As people change the way they find information and the way they react to that information - news, reviews, opinions, product explanations, destination facts - we have to change too. It's no longer about getting people to our websites and keeping them there. You should be thinking of ways to get your content off your website and distr... The Frager factor - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 17:9 Tucows Posts Q1 Profit Domain name registrar sees strong domain registration revenue. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) has posted a profit of close to $1M for the quarter ended March 31. This compares to a loss of about $1M in the same quarter in 2008. The company cites both sales of its domain portfolio through Yummy Names and improved domain Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 10:32 AfternicDLS: Did You Know? #7 Did You Know #7 AfternicDLS names that are priced sell at a 10x velocity over names that are listed for sale as “make offer”. Pricing your names takes some work – but pays off with $$ in your pocket. Afternic DLS - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 13:26 Google Suffers Widespread Outages Today According to numerous news sources and reports it appears Google suffered widespread outage affecting many of its online services today. Most Google properties were inaccessible to users across the U.S. and worldwide from about 10:45 a.m. until about 12:20 p.m. EDT. People from coast-to-coast and as far as China, Australia, and Franc... The Domains - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 18:46 Chapter 2: Say hello to a new perspective I won’t lie to you, this is a long-ass post - but it’s long for a reason, I wanted all the key info on one page - and if you make it through to the end, and you didn’t know much about IDN before now; or thought you did... IDN demystified - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 3:50 Reaume.ca sells at Sedo DomainReport.ca - The DNjournal weekly sales report was released last night, and there was one .ca sale to report. Reaume.ca $1,000 (sold at Sedo) In other .ca news, the MyID .ca Geo domain auction ends today at 3pm EST. There are some nice domains in this auction with bids, some of the best in my opinion are: AlbertaRealEstate.ca A... Dot CA Domains - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 12:18 directNIC Offers NameMedia Domain Name Inventory Large domain name registrar to offer AfternicDLS domain names. People searching for domain names at directNIC will soon have the option of buying an existing domain name through NameMedia. NameMedia, which owns BuyDomains and Afternic, will offer its catalog of domain names to customers. For example, I just searched for “baseba... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 17:58 directNIC, Ltd. Partners with NameMedia to Expand Its Inventory of Premium Domain Names  – Inventory from NameMedia to expand domain names available through directNIC, Ltd. – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (May 6, 2009) – directNIC, Ltd., a leading full-service ICANN accredited registrar, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with NameMedia to provide premium domains for purchase at direct... Afternic DLS - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 17:52 Instant, Powerful, Memorable Branding! Add .com One thing that I love about domain names are they allow for a company to make a near instant brand off of a common known term simply by adding .com to the "name". Even a small startup can become nearly an overnight memorable brand because of the domain name they use. For an example, real estate companies DotWeekly - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 15:15 U-K.ca Get it today on MyID.ca Auction U-K.ca is being auctioned today on MyID.ca: it’s being offered at quite a low reserve between $251 and $500! All domain extensions for that domain are long gone. The .com was registered in 1997. Even u-k.mobi is registered. Bidding ends at 3pm EDT today. http://auction.myid.ca MyID - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 11:56 NameMedia iPhone Apps Announced for SmartName, ActiveAudience, and GoldKey NameMedia has announced that new applications have been created so domainers can access their SmartName, ActiveAudience, and GoldKey accounts on their iPhones. The dashboard applications for these companies allow you to view your current month-to-date parking totals and a summary of your daily domain and referral revenue, see a snaps... Domain Name News - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 11:25 Important Info about Today’s DOT CA Auction Today’s auction ends at 3:00 pm EDT and at this time there are 20 domains that have received bids. As usual 95% of the bidding activity is expected to materialize in the last few minutes of the auction. We remind you of the 6 countries on auction: South Korea, South Africa, Hungary, Libya, Tonga and Montenegro. MyID - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 4:24 Updates for 2009-05-14 Google Soft launches Rich Snippets (enhanced search results) - # Google Outages today - we heard that it even affected adsense for some: # ICANN: - ICANN | Bulk Transfer of Parava Domains to Tucows/Hover # DNW: @NameMedia domains now listed at DirectNIC # Domain Name News - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 23:59 Chapter 2/3: Say hello to a new perspective I won’t lie to you, this is a long-ass post – but it’s long for a reason, I wanted all the key info on one page – and if you make it through to the end, and you didn’t know much about IDN before now; or thought you did, but had only got your info IDN demystified - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 2:50 You know you've made it when one of your competitors copies you word for word Just the other day one of my clients notified me that he came across another domain development service that had a pretty similar sales pitch. So I visit the website... I look closely.. WOW! Pretty much copied me word for word. Well, I am flattered. LOL. What else is there to say?! No.. I am not going to send a C&D letter to this per... WannaDevelop.com - Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 0:29 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.